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- Margaret Atwood An Annotated Bibliography (Prose); Introduction
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- Annotated bibliography of Canada's major authors, no. 1
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- Authors discussed: ATWOOD, Margaret; ATWOOD, Margaret -- Biography; ATWOOD, Margaret; ATWOOD, Margaret -- Bibliography
Topics: CANADIAN literature -- Bibliography; FRENCH-CANADIAN literature -- Bibliography - Book Source:
- Horne, Alan J. (compiler) Part 1: Works by Margaret Atwood.
Publisher Information: Toronto, Ontario : ECW Press, 1979. (pp. 14-21)
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Margaret Atwood An Annotated Bibliography (Prose); Introduction
Horne, Alan J. (compiler)
In From There to Here Frank Davey wrote that "Margaret Atwood has enjoyed a spectacular climb to the summit of Canadian letters", and in The Canadian Novel in the Twentieth Century George Woodcock observed that a consideration both of Atwood's prose writings and of her poetry shows "the versatility with which her intelligence plays over the horizons of her perceptions. . . .No other writer in Canada of Margaret Atwood's generation has so wide a command of the resources of literature, so telling a restraint in their use."
In many ways, Margaret Atwood is regarded popularly as well as academically as one of the brighter stars of the Canadian literary scene. She is one of those writers who has greatly improved the stature of Canadian literature at home and abroad. She is heard on the radio, seen on television, read about in Chatelaine and Toronto Life. Her books are known and read by the Canadian reading public. Her name and her writings are recognized in the United States and Britain. Her books are taught at school. However, like most living writers still in the flood of production, Atwood must suffer changes in the critical esteem in which she is held. Some people feel that Atwood has done too many different things too well. She writes poetry and fiction, criticism and drama; she writes for adults and she has now ventured into writing for children; she even illustrates her own books.
The essential feature of Atwood's fiction and poetry has been described as a search for a personal and national identity. Survival is a central theme throughout her works, as is the quest for self unity. Thus The Edible Woman has been described as a farce about the pursuit of normalcy, and as "the intelligent woman's guide to survival in the contemporary world." Of all Atwood's prose works, this first novel has been most generally praised. In the first critical article dealing with Atwood's prose -- which, strangely enough, appeared In The Literary Half-Yearly, an academic journal published in India -- George Woodcock described The Edible Woman as a "social novel of high perceptiveness" and went so far as to claim that Atwood does for her generation what Jane Austen did for hers. The heroine of The Edible Woman is generally seen as an instructive victim and as a sympathetic character but there is some uncertainty among critics about the author's skills at character portrayal.
These doubts are repeated in criticisms of Surfacing, Atwood's second novel. However, there is no doubt that many writers see this book as a major, if not totally successful achievement. The extremes in viewpoint appear most obviously in two reviews which were published in 1974. D M Fraser described the book as "a work of consistent and self-congratulatory feeblemindedness" and as a "sort of pretentious mediocrity" while George Gait in The Canadian Forum claimed that it was "likely the best piece of fiction produced by Atwood's generation in North America or anywhere." Certainly, Surfacing is not an easy book to interpret, though as Roberta Rubenstein comments, it is primarily about a journey of self-discovery in which the divided self becomes whole. Other interpretations describe the theme of Surfacing as sexual politics, where the language is seen as a means of imposing psychological power structures, or as mortality, the victimization of all mankind and not just of women. It has been described as a ghost story, as "a contemporary novel by a woman with feminist concerns which confronts the problems of myth and language," as a feminist theological tract, and as "a sort of psychological thriller, where the protagonist searches for or comes in conflict with that fragmented self which appears as a ghost." Atwood herself in 1976 replied to some of these interpretations: in her view Surfacing is neither a feminist/ecological treatise as reviewed in the United States nor a nationalist one as seen in Canada, but a novel.
Lady Oracle, the third novel, and Dancing Girls, a collection of short stories, were published closely together. Lady Oracle, described as a "satire of the first order," received generally favourable reviews, either as "a wonderfully unpretentious comic romp" and "a good read" or as a "graceful, humorous exploration of cultural obsessions" and a "psychologically penetrating and thought-provoking work of fiction " A sour note was struck however when The Globe and Mail saw fit to review the book a second time and Brigid Brophy's main intent seems to have been to counteract the earlier favourable review. Dancing Girls has also been generally well received.
The controversy about Survival, Atwood's thematic guide to Canadian literature, is well known and needs little documentation. Robin Mathews' article in This Magazine Is about Schools is the most influential review to take a strongly critical view of Atwood's thesis. He claims that Atwood selected writers and books to suit her thesis, rather than prepare a thesis from the evidence of all the literature. In Open Letter, Frank Davey similarly claims that Atwood's generalizations are invalid because she has not achieved a balanced overview. Davey later claimed that Survival had been useful in provoking much interest in Canadian writing, but he later again complained that Atwood appeared ignorant of movements in contemporary Canadian writing, and that her criticism is an attempt "to define a national identity or psychosis." Despite these criticisms, diatribes from the political Left, and some hostility from academics, Survival remains a basic handbook to Canadian literature.
This bibliography began as an unannotated checklist, thus, some of the problems encountered had to do with the transformation from one format to another. The decision to combine articles with book reviews was made because, to a large extent, they are indistinguishable in form. Since much of Atwood's public persona is a function of the number of reviews her books receive, it was necessary to include a wide range of reviews. Finally, there was the difficulty of keeping abreast with the Atwood industry, especially in terms of recent criticism. Atwood receives serious critical attention all over the English-speaking world, and some articles published in the last year may have evaded my attention.
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- Margaret Laurence An Annotated Bibliography; Introduction
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- Authors discussed: LAURENCE, Margaret; LAURENCE, Margaret -- Bibliography
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- Warwick, Susan J. (compiler) Part 1: Works by Margaret Lawrence.
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Margaret Laurence An Annotated Bibliography; Introduction
Warwick, Susan J. (compiler)
Introduction
Writing of Margaret Laurence for the Literary History of Canada, William H. New stated that "the range and quality of her work made her the most recognized and accomplished of the writers of the 1960s." The publication in the 1970s of Jason's Quest, Heart of a Stranger, and The Diviners, the final novel in the Manawaka cycle, served to enhance Laurence's reputation as one of the pre-eminent figures in the Canadian literary community and beyond. As Michael Peterson suggested in his introduction to the special Journal of Canadian Studies Laurence issue, "for many Canadians she has become an eminence, a wise and generous voice providing insight into, and guidance for, a highly self-conscious nation and the process of reviewing its complicated history and complex character." That Laurence does not take such responses to her work lightly is evident in one of her most recent essays, "Ivory Towers or Grassroots?: The Novelist as Socio-Political Being." This belief has been reflected in all of Laurence's work, from the early African writings to the essays in Heart of a Stranger.
The years that Laurence spent in Africa were critical in her development as an artist and an understanding of her African work provides a valuable basis for the evaluation of her other writings. As George Woodcock has written, "Africa provided the insights which unlocked her ability to perceive and to write about her own heritage, her own country, and there emerged that splendid series of time-obsessed myths of the Canadian prairie town from The Stone Angel down to The Diviners."
The core of Laurence's artistic vision has been described by Clara Thomas as "the search for home, the journey of a stranger in a strange land, the seeking of the outsider for his true place in the tribe of man." This search for home, for a sense of community, has involved Laurence, in her writing, with what Dick Harrison sees as a concern with the "renaming of the past." In all of her work, Laurence expresses the belief that the unearthing of the past and the re-creation of it in the present is the basis for self-acceptance and the affirmation of life. This affects not only her themes, but her fictional forms as well. Throughout, the process of "remembering," of gathering together the pieces of the past, simultaneously provides both structure and meaning. In the Manawaka works in particular, Laurence presents individuals who are deeply involved in the recollection and re-creation of the past.
The Stone Angel, the first of Laurence's Manawaka works, has received more critical attention than any of her other writings to date. Critics have been divided as to the success of the novel's technique, but nearly all have praised Laurence's creation of the novel's central character, Hagar Shipley. Of those who have found fault with the novel's structure, many have agreed with Leona Gore's assessment that the misuse of the associative memory process "is the most serious artistic flaw in the work." Nonetheless, others have maintained, along with William H. New, that the interweaving of past and present "contributes to the irony of the characterization," and of the book as a whole.
With the publication of A Jest of God in 1966, critical attention was once again focused on Laurence's use of the first person narrative voice, her evocation of the small prairie town of Manawaka, and her handling of character. The debate regarding the success or failure of the novel's narrative voice is summarized in two reviews which appeared in Canadian Literature. Robert Harlow asserted that the novel lacked "objectivity, distance, and irony," primarily as the result of the narrative voice used, while H. J. Rosengarten claimed that while "the drama of Rachel's struggle and failure is played out entirely within her consciousness, the narrowness of the point of view does not limit the novel's meaning" for Rachel is both ironist and victim.
The issue of technique in The Stone Angel and A Jest of God is an important one, but other aspects of the novels have sparked considerable discussion as well. George Bowering has called attention to Laurence's use of language in A Jest of God, arguing that Laurence does not give us the product of Rachel's mind, but rather "shows us the motion of the machinery," and that the reality of character lies in the manner of speech more than in the matter spoken. David L. Jeffrey has suggested that the application of biblical hermeneutical models to the structure of The Stone Angel provides a guide to the novel's interpretation, while Dennis Cooley has considered the novel's opposition between nature and art as a basis for understanding Hagar's dilemma and development.
The Fire-Dweller, published in 1969, revealed Laurence again in the process of experimentation with form and voice. Though Laurence returned to a first person narrative in this novel, the heroine's voice here is considerably different than that of her predecessors and the work's structure reveals a movement away from the chronological patterning of The Stone Angel. Edward Weeks, in commending the novel's use of the continuous present, and the revelation of Stacey's mind "in a swift-flowing stream of dialogue, reaction, reproach, and nostalgia," pointed to a number of its innovations with respect to Laurence's technique. Stacey has been described by many as a symbolic Everywoman, and Peter Sykes referred to her as "one of the first contemporary women in Canadian fiction."
A Bird in the House and Jason's Quest appeared in 1970, and while most of the stones in the former had been published previously in periodicals, their collection added to Laurence's reputation as a writer of malor talent. Henry Kreisel, in his comparison of the stories in The Tomorrow-Tamer and A Bird in the House, remarked that while Laurence "is not very adventurous in exploring the possibilities of the short story form," her work in the genre is "among the most distinguished now produced in Canada." Similarly, George Woodcock stated that The Tomorrow-Tamer and A Bird in the House established "Laurence as one of the three best short story writers at work in Canada today."
The final novel in the Manawaka series, The Diviners, was eagerly anticipated by Laurence's now large audience, and while a few were disappointed, most agreed with R. J. MacSween that it possessed many of the qualities of a masterpiece. The maturation of Laurence's art in narrative and stylistic terms is clear. In the movement from the rigid and conventional form of This Side Jordan to the experimental quality of The Diviners, one witnesses the process of an artist learning and refining her craft. Those aspects of Laurence's style which attracted much critical attention on the publication of The Stone Angel -- the employment of the first-person narrative voice, the technique of retrospection, and the creation of a "mythic" framework -- have been re-worked, revitalized, and refined.
Clara Thomas has written that The Diviners is "the story of a profoundly religious pilgrimage, the affirmation of faith and the finding of grace," and as such is "the culmination of the Manawaka works" for its "final statement encircles, encloses and completes them all." It is this final statement containing Morag's recognition and acceptance of her own inheritance and that which she will leave for others that reiterates Laurence's thematic concern, the search for home and a sense of continuity in time. Those reviewers expressing dissatisfaction with the novel focussed on its style and structure, and Laurence's treatment of Morag as artist. Several perceptive analyses of the novel's formal aspects have challenged these assessments, notably Ildiko de Papp Carrington's and Cheryl Cooper's. As Carrington writes, "the achievement of this novel lies in its technique, not in its theme. The emphasis is on tales in the telling, this gerund denotes not a completed structure but a continuing action."
During the initial stages of the compilation of the bibliography, two problems with respect to the location of certain items became apparent. The first involved the difficulty of ascertaining whether M.A. theses listed in various indices had in fact been completed, and the availability of these theses. The second problem concerned the lack of information available on reviews Laurence had written of other writers' works. During the years Laurence lived in England, she wrote a considerable number of reviews, but the majority of these were published anonymously and therefore are difficult to trace. As a result, the review section of the bibliography lists only a selection of reviews written for Canadian journals and newspapers after 1960.
In regard to the material treating Laurence's work, there was at times a problem in determining whether a particular item should be considered a critical article of a review. The placement of each item in these sections was based finally on an assessment of the scope and detail of the discussion. In the selection of the reviews an attempt was made to include a variety of responses, but the selection process was at times difficult. The final judgement on which reviews to include was based on the criteria of the critical significance of the item and its availability to the majority of readers. One further problem that arose in this regard concerned the question of whether articles which only briefly mentioned Laurence or one of her books should be included in the criticism section of the bibliography. The decision was made to include only those works which contained an analysis of her work, and not those which simply made reference to it for purposes of contrast, comparison, or summary.
The location of translations of Laurence's work was difficult and occasionally impossible as the various sources for this information were inconsistent or incomplete.
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- Horne, Alan J. (compiler) Part 1: Works by Margaret Atwood.
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A6 Up in the Tree. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart,1978. N. pag.
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- Horne, Alan J. (compiler) Part 1: Works by Margaret Atwood.
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A5 Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1972. 287 pp.
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A7 "Grace Marks." Unpublished TS, 1974. 85 pp. Produced on CBC television in January 1974 as The Servant Girl.
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A1 The Edible Woman. Boston: Little, Brown, [1969]. 281 pp.
An Atlantic Monthly Press Book.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1969 281 pp.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1969 281 pp.
Introd. Alan Dawe. New Canadian Library, No. 93
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973 281 pp.
La Donna da Mangiare. Trans. Mario Manzari. Milan: Longanesi, 1976 295 pp.
New York: Popular Library, 1976 287 pp.
The Edible Woman. Toronto: Seal Books, 1978. 294 pp. Includes fifteen pages from Lady Oracle.
A2 Surfacing. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1972. 192 pp.
Don Mills, Ont.: Paperjacks, 1973 192 pp.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1973 192 pp.
London: Wildwood House, 1973 192 pp.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1973 224 pp.
New York: Popular Library, 1974 224 pp.
Vancouver: Taped Books Project, 1974. Audiotape, seven hours duration.
Faire Surface. Trans. Marie-France Girod. Montreal: Editions L'Etincelle, 1978. 231 pp.
A3 Lady Oracle. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1976. 345 pp.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1976. 345 pp.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1977. 345 pp.
Toronto: Seal Books, 1977. 345 pp.
New York: Avon Books, 1978 380 pp.
A4 Dancing Girls. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977. 256 pp.
Toronto: Seal Books, 1978. 245 pp.
Includes "The War in the Bathroom" (B6); "The Man from Mars" (B21); "Polarities" (B9); "Under Glass" (B11); "The Grave of the Famous Poet" (B10); "Rape Fantasies" (B13); "Hair Jewellery" (B18); "When It Happens" (B15); "A Travel Piece" (B14); "The Resplendent Quetzal" (B19); "Training"; "Lives of the Poets" (B20); "Dancing Girls" (B23); "Giving Birth" (B23).
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A8 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario.
This is the major depository of Margaret Atwood's manuscripts. The material is housed in boxes and an outline of their contents follows.
Box 1 Correspondence, miscellaneous items including
biographical notes, an essay entitled "My
Poetic Principles," dated October 29, 1962;
announcements of poetry readings; typescript
of "Trumpets of Summer," with working
copy, printed libretto, and correspondence
with John Beckwith. Also some unpublished
poems.
Box 2 Prose -- short stories and The Edible
Woman.
Box 3 Prose -- The Edible Woman (continued).
Box 4 Poetry, including The Animals in That
Country," an unpublished play in verse, "Thus
Parts the Hero."
Box 5 Poetry -- early manuscripts circa 1958-63
Box 6 Poetry -- early manuscripts (continued); and
material written in Vancouver in 1964-65.
Boxes
7-9 Poetry -- later work.
Box 10 Page proofs of The Edible Woman.
Box 11 Negative microfilm and paper copy of Charles
Pachter's thesis for the degree of Master of
Fine Arts, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloom-
field Hills, Michigan.
Boxes
12-15 Vocal score of "Trumpets of Summer";
manuscript and typescript of "Oratorio for
Sasquatch, Man and Two Androids"; various
drafts of Surfacing, an unpublished novel,
"Up in the Air So Blue", The Journals of
Susanna Moodie; Procedures for Underground;
Power Politics; and manuscript of
"Rhyming Cats" (written circa 1948-50).
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B26 "Diminutive Dramatics." Clan Call [Leaside High School], 1, No 6 (1954-55), 24-25.
B27 "Portrait of a Pet." Clan Call, 2, No 1 (1956-57), 34.
B28 "Apocalyptic Squawk from a Splendid Awk." Rev. of The Cruising Auk, by George Johnston. Acta Victorina, 84, No. 1 (Dec. 1959), 25-26.
B29 "The Face Behind the Eyes." Rev. of Eyes Without a Face, by Kenneth McRobbie. Acta Victoriana, 86 [sic][85], No. 1 (Nov. 1960), 22.
B30 "Some Sun for This Winter." Rev. of Winter Sun, by Margaret Avison. Acta Victoriana, 87 [sic] [85], (Jan 1961), 18-19.
B31 "Narcissus: Double Entendre." Rev of Alphabet, No. 1, and Mad Shadows, by Marie-Claire Blais. Acta Victoriana, 83 [sic] [85] (Feb. 1961), 14-16. Includes a line drawing by Atwood.
B32 "Art in Alumni." Acta Victoriana, 86 [sic] [85], No. 4 (March 1961), 8-10. An article "collected and edited by Margaret Eleanor Atwood and Ian Cameron."
B33 "Kangaroo and Beaver." Rev. of Tradition in Exile, by J. P. Mathews. Alphabet, No. 5 (Dec 1962), pp. 78-79.
B34 Rev. of Alexander Blok: Between Image and Ideas, by F.D. Reeve. Alphabet, No. 6 (June 1963), pp 70-71.
B35 "Superwoman Drawn and Quartered: the Early Forms of She." Alphabet, No 10 (July 1965), pp. 65-82. An article on the works of Rider Haggard.
B36 "Four Poets from Canada." Rev. of Phrases from Orpheus, by D. G. Jones; The Absolute Smile, by George Jonas; An Idiot Joy, by Eli Mandel; and North of Summer and Wild Grape Wine, by Al Purdy. Poetry, 114, No. 3 (June 1969), 202-07.
B37 "Some Old, Some New, Some Boring, Some Blew, and Some Picture Books." Alphabet, No. 17 (Dec 1969), pp. 61-64. A review of some Canadian little magazines.
B38 "MacEwen's Muse." Canadian Literature, No. 45 (Summer 1970), pp. 24-32. Rpt. (trans.) in Ellipse, No 7 (Spring 1971), pp 83-93. Rpt in Poets and Critics: Essays from Canadian Literature 1966-1974. Ed. George Woodcock. Toronto: Oxford Univ Press, 1974, pp. 215-24.
B39 Rev. of On the Street, by Pat Lane. Blewointmentpress, Occupation Issue (Aug 1970), p 109.
B40 "The Messianic Stance." Rev of West Coast Seen, ed. Jim Brown and David Phillips. Canadian Literature, No. 47 (Winter 1971), pp 75-77.
B41 "Nationalism, Limbo and the Canadian Club." Saturday Night, Jan. 1971, pp. 10-11.
B42 "Poetic Process?" Field, No. 4 (Spring 1971), pp. 13-14.
B43 "Eleven Years of Alphabet " Canadian Literature, No 49 (Summer 1971), pp. 60-64.
B44 "Love Is Ambiguous...Sex Is a Bully." Rev. article on Love in a Burning Building, by A. W. Purdy. Canadian Literature, No. 49 (Summer 1971), pp. 71-75.
B45 "Sang des Betes." Rev. of The Broken Ark, a Book of Beasts, ed. Michael Ondaatje. Books in Canada, No 4 Nov 1971, pp 12-13.
B46 "The Books I Enjoyed Most in 1971. . . ." Financial Post, 11 Dec 1971, pp. 33-34.
B47 "Introduction." In Incisions. By Robert Flanagan.Toronto: House of Anansi, 1972, pp. ii-v.
B48 Rev. of Great Canadian Short Stories, ed Alec Lucas. World Literature Written in English, 11, No 1 (April 1972), 63-64.
B49 "First People; an Extract from Survival." Northern Journey, No. 2 (1972-73), pp. 18-30. SURV (excerpt).
B50 "Getting Out from Under." In Empire Club of Canada: Addresses 1972-73. Toronto: Empire Club Foundation, 1973, pp.353-67. Address given to the Empire Club on April 5, 1973, in which Atwood describes her present situation as a "thing" rather than a celebrity and gives her views on nationalism.
B51 "Introduction." In The Sun and the Moon and Other Fiction. By P.K. Page. Toronto House of Anansi, 1973, pp. iii-v.
B52 "Travels Back: Refusing to Acknowledge Where You Come From Is an Act of Amputation." Maclean's, Jan.1973, pp 28, 31, 48.
B53 "How Do I Get Out of Here: The Poetry of John Newlove." Open Letter, 2nd Ser, No. 4 (Spring 1973), 59-70.
B54 "Notes on Power Politics." Acta Victoriana, 97, No 2(April 1973), 6-19. First broadcast on the CBC programme Ideas.
B55 "Surviving the Critics: Mathews and Misrepresentation." This Magazine, 7, No. 1 (May-June 1973), 29-33. A reply to Robin Mathews' review of Survival in the Winter 1972-73 issue of This Magazine Is about Schools (see C5).
B56 "Reaney Collected." Canadian Literature, No. 57(Summer 1973), pp. 113-17. Rpt in Poets and Critics: Essays from Canadian Literature 1966-1974 Ed. George Woodcock. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1974, pp. 151-58.
B57 "What Nationalism Is All About " Financial Post, 11 Aug 1973, p. 6.
B58 "Poetry in the Buffer Zone." Times Literary Supplement, 26 Oct. 1973, pp 1305-06. An article on Canadian poetry.
B59 Letter. Harvard Advocate, 106, Nos. 2/3 (Winter 1973), 17. A letter about "feminine sensibility."
B60 "Diving into the Wreck." Rev of Poems 1971-1972, by Adrienne Rich. New York Times Book Review, 30 Dec 1973, pp 1-2.
B61 "Face to Face: Margaret Laurence As Seen by Margaret Atwood." Maclean's, May 1974, pp 38-39, 43-46.
B62 Rev. of In the Springtime of the Year, by Susan Hill, and The Half-Sisters, by Cynthia Propper Seton. New York Times Book Review, 5 May 1974, p. 7.
B63 "Into the Bell Jar World of Unreality" Rev. of Mundome, by A. G. Mojtabai. New York Times Book Review, 12 May 1974, p. 6.
B64 "Masterful. A Game of Musical Beds in a House of Mirrors." Rev. of The Sacred and Profane Love Machine, by Iris Murdoch. The Globe and Mail, 1 June 1974, p 23.
B65 Rev of Half-Lives, by Erica Jong. Parnassus: Poetry in Review, 2, No. 2 (Spring-Summer 1974), 98-104.
B66 "Picking up the Pieces of the Battered Kate Millet -- After the Trashing." Rev. of Flying, by Kate Millet. The Globe and Mail, 27 July 1974, p 30.
B67 "What's So Funny? Notes on Canadian Humour." This Magazine, 8, No. 3 (Aug.-Sept. 1974), 24-27.
B68 "Un Petit Rat Heureux." Le Maclean, Sept 1974, pp. 19-21, 43. An interview with Mane-Claire Blais.
B69 Rev. of St. Lawrence Blues, by Marie-Claire Blais. New York Times Book Review, 29 Sept 1974, pp. 4-5.
B70 "Don't Expect the Bear to Dance." Maclean's, June 1975, pp 68-71. About the new Toronto Zoo.
B71 "Marie-Claire Blais Is Not for Burning." Maclean's, Sept. 1975, pp. 26-29
B72 "It's Seminal. A Landmark. The Struggle of Woman on Almost Every Possible Level." Rev. of Poems, Selected and New, by Adrienne Rich. The Globe and Mail, 6 Dec. 1975, p 35.
B73 "Introduction." In St. Lawrence Blues, by Marie-Claire Blais. Toronto: Bantam Books, 1976, pp vii-xvi.
B74 "Paradoxes and Dilemmas: the Woman As Writer." In Women in the Canadian Mosaic. Ed. Gwen Matheson. Toronto: Peter Martin Associates, 1976, pp 256-73. Gives some details of discrimination in reviewing and in interviews, and examples of rivalry of male writers.
B75 "A Reply." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2, No. 2 (1976), 340-41. A comment on articles in the same issue of Signs by Christ (see C27) and Plaskow (see C29). Atwood's view is that Surfacing is neither a feminist/ecological treatise as reviewed in the U.S.A. nor a nationalist one as reviewed in Canada, but a novel.
B76 "Of Woman Born." Rev. of Motherhood As Experience and situation, by Adrienne Rich. The Globe and Mail, 11 Nov. 1976, p 41.
B77 "Canadian Monsters. Some Aspects of the Supernatural in Canadian Fiction." In The Canadian Imagination: Dimensions of a Literary Culture Ed. David Staines. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Univ. Press, 1977, pp 97-122.
B78 Letter. Saturday Night, Jan-Feb 1977, p 3. Claims that the Royal Porcupine in Lady Oracle is a character in a novel and does not represent any real person.
B79 "Why Annie Got Her Gun." Rev. of A Harvest Yet To Reap: A History of Prairie Women, ed. Linda Rasmussen et al. Books in Canada, Feb. 1977, pp 9-10.
B80 Rev. of Ten Green Bottles and Ladies and Escorts, by Audrey Thomas. The Globe and Mail, 16 April 1977, p. 25.
B81 "Uncle Denis' Hat-Trick." The Canadian, 10 Sept. 1977, pp 16-19. Pages from Dennis Lee's book for children, Garbage Delight, introduced by Atwood.
B82 "Courage and Passion." Rev. of Report on the Death of Rosenkavaher, by Jan Drabek. Essays on Canadian Writing, Nos. 7/8 (Fall 1977), pp. 97-100.
B83 "Monument for a Dead Self." Rev of A Self-Portrait, by Anne Sexton. New York Times Book Review, 6 Nov 1977, p 15.
B84 "An Important Book, for Many Reasons " Rev. of The Wars, by Timothy Findley. Financial Post, 12 Nov 1977, p 6. Rpt. in Book and Periodical Development Council Newsletter, No. 2 (Dec 1977), pp. 4-6.
B85 "The Curse of Eve -- Or, What I Learned in School." In Women on Women. Ed and introd. Ann B Shteir. Toronto: York University, 1978, pp 13-26.
B86 "Atwood among the Ozzies." Saturday Night, June 1978, 45-47, 49-50. An article about a visit to Australia for Writers' Week.
B87 "Unfinished Women." Rev. of The Dream of Common Language: Poems 1974-1977, by Adrienne Rich. New York Times Book Review, 11 June 1978, pp 7, 42-43.
B88 "Obstacle Course." Rev of Silences, by Tillie Olsen. New York Times Book Review, 30 July 1978, pp 1, 27.
B89 "Timeless in Afghanistan: Observations on Antiquity under Moonlight in Kabul." Toronto Life Travel Guide, Aug. 1978, pp. 12-15, 28-31.
B90 "Production Problems." Canadian Literature, No 78(Autumn 1978),pp 13-15. Deals with the writing and production of Up in the Tree.
B91 Rev. of Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams, by Sylvia Plath. New York Times Book Review, 28 Jan. 1979, pp 10, 31.
B92 "Surfacing on the QE2." Toronto Life Travel Guide, Feb 1979, pp.10, 24-28, 33.
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B93 Programme cover design for The Pirates of Penzance. Produced by Victoria College Music Club, February 1959.
B94 Programme cover design for The Big F. Produced by Victoria College Bob Review, November 1959.
B95 Programme cover design and sketches for The Mikado. Produced by Victoria College Music Club, February 1960.
B96 Programme cover design and posters for Epicoene; or, The Silent Woman. Produced by Victoria College Dramatic Society, December 1960.
B97 Programme cover design, sketches, and posters for The Yeomen of the Guard. Produced by Victoria College Music Club, January-February 1961.
B98 Cartoons in The Strand, 10 March 1961.
B99 Collages for The Journals of Susanna Moodie. Toronto: Oxford Univ Press, 1970.
B100 "Kanadian Kultchur Komics." By "B G." or "Bart Gerrard," a pseudonym used by Margaret Atwood. A comic strip which appeared in every issue of This Magazine from Volume 8, No 5-6 (Jan-Feb. 1975) to Volume 12, No. 2 (1978).
B101 "Portrait of the Artist As a Young Cipher" Graduate, 5, No. 1 (Sesquifall Issue 1977), 8-9. A comic strip written and drawn by Atwood.
B102 Up in the Tree. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978 N pag. Written and drawn by Atwood.
B103 "Hairdo." Weekend Magazine, 4 Feb. 1978, pp 6-7. A comic strip written and drawn by Atwood.
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B104 "Encounters with the Element Man." In The Story So Far/2. Ed.Matt Cohen. Toronto: Coach House, 1973, pp. 9-16.
B105 "The Grave of the Famous Poet" In Modern Canadian Stories. Ed. John Stevens. New York: Bantam, 1975, pp. 62-74.
B106 "Rape Fantasies." In Toronto Short Stories. Ed Morris Wolfe and Douglas Daymond. Toronto: Doubleday, 1977, pp 1-11.
B107 "Survival." In Playback: Canadian Selections. Ed. Jack David and Michael Park. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978, pp. 165-69. SURV (excerpt).
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Note: When an item is reprinted in one of Atwood's books, this fact is noted in the entry through the following abbreviations:
The Edible Woman ........................EW
Surfacing ............................. SURF
Lady Oracle ..............................LO
Dancing Girls ............................DG
Survival ...............................SURV
B1 "The Glass Slippers" Acta Victoriana, 82, No. 3(March 1958), 16-18.
B2 "The Pilgrimage." Acta Victoriana, 83, No. 2 (Dec. 1958), 34-36.
B3 "A Cliche for January." Acta Victoriana, 83, No. 4 (Feb 1959), 7-9.
B4 "The Child Is Now." The Sheet, 1, No. 1 (Jan 1960), 10-12.
B5 "Insula Insularum." Acta Victoriana, 83 (sic) [85], No. 3 (Feb 1961), 6-11.
B6 "War In the Bathroom." Alphabet, No. 8 (1964), pp. 63-72 DG.
B7 "Going To Bed." Evidence, No. 9 (1965), pp. 5-10.
B8 "Testament Found in a Bureau Drawer." Prism International, 5, No. 2 (Autumn 1965), 58-65.
B9 "Polarities." The Tamarack Review, No. 58 (1971), pp. 3-25. DG.
B10 "The Grave of the Famous Poet." 72: New Canadian Stories. Ed David Helwig and Joan Harcourt. Ottawa: Oberon, 1972, pp. 122-33. DG.
Bll "Under Glass." Harper's, Feb. 1972, pp 78-82. DG.
B12 "Encounters with the Element Man." Impulse, 1, No. 2 (Winter 1972), 24-31.
B13 "Rape Fantasies." The Fiddlehead, No 104 (Winter 1975), pp. 3-11. Rpt in Toronto Life, April 1977, pp. 58-60,109, 111-12 DG.
B14 "A Travel Piece." Saturday Night, May 1975, pp. 49-56. DG.
B15 "When It Happens." Chatelaine, Sept 1975, pp. 50-51, 93-99. DG.
B16 "Lady Oracle." Redbook, Aug. 1976, pp 159-81. LO (abridged).
B17 "Husbands and Lovers " Chatelaine, Sept. 1976, pp 49, 77-82. LO (excerpt).
B18 "Hair Jewellery." Ms Magazine, Dec. 1976, pp 53-55. DG.
B19 "The Resplendent Quetzal." The Malahat Review, No. 41 (Jan 1977), pp 175-8. DG.
B20 "Lives of the Poets." Saturday Night, April 1977, pp. 38-43. DG.
B21 "The Man from Mars." Ontario Review, No 6 (Spring-Summer 1977), pp. 7-24. DG.
B22 "Betty." Chatelaine, Feb. 1978, pp 41, 84, 86-88, 90, 92-94.
B23 "Dancing Girls and Other Stories." Chatelaine, March 1978, pp 35-36. DG (excerpt -- "Giving Birth").
B24 "Surfacing." Playgirl, March 1978, p 107 SURF (excerpt).
B25 "Prima di Lasciarsi." Trans. Grazia Griffini. Grazsa, 15 Oct 1978, pp. 142-44, 147, 149-50, 153, 155, 157, 159, 161.
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A12 Jason's Quest. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1970. 211 pp.
London: Macmillan, 1970. 160 pp.
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A 10 Long Drums and Canons: Nigerian Novelists and Dramatists 1952-1966. London: Macmillan, 1968. 209 pp.
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A11 .........., ed. and trans. A Tree for Poverty: Somali Poetry and Prose. Nairobi: Eagle, 1954. 146 pp.
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A8 The Prophet's Camel Bell. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1963. 239 pp.
London: Macmillan, 1963. 239 pp.
New Wind in a Dry Land. New York: Knopf, 1964. 295 pp.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975. 239 pp.
A9 Heart of a Stranger. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart 1976. 221 pp.
Includes "The Very Best Intentions" (B29), "The Epic Love of Elmii Bonderii" (B30), "Sayonara, Agamemnon" (B31), "In Pursuit of My Past on the Road from the Isles" (B32), "Open Letter to the Mother of Joe Bass" (B33), "I Am a Taxi" (B37), "Sources" (B38), "Down East" (B40), "Hello Aunt Nelly, I'm on the Telly" (B46), "Living Dangerously...By Mail" (B48), "Where the World Began: A Small Prairie Town as an Aspect of Myself" (B49), "The Wild Blue Yonder" (B51), "Loneliness Is Something That Doesn't Exist Here" (B53), "The Greatest Gift of All" (B54), "Man of Our People" (B78).
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A1 This Side Jordan. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1960 281 pp. London: Macmillan, 1960 281 pp.
New York: St Martin's, 1960. 304 pp.
Introd. G. D. Killam. New Canadian Library, No. 126.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1976. 281 pp.
A2 The Stone Angel. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1964 308 pp.
London: Macmillan, 1964. 263 pp.
New York: Knopf, 1964. 308 pp.
Der Steinerne Engel. Trans. Herbert Schluter. Munich: Droemer Knaur, 1965 349 pp.
Introd. W H. New. New Canadian Library, No 59.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1968 308 pp.
London: Panther Books, 1970. 240 pp.
L'Ange de Pierre. Trans. Claire Martin. Montreal: P. Tisseyre, 1976. 342 pp.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart-Bantam, 1978. 275 pp.
A3 A Jest of God. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1966. 202 pp.
London: Macmillan, 1966. 202 pp.
New York: Knopf, 1966. 240 pp.
New York: Popular Library, 1966 175 pp.
Now! Lay Me Down. London: Panther, 1968. 188 pp.
Rachel, Rachel. London: Panther, 1968 192 pp.
Raquel, Raquel. Trans. Agustin Gil Lasierra. Barcelona-Ediciones Grijalbo, 1969 223 pp.
Introd. G. D. Killam. New Canadian Library, No 111.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1974. 202 pp.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart-Bantam, 1977. 246 pp.
A4 The Fire-Dwellers. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1969. 308 pp.
London: Macmillan, 1969 264 pp.
New York: Knopf, 1969 308 pp.
New York: Popular Library, 1969 317 pp.
Ta Maison est en Feu. Trans. Rosine Fitzgerald. Paris: Editions Stock, 1971 318 pp.
Introd. Allan Bevan. New Canadian Library, No. 87.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973 308 pp.
London: Panther, 1973. 240 pp.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart-Bantam, 1978 277 pp.
A5 The Diviners. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1974. 382 pp.
London: Macmillan, 1974 160 pp.
New York: Knopf, 1974. 382 pp.
Toronto: Bantam, 1975. 467 pp.
London: Bantam, 1976. 480 pp.
Introd. David Staines. New Canadian Library, No 146.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978. 467 pp.
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A6 The Tomorrow-Tamer. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1963 243 pp.
London: Macmillan, 1963. 243 pp.
New York: Knopf, 1964. 236 pp.
Die Stimmen von Adamo. Trans. Herbert Schluter
Munich: Droemer Knaur, 1965
Introd. Clara Thomas. New Canadian Library, No. 70.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1970. 244 pp.
Includes "Drummer of All the World" (B10), "The Merchant of Heaven" (Bll), "The Perfume Sea" (B12), "Godman's Master" (B13), "A Gourdful of Glory" (B14), "The Tomorrow-Tamer" (B15), "The Ram Child" (B16), "The Spell of the Distant Drum" (B17), "The Pure Diamond Man" (B18).
A7 A Bird in the House: Stories. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1970 207 pp.
London: Macmillan, 1970 224 pp.
New York: Knopf, 1970. 207 pp
Introd. Robert Gibbs. New Canadian Library, No 96.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1974. 207 pp.
Includes "The Sound of the Singing" (B20), "To Set Our House in Order" (B21), "A Bird in the House" (B23), "The Mask of the Bear" (B24), "Crying of the Loons" (B25), "Horses of the Night" (B26), "Nanuk" (B27).
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B29 "The Very Best Intentions " Holiday, Nov 1964, pp. 107-08, 111, 125. HS.
B30 "The Epic Love of Elmii Bonderii." Holiday, Nov 1965, pp. 35, 37, 39-40. HS.
B31 "Sayonara, Agamemnon." Holiday, Jan. 1966, pp. 21-24, 28-30. HS.
B32 "In Pursuit of My Past on the Road from the Isles." Maclean's, 2 May 1966, pp 26a-26h. HS ("Road from the Isles").
B33 "Introduction." In The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories. By Sinclair Ross. New Canadian Library, No.62. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1968, pp. 7-12.
B34 "Open Letter to the Mother of Joe Bass." In The New Romans. Ed. A W. Purdy. Edmonton: M. G. Hurtig, 1968, pp 34-37. HS.
B35 "Ten Years' Sentences." Canadian Literature, No. 41 (Summer 1969), pp. 10-16. ML.
B36 "Author's Commentary." In Sixteen by Twelve. Ed. John Metcalf. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1970, pp. 71-73.
B37 "I Am a Taxi." Vancouver Sun, 7 Feb. 1970, p 6. HS.
B38 "Sources." Mosaic, 3, No 3 (April 1970), 80-84 HS ("A Place to Stand On"); ML.
B39 "The Natives are Restless Tonight." Vancouver Sun, 26 Dec 1970, p. 6.
B40 "Down East." Vancouver Sun, 20 March 1971, p. 6 HS.
B41 "Salute of the Swallows." Vancouver Sun, 22 May 1971, p. 6.
B42 "The River Flows Both Ways." Vancouver Sun, 11 Dec 1971, p 6.
B43 "Time and the Narrative Voice." In The Narrative Voice. Ed. John Metcalf. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1972, pp 126-30. ML.
B44 "Put Out One or Two More Flags." Vancouver Sun, 25 Feb 1972, p. 6 HS.
B45 "Voices from Future Places." Vancouver Sun, 23 April 1972, p. 6.
B46 "Hello Aunt Nelly, I'm on the Telly." Vancouver Sun, 17 June 1972, p. 6. HS ("Inside the Idiot Box").
B47 "Commentary." Journal of Canadian Fiction, 1, No 3 (Summer 1972), 74-75.
B48 "Living Dangerously. . By Mail." Vancouver Sun, 23 Sept. 1972, p. 6. HS.
B49 "Where the World Began: A Small Prairie Town as an Aspect of Myself." Maclean's, Dec. 1972, pp 22-23, 80. HS.
B50 "I Saw a Lot of Good Canadian Books and That's What Counts." Toronto Star, 31 Dec 1972, p. D5.
B51 "The Wild Blue Yonder." Vancouver Sun, 1 Sept 1973, p. 6. HS.
B52 "Introduction." In Above Ground. By Jack Ludwig. New Canadian Library, No 100. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1974, n pag.
B53 "Loneliness Is Something That Doesn't Exist Here." Weekend Magazine, 11 May 1974, p. 7. HS ("The Shack").
B54 "The Greatest Gift of All." Weekend Magazine, 21 Dec. 1974, pp 2-4. HS ("Upon a Midnight Clear").
B55 "A Flourishing Art." Journal of Canadian Studies, 10 No. 2 (May 1975), 83-84.
B56 "Introduction." In House of Hate. By Percy Janes. New Canadian Library, No 124. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1976, pp vii-xi.
B57 "Listen Just Listen." In Divided We Stand. Ed. Gary Geddes. Toronto: Peter Martin Associates, 1977, pp. 20-25.
B58 "Introduction." In Crackpot. By Adele Wiseman. New Canadian Library, No 144. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978, pp 3-8.
B59 "Ivory Towers or Grassroots?: The Novelist as Socio-Political Being." In A Political Art: Essays and Images in Honour of George Woodcock. Ed. William H. New. Vancouver: Univ. of British Columbia Press, 1978, pp. 15-25.
B60 "Quebec's 'Freedom' Is a Vital Concern but Freedom Itself Is That and More." Maclean's, 17 April 1978, p.18.
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B97 "The Perfume Sea." Adapted by Max Shoub. Shoestring Theatre, CBC TV, Montreal, April 1964.
B98 "The Stone Angel." Excerpt adapted by George Ryga. Sunday Night, CBC, April 1965. FM Theatre, CBC FM Network, Oct. 1966.
B99 "A Bird in the House." Adapted by Len Peterson Tuesday Night, CBC, Feb. 1966.
B100 "The Half-Husky." Adaptation. Anthology, CBC, Autumn 1967.
B101 Paul Newman, dir., Rachel, Rachel, with Joanne Woodward, United Artists, 1972.
B102 "Margaret Laurence." Canadian Writers on Tape. Toronto: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 1974. Interview by Earle Toppings.
B103 Norma Edward, The Women of Margaret Laurence, dir. Frances Halpenny, Phoenix Theatre, Nov. 1978.
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A Tree for Poverty .......................TP
This Side Jordan .........................TSJ
The Tomorrow-Tamer ....................TT
The Prophet's Camel Bell .................PCB
The Stone Angel .........................SA
A Jest of God .............................JG
Long Drums and Canons .................LDC
The Fire-Dwellers ........................FD
A Bird In the House ......................BH
Jason's Quest .............................JQ
The Diviners ...........................DIV
Heart of a Stranger .......................HS
Margaret Laurence: The Writer and Her Critics ML
B1 "Poems." VOX, 18, No 3 (1945), 32.
B2 "Cabbages." VOX, 18, No 3b (1945), 19.
B3 "Chants " VOX, 18, No. 3b (1945), 17.
B4 "Classical Framework." VOX, 20, No 1 (1946), 26-27.
B5 "Bread Hath He" VOX, 20, No. 2 (1947), 21.
B6 "Song of the Race of Ulysses " VOX, 20, No. 2 (1947), 20.
B7 "Song for Spring." Canadian Author and Bookman, 42 (Winter 1966), 7. This poem was written in 1944, but not published until 1966.
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B61 "Myth into Man." Rev. of Rizpah, by Charles E Israel. Canadian Literature, No 9 (Summer 1961), pp 68-69.
B62 "A Canadian Classic." Rev. of Jake and the Kid, by W. O. Mitchell Canadian Literature, No. 11 (Winter 1962), pp. 68-70.
B63 "The Ring of Authenticity." Rev. of In High Places, by Arthur Hailey. Canadian Literature, No 13 (Summer 1962), pp 75-76.
B64 "Illusions of Simplicity." Rev. of Ask the Name of the Lion, by Ralph Allen. Canadian Literature, No. 14 (Autumn 1962), pp. 57-62.
B65 "Holy Terror." Rev. of The Kite, by W. O. Mitchell. Canadian Literature, No 15 (Winter 1963), pp. 76-77.
B66 "Roses and Yew." Rev. of Memoirs of Montparnasse, by John Glassco. The Tamarack Rewew, No. 54(Winter 1970), pp. 77-80.
B67 "Stubborn Pride." Rev. of The Humpback, by Mort Forer. The Tamarack Review, No. 55 (Spring 1970), pp. 77-79.
B68 "Caverns to the Mind's Dark Continent." Rev. of The New Ancestors, by Dave Godfrey. The Globe Magazine, 5 Dec 1970, p. 18.
B69 "African Experience." Rev. of Farquharson's Physique and What It Did to His Mind, by David Knight. Journal of Canadian Fiction, 1, No I (Winter 1972), 77-78.
B70 Rev. of Bartleby, by Chris Scott. Books in Canada, April 1972, pp. 3-4.
B71 Rev. of Crackpot, by Adele Wiseman. The Globe and Mail, 28 Sept. 1974, p. 33.
B72 Rev. of Alligator Pie and Nicholas Knock and Other People, by Dennis Lee. The Globe and Mail, 5 Oct l974, p. 35.
B73 "Sinclair Ross Looks at the Prairies, His Time and Place." Rev. of Sawbones Memorial, by Sinclair Ross. The Gazette [Montreal], 9 Nov. 1974, p. 58.
B74 Rev. of Memoirs of a Survivor, by Doris Lessing. The Globe and Mail, 7 June 1975, p. 37.
B75 Rev. of Themes for Diverse Instruments, by Jane Rule. The Globe and Mail, 25 June 1975, p. 23.
B76 Rev. of Radclyffe Hall at the Well of Loneliness, by Lovat Dickson. The Globe and Mail, 30 Aug 1975, p.30.
B77 Rev. of Ross and Buckler, by Robert D. Chambers. The Globe and Mail, 8 Nov. 1975, p. 35.
B78 "Man of Our People." Rev. of Gabriel Dumont: The Metis Chief and His Lost World, by George Woodcock. The Canadian Forum, Dec.-Jan. 1976, pp. 28-29. HS.(revised).
B79 "More Perils of Pauline." Rev. of Durer's Angel, by Marie-Claire Blais. Trans. David Lobdell. Books in Canada, April 1977, pp. 25-26.
B80 "Author's Choice." Rev. of Whale Sound, by Greg Gatenby, and Divided We Stand, by Gary Geddes. Toronto Star, 10 Dec 1977, p. D8.
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B81 "To Set Our House in Order." In Modern Canadian Stories. Ed. Giose Rimanelli and Roberto Ruberto. Toronto: Ryerson, 1966, pp. 247-61.
B82 Excerpt from A Jest of God. In Canadian Writing Today. Comp Mordecai Richler. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, 1970, pp. 203-09.
B83 "A Gourdful of Glory." In Great Canadian Short Stories. Comp. Alec Lucas. New York: Dell, 1971, pp. 225-40.
B84 "Horses of the Night." In Contemporary Voices: The Short Story in Canada. Ed. Donald Stephens. Scarborough, Ontario: Prentice-Hall, 1972, pp. 59-73.
B85 "The Drummer of All the World." In The Evolution of Canadian Literature in English 1945-1970. Ed. Paul Denham. Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973, pp. 160-70.
B86 "The Holy Terror." In The Oxford Anthology of Canadian Literature. Ed. Robert L. Weaver and William Toye. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1973, pp. 252-64 SA (excerpt).
B87 "Silverthreads." In Canadian Literature: Two Centuries in Prose. Ed. Brita Mickleburgh. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973, pp. 289-98. SA (excerpt).
B88 "Ten Years' Sentences." In Writers of the Prairies. Comp. D. G. Stephens. Vancouver: Univ. of British Columbia Press, 1973, pp. 142-48.
B89 "The Loons." In The Prairie Experience. Ed. Terry Angus. Toronto: Macmillan, 1975, pp 85-96.
B90 "To Set Our House in Order." In The Role of Woman in Canadian Literature. Ed. Elizabeth McCullough. Toronto: Macmillan, 1975, pp 36-51.
B91 Excerpt from A Jest of God. In Women in Canadian Literature. Ed. M. G. Hesse. Ottawa: Borealis, 1976, pp. 210-15.
B92 Excerpt from The Stone Angel. In Women in Canadian Literature. Ed. M.G. Hesse. Ottawa: Borealis, 1976, pp. 271-74.
B93 "Speaking of Writing." In The Artist in Canadian Literature. Ed. Lionel Wilson. Toronto: Macmillan, 1976, pp. 69-72.
B94 "Where the World Began." In The Search for Identity. Ed. James Foley. Toronto: Macmillan, 1976, pp 98-103.
B95 "The Loons." In Horizon: Writings of the Canadian Prairie. Ed. Ken Mitchell. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1977, pp. 193-201.
B96 "The Perfume Sea." In Here and Now. Ed. Clark Blaise and John Metcalf. Ottawa: Oberon, 1977, pp. 39-60.
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B8 "Calliope." VOX, 18, No. 3b (1945), 10-12.
B9 "Tal des Waldes." VOX, 19, No 3 (1946), 3-5, 39-40, 54.
B10 "Drummer of All the World." Queen's Quarterly, 63 (Winter 1956), 487-504. TT.
Bll "The Merchant of Heaven." Prism International, 1, No. 1 (Sept 1959), 52-74 TT.
B12 "The Perfume Sea." In Winter's Tales 6 Ed. A.D. MacLean. London: Macmillan, 1960, pp. 83-120. Rpt. (abridged) "The Exiles." In Saturday Evening Post, 3 June 1961, pp 28-29. TT("The Perfume Sea").
B13 "Godman's Master." Prism International, 1, No 3 (Spring 1960), 46-64 TT.
B14 "A Gourdful of Glory." The Tamarack Review, No. 17(Autumn 1960), pp. 5-20 TT. Laurence was awarded the President's Medal by the University of Western Ontario in 1961 for this story.
B15 "The Tomorrow-Tamer." Prism International, 3, No. 1 (Fall 1961), 36-54 TT.
B16 "The Rain-Child." In Winter's Tales 8 Ed. A D. MacLean. New York: St. Martin's, 1962, pp. 105-42. TT.
B17 "The Spell of the Distant Drum." The Saturday Evening Post, 5 May 1962, pp 24-25. TT (abridged--"The Voices of Adamo").
B18 "The Sound of the Singing." In Winter's Tales 9 Ed A.D. MacLean. New York: St Martin's, 1963, pp. 62-104. BH.
B19 "The Pure Diamond Man." The Tamarack Review, No. 26 (Winter 1963), pp. 3-21. TT
B20 "Mask of Beaten Gold." The Tamarack Rewew, No. 29(Autumn 1963), pp. 3-21. Laurence was awarded the President's Medal by the University of Western Ontario in 1963 for this story.
B21 "To Set Our House in Order." Ladies Home Journal, March 1964, pp. 80-82. BH (abridged -- "To Set Our House in Order").
B22 "A Queen in Thebes." The Tamarack Review, No. 32(Summer 1964), pp 25-37.
B23 "A Bird in the House." Atlantic Monthly, Nov 1964, pp. 64-71. Rpt. "Ein Vogel im Haus." Trans. Walter Riedel. In Kanada: Moderne Erzahler Der Welt. Tubingin und Basel: Horst Erdman, 1976, pp. 284-305 BH.
B24 "The Mask of the Bear." In Winter's Tales 11. Ed A.D. MacLean. New York: St. Martin's, 1965, pp. 37-61. BH.
B25 "Crying of the Loons." Atlantic Advocate. March 1966, pp. 34-38. BH ("The Loons").
B26 "Horses of the Night." Chatelaine, July 1967, pp. 46, 70-77. BH.
B27 "Nanuk." Argosy, Nov. 1967. Rpt. "Le Batard." In Liberte, March-April 1969, pp. 143-61. BH ("The Half-Husky").
B28 "The Olden-Days Coat." Weekend Magazine, 20 Dec. 1975, pp. 2-4.
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Part 2 Works on Margaret Atwood; Books, articles and sections of books, theses and dissertation, interviews, awards and honours; Articles and sections of books
Horne, Alan J. (compiler)
C2 Dawe, Alan, introd. The Edible Woman. By Margaret Atwood New Canadian Library, No. 93. Toronto McClelland and Stewart, 1969, pp. [2-7]. Thematically and structurally, The Edible Woman is about choices -- "the intelligent woman's guide to survival in the contemporary world." Beneath the comic surface of the novel is rage -- even the most comic scenes contain an element of horror. The central image of "eating" advances and unifies the story.
C3 Woodcock, George "Margaret Atwood" Literary Half-Yearly, 13, No 2(July 1972), 233-42. Identifies three essential characteristics of Atwood's poetic character -- the sharp, ironic inversion, the movement from the metaphorical to the literal use of images; and the combination of visual sensibility with intellectual discipline. The identity of her poems and her first novel is very close -- both are about the distances and defences between human beings. Atwood's experience in handling images and myths in her poetry is reflected in the craftsmanship of The Edible Woman. In addition, this is a "social novel of high perceptiveness." Atwood does for her own generation what Jane Austen did for hers.
C4 Ayre, J. "Margaret Atwood and the End of Colonialism." Saturday Night, Nov 1972, pp. 23-26. "Nationalist radicals" like Atwood believe that the older writers such as Callaghan and Richler "are locked into alienated colonialist attitudes, persisting in their belief that cultural standards are set in New York or London." Because of her intense feeling about this, Atwood spent the last year spreading her ideas about Canadian literature and national identity. Some biographical details follow and some perceptive comments about her writing -- she "plays the role of psychic iconoclast, pulling the categories of existence apart and presenting a broken, confused reality that her readers must often put back in order for themselves."
C5 Mathews, Robin. "Survival and Struggle in Canadian Literature." This Magazine Is about Schools, 6, No 4 (Winter 1972-73), 109-24. The most influential review article on Survival to take a strongly critical view of Atwood's thesis. Mathews claims that Atwood's selection of writers and books is made almost entirely from those which express alienation, defeat, and victimization, and omits those which are examples of recognition, struggle, and conviction. "Nor is there any significant use of major Canadian writers who have dealt deeply with our colonial condition, writers that are at home in the recognition of oppression and the struggle against it. How is it possible to write a thematic guide to Canadian literature and neglect totally or almost totally people like D. C. Scott, F R. Scott, Richardson, Livesay, Marriott, Lampman, MacLennan, Mitchell, Haliburton, Leacock . . . ?" As a result, the view of Canadian literature in the book is "partial towards the conventional colonial view held by the past Establishment. Atwood engages in a put-down of Canadian imagination . . ."
C6 Onley, Gloria. "Margaret Atwood: Surfacing in the Interests of Survival." West Coast Review, 7, No 3(Jan. 1973), 51-54. For Onley, Atwood's work is significant because it is "so clearly in tune with the radical spirit of her times." Atwood's thematic analysis in Survival is reminiscent of the psychology of R. D. Laing. Perhaps her basic "Victim Positions" are "a non-symmetrical 'mapping' of Laing's psychology onto Northrop Frye's theory of fictional modes in which fictions are classified by the hero's power of action." Survival is seen as a map "to dangerous territories to study vicariously and avoid as much as possible in one's own life." But the victim/victor pattern is not a national neurosis as Atwood contends but part of the human condition. Any use of language at all is to risk participation in that structure. Atwood expresses this in Surfacing, which is concerned with indicating what must be removed, including language, "so that a true sense of self may be uncovered and a movement begun in the direction of communication and community."
C7 French, William. "Icon and Target: Atwood As Thing." The Globe and Mail, 7 April 1973, p 28. A summary of Atwood's speech to the Empire Club in April 1973 (see B50). She realizes that she has become a sort of symbol of Canadian national cultural aspirations, a "Thing" rather than a celebrity. The answers a "Thing" gives are listened to, but are shot at as well as worshipped. Serious cultural nationalists want a distractive culture and are unafraid of measuring it against international standards.
C8 Davey, Frank. "Atwood Walking Backwards" Open Letter, 2nd Ser, No. 5 (Summer 1973), 74-84. A highly critical article about Surfacing and Survival. Davey interprets Surfacing as a reworking of previous themes though finding it a technical advance. In Survival there is an over-emphasis on House of Anansi publications, and a superficial treatment of "Canadian literature proper." Her generalizations are invalid because she has not achieved a balanced overview. Davey also faults her for seeking "Canadianism" within literary themes; for an obsessive search to confirm the victim/victimizer theme in Canadian literature; and for ignoring "the very large and significant celebratory tradition in Canadian poetry."
C9 Webb, Phyllis. "Letters to Margaret Atwood." Open Letter, 2nd Ser., No 5 (Summer 1973), 71-73. A personal response to Atwood and her work, inspired by the publication of Survival.
C10 Woodcock, George. "Surfacing to Survive: Notes of the Recent Atwood." Ariel, 4, No. 3 (July 1973), 16-28. Woodcock wrote in an earlier article (see C3) that the poems in Atwood's Power Politics express "an attitude to life that is evident in all Atwood's writings -- an attitude appropriate to an age when survival has become the great achievement." Both Survival and Surfacing develop this personal ethic. In Survival, Atwood's "brilliant intelligence has been unable to put the brakes on. . . but the absurdities of the intelligent are always worth observing for the serious things they reveal." From the recognition of one's place, one's predicament, starts a journey of self-discovery and growth, and this pattern of hope is presented at the end of Survival. Surfacing is a novel of self-realization, but it also possesses an element of self-criticism. At the end of the novel there is sanity, a real understanding of reality. In Survival, the writer's perceptions "are transformed into discursive nets that entrap the reason. In Surfacing the perceptions are protected in a strange winter light of satire, they are etched with the lineaments of myth."
C11 Gutteridge, Don. "Surviving the Fittest: Margaret Atwood and the Sparrow's Fall." Journal of Canadian Studies, 8, No 3 (Aug 1973), 59-64. "Survival is so good. And yet so dangerous. Its power and persuasiveness derive from its myriad minor insights into certain authors, novels, poems, etc, and in one major semi-flawed critical revelation." The theme of survival and the victim is supported only by Atwood's luscious selection of material -- for example, Fred Bodsworth's The Sparrow's Fall is omitted because it does not fit into her thesis. Gutteridge analyses this novel in some detail and concludes that "Bodsworth presents us with what we can only call 'a creative victim.'" Because this does not fit with Atwood's theme, she is forced to avoid any reference to it -- "What credence can we give, then, to Miss Atwood's thesis?"
C12 Piercy, Marge. "Margaret Atwood -- Beyond Victimhood." American Poetry Review, 2, No. 6 (Nov-Dec 1973), 41-44. A long general article covering the two novels, five books of poetry, and Survival, which Atwood had then written. The author admires Atwood and hopes that, as she has come to identify herself in the tradition she has defined as literature of a victimized colony, she will "help consciously define another growing body to which her work in many of its themes belongs: a women's culture."
C13 Davey, Frank. "Margaret Atwood." In From There to Here: A Guide to English-Canadian Literature Since 1960. Our Nature -- Our Voices, Vol II Erin, Ontario: Press Porcepic, 1974, pp 30-36. A short, positive survey of Atwood's work, of which her poetry is claimed as her most accomplished and important. The first two novels elaborate on the themes expressed in the poetry and make them more explicit without expanding them. The usefulness of Survival has been in provoking interest in Canadian writing. Atwood claims the themes of victimization and survival dominate the literature, but she can only do this by being very selective in choosing her texts.
C14 Page, Sheila. "Supermarket Survival: A Critical Analysis of Margaret Atwood's 'The Edible Woman.'" Sphinx, No 1 (Winter 1974), pp. 9-19. The writer sees Marian as an instinctive victim, knowing who are her hunters though never naming them. Her relationship with Peter is a well-defined example of the hunted-hunter, consumer-consumed phenomenon. "He is the quintessence of mediocrity, he is so conventional he is no longer human. "He gains control over Marian's life but she increasingly sees him as an authoritative figure -- a powerful doctor, a photographer who will "capture" her image, a hunter. All of Atwood's characters express the humanity vs commodity situation. By the end of the novel, though "the consumer society gulps on. . .Marian has realized her body with her head" and seems likely to survive.
C15 Onley, Gloria. "Power Politics in Bluebeard's Castle." Canadian Literature, No 60 (Spring 1974), pp 21-42. A study of the sexual politics evidenced in Atwood's work. The theme of Power Politics is "role-engulfment" -- for the woman, self is lost in the modern version of romantic love, a devastating mode of existence. Sexual love is imaged several times as a shattering of the ego, the body is described as a mechanism remotely controlled by the head. These themes are repeated in Surfacing, where sex is linked to mechanization, coercion, and death. A link between depersonalized sex and modern technology was suggested by George Steiner in his In Bluebeard's Castle: Notes Towards a Redefinition of Culture; and there is also expressed the view that syntax is an active mirroring of systems of power and order. In Surfacing language is seen as a means of imposing psychological power structures; and in Power Politics language is described as turning from tool to weapon. Language itself is Bluebeard's Castle. Atwood suggests that the end of sexual politics might come only with the end of civilization as we know it. Her works are "frighteningly precise image structures, iconoclastic keys to getting mentally outside Bluebeard's Castle."
C16 Morley, Patricia. "Survival, Affirmation and Joy." Lakehead University Review, 7, No. 1 (Summer 1974), 21-30. Morley agrees with Robin Mathews in rejecting Atwood's claim that Survival was not intended to be evaluative. Atwood selected what supported her thesis; she equates the literature of survival with failure, but Morley finds that it expresses joy as well as suffering, courage as well as fear. The value of the book is in its provocativeness, its wit, its ability to start debate.
C17 Macri, F. M. "Survival Kit: Margaret Atwood and the Canadian Scene." Modern Poetry Studies, 5, No 2 (Autumn 1974), 187-95. A most critical survey of Atwood's poetry, whose imagery and themes are claimed to be transparent and continually repeated. A reading of her prose works, particularly Survival, helps one appreciate better her creative talents. However, the exposition of themes, motifs, and recurrent patterns add up to a theory of Canadian literature which may confuse a whole generation into seeing victims everywhere.
C18 Schaeffer, Susan Fromberg. "'It Is Time That Separates Us': Margaret Atwood's 'Surfacing.'" Centennial Review, 18, No 4 (Fall 1974), 319-37. Schaeffer's thesis is that Surfacing is about mortality, victimization of all mankind, and is wrongly interpreted as about the victimization of women. Although the narrator is not the victim of a war between men and women, her hatred is directed more strongly against men as they are the more logical and more cruel. The narrator goes on a journey of self-discovery, a rite of passage, and attempts to merge the two aspects of her parents within herself. She believes that there are only two choices in life -- to immerse oneself in it or to be destroyed -- and finally she is committed to the first "Underneath its deceptively cool surface, Surfacing is an ingenious and heartbreaking, book."
C19 MacLulich, T. D. "The 'Survival' Shoot-Out." Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 1 (Winter 1974), pp 14-20. A serious but amusing article in which MacLulich sets the scene as though Survival were a gunslinger in a Western movie. He claims that Survival should be seen in its historical and literary context. After Canadian literature was established the new critics -- Frye, Jones, Sutherland, and Atwood -- were concerned with what the books said that was different from that said in British and American books. When Survival appeared, it annoyed many because of its lightweight style and because it seemed to challenge existing critical works, though it provided a synthesis of all previous thematic theories. Thus it "combined originality with academic poaching in a way that was infuriating to the critical gameskeeping mind." Critical responses to the book included the argument that Atwood was too selective in her examples, and that she insulted and challenged by seeming to blame Canadians for allowing themselves to be exploited.
C20 Brady, Elizabeth. "Towards a Happier History: Women and Domination." In Domination. Ed Alkis Kontos. Toronto Univ. of Toronto Press, 1975, pp. 17-31. This essay on attitudes to women and domination in Canada from the eighteenth century uses three novels as raw material. The section headed "The Twentieth Century" 'Oh, Screw My Femininity'" deals with woman's predicament as described in The Edible Woman. The novel offers a probing criticism of the consumer society and of the capitalist political theory that it is based on. Atwood's specific targets are market research and advertising, both of which create and sustain the media myth of the middle-class Domestic Woman. Marian eventually rejects the false notions of femininity which dominate her own identity. Brady claims that Atwood's real achievement is to have related the various forms of male domination to the larger structure of consumer capitalism.
C21 French, William. "The Women of Our Literary Life."' Imperial Oil Review, 59, No 1 (1975), 2-7. Rpt. in Canadian Author and Bookman, 51 (Spring 1976), 1-6. A brief survey of women fiction writers in Canada from Frances Brooke, whose novel The History of Emily Montague was published in 1769, to the present day. French describes Atwood as "the best-known and most versatile" of the leading women writers today.
C22 McLay, Catherine. "The Divided Self: Theme and Pattern in Margaret Atwood's 'Surfacing.'" Journal of Canadian Fiction, 4, No 1(1975), 82-95. McLay sees the theme of Surfacing as the search for unity in a self which has become divided, a modern dilemma explained by R. D. Laing. In Atwood's book, the physical journey undertaken by the narrator becomes a journey into her own mind. She experiences a disruption in a sense of place and also a dislocation in personal relationships. She comes to see the world as chaotic and threatening and society as dominated by "the enemy." There is a widening separation between self and others, marked by the increasing problem of communication as represented by language. At the end, the narrator accepts her own humanity and sees others as fallible humans too; accepts the necessity of language and the need to trust, and so achieves "some kind of harmony with the world." The self is no longer divided.
C23 Woodcock, George "Margaret Atwood: Poet as Novelist." In The Canadian Novel in the Twentieth Century. Ed George Woodcock. New Canadian Library, No. 115. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975, pp. 312-27. This article, dated 1974, was constructed from two previously published articles which appeared in The Literary Half-Yearly (see C3) and Ariel (see C10). Woodcock's conclusion is that a consideration both of Atwood's prose writings and of her poetry shows "the versatility with which her intelligence plays over the horizons of her perceptions. . . . No other writer of Margaret Atwood's generation has so wide a command of the resources of literature, so telling a restraint in their use."
C24 Norris, Ken. "Survival in the Writings of Margaret Atwood." CrossCountry, No 1 (Winter 1975), pp 1829. A reading of Atwood's work which finds the theme of survival central to her fiction and poetry. In both of her first two novels, her heroines are victims at the outset, but during the course of the narrative, they obtain some sort of self-realization and at the end reach a point where they can decide whether or not to remain victims. As well as survival, Atwood in her work hopes to achieve a respect for life.
C25 Frankel, Vivian. "Margaret Atwood: A Personal View." Branching Out, 2, No 1 (Jan-Feb 1975), 24-26. A superficial article. It offers an interesting view of Atwood reading to university audiences in Montreal, and attempts to clear up some misconceptions which have arisen about the -- 'Atwood legend' - that she is hostile to men, and finds them threatening; that she is a menacing pessimist. It asserts that Atwood knows what is important to her and what is not. Contains good photographs.
C26 Conlon, Patrick. "Margaret Atwood: Beneath the Surface." Toronto Life, Feb. 1975, pp. 44-51. A good, professionally journalistic article, mostly biographical. It provides some interesting insights into Atwood's relations with the public, her friends, and the reviewers.
C27 Christ, Carol P. "Margaret Atwood: The Surfacing of Women's Spiritual Quest and Vision." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2, No 2 (1976), 316-30. Sees Surfacing as a feminist theological tract -- claims categorically that it "is about a woman's spiritual quest; the unnamed protagonist. . . .seeks redemption," and that it contains a "powerful religious vision [which] merits the attention of feminist critics." The abortion incident in the novel is dealt with specifically as a feminist issue.
C28 Northey, Margot "Sociological Gothic: 'Wild Geese' and 'Surfacing.'" In The Haunted Wilderness: The Gothic and Grotesque in Canadian Fiction. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1976, pp. 62-69. Northey claims Surfacing as an example of "sociological gothic" as it contains elements belonging to the fantastic world of romance and to realistic or analytic fiction. She describes where she finds these elements in the book, comparing and contrasting it to Martha Ostenso's Wild Geese.
C29 Plaskow, Judith. "On Carol Christ on Margaret Atwood: Some Theological Reflections." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2, No 2 (1976), 331-39. Mainly concerned with Christ's proposal for a future feminist theology as evoked by a reading of Surfacing; however this writer also sees Atwood's novel as a feminist tract -- "Atwood does not differ between legitimate and illegitimate abortions"; "Atwood's version of this connection (between women and nature) is oppressive"; "To paraphrase Atwood it is God in whom we are alive; She fulfills our waiting to become alive"; "just as Atwood is an important corrective to theological reflection on humanity/ nature relations, this same theology is clearly needed to balance Atwood."
C30 Gerson, Carole "Margaret Atwood and Quebec: A Footnote on 'Surfacing.'" Studies in Canadian Literature, 1, No. 1 (Winter 1976), 115-19. A comment about Atwood's reasons for setting Surfacing in Quebec, and the effect this has on the novel.
C31 Sullivan, Rosemary. "Surfacing and Deliverance." Canadian Literature, No. 67 (Winter 1976), pp 6-20. Sullivan contrasts Surfacing to James Dickey's Deliverance in order to identify what is peculiarly Canadian about Atwood's novel. The two books are closely related in exploring man's relations to nature but "are fundamentally opposed in the discoveries their characters make about nature and the resolutions to which these discoveries lead." For Atwood, the experience of nature offers at best survival -- there is no deliverance to another state; but it does lead to some sort of understanding of one's fellow human beings, an acceptance of the need for others. In Deliverance there is a romantic nostalgia for a spontaneous response to nature; and "the essential human problem for Dickey still remains the need to create other wildernesses of the imagination in which can be discovered something commensurate to man's capacity for wonder."
C32 Sweetapple, Rosemary. "Margaret Atwood: Victims and Survivors." Southern Review [University of Adelaide], 9, No 1 (March 1976),50-69. An essay on Surfacing which contains some perceptive comments, but which, by taking much of the text at face value, is liable to have misread it. The writer claims that Survival provides the key to the understanding of the novel which offers "a devastating world in which one eats or is eaten." In the end the narrator "achieves a possible position in an impossible world, by attempting to break down her personality and with it the patterns of acculturation, to come to a fresh view of herself."
C33 Bjerring, Nancy E. "The Problem of Language in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing.'" Queen's Quarterly, 83, No 4 (Winter 1976), 597-612. A fascinating attempt to explain how Atwood has used four "languages" in Surfacing, each expressing the attitudes of its users towards nature and art. The dominant language is "American" or social chatter, which renders human exchanges superficial and trivial, and perverts and debases art. David is the most linguistically dishonest character in the book -- his language can never be the means of conveying essential meaning. The narrator's father has adopted the language of science, "what we might call empirical/objective language." He has withdrawn from society into nature, believing that only there could he find the rational ordering missing in society. The narrator's mother and Joe have chosen silence as their "language"; they communicate as little as possible and expose their opinions as seldom as possible. The narrator is an outsider to all these language groups -- her language is a meta-language, the language of essential meaning, a language of visions "With the illumination of the meta-language she knows who she is and what she must do. . . . she must go back with Joe, to a new relationship demanding words, therefore involvement, therefore pain."
C34 Gerstenberger, Donna. "Conceptions Literary and Otherwise: Women Writers and the Modern Imagination." Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 9, No. 2 (Winter 1976), 141-50. An interesting article which discusses the need of contemporary feminist writers "to clear the inadequacy of past conceptions about reality, to alter what women(and men) have been taught to believe are given facts of existence, to call out the conspiratorial lies." Gerstenberger notes that the themes of alienation, the imperfections of language and the relative nature of truth, shared by most modernists including Atwood may be found in Ursula LeGuin's science fiction novel, The Left Hand of Darkness. She then deals with Surfacing at some length as the best example she knows of "a contemporary novel by a woman with feminist concerns which confronts the problems of myth and language."
C35 Garebian, Keith "'Surfacing': Apocalyptic Ghost Story." Mosaic, 9,No. 3 (Spring 1976), 1-9. The ghosts are used as "a vehicle to connect mixed literary modes and to integrate questions about innocence and guilt, alienation and harmony, fragmentation and wholeness into an adventure which takes the archetypal form of a quest while being moulded into an apocalypse of the heroine's mind and spirit. . . ." Garebian examines the structure of the novel, its malor themes, and Atwood's postulates about the heroine and her ghosts which "are essentially projections of the protagonist's troubled mind."
C36 Davey, Frank. "Surviving the Paraphrase." Canadian Literature, No.70 (Autumn 1976), pp. 5-13. A critical review of the thematic criticism of Northrop Frye, D.G. Jones, John Moss, and Atwood. Davey complains that many academic critics, including Atwood, appear ignorant of movements in contemporary Canadian writing; and that the focus of thematic criticism rests outside the writing. This sort of criticism then becomes an attempt "to define a national identity or a psychosis." The movement is towards a paraphrase of the explicit meaning of a work and neglects the content implicit in its structure, language, or imagery. Davey continues with some detailed comments on D. G. Jones' Butterfly on Rock.
C37 Rubenstein, Roberta. "'Surfacing': Margaret Atwood's Journey to the Interior." Modern Fiction Studies, 22, No 3 (Autumn 1976), 387-99. Surfacing contains more themes than just survival, and primarily it relates a journey of self-discovery to make whole the divided self. It deals also with death and rebirth, with the impingement of the past upon the present, with the use of language. "The novel both reveals and imaginatively extends the unity of theme and image of her previous work. . . [and] it achieves a symbolic and mythic enlargement of Atwood's vision that transcends cultural boundaries."
C38 MacGregor, Roy. "Mother Oracle." The Canadian, 25 Sept 1976, pp. 15-18. An interview-style article which describes Atwood's private life and how the public intrudes. MacGregor claims that in her work she is telling Canadians about themselves rather than about herself. A study of Survivalwoman in the comic strip "Kanadian Kultchur Komics," written and illustrated by Atwood, will produce a good picture of what she is like today. Well illustrated with colour photographs.
C39 Moss, John. "Strange Bedfellows: Atwood and Richler." In Sex and Violence in the Canadian Novel: The Ancestral Present. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, pp 123-46. A detailed interpretation and comparison of Atwood's Surfacing and Richler's St Urbain's Horseman. The narrator in Surfacing struggles to resolve problems of self through a quest for meaningful identity; Richler's hero seeks the self which the impositions of identity obscure. However both make use of sexual violence to promote integrative ends, and both are moralists. Surfacing is a novel of qualified affirmation, and Richler's vision of reality is also one of qualified affirmation.
C40 King, Bruce. "Margaret Atwood's 'Surfacing.'" Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 12, No. 1 (Aug 1977), 23-32. A review article which perceives the theme of Surfacing to be "the search for authenticity and wholeness through rediscovery of the past, including the primitive." It is also a radically Canadian world which is shown and a Canadian past which is sought. Even the conclusion, with the narrator apparently ready to take up life again, is seen as a well-known Canadian theme, of a victim refusing to be victimized. "There has been no great success, no great tragedy. The road to salvation remains fogged and uncertain." King feels that the narrator's imaginative journey into the past was consciously planned to illustrate Atwood's view of the mythology of Canadian literature as detailed in Survival. He also suggests that "the conscious use of symbolism reflects a tendency in Canadian literary criticism, which often approaches the problem of a national cultural identity through the discovery in varied writers of characteristic themes and myths." The novel is well constructed and has a genuine organic texture and development. It has flaws of style and sensitivity -- the characters have a tendency to the stereotype and some ideas are treated with sentimentality. However, the novel is "serious, profound and beautifully written."
C41 Landsberg, Michele. "Late Motherhood." Chatelaine, Oct 1977, pp. 44-46, 119-23, 125. A fairly superficial article based on interviews with some of Canada's most celebrated women who had babies later than usual. Atwood is able to relax and enjoy her baby -- if she had become a mother in her twenties "it would have been a catastrophe. . .a very destructive thing to do."
C42 Nodelman, Perry. "Trusting the Untrustworthy." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No 21 (1977-78), pp 73-82. A review article on The Edible Woman which questions why Atwood chose to present much of her satirical novel as a first-person narrative. It creates the problem that the reader is asked to accept Marian's assessment of other characters who are only sketchily portrayed but to doubt her judgement of herself. "She has every attribute of intelligence but self-knowledge." The novel is about caricature." Its characters have chosen their rigidity as a defensive response to the complexities of lying, and Marian must understand that before she can escape her own self-caricature, her idea that she is an ordinary 'sensible' girl." The imagery Atwood uses -- of food, hunting, packaging, of eggs and turtles -- provides the information the reader needs to understand Marian's behavior when she does not understand herself. "Atwood's clever manipulations of point of view and imagery tie Marian's brilliant impressions together, and make her a sympathetic character."
C43 Cameron, Elspeth. "Margaret Atwood: A Patchwork Self." Book Forum, 4, No. 1 (1978), 35-45. A review article of Lady Oracle and Dancing Girls. According to the writer, in these books Atwood is showing the reader what it is like to be a famous writer, creating a persona for her public to believe in. "Life is nothing more than a series of roles tenuously pieced together into a patchwork self." The conflict of "role" and "self" is a deadly one, and only the relationships of real men and women bring fulfillment.
C44 Mathews, Robin. "Margaret Atwood: Survivalism." In Canadian Literature: Surrender or Revolution. Toronto: Steel Rail Educational Publishing, 1978, pp 119-50. A slightly edited version of the essay which appeared in This Magazine Is about Schools (see C5). Mathews finds no change in his view of Survival -- it is "a fundamentally misguided view of Canadian literature." There is more emphasis in this version on Atwood's "selling out" to the forces of imperialism. "Fight as she appears to do against U.S.terms [of being], Atwood accepts them and builds them into her book with the result that she cannot read. . .what much Canadian literature is saying."
C45 Steele, James. "The Literary Criticism of Margaret Atwood." In Our Own House: Social Perspectives on Canadian Literature. Ed. Paul Cappon. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978, pp 73-81. The author finds that Atwood's "survival hypothesis" fails to account for certain literary facts and is contradicted by many others. The constituent elements in Atwood's theory appear to be a blend of Frye's criticism with the psychological categories of American sociologist Eric Berne. Steele believes that Survival reveals more about Atwood's poetic world-vision than about the structural principles of Canadian literature.
C46 Rosenberg, Jerome H. "Woman as Everyman in Atwood's 'Surfacing': Some Observations on the End of the Novel." Studies in Canadian Literature, 3, No. 1(Winter 1978), 127-32. An attempt to describe Atwood's literary and sociological intention in Surfacing and to point out what are seen as errors in Rosemary Sullivan's article, "Breaking the Circle," which appeared in The Malahat Review, No. 41 (see C1). Rosenberg concludes that Atwood is true to her character in the way a novelist must be, that Surfacing is a novel and not a sociological record, and that after we have experienced the novel we may view the world a little differently.
C47 Brown, Russell M. "In Search of Lost Causes: The Canadian Novelist as Mystery Writer." Mosaic, 11, No 3 (Spring 1978), 1-15. In this general article, Brown expounds his view that several cultural factors make the mystery novel a form that has attracted several contemporary Canadian authors. One example cited is Surfacing where the heroine is confronted by a mystery surrounding her father. She plays the detective but solves another mystery, one relating directly to herself. Brown compares and contrasts Atwood's heroine with Lew Archer, the hero of Ross MacDonald's more straightforward mystery novels.
C48 Campbell, Josie P. "The Woman As Hero in Margaret Atwood's 'Surfacing.'" Mosaic, 11, No. 3 (Spring 1978), 17-28. Campbell describes Surfacing as "a sort of psychological thriller, where the protagonist searches for or comes in conflict with that fragmented self which appears as a ghost," and makes a comparison with Hamlet. Its total structure and meaning are informed by the mythic heroic quest, and Campbell claims that it shows the influence of Joseph Campbell's works, The Hero with a Thousand Faces and Primitive Mythology. "Atwood's novel seems to me to be a 'meta-criticism' of Campbell's theories." The process of myth becomes a critical tool towards self-awareness -- "what stirs us and excites us about Atwood's novel is its human centrality, with its rare view of a woman's enormous capacity to confront heroically the ghosts of her psyche.
C49 Lyons, Bonnie. "'Neither Victims Nor Executioners' in Margaret Atwood's Fiction." World literature Written in English, 17, No. 1 (April 1978), 181-87. Camus' injunction is the underlying theme of both of The Edible Woman and Surfacing. The first is a comic novel in which the resolution (giving Peter the cake) is emblematic and funny, the second is a quest novel in which the resolution is a genuine psychological transformation. In Surfacing there is also a subterranean political aspect to the theme -- Canada itself must shake off the old roles too.
C50 MacLulich, T. D. "Atwood's Adult Fairy Tale: Levi-Strauss, Bettelheim, and The Edible Woman." Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 11 (Summer 1978),pp 111-29. An interesting article that uses the structural methods of the anthropologist Levi-Strauss, who analyses mythical narratives by breaking them down into simple units or motifs. MacLulich compares certain features in The Edible Woman to features in the popular children's story "The Gingerbread Man," and concludes that Atwood's novel could be understood as a parable illustrating the complex nature of society. MacLulich then introduces another children's story, "Little Red Riding Hood," and compares with it the sexuality and fear of being eaten prominent in The Edible Woman. As Bettelheim describes fairy tales as working in the minds of children, so Atwood "lets the symbols and incidents reverberate within the reader's mind."
C51 McCombs, Judith. "Atwood's Nature Concepts: An Overview." Waves, 7, No. 1 (Fall 1978), 68-77. A paper read at the Conference of Inter-American Women Writers, University of Ottawa, May 1978.
C52 Gibson, Graeme. "Travels of a Family Man." Chatelaine, March 1979, pp. 36, 38, 132-33, 135-37. An account of a journey with Margaret Atwood and their child Jess from Ontario to Australia via Paris.
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C75 E. J. Pratt Medal (1961)
C76 President's Medal, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario(1965).
C77 Governor-General's Award for Poetry for The Circle Game (1966).
C78 The Centennial Commission Poetry Competition, First Prize, for The Animals in That Country (1967).
C79 The Union Poetry Prize from Poetry (Chicago) for five poems from Procedures for Underground (1969).
C80 Writer-in-Residence, University of Toronto (1972-73).
C81 D. Litt., Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario (1973).
C82 The Bess Hopkins Prize from Poetry (Chicago)(1974).
C83 LL.D., Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario (1974).
C84 The City of Toronto Award, for Lady Oracle (1976).
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C1 Sandler, Linda, ed. Margaret Atwood: A Symposium (The Malahat Review, No 41, Jan 1977.) Victoria: Univ. of Victoria, 1977. 228 pp. Contents: Linda Sandler, "Interview with Margaret Atwood," pp. 5-27; Rosemary Sullivan, "Breaking the Circle," pp. 30-41; Jane Rule, "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Normalcy -- The Novels of Margaret Atwood," pp 42-49; George Woodcock, "Transformation Mask for Margaret Atwood," pp. 52-56; Rick Salutin, "A Note on the Marxism of Atwood's 'Survival,'" pp 57-60; Al Purdy, "An Unburnished One-Tenth of One Per Cent of an Event," pp 61-64; Margaret Atwood, "An Album of Photographs," pp 65-88; Tom Marshall, "Atwood under and above Water," pp. 89-94; Robert Fulford, "The Images of Atwood," pp. 95-98; John Hofsess, "How To Be Your Own Best Survival," pp 102-06; Robin Skelton, "Timeless Constructions -- A Note on the Poetic Style of Margaret Atwood," pp. 107-20; Margaret Atwood, "Worksheets," pp. 121-33; Rowland Smith, "Margaret Atwood: The Stoic Comedian," pp.134-44; Margaret Atwood, "Threes," p 152; Eli Mandel, "Atwood Gothic," pp. 165-74; Margaret Atwood, "The Resplendant Quetzal," pp. 175-88; Jerome H. Rosenberg, "On Reading the Atwood Papers in the Thomas Fisher Library," pp. 191-94; Alan J Horne, "A Preliminary Checklist of Writings by and about Margaret Atwood," pp. 195-222.
At present, this is the only work devoted to Atwood (though three books are expected shortly, one by Jerome Rosenberg, one by Sherrill Grace, and one edited by Arnold and Cathy Davidson). This special issue of The Malahat Review is a collection of critical essays and appreciations. Sullivan's article attempts to show how Atwood, in her poetry and fiction, tries to disengage from history, from time, from the inheritance of human nature, to break out of the "circle game" of language and logic. Like the narrator in Surfacing, she comes to terms with the past and refuses to be a victim, but has not achieved spiritual regeneration. Rule describes The Edible Woman as a farce about the pursuit of normalcy; to the narrator in Surfacing, normality is terrifying and important; in Lady Oracle, the "pursuit of normalcy, down all the misleading byways of language, is controlled by Margaret Atwood [who]. . . has written a satire of the first order." Marshall points to Atwood's search for a personal and a national identity, in both the poetry and the fiction, as the essential feature of her work. Skelton suggests that Atwood, in many of her poems, uses a structure he calls "modular," and cites Pound, Stevens and Yeats as precedents. Smith examines Atwood's fiction as observations of the grotesqueries of middle Canadian life. Mandel sees Atwood's repetitive use of reduplicating images (mirrors, photographs) and her totemic animal imagery as owing much to the traditional patterns of Gothic horror. The "Album of Photographs" is a fascinating chronological record.
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C59 Halpenny, Frances. "A Dialogue with Margaret Atwood." Toronto: Univ. of Toronto, Faculty of Library Science, 1972. A cassette audio-tape, forty-five minutes duration. Not published. A general interview before a class at the Faculty, October 18, 1972.
C60 Levenson, Christopher. "Interview with Margaret Atwood." Manna, No. 2 (1972), pp. 46-54. A rather defensive interview. Deals mostly with her poetry -- writers who influenced her, what poetry attempts to do, how she starts writing (from images rather than from ideas), how to read poetry aloud. Two interesting comments - poetry does not express emotion but evokes emotion from the reader; and she wrote The Journals of Susanna Moodie as separate poems.
C61 Gibson, Graeme. "Margaret Atwood." In Eleven Canadian Novelists. Toronto. House of Anansi, 1973, pp 1-31. One of a series of interviews first taped for broadcasting on the CBC. Matters discussed include the difference between writing poetry and fiction, what the novelist's role is; the Canadian tradition in writing, the problems of getting published and of being a woman writer; and answers to detailed questions about The Edible Woman and Surfacing.
C62 Miner, Valerie. "Atwood in Metamorphosis: An Authentic Canadian Fairy Tale." In Her Own Woman: Profiles of Ten Canadian Women. Ed. Myrna Kostash. Toronto: Macmillan, 1975, pp. 173-94 Rpt.(abridged) "The Many Facets of Margaret Atwood." In Chatelaine, June 1975, pp 32-33, 66-70. A useful interview in the biographical details it provides of Atwood's childhood and the influence of her parents. About her childhood she said "The only thing I regard as important was the moment I realized I wanted to be a writer. . . .I stopped writing from age eight to Grade 12. I consider it my sterile period." Describes the complexity of her personality and her reluctance to talk about some aspects of her personal life.
C63 Swan, Susan. "Margaret Atwood: The Woman as Poet." Communique, No. 8 (May 1975), pp. 8-11, 45-46. An interview which concentrates on the changing image that a female poet has with the public at large and with other writers. It contains some insights into Atwood's views about women's relationships with men. In French and English.
C64 Van Varsveld, Gail. "Talking with Atwood." Room of One's Own, 1, No. 2 (Summer 1975), 66-70. Deals with Atwood's attitude towards Feminism in literature. She does not feel she should be "propagandist" in her writings; and talks about the development of a separate female mythology, about magazines for women only, and about sexual discrimination in reviews.
C65 Kaminski, Margaret. "Interview with Margaret Atwood." Waves, 4, No. 1 (Autumn 1975), 8-13. A rather scrappy interview -- Atwood discusses The Edible Woman, and considers it not a feminist novel; the story is not autobiography but fiction. Then on to poetry, and the effect of reviews. Atwood feels that a lot of interest in You Are Happy, as in Power Politics, is mythological.
C66 The Education of Mike McManus: Margaret Atwood. Ontario Educational Communications Authority, 1976. Videotape, colour, thirty minutes duration. A television interview.
C67 Gibson, Mary Ellis "A Conversation with Margaret Atwood." Chicago Review, 27, No. 4 (Spring 1976), 105-13. Atwood describes what she attempted to do with Survival -- "it's not an academic book. . .it gives you a way into the literature" -- and how the literary and publishing scene in Canada has changed drastically over recent years.
C68 Slopen, Beverley. "Margaret Atwood." Publisher's Weekly, 23 Aug. 1976, pp 6-8. An interview given just after publication of Lady Oracle. Provides some interesting biographical details including those which relate to incidents in the novel.
C69 Slinger, Helen. "Interview with Margaret Atwood." Maclean's, 6 Sept 1976, pp 4-7. Fairly superficial, dealing with what it is like to have a baby and with Atwood's views on the awakened interest in Canadian literature, and on Canadian politics.
C70 Schiller, William. "Interview with Margaret Atwood." PWP, 2, No 3(Fall 1976), 2-15. An interesting interview which concentrates on Atwood's poetry. She talks of the poets who influenced her early work. She does not subscribe to theories --"Theories are useful to poets only insofar as they can make poetry out of them." Says that it is difficult to interview poets about their own work -- "I have some difficulty recalling what processes were going on." Feels that reviewers often tend to write about a book of poetry as though reviewing the book that came out before it.
C71 Struthers, J. R (Tim). "An Interview with Margaret Atwood." Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 6 (Spring 1977), pp. 18-27. A stimulating interview which touches on many topics, serious but not solemn. It deals both with the poetry and the fiction, with some emphasis on Lady Oracle. There is discussion about the Canadian tradition in fiction and poetry, and its influence on Atwood, comments on her response to good and bad reviews; and about women writers.
C72 Oates, Joyce Carol. "An Interview with Margaret Atwood." New York Times Book Review, 21 May 1978, pp 15, 43-45. Provides some biographical background information. Atwood explains her interest in the Gothic and in supernatural fantasy, and gives her views on writing -- "For me, every poem has a texture of sound which is at least as important as the argument'", "If you can think of writing as expressing 'itself' rather than 'the writer," this makes total sense" (that is, that the disciplines of prose and poetry evoke an almost totally different personality). Finally there is a discussion about writing not necessarily being autobiographical; and in answer to the question, Why do you write? she answers "Why doesn't everyone?"
C73 Struthers, J. R. (Tim) "What's Going to Happen Is in Stars." London Free Press, 30 Oct 1978, p 63. A profile on Atwood based on an interview published in part in Essays on Canadian Writing (see C71). Complete text and tapes in possession of the author.
C74 Oates, Joyce Carol. "A Conversation with Margaret Atwood." Ontario Review, No. 9 (Fall-Winter 1978-79), pp 5-18. An interview conducted by mail and telephone during February 1978, which deals mostly with her prose writings. Atwood also talks about her days at Harvard, her working habits, her drawing, and about the Canadian literary scene.
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C53 Power, Linda LaPorte. "The Reality of Selfhood: A Study of Polarity in the Poetry and Fiction of Margaret Atwood." M.A. Thesis McGill 1973. Explores the relationship between the concept of polarity and the quest for the reality of selfhood in selected works by Atwood. It examines the structure, methodology, and the chronological development of the quest from its first appearance in her early poetry to its definitive form in Surfacing, while simultaneously analysing the patterns of polarity which inform the selected works.
C54 Robertson, Esther. "The Politics of Relationships: An Examination of Margaret Atwood's 'The Edible Woman,' 'Surfacing,' and 'Survival.'" M.A. Thesis British Columbia 1974. In her poetry and novels Margaret Atwood explores political realities in the relationships between men and women, and to a significant degree her insights into power-patterns are shaped by an awareness of the ways in which people are trained by their society from childhood to hold one set of attitudes towards women and another towards men. Her portraits of women and men, and of the relationships between them, demonstrate how this double standard has destructive consequences for both sexes. . . .An inconsistency is apparent [in Survival], for, although she touches upon sexism, she does not explore the ways in which sex-role conditioning encourages women to play victim roles. . . . "
C55 Regan, Nancy. "The Geography and History of the Mind. An Analysis of the Works of Margaret Atwood." M.A. Thesis Rhode Island 1975. Discusses the relation between environment and history in selected works by Atwood. A penetrating study.
C56 Scott, Andrew. "Margaret Atwood: A Critical Appreciation." M.A. Thesis New Brunswick 1975. A critical examination of Atwood's work -- poetry, fiction, and criticism -- published up to 1974. Evaluates significant themes and images, and examines her use of myth and her possible alignment with a group of Canadian mythopoeic poets. Concludes that "Although Atwood is a polemical critic and a readable novelist, she is primarily a poet."
C57 Gronvigh, Joanne. "Thematic Development in the Work of Margaret Atwood." M. A. Thesis Dalhousie 1977. Gronvigh traces the themes of survival and male-female relationships through Atwood's prose and poetry. A careful yet wide-ranging study.
C58 Packer, Miriam. "Beyond the Garrison: Approaching the Wilderness in Margaret Laurence, Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood." Diss. Montreal 1978. Analyzes the way in which Atwood's and Munro's protagonists transcend the so-called garrison mentality. Particular attention is given to linguistic analysis and comparison.
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D62 Hofsess, John. "Atwoodian Presents. . .a Collection of Unhappy Middle-Class Women, None of Whom Look Like Monica Vitti." Books in Canada, Nov. 1977, pp. 27-28. Claims that the stories do not have a unifying theme, but do have a pervasive mood -- everyone, as if in an Antonioni movie, is waiting for the end. "Dancing Girls is more a record of where Atwood has been than it is a probe into where she is going."
D63 Hill, Douglas. "Violations." The Canadian Forum, Dec-Jan. 1977-78, p. 35. These stories express "the urban intellectual sensibility of the Canadian sixties with a comprehensiveness and finality that her novels don't attain (and don't attempt)." They are traditional in form and well-crafted, and are all about some sort of violation of the female. The male antagonists are almost stereotypes -- they are portrayed as insensitive, stupid, sexist -- perhaps this is a result of Atwood's feminism, but perhaps men are shallow, inadequate, insensitive? The stories make one uncertain on that point. The book "reflects -- and in turn illuminates -- the complex unity of ideas and attitude that Atwood has established through her previous work."
D64 Kertzer, Jon. Rev. of Dancing Girls. The Fiddlehead, No. 117(Spring 1978), pp 133-35. A favourable review which comments on the intensity with which Atwood's characters live within themselves. The stories focus on the startling and shocking, not on the ordinary. A sense of menace pervades the book, as the characters attempt in various ways to break out of themselves. "Polarities" is felt to be the key to the collection.
D65 Morley, Patricia. Rev of Dancing Girls. World Literature Written in English, 17, No. 1 (April 1978), 188-90. A very favourable review -- "among Atwood's best prose fiction to date." The prevailing mood is one of irony spiked with comedy, and of optimism. Most of the stories are set in urban Canada and deal with the relationships of men and women. The stories are "linked by a way of seeing which is both modern and female. . .this does not prevent the fiction from achieving the universality of artistic expression."
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D48 Richler, Mordecai. Rev. of Lady Oracle. Book-of-the-Month Club News, Aug. 1976, pp. 1-3. "A fine novel inventive, surprisingly funny and a pleasure to read." The satire is effectively directed against the Toronto literary scene and nationalist aspirations, and the book is filled with memorable out-size characters. "A wonderfully unpretentious comic romp."
D49 Jackson, Marni. "Atwood As a Satirist Is Too Self-Assured." Toronto Star, 28 Aug. 1976, p H7. The atmosphere of Lady Oracle is too relaxed for the satire to bite, and the characters are not clearly enough defined, though "by any standards Lady Oracle is a good read."
D50 Owen, I. M. "Queen of the Maze." Books in Canada, Sept. 1976, pp. 3-5. "A richly textured novel . . .well peopled with characters and full of incident. It is rich, too, in recurrent symbols and allusive echoes." Owen however finds that Atwood seems unable to express emotion, which is a real weakness in novel writing. Despite this lack of warmth, Lady Oracle is a funny, entertaining book.
D51 Sandler, Linda. "Atwoodian Parody of the 1950's." Saturday Night, Sept. 1976, p 59. A feminist novel but unlike any other in that it is very funny and the heroine is a "common woman," without the desires and hang-ups of the neurotic elite. Lady Oracle is "an exquisite parody of an obsolete generation. Atwood is a brilliant comedian."
D52 Duffy, Dennis. "Read It for Its Gracefulness, for Its Good Story, for Its Help in Your Fantasy Life." The Globe and Mail, 4 Sept. 1976, p 32. Rpt. in Canadian Reader, 17, No. 9 (Sept 1976), 2-4. Lady Oracle gives a sharply delineated picture of Toronto, including a satirical portrayal of its literary scene. The heroine's defensive irony prevents events in the novel being taken too seriously and "adds spice to the minutest of observations." We should read it because it tells a good story and because of its "graceful, humourous exploration of cultural obsessions."
D53 Pollitt, Katha. Rev. of Lady Oracle. New York Times Book Review, 26 Sept. 1976, pp. 7-8. "Lady Oracle moves too slowly and is basically too serious to distract us from its clumsy contrivances." Its characters are stock figures and offer only the pat insights of a certain kind of popular feminist-oriented fiction. Pollitt sees Atwood as a dual literary personality, and wonders if the author of the sparse, tense poems and of Surfacing, with their mythic and metaphoric force, finds the comic novel genre uncongenial to her talents.
D54 Stimpson, Catharine R. "Don't Bother Me, I'm Dead." Ms., Oct. 1976, pp. 36, 40. A simplistic review -- "Atwood tells wonderful, inventive stories .... They begin in dramatic mystery and end with satisfactory flair."
D55 Struthers, J R. (Tim). "Tale of Multiple Identities Has More Than One Identity of Its Own." London Free Press, 2 Oct 1976, p. 28. Lady Oracle begins with an individual confusion in the continuity of identity, as the heroine is confused by her own multiple and contrived identities. Conventional themes of romance follow - descent as Joan fakes death and re-emerges as someone else; increasing alienation; and loneliness. Joan is herself a modern version of the conventional split heroine of nineteenth-century fiction. Most romances end happily with the real identity regained, but in this novel the heroine does not return to her old position -- she remains self-doubting and inept; she is a victim. The book is a parody of the romances which the heroine writes, but it also functions as a real modern-day romance; and again, as a self-parody. Lady Oracle can be explained in two ways -- either as an attempt by Atwood to play the clown, to escape from being taken too seriously, or, through its subtle treatment of the themes of fantasy and reality, as "a psychologically penetrating and thought-provoking work of fiction."
D56 Brophy, Brigid. "A Contrary Critic Takes a Crack at 'Lady Oracle.'" The Globe and Mail, 9 Oct. 1976, p 33. Seems hardly a review but rather a bitter attack from someone from outside with the intention of counteracting the favourable review printed earlier in The Globe and Mail (see D52). Brophy finds that the novel "has bouts of energy but no flair"; that its prose is "monotonous in rhythm, construction and pace"; and so on.
D57 Miller, Karl. "Orphans and Oracles." New York Review of Books, 28 Oct. 1976, pp. 30-32. A thoughtful review of Lady Oracle and Paula Fox's The Widow's Children. Lady Oracle could be described as a kind of Gothic novel -- it starts with a false drowning staged by the blackmailed heroine for herself. The heroine acts as narrator in the book and tells us her secrets and the story of her terrors, sensibility, and multiple identities. However the book on occasion seems to be enmeshed in its own contrivances. "Even as parody or burlesque, the tale of mystery and imagination dictated by Joan's predicament does not survive incorporation into a busy comedy of manners."
D58 Waller, G. F. "New Fiction: Myths and Passions, Rivers and Cities." Ontario Review, No 3 (Fall-Winter 1976-77), pp. 93-97. A review of four novels including Lady Oracle, in which the reviewer sees Atwood as lightly but provokingly reminding her reader of the need for integration, self-discovery, and wholeness.
D59 Rosengarten, Herbert. "Urbane Comedy." Canadian Literature, No. 72 (Spring 1977), pp. 84-87. Finds the novel to be a compound of domestic comedy, Jungian psychology, and social satire, stirred with wit and flavoured with the occult. In some ways, Lady Oracle is like Surfacing -- in both, the heroine seeks psychic integration and undergoes a ritual death and rebirth, and in both Atwood attacks the materialistic world of North America. The treatment of the subject matter is of course quite different. Lady Oracle contains many unusual and interesting characters, and many incidents.
D60 Thomas, Clara. "Feminist or Heroine?" Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 6 (Spring 1977), pp 28-31. Atwood handles the techniques of the novel with greater skill and sense of ease than in her two earlier novels. Lady Oracle "combines traditional Gothic elements of heroism with social comedy and social satire" and Thomas links Atwood's Joan Foster with Jane Austen's Catharine Morland. Joan is more of a heroine, i.e self-dramatizing and self-pitying, than a feminist, i.e., striving for true self-definition and personal growth. However despite her compulsive search for heroism, there is much hope -- "again and again she is deflated, but not crushed. . . .she is much stronger than the escape-artist she sees herself to be."
D61 Miller, Jane. "A Pack of Truths." Times Literary Supplement, 15 July 1977, p. 872. The incidents in the life of Joan Harcourt, the heroine, remind this reviewer of The Perils of Pauline, but this book is a parody just as the Gothic novels Joan writes are parodies. "What finally undermines this clever novel, confounding its confusions, reducing its imaginings, is that we believe the narrator and discount her lies."
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D10 Newman, Christina. "In Search of a Native Tongue." Maclean's, Sept. 1972, p. 88. "Simply superb, the product of a talent that's maturing inexorably out of its own internal authority." The novel is important for many things, particularly in the way it describes what goes on in the mind of a woman trying to deal with the brutalities and pressures imposed by the politics of sex, and also in the way Atwood deals with the Canadian landscape.
D11 Dobbs, Kildare. "Canadian's Second Novel Even Better Than Her First." Toronto Star, 12 Sept 1972, p. 31."Surfacing presents a vision no less horrible and desolating [than The Edible Woman did], redeemed only by the perfect control and imaginative richness of the telling." A very favourable review which claims Atwood's second novel confirms her mastery of the form and displays her intelligence and wit in portraying a compelling personal vision.
D12 French, William. "Exhilarating: An All-Purpose Novel." The Globe and Mail, 16 Sept 1972, p. 30. The novel is about alienation, the generation gap, and the dehumanizing effect of modern urban society. It is "beautifully written, full of vivid imagery and marvellous descriptions. The internal landscape is described just as deftly as the external."
D13 MacSween, R. J. Rev. of Surfacing. The Antigonish Review, No. 11 (Autumn 1972), pp 113-14. Not a perceptive review. Finds Surfacing an intense book but one containing a host of second-rate opinions and no character.
D14 Clery, Val. "A Plea for the Victim." Books in Canada, Nov 1972, pp. 45-46. The author's command of style compels admiration, but the reviewer regards the theme as demonstrating the thesis of Survival. The supporting characters are caricatures and the heroine's identification of Americans as the "enemy" is ludicrous. Clery fears that the real victims may be those young Canadian writers who adopt Atwood's ideas and emulate her works.
D15 Davis, Francis. Rev. of Surfacing. The Dalhousie Review, 52(Winter 1972-73), 680-82. "Knitted together by a fine network of images which are used not only to tie ideas together but to develop character and to direct the plot." The book is not an exploration of Canadian identity, but the quest for the surfacing of an unlabelled and unlettered individual and the means towards this is to reflect the rational consciousness of which language is the outward sign. Thus, in moving towards a wordless naturalness, the novelist has a potentially impossible task as she cannot reject words entirely.
D16 Godfrey, Ellen. Rev. of Surfacing. The Canadian Forum, Jan. 1973, p. 34. Atwood's facility with language and style helps to make up for the boredom one might expect in her novel about boring people. In fact, the characters are extremely interesting, the heroine grows and changes through the novel and provides its depth, power, and passion.
D17 Grosskurth, Phyllis. "Victimization or Survival." Canadian Literature, No. 55 (Winter 1973), pp. 108-10. Describes Surfacing as about victimization, both external and self-imposed; but the reviewer appears to accept the narrator's search for her parents on its face value and not as a search for self-discovery.
D18 Davidson, Jane. "The Anguish of Identity." Financial Post, 24 Feb. 1973, p C5. A simplistic review which describes Surfacing as a woman's book.
D19 Delany, Paul. "Clearing a Canadian Space." New York Times Book Review, 4 March 1973, p. 5. A positive review. Compares Surfacing with Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, although "survival" for Atwood's narrator is a much more positive ending than the flat resignation of Plath's heroine. Atwood's narrator "strips off the encumbrances and falsities that society has imposed on her over the years [and] finds that experiences she had thought lost or discarded have only been submerged."
D20 Maddocks, Melvin. "Out of the Woods." Time, 19 March 1973, pp. 77-78 (pp 66, 70 in Canadian ed.). Surfacing, following on from The Edible Woman, chronicles the particular pains of being female in the 1970s. "Atwood, alternately satirical and lyrical, is a mistress of controlled hysteria." She may be overly critical of civilization, but she turns paranoia into art.
D21 Coleman, Margaret. Rev. of Surfacing. Descant, No 6 (Spring 1973), pp. 70-73. Provides a perceptive summary of the book. While the conclusion of the narrator -- "This above all, to refuse to be a victim" -- may be viewed as feminist, its real value is in its expression of an integrated humanity. The "poetic power and complex suggestiveness of Surfacing, with its delicate integration of time sequence and thematic motif, display the firm control and artistry of a fully developed and mature author."
D22 Laurence, Margaret. Rev. of Surfacing Quarry, 22 (Spring 1973), 62-64. A very favourable and perceptive review. Claims Surfacing is concerned with rites de passage, a journey towards self-knowledge, where the protagonist achieves another sort of knowledge, that of the ancient gods of forest and lake. The language is skillfully used, the imagery acts on several levels simultaneously. Contains many themes, some concerned with important contemporary issues which Atwood handles without descending into writing propaganda.
D23 Weeks, Edward. Rev of Surfacing. Atlantic, April 1973, p. 127. "A poet's novel . . .containing passages of fine writing and scenes of considerable power." The reviewer claims however that at the end the reader loses sympathy for and interest in the central character.
D24 Larkin, Joan. "Soul Survivor." Ms., May 1973, pp. 33-34. Surfacing should not be read as the story of the alienated young; rather it is about rebirth and return. The narrator "dives into human history, into her personal past, and into her own psyche...and emerges into the world with a new vision of herself." The reviewer claims the novel is "one of the best around" and singles out the final chapters for particular praise -- "It is in these that the novel, already a masterpiece of unified imagery and spare, crystal-clear language, becomes something of a miracle."
D25 Mahon, Derek. "Message in the Bloodstream." The Listener, 24 May 1973, p 696. A review of four novels including Surfacing, which is memorable for its poetic qualities. Atwood's perceptions of people and things are precise.
D26 "Ways of the Wild." Times Literary Supplement, 1 June 1973, p 604. A critical review which finds the novel pretentious, although it is "a real attempt to analyse a set of difficult relationships." However "the poetry-ridden prose is a shame, for we can hardly hear through it what Miss Atwood is genuinely trying to say."
D27 Harcourt, Joan. "Atwood Country." Queen's Quarterly, 80, No 2. (Summer 1973), 278-81. The concerns of Survival are ever present in Surfacing, but there is a lack of balance in the novel when the exploration of self-discovery and acceptance is abandoned in the middle of the book only to be resumed on the last page, where the narrator identifies with the animal-as-victim. The reviewer's reservations are partly that Atwood fails "to take the reader through all the thickets her heroine had to penetrate before the final breakthrough, in part to the explicit cross-reference to Survival."
D28 Bessai, Diane. "Surfaces." Lakehead University Review, 6, No 2(Fall-Winter 1973), 255-57. A fairly sympathetic review -- "this absorbing and tightly controlled novel." However Bessai finds the people in the novel and the landscape setting overly subjected to their thematic function.
D29 Fraser, D. M. "Margaret Atwood's 'Surfacing." 3 Cent Pulp, 2, No.7 (1 May 1974), 1-4. A violent review which criticizes every aspect of the novel -- "a work of consistent and self-congratulatory feeblemindedness"; "so relentlessly minor that you could play it at a funeral and everyone would fall asleep"; the characters are "a crew of one-dimensional cliches." But Fraser claims that the real outrage is that we are "so obsessed with our(nonexistent) Cultural Identity that we are willing to settle for, and embrace, any sort of pretentious mediocrity which offers itself for our consumption."
D30 Gait, George. "`Surfacing'" and the Critics." The Canadian Forum, May-June 1974, pp 12-14. First surveys the reviews of Surfacing, commenting on the superficiality of most but praising Margaret Laurence's review in Quarry (see D22). Gait claims that Surfacing is "likely the best piece of fiction produced by Atwood's generation in North America or anywhere." He then gives his own reading of the novel and finds the novelist is committed to full depiction of character; the themes of the book are those of any thoughtful life of the 1970s; the writing is simple but loaded. Finally the visionary experience of Atwood's heroine is authentic she rediscovers primeval loyalties and forgotten beliefs: "It is a rite of passage through territory largely uncharted" and terrifying.
D31 French, William. "Resurfacing. At Once the Worst and Best of Books." The Globe and Mail, 25 June 1974, p. 14. A comment on the extremely divergent views about Surfacing, particularly those expressed by Fraser (see D29) and Gait (see D30). French finds this controversy a healthy development.
D32 Gray, Francme du Plessix. "Nature as the Nunnery." New York Times Book Review, 17 July 1977, pp. 3, 20. "The relentless centrality of a woman's search for religious vision makes [Surfacing] a novel unique in our time. And her heroine's quest makes it, for me, one of the most important novels of the 20th century." A perceptive "feminist" review which finds Atwood stands in the tradition of women authors, from Emily Bronte to Doris Lessing, who have turned to nature not only in search of heightened perception but also as a refuge from the patriarchal order.
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D33 Sutherland, Fraser. "Fast and Loose." Books in Canada, Oct 1972, pp. 10-11. Finds that her conclusions are consistently well-founded, and her analysis is challenging, witty, and stimulating. As long as her examples support the thesis, Sutherland considers selectivity acceptable. The style and the form are however "slightly better than slipshod."
D34 Grosskurth, Phyllis. "Truth -- and a Major Talent." The Globe and Mail, 28 Oct 1972, p 33. A rave review -- "the most important book that has come out of this country. . .she has analysed Canadian literature so perceptively that it sounds interesting enough to read." (!)
D35 Fulford, Robert "A Clever and Effective Analysis of the Literature of Canada." Toronto Star, 4 Nov 1972, p. 79. Claims that publication of Survival was "A significant literary event." Atwood has developed several clearly stated theories and then found examples in the literature to support them. This leads to a somewhat distorted view of Canadian writing, but Atwood is not trying to pick out the best; she is trying to find out what the literature says.
D36 Pickersgill, Alan. "Survival for Whom?" Alive, 3, No. 6 (1973), 12-14. A political review from the Left. Complains that Atwood's analysis of Canadian literature does not point out that Canadian society is a class organized society and that most Canadian authors come from the bourgeois class. These authors' works reflect the attitudes of their own class, while the working class is victimized much more than the bourgeois. Pickersgill accuses Atwood both of failing to show how Canadian literature has served the interests of U.S. imperialism, and also of rewriting history.
D37 Wolfe, Morris. "Atwood's Guide to the Geography of Survival." Saturday Night, Jan 1973, pp. 32-33. Atwood builds on the work of D. G. Jones and Northrop Frye and provides an outline to help readers distinguish Canadian literature from other literature. Survival has some faults -- it shows signs of being quickly written and produced, the "Basic Victim Positions" are used to excess, "survival" is a dominant theme in all contemporary literature -- but the book does "put together a number of more or less familiar ideas in such a fresh and interesting way that they have a profoundly liberating effect on the reader."
D38 Ross, Malcolm. Rev. of Survival. The Dalhousie Review, 53 (Spring 1973), 159-60. Comments on the selectivity of Atwood's examples and on some misunderstandings on her part. The book has penetrating things to say of writers susceptible to Atwood's approach but the restrictions imposed by her thesis leave a lot of Canadian literature outside.
D39 Geddes, Gary. Rev. of Survival. The Malahat Review, No. 26 (April 1973), pp. 233-34. Survival is seen as "a fascinating set of lecture-notes, stimulating, tentative, punchy and wrong-headed." It ignores form and selects to suit the theme. Its value is as a piece of sociology and propaganda.
D40 Gutteridge, Don. Rev. of Survival. The Canadian Forum, May 1973, pp. 39-41. Gutteridge finds the victim schema wrong and wrong-headed, and its application produces distortions when applied to individual works.
D41 Sonthoff, Helen. "The Long Will To Be in Canada." Quarry, 22, No. 3 (Summer 1973), 75-77. A personal response from someone born in the U. S.A who does not understand why only to survive is the expressed aim; and disagrees with Atwood's opinion that "Canadians show a marked preference for the negative."
D42 Watt, Frank. Rev. of Survival. University of Toronto Quarterly, 42 (Summer 1973), 440-41. Finds Atwood's critical theory "belligerently or defensively political." The main arguments of Survival which show a powerful and personal reading of Canadian literature, may be accepted or rejected, but they will nevertheless have affected our views of Canadian literature.
D43 Jonas, George "Maggie Is a Thing Apart" Maclean's, Aug. 1973, pp.11, 14. Discusses why Survival aroused such interest on its publication. Those for whom "Canadian" is a value judgement greeted the book with joy; others found merit in its thesis; those who are simply "out of it" hated it, and so did those who found its arguments unconvincing.
D44 Grosskurth, Phyllis. "Survival Kit." New Statesman, 24 Aug 1973, pp. 254-55. In a review intended for British readers, Grosskurth sets the publication of Survival in its historical and literary context. The uniqueness of the book lies in its synthesis of the disparate patterns of Canadian literature, and in its assumption that Canadian literature was worth writing about. It has been criticized because victimization is only one theme of Canadian literature, and also a significant theme of the literature of other countries; and because Atwood has selected and omitted to suit her thesis.
D45 Harrison, Richard T. "The Literary Geography of Canada." Lakehead University Review, 6, No 2 (FallWinter 1973), 274-76. The reviewer commends the work as "a major event in Canadian publishing." He recognizes that like any book committed to a thesis, Survival is purposely selective in the writers and works it examines. There is, for example, an almost complete neglect of nineteenth-century writers. Atwood is of course aware of the limitations of her work, and says that it is not meant to be "a balanced overview." Her non-scholarly style and explanations will encourage non-academic Canadians to read their literature.
D46 Swayze, Walter E. "Survey and Survival." Journal of Canadian Fiction, 3, No. 1 (Winter 1974), 112-13. Reminds the reviewer of T.S. Eliot's early critical essays. Though it is confident, dogmatic, and partisan, "Survival provides an illuminating approach to the kinds of poetry and fiction that Margaret Atwood and many of her contemporaries are writing and are most interested in reading."
D47 Driver, Christopher. "Hastings Owl." The Listener, 14 March 1974, pp. 342-43. A review of Lovat Dickson's Wilderness Man and of Survival which is described as "a brisk and brilliant exploration of Canadian literature."
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D1 Woodcock, George. "Are We All Emotional Cannibals?" Toronto Star, 13 Sept. 1969, p. 13. Atwood expresses the view that humans are predatory -- "The Edible Woman is really a novel about emotional cannibalism." The reviewer finds the novel articulate and sophisticated, "pungently expressive of a tantalizingly defensive individuality." The relationship between Atwood's poetry and her fiction is very close.
D2 "Self-Deprecating." Times Literary Supplement, 2 Oct. 1969, p. 1122. A short note which finds Atwood writes sensitively and with seriousness about her heroine but finds also that the self-deprecating humour and the caricature-like other characters distract.
D3 Montagnes, Anne. "Two Novels That Unveil, Maybe, A Coming Phenomenon, The Species Torontoensis." Saturday Night, Nov 1969, pp. 54, 56, 58. A superficial, throw-away type of review, which deals also with James Bacque's novel, The Lonley Ones. Finds that The Edible Woman is well-crafted, full of startling images, but is superficial and unimpassioned.
D4 Skelton, Robin. Rev of The Edible Woman. The Malahat Review, No 13(Jan. 1970), pp. 108-09. The reviewer complains of the lack of characterization, but this makes the characters in the novel ridiculous and despicable which may have been Atwood's intention. The humour "does have a grotesque and Swiftian quality. . .this author has great potentials as a satirist."
D5 Stedmond, John. Rev. of The Edible Woman. The Canadian Forum, Feb. 1970, p. 267. "The characters do not quite jell and the narrative techniques creak a little." The novel's approach to the woman's situation is fresh but the potential is unrealized.
D6 Marshall, Tom. Rev. of The Edible Woman. Quarry, 19, No. 3 (Spring 1970), 55-56. A short note only, which finds the satire delightfully funny, the plot carefully structured, and the characterization shrewd. "A beautifully written novel."
D7 Roper, Gordon. Rev of The Edible Woman. University of Toronto Quarterly, 39 (July 1970), 341. A comment only which notes its freshness of language, its grace and wit -- "a refreshingly human comedy."
D8 Bell, Millicent. "The Girl on the Wedding Cake." New York Times Book Review, 18 Oct 1970, p. 51. "A work of feminist black humor, in which [Atwood] seems to say that a woman is herself likely to become another 'edible' product, marketed for the male appetite." A very favourable review which comments on Atwood's individualistic and sinister imagination, and notes that "to our considerable diversion, her comic distortion veers at times into surreal meaningfulness."
D9 Jonas, George. "A Choice of Predators." The Tamarack Review, No. 54 (Winter 1970), pp. 75-77. The emotional and physical are mingled sardonically but realistically. Atwood's use of symbols and imagery is self-assured. The characters are completely self-centered -- the author's view of people might be called jaundiced or uncompromising. The novel "holds out the hope that life may at least offer a choice of predators."
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C4 Krelsel, Henry. "The African Stories of Margaret Laurence." The Canadian Forum, April 1961, pp. 8-10 ML. A thematic analysis of Laurence's African stories and This Side Jordan. Discusses the related themes of independence, freedom, and dignity as they apply to Laurence's characters and plots. "Ultimately what is impressive about her writing is her affirmation, without any sentimentality, of the essential dignity of the human personality." A brief article which successfully summarizes Laurence's thematic concerns in her African writings.
C5 Davies, Robertson. "Self-Imprisoned to Keep the World at Bay." New York Times Book Review, 14 June 1964, pp 4-5, 33 ML. A brief discussion of The Tomorrow-Tamer and The Stone Angel which stresses Laurence's "freshness of approach" and her skilled use of language. Draws attention to the importance of form in Laurence's fiction.
C6 Robertson, George. "An Artist's Progress." Canadian Literature, No. 21 (Summer 1964), pp 53-55. ML. Although written "with more professional care," The Stone Angel is a less successful novel than This Side Jordan, essentially because on reading it "one is aware of the stylist without being sufficiently unaware of the style." In particular, Laurence's handling of the flashback is too mechanical, too neat and predictable. Also briefly discusses The Tomorrow-Tamer.
C7 Pickrel, Paul. "Triple Debut." Harper's, July 1964, 100-02. ML. Writing just after the simultaneous U. S. publication of The Tomorrow-Tamer, The Prophet's Camel Bell, and The Stone Angel Pickrel presents a comparative treatment of the three works. The Stone Angel is the only book "in which the imaginative element outweighs the reportorial," yet all three "bear the mark of an imaginative tact that is certainly genuine."
C8 Callaghan, Barry. "The Writings of Margaret Laurence." The Tamarack Rewew, No. 36 (Summer 1965), pp. 45-51 ML. The difference between The Tomorrow-Tamer and The Stone Angel on the one hand, and This Side Jordan on the other "is a vast one -- the difference between imaginative discovery and plodding over all too recognizable territory." This Side Jordan is "a device for a neat liberal message and is a mechanical rather than imaginative production." In The Tomorrow-Tamer Laurence has "by-passed rhetoric and learned compression." The minor faults of The Stone Angel, including the mechanical flashbacks in the middle of the novel and the shadowiness of Dora and Marvin, "fade before Margaret Laurence's discovery of how it is to be both aged and vitally Alive." A coherent commentary on Laurence's early development.
C9 "Laurence of Manitoba." Canadian Author and Bookman, 42 (Winter 1966), 4-7. Provides biographical information and brief comments by Laurence on the art of writing.
C10 Read, S. E. "The Maze of Life: The Work of Margaret Laurence." Canadian Literature, No 27 (Winter 1966), pp. 5-14 Rpt in Writer of the Prairies. Ed. Donald G. Stephens. Vancouver: Univ. of British Columbia Press, 1973, pp 132-41. ML. An important early assessment. Biographical information relating to the writing of The Prophet's Camel Bell and A Tree for Poverty is provided. Discusses the recurrent themes of Laurence's work, focussing primarily on "the ever-present call for understanding and tolerance between individuals." The action of This Side Jordan, though skillfully developed, seems at times slightly contrived and artificial, and it is only with The Stone Angel that Laurence reaches full maturity as an artist. In The Stone Angel "the autobiographical technique may produce some flaws and certainly demands suspension of disbelief, but it is handled with skill and daring and produces a fast moving story and a strong feeling of tension." Laurence's excellence lies not only in her skillful handling of tense dramatic situations and her creation of memorable characters, but also in her "sure and controlled" command of language. Particular attention is paid to Laurence's descriptive ability with respect to place and her attentiveness to the "nuances of idiom, the tonal variations that exist between young and old, native and non-native, and the vocabulary differences between educated and uneducated."
Cll Story, Norah. The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1967, p 438. Brief note outlining Laurence's work up to 1966.
C12 Thomas, Clara. "Happily Ever After: Canadian Women in Fiction and Fact." Canadian Literature, No 34 (Autumn 1967), pp 43-53. Briefly discusses Laurence's The Stone Angel in connection with the work of Susanna Moodie, Sara Jeanette Duncan, Catharine Parr Traill, and Frederick Philip Grove. "Corroded and distorted by her environment and the self-willed tragedies of her life, Hagar is never quite dominated." Sees Hagar as "the culmination of all the Ruths in our fiction."
C13 New, William H "Introduction." In The Stone Angel. New Canadian Library, No 59 Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1968, pp iii-x. Rpt. in Articulating West: Essays on Purpose and Form in Modern Canadian Literature. Toronto: new press, 1972, pp 207-15. ML. "In exploring the memories of an old woman during her last days, the novel continually juxtaposes desire and reality, expectation and event, what one wants and what one gets." Suggests that the interweaving of past and present "contributes to the irony of the characterization" and of the book as a whole. Discusses the novel's biblical analogues and Laurence's concept of time. In leaving the final sentence of the novel unfinished Laurence "closes the book in ambivalence, it is possible that time stops, but possible also that it goes on, and is merely measured in a different way." Sees Hagar's assertion and recognition of self as an essentially tragic process. "It is tragic in Frye's sense -- an example of locating 'the centre of tragedy. . .in the hero's isolation, not in a villain's betrayal, even when the villain is as he often is, a part of the hero himself.' "
C14 New, William H. "The Novel in English." In The Sixties: Writers and Writing of the Decade. Ed. George Woodcock. Vancouver: Univ. of British Columbia Press, 1969, pp. 121-25. In this summary of the Canadian novel in the 1960s, New links Laurence with other writers, including George Ryga and Henry Kreisel, who "are concerned not just with broadly political relationships, but with the individual reasons for them."
C15 Asante, Nadine. "Margaret (Rachel, Rachel) Laurence." The Montrealer, June 1969, pp 30-33. A biographical sketch interspersed with comments by Laurence on her work and that of other Canadian writers.
C16 Gotlieb, Phyllis. "On Margaret Laurence." The Tamarack Review, No. 52 (Summer 1969), pp. 76-80 ML. A rather disjointed article in which it is suggested that Laurence "explored more fearlessly when she set us in the market-places and fetish huts of Ghana and Nigeria" than in the worlds of The Stone Angel and The Fire-Dwellers. The material of the latter is "easily available and explored and mapped without much artistic risk; it is limited and cannot be expanded." Although Hagar, Rachel, and Stacey are commended as "genuine creations," Gotlieb believes that Laurence must move beyond "what everyone knows but does not say" to "what one sees that nobody else does."
C17 Jones, D. G Butterfly on Rock: A Study of Themes and Images in Canadian Literature. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1970, pp. 43-44, 54-55, 163-65. Argues that Laurence, like many other Canadian novelists, is concerned with the opposition between "the garrison and the wilderness." In The Stone Angel, Hagar "rejects the land and the spontaneous joy and creative fulfillment which she might have known in her own life," and "embraces instead the barren security and respectability of the garrison culture." The stone angel itself is "the petrified symbol" of this culture. Only towards the end of the novel does Hagar begin to rediscover "her identification with the land and the minute, teeming life of nature." Rachel, in A Jest of God, "reflects a new, more open, more adventurous mood" and her experience gives her "the courage to take life as it comes without exhausting herself in a continual attempt to anticipate its dangers." The wilderness which Rachel finally decides to face and enter is "the wilderness of everyday life, the town and the country created by man as much as by God," where "one may discover a more vital community, a larger and more inclusive view."
C18 McCourt, Edward A. The Canadian West in Fiction. Rev. ed. Toronto: Ryerson, 1970, pp 108-18. A discussion of the Manawaka background of Laurence's work, with particular reference to The Stone Angel and A Jest of God. "As a physical entity Manawaka is undistinguished, unobtrusive. . . .It exists primarily as an influence on the human spirit, it is a shaping force which either emancipates or stifles, gives peace to or makes mad its creatures." While Hagar is fundamentally "the product of a pioneer community," Rachel "is shaped by a small town environment which might be that of almost any small town on the continent." McCourt states that in A Jest of God the struggle of man against his environment is no longer of much significance. Nonetheless, environmental factors do shape the lives of Laurence's characters, but they are no longer those which can be directly related to the physical world of the prairies. Briefly discusses Laurence's language and her sense of irony.
C19 Thomas, Clara. "Introduction." In The Tomorrow-Tamer. New Canadian Library, No. 7. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1970, pp. xi-xvii. Discusses the techniques of the short story writer, suggesting that Laurence "writes towards a fusion of methods and emphasis that produces, at its most successful, a story that brings a brief, brilliant sun-shower of illumination." Sees the stories as "miniature representations" which prod the reader "to flesh out the larger world" to which the words are "symbols and pointers." Suggests that at the centre of Laurence's technique in these stories, and later in her novels, is "her narrator's self-examination, a charting of consciousness and of growth." Praises Laurence's evocation of the colour, the warmth, and the people of Ghana. "Her instincts and her temperament impel her to write so that, in these stories, we may better understand Ghanaians, each other -- and ourselves; her talents and the hard-working craftsmanship of the professional writer are the tools of her success."
C20 Kreisel, Henry. "A Familiar Landscape." The Tamarack Review, No. 55 (Spring 1970), pp 91-92, 94. ML. An analysis of Laurence's short stories, emphasizing the elegiac tone in both the African and Canadian works. Both The Tomorrow-Tamer and A Bird in the House "celebrate worlds that are in the process of passing or have already passed," yet Laurence successfully avoids any trace of sentimental nostalgia. Laurence stands "very clearly in the tradition of the classic story tellers" and while she "is not very adventurous in exploring the possibilities of the short story form," her work is "among the most distinguished now produced in Canada .... Her stories usually move to a decisive climactic moment. The prose is clear and simple and beautifully shaped, the characters are precisely observed and sharply portrayed."
C21 French, William "Margaret Laurence Her Books Rear Up and Demand to Be Written." The Globe Magazine, 25 April 1970, pp. 4-6, 9. A biographical piece which includes some of Laurence's responses to questions asked during a lecture given by her at Toronto City Hall.
C22 Woodcock, George. "Jungle and Prairie." Canadian Literature, No 45 (Summer 1970), pp. 82-84. ML. In A Bird in the House the reader "enters a world far tighter, far more self-consistent, far more directly apprehended than that of The Tomorrow-Tamer." Although the two collections are similar in many ways, there is also a remarkable progression evident in the later work. "The main flaw in The Tomorrow-Tamer is the obviously didactic intent, for in almost every story there is a moral which the author has not sufficiently absorbed into the fabric of the action." Nonetheless, both volumes clearly "establish Laurence as one of the three best short story writers at work in Canada today."
C23 Swayze, Walter. "The Odyssey of Margaret Laurence." The English Quarterly, 3, No. 3 (Fall 1970), 7-17. A detailed study of Laurence's work founded upon the thesis that Homer's Odyssey "provides a meaningful metaphor for the essence of her works and her fictional world." Odysseus' victories are limited, and the mood of the Odyssey is "one of limited optimism." "Perhaps the essential feature of the Odysseus story is that if, in spite of twenty years of warfare, exile, desolation, seduction, and suffering. Odysseus, with all his limitations, but his awareness and responsibility, survives, then man may survive, and so may the society that he is striving to heal and restore." Swayze analyses all of Laurence's work to demonstrate the manner in which her characters achieve their limited victories in a world that "is as full of monsters and villains as the world of Homer." Like Odysseus, Laurence's characters endure and survive, and her fictional world, like Homer's, is one in which "it is difficult to separate survival from social responsibility."
C24 Wigmore, Donnalu. "Margaret Laurence: The Woman behind the Writing." Chatelaine, Feb. 1971, pp, 28-29,52, 54. Includes biographical information and comments by Laurence on her life and work.
C25 Thomas, Clara. "Proud Lineage: Willa Cather and Margaret Laurence." Canadian Review of American Studies, 2, No. 1 (Spring 1971), 3-12. In this comparative study of the work of Willa Cather and Margaret Laurence, Thomas suggests that "the idea of the west and its settling has been pervasive and very powerful in the minds and the imaginations of many Canadians" for many generations. "There is no possible nationalistic separation between the prairie novels of Willa Cather and the experiences of Canadians" and Cather's heroines, joined by Laurence's, "form a lineage and cycle of their own in North American literature." Alexandra Bergson, in O Pioneers, is seen as a forebear of Hagar Shipley, and in Stacey MacAindra one witnesses a pioneering spirit not unlike that of Antonia Shimerda in Cather's My Antonia. Having traced the lineage from Cather through Laurence, Thomas then analyses the bonds between the two novelists, as well as their differences. Particular attention is paid to certain central images which appear in the works of both writers, "the cave, the garden, the wilderness, the matriarch."
C26 Cameron, David. "The Mysterious Literary Fondness for Darkest Africa." Maclean's, Aug 1971, p. 64. A survey of works with an African setting by Laurence, Audrey Thomas, David Knight, and Dave Godfrey.
C27 Bowering, George. "That Fool of a Fear. Notes on A Jest of God." Canadian Literature, No. 50 (Autumn 1971), pp 41-56. Rpt. in Writers of the Prairies. Ed. Donald G. Stephens. Vancouver: Univ. of British Columbia Press, 1973, pp. 149-64. ML. An important analysis of form and language in A Jest of God." In A Jest of God, seen as formally failed by some nineteenth-century reviewers, Margaret Laurence assays a responsive vocal style, the voice in the ear pursuing Rachel's mind even into the deep places where the most superior fiction comes from." Laurence gives the reader "the enjoyment of hearing the mind moving, rather than being on the receiving end of recollection, arrangement, description and expression." Argues that Laurence "is not talking about life: she is trying to re-enact the responses to it." This fact requires that the reader play close attention to the novel's language for "the reality of character is found in how the person talks more than in what he says." Similarly, the reality of Manawaka is revealed through Laurence's language: "One gets the sense of place correctly when one gets the language right .... The subject of the book is Rachel's mind, and the realism consists in our separation from it by virtue of its unsureness and confusions." Yet it is this separation which "brings us so close" for we are obliged "to evaluate Rachel's thoughts, not simply to receive them toward a narrative completion." Laurence does not "introduce the product of Rachel's mind. She shows us the motion of the machinery."
C28 McLay, C. M. "Everyman Is an Island: Isolation in A Jest of God." Canadian Literature, No 50 (Autumn 1971), pp. 57-68. ML. It is Laurence's ability "to recreate in fiction the sense of isolation, where human beings reach out to each other and reach out futilely, which makes A Jest of God and the earlier The Stone Angel notable achievements in Canadian and world literature." Traces the theme of isolation in A Jest of God, arguing that "while human relationships are an attempt to counter isolation, death is a recognition of it." Analyzes the juxtaposition of love and death in Rachel's life and mind, and the differing attitudes towards both which Rachel holds throughout the novel. "A Jest of God represents Rachel's descent into the world of nightmare, the 'Everlasting No,' and suggests too a return to life, a modified "Everlasting Yea.'" In the end, Rachel faces her own isolation and achieves wisdom through folly, a new wisdom which "brings compassion, not only for men, isolated and alone, but for God himself, isolated from man."
C29 Atwood, Margaret. Survival. A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1972, pp. 98-99, 139-40, 205-06, 209-10. In this thematic treatment of Canadian literature, Laurence's work is examined from a variety of perspectives. Brief mention is made of Laurence's treatment of Indians in A Bird in the House and The Fire-Dwellers. In the section dealing with "the literary family," Atwood states that in A Bird in the House "the three generation pattern is displayed in virtually its pure form," and suggests that in Laurence's work, as in that of other Canadian writers, both the negative and the positive qualities of the three generations are revealed. More detailed is the discussion of Laurence's female protagonists. Hagar is "the most extended portrait of the frozen old woman" in Canadian literature, and she "takes the Canadian old-woman figure about as far towards being human as can be expected." Rachel and Stacey are examined within the context of the "Rapunzel Syndrome" in Canadian literature, as women "who would rather be Dianas or Venuses, but find themselves trapped against their will inside Hecates." "In Canada, Rapunzel and the tower are the same," for "these heroines have internalized the values of their culture to such an extent that they have become their own prisons."
C30 Thomas, Clara. Our Nature, Our Voices: A Guidebook to English-Canadian Literature. Vol. I. Toronto: new press, 1972, pp 156-61. Includes a short biographical sketch and brief commentaries on Laurence's writings. In the writing of The Tomorrow-Tamer stories and This Side Jordan, "Laurence had found the tone and the stance of the ironist best suited for dealing with the African dilemma ...." When she turned to write of Canadian characters and situations, Laurence found the variations of the ironic tone again fitting for the places and times she interpreted." While Laurence's characters are "Canadian" inasmuch as they reflect "our experiences in this land for four generations," national boundaries do not contain her work. "The vitality and universality of her characters reach far beyond anything specifically Canadian in their concerns."
C31 Thomas, Clara. "The Short Stories of Margaret Laurence." World Literature Written in English, 2, No 1 (1972), 25-33. The Tomorrow-Tamer stories "are all built from the point of view of the ironist," who sees "the immense vitality and the enormous contradictions of joy and pain, of hopes and achievements, amongst the people of an emergent nation." The stories possess "qualities of disengagement and detachment which keep them on a middle range of irony, muting their satire on the one end of the scale and their tragedy on the other." In A Bird in the House we have "the skeleton of a life-story and yet by no means simply a life-story." As in the African stories, Laurence, through Vanessa, illuminates "the experiences of an outsider," for she, like every child, "is a stranger to the world she observes around her." Comments on the successes and failures of "the technique of double exposure" in A Bird in the House. Suggests that what becomes somewhat oppressive in these collected stories "are the restrictions of their circumference and the sameness of their final effects." Nonetheless, these stories "make a unique contribution to our literature in a particular Canadian time and place, under the deadening blows of the depression and drought of the '30s."
C32 Forman, Denyse, and Uma Parameswaran. "Echoes and Refrains in the Canadian Novels of Margaret Laurence." Centennial Review, 16, No 3 (Summer 1972), 233-53. ML. An excellent discussion of the "echoes and refrains" running through The Stone Angel, A Jest of God, and The Fire-Dwellers. All three novels share several characters, themes and techniques. One of the most prominent of the shared themes is that of motherhood. Stylistically and structurally the three novels are similar. All are essentially first person, present tense narratives, all are "bounded by a setting or a rhyme that provides not only a structural frame but also contains the key to the theme," all explore the area of interior monologue, and all have "sacramental overtones in their key passages." The latter sections of the article deal, in detail, with the movement of the novels' central characters towards self-revelation. Attention here is concentrated on Hagar and Rachel and the way in which their stories frequently parallel one another. Forman and Parameswaran argue that, despite the use of the first person narrative voice, "objectivity, distance and irony do form a part of all three novels," and that the religious backgrounds of Laurence's characters serve "to give them a much needed sense of perspective."
C33 Thomas, Clara "The Novels of Margaret Laurence." Studies in the Novel, 4, No. 2 (Summer 1972), 154-64. ML. A detailed study of Laurence's handling of voice, time, and the journey motif in The Stone Angel, A Jest of God, and The Fire-Dwellers. As each of Laurence's female protagonists "tells her own story," "each novel's success depends on the immediate establishment of the main character's voice and nature." Discusses the opening pages of each novel to demonstrate the manner in which this is accomplished. Each of Laurence's women "takes a journey that is at once physical and temporal and timeless and spiritual." In The Stone Angel "the two journeys move in parallel lines." The events of the present are "counterpointed by a design of reconstructed memories." Rachel's spiritual journey in A Jest of God is "more complicated and daring, in terms of the novelist's techniques," than Hagar's, for past and present are "woven together instead of being completely separated and counter-pointed." Only after Rachel has completed her interior journey is she able to make the decision to leave Manawaka, to embark on her temporal journey. "The simple time continuum of The Fire-Dwellers gives a rational, logical basis to the novel", however "Its important movement is an expansion from this timeline," "a halting, opening and shutting, a broadening and then a narrowing.... The final point of poise in the novel is not Stacey's coming to a new revelation," but her self-acceptance achieved on the basis of the knowledge gained through her inner and outer journeys.
C34 Djwa, Sandra "False Gods and the True Covenant: Thematic Continuity between Margaret Laurence and Sinclair Ross." Journal of Canadian Fiction, 1, No. 4 (Fall 1972), 43-50. ML. Laurence and Ross "share a central vision-a sense of the ironic discrepancy between the spirit and the letter of the religious dispensation, a discrepancy which is often explored through an essentially psychological analysis of character (particularly through the interior monologue) with reference to Biblical myth." Notes that many of the characters of Ross and Laurence are given explicitly Biblical names, and that for both writers Biblical allusion seems "to provide a resonating mythic framework," a framework which is implicit in Ross, but explicit in Laurence. An essential difference in their use of Biblical myth rests in the fact that Ross does not relate individual characters to their Biblical prototypes on the mythic level, while Laurence "consistently invokes Biblical myth as archetypes of psychological man" and most often relates her characters mythically. "Laurence's mode of perception, like that of Ross, is essentially puritan and verges on the satiric," and this perspective often gives form to the work itself. Both writers reveal "an ironic awareness of the discrepancy between performance and profession" and both write "from a two-tiered world, ostensibly with God above and man below." In conclusion, Ross and Laurence are seen as humanists, "concerned with the process through which human potential becomes actualized," working out "contemporary problems in terms of their own ancestral roots of received religion."
C35 Bevan, Allan. "Introduction." In The Fire-Dwellers New Canadian Library, No. 87 Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973, pp vii-xiv. ML. Links Manawaka, the focus of Laurence's fictional world, with Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha county, stating that her Manawaka families "have roots and branches that cut across from novel to novel ....Manawaka is more than a place; it represents its creator's point of reference. It is a world from which each of the three protagonists tries to escape, but which is always there." Discusses the variety of narrative techniques employed in the novel, paying particular attention to Stacey's internal dialogues "Stacey's internal dialogues with herself, with others and with God are often funny, frequently pathetic, sometimes almost tragic, nearly always honest. It is through her private conversations that we come to know her." Briefly analyzes the firehell symbolic pattern of the novel. "The hell in which Stacey, Mac, Tess, Buckle, and even Luke dwell is flabby, directionless, solitary, and faithless." Suggests that by the end of the novel, which ends on a note of low-keyed optimism, Stacey has learned that "her trap is not the four walls of her home but the world, a more generalized and larger prison less and less frightening than the narrow cell from which she has tried to escape through gin and through Buckle and through Luke."
C36 Ricou, Laurence. Vertical Man/Horizontal World: Man and Landscape in Canadian Prairie Fiction. Vancouver: Univ. of British Columbia Press, 1973, pp. 92, 116-20, 135. While admitting that "Manawaka is in many ways an untypical prairie town," Ricou also suggests that "the prairie landscape has shaped the themes of loneliness, the desire for freedom, and the agonizing lack of human contact" in Laurence's work. The narrow puritanism of Manawaka "can, in some way, be traced to the influence of the prairie landscape," a landscape "which discourages romance and imagination." Sees Hagar as "both of the narrow-minded puritan Manawaka and a rebel against all it represents." In A Jest of God "the dryness and dust are not only physical but descriptive of the small town's social atmosphere." In A Bird in the House the final response to this landscape is ambiguous. "Manawaka, gloomy and decaying, nevertheless fostered in its pioneers, and passed on to its children, a determined respect for man and the dignity of life."
C37 Waterston, Elizabeth. Survey: A Short History of Canadian Literature Toronto: Methuen, 1973, pp 12, 73, 140, 146. Briefly discusses Laurence's work under various headings including the role of women in Canadian fiction, the use of myths and archetypes, and the cosmopolitan outlook in Canadian literature.
C38 Pesando, Frank. "In a Nameless Land: The Use of Apocalyptic Mythology in the Writings of Margaret Laurence." Journal of Canadian Fictson, 2, No 1 (Winter 1973), 53-58. An important article Pesando begins his discussion with an analysis of several passages from The Prophet's Camel Bell, The Tomorrow-Tamer, and The Stone Angel which contain images of death and decay, and suggests that "the suddeness and prevalence of death, made so evident by her experiences in Somaliland, continued to preoccupy Margaret Laurence." Noting that others have commented on Laurence's use of Biblical imagery, Pesando goes on to state that "it is seldom recognized that these images are drawn almost entirely from two sections of the Bible Genesis and the Revelation of St. John the Divine, the tale of creation and the tale of destruction .... This linking of birth and death mythology is particularly evident in Laurence's use of the sea," the sea being associated with death and with regeneration. Argues as well that the sea in the Revelation is "the home of monsters" and in Laurence's work "the apparitions and the human grotesques are almost inevitably associated with the sea." Discusses in depth the figure of the grotesque in Laurence's fiction as it relates to her use of apocalyptic mythology and imagery.
C39 Ricou, Laurence R. "Empty as Nightmare: Man and Landscape in Recent Prairie Fiction." Mosaic, 6, No. 2 (Winter 1973), 143-60. In this discussion of the relationship between man and landscape in prairie fiction, it is suggested that in The Stone Angel Hagar is both a rebel against, and a representative of, the narrow-minded Puritanism that characterizes Manawaka.
C40 Gibbs, Robert "Introduction." In A Bird in the House. New Canadian Library, No. 96. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1974, n. pag. Distinguishes the A Bird in the House stories from those in The Tomorrow-Tamer collection, stating that "the stories here are spacious and accomodating in much the way that the Manawaka novels are," and that "it is one understanding, a culminating one, of many in the story." Discusses the organization of the work, suggesting that there are advantages in the opposition between the book as an organic whole and as a book of stories. "The extrication of particular narrative threads from the nexus has a clarifying effect. Each story, in one way or another, encompasses the span between the events of childhood and the time of narration by the mature Vanessa. Isolating particular narrative lines gives clarity and emphasis to the discoveries made and creates an artifice of sequence out of the mass of experience." Also discusses the handling of time in the narratives. Analyzes a number of selected stories, placing them within the context of the work as a whole which traces Vanessa's growth towards inner freedom.
C41 Killam, G. D, "Introduction." In A Jest of God. New Canadian Library, No. 111. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1974, n. pag. Suggests that the central problem and central theme in Laurence's work is the need to communicate. The nobility of her characters as human beings "proceeds from their persistent efforts at communicating with those close to them. It is as if in the lives of each of them nothing can be achieved in the way of a meaningful life until they identify and give expression to their problems." Discusses the persistent use of interior monologue in Laurence's work "The way in which the interior monologue is used varies from novel to novel, but its purpose is always to round out character, to give the reader an apprehension of the central figures that others in the world of the novel cannot possess." Rachel's monologues reveal the discrepancy between the public and the private Rachel, as well as "the extent to which her life is unsatisfactory and the near frantic effort she makes to find meaning and thus to make an adequate response to life." While "Rachel's communication is not perfect, nor are the gains she has made startling in the great scheme of things," she will survive "because she has achieved a kind of freedom and release."
C42 Moss, John. Patterns of Isolation in English Canadian Fiction. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1974, pp. 225-38. Treats The Stone Angel in conjunction with Ernest Buckler's The Mountain and the Valley and Mordecai Richler's Son of a Smaller Hero, arguing that "all three define individuality in terms of the conflict between behaviour and consciousness," and that all three "treat Canadian experience as the valid continuation of a larger world." "What gives Mrs. Laurence's vision the resonant dimensions of universal truth is the anomalous interlacing of the destructive and constructive effects of her protagonist's recalcitrant pride." For Hagar, the divergence between appearance and reality is the source of both her isolation and her contumacy, and the struggle she lives is that between reality and illusion. Like Buckler's and Richler's protagonists, Hagar "endures the irony of her separate consciousness confronted by her own formative contexts." The divergence between appearance and reality is finally resolved "through the coming together of two sequences of time," so that she "'dies, a whole, reintegrated, recalcitrant being."
C43 Atwood, Margaret. "Face to Face." Maelean's, May 1974, pp 38-39, 43-46. ML. An account of Atwood's meeting with Laurence which includes biographical information, comments by Laurence, and a discussion of The Diviners. "The Diviners is a large and complex book, an orchestration of themes as well as a collection of stories. It's about Canada as well as Manawaka, 'about the need to give shape to our own legends, to rediscover what is really ours, what is here'"
C44 Engel, Marian. "Margaret Laurence." Chatelaine, May 1974, p 25. An informal discussion of The Diviners in which Morag is described "as a variant of an emotional history common to all writers, common to all women, common to all Canadians."
C45 Miner, Valerie. "Matriarch of Manawaka." Saturday Night, May 1974, pp 17-20. An account of Laurence's participation in a seminar at Trent University during the time she spent there as writer-in-residence. Also includes biographical information and some discussion of The Diviner.
C46 McDonald, Marci. "The Author: All the Hoopla Gets Her Frazzled." Toronto Daily Star, 18 May 1974, p. C7. Biographical sketch which includes some comments on The Diviners.
C47 Cameron, Donald. "The Many Lives of Margaret Laurence." Weekend Magazine, 20 July 1974, pp. 3-5. Biographical sketch dealing with Laurence's African experience, her childhood, her marriage, and her writing.
C48 Kertzer, J. M. "The Stone Angel Time and Responsibility." The Dalhousie Review. 54 (Autumn 1974), 499-509. A perceptive reading of Laurence's handling of time in The Stone Angel. "Through memory, Hagar relives her life in order to understand and come to terms with it," and what she seeks, finally, "is self-justification in the face of death." First, Hagar must "examine the causal development of her life to see how its different stages are related." Kertzer suggests that the idea of causality is merged with the concept of responsibility in the novel. "Much of Hagar's meditation is devoted to ascribing, eluding and finally accepting responsibility for the disastrous changes in her life," and while this analysis leads to confusion, "in response to this confusion Hagar's admirable qualities become apparent and her strong sense of herself proves a virtue." Her pride isolates her, yet it also serves as a basis for moral awareness. "By insisting on self-sufficiency, she forces herself to confront her own guilt. By insisting on human responsibility, she asserts a desire for justice." Kertzer sees the concepts of justice and responsibility as offering "a moral continuity through time." Finally, "the puzzling logic of time and responsibility" is transcended and accepted through pardon and forgiveness.
C49 McKenna, Isabel. "Women in Canadian Literature." Canadian Literature, No 62 (Autumn 1974), pp 69-78. In this discussion of the role of women in Canadian fiction, brief mention is made of The Stone Angel. "In the end, Hagar has been defeated by her turn-of-the-century small-town society as much as by the simple fact of age. For such as Hagar there was no place."
C50 Achebe, Chinua. Morning Yet on Creation Day. Essays. London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1975, p 12. Achebe comments briefly on Laurence's Long Drums and Cannons, praising her understanding of the African writing she discusses.
C51 Djwa, Sandra. "Biblical Archetypes in Western Canadian Fiction." In Western Canada: Past and Present. Ed. Anthony W. Rasporich. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975, pp. 193-203. Proceedings of the Western Canadian Studies Conference, University of Calgary, 1974. Discusses Laurence's work along with that of other prairie writers. Analyzes Laurence's use of Biblical analogues and prototypes in her fiction. Much of the discussion stems from Djwa's earlier article on Laurence and Ross. (See C34).
C52 Hind-Smith, Joan. Three Voices. Toronto: Clarke Irwin, 1975, pp. 3-60. Provides biographical information, including details concerning the publishing history of Laurence's work. Draws upon original sources as well as extensive personal interviews in the analysis of Laurence's writings. Examines all of Laurence's work from a fundamentally biographical perspective, stressing the time and place in which each book was written, as well as the relationship between Laurence's own experiences and those of her fictional characters. For example, Hind-Smith says of A Bird in the House that these storms "are about Margaret Laurence's early years in Neepawa, or Manawaka, as the town continued to be called. Vanessa is the fictional name Margaret Laurence gave herself." Also provides summaries of the action and themes of Laurence's works.
C53 New, William H. Among Worlds: An Introduction to Modern Commonwealth and South African Fiction. Erin, Ontario: Press Porcepic, 1975, pp. 116-18. Links Laurence's work with that of Sinclair Ross, paying particular attention to the way in which both writers let their characters "resolve their situations in relative terms." Sees in Laurence's work a rebellion against a rigid Calvinist morality, but also a recognition that one can never wholly deny one's heritage. In A Bird in the House, Vanessa "recognizes the 'political' restraints imposed by a family structure, but like Ross's characters she identifies herself by her partial acceptance of that order nonetheless." "The rigid Calvinist morality that Rachel Cameron, in A Jest of God, initially rejects because it confines her, she later finds she cannot wholly abandon."
C54 Atherton, Stan. "Margaret Laurence's Progress." The International Fiction Review, 2, No 1 (Jan 1975), 61-64. Includes a brief summary of Laurence's work up to The Diviners and an extended commentary on The Diviners itself. "What sets Morag apart from previous Laurence protagonists is her early clear-sighted recognition of her predicament and her ability to begin taking corrective measures, however difficult and painful, to improve her situation while there is still time." Claims that The Diviners is a "more consciously Canadian novel than the others," "with the legends of Piper Gunn and Jules' tales of Rider Tonnerre and the days of Metis glory providing the curious amalgam of fiction and history that make cultural myth."
C55 Engel, Marmn. "It's the Grit. Laurence Is Unforgettable because She Is Us." The Globe and Mail, 19 April 1975, p. 37. ML "Laurence's fiction becomes art because it succeeds in shaping truth, possibility and verisimilitude in such a way as to create an artistic whole." Laurence's Manawaka works "are not documentaries, but possibilities" and are important to many "because they belong to the fabric of the country." Laurence shows what many of her predecessors did not show, "the grit and fibre" that went into Canada's early settlements and she refuses to sentimentalize these communities. In fact, in the Manawaka novels, "the image of the 'adorable' small town is de-sentimentalized step by step."
C56 Gore, Leone "Margaret Laurence and the First Person." The Dalhousie Review, 55 (Summer 1975), 235-51. An analysis, informed by Wayne Booth's The Rhetoric of Fiction, of Laurence's use of the first person. Discusses in detail the distraction between reliable and unreliable narrators as it relates to Laurence's Manawaka works. Laurence's use of mirror images "is perhaps the most interesting aspect of the unreliable subjective view," presenting "both objective physical details and the character's own emotional reactions to what she sees." Traces the mirror images in the five works discussed. Argues that the reader's awareness of the narrator's unreliability allows him to accept contradictions for he is in "secret communion with the author, sharing knowledge about the fallible narrator." Laurence's choice of the first person places emphasis on "the perceptions of the narrator, as she seeks to define her present self through her Manawaka past."
C57 Gottlieb, Lois, and Wendy Keitner. "Mothers and Daughters in Four Recent Canadian Novels." The Sphinx, No 4 (Summer 1975), pp. 21-34. Using some of the ideas and feminine archetypes outlined by Phyllis Chester in Women and Madness, Gottlieb and Keitner examine the female characters and relationships in A Jest of God. The relationship between mother and daughter is most significant, and "in fact there are two mother-daughter relationships: the biological one between Rachel and Mrs Cameron, and the emotional one with Calla" which are antithetical. They discuss the imagery surrounding these relationships and conclude that Rachel, in the end, "envisions a reconciliation between individuality and maternity, between ruthlessness and responsibility." While Rachel "initially seems bound to her mother like Persephone to Demeter," in the end she is seen as "moving towards the Artemis prototype with the goal of her own wholeness."
C58 Thompson, Anne. "The Wilderness of Pride: Form and Image in The Stone Angel." Journal of Canadian Fiction, 4, No 3 (Summer 1975), 95-110. "In the word 'wilderness' is the concept which enables the reader to realize, in retrospect, the pattern which reforms the imagery and determines the organic structure of The Stone Angel." Suggests that there is a skeletal backbone of images which characterizes Hagar and her environment, and that the overall effect of these images is grotesque. Out of this framework two peripheral groups of images radiate, "one dealing with the wilderness, the other with the juxtaposition of past and present." Discusses the Biblical context of the novel, stressing the garden-wilderness complex of symbols. "The displaced garden or wilderness leitmotif is sounded and repeated with variations throughout The Stone Angel." Traces the displaced gardens Hagar moves to and from throughout the novel until she finally moves towards life.
C59 Struthers, J. R. (Tim). "Laurence's Ritual Epic Triumph." The London Free Prees, 12 July 1975, p. 43. Presents an overview of the five works which constitute the Manawaka cycle. Argues that "The Diviners is the culmination of Laurence's previous work. It gathers, develops, and surpasses motifs, situations, and techniques used in all of the previous Manawaka books." In terms of form in particular, The Diviners "represents a major experiment, a radical advance from the other Manawaka books." Suggests that "in undergoing the process of emotional and spiritual growth" necessary to achieve the "ideals of freedom and survival, Laurence's heroines frequently act as both penitents and priestesses." In The Diviners Christie, Royland, and Jules act as "a shaman or priest for Morag," yet Morag eventually "grows from the role of a penitent into that of a priestess." As priestess, Morag, "performs a ritual of transference" with Jules when they exchange the hunting knife and the plaid pin. "As priestess, Morag also blesses Christie, eventually, as Hagar finally blesses her remaining son Marvin."
C60 Lever, Bernice. "Margaret Laurence-Morag Divined." Canadian Review, Sept-Oct 1975, pp 34, 36-37. Challenges earlier assessments of The Diviners, including Robert Fulford's, suggesting that "Morag will not be accepted by either the married suburbanites or the urban 'libbers' for, at least, a generation." Maintains that "the two-way flow" of the past and present in The Diviners, "with its heavy dependence on nature imagery is the best method of telling Morag's story" and that Morag will be eventually accepted as "Margaret Laurence's greatest characterization."
C61 Gom, Leona. "Margaret Laurence: The Importance of Place." The West Coast Review, 10, No 2 (Oct 1975), 26-30. Treats the wilderness (nature), the town of Manawaka, and the city separately. The natural world in Laurence's Manawaka works "is almost always treated with a particular sense of love and lyricism," and is thus distinguished from "the obviously destructive small-town environment." Discusses the significance of the fact that all five of Laurence's heroines leave insular Manawaka for the city, only to discover that the city demands a different sacrifice from each. It is The Diviners which "articulates, more clearly than do any of the other novels, a compromise between country and city that is both practical and self-fulfilling." Concludes that "perhaps, then, the external geography Laurence's characters choose, is less important than their internal geography, their peaceful coexistence with their pasts." All her characters "must come to terms with the Manawaka in themselves, with the tribal influence of the small town and their own Scots-Presbyterian inheritance."
C62 Lever, Bernice "Nature Imagery in the Canadian Fiction of Margaret Laurence." Alive, No. 41 (1975), pp. 20-22. Discusses the importance of nature imagery and metaphor in Laurence's Manawaka fiction.
C63 Killam, G. D. "Introduction." In This Side Jordan. New Canadian Library, No. 126. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1976, pp. ix-xviii. "Margaret Laurence achieves a distance and objectivity that no other expatriate has managed and thus she is, so far as I am concerned, the best expatriate writing about Africa." Offers a comparison between This Side Jordan and Chinua Achebe's No Longer at Ease. Suggests that despite the fact that Laurence and Achebe are from widely different backgrounds, they come to many of the same conclusions about the circumstances in which a particular generation of African finds himself, and do it in a manner which is wholly convincing. Examines the characters of Nathaniel Amegbe and Johnnie Ketsoe in detail. In response to criticism of the novel's formality and contrivance, states that "the interior monologues of Amegbe are neither offensive nor unconvincing," and that "the novel offers a quite exact re-creation of a cultural reality as it obtained in West Africa at the period of the novel's setting."
C64 New, Wilham H. "Fiction." In Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English. Gen. Ed. and Introd. Carl F. Klinck 2nd ed. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1976, Vol III, pp 265-69. Provides a summary of Laurence's development, stating that "the range and quality of her work made her the most recognized and accomplished of the writers of the 1960s." While many of the themes from her African fiction were carried over into the Manawaka works, "by the time of The Stone Angel, Laurence had managed to contain the intrusive artifice." In The Stone Angel, Laurence's "control of individual sentence patterns--to delineate characters and to convey thematic concerns stylistically" increased. The novel's Biblical parallels work "to establish a kind of Calvinist 'mythical' framework for Canadian moral decisions and give enormous depth to the first-person characterization." Argues that the fragmentation of style in The Fire-Dwellers creates a stylistic problem which "MacLennan and Kroetsch have been similarly obstructed by: the danger implicit in the presentation of a limited sensibility is that it is the author's capacities, rather than the character's, which may seem affected." Views Laurence's concern with tradition and the individual in A Bird in the House in relation to her African works which treated the effects of a European cultural heritage on nations seeking independence.
C65 Gore, Leona. "Laurence and the Use of Memory" Canadian Literature, No. 71 (Winter 1976), pp. 48-58. Analyzes Laurence's use of subjective time as memory in the Manawaka fiction. Argues that since the memory process is so crucial in The Stone Angel, "its misuse is the most serious artistic flaw in the work .... That details or events in the present should almost always cause Hagar's reminiscences seems to indicate that Hagar had no preconceived plan to tell her story chronologically." Suggests that in The Diviners Laurence returned to the basic structure of The Stone Angel, and that it too reveals the use of "associative memory." Yet the chronological arrangement in the latter work can be accepted if one sees the memory sequences of the novel as the novel Morag is writing. "Laurence has preserved the technique of The Stone Angel and legitimized it." Maintains that the use of memory is more successful in A Jest of God and The Fire-Dwellers than in The Stone Angel.
C66 Stevenson, Warren. "The Myth of Demeter and Persephone in A Jest of God." Studies in Canadian Literature, 1, No. 1 (Winter 1976). 120-23. Traces the relationship between the Demeter and Persephone pattern and A Jest of God, detailing the interaction between Rachel and her mother.
C67 Fuhrman, Michael. "Comment: Who's Afraid of Margaret Laurence?" Quill & Quire, April 1976, p 2. Comments on the controversy in the Peterborough school system over the teaching of The Diviners to high school students.
C68 Pollack, Claudette. "The Paradox of The Stone Angel." Humanities Association Review, 27, No. 3 (Summer 1976), 267-75. Maintains that the fundamental paradox of The Stone Angel is "that one regards Hagar, who sins far more than she is sinned against, in a charitable light," and that the central accomplishment of the novel is that Laurence creates such a response. Laurence's method of manipulating our feelings about Hagar is twofold: "the sustained use of archetypal associations" and the distinction drawn between the Hagar of the present and the Hagar of the past. "From beginning to end, Hagar is closely associated with two sympathetic archetypal figures," the outcast Hagar of Genesis and King Lear. "One reason that the Biblical archetype works so effectively is that Laurence firmly establishes Hagar's generation and background as that of a person who would automatically think in scriptural terms." But it is Hagar's similarities to King Lear that explain most fully our affection for her and our feeling that her experiences "are part of a pattern that extends backward and forward in time." Yet Hagar is not entirely like Lear for she possesses that sense of Self-directed humour which might have saved him, as it does her, from madness.
C69 Ayre, J. "Bell, Book and Scandal." Weekend Magazine, 28 Aug 1976, pp. 8-12. Provides a history of the dispute leading to the banning of The Diviners in Peterborough's high schools.
C70 Davidson, Cathy N. "Geography as Psychology in the Manitoba Fiction of Margaret Laurence." Kate Chopin Newsletter, 2, No 2 (1976), 5-10. Discusses the function of place in Laurence's Manawaka works, emphasizing the way in which place is connected with a sense of ancestry, a sense of roots.
C71 Thomas, Clara "The Wild Garden and the Manawaka World." Modern Fiction Studies, 22, No. 3 (Autumn 1976), 401-11. An important article. There are ways in which all of the Manawaka works are "conversion fables," stories which chronicle the "redirection" of an individual who has experienced some revelation of the wholeness of life, "but The Diviners is the most comprehensive in its quest and the most complicated in structure." Morag "seeks to understand her relation to all life, all time and eternity, and the resolution she finally comes to has both sacred and secular meanings for her." Discusses workings with concepts of time in The Diviners and suggests that it is the working out of the flow of remembered time, present time, and future time that gives the book "a structural shape whose graphic image is also the Yoruba symbol of the continuum of time, the three interflowing circles of the serpent swallowing his tail." Attention is paid as well to Laurence's sense of place and Thomas treats in detail "the garden-island pattern" which is "one central mythological 'signature' in Laurence's work." "Both can connote shelter and sanctuary," but most often "island connotes isolation, the 'islanded' individual," while garden suggests, especially in The Diviners, an awareness of one's place in "a grand and timeless design." "Morag's recognition of her wild garden is not a claiming of territory as her exclusive right; it is a simple yet miraculous new 'seeing' of the land, and in a real sense it frees her from the tyranny of place and the compulsion to seek islands."
C72 Morley, Patricia. "The Long Trek Home: Margaret Laurence's Stories." Journal of Canadian Studies, 11, No, 4 (Nov. 1976), 19-26. "Laurence's theme of themes remains the search for spiritual freedom and the difficulties inherent in that search" Examines this theme in The Tomorrow-Tamer and A Bird in the House, focussing on image patterns, characterization, and narrative structure. Analyzes a number of stories in detail to demonstrate the manner in which they reveal "the recurring archetype of the spiritual quest." Suggests that there are essentially two kinds of stories in both collections' those in which the mode is primarily ironic and tragic, and those in which the structure is fundamentally comic. In the former the focus is on forces which block movement towards spiritual freedom, "our spiritual home," while in the latter "the characters are successfully engaged, difficulties notwithstanding, in the long trek home." Stresses "the comic spirit of reconciliation" in Laurence's short stories.
C73 Mane, Robert. "Pour une lecture de Margaret Laurence: les deux stuctures de The Fire-Dwellers." Commonwealth Essays and Studies, No. 2 (Dec 1976), pp 134-49. Examines the two distinctive narrative styles in The Fire-Dwellers, paying particular attention to the novel's sense of fragmentation and Laurence's handling of the various levels of nine.
C74 Gros-Louis, Dolores. "Pens and Needles. Daughters and Mothers in Recent Canadian Literature." Kate Chopin Newsletter, 2, No 3(Winter 1976), 8-15. Treats the relationship between Morag and Pique in The Diviners in conjunction with works by Alice Munro, Fredelle Maynard, and Audrey Thomas.
C75 Harrison, Dick. Unnamed Country: The Struggle for a Canadian Prairie Fiction. Edmonton. Univ. of Alberta Press, 1977, pp 43-45, 183-88, 191-97. Discusses Laurence's work in conjunction with that of Robert Kroetsch, Rudy Wiebe, Sinclair Ross, and W. 0 Mitchell. Sees in the recent writings of these authors a concern with the "re-naming of the past .... It is as though they regarded their past as something that must be rediscovered because it has somehow been misrepresented to them." Explores the nature of Laurence's concern with the past, "not the personal past only but the collective past which surrounds it," and the way in which desires and convictions creatively shape the past for her characters. Also discusses significant image patterns in Laurence's work, particularly the imagery of death and burial and water imagery. Sees in Laurence's work and that of other contemporary prairie writers a re-working of familiar prairie archetypes. Suggests that the emphasis in Laurence's work is not on how to contend with the prairie itself, but on how to deal with "the residue of prairie experience which lies within." All of Laurence's prairie heroines are in some way imprisoned by pride and guilt, and they are seeking the absolution that could free them. At the same time they are victims of the prairie's Manawaka culture -- its bigotry, its Calvanist self-repression, its dedication to a few limited and life-denying truths which may have sustained the pioneers but which stifle the next generation and isolate them from the life which should be accessible to them."
C76 Moss, John. Sex and Violence in the Canadian Novel. The Ancestral Present. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, pp. 69-83. Beginning with the thesis that "sexual behaviour in Laurence's women is inseparable from their total experience of themselves," Moss proceeds to discuss these experiences from a variety of Perspectives. Hagar, Rachel, Stacey, and Morag reveal "the conflict between roles imposed by gender" and "the essential self somewhere deep within." Morag is the least contained of Laurence's characters for "not only is she cast in many roles but she must contend at any given time with several selves as she either plays out the roles or denies them." It is from the convergence of roles and selves that personal identity -- "which is directly a function of gender" -- emerges. In Morag's case, she "manipulates the gender roles she feels bound to play in a sustaining attempt to achieve personal fulfillment." The final sections of the discussion concern the structure of The Diviners, its treatment of time, the concept of myth, and the relationship between truth and reality in Laurence's work.
C77 Woodcock, George. "Possessing the Land: Notes on Canadian Fiction." In The Canadian Imagination. Dimensions of a Literary Culture. Ed. David Staines. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Univ. Press, 1977, pp 77, 92-93. Discusses Laurence along with Audrey Thomas and Dave Godfrey as Canadian writers who left Canada "and returned enriched to write their best work in Canada." In the case of Laurence, Africa provided the insights which unlocked her ability to perceive and to write about her own heritage, her own country, and there emerged that splendid series of time-obsessed myths of the Canadian prairie town from The Stone Angel down to The Diviners." Briefly mentions the influence of Ethel Wilson on Laurence's work.
C78 Chesley, Stephen "Second Take: The Trade in Film Rights." Quill & Quire, April 1977, pp. 3, 12-13. Includes comments by Laurence on the filming of her work. Sees a clear separation between book and film: "The book is my work and I'll stand behind it with my life. Not the film. That's somebody else's interpretation of my work."
C79 Melnyk, George. "Literature Begins with Writer's Craft." Quill & Quire, May 1977, pp. 9, 12. An account of Laurence's appearance at the University of Saskatchewan which includes some of Laurence's responses to questions raised by members of the audience. Laurence acknowledges her debt to Sinclair Ross and W. O. Mitchell and states that for her "being a writer gives a sense of belonging to a tribe."
C80 Bailey, Nancy. "Margaret Laurence, Carl Jung and the Manawaka Women." Studies in Canadian Literature, 2, No 2 (Summer 1977), 306-21. Suggests that "the struggle to define the self so as to be able to live freely in the present, while conscious of both the past and future, is a distinguishable mark of the Laurence heroine." Links the growth of awareness in Laurence's heroines to the thought of Carl Jung. Also discusses the prevalence of death in the Manawaka works which serves to emphasize the preciousness of life.
C81 Hehner, Barbara. "River of Now and Then: Margaret Laurence's Narratives." Canadian Literature, No. 74 (Autumn 1977), pp. 40-57. An examination of the narrative structures of Laurence's Manawaka fiction, with emphasis on The Diviners. While The Diviners "uses the most sophisticated narrative technique Laurence has yet attempted," it is not without serious flaws. Does maintain that the decision to write of Morag's past in the present tense and of her present in the past tense, was the right one, yet feels that the Memorybank Movies and Innerfilms are not successful, essentially because of their tone. "In the early sections of The Diviners there are long passages of childlike thought, which, when we are suddenly reminded of the author guiding our responses to Morag, become forced and un-heartwarming." Objects to the sense of negativism imposed upon Morag which is not supported by the plot. Discusses the theme of myth-making. In the novel in relation to the character. States that in the earlier works Laurence gave mythic dimensions to characters "by suggesting that their relationships to the protagonist re-enact a biblical situation " In The Diviners, Laurence takes the essential elements in these myths: exile and disposession, and reworks them in Canadian terms." In conclusion, argues that the novel contains too many characters and too many obtrusive narrative devices, yet one must admire Laurence for the scope of her effort.
C82 Russell, Kenneth C. "Margaret Laurence's Seekers after Grace." The Chelsea Journal, Sept.-Oct. 1977, pp. 245-48. Discusses Laurence's use of Biblical antecedents, and suggests that "not only are the language and imagery drawn from Christian sources, but the moment of saving insight to which her heroines come bears a distinctly Christian character." Emphasizes the importance of Providence and the providential pattern which leads to grace in Laurence's work. "The blessing each character experiences through the providential pattern of her existence is obviously different, but in each case at implies an acceptance of self, not the dreamt or willfully created self but the real self."
C83 Grace, Sherrill. "Crossing Jordan: Time and Memory in the Fiction of Margaret Laurence." World Literature Written in English, 16, No. 2 (Nov 1977), 328-39. An analysis of the formal and thematic aspects of time and memory in Laurence's fiction. Suggests that in A Bird in the House and The Diviners, Laurence's command of technique allows her to "dramatize the growth of Vanessa and Morag thereby freeing them, on the narrative level, from the stasis that encumbers the other women" in Laurence's work.
C84 Dombrowski, Theo Q. "Who is This You? Margaret Laurence and Identity." University of Windsor Review, 8, No 1 (Fall-Winter 1977), 21-38. "The forces that shape identity and the role of consciousness in the resultant identity are central to Laurence's concern." Comments on Laurence's preoccupation "with the effects on character of the past as it works in complex, cumulative layers." For Laurence, the personal and the ancestral past are strongly associated with place, and place, coupled with memory and heredity, provides clues to the nature of identity. Yet in Laurence's world "one can never fully know anything," essentially because of "the very nature of the sensibility, caught between what the mind knows as its own reality and what presents itself as an opposing reality." "Concerned thus with the sensibility caught between its own inner authority and the more brutal authority of the world without, Laurence frequently presents characters for whom the will is of vital importance as it embodies the power to effect the transition between the two worlds." This attempt to know the self and to enact one's will on the world is presented in a similar fashion in the characters of Stacey, Vanessa, and Morag in particular.
C85 Carrington, Ildiko de Papp. "`Tales in the Telling': The Diviners as Fiction about Fiction." Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 9 (Winter 1977-78), pp 154-69. An important discussion. "The Diviners, Margaret Laurence's fifth novel and the final work in the Manawaka series, is fiction about fiction, its multiplicity of narrative forms is a result of this fact." Carrington analyzes the significance of the photographs, the Memorybank Movies and the Innerfilms, as well as the novels Morag writes in the course of the novel, and Jules's and Christie's tales. States that "the achievement of this novel lies in its technique, not in its theme. The emphasis is on tales in the telling: this gerund denotes not a completed structure but a continuing action. Laurence dramatizes in detail the creative processes by which 'facts' become fictionalized, by which life, lived and remembered, is not simply recorded but intellectually and emotionally reinterpreted in successive stages of time and imaginatively transmuted not only from one narrative form to another but also from one point of view to another."
C86 Cooper, Cheryl. "Images of Closure in The Diviners." In The Canadian Novel: Here and Now. Ed. John Moss. Toronto: NC, 1978, pp 93-102. "Each of the five Manawaka books can stand on its own, but The Diviners is enhanced by its relation to the other books as a work of summation and closure." Argues that The Diviners is a "self-regarding fiction" and that its "overarching image is reflexivity." The conscious act of looking in a mirror or of watching 'old films,' this act of recollecting and ordering a personal history as a final testament, is an act of closure." Sees The Diviners as "a figural narrative akin to Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," and discusses the manner in which all the narrative levels of the novel are related to Morag's position as artist. "The younger Morag who eventually writes novels is portrayed by an older Morag writing a novel about her." Also discusses the significance of The Tempest in relation to the novel Morag is writing titled Prospero's Child. "The Manawaka books form a roman-fleuve and The Diviners consciously and effectively pulls them all together." Discusses the way in which The Diviners echoes the other works on thematic, structural, and linguistic levels.
C87 Mathews, Robin. Canadian Literature: Surrender or Revolution. Toronto: Steel Rail, 1978, pp. 122, 129, 135, 193. Sees Laurence as a writer who rejects "the liberal individualist position" and who builds novels with "specific concern about the choice between the individual and the community." Challenges Atwood's reading of The Stone Angel, arguing that "the view of Canada /Canadians as loser is destructively overemphasized." One of the most important things about Hagar Shipley's development in Stone Angel is the enormous irony of the close. When she learns to know the affliction of others and learns to serve, all of her individualist demands might in retrospect be thrown into an entirely new light." Suggests that "if it is true that a community struggling for survival cannot afford nor spend praise on the alien who demands only his own thing, then Hagar's insight relates to the political, social, as well as personal idea of survival and beyond in Canada."
C88 Statues, David. "Introduction." In The Diviners. New Canadian Library, No 146. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978, pp v-xiv. Suggests that unlike the four earlier Laurence heroines who were born and raised in Manawaka, "Morag is an outsider" who, from the beginning, "has a definite and defined perspective on the town and its inhabitants." As well, unlike the earlier protagonists, Morag is "an observer of people, a writer, an 'inveterate winkler-out of people's life stories.'" Discusses the form and structure of the novel, paying particular attention to events and episodes crucial to Morag's artistic development. "Reliving her life through her memory leads to her acceptance of the past and its vital connection to the present, for time, as the structure of The Diviners illustrates, is an endless continuum." Traces the movement of the Currie plaidpin and Lazarus Tonnerre's knife from The Stone Angel to The Diviners, concluding that "Hagar Shipley, so proud of her ancestry and its embodiment in the brooch, would find personal satisfaction in the knowledge that Morag Gunn, the historian and chronicler of Manawaka, is now the owner of this talisman of the town and its ancestors." In the second half of the introduction, Statues places the novel in the tradition of the Bildungsroman, suggesting that as the Bildungsroman "explores the formative years in the life of an individual who is frequently a writer or another kind of artist, it is not uncommon for this novel to contain a degree of autobiography." States that the novel is "autobiographical fiction in contrast to the 'fictionalized autobiography' of A Bird in the House." "The autobiographical dimension of The Diviners is the embodiment in Morag Gunn of Laurence's own ideas about life and art." Concludes that "for Morag Gunn, Manawaka's historian, and Margaret Laurence, Manawaka's creator, art is a distillation of the private and the fictional, and this mysterious process of literary creation is the theme and form of The Diviners."
C89 McCallum, Pamela. "Communication and History: Themes in Innis and Laurence." Studies in Canadian Literature, 3, No 1 (Winter 1978), 5-16. Argues that The Diviners provides "a connecting link between Innis' well-known writings on Canadian economic history and his almost forgotten work on communications." The Diviners, which is structured around the same concerns as in Innis' work -- "the implications of oral and written communication, social power, and ideological manipulation" -- goes on to reassess and redirect central difficulties in his theories. Suggests that "Innis' schematic opposition between the static fixity of print and the fluidity of speech breaks down when confronted by lived experience in the twentieth century" and that, in The Diviners, these complications are reformulated and refocused. Discusses the movement from snapshots to movies in the novel as "a shift from a passive past, essentially separate from the self, to an active past pressing in on the individual, defining both consciousness and historical development." As Morag develops a sense of the past, through Christie's tales, she begins to understand "that the spatial confines of Manawaka are not absolute." Analyzes Morag's rediscovery of written expression and suggests that her novels "act as a mediation between individual experience and the broad socio-historical patterns suggested by the tales." Laurence's recognition "that all forms of communication are limited and distorted by the pressuring social structures they necessarily inhabit," coupled with the reassertion of "the creative potential in both written and oral communication," reintroduces genuine dialectic to Innis' theories "Innis analyzed the dominating forces in Canada's past. Laurence discloses not only that domination, but also resistance against it."
C90 Cooley, Dennis. "Antimacassared in the Wilderness: Art and Nature in The Stone Angel." Mosaic, 11, No 3 (Spring 1978), 29-46. In this detailed analysis of The Stone Angel particular attention is paid to the opposition between art and nature, as well as to the novel's Jungian dimensions. "In the cemetery passage Laurence raises a series of alternatives that will figure throughout the rest of the book. She opposes what is foreign and what is native, what is imposed and what is discovered, what is artificial and what is natural." Suggests that Hagar is torn between civilization and the wilderness, and that she lives by her persona, divided between her reward and outward selves, "the one natural and vital, the other acquired and life-denying." As Hagar's carefully constructed garrison begins to fall, the shadow archetype powerfully emerges, nearly displacing the persona and the animus. . . .Ironically, as Hagar is dying, she is coming to life. She strays from her deliberate normal paths and static, impregnable garrisons, wandering toward the 'wrong' side of life which is the deep, dark, unconscious, fluid world around her and within her -- the very world she's been taught to view as subordinate or wrong." Sees in Hagar's movement toward personal wholeness the pattern of the Jungian concept of individuation, "the realization of one's entire self, partly hidden when someone becomes fragmented as a result of taking on a 'civilized' self."
C91 Jeffrey, David L. "Biblical Hermeneutics and the Family History in Contemporary Canadian Fiction: Wiebe and Laurence." Mosaic, 11, No 3 (Spring 1978), 87-106. An important and detailed article. Discusses the way in which Wiebe, in The Blue Mountains of China, and Laurence, in The Stone Angel, "have incorporated Biblical hermeneutical models into the narrative and rhetorical structures of their works," and "how it is that they appeal to an appreciation of the models on the part of their readers as a guide to interpretation." Suggests that "in Canadian fiction, the family device is developed almost as a topos, and both as theme and structure invites the archetypal information and interpretive universality afforded by its best known precedent, the Bible. In different ways, Wiebe and Laurence each set out to compose a family history. In doing so, they build into their novels, as present texts, the structure and interpretive signals of an absent text." Outlines the two principal aspects of Biblical hermeneutic in relation to both novels. The first "is an external narrative structure or model, a 'family history' known as 'the story of the covenant,'" and the second "is an inner rhetorical structure which governs the psychology and narrative purpose of the story. The basic rhetorical method of the inner structure can be described as a series of apparent analogues -- actually a progress of refocusings -- or a fugue of perspectives through which the reader comes, by dialogue, to recognize the significant interrelationship of all stories to a comprehensive and ongoing narrative. "Concludes that the two novels discussed "proceed from conviction that what gives Canadian family experience its particular sense of identity is the relation of a vast yet present place to a spiritual journey whose storied character has been imagined before and beyond the sound of present voices."
C92 Johnston, Eleanor. "The Quest of The Diviners." Mosaic, 11, No 3(Spring 1978), 107-17. Using Jason's Quest as a model, analyzes the growth and development of Laurence's Manawaka heroines. "The inner struggles Hagar, Rachel and Stacey undergo are the psychological equivalents of Jason's Quest: like him they leave a familiar, distressed state and find new meaning with which they can restructure, and survive in, their everyday lives." Suggests that divination is a word "which refers to the central action of these Manawaka novels, the mysterious process of the search for hidden and valuable understanding." Discusses the various forms of divination, and the various diviners, Royland, Christie, Jules, and Morag, in The Diviners.
C93 Surguy, Phil. "Initiation Writes." Books In Canada, April 1978, pp. 7-9. Discusses Laurence along with Audrey Thomas and John Clute, and includes comments by all three writers concerning the writing of their first novels.
C94 Boone, Laurel. "Rachel's Benign Growth." Studies in Canadian Literature, 3, No 2 (Summer 1978), 277-81. Challenges earlier assessments of A Jest of God which held that Rachel's tumour was simply a pat solution to her problems (and those of the novelist), or a rather arbitrary and blatant symbol of death. The tumour "is not the growth of a new life in that it is not the baby she thought she was carrying, but she sees it as a nonlife, not as a representative of death. In subjecting her thoughts and feelings to the voice of her mother, Rachel lives under "the law of spiritless conformity," choosing "a safe middle ground between life and death." Rachel's indecision concerning her possible pregnancy is complex "for in a way the baby itself represents death," and her decision to have the baby comes as "an affirmation of life" and brings about her rebirth. "In an act analogous to her acceptance of her pregnancy, Rachel takes on moral as well as physical responsibility for her mother. When her nonmalignant tumour is gone, so is her bondage to nonlife; her benign growth has enabled her to give birth to herself."
C95 Hutcheon, Linda. "Atwood and Laurence: Poet and Novelist." Studies in Canadian Literature, 3, No 2(Summer 1978), 255-63. A comparative analysis of The Stone Angel and Atwood's The Edible Woman. Maintains that there is a difference in the degree of trust each writer places in the reader, and suggests that this may be related to the fact that Atwood is a poet as well as a novelist. Questions whether there is "a particularly novelistic use of imagery that is structurally different from what we might term a more poetic usage." Examines a number of image strands in The Stone Angel which "work to strengthen the basic thematic and narrative structures of the novel," and concludes that while it not unusual that Laurence should use both explicit commentary as well as the structural functions of imagery, it is surprising that she needs "to use the narrative commentary as a means of insuring the reader's comprehension of the function of the imagery." Atwood, on the other hand, "chooses to hang the narrative upon a solid scaffolding of imagery, rather than to supplement the narrative and thematic lines by supportive and well-explicated image patterns -- such as the stone angel or the biblical archetypes of Laurence's novel." Concludes that in Atwood's work "less is explained, much is left to the reader," while in Laurence's, great care is taken "to enable the reader to see thematic connections." Suggests that "poets who write novels do have a rather different 'hermeneutic' relationship to both their readers and their narrative structures than do most novelists."
C96 Williams, David "The Indian Our Ancestor: Three Modes of Vision in Recent Canadian Fiction." The Dalhousie Review, 58, No 2 (Summer 1978), 309-28. Treats The Diviners in conjunction with Rudy Wiebe's The Temptations of Big Bear and W. O. Mitchell's The Vanishing Point. Suggests that Morag's search for ancestors "touches on the dilemma which is endemic to her home and native land. True homes or 'real' countries are not possible without informing myths, and yet Morag's longing for a fatherland lays bare the reluctance of her own country to foster myths." Argues that "the subject of ancestors for Laurence must be predicated upon some unnamed form of continuance" which transcends blood and biology, and supersedes orthodox Christianity. "The world of The Diviners belongs ultimately to the cosmos of the pagan myths." Discusses the figure of the shaman in this cosmos as "the mediator between tenuous and absolute states of being. The shaman's desire to share in the spirit condition is then an attempt, in the words of Eliade's dominant insight, to ensure that 'historical time is abolished and mythical time regained.'" In The Diviners Laurence offers "a final, fuller symbol of the coherence of past and present, of parent and place. Her outlook does not, on the one hand, make history the only ground of being; on the other, it does not demand an abnegation of racial ancestors. "Discusses the significance of Christie's tales and Jules's songs. Sees in pique, the child of racially and mythically opposite parents, the emblem of a new order of being. Pique's naming of her ancestral land, through her songs, "restores the broken circuit, makes her one with her ancestors, in fact makes the Ancestors one." "Ultimately, for Laurence, the ancestors are within, if in the blood, also in the unconscious as those who never lived in 'so-called real life,' but who will always be. If they come dressed in the accidents of history, if they make their appearance through the particular time and place of the individual, they nevertheless make over the present in their own image."
C97 Blewett, David. "The Unity of the Manawaka Cycle." Journal of Canadian Studies, 13, No 3 (Fall 1978), 3159. A fascinating discussion of the Manawaka cycle. Blewett argues that "the Manawaka cycle is unified not only by the centripetal pull of the home town itself, but by the development over the four novels of a vision of the human condition which is not fully rendered until the cycle is completed." Considers three ways in which "the fragmentariness of ordinary life," as explored in each work, "is seen against, and so continually absorbed into, a sense of design and purpose in the universe." These include "the meaning of Manawaka, the continuity of a major device, that of contrasted pairs of individuals and images, and an elaborate parallel with Eliot's symbolism of the four elements in The Waste Land." Sees Manawaka as "an emblem of human divisiveness" which reveals Laurence's "vision of the conditions of modern life, and perhaps of all human life, which is why it ultimately proves impossible to get away from." Presents an extended analysis of "the symbolic opposition of the town's cemetery and its garbage dump" as one example of "Laurence's sense of the contrasts and contradictions that spring up in life to divide human beings." Paradoxically, the garbage dump, for all its sordid associations, by the end of the cycle stands for an humanity, which we see in Christie Logan, and which is the very reverse of the inhumanity earlier associated with Jason Currie, the cemetery, and Currie Memorial Park." In the final section of the article, Blewett traces the movement of the cycle "from dryness to water, from spiritual barrenness to rebirth, from separation to reconciliation." This movement is paralleled to that in Eliot's The Waste Land, both of which are "fashioned by an elaborate imagery of the four elements." Suggests that the foremost element in The Stone Angel is earth; in A Jest of God, air: in The Fire-Dwellers, fire, and finally in The Diviners, it is water.
C98 Colson, Theodore. "The Theme of Home in the Fiction of Canada, the United States, and the West Indies." English Studies In Canada, 4, No. 3 (Fall 1978), 351-61. Briefly examines The Diviners in this discussion of the theme of home in various works of fiction. Suggests that in many Canadian novels, as in The Diviners, "the problem is not how to go home but how terribly difficult it is to get away." Also suggests that though Canadian writers, like American authors, have "mourned deficiencies in their environment," "they differ from the American in specifically mourning the lack of a mythology."
C99 Davidson, Cathy N. "Past and Perspective in Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel." The American Review of Canadian Studies, 8, No. 2 (Autumn 1978), 61-69. Despite the fact that Laurence uses different techniques in each Manawaka work, in each she "essentially shows a character attempting to cope with her present (and her future) by re-evaluating crucial episodes from her past." While this process yields "no profound revelations," the characters do learn to see 'that there has been a pattern to their lives and that they themselves have largely shaped the present moment. This in itself is the revelation. The protagonist can thereby cease seeing herself as a victim in a tragedy that she did not direct and become the narrator of her own story." Suggests that the tragedy of Hagar's past is not different from the tragedy of her present. Both her memories of the past and her attempted escape from her present situation indicate that "Hagar's vaunted strength is a sham." Through the interweaving of past and present pretense, "the author requires the reader to see the central fact of Hagar's life: the incapacitating fear of death that Hagar strives to hide from all-- and most of all from herself." Only after dropping the pose of trying to appear fearless can she face death. "Like Stacey she comes to accept her life, for better or worse. Since part of her life is her fear of death, she accepts that too-but with a ferocity that she can at last honestly muster." In the end, "she achieves the strength that earlier she could only claim."
C100 Engel, Marian. "Steps to the Mythic: The Diviners and A Bird in the House." Journal of Canadian Studies, 13, No 3 (Fall 1978), 72-74. A comparative treatment of The Diviners and A Bird in the House which indicates some of the reasons readers have felt a sense of discomfort with The Diviners. Argues that although Vanessa and Morag have "a number of things in common, writing is the only element in their lives that places them on a comparable level, and one has no doubt that the misspelt utterances of the child-outsider are more powerful than those of Vanessa, who, although she is a profoundly nice child, has inherited the smugness of her family's place in Manawaka society." Suggests that it is the "flight from propriety, this decision to deal with the underbelly of Manawaka, that allows Laurence to rise above neat banality in The Diviners." Maintains that there is a "streak of harsh, gritty realism in Morag" which "lifts the novel into the mythic." She is one of the few heroines who achieves the apocalypse of knowing what her life has been about, not through the agency of a man, but through her own experience."
C101 Grace, Sherrill. "A Portrait of the Artist as Laurence's Hero." Journal of Canadian Studies, 13, No. 3 (Fall 1978), 64-71. Begins with a discussion of the Canadian hero, suggesting that "there is a remarkable consistency in the nature of our heroes throughout the twentieth century, in spite of formal shifts from the romance of Connor to the realism of Margaret Laurence." These characters share at least five basic qualities, the first being their ability to work." The other shared qualities are "the fact that these heroes are makers and builders devoted to the creation of a nation"; they are conservative in their "reverence for the past, for traditions"; they possess "a highly developed moral consciousness which finds its expression in the acceptance of social values and/or an active sense of personal guilt"; they embody "a deep loyalty to community, as opposed to the individual self." Sees Morag as "an excellent example of the Canadian hero-as-builder."
C102 Hughes, Kenneth James. "Politics and A Jest of God." Journal of Canadian Studies, 13, No 3 (Fall 1978), 4054. Argues that in A Jest of God "the politics are so structured into the characters that the interaction and conflict of these characters in everyday life become aspects of the political." Distinguishes and discusses four different dimensions of Character: "the individual character in relation to the prototype, the individual as individual, the individual as Lukcasian type, and the individual as type of social class." Suggests that Laurence defines characters by contrast with prototypes and in so doing "sets off the old imperial grand heroic against the democratic, low-key, ordinary and everyday heroic which is her norm for a post-colonial Canadian society." Maintains that Rachel must be seen "as individual, as woman, and as the symbolic representation, the 'type' of Canada in a process of transformation." Rachel simultaneously speaks as an individual struggling with her own psychological situation, and as "the type or voice of a country that can begin to see its own way clear from a colonial past into an independent national future." Seen as a type, "Rachel's mind-body conflict represents in microcosmic form the larger social class and value split in Manawaka society," and "we have presented to us in Rachel a vision of a post-colonial Canada moving uncertainly yet with hope onto the stage of the world."
C103 Lennox, John Watt. "Manawaka and Deptford: Place and Voice." "Journal of Canadian Studies, 13, No 3 (Fall 1978), 23-30. Compares and contrasts place and voice in the Deptford fiction of Robertson Davies and the Manawaka fiction of Margaret Laurence, paying particular attention to Fifth Business and The Stone Angel. "Davies deals literally and figuratively with 'deep caves' which become the mystery and experience and knowledge of the esoteric and the unusual." In Laurence, one finds both deep caves and kitchen linoleum for she illuminates the mystery and experience and knowledge of the familiar and the commonplace." Place in Davies' work reveals rather "the pedestrian life of small-town Canada with its solid citizens and its freaks" or "the extraordinary mysteries and people of older cultures imbued with a thoroughgoing aesthetic sense," while place in the Manawaka works discovers "the extraordinary within the pedestrian." Concludes that "it is ultimately the Manawaka voices which articulate the accents and places of the Canadian imagination with the most authentic resonance." As the vocabulary, idiom, and tone of Davies' narrators claim "international citizenship," "their stories are reflected and deflected out of Canada to a country 'where big spiritual adventures are possible.' "In dramatizing the division between the 'homespun' or the plain speaker and the social civilized being, the Deptford novels perpetuate a traditional, graceless dichotomy in Canadians' view of themselves, a dichotomy which is so convincingly belied and bridged by the Manawaka voices."
C104 Morley, Patricia. "Margaret Laurence's Early Writings: 'a world in which others have to be respected.' "Journal of Canadian Studies, l3, No. 3 (Fall 1978), 13-18. Discusses Laurence's African writing and suggests that "Africa was catalyst and crucible for much of Laurence's work." Sees The Prophet's Camel Bell as "both a spiritual autobiography of a critical decade in Laurence's life, and a portrait of a people." Discusses the influence of Mannoni's The Psychology of Colonization on Laurence's thought.
C105 New, Wilham H. "Text and Subtext: Laurence's 'The Merchant of Heaven.'" Journal of Canadian Studies, 13, No. 3 (Fall 1978), 19-22. Acknowledging that Laurence's concern for the Old Testament appears throughout her work, New suggests that "it is a fascination with the power and the poetry of the Old Testament, moreover, rather than a declaration of belief in any literal truth, which underlies these repeated images and observations." "Her characters have to learn, when walking through symbolic landscapes, how to recognize the symbols, they have to refuse to be defined by narrow interpretations of life's possibilities, they have to free themselves from an attitude of mind that equates the symbol itself, rather than the understanding evoked by the symbol, with reality." Maintains that Laurence technically articulates these distinctions by building a story around "a central illusion or a central 'text,' " and then countering this story with a 'subtext'-- "a tangential set of allusions which alters its implications and its potential rigidity." Discusses this process in relation to "The Merchant of Heaven," suggesting that the central narrative's message which is articulated by the Revelations text is countered by the 'subtext' from Acts.
C106 Peterman, Michael, "Margaret Laurence." Journal of Canadian Studies, 13, No. 3 (Fall 1978), 1-2, 100-04. Essentially an introduction to and commentary on the essays in the special Journal of Canadian Studies Laurence issue. Also includes some personal responses to Laurence and her work.
C107 Russell, Kenneth, C. "God and Church in the Fiction of Margaret Laurence." Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, 7, No 4 (Fall 1978), 435-46. Discusses the split between the appreciation of Christian tradition and the evaluation of the local churches in which it is embodied in Laurence's work. Suggests that in her writings "the values and atmosphere seem distinctly Old Testament. Certainly punishment, reward, condemnation, and the emphasis on material blessings call to mind the chosen people rather than the New Testament community of Acts." Concludes that the church Laurence describes "is primarily a social place which reflects and justifies the secular order," and "the God it worships is the ideal of that order personified, an idol which deserves to be overturned because it blocks the view of the Incomprehensible Goodness."
C108 Thomas, Clara. "The Chariot of Ossian: Myth and Manitoba in The Diviners." Journal of Canadian Studies, 13, No 3 (Fall 1978), 55-63. Suggests that there are three mythic sets woven into The Diviners: Christie's tales, Jules's tales, and "the adult Morag's half-playful, half-serious myth-making of Catharine Parr Traill." The reference to Ossian "indicates far more than nostalgia and regret" for "transmitted through Christie to Morag, the work becomes a dynamic factor in Morag's search for her own identity." "The tales of Piper Gunn are told to Morag to explain and illuminate her background and to engage and support her belief in her family's and her own pride and honour. When she accepts them they become, for her, powerful myths. She bases her identity on them and she acts out of her trust that they are a part of her." The tales of Jules Tonnerre operate in a similar fashion for both Morag and Pique. Suggests that although Laurence's work is markedly "literary" in the conventional sense, "she is predominantly engaged in writing out of the experience of Canadians and in their accustomed speech patterns." Places particular emphasis on the Manitoban element in The Diviners. "With the background of the Sutherlanders and the Metis, Morag's youth is unmistakably set in a Manitoba that has been given historical--and in Laurence's hand mythological-depth."
C109 Warwick, Susan J. "A Laurence Log." Journal of Canadian Studies, 13, No 3 (Fall 1978), 75-83. A listing in chronological order of selected events in Margaret Laurence's life as a writer to 1978, including her book and periodical publications. A checklist of selected books and articles, in chronological order, on her work is appended to the Log.
Cl10 Woodcock, George. "Many Solitudes: The Travel Writings of Margaret Laurence." Journal of Canadian Studies, 13, No 3 (Fall 1978), 3-12. An excellent discussion of Laurence's travel writing. Describes The Prophet's Camel Bell as "much more than a mere narrative of exploration, it is an autobiographical document, a guide book to a large area of the mental world in which the novels, from This Side Jordan to The Diviners, were conceived." Both The Prophet's Camel Bell and Heart of a Stranger are important "in what they reveal of the state of mind out of which Margaret Laurence's stories and novels emerged." States that the earlier travel book represents "an intermediate genre between the novel and the ordinary travel narrative," and suggests that it moves forward on three levels. The first level deals with landscape, the second with character, and the third "is a study of the author's own mental development, and of the transformation of her reactions to a strange world during the two years she lived in Somaliland, this process of unfolding self-revelation runs through the book from beginning to end, and is not only its profoundest theme but also its main structural connection." Essentially, it is the experiences of foreignness, of the special self-recognition that comes to exiles, of the difficulty of communicating over cultural barriers, that carry forward from Margaret Laurence's Somali experience into her later work and make The Prophet's Camel Bell so important as a key to understanding her writing."
Clll Labreche, Julianne. "Bad News for Good Books: Mrs Grundy Rides Again." Maclean's, 2 Oct 1978, p 526. A brief commentary on the banning of a number of books, including The Diviners, in various Ontario high schools.
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C150 Beta Sigma Phi First Novel Award for This Side Jordan (1961).
C151 President's Medal awarded for short story "A Gourdful of Glory," University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario (1961).
C152 President's Medal awarded for short story "The Tomorrow-Tamer," University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario (1962).
C153 President's Medal awarded for short story "Mask of Beaten Gold," University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario (1964).
C154 Governor-General's Award for Fiction for A Jest of God (1967).
C155 Honourary Fellow of United College, University of Winnipeg (1967).
C156 Writer-in-Residence at the University of Toronto (1969-70).
C157 D. Litt, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario (1970).
C158 Made a Companion of the Order of Canada (1971).
C159 D. Litt., University of Toronto (1972).
C160 LL.D., Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia (May 1972).
C161 LL D., Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario (26 May 1972).
C162 Writer-in-Residence at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario (1973).
C163 D. Litt., Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario (1974).
C164 Writer-in-Residence at Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario (1974).
C165 D. Litt., Brandon University (1975).
C166 D. Litt., Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick (1975).
C167 D Litt., University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario (1975).
C168 Governor-General's Award for Fiction for The Diviners (1975).
C169 LL.D., Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario (1975).
C170 Molson Prize for The Diviners (1975).
C171 Woman of the Year Award by B'nai B'rith Toronto Women's Branch (1976).
C172 D. Litt, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia (1977).
C173 Periodical Distributor's Award for mass paperback edition of A Jest of God (1977).
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C1 Thomas, Clara. Margaret Laurence. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1969. 64 pp. In the first of her books on Laurence's work, Thomas traces Laurence's development from A Tree for Poverty to A Bird in the House. Much of the material included here was later incorporated into Thomas' The Manawaka World of Margaret Laurence(see C2).
C2 Thomas, Clara. The Manawaka World of Margaret Laurence Toronto. McClelland and Stewart, 1975. 212 pp. New Canadian Library, No. 131. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1976 212 pp. Provides valuable biographical information, particularly concerning Laurence's ancestry and the time she spent in Africa, as well as detailed analyses of all of Laurence's works. Special attention is paid throughout to Laurence's concern with the past, both individual and cultural, and to the sense of place evoked in her writing. "Margaret Laurence's Manawaka world is Everyman's and Everywoman's, but its particularities are emphatically Canadian. Grounded in a small western town, her people move out into the wider world, but they carry Manawaka with them, its constraints and inhibitions, but also its sense of roots, of ancestors, and of a past that is living still, both its achievements and its tragic errors." Thomas quotes extensively from Laurence's unpublished lecture, "Gadgetry or Growing?. . .Form and Voice in the Novel," in her discussions of the formal and stylistic aspects of Laurence's work. Biography, thematic analysis, and discussions of form, voice, and language are carefully integrated throughout this study. Includes a bibliographic checklist.
C3 New, William H., ed. Margaret Laurence: The Writer and Her Critics. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1977 224 pp. (Hereafter abbreviated as ML Annotations of individual sections appear with their original publication citation). Provides a cross-section of reviews and critical articles dealing with Laurence's work, as well as several pieces by Laurence herself. The writing chosen for inclusion in the collection reveals a wide range of perspectives on Laurence's work. Included are discussions of Laurence's predominant themes, essays focusing on "the artifice of fiction" as revealed in Laurence's work, treatments of "the empirical features of the world she has created, its social realities," and commentaries on her development as an artist. An important book in that it provides a comprehensive view of the critical responses to Laurence's work between 1960 and 1975. It should be noted that one review, "Muddling into Maturity," is incorrectly attributed to Laurence.
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Cl12 Kroetsch, Robert "A Conversation with Margaret Laurence." In Creation. Toronto: new press, 1970, pp. 53-63. In this conversation, Kroetsch and Laurence discuss a variety of issues. Laurence speaks of Kroetsch's "enormous sense of geographical background" which is both realistically and mythically treated in his fiction. Agrees with Kroetsch that in writing they both seem concerned with "a kind of spiritual return" to the west, "a coming back in the mind, a coming to some kind of terms with your roots and your ancestors and, if you like, with your gods." Laurence comments on the mythical quality in Kroetsch's work which comes across so clearly because the characters stand up so well on their own as real people. Both Kroetsch and Laurence stress the need which they both feel "to hear our story." As Kroetsch comments, "in a sense we haven't got an identity until someone tells our story. The fiction makes us real."
Cl13 Thomas, Clara. "A Conversation about Literature: An Interview with Margaret Laurence and Irving Layton." Journal of Canadian Fiction, 1, No. 1 (Winter 1972), 65-69. Essentially a conversation between Laurence and Layton which opens with Thomas' question concerning the universal quality of their work. Laurence suggests that there is a great deal in common between her Scots-Presbyterian background and Layton's Jewish one in a cultural Sense. In order to survive with the kind of environment created for them, strength, pride, and humour were necessary, and as Layton states, "the universal element is that of survival." Both speak of the need to come to terms with one's ancestral past and of the need "to record our mythology." Laurence comments that she feels that this is what she, Layton, and others have done, and that this is the sense in which Canadian literature reaches the universal, through being local. "Perhaps the writer's only way of getting at values and meanings which are able to reach out beyond their geographical boundaries is through portraying people in individual locales."
Cl14 Cameron, Donald. "Margaret Laurence: The Black Celt Speaks of Freedom." In Conversations with Canadian Novelists. Toronto: Macmillan, 1973, pp. 96-115. An important interview. Laurence speaks about having grown up in the prairies, "in a fairly stultifying community in some ways, and yet having coming from, on the one hand, Scots ancestors who certainly were extremely independent if not bloody-minded, and equally bloody-minded Irish ancestors." Remarks that she sees herself as writing a "Method novel." Like a Method actor, you get right inside the role. I take on, for the time I'm writing, the persona of the character, and I am trying to make a kind of direct connection with this person, not to manipulate but to listen to them." Believes that one of the main themes in all her writing "is this sense of man's isolation from his fellows and how almost unbearably tragic this is." With respect to the autobiographical nature of her work, Laurence comments that "the thing that is autobiographical is not the events, not the characters, but some of the underlying responses towards life." Also comments on the importance of the Bible, of a sense of history, and of her Presbyterian heritage in her writing. A broad, comprehensive discussion.
C115 Gibson, Graeme. "Margaret Laurence." In his Eleven Canadian Novelists. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1973,pp. 181-208. In this interview Laurence discusses the nature and form of the novel, the effect of the medium of film on writers of the past several decades, the writer's role in society, her working methods, the position of women as writers, and imagery in her work.
C116 Sheppard, June. "June Sheppard Talks with Margaret Laurence." Branching Out, Preview Issue (Dec. 1973),20-21. Brief, essentially biographical interview.
Cl17 Lever, Bernice. "Margaret Laurence, November 20,1974." Waves, 3, No 2 (Winter 1975), 4-12. Includes comments by Laurence on critical reactions to her work, symbolism, ecology, form in fiction, the women's liberation movement, idiom, and myth. Laurence discusses her sense of form in fiction: "If I could try to define it by a figure of speech, the kind of form which I like to try and get in a novel, as far as possible, is one that instead of being like a building with four walls, is more like a forest. It sort of opens out." Discusses as well the "spiritually autobiographical" nature of her work and the need for writers to give shape and form to our myths.
Cl18 Lever, Bernice. "Literature and Canadian Culture": An Interview with Margaret Laurence." Alive, No. 41 (1975), pp 18-19. ML. A discussion concerning the publishing industry in Canada, the role of government in supporting Canadian artists, and U. S. domination of Canadian publishing. Laurence also comments on the regional nature of much Canadian writing and on the need for Canadian writers to define our roots, our ancestors, our myths. Regarding the use of religious metaphor to delineate Canada's identity in literature Laurence says that, in her work, "there is a strong sense of the Old Testament which would be that stern quality of my ancestors," but there is also "the New Testament sense of hope."
Cl19 Boland, Viga. "Interview: Margaret Laurence--First Lady of Canadian Literature." Canadian Author and Bookman, 52 (Spring 1977), 3-8. The discussion covers a variety of topics including Laurence's working methods, her reactions to reviews, and her relationships with editors. Some attention is also given to the question of form in Laurence's fiction, which is fundamentally achieved through character. As Laurence states, "You must think of it in terms of character and find a form that best conveys that character."
C120 Law, Harriet. "Our Myths: Our Selves." Indirections, 2, No 2 (Winter 1977), 33-42. In this interview Laurence discusses children's literature, referring to her own experiences in writing Jason's Quest, sex-role stereotyping, and the reactions of high school students to The Diviners. Also comments on the quality of myth in The Diviners, the tension between imagination and cultural realities, the role of the small town in her fiction, and writers who have influenced her in some way.
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C121 Lee, Annie Hope. "Some Themes of Community and Exile in Six Canadian Novels." M.A. Thesis Toronto 1966. Includes an examination of The Stone Angel which traces Hagar's movement from spiritual and physical exile towards a sense of community and belonging. Stresses the importance of the relationship between individual freedom and social commitment.
C122 Broad, Margaret. "Margaret Laurence." M.A. Thesis McGill 1971. A general discussion of significant themes, techniques, images, and characters in Laurence's work up to A Bird in the House.
C123 Forman, Denyse Elaine. "Concepts of Personal Freedora in the Work of Margaret Laurence." M.A. Thesis Manitoba 1971. An analysis of the various contexts in which the idea of freedom is presented in Laurence's fiction. Political, social, and economic freedom is seen in relation to the quest for spiritual and psychological freedom on the part of every individual. Treats Laurence's African works as well as the early Manawaka novels, affirming the centrality of the theme of freedom throughout all her work.
C124 Gore, Leona. "The Manawaka Fiction of Margaret Laurence." M.A. Thesis Alberta 1971. A study of the first four Manawaka works which treats a wide range of topics. Discusses Laurence's sense of place, her creation of an internal and external geography for the fictional town of Manawaka, and the importance of the past in determining and shaping character. Also examines Laurence's handling of narrative voice and time, focussing particularly on the use of subjective time as memory.
C125 Darby, Clare Alexander. "The Novels and Short Stories of Margaret Laurence." M. A. Thesis New Brunswick 1972. A comprehensive treatment of Laurence's fiction, stressing recurrent themes and techniques. Traces Laurence's progression from the use of a conventional form in This Side Jordan to the experimental techniques of The Fire-Dwellers.
C126 Froese, Edna. "The Guilty Heroes in the Novels of Hugh MacLennan and Margaret Laurence." M.A. Thesis Saskatchewan 1972. An examination of the effects of Calvinism and its legacy on the novelistic characters of MacLennan and Laurence. Particular attention is paid to Hagar Shipley in The Stone Angel and Rachel Cameron in A Jest of God.
C127 Pell, Barbara Helen. "Margaret Laurence's Treatment of the Heroine." M.A Thesis Windsor 1972. A study of the first four of Laurence's Manawaka women, Hagar, Rachel, Stacey, and Vanessa, which includes analyses of their positions within their respective societies, of the narrative techniques used to tell their stories, and of their development as individuals within the bounds of their fictional worlds.
C128 Sokolowski, Thelma Karen. "The Theme of Exile in the Fiction of Margaret Laurence." M. A. Thesis Alberta 1972. An analysis of the themes of alienation and exile in Laurence's fiction which details their continuity from her African works to the Manawaka writings. The concept of exile is examined from a variety of perspectives, including the political, the social, and the spiritual, and emphasis is placed on the biblical sense of exile which runs throughout Laurence's work.
C129 Githae-Mugo, Micere M. "Visions of Africa in the Fiction of Chinua Achebe, Margaret Laurence, Elspeth Huxley and Ngugi wa Thiong'o." Diss. New Brunswick 1973. In its analysis of the visions of Africa as revealed in the works of these four writers, this study covers four major epochs: the traditional phase, the invasion and colonization of Africa by Imperial European powers, the struggle towards independence, and lastly, the era of "Freedom and After." Heavy emphasis is placed on the writers' personal backgrounds. While Laurence does not really cover the first phase, she touches certain areas of it while examining successive eras. Discusses political literature as a valid genre and as an artistically functional mode of expression.
C130 Long, Tanya. "The Heroine in the Novels of Margaret Laurence." M. Phil. Toronto 1973. An examination of the central female characters in Laurence's fiction from This Side Jordan to A Bird in the House. Attention is concentrated primarily on the Manawaka works.
C131 Birch, Frances Ann. "Principal Female Protagonists in the Novels of Brian Moore and Margaret Laurence." M. A. Thesis Toronto 1974. Compares and contrasts the presentation of the female protagonists in the work of Moore and Laurence, paying particular attention to the sense of entrapment of the female characters in the works.
C132 Janes, Kathryn. "Margaret Laurence: A Bibliography." M.A. Thesis San Jose State 1975. An annotated bibliography of Laurence's writing and selected critical commentaries on her work. Includes an introduction which contains biographical information and some discussion of Laurence's development as a writer.
C133 Kom, Dorothee. "Margaret Laurence's African Fiction: A Study of Cultural Contacts." M.A.Thesis Dalhousie 1975. A detailed study of This Side Jordan and The Tomorrow-Tamer. Examines the presentation of the relationship between natives and non-natives in both works, as well as the effects of Laurence's personal experience in Africa on her writing. Includes some discussion of A Tree for Poverty, The Prophet's Camel Bell, and Long Drums and Canons.
C134 Newman, Maureen A. "A Comparison of the Family Portrait Novels of Marie-Claire Blais and Margaret Laurence." M. A. Thesis Montreal 1975. Particular attention is paid to A Bird in the House and The Fire-Dwellers in this comparison of the work of Blais and Laurence. Discusses the manner in which Laurence treats relationships between family members and the continuity of family tradition, as well as the three-generation pattern in her work.
C135 Read, Pamela Mary. "Gardens of the Mind: Time and Memory in the Fiction of Margaret Laurence." M. A. Thesis Toronto 1975. An analysis of the handling of time and the memory process in Laurence's fiction which stresses the connection between theme and technique. The technique of retrospection is inseparably linked to Laurence's thematic concern with the past and its discovery and preservation.
C136 Auerbach, B. "Isolation and Acceptance in Selected Canadian Novels of Margaret Laurence." M A. Thesis McGill 1976. Emphasis is placed on The Stone Angel and A Jest of God in this study of the themes of isolation and acceptance in Laurence's work. Traces the movement of Laurence's characters from a position of loneliness and fear to one of belonging and understanding. Discusses the links between the societies in which they live, their backgrounds, and their experience of alienation and solitude.
C137 Lancaster, Miriam Ann. "Jacob and the Angel: A Study of Biblical Influences in the Work of Margaret Laurence." M. A. Thesis Victoria 1976. A comprehensive discussion of the biblical images, themes, and patterns in Laurence's writing from the early African works to the Manawaka novels. Comments on the biblical names of Laurence's characters, on the experience of exile in her fiction, on key images including those of the garden and the wilderness, and on the use of biblical language, especially in The Stone Angel.
C138 McQuaid, Catherine. "Female Characters in Margaret Laurence and Anne Hebert." M. A. Thesis Sherbrooke 1976. A comparative treatment of Laurence's Manawaka women and the female protagonists in Hebert's fiction. Attention is focussed on the techniques used by Laurence and Hebert to reveal the inner consciousness of their heroines, as well as on the similarities between the types of characters both have presented in their work.
C139 Sinclair, Lynn. "Time and Narrative Technique in Margaret Laurence's Manawaka Novels." M. A. Thesis McMaster 1976. A detailed examination of the correlation between Laurence's narrative style and her concept of time. Emphasis is placed on the thematic significance of the past, of history, in Laurence's fiction, and the bearing this has on the form and voice employed in each work.
C140 Tremblay, A. "Feminine Self-Consciousness in the Works of Margaret Laurence." M.A. Thesis McGill 1976. A study of the female characters in Laurence's fiction, emphasizing the way in which they view themselves and their positions within society. Discusses the conflict between individual needs and desires and social expectations in the minds of Laurence's female protagonists. Also comments upon Laurence's use of the first person narrative.
C141 Burns-McGrath, Mary. "The African Influence on the Novels of Margaret Laurence." M.A. Thesis Bishop's 1977. A detailed discussion of the effects of the years Laurence spent in Africa and of her reading of African literature on her own writing. Connections are established between the early African works and the later Manawaka novels, especially with respect to recurrent themes and images.
C142 Hall, Rod. "A Double Vision: A Study of Symbol and Imagery in Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel and A Jest of God." M.A. Thesis McMaster 1977. A comprehensive inquiry into the significance of the central symbols and image patterns in The Stone Angel and A Jest of God. Attention is paid to both the Biblical and the secular aspects of Laurence's symbolic structure, as well as to the diversity of the images used in each novel.
C143 Humble, Deborah Lynne. "Analysis of Margaret Laurence's Fiction, Centering on Formal Patterns such as Themes, Narrative Techniques and Irony." M.A. Thesis Regina 1977. In this general examination of Laurence's fiction, important themes and techniques, including the significance of tradition and the use of the first person narrative voice, are discussed. Provides an overview of Laurence's major works.
C144 Kuropatwa, Joy. "Time in Margaret Laurence's The Diviners." M.A. Thesis Manitoba 1977. A detailed exploration of Laurence's treatment of nine in The Diviners. Discusses the concept of time in relation to both the structure and the themes, stressing the interdependence of the two. Accords close attention to the importance of memory, individual, ancestral, and historical, in the lives of Laurence's characters in The Diviners.
C145 Lynch, P. "Narrative Voice and Tense in Margaret Laurence." M.A. Thesis New Brunswick 1977. The structural and thematic significance of Laurence's choice of narrative voice and tense is analyzed in this study of Laurence's fiction. The discussion takes as its focus the complex time structure of Laurence's later work and the manner in which voice is manipulated to establish and reinforce the temporal framework of each work.
C146 Mortlock, Melanie D. "The Religion of Heritage (Margaret Laurence)." M.A. Thesis Windsor 1977. This study centres on an examination of the importance of history, both personal and collective, in Laurence's fiction. Relates Laurence's choice of narrative voice, her use of symbol and imagery, and the time scheme of each novel, to the thematic significance of history and heritage.
C147 Sartiloit, Claudette Eva. "The Artist Figure in the Work of Margaret Laurence and Gabrielle Roy." M.A. Thesis Saskatchewan 1977. A comparative examination of Laurence's The Diviners and Roy's The Hidden Mountain and their respective portraits of the Artist.
C148 Therrien, Giles. "Form and Content In The Diviners by Margaret Laurence and in Kamouraska by Anne Hebert." M.A. Thesis Montreal 1977. A detailed discussion of the relationship between form and content in The Diviners and Kamouraska. Explores the manner in which Laurence and Hebert handle the technique of retrospection to structure their novels and to explore their central themes. Examines Laurence's use of the first and third person narrative voices in The Diviners, as well as her handling of the past and present tenses.
C149 Packer, Miriam "Beyond the Garrison: Approaching the Wilderness in Margaret Laurence, Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood." Diss. Montreal 1978. A comprehensive examination of the garrison-wilderness concept in the work of Laurence, Munro, and Atwood. Particular attention is given to image patterns in the works of all three writers which serve to define and delineate their central themes. Discusses the small-town Manawaka environment and its effect on character in Laurence's work, and the movement each of Laurence's main characters makes away from the restrictions of that environment. Comments on the manner in which all of Laurence's characters come to terms with their pasts, and their inheritances.
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D52 Callaghan, Barry. "A Cold Universe" Toronto Telegram, 28 Feb. 1970, p 63. Although the stories are "accomplished" and "have a coherent point of view," the collection reveals "a poverty of spirit." The scope of emotions she describes is decidedly narrow and many of her characters are no more than stereotypes." A negative evaluation.
D53 Sypnowich, Peter. "Margaret Laurence: A Puritan Childhood." Toronto Daily Star, 28 Feb 1970, p. 69. Sees in the collection "an unfortunate preoccupation with tradition, convention and authority." Laurence's prose is nearly flawless, but the book is not credible. Feels that the "characters are shuffled to suit the author's purpose." A negative review.
D54 Weeks, Edward. Rev. of A Bird in the House. Atlantic Monthly, March 1970, p 144. Praises Laurence's skill in meshing the child's perspective with the adult's in the collection. Laurence possesses "the quiet sort of genius needed to write about what at first glance seems to be the commonplace." A brief, favourable review.
D55 French, William. "Coming of Age in Manawaka." Thc Globe Magazine, 14 March 1970, p 15. "Rarely has the process of growing up been described with such skill and insight." Laurence's style is "totally authentic, free of artifice and of any straining for effect." Praises Laurence's "facility for making uncommonly good stories out of commonplace events."
D56 Thompson, Kent. Rev. of A Bird in the House. The Fiddlehead, No. 84 (March-April 1970), pp. 108-11. ML. Admires Laurence's skill in creating a "wholebook" out of a series of short stories. "The significance of the story is as much in the telling as in the story" and the narrator's voice is of final importance in the collection. A careful, detailed assessment of the form and subject matter of the work.
D57 Tracy, Honor. "Growing Up in Manawaka." New York Times Book Review, 19 April 1970, p. 40. "Laurence seems wearied by her material" and nothing very much happens in the stories. The collection contains "frequent bursts of jewelled prose" and "make-weight descriptions." Faults the failure to edit the stories before issuing the collection. A negative, but sympathetic, review.
D58 Kattan, Naim. "L'enfance et l'adolescence manitobaines de Margaret Laurence." Liberte,July-Aug 1970, pp 85-87. Emphasizes the work's Puritan and pioneer spirit. "Le monde que nous decrit Margaret Laurence est restreint, limite, rigide," yet this is not "un livre de disenchantement." "Margaret Laurence nous permet de les connaitre, de les comprendre et de commencer meme a les aimer." A favourable review concentrating on character and theme.
D59 Dobbs, Kildare. "A Certain Relish for Tears." Saturday Night, Aug 1970, pp 26-27. Describes the book as "a Canadian portrait of the artist as a young girl." Discusses the themes of death and disillusionment which permeate the work. A generally positive review.
D60 Kirkwood, Hilda. Rev of A Bird in the House. The Canadian Forum, Sept 1970, pp 221-22. Discusses the book in relation to Laurence's earlier work. Describes Vanessa as "the camera's eye" and sees the collection as an exploration of the "tragic-comic" nature of family life. Notes that with the exception of Grandfather Connor, the males only make "offstage noises." A favourable evaluation in most respects.
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D28 Hall, Joan Joffe. "Prison of the Self." Saturday Review, 27 Aug 1966, p. 29. Praises the authenticity of Rachel's voice and the novel's "extraordinary clarity and beautiful detail." Nonetheless, contends that the book is narrow and that the first person narrative "accentuates the novel's limitations." "Rachel herself, however, is superb and movingly human." A balanced evaluation.
D29 Fulford, Robert. "A Painful Life in a Prairie Town." Toronto: Dady Star, 30 Sept 1966, p. 21. Views the book as a "painful book in many ways," but does assert that it is "a minor triumph. "Praises the handling of the relationship between Rachel and Nick. Much of the review is focused on the depiction of Manawaka. Laurence, in having Rachel leave Manawaka, shares with other prairie writers the theme of "movement away" from the prairie world. A generally favourable review which broaches a number of issues worthy of detailed analysis.
D30 Bannerman, James. "The Passion of a Prairie Spinster." Maclean's, 1 Oct 1966, p 55. A brief, favourable review which commends Laurence's style and her treatment of character. Rachel is "a complex human being" whose needs are imaginatively revealed and not literally described.
D31 Duffy, Dennis. "Critical Sympathies." The Tamarack Review, No. 42 (Winter 1967), pp. 80-82. Only Laurence's prose style and her description of character save Rachel from becoming "a dull subject." A mixed response to the book, emphasizing Rachel's limitations as the central character.
D32 Harlow, Robert. "Lack of Distance." Canadian Literature, No 31 (Winter 1967), pp 71-72, 74-75. ML. "The cosmic joke promised by the title, the technique and the bare-bones narrative structure is never delivered." The novel lacks "objectivity, distance, irony" and the secondary characters suffer as a result. Generally unfavourable.
D33 Stedmond, J. M. Rev. of A Jest of God. University of Toronto Quarterly, 36 (July 1967), 382-83.The novel is more narrow in scope than The Stone Angel, but Laurence's treatment of Rachel's consciousness is "a triumph." Favourable.
D34 Rosengarten, H. J. "Inescapable Bonds." Canadian Literature, No. 35 (Winter 1968), pp. 99-100. ML. A response to Robert Harlow's review. "The drama of Rachel's struggle and failure is played out entirely within her consciousness, but the narrowness of the point of view does not limit the novel's meaning." Rachel is "both ironist and victim," and ironic distance is achieved through Laurence's presentation of Rachel's internal conflicts.
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D1 Wiseman, Adele. "Somali Literature." Queen's Quarterly, 62 (Winter 1956), 610-11. "The essentials and the experience of living" themselves are given expression in these translated poems and folktales. Discusses the oral tradition in Somali literature and Laurence's reasons for collecting and translating it. Favourable.
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D81 Fulford, Robert. "Canadian Nationalist Is World Citizen Too." Toronto Daily Star, 25 Sept. 1976, p. H5. Notes that Laurence's non-fiction is much like her fiction. In both she "focusses on small, sharp incidents but arranges them in such a way that they resonate deeply in the mind of the reader." A generally favourable review stressing Laurence's cosmopolitanism.
D82 Freedman, Adele "The Once and Future Past of Margaret Laurence." Saturday Night, Nov 1976, pp.49-50. Suggests that the essays are firmly threaded together by Laurence's insistent philosophy, and are all episodes in "the Great Canadian Odyssey." "Her obsession with the past and her prickly sensitivity to the interface between Today and Yesterday make for marvellous ironic dyslexia."
D83 Swayze, Walter. "Less a Stranger" The Canadian Forum, Feb 1977, pp. 54-55. The book "gives us a deepened insight into the heart of Margaret Laurence and a more just perspective on her major fiction." Sees Laurence looking in two ways in these essays - "presenting direct statements of concerns, characters, hypotheses" which have been fully articulated in her fiction, and presenting "fresh insights that have come from the author's getting to know her own self and her universe through the experience of getting to understand her own fictional characters."
D84 Dixon, Michael. Rev. of Heart of a Stranger. University of Toronto Quarterly, 56 (Summer 1977), 477-79. A thoughtful interpretation of the essays which emphasizes Laurence's concern with "the revelation of our common humanity." Sees as the collection's overriding theme the concept of "home." "`Home' as a locus of individual, social, and mythic identity, is both the defining vision at the heart of Laurence's 'stranger' and the unifying focus at the core of this diverse collection."
D85 Rev. of Heart of a Stranger. Publishers' Weekly, 12 Sept. 1977, pp. 124-25. A brief review which notes the way in which Laurence's understanding of other people and other cultures helps her to understand herself. The collection is "a joy."
D86 Moses, Richard. Rev. of Heart of a Stranger. Library Journal, 15 Dec. 1977, p 2501. Reviewed along with Gabrielle Roy's Enchanted Summer. States that the collection is somewhat uneven if one is seeking significance, but in toto it provides much insight into the country and its people."
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D61 Rev of Jason's Quest. Publishers' Weekly, 1 June 1970, p. 66. Describes the book as "an unpretentious fantasy." Praises Laurence's story-telling ability for its lack of archness and for its avoidance of "the pitfalls of animals-that-talk stories."
D62 Goldsborough, Diana. Rev. of Jason's Quest. Toronto Daily Star, 20 June 1970, p. 59. Reviewed along with several other children's books. The story is a "tedious disappointment." It is one of those "English whimsical animal books where the characters say things like 'Do shut up' and 'Now, luv.'" An entirely negative review.
D63 Lunn, Janet. "Boys, Seals, Wolves, Moles and a Girl with Big Feet." The Globe and Mail, 27 June 1970, p. 17. Provides a brief summary of the book and states that though Laurence writes well, she seems ill-at-ease. "Story, style and setting out-English the English of a generation ago." Reviewed along with other children's books.
D64 Thomas, Clara. "Bashing On." Canadian Literature, No. 50 (Autumn 1971), pp. 88-90. Summarizes the story and suggests that it is "a fantasy firmly built on the quest theme." Believes that the book holds appeal for both children and adults. Provides some biographical information related to the story's setting and inspiration.
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D35 "Ways into Africa." Times Literary Supplement, 2 Jan. 1969, p 8.This is a "welcome book because it looks at African literature basically from the outside" and with a "refreshingly new eye." Regrets the omission of poets from the volume and contends that Laurence's information is sometimes inaccurate. Nonetheless, views the work favourably.
D36 Piquefort [Dave Godfrey] "Long Drums and Canons and Ilyushins." The Canadian Forum, Feb 1969, p 249. Commends Laurence's format and her explication of the works under discussion. Laurence successfully combined the analysis of form and technique with the study of meaning. A positive assessment, though it is suggested that Laurence is not quite "at ease with the poetic."
D37 Boxill, Anthony. Rev. of Long Drums and Canons. The Fiddlehead, No. 80 (May-July 1969), pp. 105-06. This is a valuable book for its Canadian perspective on Commonwealth literature. Notes the strength of Laurence's explications, but does not feel it is "an academic treatment" of the subject for Laurence is sometimes "too kind a critic." Nonetheless, the work achieves its stated intention.
D38 Thomas, Clara. "Ascent and Agony." Canadian Literature, No 42 (Autumn 1969), pp. 91-93. The plot summaries are justified by the fact that Nigerian Literature is not readily available in western countries. Praises Laurence for allowing the writers being discussed to take centre stage. A favourable review, stressing Laurence's familiarity with her subject.
D39 Carroll, David. Rev. of Long Drums and Canons University of Toronto Quarterly, 40 (Summer 1971), 359-60. The work would have been more valuable if Laurence had concentrated more on ideas, and less on plot summaries. Sees the work as somewhat limited in scope, but admires Laurence's "down-to-earth and sympathetic" critical attitude.
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D65 Grosskurth, Phyllis. "A Looser, More Complex, More Sexually Uninhibited Laurence: And Never an Atwood Victim." The Globe and Mail, 4 May 1974, p. 35. This is the most complex novel Laurence has written and it reveals a "radically new approach." In The Diviners there is "a loosening up of language and attitude." Describes Manawaka as "a lost Eden," despite its "narrowness and ugliness" and stresses Laurence's "deep sense of a tribal society." A perceptive interpretation and assessment of the novel.
D66 Fulford, Robert "It's Fascinating Despite the Flaws." Toronto Daily Star, 18 May 1974, p H5. Objectively discusses the novel's achievements and its failures. Believes that in terms of structure and style The Diviners is "the least impressive of all the Manawaka works" and that certain sections of it seem expendable. On the positive side, emphasizes Laurence's skill in working out the novel's numerous themes and her creation, in Morag Gunn, of a tough and believable character. A balanced and considered evaluation which recognizes that "the putting-together process is both substance and theme."
D67 Bruce, Phyllis. Rev. of The Diviners. The Canadian Forum, May-June 1974, pp. 15-16. A perceptive and scholarly discussion of the novel's form and Laurence's presentation of Morag as artist. Describes Morag's created memories as becoming both "dichtung and wahrheit" for her. Sees in the novel an emphasis on the power of the creative imagination "to redeem the apparent chaos of human experience."
D68 Weeks, Edward. "The Peripatetic Reviewer." Atlantic Monthly, June 1974, pp 108-09. Provides a summary of the novel's major events and themes. The critical analysis of the novel is confined to a discussion of Morag's presentation. A favourable, but casual, commentary.
D69 Bevan, Allan. Rev. of The Diviners. The Dalhousie Review, 54 (Summer 1974), 360-63. ML. An extremely detailed and perceptive review which touches on many of the novel's themes and elements of its style. Discusses the role of the artist, the importance of the past, the time sequences, and the unity of the Manawaka vision. "The Diviners, a complex and skillfully constructed novel with a beautifully conceived central character, is at least as good as any of the earlier novels."
D70 Lever, Bernice. "Manawaka Magic." Journal of Canadian Fiction, 3, No. 3 (Summer 1974), 93-96. Discusses Morag in relation to Laurence's other female protagonists who all reveal "both mythic and existential implications." Essentially thematic in nature, the review makes extensive use of quoted material to analyze Morag's character and growth. A positive evaluation.
D71 MacSween, R. J. "The Diviners." Antigonish Review, No. 18 (Summer 1974), pp 107-08. Stresses Laurence's sense of place, her relaxed style, and her view of life which is "large yet intimate." States that it is a beautifully produced volume and possesses many of the qualities of a masterpiece. Likens it in some respects to The Stone Angel.
D72 Piercy, Marge. "Gritty Places and Strong Women." New York Times Book Review, 23 June 1974, p. 6 ML. The novel's "parts remain stronger than the whole." "The strength and zest of the book are in the 'Memorybank Movies' of Morag's orphaned childhood in Manawaka." Argues that Morag as writer ends up "vaguely romanticized" and that Laurence handles the mother-daughter relationship with greater skill. A somewhat equivocal review which stresses Laurence's failure to reveal adequately Morag's artistic development.
D73 Frank, Sheldon. Rev. of The Diviners. New Republic, 27 July 1974, p 28. A limited review which concentrates on plot summary and details of Laurence's life. Feels that there is a "continuing melodramatic flaw" in all of Laurence's work. Describes Morag as "the first female character to surprise us."
D74 Kattan, Naim. "L'ambitieux roman de Margaret Laurence." Le Devoir, 27 July 1974, p. 13. Views the novel as Laurence's most ambitious and complex work. Emphasizes her concern with both Morag's individual past and the historical-cultural present. "Elle ne se tourne plus ver le passe pour le fixer, elle y cherche une dimension du present." The novel is seen to suggest "que l'empreinte de l'histoire soit revellee et assumee." A favourable and thoughtful reading of the novel.
D75 Lever, Bernice. Rev. of The Diviners. Canadian Author and Bookman, 50 (Fall 1974), 26. In this very brief review, Laurence's gift for characterization is stressed. Also notes the "unique, apt imagery which supports and enriches" the novel's themes and Laurence's true ear for dialogue. A favourable review.
D76 Thomas, Audrey. "A Broken Wand?" Canadian Literature, 62 (Autumn 1974), 89-91. A somewhat negative assessment which is fundamentally concerned with the presentation of Morag. Reviewer suggests that the struggle to achieve artistic excellence is not accorded adequate emphasis by Laurence in her treatment of Morag.
D77 Gotlieb, Phyllis. Rev. of The Diviners. The Tamarack Review, No. 63 (Oct. 1974), pp. 80-81. A detailed discussion of the imagery and language of the novel. Sees Morag's development as an attempt "to resolve her identity as a diviner working with words--a medium as unstable as water." Discusses the treatment of character in the novel.
D78 Cameron, B. Rev. of The Diviners. Queen's Quarterly, 81 (Winter 1974), 639-40. Places the novel in the tradition of the Bildungs-roman and suggests that "the fictionalizing of experience is a necessary part of being human." Stresses the existential nature of Morag's search for her place in the continuity of time and for grace. The novel is "the epitome of Laurence's thematic and rhetorical concern as a writer."
D79 Mickelburgh, Brita. Rev. of The Diviners. The Fiddlehead, No. 104 (Winter 1975), pp 111-14. Offers some interesting comments on the narrative technique of the novel and on its symbolism. Discusses the theme of divining as it relates to Morag as writer and draws an interesting analogy from Dante's Inferno.
D80 Stouck, David. Rev. of The Diviners. The West Coast Review, 10, No. 1 (June 1975), 44-46. The Diviners is a much stronger book than any Laurence has written before for here she "seems to recognize human personality as a mystery, with no easy explanation." Suggests that the novel's techniques enhance this recognition of the "unknowable." "Meaning as such is recognized to be mythic and fragmented, and is reflected in the importance of songs, mottoes, tales." Sees in the work an implicit questioning of the value and efficacy of art. A perceptive and detailed evaluation.
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D40 Sypnowich, Peter. "A True, Middle-class Heroine." Toronto Daily Star, 29 April 1969, p. 28. A highly caustic review describing the novel as "exasperating" in most respects. Emphasizes character presentation, especially Laurence's portrait of Stacey, and does not consider the novel's form or technique. "Stacey MacAindra, modern middle-class heroine: She has everything, knows everything and does nothing. Dead at 39." A limited and shallow reading of the novel.
D41 Engel, Marian. "The Girl Who Escaped Manawaka is at the Core of Margaret Laurence's New Novel." Saturday Night, May 1969, pp 38-39. Novel reveals the "banality of middle-class family life," yet Stacey, like the other women in Laurence's work, reveals both "richness and determination." Stacey "comes alive as a Manawakan rebel." Reviewer focuses on Laurence's handling of her female characters and does not discuss form or technique in any detail.
D42 French, William. "A Compassion for Flesh and Blood." The Globe Magazine, 3 May 1969, p 17. A perceptive review which acknowledges the novel's strengths and weaknesses. Sees Stacey as an ordinary individual who becomes extraordinary in Laurence's hand. The novel's major flaw lies in the depiction of several minor characters who become overtly symbolic.
D43 Sykes, Peter. Rev. of The Fire-Dwellers. Maclean's, June 1969, p 98. Describes Stacey as "one of the first contemporary women in Canadian fiction." Praises Laurence's handling of the contrast between Stacey's inner voice and her actual voice. Feels that the story is "flawed by inconclusiveness," but then suggests that this is in keeping with Stacey's acceptance of life as it is. A generally favourable review.
D44 Weeks, Edward. Rev. of The Fire-Dwellers. Atlantic Monthly, June 1969, pp. 112-13. "Laurence is the best fiction writer in the Dominion and one of the best in the hemisphere." It is "Stacey's indomitable wrath" that saves the novel from dreariness. Commends Laurence's use of the "continuous present" and her revelation of Stacey's mind "in a swift-flowing stream of dialogue, reaction, reproach and nostalgia." A thoughtful, positive review.
D45 Watt, Frank W. Rev. of The Fire-Dwellers The Canadian Forum, July 1969, p. 87. ML. "This book contains flaws enough to sink half a dozen books by lesser known novelists. It survives because of the vitality of its central character." Sees the characters surrounding Stacey as "shadowy" and the shifts to third person narration as revealing a "lack of artistic rigour."
D46 Tracy, Honor. "In Vancouver, Stacey Found That Richalife Had Its Drawbacks." New York Times Book Review, 3 Aug 1969, p. 30. A rich and complex work dealing with such themes as the urban rat-race and modern marriage. Argues that the "excellent writing is an exhilaration in itself: otherwise The Fire-Dwellers would leave many of us in pretty low spirits." Sees Stacey as both a fully developed individual and as a symbolic "Everywoman of today."
D47 Kattan, Naim. "Une femme de Quarante ans." Le Devoir, 13 Sept. 1969, pp. 14, 16. ML. A lengthy and erudite review which offers an existential reading of the novel. Writes that "la vie des MacAindra se deroule sans grand drame," and that the world Laurence creates evokes a sense of "une profonde tristesse, un mal indechiffrable." Ce sont des personages simple et leur courage est quotidien."
D48 Thompson, Kent. Rev. of The Fire-Dwellers. The Fiddlehead, No. 82 (Nov.-Dec 1969), pp 72-73. Laurence is "perhaps the finest Canadian novelist." Discusses and commends Laurence's prose style and her presentation of Stacey. Suggests that the theme of the novel is that of endurance.
D49 Spettigue, D. O. Rev. of The Fire-Dwellers. Queen's Quarterly, 76 (Winter 1969), 722-24. A favourable review stressing the universality of the novel. Describes Stacey as "Everyhousewife" and as revealing "the solitary self" in every human being.
D50 Grosskurth, Phyllis. "Wise and Gentle." Canadian Literature, No. 43 (Winter 1970), pp. 91-92. ML. "Laurence's major accomplishment in this novel is to make Stacey's inner and outer lives inextricably connected." Sees the wider vision of the novel's conclusion as being "somewhat arbitrarily imposed as an artistic solution." Generally favourable.
D51 Mitchell, Beverly, S. S. A. Rev. of The Fire-Dwellers. Journal of Canadian Fiction, 2, No. 4 (Fall 1973), 112-14. Reviews The Fire-Dwellers along with four other novels. Briefly discusses the variety of narrative methods employed in the novel. Favourable.
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D12 "On the Colonial Heritage." Maclean's, 19 Oct 1963, pp. 81-82. Maintains that Laurence does not see the Somalis or the Europeans as "objects or symbols." The work addresses the issues of colonialism and racism with objectivity and humanity.
D13 Kirkwood, Hilda. "Place of Meeting." The Canadian Forum, Feb. 1964, p. 259. Discusses the "human and sociological" aspects of the work. Praises Laurence's ability to avoid pronouncing judgement on cultural practices foreign to her. A favourable, explicatory review.
D14 Goldsborough, Diana. "Inside Somaliland." The Tamarack Review, No.31 (Spring 1964), p 98. A brief review which focusses on Laurence's presentation of the Europeans in Somalia who are compared to Kipling's Imperialists. Failure to deal in any detail with the work's treatment of the Somali people undermines the value of the review.
D15 Miller, Charles. "Weathering the Wind of Change." Saturday Review, 13 June 1964, pp. 33-34. "A small masterwork of perception, humor and love." Much of the review is devoted to the Somalis and their literary accomplishments. An extremely favourable review.
D16 Carter, G. M. "At Home with Nomads." New York Times Book Review, 28 June 1964, pp 6-7. "Certainly no one else has ever pictured the Somali nomads so vividly or with so sympathetic and understanding a touch." Commends the clarity and beauty of Laurence's language and her story-telling ability. Offers a number of comments regarding the autobiographical significance of the work.
D17 Blackman, E W. "Letters in Canada." University of Toronto Quarterly, 33 (July 1964), 431-32. Provides a summary of the book and praises it for its sincerity and lack of pretension. A short, but positive, evaluation stressing the effect the years spent in Africa had on Laurence's perceptions and opinions of both the Somali culture and her own native culture.
D18 Girling, H. K. "Travel." Queen's Quarterly, 71(Autumn 1964), 456-57. A rather ambiguous review which centres upon a questioning of the results of "interference in alien lives." Seems to question the value of "travel" and participation in a foreign environment and culture.
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D19 Weaver, Robert. "Crowning Angel." Toronto: Daily Star, 23 May 1964, p 28. A favourable review which concludes that The Stone Angel is "a densely imagined, ingeniously constructed and freely mature work of fiction." Expresses admiration for the manner in which Hagar's life is presented. Maintains that Laurence rejects a heavily sociological approach, but is still able to capture the feeling of an age now past.
D20 Hicks, Granville. "Neighbor to the North Makes News." Saturday Review, 13 June 1964, pp. 25-26. ML. Provides a summary of the novel and describes it as "admirably written and sustained by unfailing insight." Also discusses The Tomorrow-Tamer.
D21 Montagnes, Anne. "Piercing Canadian Symbol." The Globe and Mail, 13 June 1964, p. 17. Hagar is "a piercingly engaging character who stands as a symbol of Canada." Laurence has "struck to the central conflict of Canadian psychology, our bondage to a puritan heritage." A favourable review, but some disappointment is expressed about "the ends being so neatly tied" at the novel's conclusion.
D22 Tracy, Honor. "A Writer of Major Talent." New Republic, 20 June 1964, pp. 19-20 ML. A favourable assessment stressing the novel's "consistency of character and unity of mood." Laurence "gives us a portrait of a remarkable character and at the same time the picture of old age itself." The novel's only flaw is several "over-lyrical" passages.
D23 H. T. K. "A Bleak Soul." The Canadian Forum, Aug 1964, p. 117. A "devastatingly" truthful picture of a Canadian prairie woman. Novels lacks "the colour, humour, and grace" of Laurence's African work, but it is nonetheless a powerful book. A generally favourable assessment.
D24 Kattan, Naim. "Margaret Laurence L'Ouest canadian sans voiles." Le Devoir, 29 Aug 1964, p 14. ML. Biographical information on Laurence's life and work is given. The Stone Angel is a novel "de la solitude et de l'absence." "Margaret Laurence demystifies l'Ouest et nous le revele sous un visage anemique et triste."
D25 Godfrey, Dave. "For Bonfires/For Burning." The Tamarack Review, No. 33 (Autumn 1964), pp. 92-94. Praises the novel's powerful prose and its "good, hard insights." Maintains that many aspects of the work are authentic with respect to Canada's cultural heritage. A favourable, detailed, and perceptive review.
D26 Graham, Angela. "Hagar Shipley." Alphabet, No. 10 (July 1975), pp. 85-86. "Written from the difficult first person point of view, this novel is skillfully done." Provides a brief summary of the novel and discusses Laurence's descriptive ability and her handling of character.
D27 Watt, Frank W. Rev. of The Stone Angel. University of Toronto Quarterly, 34 (July 1965), 373-75. The novel's excellence is revealed in the apparent discrepancy between Hagar's expressive mental life and her narrow "cranky" exterior. Explores the way in which "memory and desire" are mixed in Hagar's narrating consciousness.
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D6 "African Crosscurrents." Times Literary Supplement, 25 Oct 1963, p. 869. Sees the book's dominant theme as "how minds, secure and stable against their background of primitive culture, are wrenched out of gear by the swift spread of the glittering materialism of Europe." Admires the stories' colour, richness of texture, and buoyancy.
D7 French, William. "Colourful Tales of Modern Africa." The Globe Magazine, 1 Feb. 1964, p 14. Laurence is "one of the best non-African writers anywhere in the world to deal with Africa." Commends the descriptions of place and people and states that the stories are never "banal or monotonous." Several interesting thematic interpretations of selected stories.
D8 Godfrey, Dave. "Figments of the Northern Mind." The Tamarack Review, No. 31 (Spring 1964), pp 92-93. Based on his own experiences of Africa, asserts that the book's characters are authentic. Stories reveal both "the objectivity coming from study of a foreign culture" and Laurence's personal involvement with that culture.
D9 Percy, H. R. Rev. of The Tomorrow-Tamer. Canadian Author and Bookman, 39 (Spring 1964), 10. Laurence has done much to correct the false picture of Africa advanced by reporters and U.N. forces. The Tomorrow-Tamer reminds us that "humans, not ideologies, are Sacred."
D10 Kirkwood, Hilda. "The Compassionate Eye." The Canadian Forum, July 1964, p 94. Describes Laurence's writing as unpretentious and offers a comparison of Laurence's stories and those of Ethel Wilson. Interprets several stories as reflections of the theme of modern technology's influence on tribal life. Favourable.
Dll Watt, Frank W. Rev. of The Tomorrow-Tamer. University of Toronto Quarterly, 34 (July 1965), 375-76. Commends Laurence's vision of Africa for its complexity and understanding, but believes that some stories are less successful than others. In the least successful pieces Laurence's message is too blatantly presented.
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D2 "Muddling into Maturity." Times Literary Supplement, 4 Nov. 1960, p 705. ML. Laurence's subject (race relations)is one that does not allow for much development. Amegbe is the most interesting character, and Ketsoe, the least convincing. A mixed, but superficial, evaluation.
D3 Renault, Mary. "On Understanding Africa." Saturday Review, 10 Dec. 1960, pp. 23-24. ML. "A first novel of rare excellence." Commends Laurence for avoiding a simplified presentation of racial tension. Links the novel with E. M. Forster's work. Emphasizes the novel's sociological insights and themes.
D4 Dobbs, Kildare. "Outside Africa." Canadian Literature, No. 8 (Spring 1961), pp 62-63. "Terse and vivid," but boring. Characterizations are flawed in that they are built from the "abstractions of social science." The novel's conclusion is stilted and contrived.
D5 Watt, Frank W. Rev. of This Side Jordan. University of Toronto Quarterly, 30 (July 1961), 406-07. Although the novel's pattern seems confused at times, this is compensated for by an "abundance of experience, imaginative energy and resourcefulness. Expresses uncertainty as to whether the mood at the novel's end is hopeful or ironic. Attributes the novel's weaknesses to Laurence's inexperience.
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- Hugh MacLennan An Annotated Bibliography; Introduction
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Hugh MacLennan is best known for his enduring interest in Canada's national character -- a character he helped form to a considerable extent through his writings. His education consisted of an ever-widening circle of experience, begun in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and whtch eventually included parts of England, Germany, Italy, Russia, and the northeastern United States. Returning to Canada in the mid-thirties, MacLennan was able to view contemporary national events afresh, somewhat in the way James Joyce was able to see Ireland clearly only after he had left it. Indeed, MacLennan later rephrased Joyce's famous statement to apply to his own career when he claimed "not so much... to forge the uncreated conscience of his race as to reforge a conscience that has been fragmented."
MacLennan's first two novels, both set outside Canada, were never published; so, he chose a more modest local theme -- that of the Halifax explosion in 1917 -- for his first published novel, Barometer Rising. The success of this shift from international to national focus formed the foundation of his theory that Canada in her art must now both set the stage and play her dramas to the world at large. Thus the pubhcation of Barometer Rising in 1941 and the essays about Canada which were collected eight years later in Cross-Country marked a new phase in the development of Canadian literature. MacLennan initiated a new artistic treatment of Canada in which, as Hugo McPherson states, "Canadian identity was not a matter of patriotism but a fact of geography and experience." The favourable response to these early works, especiallly that of the influential American critic, Edmund Wilson, encouraged MacLennan to continue to explore national themes and settings from a peculiarly Canadian point of view in his subsequent work.
It would be wrong, however, to call MacLennan's novels and essays "regional." Although Two Solitudes (1945) deals specifically with the Quebec situation, The Precipice (1948) with small-town Ontario, and Each Man's Son (1951) with Cape Breton's mining community, each of these novels moves outward from a specific region to consider, respectively, the period of rapid transition instigated by World War I, the contrast between American and Canadian brands of puritanism, and the effects on the human soul of Calvinism wherever it is found. "I have always seen Canada as a part of the history of the world," MacLennan has stated, and with his last two novels to date, The Watch That Ends the Night (1959) and Return of the Sphinx (1967), he has increasingly moved in the direction of the universal themes which arise from local political, social, and human history. Because his themes transcend their individual settings, he is the most widely and most successfully translated Canadian novelist today.
Despite the outward trappings of success, critics have long debated the merit of MacLennan's work. While many have continued to express the high admiration initiated by Edmund Wilson, others have contended that the heavily didactic nature of MacLennan's fiction has resulted in the stereotyping of characters, the substitution of his own voice for those of his characters, and the "old-fashioned" techniques of Victorian fiction in narrative and structure. As one critic put it, "seriousness and decency do a very good job as proxy for art." There has always been, however, unanimous praise for MacLennan's skill in descriptive writing, whether of episode, action, or natural landscape.
MacLennan's essays, in contrast to the novels, have more consistently elicited an excited response from critics. In them, MacLennan deals with a wide variety of subjects drawn from his varied experiences in such a way that we feel his humanity -- a civilized mind, an impish humour, a strength of feeling, and a sharp intuition. The essay form, with its disciplined concentration on one subject, and the flexibility of treatment it allows, is well-suited to MacLennan's talents, and, along with Robertson Davies, he stands as Canada's finest essayist.
MacLennan might be termed the "Grand Old Man" of Canadian letters. Five times he has won the annual Governor-General's Award, three times for his fiction and twice for his essays; and many are the awards and honorary degrees he has been given. To him, writers like Robertson Davies, Margaret Laurence, Robert Kroetsch, Leonard Cohen, and Marian Engel, among others, owe a great deal. Although he has been most often termed a "pioneer" in Canadian literature, he is, more accurately, a transitional figure. Like one of his favourite Roman poets, Horace, who adapted Latin verse to Greek poetry, MacLennan has tuned a new nation's lyre to the existing measures of English fiction.
The single most serious difficulty in completing this research was the great distance between the major collections of MacLennan material at McGill University and the University of Calgary. Time and money for travel was consequently essential, and fortunately, my research was sponsored by the Canada Council. At McGlll, in addition, the manuscript collection is not catalogued, which further delays any researcher. It was also my experience that no single Canadian library held a complete collection of the books, journals, microfilms, and newspapers in which MacLennan's materials appear. This meant excessive dependence on Inter-Library Loan Departments and, at times, travel from one city to another to locate specific items.
Some journals, such as Liberty, New Liberty Magazine, and The Montrealer were extremely difficult to locate, since they have now been stopped for several years. Only one library in the United States held the Liberty magazines, while The Montrealer in complete form, was finally located at the New York Public Library.
Translations of MacLennan's works were difficult, and at times impossible to locate, mainly because the index to translations was incomplete.
The location of some newspaper articles and reviews could not be determined because newspapers in general do not, under any circumstances, allow researchers to have access to their files.
The list of MacLennan's awards and honours was surprisingly difficult to compile because various reference books such as Who's Who and dictionaries of biography were inconsistent. This meant that individual letters had to be sent to the institutions mentioned asking them for the precise dates and nature of degrees granted and awards given.
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Throughout his work, Mordecai Richler confronts the basic problems of human existence, the search for the self, the desperate need to succeed, the difficult art of survival. The world of Richler's fiction is a harsh world--demeaning, savage, and often incomprehensible. Its inhabitants are alienated, insecure, self-conscious, looking for a way out. Many of them prefer to live under false pretenses, or, acknowledging their own impotence, are possessed by feelings of guilt, fear, or oppression. Most seem unable or unwilling to confront the reality of their existence.
Some critics of Richler's work have felt that his characters lack humanity or nobility, and that they seldom command our sympathy. But as he has pointed out in a number of articles and interviews, Richler has always tried to be the loser's advocate, to elicit sympathy for even the most unsympathetic of his creations, Ernst, Duddy, and Harry Stein. At the same time, Richler has been reproached for his apparent lack of a definite moral standpoint. He has been seen as an opportunist, attacking indiscriminately, and profiting from his ability to write glib denunciations of everything from Canadian nationalism to Hollywood film-making. Yet the concerns of Richler the social critic, essayist, and book reviewer are quite as serious as those of Richler the novelist. His targets are hypocrisy, pretentiousness, and immorality, and behind the mask of the cynic is the frustrated idealist, writing out of a deep sense of disappointment, even rage, at what he sees around him. A few of his protagonists, Norman Price, Mortimer Griffin, and Jake Hersh, may be misfits in a world gone mad, but they are misfits precisely because they share the values of their creator: human dignity, honour, tolerance, and perseverance. It is from the point of view of a moral conservative that Richler lashes out at the follies of the modern world, and his moral position has always been clear.
If some Jewish critics have accused Richler of a tendency to anti-Semitism, an equal number of gentile reviewers have objected to his supposed obsession with his own Jewishness. Neither group has seen that this focus on Jewish themes reveals Richler's fundamental involvement with his heritage, and a profound insistence that the survival of the Jews, and indeed of mankind in general, depends upon a reverence for the highest achievements of our ancestors, and a contempt for the lowest perversions of our contemporaries, regardless of race or religious affiliation.
Unity of moral vision is not, however, the only attribute that Richler brings to his profession. As a stylist, he has worked to fashion a unique blend of internal monologue and external dialogue that superbly conveys the psychological turmoil of his most recent protagonist, Jake Hersh. As he has admitted, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz was the novel in which he found his true style, fast-paced, colloquial, and ironic in tone, but that achievement has been surpassed by the energetic yet masterfully controlled writing in St Urbain's Horseman. Recently, critics have begun to appreciate the skilful construction of that novel, the complexity of the Doppelganger relationships between Jake and Harry, and Jake and the Horseman, the network of sophisticated allusion and symbolism, and the intricate patterns of imagery that make St, Urbain's Horseman Richler's most rewarding work to date. Close analysis could profitably be applied to his earlier works as well. At the time of this writing, neither Cocksure nor A Choice of Enemies has received the attention it deserves.
His contributions to film scripts are very difficult to assess. The collaborative aspect of screenplay-writing tends to reduce the importance of these works in any overall evaluation of his career. Moreover, Richler has admitted to working on some film scripts under different pseudonyms, and these may be impossible to identify. Here the manuscripts at the University of Calgary should throw some light on the nature of his writings in this medium. They certainly will be of use in the textual criticism of the novels, which has not as yet held any attraction for scholars.
The strong autobiographical element in The Street,which is discernible in the novels and in the non-fiction as well, will some day command attention from students of Richler's work. Though he has kept a low profile in his private life, and continually denounced the idea of the writer as celebrity, it has often been remarked that he is at his best when he is most personal. Certainly the primary source of his inspiration as a creative writer has been the St. Urbain Street of his childhood, which forms the background to so much of his best work. More than most novelists who have achieved fame as regional writers, Richler articulates a deep sense of place without sacrificing the universal significance of the ghetto environment.
It seems likely that Mordecai Richler will continue to produce important work, which will be the subject of an increasing body of criticism. In any case, the extent of his achievement to date should ensure his reputation as one of the finest writers of his generation, not only in Canada, but throughout the English-speaking world.
The most vexing problem confronting the researcher. and especially the bibliographer, of Richler's work, is his habit of revision and republication of essays and reviews in different forms under different titles. This recycling process often involves the "cannibalism" of earlier works for material that can be incorporated into a piece reviewed for book publication. Articles such as "Bond" and "Writing for the Movies" have appeared in several versions, while others, like "Jews in Sport" and "The Holocaust and After," are made up from sections of two or more separate articles or reviews.
Annotation cannot adequately convey the nature of many of the revisions to stories and articles. The student who is particularly interested in the evolution of Richler's style will do well to compare the early versions of his short stories published in The Montrealer and New Statesman with the texts of these pieces in The Street. The genesis of St. Urbain's Horseman may be traced through the stories, appearing in a number of periodicals in the late 1960s, which were incorporated into the novel. Cocksure began as a short story in The Tamarack Rewew, was expanded to a novella in Maclean's three years later, and was finally published as a fulllength novel seven years after that. Moreover, no critic of Richler's fiction can afford to ignore his journalism, for there may be found the sources of many of his fictional scenarios. Characters, incidents, and, in some cases, dialogue, have been transplanted from non-fictional settings in Maclean's and Saturday Night to the worlds of The Incomparable Atuk and St. Urbain's Horseman.
Acknowledgements
For their assistance in the preparation of this bibhography, I would like to thank Mordecai Richler; David Latham of York University; Sheila Latham of Northern District Library, Toronto; R.A.G. Seely of McGill University, Barry Edwards of Metropolitan Toronto Library; Mary Hudecki, Ellen Hoffmann, Gary MacDonald, and Susan Partridge of Scott Libratry, York University; Ernie Ingles and Jean F. Tener of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections of the University of Calgary Library; and especially my wife Lisa for her knowledge and her patience.
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A1 Barometer Rising. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce,
1941 326 pp.
Toronto: Collins, 1941. 326 pp.
London: Harrap, 1942. 255 pp.
White Circle, No. 75 Toronto: Collins, 1943. 255 pp.
St. Martin's Classics. Toronto: Macmillan, 1948. 376.
pp.
Introd. Hugo McPherson. New Canadian Library, No.
8. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1958 219 pp.
Ruckkehr Zu Penelope. Trans. Jutta and Theodor
Knurt. Stuttgart: Goverts Verlag, 1963. 332 pp.
Ruckkehr Zu Penelope. Trans. Jutta and Theodor
Knurt. Stuttgart, Hamburg: Dt Bucherbund, 1965.
390 pp.
Le Temps Tournera au Beau. Trans. Jean Simard.
Collection L'Arbre, No. G-1. Montreal: Editions
HMH, 1966. 295 pp.
Introd. F. Wyatt MacLean. Impact Books. Toronto:
Macmillan, 1969. 396 pp.
Barometru in Urcare. Trans. Livia Deac Bucuresti:
Editura Univers, 1971. 351 pp.
A2 Two Solitudes. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce,
1945 370 pp.
Des Moines: Meredith, 1945. 383 pp.
Toronto: Collins, 1945. 370 pp.
London: Cresset, 1946. 367 pp.
Dos Solidades. Trans. F de Diego. Madrid: La Nave,
1947. 487 pp.
Sol over St. Lawrence. Trans. Nils Holmberg. Stock-
holm: Tidens Forlag, 1947. 358 pp.
Due Samoty. Prague: Sfinx Bohumil Janda, 1948.
Twelspalt. Trans. H. W. S. Schapp. Amsterdam: Ar-
beiderspers, 1948. 429 pp.
Ed. Claude T. Bissell. St. Martin's Classics. Toronto:
Macmillan, 1951. 382 pp.
Toronto: Macmillan, 1957 370 pp.
White Circle, No 540. Toronto: Collins, 1952. 320 pp.
Kaks uks Indust. Trans Ilmar Kuvet. Toronto: Orto,
1962 2 vols. 256 pp.
Deux Solitudes. Trans. Louise Gareau Des-Bois.
Paris: Les Editions Spes, 1963. 648 pp.
Laurentian Library, No. 1. Toronto: Macmillan, 1967.
412 pp.
New York: Popular Dbrary, 1968. 383 pp.
A3 The Precipice. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce,
1948. 372 pp.
New York: Popular Library, 1948. 319 pp.
Toronto: Collins, 1948. 372 pp.
London: Cresset, 1949 372 pp.
Resbalo. Trans. Maria Virginia Martinez. Madrid: La
Nave, 1949. 472 pp.
A4 Each Man's Son. Boston: Little, Brown, 1951. 244 pp.
Toronto: Macmillan, 1951. 244 pp.
London: Hememann, 1952 239 pp.
Introd. Alec Lucas. New Canadian Library, No. 30.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1962. 222 pp.
Laurentian Library, No. 11. Toronto: Macmillan, 1971.
244 pp.
A5 The Watch That Ends the Night. New York: Scribner,
1959. 373 pp.
Die Nacht Der Vesohnung. Trans. Maria Wolff.
Stuttgart: Goverts Verlag, 1959. 432 pp.
London: Heinemann, 1959 373 pp.
Toronto: Macmillan, 1959. 373 pp.
Songen Till Livet. Trans. Ella Wilcke. Stockholm:
Gebers, 1960. 384 pp.
Die Nacht Der Vesohnung. Trans. Maria Wolff
Zurich: Buchclub Ex Libris, 1961. 591 pp.
(Oo Moodunud on. Trans. Karl Einer. Toronto:
Ortoprint, 1961 310 pp.
Toronto: New American Library of Canada, 1961. 350
pp.
Pan Books, No. M25 London: Pan Books, 1963. 329
pp.
Die Nacht Der Vesohnung. Trans. Maria Wolff.
Stuttgart, Hamburg: Dt. Bucherbund, 1964. 591 pp.
Wien: Buchgemeinschaff Donauland, 1964 514 pp.
Onu Beklerken. Trans. Orhan S. Yuksel. Istanbul:
Tifdruk Matbaacilik Sanayli A S. Mabaasi, 1964. 320
pp.
Die Nacht Der Vesohnung. Trans. Maria Wolff.
Stuttgart, Zurich, Salzburg: Europ Buchklub, 1965. 432
pp.
Le Matin d'une Longue Nuit. Trans. Jean Simard.
Montreal: Editions HMH, 1967. 403 pp.
Den Siste Vakt. Trans. Olav Ottersen. Oslo: For Alle,
1969. 282 pp.
Die Nacht Der Vesohnung. Trans. Maria Wolff.
Munchen: Heyne, 1969. 347 pp.
Laurentian Library, No 32. Toronto: Macmillan, 1975
373 pp.
A6 Return of the Sphinx. New York: Scribner, 1967. 303
pp.
Toronto: Macmillan, 1967. 303 pp
Unruhiger Sommer. Trans. Inger Wiscott. Stuttgart:
Goverts Verlag, 1968. 320 pp.
Powrot Sfinska. Trans. Maria Boduszynska-Borowi-
kona. Warsaw: Panstwowy Institut, Wydawniczy,
1970. 327 pp.
Laurentian Library, No 10. Toronto: Macmillan, 1971.
307 pp.
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A7 Cross-Country. Toronto: Collins, 1949. 172 pp. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1972. 172 pp. Includes "The Canadian Character" (B30), "An Orange from Portugal," "On Discovering Who We Are" (B17), "The Face of Power" (B365), "Cross-Country" (B22), "Portrait of a City" (B29), "The Elephant on Parade" (B23), "Help Thou Mine Unbelief," "A Second Look," "The Tyranny of the Sunday Suit."
A8 Thirty and Three. Ed. Dorothy Duncan. Toronto: Macmillan, 1954. 261 pp. London: Macmillan, 1955 261 pp. Includes "Divertimento for Males," "Husband and Wife" (B81), "Midsummer" (B89), "The BestLoved Street in Canada," "Good Old Human Nature!" (B49), "Where Is my Potted Palm?" (B53), "Everyone Knows the Rules" (B40), "City of Two Souls" (B38), "A Study in Decadence," "Nocturne in Ottawa" (B39), "Homage to Hemlngway," "A Salutary Experience" (B42), "The Ghost That Haunts Us" (B370), "Christmas Without Dickens" (B62), "The Art of City Living" (B41), "Voltaire Said..." (B57), "The Street-Car Conductor" (B46), "The Shadow of Captain Bligh" (B80), "April in Canada" (B48), "The Dictionary Says" (B70), "Orgy at Oriel" (B59), "If You Drop a Stone" (B55), "But Shaw Was a Playwright" (B36), "A Modest Proposal," "The Great Exposure" (B72), "The Mountain in the City" (B50), "A Would-Be Saint" (B368), "What Makes a City?" (B52), "An Eagle Mewing," "The Anatomy of Humour" (B35), "Being Middle-Aged," "The Public and the Press" (B77), "An Easy Mind" (B371).
A9 Scotchman's Return and Other Essays. Toronto: Macmillan, 1960. 279 pp. London: Macmillan, 1960. 272 pp. New York: Scribner, 1960 279 pp. London: Heinemann, 1961 279 pp. Includes: "Scotchman's Return" (B224), "By Their Foods . . ." (B176), "The Lost Love of Tommy Waterfield" (B141), "Rebels Against the American Dream" (B205), "Journey into the Present" (B209), "Montrealer" (B211), "The Classical Tradition and Education," "Remembrance Day, 2010 A.D " (B217), "Confessions of a Wood-Chopping Man" (B193), "A Disquisition on Elmer" (B213), "Sir John" (B374), "Boy Meets Girl in Winnipeg, and Who Cares?" (B230), "New York, New York..." (B218), "Literature in a New Country," "The Future of the Novel as an Art Form," "The Secret and Voluptuous Life of a Rose-Grower," "Intermezzo," "October and Smoke" (B192), "My Last Colonel" (B232), "Oxford Revisited" (B223), "Have You Had Many Wimbledons?" (B222), "The Curtain Falls on the Grand Style" (B200), "Education and Montaigne's Law" (B171, B219), "Sunset and Evening Star" (B164), "Youth and the Modern Literature" (B229), "Footsteps of Genius," "Portrait of a Year" (B172), "Came the Revolution" (B215, B220), "Fifty Grand" (B207).
A10 The Other Side of Hugh MacLennan: Selected Essays Old and New. Ed. Elspeth Cameron. Toronto: Macmillan, 1978. 301 pp. Includes' "The Writer and His Audience," "An Orange From Portugal" (B21), "Help Thou Mine Unbelief" (B28), "But Shaw Was a Playwright" (B36), Everyone Knows the Rules" (B40), "If You Drop a Stone" (B55), "Where Is My Potted Palm?" (B53), "Orgy at Oriel" (B59), "Christmas Without Dickens" (B62), "The Shadow of Captain Bligh" (B80), "Fury on Ice," "The Lost Love of Tommy Waterfield," "Remembrance of Men Past" (B147), "Sunset and Evening Star" (B164), "By Their Foods " (B176), "October and Smoke" (B192), "New York, New York ..." (B218), "Have You Had Many Wimbledons?" (B222), "Scotchman's Return" (B224), "My Last Colonel," "French Is a Must for Canadians" (B245), "It's the U.S or Us" (B248), "Victory" (B242), "The Rivers That Made a Nation," "On Living in a Cold Country" (B256), "The Scottish Touch: Cape Breton" (B324), "An English-Speaking Quebecker Looks at Quebec," "The Changed Functions of Fiction and Non-Fiction," "Reflections on Two Decades" (B344), "Scotland's Fate. Canada's Lesson" (B355), "The Writer Engage," "Two Solitudes: Thirty-Three Years Later" (B364).
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A22 Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
University of Calgary Library
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta
This collection includes manuscripts and galleys of Return of the
Spinx, correspondence with publishers, literary agents, various
societies and institutions from 1941-73; and personal
correspondence of the same period. The holdings also include
scrapbooks of newspaper and periodical clippings, reviews, pub-
lished articles and speeches and photographs from 1941-66.
A23 Rare Books and Special Collections Department
McLennan Library
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec
This collection has the manuscript versions of the two unpublished
novels, So All Their Praises and A Man Should Rejoice. It also
includes manuscript versions of Two Solitudes and The Watch That
Ends the Night. In addition, there is a large collection of
correspondence from 1919-66 consisting of personal letters,
business negotiations, etc. The collection also contains some rare
editions of Hugh MacLennan's work.
A24 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
This collection holds the manuscript versions of The Watch That
Ends the Night, Seven Rivers of Canada, and Barometer Rising.
There are also a few letters in the collection.
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All Oxyrhynchus: An Economic and Social Study. Diss.
Princeton 1935. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press,
1935.96 pp.
Amsterdam: A. M. Hakkert, 1968. 96 pp.
Chicago: Argonaut, 1968. 93 pp.
A12 .........., ed. McGill: The Story of a University.
London: Allen and Unwin, 1960. 135 pp.
A13 Seven Rivers of Canada. New York: Scribner, 1961
170 pp.
Toronto: Macmillan, 1961 170 pp.
Rivers of Canada. New York: Scribner, 1962 170 pp.
Taxidi eis ta Spoudaioteria epta Potamia too Kanada.
Trans. Persephone Baza-Bourou. Athens: 1969 216
pp.
Rivers of Canada. Toronto: Macmillan, 1974 270 pp.
Illustrated by John de Visser.
Laurentian Library, No. 49. Toronto: Macmillan, 1977
170 pp.
A14 The Colour of Canada. The Canadian Illustrated
Library. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1967. 124
pp.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1967 126 pp.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1972. 127 pp.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978. 128 pp.
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A15 Canadian Unity and Quebec. Montreal: n.p., 1942. 16 pp. CBC Radio Roundtable with Emile Vaillancourt and J.P. Humphrey.
A16 The Present World as Seen in Its Literature. Fredericton. Univ. of New Brunswick, 1952 12 pp. Founder's Day Address.
A17 The Future of the Novel as an Art Form. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto, 1959 12 pp. Jubilee Lecture. This essay appears in Scotchman's Return, 1960, and was first published in News Bulletin [University of Saskatchewan], September 24, 1959, pp. 1-15.
A18 National Independence in the Modern World. Toronto: n.p., 1962. 11 pp. Canadian Club Address (See B267).
A19 The History of Canadian-American Relations. Vermont: Address: Goddard College, 1963 32 pp.
A20 An Orange From Portugal. Thornhill: Village Press, 1964. 16 pp. This essay appears in Cross-Country, and in The Other Side of Hugh MacLennan.
A21 [Place des Arts Brochure] Ms. [1967]. TS, holograph corrections. 12 pp Cal., Box 1, Folder 1, No. 33.
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B365 "The Face of Power." Rev. of Faces of Destroy, by Yousef Karsh. Maclean's, 1 May 1947, pp. 18, 35-36,38, 40 C-C.
B366 Rev. of From Here to Eternity, by James Jones. CBC Radio ([15] April 1951).
B367 Rev. of Rhythm in the Novel, by E.K. Brown University of Toronto Quarterly, 21 (1951-52), 88-90.
B368 Rev. of Witness, by Whittaker Chambers. The Montrealer, Aug 1952, pp. 52-53. TT ("A Would-Be Saint").
B369 Rev. of The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway. The Montrealer, Nov 1952, pp. 58-59.
B370 "The Ghost That Haunts Us." Rev. of The Incredible Canadian, by Bruce Hutchinson. The Montrealer, April 1953, pp 54, 56. TT.
B371 "A Great Story Reborn." Rev. of Sailing Alone Around the World, by Joshua Slocum. The Montrealer, May 1953, pp. 54-55. TT ("An Easy Mind").
B372 "Tired Men." Rev. of The Secret Diary of Harold Ickes, by Harold Ickes. The Montrealer, Aug 1954, pp 21, 23, 25, 27. Ms. in McGlll, Box 1, Part 1, Folder 6, Nos 68-72, 124. No. 9, titled "History as Seen by One of its Makers."
B373 "How to Understand French Canada." Rev. of The French Canadians, by Mason Wade. Saturday Night, 12 March 1955, pp 9-10.
B374 "Sir John." Rev. of The Young Politician and The Old Chieftain, by Donald Creighton. The Montrealer, Dec. 1955, pp. 25, 27, 29. SROE.
B375 "Montreal's Best -- The Northwest Company." Rev. of The Northwest Company, by Marjorie Wilkins Campbell. The Montrealer, Feb 1958, pp. 31-35.
B376 "Speaking of Books." Rev. of The Civilization of Rome, by Donald R Dudley. New York Times Book Review, 12 Feb 1961, p. 2.
B377 "An Author Appraises an Editor." Rev. of Years With Ross, by James Thurber. The Montreal Star, 23 June 1962, p 4.
B378 "Scotland Bled at Culloden, But Canada Was Enriched." Rev. of Culloden, by John Prebble. The Montreal Star, 23 June 1962, p. 4.
B379 "Reflections on Sex in History." Rev of Sex in History, by G. Rattray Taylor. The Montreal Star, 8 Sept 1962, p. 4.
B380 "Speaking of Books." Rev. of Memoirs of a Superfluous Man, by Albert J. Nock. New York Times Book Review, 30 Sept 1962, p. 2.
B381 "A Scientist's Work and Man's Morals." Rev. of Brighter Than a Thousand Suns, by Robert Jungk. The Montreal Star. 13 Oct 1962, p. 4.
B382 "Looking into the Secret of Holmes' Actualness." Rev. of Sherlock Holmes, by William Baring-Gould. The Montreal Star, 27 Oct. 1962, p. 4.
B383 "The Sage of the Nor'-Westers." Rev. of McGillivray, Lord of the Northwest, by Marjorie Wilkins Campbell. The Montreal Star, 12 Jan 1963, p. 4.
B384 "The Angry Old Man and a Wasted Land." Rev. of From Colony to Natton, by A. M. Lower. The Montreal Star, 16 March 1963, p. 4.
B385 "A Very Moral Geisha Girl." Rev. of House of 10,000 Pleasures, by Sara Harris. The Montreal Star, 1 June 1963, p 4.
B386 "The Thucydides of World War I." Rev. of The Guns of August, by Barbara Tuchman. The Montreal Star, 8 June 1963, p. 4.
B387 "A Writer's Diary." Rev. of Memoirs of a Superfluous Man, by Albert J Nock. The Montreal Star, 7 Sept. 1963, p 4. Rpt. in New York Times Book Review, 30 Sept 1962, p. 2.
B388 "Hemingway, Hunter and the Hunted." Rev. of My Brother Ernest Hemlngway, by Leicester Hemingway. The Montreal Star, 21 Sept 1963, p. 4.
B389 "Granite and Litmus." Rev. of The Scotch, by J.K. Galbraith New York Times Magazine, 16 Aug 1964, p. 12.
B390 "Two Books on Canada." Rev. of Lament for a Nation, by George Grant, and The Vertical Mosaic, by John Porter. The Tamarack Review, No. 57 (Autumn 1965), pp. 90-97.
B391 "Raddall of the Sands." Rev. of In My Time, by Thomas Raddall. Books In Canada, Nov 1976, p 3.
B392 "The Muse of Eloquence. . .or. . .the Eloquence of Money." Rev. of Industrial Histories, by Merrill Denison. Canadian Author and Bookman, 42, No 2 (Winter 1966), 13-14. Ms. in Calgary, Box l, Folder 1, No. 29, titled "Merrill Denison's Industrial Histories."
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Note: When an item is reprinted in one of MacLennan's books, this fact is noted in the entry through the following abbreviations:
Cross-Country ...........................C-C
Thirty and Three ......................... TT
Scotchman's Return and Other Essays ..... SROE
Seven Rivers of Canada .................. SRC
The Other Side of Hugh MacLennan ..... OSHM
B1 "Roman History and Today." Dalhousie Review, 15 (1935-36), 67-78.
B2 "Beware of Your Elders." Lower Canada College Magazine, Feb. 1936, pp. 22-24.
B3 "They Play the Game." Lower Canada College Magazine, June 1936, pp. 22-24.
B4 Untitled. (1937), 3 pp.
B5 "And Seeing the Multitudes." Lower Canada College Magazine, Feb 1937, pp 9-14.
B6 "The Torrents of Swing." Lower Canada College Magazine, June 1937, pp 23-28.
B7 "Concussion." Lower Canada College Magazine, June 1938, pp. 27-30.
B8 "Soviet Visa." Lower Canada College Magazine, Feb 1939, pp. 16-20.
B9 "The Drug of Decadence." (1940), 7 pp.
B10 "What is Your Game?" Lower Canada College Magazine, Feb 1940, pp. 39-41.
Bll "The Wide Horizon: Where Convoys Set Sail." Christian Science Monitor, 15 Aug. 1940, p 3.
B12 "Culture, Canadian Style." Saturday Review, 28 March 1942, pp 3-4, 18-20.
B13 "Anniversary of an Idea." Montreal Standard, 27 June 1942, Sec Magazine, pp. 3, 8.
B14 "How Do I Write?" Canadian Author and Bookman, 21 (Dec. 1945), 6-7.
B15 "The Educational Value of Canadian Literature." The Globe and Mail, 29 June 1946, p. 8.
B16 "Canada Between Covers." Saturday Review, 7 Sept. 1946, pp 5-6, 28-30.
B17 "How We Differ From Americans. "Maclean's, 15 Dec. 1946, pp. 9, 49-50, 52, 54-55 C-C ("On Discovering Who We Are").
B18 "Canada Preferred." Time, 30 Dec 1946, p. 12.
B19 "Do We Gag Our Writers?" Maclean's, 1 March 1947, pp. 13, 50, 52, 54-55.
B20 "Canada For Canadians." Vogue, 15 May 1947, pp 95, 134-36.
B21 "An Orange From Portugal." Chatelaine, Dec 1947, pp. 17, 72-75 C-C; OSHM.
B22 "What Does Uncle Sam Want?" Maclean's, 1 April 1948, pp 7-8, 53-57 C-C ('Cross-Country').
B23 "The Elephant on Parade." Maclean's, 15 Aug 1948, pp. 50-53. C-C.
B24 "The Future Trend in the Novel." Canadian Author and Bookman, 24 (Sept 1948), 3-5.
B25 "Preface." In Cross-Country. Toronto: Collins, 1949, pp vii-ix.
B26 "A Second Look." In Cross-Country. Toronto: Collins, 1949, pp 151-56.
B27 �� "Tyranny of the Sunday Suit." In Cross-Country Toronto: Collins, 1949, pp. 159-72.
B28 "Are We a Godless People?" Maclean's, 15 March 1949, pp. 7, 71-77 C-C ("Help Thou Mine Unbelief"); OSHM.
B29 "Portrait of Halifax." National Home Monthly, April 1949, pp 12-13 C-C ("Portrait of a City").
B30 "The Psychology of Canadian Nationalism." Foreign Affairs, April 1949, pp 413-25. C-C ("The Canadian Character").
B31 "Changing Values in Fiction." Canadian Author and Bookman, 25, No. 3 (Autumn 1949), 10-18.
B32 "The Ten Greatest Canadians." New Liberty, Nov. 1949, pp 7-13.
B33 "Power and Love." The Montrealer, April 1951, pp. 27, 29.
B34 "Each Man's Son." Saturday Night, 10 April 1951, pp. 8-9. Rpt. in The Sunday Bulletin [Philedelphia], 14 Oct 1951.
B35 "The Anatomy of Humour." The Montrealer, May 1951, pp 23, 25 TT.
B36 "But Shaw Was a Playwright." The Montrealer, July 1951, pp 19, 21 TT; OSHM.
B37 "Cape Breton, the Legendary Island." Saturday Night, 3 July 1951, 12-13.
B38 "City of Two Souls." Holiday, Aug. 1951, pp 48-55. TT.
B39 "Whose World is This?" The Montrealer, Oct. 1951, pp. 25-26. TT ("Nocturne in Ottawa").
B40 "Everyone Knows the Rules." The Montrealer, Dec. 1951, pp. 66, 68-69 TT; OSHM.
B41 "The Art of City Living." Saturday Nsght, 22 Dec 1951, pp. 7, 36 TT.
B42 Untitled. The Montrealer, Jan. 1952, pp. 56-57. TT ("A Salutary Experience").
B43 "Eisenhower for President?" The Montrealer, Feb. 1952, p. 17.
B44 Untitled. The Montrealer, Feb 1952, pp 50-51.
B45 "Jotham Logan, a Personal Tribute." Dalhousie Review, 32, No 1 (Spring 1952), 15-18.
B46 Untitled. The Montrealer, March 1952, pp. 50-51. TT ("The Street-Car Conductor").
B47 "The Spring Clean-Out." The Montrealer, April 1952, p. 17.
B48 Untitled. The Montrealer, April 1952, pp. 52-53 TT ("April in Canada").
B49 Untitled. The Montrealer, May 1952, pp 58-59. TT ("Good Old Human Nature").
B50 "Montreal: The Mountain in the City." Mayfair, June 1952, pp 42-45, 71-74. Rpt. in Wilson Library Bulletin, 34 (June 1960), 715-17. TT.
B51 "A New Ethic for American Foreign Policy." The Montrealer, June 1952, p. 21.
B52 Untitled. The Montrealer, June 1952, pp. 56-58. TT ("What Makes a City").
B53 "My First Book." Canadian Author and Bookman, 28 (Summer 1952), 2-5. TT ("Where Is My Potted Palm?"); OSHM.
B54 "The Character of the President." The Montrealer, July 1952, p. 17.
B55 Untitled. The Montrealer, July 1952, pp. 50-51. TT ("If You Drop a Stone"); OSHM.
B56 "And This is His City." New Liberty, Sept. 1952, pp. 28-29, 67-68.
B57 Untitled. The Montrealer, Sept. 1952, pp. 50-51 TT ("Voltaire Said . .").
B58 "Fiction in the Age of Science." Western Humanities Review, 6 (Autumn 1952), 325-34.
B59 Untitled. The Montrealer, Oct. 1952, pp. 56-57. TT ("Orgy at Oriel"); OSHM.
B60 ["Revival in Book Publishing."] London Free Press, 25 Oct 1952.
B61 "Some Thoughts on the Presidential Campaign." The Montrealer, Nov 1952, p. 25.
B62 "Christmas without Dickens." Mayfair, Dec. 1952, pp. 45, 66-68, 70. TT," OSHM.
B63 "A Layman Looks at Medical Men." The Canadian Doctor, Dec. 1952, pp. 34-39.
B64 Untitled. The Montrealer, Dec 1952, pp 82-83.
B65 "The President's First Task." The Montrealer, Jan. 1953, p. 21.
B66 Untitled. The Montrealer, Jan. 1953, pp. 54-55.
B67 Untitled. Saturday Night, 10 Jan. 1953, pp 7-8.
B68 "The Artist and the Critic in Society." Princeton Alumni Weekly, 30 Jan 1953, pp 85-91.
- 869 Untitled. Saturday Night, 31 Jan 1953, pp. 7-8.
- 870 Untitled. The Montrealer, Feb. 1953, pp 56-57 TT ("The Dictionary Says . .").
B71 "The Inevitable Clash." The Montrealer, March 1953, p. 21.
B72 Untitled. The Montrealer, March 1953, pp 59, 61 TT ("The Great Exposure").
B73 "Frustration Among Telecasters." Saturday Night, 21 March 1953, pp.22-23.
B74 "Spring Show: Confusion Compounded." Saturday Night, 11 April 1953, p 11.
B75 "Symbol of Reality." The Montrealer, May 1953, p. 21.
B76 "Time of the Wildly Improbable." Saturday Nsght, 23 May 1953, pp. 18-20.
B77 "Newspapers, Authors and the Public." The Montrealer, June 1953, pp 54-55. TT ("The Public and the Press").
B78 "Searchers of the Arctic Empire." Saturday Night, 13 June 1953, pp. 11-12.
B79 "Canada, The Dramatic North." Holiday, July 1953, pp. 38-46, 110, 112-17.
B80 "Joseph Haydn and Captain Bligh." The Montrealer, July 1953, pp 50-51. TT ("The Shadow of Captain Bligh."), OSHM.
B81 "Miracle That's Changing Nova Scotia." Mayfair, July 1953, pp. 30-31, 57-60 TT ("Husband and Wife").
B82 "The Thankless Profession." Canadian Home Journal, July 1953, pp. 20-21, 28-31.
B83 "Wanted--A Policy for Asia." The Montrealer, July 1953, p 17.
B84 "Life of Privacy and Freedom." Saturday Night, 18 July 1953, pp. 13-14.
B85 "A Telegram Under the Door." The Montrealer, Aug. 1953, pp. 50-51.
B86 "Why I'm Voting Liberal." Maclean's, 1 Aug. 1953, pp. 8-9, 50-51.
B87 "Required: A Major Operation" Saturday Night, 15 Aug. 1953, pp 12-13.
B88 "The Listless Election." The Montrealer, Sept 1953, p. 21.
B90 "Nova Scotia." Holiday, Sept. 1953, pp 98-108.
B91 "Controlling Ottawa from Both Sides." Saturday Night, 5 Sept. 1953, p. 14.
B92 "Canada. . . An Eagle Mewing Her Mighty Youth." The Heartland,(Fall 1953), 7-10. TT ("An Eagle Mewing").
B93 "Autumn in Quebec" Town and Country, Oct. 1953, pp. 105-07, 198. Ms. in McGill, Box 1, Part 1, Folder 10, Nos. 37-50, 51-64, titled "Quebec in Autumn."
B94 "The Best Loved Street in Canada." Mayfair, Oct. 1953, pp. 34-37, 68-69, 72-74. TT.
B95 "A Scotchman's Thanksgiving." The Montrealer, Oct 1953, pp. 55-57.
B96 "When the Evening Sun Goes Down." Saturday Night, 10 Oct 1953, pp. 12-13.
B97 "Modern Tennis -- A Study in Decadence." The Montrealer, Nov. 1953, pp 54-55 TT ("A Study in Decadence").
B98 "President Eisenhower -- Man and Myth" The Montrealer, Nov. 1953, p. 21.
B99 "The Forum and the Finer Things." Saturday Night, 21 Nov 1953, pp 24-25.
B100 "A Modest Proposal for the Good of the Country." The Montrealer, Dec. 1953, pp. 73-74. TT ("A Modest Proposal").
B101 "Goodwill at a Modest Price." Saturday Night, 19 Dec. 1953, p 5.
B102 "Homage to Hemingway." In his Thirty and Three. Ed. Dorothy Duncan. Toronto: Macmillan, 1954, pp. 85-96.
B103 "A Word Aside." In his Thirty and Three. Ed. Dorothy Duncan. Toronto: Macmillan, 1954, pp 85-96.
B104 "Alan Paton -- A Light in Darkness." The Montrealer, Jan 1954, pp. 52-53.
B105 "Must We Return to 1933?" The Montrealer, Jan 1954, p. 19.
B106 "A Chill Along the Backbone." Saturday Night, 9 Jan 1954, p 5.
B107 "Writing in Canada -- Its Position Today." Royal Military College Review, 30 Jan. 1954, 129-35.
B108 "Time Holds a Symposium on France." The Montrealer, Feb 1954, pp. 31, 33.
B109 "On Agreeing to Disagree " Saturday Night, 13 Feb. 1954, p. 12.
Bl10 "Divertimento for Males." The Montrealer, March 1954, pp. 35, 37 TT.
Blll "It Can Happen Here." The Montrealer, March 1954, p. 17.
Bl12 "A New Tax for Quebec." Saturday Night, 31 March 1954, p. 9.
Bl13 "A Middle-Aged Man Looks at Youth." The Montrealer, April 1954, pp. 29, 31. TT ("Being Middle-Aged").
Bl14 "Cherished Dream of a Hick Town." Saturday Night, 24 April 1954, p. 19.
B115 "The Great White Whale." The Montrealer, May 1954, pp. 25, 27, 29.
Bl16 "What Can We Do About It?" The Montrealer, May 1954, p. 17.
Bl17 "Storm in Quebec: A National Danger." Saturday Night, 8 May 1954, pp. 7-8.
B118 "The Writer and His Audience." The Montrealer, June 1954, pp 27, 29, 31 OSHM. Ms. in McGill, Box 1, Part 1, Folder 6, Nos 1-6, 63-67, titled "The Writer and the Reader."
Bl19 "In Praise of McGill." The Montrealer, July 1954, pp. 21, 23, 25.
B120 "Is There Any Way Out of This Jungle" Chatelaine, July 1954, pp. 4-5.
B121 "Will the Trance End This Year?" The Montrealer, July 1954, p. 15.
B122 "Severe Attack of Subway Subversion." Saturday Night, 3 July 1954, pp. 9-10.
B123 "Comic Strip Mentality vs The Bomb." Saturday Night, 24 July 1954, p 9.
B124 "Thrift Tour of Montreal." Holiday, Aug. 1954, pp 12-15.
B125 "The Makers of the World's Policy." Saturday Night, 21 Aug 1954, pp 9-10.
B126 "The Canadian Rockies." Holiday, Sept 1954, pp. 3843.
B127 "The Secret and Voluptuous Life of a Rose-Grower." The Montrealer, Sept 1954, pp. 23, 25, 27, 29 SROE.
B128 "Whatever It Was, It Wasn't Munich." The Montrealer, Sept. 1954, p. 19.
B129 "Proper Technique for a Best Friend." Saturday Night, 11 Sept 1954, pp. 9-10.
B130 "Footsteps of Genius." The Montrealer, Oct 1954, pp. 25, 27, 29, 31. SROE.
B131 "A Shiver When an Era Ends." Saturday Night, 9 Oct 1954, pp. 9-11.
B132 "The St Lawrence: Realization of a Mighty Dream." The Annual Report, 1954. Seagrams Ltd (29 Oct 1954), 12-47.
B133 "Is There a Tennis Player in the House." The Montrealer, Nov 1954, p. 21.
B134 "Thoughts on Kidnappers." The Montrealer, Nov. 1954, pp 29, 31, 33.
B135 "The Aristocracy of Corruption." Saturday Night, 6 Nov 1954, pp 9-11.
B136 "Barometer Rising?" The Montrealer, Dec. 1954, p. 23.
B137 "An Eightieth Birthday." The Montrealer, Dec. 1954, pp. 27, 29, 31.
B138 "Fury on Ice." Holiday, Dec 1954, pp 83-84,86,88,90-91,174,176,178-80 OSHM. Ms in McGill, Box 1, Part 1, Folder 6, Nos 15-35, titled "Ice Hockey."
B139 "Jean Drapeau and His New Mandate." Saturday Night, 11 Dec. 1954, pp 9-11.
B140 "Youth Defended." (1955), 11 pp.
B141 "The Lost Love of Tommy Waterfield." The Montrealer, Jan. 1955, pp 21, 23, 25 SROE; OSHM.
B142 "The Rise of the New Challenger." Saturday Night, 15 Jan 1955, p. 9.
B143 "Why Our Friendship with Tinker went Phffft." Maclean's, 15 Jan 1955, pp 2, 44.
B144 "Couth and Uncouth." The Montrealer, Feb. 1955, pp.l0, 21, 23.
B145 "Cinerama 'Nightmare': Spirit of Hockey." Saturday Night, 26 Feb 1955, p. 9.
B146 "The Albatross." The Montrealer, March 1955, p 17.
B147 "Remembrance of Men Past." The Montrealer, March 1955, pp 25, 27. OSHM.
B148 "How to Understand French Canada." Saturday Night,12 March 1955, pp 9-10.
B149 "The Finding of the Way." The Montrealer, April 1955, pp 23, 25, 69.
B150 "Explosion and the Only Answer." Saturday Night, 9 April 1955, pp 9-10.
B151 "Dream World and Democracy." The Montrealer, May 1955, p. 17.
B152 "Shakespeare Revisited." The Montrealer, May 1955, pp. 23, 25.
B153 "Late Spring and Burgeoning Plans." Saturday Night, 14 May 1955, pp. 48-49.
B154 "The Challenge to Prose." Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, 49, Ser. 3, Sec. 2 (June 1955), 44-55.
B155 "Death of the Hero." The Montrealer, June 1955, pp 25, 25.
B156 "The Older Quest." Dalhousie Review, 35 (Summer 1955), 120-26.
B157 "The British Election." The Montrealer, July 1955, p.17.
B158 "Maiden Flight." The Montrealer, July 1955, pp. 25, 27.
B159 "The Problem of Having No Problems." The Montrealer, Aug. 1955, p. 17.
B160 "Queen of Tourneys." The Montrealer, Aug 1955, pp. 21, 23, 25.
B161 "Case for a Real Canadian Film." Saturday Night, 6 Aug. 1955, pp 12-13.
B162 "The Homeric Tradition." The Montrealer, Sept. 1955, pp. 21, 23.
B163 "Toronto Story." Holiday, Sept 1955, pp. 38-43.
B164 "Sunset and Evening Star." The Montrealer, Oct. 1955, pp. 21, 23. SROE; OSHM.
B165 "Monument for the Mayor?" Saturday Night, 1 Oct 1955, pp. 11-12.
B166 "The Years Ahead . . . What Kind of People We'll Become." Maclean's, 15 Oct 1955, pp. 14-15, 106-08, 110.
B167 "The Perils of Pauline." The Montrealer, Nov. 1955, p. 21.
B168 "The Transition Ends." The Montrealer, Nov. 1955, pp. 25, 27.
B169 "Two Cases for Speaking Frankly." Saturday Night, 26 Nov. 1955, pp. 36-38.
B170 "Canada's Capital." Holiday, Dec. 1955, pp. 60-63.
B171 "Montaigne's Law." The Montrealer, Jan. 1956, p 21. SROE ("Education and Montaigne's Law").
B172 "Thoughts at a Year's End." The Montrealer, Jan. 1956, p 25. SROE ("Portrait of a Year").
B173 "The Canadian, 1955 Model." Saturday Night, 7 Jan 1956, pp 7-8.
B174 "Comrades, Pals, Neighbours and Friends." The Montrealer, Feb. 1956, pp 24-25.
B175 "Will TV Produce a New Breed of Canadian Heroes?" Liberty, Feb 1956, pp. 32, 52, 54.
B176 "By Their Foods. . . ." The Montrealer, March 1956, pp.29-30. SROE; OSHM.
B177 "Mr Dulles and Mr. Luce." The Montrealer, March 1956, p. 21.
B178 "Good Deed in a Naughty World." Saturday Night, 3 March 1956, pp. 14-15.
B179 "The Thinking Atom." The Montrealer, April 1956, pp. 31-32.
B180 "Quebec Forgets its Old Fears." Saturday Night, 14 April 1956, pp. 11-13.
B181 "Damnatio Memoriae." The Montrealer, May 1956, p.19.
B182 "Lawyers in Wonderland." The Montrealer, May 1956, pp. 29-30.
B183 "History. . . What is It?" The Montrealer, June 1956, pp. 31-32.
B184 "The Cyprus Tragedy." The Montrealer, July 1956, p. 19.
B185 "Quebec vs. Donald Gordon." Saturday Night, July 1956, pp. 10-11.
B186 "Tony Doesn't Like Greeks." The Montrealer, July 1956, pp. 29-30.
B187 "It Pays to Pamper Our Children." Maclean's, 21 July 1956, pp 4, 46-48.
B188 "Krushchev and the American Election." The Montrealer, Aug 1956, pp 35-37.
B189 "Aftermaths of a Fair Lady." The Montrealer, Sept. 1956, pp. 23-25.
B190 "The Glacier melts at Last." The Montrealer, Sept. 1956, p 13.
B191 "Old Age, Youth and Leadership." Saturday Night, 15 Sept 1956, pp 10-12.
B192 "October and Smoke." The Montrealer, Oct 1956, pp. 20-22 SROE; OSHM.
B193 "Confessions of a Wood-Chopping Man." The Montrealer, Nov 1956, pp 22-24. SROE: OSHM.
B194 "The Most Important Job in Canada." The Montrealer, Nov. 1956, p 17.
B195 "Our Canadian Border: A Most Imaginary Line." Holiday, Nov 1956, pp. 51, 53, 55-58, 142,144-46, 148-51. Ms. in McGill, Box 2, Part 1, Folder 12, Nos 71-97, titled "The Canadian-American Border."
B196 "Back to Tolstoy." The Montrealer, Dec 1956, pp. 36-40.
B197 "Quebec Universities: Politics vs Need" Saturday Night, 8 Dec. 1956, pp. 13-15.
B198 "Breakdown." The Montrealer, Jan 1957, p. 11.
B199 "A State of Mind." The Montrealer, Jan. 1957, pp. 30-33.
B200 "The Curtain Falls on the Grand Style; a Dramatic Account of the English People." The Montrealer, Feb. 1957, pp 28-31. SROE.
B201 "Montreal on Wheels: A Nightmare in Motion" Saturday Night, 16 Feb. 1957, pp. 16-17.
B202 "The New Nationalism and How it Might have Looked to Shakespeare." Maclean's, 16 Feb 1957, pp. 8, 49-52. Ms. in McGill, Box 2, Part 1, Folder 10, Nos 70- 83, titled "Reflections after Suez."
B203 "Do They Even Want to Win." The Montrealer. March 1957, p 15.
B204 "Triumph, the Story of a Man's Greatest Moment." The Montrealer, March 1957, pp 53-58. Ms in McGill, Box 2, Part 1, Folder 10, No 2, titled "Supreme Moment."
B205 "Edge of the City; Rebels Against the American Dream." The Montrealer, April 1957, pp. 32-36 SROE.("Rebels Against the American Dream").
B206 "Big, Bad Wolf." The Montrealer, May 1957, p 17.
B207 "Fifty Grand: A Semi-Centenarian Takes Stock." The Montrealer, May 1957, pp 37-41 SROE ("Fifty Grand").
B208 "Portrait of an Artist: Dorothy Duncan." The Montrealer, June 1957, pp 36-40.
B209 "Lines Written in a State of Shock." The Montrealer, July 1957, pp.38-41. SROE ("Journey into the Present").
B210 "Is Quebec Still the Key to Canadian Politics?" Saturday Night, 20 July 1957, pp. 10-ll, 38.
B211 "Montreal." The Montrealer, Aug. 1957, pp. 28-31. SROE ("Montrealer").
B212 "The Canadian Story." 1 Aug 1957, 45 pp.
B213 "So This Is Elmer! An Acrostic and a Stranger in Flagstaff Solve the Mystery of Elmer." The Montrealer, Sept. 1957, pp. 36-42. SROE ("A Disquisition on Elmer"); OSHM ("That Was Elmer"). Ms. in McGlll, Box 2, Part 1, Folder 11, No 1, titled "That Was Elmer."
B214 "Artist vs. Critic." The Montrealer, Oct. 1957, pp. 44-57.
B215 "A New Era Is Recognized." The Montrealer, Nov. 1957, pp 37-45 SROE. (excerpt -- "Came the Revolution").
B216 "We Can't Have Christ and Sputnik Too." Maclean's, 23 Nov 1957, pp 10, 101-03.
B217 "Remembrance Day." The Montrealer, Dec. 1957, pp.46-55. SROE ("Remembrance Day, 2010 A.D.").
B218 "New York, New York. . . ." The Montrealer, March 1958, pp 28, 31, 33-34. SROE; OSHM.
B219 "Are the Politicians Ruining Education?" The Montrealer, April 1958, pp. 23-26 SROE ("Education and Montaigne's Law").
B220 "Canada's Revolution -- WHY Did It Happen?" The Montrealer, May 1958, pp 20-22 SROE ("Came the Revolution").
B221 "Against All Odds." The Montrealer, July 1958, pp. 24-26.
B222 "Have You Had Many Wimbledons?" The Montrealer, Sept. 1958, pp. 22-25 SROE; OSHM.
B223 "Oxford Revisited." The Montrealer, Oct 1958, p. 24. SROE.
B224 "Are Canadians at Last at Home?" The Montrealer, Nov. 1958, pp 54-59, 61 SROE ("Scotchman's Return"); OSHM.
B225 "Why Life is Better in Britain." Maclean's, 8 Nov. 1958, pp. 10, 68-70.
B226 "The People behind this Peculiar Nation." The Montrealer, Dec 1958, pp 28-31.
B227 "The Testing of Jerome Martell." Maclean's, 16 Dec. 1958, p. 16.
B228 "My Surgeon Father." Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons, 44 (1959), 214, 232.
B229 "The Collapse of the Family." The Montrealer, Jan. 1959, pp 16-18 SROE ("Youth and the Modern Literature").
B230 "A Boy Meets a Girl in Winnipeg and Who Cares?" The Montrealer, Feb. 1959, pp. 18-20. SROE ("Boy Meets Girl in Winnipeg, and Who Cares?").
B231 "The High and Mighty Mackenzie." Maclean's, 11 April 1959, pp. 18-21, 53-54, 56-60 SRC ("The Mackenzie").
B232 "My Last Colonel." The Montrealer, May 1959, pp 26-28. SROE
B233 "The Incomparable St. Lawrence." Maclean's, 9 May 1959, pp 24-27, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 SRC ("The St. Lawrence").
B234 "The Languid and Lovely St John." Maclean's, 4 July 1959, pp 22-23, 37-40 SRC ("The St John").
B235 "The Fraser." Maclean's, 21 Nov 1959, pp. 20-23, 60-62 SRC.
B236 "La Litterature Canadienne-Francaise me fait Penser a Dickens et Balzac." Le Devoir, 28 Nov 1959, p. 9.
B237 "The Classical Tradition and Education." In Scotch-man's Return and Other Essays. Toronto: Macmillan, 1960, pp 54-78. Rpt. "The Rout of the Classical Tradition." In Horizon, Nov 1960, pp 16-24.
B238 "Intermezzo." In Scotchman's Return and Other Essays. Toronto: Macmillan, 1960, pp 168-70.
B239 "Literature in a New Country." In Scotchman's Return and Other Essays. Toronto: Macmillan, 1960, pp 137-41.
B240 "McGill Today." In McGill. The Story of a University. London: Allen and Unwin, 1960, pp 15-25.
B241 "The Origins of McGill." In McGill: The Story of a University. London: Allen and Unwin, 1960, pp 27-48.
B242 "Victory" [c. 1960] 9 pp. OSHM.
B243 "Let's Rescue Our Cities Before it's Too Late." Gazette Weekend Magazine, 19 March 1960.
B244 "The Saskatchewan." Maclean's. 9 April 1960, pp 20-23, 36-37, 40-42. SRC.
B245 "French Is a Must for Canadians." Imperial Oil Review. June 1960, pp. 2-5. 0SHM.
B246 "The Surprising Red." Maclean's, 13Aug. 1960, pp 15-19, 28, 30-32 SRC ("The Red").
B247 "The Defence of Lady Chatterley." Canadian Literature No. 6 (Autumn 1960), pp 18-23.
B248 "It's the U.S. or Us." Maclean's, 5 Nov 1960, pp 10, 59-60, 62-63. OSHM.
B249 "Dear Mr. President." Star Weekly, 12 Nov. 1960, p. 50.
B250 "The Story of a Novel." Canadian Literature, No. 7 (Winter 1960), pp 35-39. Rpt. in Masks of Fiction. Ed. A.J.M. Smith. New Canadian Library, No 2 Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1961, pp 33-38.
B251 "The Artist in the 1960's." 1961, 4 pp.
B252 "The Canadian River System." In Seven Rivers of Canada. Toronto: Macmillan, 1961, pp. 1-5.
B253 "Interlude." In Seven Rivers of Canada. Toronto: Macmillan, 1961, pp 31-33.
B254 "Introduction." In Seven Rivers of Canada. Toronto: Macmillan, 1961, pp vii-ix.
B255 "L'Envoi." In Seven Rivers of Canada. Toronto: Macmillan, 1961, pp 169-70.
B256 "On Living with the Winter in the Country." 1961 7 pp. OSHM ("On Living in a Cold Country"). Ms. in McGlll, Box 1, Part 1, Folder 8, Nos 14-25, titled "On Living in a Cold Climate."
B257 "The Rivers That Made a Nation." In Seven Rivers of Canada. Toronto: Macmillan, 1961, pp 9-29. OSHM.
B258 "Strachey Most Under-Rated Writer of the Twentieth Century." New York Times Book Review Sectson, 12 Feb 1961, p. 2.
B259 "Anti-Americanism in Canada." Harper's Magazine, March 1961, pp 14-15, 21-22, 24.
B260 "Hugh MacLennan's Personal Brief to the Royal Commission on Publications." Canadian Library Association Bulletin, 17 (March 1961), 235-42.
B261 "Books We Read When We Were Young." Atlantic Provinces Library Association Bulletin, 25 (Summer 1961), 87-88. Rpt. in Canadian Library, 18 (July 1961), 11 Rpt. in Ontario Library Review, 45 (Nov. 1961), 226.
B262 "Canada Run From Fiction Comes Energy." Glamour, July 1961, pp 85, 106-07.
B263 "The Ottawa." Maclean's, 29 July 1961, pp. 8, 40-42. SRC.
B264 "One Canada: The Real Promise of Quebec's Revolution." Maclean's, 26 Aug. 1961, pp 15, 32-34.
B265 "The Thing We Are All Thinking About." Sept 1961, 15 pp. Ms. in McGfll, Box 1, Part 1, Folder 7, Nos 16-31, 32-37, 57-67, 68-78, Box 2, Part 1, Folder 7, Nos. 108- 18, titled "Let's All Think About It."
B266 "The Decisive Years for Canada." (1962). 12 pp.
B267 "National Independence in the Modern World." Pamphlet. (1962). See A18.
B268 "What the Non-Believer Believes." Exchange, A Canadian Review of Contemporary Thought, 2 (Feb - March 1962), 24.
B269 "We Have a Fine Thing in Canada... But Problem Is How Do We Keep It." Financial Post, 31 March 1962, pp 25-26. Rpt. in Canadian Library Association Bulletin, 18 (May 1962), 242-44.
B270 "Postscript on Odysseus." Canadian Lsterature, No. 13 (Summer 1962), pp 86-97.
B271 "Dos Passos Rediscovered." The Montreal Star, 30 June 1962, p 4.
B272 "New Phenomenon in Literature." The Montreal Star, 7 July 1962, p. 4.
B273 "The Clearest Intellect of Our Age." The Montreal Star, 14 July 1962, p. 4.
B274 "Today's Novelist and the Serious Audience." The Montreal Star, 21 July 1962, p. 4.
B275 "Boys' Tales of Yore, British to the Core." The Montreal Star, 11 Aug. 1962, p. 4.
B276 "Getting to the Root of the Matter." The Montreal Star, 18 Aug 1962, p. 4.
B277 "The Great Literature of the Sea." The Montreal Star, 25 Aug 1962, p 4.
B278 "Some Thought on the Historical Novel." The Montreal Star, 15 Sept. 1962, p. 4.
B279 "The English Thriller Revolution." The Montreal Star, 22 Sept 1962, p 4.
B280 "Winning Reduced to a Science." The Montreal Star, 29 Sept 1962, p. 4.
B281 "Literary Image of a Hero -- and Reality." The Montreal Star, 6 Oct 1962, p. 4.
B282 "The Scientist as Tragic Hero." The Montreal Star, 20 Oct 1962, p. 4.
B283 "Men in High Places and Whitman." The Montreal Star, 3 Nov 1962, p. 4.
B284 "Give Us Time to Read the Signs." The Montreal Star, 10 Nov. 1962, p. 4.
B285 "The Long Record of a Great Life." The Montreal Star, 17 Nov 1962, p. 4.
B286 "Further Views on Scientists." The Montreal Star, 24 Nov. 1962, p. 4.
B287 "Where Voyageurs Plied Their Canoes." The Montreal Star, l Dec 1962, p. 4.
B288 "A Man Who's Got the 'Colds' War Licked." The Montreal Star, 8 Dec 1962, p. 4.
B289 "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made On." The Montreal Star, 22 Dec 1962, p. 4.
B290 "Reflections on the 'Bounty' Myth." The Montreal Star, 29 Dec 1962, p. 4.
B291 "Hamlet with the Features of Horatio." (1963) 8 pp.
B292 "A Royal Commission on Bi-Culturalism." [1963?] 4 pp.
B293 " 'With Suavely Smiling Jaws.'" The Montreal Star, 5 Jan 1963, p. 4.
B294 "Maugham's Decisive Act." The Montreal Star, 19 Jan 1963, p. 4.
B295 "Rediscovering Qualities of America's Heartland." The Montreal Star, 26 Jan 1963, p. 4.
B296 "A Modern Odysseus." The Montreal Star, 2 Feb 1963, p. 4.
B297 "Thoughts on Re-Reading Gone with the Wind." The Montreal Star, 9 Feb. 1963, p. 4.
B298 "The Political Process and the Novel." The Montreal Star, 16 Feb 1963, p. 4.
B299 "Thoughts Occasioned by Wain's Story." The Montreal Star, 23 Feb 1963, p. 4.
B300 "Winds of the Garden." The Montreal Star, 2 March 1963, p. 4.
B301 "Something to Write About." The Montreal Star, 9 March 1963, p. 4.
B302 "A Voter Takes Refuge in Time and Space." The Montreal Star, 23 March 1963, p. 4.
B303 "Most Alive Writer of Twentieth Century." The Montreal Star, 30 March 1963, p. 4.
B304 "Pace of Modern Change." The Montreal Star, 6 April 1963, p. 4.
B305 "Some Reflections after Elections." The Montreal Star, 13 April 1963, p. 4.
B306 "Canadians Worth Knowing." The Montreal Star, 20 April 1963, p. 4.
B307 "Enigma of the Desert Still Fascinates." The Montreal Star, 27 April 1963, p. 4.
B308 "Contemporary Events and Malraux's Novel." The Montreal Star, 4 May 1963, p. 4.
B309 "The Hope That Spring Brigs." The Montreal Star, 11 May 1963, p. 4.
B310 "What Eternal Youth Needs." The Montreal Star, 18 May 1963, p. 4.
B311 "A Question of Marks." The Montreal Star, 25 May 1963, p. 4
B312 "When Montreal Refused to Hate." The Montreal Star, 15 June 1963, p. 4.
B313 "How to Solve the Flag Issue." The Montreal Star, 22 June 1963, p. 4.
B314 "Ignorance Threatens Canada." The Montreal Star, 29 June 1963, p. 4.
B315 "About 'Aural Man' and Electronic Devices." The Montreal Star, 6 July 1963, p 4.
B316 "On the Physiology and Psychology of Cussing." The Montreal Star, 13 July 1963, p 4.
B317 "About General Lee and War in General." The Montreal Star, 17 Aug. 1963, p. 4.
B318 "That Rare Phenomenon, Philosophical Essayist." The Montreal Star, 24 Aug 1963, p. 4.
B319 "Then and Now." The Montreal Star, 31 Aug. 1963, p.4.
B320 "Off to Write a Novel, MacLennan Says Goodbye." The Montreal Star, 5 Oct. 1963, p. 4.
B321 "Canada Its Many Faces." The 1964 World Book, An Annual Supplement to the World Book Encyclopedia (1964), pp 122-32.
B322 "Foreword." In Memoir of a Superfluous Man. By A. J. Nock. Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1964.
B323 "Comparing the Old and New." The Montreal Star, Sec Entertainments, 18 Jan 1964, p 2.
B324 "The Scottish Touch: Cape Breton." Holiday, April 1964, pp. 86-87, 190, 192-93, 203-04, 206. OSHM.
B325 "Canada's Many Faces." The Gazette [Montreal], 12, 13, 14 May 1964, p. 6.
B326 "Two Solitudes Revisited." Maclean's, 14 Dec. 1964, pp. 26-27, 54-59. Ms. in McGill, Box 2, Part i, Folder 7, Nos. 119-32, titled "Can Canadians Accept Canada?"
B327 "Holiday Trails of Canada: The Cabot." Maclean's, 5 June 1965, pp. 13-15, 22, 24.
B328 "More Important Than the Bomb" McMaster News, 35, No. 4 (Fall 1965), 8, 18.
B329 "Canada." American Heritage, Dec. 1965, pp 6-10, 92-99.
B330 "Canada's Quiet Revolution." Canadian Doctor, March 1966, pp 56-58, 77. OSHM.
B331 "Halifax." Habitat [Centennial Issue], 10, No. 3-b (1967), 14-17.
B332 "On the Hinge." The Decisive Years, 5 (1967), 4-7.
B333 "The Meaning of Canada." The Montreal Star, 13 Feb. 1967, pp. 2-3. Ms in McGill, Box 2, Part 1, Folder 7, Nos 133-37; Box 1, Part 1, Folder 8, Nos 28-33, titled "What It Means to Be a Canadian."
B334 "Questionnaire and Answers on Canadian Publishing." Canadian Literature, No 33 (Summer 1967), pp. 5-15.
B335 "Montreal, Ville Internationale." Actualite, Nov 1967, pp. 32-33.
B336 "Introduction." In Reflections: Quebec Year One. By Solange Chaput-Rolland. Trans. Gretta Chambers Montreal: Chateau, 1968, pp. 7-11.
B337 "On Re-Reading Rattray Taylor's Sex in History." (1968), 4 pp.
B338 "Pornography and Student Revolt." (1968), 14 pp.
B339 "The Pleasures of Tennis." The Star Weekly, 22 June 1968, pp 19-21.
B340 Untitled. [Aug. or Sept 1968?] 4 pp.
B341 Untitled (10 Oct 1968). Ms. in Calgary, Box 6, Folder 3.1l, No.15.
B342 "On the Americanization of Canadian Universities." In The Struggle for Canadian Universities. Ed. R. Mathews and J. Steele Toronto: new press, 1969, pp. 141-51.
B343 "Hugh MacLennan on the Mysterious Generation." The Montreal Star, Sec. Entertainments, 18 Jan 1969, pp. 2-3.
B344 "Reflections on Two Decades." Canadian Literature, No. 41 (Summer 1969), pp. 28-39. OSHM.
B345 "We Should Welcome the Challenge of Montreal, Not Fear It." The Gazette [Montreal], 31 Oct 1969, p. 7.
B346 "After 300 Hundred Years, Our Neurosis Is Relevant." In Canada: A Guide to the Peacable Kingdom. Ed. William Kilbourn. Toronto Macmillan, 1970, pp. 8.
B347 "A Message from Hugh MacLennan." In Program '70 for Lower Canada College (1970), pp 1-2.
B348 "A Nation Called Canada." The Toronto Star, 30 March 1970, p 6. Ms. in Calgary, Box 1, Folder 1.1, No. 44, titled "Whose Canada? Whose America?"
B349 "If Canadians Are To Be Truly Independent, It Does Not Matter If Americans Like Us." The Gazette [Montreal], 11 April 1970, p. 8.
B350 "I Ask You, Would Socrates Approve?" The Globe Magazine, 29 Aug 1970, pp 2-4, 6.
B351 "Murder of Truth. Murder of People." The Gazette [Montreal], 21 Nov 1970, p. 7.
B352 "Canada Consists of This? Two Solitudes that Meet and Greet Each Other in Hope and Hate." Maclean's, Aug 1971, pp 19-23, 49-5l.
B353 "Trudeau Unveiled -- II. Facing up Public to Richard Nixon, the Technological Revolution and the FLQ." Madean's, Feb. 1972, pp. 27, 72-74, 76.
B354 "Introduction." In Home Country: People, Places and Power Politics. By Peter C. Newman. Toronto. McClelland and Stewart, 1973, pp 13-16.
B355 "Scotland's Fate, Canada's Lesson." Maclean's, Oct. 1973, pp 27, 29, 94, 98. OSHM.
B356 "Mainstreams." Maclean's, Aug 1974, pp. 24-27.
B357 "Saguenay Kingdom." Maclean's, Oct 1974, pp 32-35.
B358 "Introduction." In Images of Sport In Early Canada. By Nancy Dunbar (1976), pp 8-11.
B359 "Is Bourassa Really Campaigning to Keep the French Language In, or Get English People Out?" Maclean's, 1 Nov. 1976, p. 14.
B360 "The Changed Functions of Fiction and Non-Fiction." In his The Other Side of Hugh MacLennan. Ed. Elspeth Cameron. Toronto: Macmillan, 1978, pp 238-46. Ms. in Calgary, Box 1, Folder 1, No. 21, ruled "Fiction and Non-Fiction Today," 12 pp ; No 6, titled "The Changed Relationship between Fiction and Non-Fiction Today," 13 pp.
B361 "Victory." In his The Other Side of Hugh MacLennan. Ed. Elspeth Cameron. Toronto: Macmillan, 1978, pp. 177-83.
B362 "The Writer Engage." In his The Other Side of Hugh MacLennan Ed. Elspeth Cameron. Toronto: Macmillan, 1978, pp 269-87.
B363 "'Awoke' Canada." The Montreal Star, 13 Jan. 1978, p 7.
B364 "Two Solitudes: 33 Years Later." Queen's Alumni Review, March-April 1978, pp. 4-9. OSHM.
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B393 "The Halifax Explosion." In Canadian Accent. Ed. Ralph Gustafson. New York: Penguin, 1944, pp 101-12.
B394 "An Unborn Mightiness" and "Together Because of. . . Their Jobs." In Spirit of Canadian Democracy. Ed. Margaret Fairley. Toronto: Gage, 1945, pp 220-22, 223.
B395 "The Halifax Explosion." In A Pocketful of Canada. Ed. John D. Robins. Toronto: Collins, 1946, pp. 25-27.
B396 Each Man's Son (excerpt) and "The Shadow of Captain Bligh." In Canadian Anthology. Ed. Carl F. Klinck and Reginald E. Watters. Toronto Gage, 1955, pp 353-59, 360-63.
B397 Barometer Rising. In Cavalcade of the North. Ed. George E Nelson. New York: Doubleday, 1958, pp 13-190.
B398 "The People Behind this Pecuhar Natron." In Northern Lights. Ed. George E. Nelson. New York: Doubleday, 1960, pp 513-18.
B399 "Halifax. Thursday, 6th December 1917," "The Sword in the Stone," and "A Nation Undiscovered." In A Book of Canada. Ed. William Toye. London: Collins, 1962, pp 210-217, 222-24, 411-12.
B400 "An Orange From Portugal." In Modern Canadian Stories. Ed. G. Rimanelli and R. Ruberto. Toronto: Ryerson, 1966, pp. 96-105.
B401 "The Winter Game." In Realm of Sport. Ed. Herbert Warren Wind. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966, pp. 490-498.
B402 Two Solitudes (excerpt). In A Century of Canadian Literature/Un Siecle de Litterature Canadienne. Ed. Gordon Green and Guy Sylvestre. Toronto: Ryerson, 1967, pp. 322-27.
B403 "The Halifax Explosion." In Canadian Literature: Two Centurles in Prose. Ed. Brita Mickleburgh. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973, pp 181-89.
B404 "The Martells Find a Son." In The Oxford Anthology of Canadian Literature. Ed. Robert L. Weaver and William Toye. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1973, pp. 300-11.
B405 The Watch That Ends the Night. (excerpt). In The Canadian Century. The Book of Canadian Prose, 2. Ed. A. J. M. Smith. Toronto: Gage, 1973, pp 316-29.
B406 "The Rivers That Made a Nation." In Canadian Anthology. 3rd ed. Rev. and enl. Ed. Carl F. Klinck and Reginald E Watters. Toronto: Gage, 1974, pp 303-17.
B407 The Watch That Ends the Night (excerpt). In The Canadian Experience." A Brief Survey of English-Canadian Prose. Ed. A. J. M. Smith. Toronto: Gage, 1974, pp. 189-202.
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A14 .........., ed. Canadian Writing Today. Harmondsworth,
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A9 Hunting Tigers under Glass: Essays and Reports.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1968. 160 pp.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969. 160 pp.
London: Panther Books, 1971 176 pp.
An uncorrected proof copy entitled This Year in Jerusalem:
Essays and Reports (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1968),
160 pages, has been widely circulated and is held by many
Canadian libraries. Includes "O Canada" (B138); "Expo 67" (B170);
"With the Trail Smoke Eaters in Stockholm" (B93); "Paper Lion"
(B164); "Jews in Sport" (B148, B160); "The Great Comic Book
Heroes"
(B167); "Writing for the Movies" (B162); "Norman Mailer" (B135);
"Malamud" (B165); "The Catskills" (B134); "This Year in Jerusalem"
(B84, B85, B86).
A10 Shovelling Trouble. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1972 158 pp.
London: Quartet, 1973 162 pp. Includes "Why I Write" (B218, B239,
B244); "A Sense of the Ridiculous" (B199); "Gordon Craig" (B126);
"Bond" (B196); "The Holocaust and After" (B154, B235); "Making It"
(B180), "Huckleberry Finklestone" (B132); "Starting Out in the
Thirties" (B143), "Porky's Plaint" (B238); "Answering the Ads"
(B69, B267), "Games (Some) People Play" (B149), "Not Me, Leary,
Not Me" (B231); "Following the Babylonian Talmud, After Maimonides
. . . Rabbi Stuart Rosenberg on the History of the Jewish
Community in Canada" (B246); "Maple Leaf Culture Time" (B178);
"'Etes-vous canadien?'" (B216)
A11 Notes on an Endangered Species and Others. New York: Alfred A
Knopf, 1974. 212 pp. Includes "Bond" (B196); "Why I Write" (B218,
B239, B244); "A Sense of the Ridiculous" (B199); "Gordon Craig"
(B126), "Writing for the Movies"(B162); "Notes on an Endangered
Species" (B269); "The Great Comic Book Heroes" (B167); "The
Catskills" (B134); "Jews in Sport" (B148, B160); "Intimate
Behaviour" (B265); "Following the Babylonian Talmud, After
Maimomdes . . . " (B246); "With the Trail Smoke Eaters in
Stockholm" (B93); "Going Home" (TS, "Foreword"), "Expo 67" (B170),
"'Etes-vous canadmn)'" (B216).
A12 .......... , with Andre Fortier and Rollo May. Creativity
and the University. Toronto: York Univ., 1975.61 pp. The Frank
Gerstein Lectures, 1972. Richler's contribution: "Playing the
Circuit," pages seven to twenty-eight.
A13 The Great Comic Book Heroes and Other Essays. Introd. Robert
Fulford. New Canadian Library, No. 152. Toronto: McClelland and
Stewart, 1978. 194 pp. Includes "Maple Leaf Culture Time" (B178);
"'Etes-vous canadien?'" (B216); "Bond" (B196); "A Sense of the
Ridiculous" (B199); "Why I Write" (B218, B239, B244); "O Canada"
(B138); "Expo 67" (B170), "The Great Comic Book Heroes" (B167);
"Writing for the Movies" (B162); "The Catskills" (B134); "This
Year in Jerusalem" (B84, B85, B86).
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A15 Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang. Toronto:
McClelland and Stewart, 1975 83 pp.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1975. 83 pp.
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1975. 83 pp.
Jacob Deux-Deux et le vampire masque. Trans. Jean
Simard. Montreal: Pierre Tisseyre, 1977. 92 pp.
New York: Bantam Skylark, 1977. 87 pp.
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A1 The Acrobats. London: Andre Deutsch, 1954. 204 pp.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1954. 246 pp.
Akrobatene. Trans. Ake Fen. Oslo: Gyldendal, 1955.
223 pp.
Akrobaterne. Trans. Michael Tejn. Copenhagen:
Schonberg, 1955. 222 pp.
Die Akrobaten. Trans. Annemarie Horschitz-Horst.
Munich: Kindler, 1955. 382 pp.
Wicked We Love. New York: Popular Library, 1955.
London: Consul, 1962. 189 pp.
London: Sphere, 1970 189 pp.
A2 Son of a Smaller Hero. London: Andre Deutsch, 1955.
232 pp.
London: Panther, 1962. 220 pp.
Sohn eines kleineren Helden. Trans. Paul Baudisch.
Munich: Kindler, 1963. 263 pp.
Introd. George Woodcock. New Canadian Library, No.
45. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1965. 205 pp.
New York: Paperback Library, 1965. 284 pp.
Mon pere, ce heros. Trans. Jean Simard. Montreal. Le
Cercle du Livre de France, 1975. 350 pp.
A3 A Choice of Enemies. London: Andre Deutsch, 1957.
256 pp.
Der Boden tragt nicht mehr. Trans. Paul Baudisch
Munich: Kindler, 1958. 375 pp.
Le choix des ennemis. Trans. Daniel Apert. Paris:
Editions du Seuil, 1959. 319 pp.
London: Panther, 1960. 190 pp.
London: Mayflower, 1966. 190 pp.
London and Toronto: Quartet/PaperJacks, 1973. 217 pp.
Introd. Bruce Stovel. New Canadian Library, No. 136
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977 216 pp
A4 The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. London: Andre
Deutsch, 1959. 319 pp.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1959. 377 pp.
An Atlantic Monthly Press Book.
L'Apprentissage de Duddy Kravitz. Trans. Elisabeth
Gille-Nemirovsky Paris: R. Julliard, 1960. 391 pp.
New York: Paperback Library, 1964. 287 pp.
Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1964. 315 pp.
Introd. A.R. Bevan. New Canadian Library, No 66
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1969. 319 pp.
London: Vallentine Mitchell, 1972. 319 pp.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1974 377 pp.
Includes two sixteen page sections of colour and
black-and-white stills from the film.
L'Apprentissage de Duddy Kravitz. Trans. Jean Si-
mard. Montreal: Pierre Tisseyre, 1976 488 pp.
Hanikhuto shel Dudi Kravits. Trans. Aharon Amir.
Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 1976. 380 pp.
A5 The Incomparable Atuk. London: Andre Deutsch,
1963. 191 pp.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1963. 191 pp.
Stick Your Neck Out. New York: Simon and Schuster,
1963. 189 pp.
London: Mayflower, 1965 126 pp
Introd. Malcolm Ross. New Canadian Library, No 79.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1971. 177 pp
London: Panther, 1972. 126 pp
A6 Cocksure London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968.
207 pp.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968. 250 pp.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1968. 250 pp.
London: Panther, 1969. 206 pp.
New York: Bantam, 1969. 216 pp.
Bloedzeker. Trans. Walter van Leeuwen. Amsterdam:
Triton Pers, 1970. 188 pp.
Ondori. Trans. Sawa Makoto Tokyo: Hayakawa shobo,
1970. 265 pp.
Out. Trans. Bruno Oddera. Milan: Longanesi, 1970.
306 pp.
A7 St. Urbain's Horseman. London: Weidenfeld and
Nicolson, 1971 467 pp.
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1971. 467 pp.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1971. 467 pp.
New York: Bantam, 1972. 436 pp.
St Albans: Panther, 1973. 384 pp.
Le Cavalier de Saint-Urbain. Trans. Martine Wiznit-
zer. Paris: Editions Buchet/Chastel, 1976. 420 pp.
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A8 The Street. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1969.
128 pp.
Rue Samt-Urbain. Trans. Rene Chicoine. Montreal:
Editions HMH, 1969. 203 pp.
London: Panther, 1971 141 pp.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1972. 128 pp.
Washington: New Republic Books, 1975 128 pp.
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A16 Les Cloches d'enfer. Trans. Gilles Rochette. Montreal:
Editions Lemeac, 1974. 89 pp. The original version in
English, "The Bells of Hell," has not been published
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A17 .......... , photographs by Peter Christopher.
Images of Spain. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart,
1977 191 pp. New York: Norton, 1977. 191 pp.
Mordecai Richler Papers
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B28 "Turn to the Right." Rev. of Marjorie Morningstar, by Herman Wouk; A Fox Inside, by David Stacton, The Vicarious Years, by John Van Drutan, Few Were Left, by Harold Rem, The Canyon and The Big Range, by Jack Schaefer; and Benton's Row, by Frank Yerby Books and Bookmen, Nov 1955, p. 31.
B29 "Books for Addicts." Rev. of Maybe I'm Dead, by Joe Klaas; The Wine of Youth, by Robert Wilder, The Big Ball of Wax, by Shepherd Mead; and Banner in the Sky, by James Ramsay. Ullman Books and Bookmen, Dec 1955, p 39.
B30 "Men and Wolves." Rev. of The Bride of Innisfallen, by Eudora Welty, Reunion, by Merle Miller, and Minado, by Erie Wilson. Books and Bookmen, Dec. 1955, p. 39.
B31 "American Novels." Rev of Faithful Are the Wounds, by May Sarton; The Darkness of the Day, by Robert Coates; The Courts of Memory, by Frank Rooney; A Stone for Danny Fisher, by Harold Robbins; Angle of Attack, by Joseph Landon; and Away All the Boats, by Kenneth Dodson Books and Bookmen, Jan. 1956, p.28.
B32 "Protective Aunt." Rev. of A Piece of Luck, by Frances Gray Patton, The Saturday Evening Post Stories; and Ludmila, by Paul Gallico. Books and Bookmen, Jan. 1956, p. 28.
B33 "American Success." Rev. of Sincerely, Willis Wayde, by John P. Marquand; The Perfectionist, by Lane Kauffman; and The Blow at the Heart, by Bernard Glemser. Books and Bookmen, Feb 1956, p. 29.
B34 "New Southern Writer." Rev. of The Black Prince, by Shirley Ann Grau; Young, by Miriam Colwell; and The Sixth of June, by Lionel Shapiro. Books and Bookmen, March 1956, p 23.
B35 "No More Absinthe on the Left Bank." Books and Bookmen, April 1956, p. 9.
B36 "Sailors, Suez, and the Stage." The Montrealer, Oct. 1956, pp 51-53.
B37 "T.V, Tension, and The Teddy Boys." The Montrealer, Nov. 1956, pp 52-54.
B38 "Liberace and TV." The Montrealer, Dec. 1956, pp 64-66.
B39 "The Contemporary Jewish Novelist and the Jewish Scene." Anglo-Jewish Association Quarterly, Jan 1957, pp. 1-9. Richler's remarks are on pages five to seven.
B40 "Sunday, November 4, 1956." The Montrealer, Jan. 1957, p 34.
B41 "Home Is Where You Hang Yourself." The Montrealer, July 1957, pp 26-29.
B42 "In Review." The Montrealer, Nov. 1957, pp 52, 54, 56-58. On Toronto, Montreal, television, theatre, books.
B43 "In Review." Rev. of Under the Ribs of Death, by John Marlyn; Street of Riches, by Gabrielle Roy; and The Blasted Pine, ed. F. R Scott and A.J M. Smith. The Montrealer, Dec 1957, pp. 69-70, 72-75.
B44 "In Review." Rev. of Exile's Return, by Malcolm Cowley, Alarms & Diversions, by James Thurber; and The World of John McNulty. The Montrealer, Jan. 1958, pp. 32-37.
B45 "How I Became an Unknown with My First Novel." Maclean's, 1 Feb. 1958, pp 18-19, 40-42.
B46 "Tourism Is Madly Bourgeois, Don't You Think?" The Montrealer, March 1958, pp. 22-24.
B47 "In Review." Rev of The Living Novel, ed. Granville 163. Hicks; Say You Never Saw Me, by Arthur Nesbitt; The Intruder, by Adriaan van der Veen; and Pieces at Eight, by Walter Kerr. The Montrealer, April 1958, p 59.
B48 "Confessions of a Fellow Traveller." Maclean's, 22 Nov. 1958, pp. 24, 46-47, 50, 52, 54. Ch. iii, TS(excerpt).
B49 "Making Out in the Television Drama Game." The Twentieth Century, 165 (1959), 235-45.
B50 "The Cure for the Novel." The Montrealer, June 1959, pp. 18-19.
B51 "Like Children to the Fair." In Alienation. Ed. Timothy O'Keeffe London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1960, pp. 158-67.
B52 "Dissatisfied American." Rev. of The Waist-High Culture, by Thomas Grlffith. London Sunday Times, 28 Feb 1960, p. 16.
B53 "The House I Remember." Canadian Homes, April 1960, p. 5.
B54 "The Harsh Wonderland That Was St Lawrence Main." Maclean's, 27 Aug 1960, pp. 16-17, 26, 28, 30. TS (excerpt).
B55 "Canadian Outlook." New Statesman, 10 Sept 1960, pp. 346-47.
B56 "We Jews Are Almost As Bad As the Gentiles." Maclean's, 22 Oct. 1960, pp. 10, 78-79, 82.
B57 "In Wrestling, All the Indians Are Chiefs." Maclean's, 19 Nov. 1960, pp. 31-33, 38, 40.
B58 "You Too Can Have a Body Beautiful." Maclean's, 3 Dec. 1960, pp. 30-31, 44-46.
B59 "Home Is Where Your Heart Aches." Spectator, 13 Jan. 1961, pp. 35, 37.
B60 "The Hidden Persuaders at Home." Maclean's, 25 Feb. 1961, pp. 20, 38-41.
B61 "Why I Left Canada." Chatelaine, March 1961, pp. 21, 25-26, 28, 64.
B62 "The Elected Squares." Spectator, 10 March 1961, pp. 318, 321. First of three parts on Canadian culture.
B63 "Foreigners in Etobicoke." Spectator, 24 March 1961, pp. 393-94. Part II of "The Elected Squares."
B64 "The White Americans." Spectator, 7 April 1961, pp. 468-69. Part III of "The Elected Squares."
B65 "Karsh of Ottawa." Spectator, 28 April 1961, p. 595.
B66 "It Was Fun To Be Poor in Paris." Maclean's, 6 May 1961, pp. 16-17, 49-52.
B67 "The Apprenticeship of Mordecai Richler." Maclean's, 20 May 1961, pp 20-21, 44-48.
B68 "Canada." Jewish Chronicle Supplement, 2 June 1961, p. iii.
B69 "The Man Who Got Everything by Sending Away for It." Macleans, 1 July 1961, pp 16-17. ST (excerpt -"Answering the Ads").
B70 "Fleurs-de-Luce." Rev. of Name and Address, by T. S. Matthews, More Than Meets the Eye, by Carl Mydans; and Time Out of Life, by Peter Baker. Spectator, 14 July 1961, pp 66-67.
B71 "Their Canada and Mine." Commentary, Aug. 1961, pp. 135-43.
B72 "Inside Stuff." Rev. of View from the West, by Claud Cockburn, Scotsman's Return. by Hugh MacLennan, and Calm October, by Richard Church. Spectator, 22 Sept. 1961, pp 395-96.
B73 "Cat in the Ring. Rev. of Advertiements for Myself, by Norman Mailer. Spectator, 13 Oct. 1961, p 510.
B74 "Mr. Soon." Spectator, 24 Nov 1961, pp. 745-47. Rpt. in Atlantic Advocate, April 1966, pp. 34-35. ST (excerpt -- "A Sense of the Ridiculous"), NES; GCBH.
B75 "Bertrand Russell Cuts a Disc: A Rogues' Gallery of Great Names." Maclean's, 16 Dec. 1961, pp. 52, 54, 56.
B76 "Bless 'em All." Rev. of recent TV programs. Spectator, 16 Feb 1962, pp 208-10.
B77 "Anti-Inflationary." Spectator, 23 Feb. 1962, p. 243.
B78 "Life-Size." Rev. of Living with a Giant, a recent TV program on Canada Spectator, 2 March 1962, pp 272, 274.
B79 "After the Accident." Rev. of A Quiet Game of Cards (a TV play), by Reginald Rose. Spectator, 9 March 1962, p. 308.
B80 "Poor Old George." Rev. of recent TV programs. Spectator, 16 March 1962, p 338.
B81 "The Fighting Tigers Tamed." Saturday Night, 17 March 1962, p. 44.
B82 "Television." Rev. of recent TV programs. Spectator, 23 March 1962, p. 372.
B83 "London Province." Encounter, July 1962, pp. 40-44.
B84 "This Year in Jerusalem." The Taste and Feel of Israel Today." Maclean's, 11 Aug 1962, pp 22-23, 30, 33-35. HTUG (revised), GCBH. First of three parts.
B85 "This Year in Jerusalem. The Pleasures and Feuds of the New Jews." Maclean's, 25 Aug. 1962, pp 22-23, 26-28, 30. HTUG (revised); GCBH. Part II of "This Year in Jerusalem."
B86 "This Year in Jerusalem: The Anglo-Saxon Jews." Maclean's, 8 Sept 1962, pp. 18-19, 34-36, 38-40,42-44. HTUG (revised), GCBH Rpt trans. (condensed) "Une Etoile dans le desert; Israel." In Le Magazine Maclean, Oct 1962, pp 26-27, 60-64, 66-68. Part III of "This Year in Jerusalem."
B87 "Tougher at the Bottom." Rev. of Life at the Top, by John Braine, and The Pumpkin Eater, by Penelope Mortimer Spectator, 19 Oct 1962, pp. 602-03.
B88 "Black Jacket." Rev. of Deaths for Ladies (and Other Disasters), by Norman Mailer. Spectator, 26 Oct 1962, p. 648.
B89 "Prizewinners." Rev. of children's books. Spectator, 9 Nov 1962, p 732.
B90 "Schmaltz with Everything." Rev. of The Harry Golden Omnibus, by Harry Golden. Spectator, 23 Nov. 1962, p 816.
B91 "Sobbing Boys and Happy Lions." Rev. of children's books Spectator, 23 Nov 1962, p 836.
B92 "Canadian Satire Abroad: All the Knives Are Rubber." Rev. of Clap Hands, a Canadian revue in London Maclean's, 15 Dec 1962, p. 71.
B93 "Bad Guys Finish Fourth." Maclean's, 4 May 1963, pp. 15-17, 45-46, 48 HTUG ("With the Trail Smoke Eaters in Stockholm"), NES.
B94 "Animals in the Woods." Rev. of children's books. Spectator, 7 June 1963, pp. 751-52.
B95 "Dogs and Wogs." Rev. of The Bodley Head Jack London, ed. Arthur Calder-Marshall. Spectator, 5 July 1963, p. 28.
B96 "Making England Merrie." A Report on the Satire Boom." Maclean's, 6 July 1963, pp. 55-56.
B97 "Where Is Thy Sting." Rev. of The American Way of Death, by Jessica Mitford. Spectator, 11 Oct. 1963, pp. 468, 470.
B98 "Proles on Parade." Rev. of The Ragman's Daughter, by Alan Sillltoe. Spectator, 25 Oct. 1963, p. 535.
B99 "Seeing Who Salutes." Rev. of children's books. Spectator, 15 Nov. 1963, p. 641.
B100 "The Social Side of the Cold War." Maclean's, 16 Nov. 1963, pp 28-29, 44-46.
B101 "The Blind Eye." Rev. of Who Lost an American?, by Nelson Algren. Spectator, 29 Nov 1963, pp. 720-21.
B102 "An Unbritish View of the British." Town and Country International, Nov.-Dec 1963, pp 6, 8-9.
B103 "Films." Rev. of David and Lisa, dir. Frank Perry; and The Caretaker, dir. Clive Donner. Town, Dec. 1963, p. 28.
B104 "How They Sell Canada to the Right Kind of Immigrants." Maclean's, 2 Dec 1963, p. 80.
B105 "Films." Rev. of The Trial, dir. Orson Welles. Town, Jan 1964, p.41.
B106 "Films." Rev. of McLintock! and Irma la Douce, dir. Billy Wilder; The Leather Boys and Charade, dir. Stanley Donen. Town, March 1964, p. 17.
B107 "Whoever Wins the British Election Robert McKenzie Has Grilled Him." Maclean's, 21 March 1964, p. 3.
B108 "Canadiana: One Man's View." Holiday, April 1964, pp. 41, 44-47. See "Contention in Canada," a letter to the editor by Irving Layton, and Richler's reply in Holiday, July 1964, p. 4.
B109 "Films." Rev. of Nothing But the Best, dir. Clive Donner; and The Chalk Garden, dir. Ronald Neame. Town, April 1964, p 21.
B110 "Anyone with a Thick Accent Who'd Steal Milk Money from Little Children Can't Be All Bad." Maclean's, 4 April 1964, p. 52.
B111 "Films." Rev. of Becket, dir. Peter Glenville, and America, America, dir. Elia Kazan Town, May 1964, p. 18.
Bl12 "The Trouble with Rabbi Feinberg Is He's Just Too Palatable." Rev. of Storm the Gates of Jericho, by Rabbi Abraham Feinberg. Macleans, 25 July 1964, p 46.
Bl13 "Long-distance Runners of Canada." Rev. of Made to Last, by John Kenneth Galbraith. Manchester Guardian, 31 July 1964, p 7.
Bl14 "Home Truths from Abroad." Punch, 5 Aug. 1964, pp. 180-82.
B115 "Again -- Miller's Life and Loves." Rev. of Nexus and Just Wild about Harry, by Henry Miller; Some Faces in the Crowd, by Budd Schulberg; and Teeth, Dying and Other Matters, by Richard G. Stern. Spectator, 7 Aug. 1964, p 190.
Bl16 "Toronto Area Preferred." New Statesman, 14 Aug. 1964, pp. 223-24.
Bl17 "The French, the English, the Jews. . . and What's Bugging Everybody." Maclean's, 22 Aug 1964, pp 1011, 39-42. Rpt. Trans. 'Les Canadiens francais, comme nous, etaient pauvres. . . .'" In Le Magazine Maclean, nov. 1964, pp. 26-27, 68-69, 71-73.
Bl18 "Flight from Redland." Rev. of Incognito, by Petru Dumitriu; Soul of Wood, by Jakov Lind; The Interrogation, by J. M. G. Le Clezio; and A Signifscant Experience, by Gwyn Griffin Spectator, 4 Sept 1964, p 316.
B119 "Nothing Alien Is Human to Me." Punch, 9 Sept 1964, pp. 371-74.
B120 "Bonanza in the Backwoods." London Sunday Times Magazine, 20 Sept 1964, pp. 38-41.
B121 "Genocide Is Boffo." Rev. of An Infinity of Mirrors, by Richard Condon; The Rich Pay Late, by Simon Raven, Young and Sensitive, by Don Robson, and The Prime Minister's Daughter, by Maurice Edelman. Spectator, 2 Oct. 1964, pp 451-52.
B122 "The Queen and Quebec." London Sunday Times Magazine, 4 Oct. 1964, pp. 11, 13, 15, 17.
B123 "The Big Southern Novel Show." Rev. of Flood, by Robert Penn Warren, The Urban District Lover, by Jack Trevor Story; and Clochemerle-les-Bains, by Gabriel Chevalier Spectator, 30 Oct 1964, p. 581.
B124 "Sticking Together." Punch, 11 Nov 1964, pp 723-25.
B125 " 'Quebec Oui, Ottawa Non!' " Encounter, Dec 1964, pp. 76-84. Rpt. in The Tamarack Revsew, No. 34 (Winter 1965), pp. 15-35.
B126 "Gordon Craig." Vogue, 1 Jan 1965, pp. 128, 155-57. Rpt. "E G.C." In Atlantic Advocate. Feb 1966, pp 34-37. Rpt. "Theatre's Neglected Genius." In Montreal Star, Sec. Entertainments, 13 Sept. 1969, pp. 5, 21 ST ("Gordon Craig"), NES.
B127 "What's British Television Got? Canadians, All Over the Place." Maclean's, 2 Jan 1965, pp 30-32, 34.
B128 "The Survivor." Rev. of Herzog, by Saul Bellow. Spectator, 29 Jan 1965, p. 139.
B129 "The Street Where I Lived--Well Balanced Between the Rent-Skippers and the Hat-Tippers." Evening Standard, 2 March 1965, p. 8.
B130 "A Long Way from Jerusalem." London Sunday Time: Magazine, 28 March 1965, pp 43, 45-48, 50.
B131 "Pop Goes the Island." Commentary, May 1965, pp. 65-70.
B132 "Huckleberry Finklestone." Rev. of Back to China, by Leslie A. Fiedler. Book Week, 16 May 1965, p 5. ST.
B133 "Through the Nose." Rev. of children's books Spectator, 4 June 1965, p. 733.
B134 "The Catskills. Land of Milk and Money." Holiday, July 1965, pp. 56, 58, 60, 62, 72, 74. HTUG; NES; GCBH.
B135 "Norman Mailer." Encounter, July 1965, pp 61-64. HTUG.
B136 "Tough Isn't Enough." Rev. of The Neon Wilderness, by Nelson Algren Spectator, 16 July 1965, p. 83.
B137 "Something Missing? Send Your Name to the Montreal Stage Company." London Magazine, Sept 1965, pp. 91-95.
B138 "Wilson in Canada." Rev. of O Canada: An American's Notes on Canadian Culture, by Edmund Wilson. New York Review of Books, 30 Sept 1965, pp. 6, 8-9 HTUG ("O Canada"); GCBH.
B139 "Number One." Rev. of The Victim, by Saul Bellow. Spectator, 1 Oct 1965, p. 425.
B140 "The Miller's Tale." Rev. of Black Spring, Letters to Anais Nin, Selected Prose I, and The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, by Henry Miller. Spectator, 8 Oct. 1965, p. 451.
B141 "Canada's Culture Kick." Montreal Star, Sec Entertainments, 9 Oct 1965, pp 1-2.
B142 "The Declaration of Dependence." Rev. of Canada: The Uneasy Neighbor, by Gerald Clark, and Lament for a Nation: The Defeat of Canadian Nationalism, by George Grant. Book Week, 31 Oct. 1965, pp. 2-3.
B143 "Books." Rev. of Starting Out in the Thirties, by Alfred Kazin, and Memoirs of the Forties, by Julian Maclaren-Ross. Town, Dec 1965, pp. 18-19. ST. (revised-"Starting Out in the Thirties).
B144 "Leaving School--IX." London Magazine, Dec 1965, pp. 28-34. Rpt. "Education: A Writer's Reminiscence." In Toronto Telegram, Sec. Showcase, 23 Sept. 1967, pp. 12-13.
B145 "Kennedy and Others." Rev. of Behind the Golden Curtain: A View of the USA, by Susan Cooper, and A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House, by Arthur M. Schleslnger, Jr. Town, Feb 1966, pp. 19-20.
B146 "Is He a Trendy?" Rev. of John Buchan, by Janet Adam Smith. The Nation, 14 Feb. 1966, pp 191-93.
B147 "Low-Jinks." Rev. of The Last Analysis, by Saul Bellow. Spectator, 25 March 1966, pp. 371-72.
B148 "When You're in Love the Whole World's Jewish." Rev. of Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports, by Bernard Postal, Jesse Silver, and Roy Silver. Town, April 1966, p. 19. Rpt. "Hold that Lineage!" In Book Week, 17 April 1966, p. 6. Rpt. "When You're in Love the Whole World's Jewish." In The Montrealer, March 1967, p. 28. HTUG (excerpt -- "Jews in Sport"); NES.
B149 "Games (Some) People Play." Rev. of One in Twenty, by Bryan Magee; Book of Self-Defence, by Honor Blackman, and Games People Play, by Eric Berne. Town, June 1966, p. 15 ST (excerpt).
B150 "Facts and Violence." Rev. of The Diary of a Rapist, by Evan S. Connell, Jr. Book Week, 5 June 1966, p. 8.
B151 "Montreal and French-Canadian Culture: What They Mean to English-Canadian Novelists." Trans. Joyce Marshall. The Tamarack Review, No. 40 (Summer 1966), pp 40-53. Richler's remarks are on page 49.
B152 "On Being Critical." Rev. of Tower of Babel: Speculations on the Cinema, by Eric Rhode. Town, Aug 1966, p. 15.
B153 "Where It All Began. Has the Swing Lost Its Zing?" Maclean's, 20 Aug. 1966, pp. 14, 26-28.
B154 "The Universe of Hatred." Rev. of Scroll of Agony: The Warsaw Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan, ed. Abraham I. Kitsch; The Janowska Road, by Leon Wells; Terezin 1941-45; and Struggle Death Memory 1939-1945. Spectator, 2 Sept 1966, pp. 290-91. ST (excerpt -- "The Holocaust and After").
B155 "Odd Man Out." Rev of The Group (film), dir. Sidney Lumet. Spectator, 30 Sept 1966, p. 413.
B156 "I'm Not Pleased When Some Pipesucking Critic Calls My Book 'A Humdinger.'" Toronto Telegram, Sec. Showcase, 8 Oct 1966, p 13.
B157 "Good Book Flops." Rev. of The Bible . . . In the Beginning (film), dir. John Huston. Spectator, 14 Oct 1966, p. 486.
B158 "Paste Book." Rev. of Notes from a Sea Diary: Hemingway All the Way, by Nelson Algren. Spectator, 14 Oct. 1966, p. 490.
B159 "A Donkey's Years." Rev. of Balthazar, dir. Robert Bresson, and Georgy Girl, dir. Silvio Narizzano (films) Spectator, 21 Oct 1966, p. 519.
B160 "Koufax the Incomparable." Commentary, Nov 1966, pp. 87-89. See "Playing Ball," letters to the editor in Commentary, Feb. 1967, pp. 6, 8, 10, 15-16, 18, 20, and Richler's reply, pp. 20, 22, 24, 26. Rpt. with some of the letters and Richler's reply in "Jews in Sport," HTUG; NES.
B161 "The American Museum at Bath." Vogue, 1 Jan. 1967, pp. 25, 46.
B162 "Writing for the Movies." Book Week, 22 Jan. 1967, p.6. Rpt. "Writing for Movies." In Toronto Telegram, Sec. Showcase, 25 Feb 1967, p 21 Rpt. "Writing for the Movies." In Take One, 1, No 12 (July-Aug 1968), 15-19 HTUG (revised); NES; GCBH.
B163 "Big Ben au go go." Rev. of London a la Mode, by Paul Hogarth and Malcolm Muggeridge. Book Week, 5 Feb 1967, p. 16.
B164 "A Hero of Our Time." Rev. of Paper Lion, by George Plimpton. New York Review of Books, 23 Feb 1967, pp. 28-30 HTUG ("Paper Lion").
B165 "Write, Boychick, Write." New Statesman, 7 April 1967, pp 473-74. HTUG ("Malamud").
B166 "The Cost of Leaving." Weekend Telegraph, 28 April 1967, pp. 39-40.
B167 "The Great Comic Book Heroes." Encounter, May 1967, pp 46-48, 50-53. Rpt. in The Tamarack Review. No 44 (Summer 1967), pp. 83-93 HTUG; NES, GCBH.
B168 "King Kong Was a Honey." Rev. of An Illustrated History of the Horror Film, by Carlos Clavens. Book Week, 14 May 1967, p 6.
B169 "Cures for Homesickness." Saturday Night, July 1967, pp. 19-22.
B170 "Notes on Expo." New York Review of Books, 14 Sept 1967, pp. 16-18. HTUG (revised -- "Expo 67"), NES; GCBH.
B171 "Mr & Mrs Wilson." Rev. of A Prelude: Landscapes, Characters, and Conversations from the Earlier Years of My Life, by Edmund Wilson, and The Company She Kept: Mary McCarthy Herself and Her Writing, by Doris Grumbach. Manchester Guardian. 15 Sept 1967, P. 5.
B172 "Ex-Champ." Rev of Cannibals and Christians, by Norman Mailer. Spectator, 27 Oct 1967, p 504.
B173 "Anglo-Jewish Chronicle." Rev. of Explorations, ed. Murray Mindlin and Chaim Bermant. Manchester Guardian, 10 Nov 1967, p. 7.
B174 "Stings in the Tale." Rev. of Smetana and the Beetles, by Albert E Kahn. Manchester Guardian, 24 Nov. 1967, p. 12.
B175 "Bedlam in Bytown: A Disillusioned Account of Grey Cup Week -- To Say the Least." Star Weekly, 23 Dec. 1967, pp 20-27.
B176 "The North American Pattern." The New Romans. Ed. A. W. Purdy. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1968, pp 12-15.
B177 "'Who Are You, Canada?'" London Magazine, Jan. 1968, pp. 80-84.
B178 "Maple Leaf Culture Time." New Statesman, 26 Jan. 1968, pp 111-12. ST; GCBH.
B179 "A Noted Film Writer Shatters the Great Canadian Movie Myth." Star Weekly, 3 Feb 1968, pp 12-15.
B180 "Climbing Norman's Ladder." Rev. of Making It, by Norman Podhoretz. The Nation, 5 Feb. 1968, pp 180-81. Rpt "Another Writer Bares His Flick-Blade and Joins the Rumble in the New York Literary Family Nursery." In Toronto Telegram, 10 Feb 1968, p 31. ST ("Making It").
B181 "G-d and Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker." Rev. of Rickenbacker, by Edward V. Rickenbacker. Star Weekly, 17 Feb. 1968, p. 46.
B182 "A Man for Today. Part One Why We Need Him." Star Weekly, 2 March 1968, pp 2-7.
B183 "Reader's Choice: Hip Humor or Square." Rev. of Red Dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes, by Terry Southern, and A Treasury of Canadian Humor, ed. Robert Thomas Allen Star Weekly, 2 March 1968, p. 44.
B184 "The Counterrevolution at McClelland's." Rev. of Knife on the Table, by Jacques Godbout. Star Weekly, 23 March 1968, p. 44.
B185 "Savage Wasp." Rev. of Chaos or Commumty, by Martin Luther King, and Black Power, by Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton. Spectator, 5 April 1968, pp 444-45.
B186 "How Well I Know Jack Ruby!" Rev. of Jack Ruby: The Man Who Killed the Man Who Killed Kennedy, by Gary Wills and Ovid Demaris. Star Weekly, 6 April 1968, p. 46.
B187 "Counting-House Aristocrats." Rev. of Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York, by Stephen Birmingham. Manchester Guardian, 26 April 1968, p. 7.
B188 "The Big Book Battle: Pierre Versus the Reviewers." Rev. of The Smug Minority, by Pierre Berton. Star Weekly, 27 April 1968, p. 43.
B189 "So What's New at the Flicks?" Rev. of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, by Pauline Kael. Book World, 28 April 1968, p. 4.
B190 "Yes, Another Bulletin on Sick Britain." Rev. of To England, With Love, by David Frost and Antony Jay; Airport, by Arthur Halley; and Canadian Winter's Tales, ed. Norman Levine. Star Weekly, 4 May 1968, p.44.
B191 "New York and London on Five Insults a Day." Toronto Telegram, 11 May 1968, p. 33. Rpt. "A Nice, Very Nice, Look at Literary London and New York." In Book World, 12 May 1968, p. 8.
B192 "Quebec and the Priorities of Suffering." Rev. of Canada: Europe's Last Chance, by Claude Julien. Star Weekly, 18 May 1968, p. 46.
B193 "Gentiles, Too, Can Juggle Ideas." Rev. of Reading the Time, by Kildare Dobbs. Star Weekly, 1 June 1968, p. 45.
B194 "A Novel Achievement Total Vileness." Rev. of Killing Ground, by Ellis Portal, and A Season Past. Reminiscences of a Rural Canadian Childhood, by Jessie L. Beattie. Star Weekly, 8 June 1968, p. 46.
B195 "The Imagination of Disaster." Rev. of The Commentary Reader, ed. Norman Podhoretz. Manchester Guardian, 14 June 1968, p. 9.
B196 "James Bond Unmasked." Commentary, July 1968, pp. 74-81. Rpt. "Ian Fleming: A Voice for Little England." In Nova, Jan 1970, pp. 2-3,6-7,9, 12. Rpt. "Slicing into the Fleming 'Myth.'" In Montreal Star, Sec. Entertainments, 17 Jan 1970, pp. 4-5, 38-39. ST. (revised --"Bond"); NES; GCBH.
B197 Rev. of Nothing More to Declare, by John Clellon Holmes. London Magazine, July 1968, pp. 94-96.
B198 "Involvement: Writers Reply." London Magazine, Aug. 1968, pp. 5-19. Richler's reply is on pages five to seven.
B199 "A Sense of the Ridiculous: Paris, 1951 and After" New American Review, No. 4 (Aug 1968), pp 114-34. ST; NES; GCBH.
B200 "Canada's Little Mags Are Really Little." Star Weekly, 3 Aug. 1968, p. 41.
B201 "The Bomb Misfired." Rev. of Lord Malquist & Mr. Moon, by Tom Stoppard. New York Times Book Review, 25 Aug 1968, p. 32.
B202 "A Fantasy That Won't Fool Children." Star Weekly, 31 Aug 1968, p. 42. Rpt. "In Quotes." In In Review, 2, No 4 (Autumn 1968), 22-23.
B203 "How a Good, Honest Writer Was Ruined by the Schemes of a Publisher Hungry for Publicity. A Writer Named P. E. Trudeau." Saturday Night, Sept 1968, pp. 36-38.
B204 "If You Write to Make a Fast Buck You Have to Expect a Certain Amount of Flak But What If Your Best Fan Is in the Looney Bin?" Saturday Night, Oct 1968, pp. 64, 67.
B205 "If Austin C. Clarke Doesn't Appear on Front Page Challenge Does This Prove Prejudice? Or Is There Another Reason?" Saturday Night, Nov. 1968, pp 68, 70.
B206 "A Language Never Spoken by Men in Power." Rev. of The Joys of Yiddish, by Leo Rosten Book World, 3 Nov. 1968, p 6.
B207 "Spokesman for the Dead." Rev. of Legends of Our Time, by Elie Wiesel. New Leader, 30 Dec. 1968, pp. 19-20.
B208 "In an Age of Sexual Ambiguity, How Can You Help Your Son to Grow Up, Well, uh, Straight? A Worried Parent Looks for Help." Saturday Night, Jan. 1969, pp. 41-42.
B209 "A Literary Social Geography of Darkest London." Rev. of The London Novels of Colin MacInnes. Book World, 26 Jan 1969, p. 5.
B210 "A With-it Professor Proudly Wearing a Nehru Jacket Is the Academic Equivalent of a Fat Old Woman Dressed in a Bikini." Saturday Night, Feb. 1969, pp. 45-46. Rpt. "The Students, the Profs and Some Naked Truths." In Vancouver Sun, 10 Feb 1969, p. 5. Rpt. "The Writer as Teacher - IV." In McGill Journal of Education, 4, No. 2 (Fall 1969), 189-92.
B211 "Does Strapping. . . Or Getting the Biffs, As They Called It at Baron Byng. . .Produce in the Subject a Feeling of Deep Gratitude?" Saturday Night, March 1969, pp. 49-50.
B212 "Deep Inside the Works of Ian Fleming, Mr. Richler Discovers a Fascinating Warning: Watch Out for Villains with Big Ear Lobes." Saturday Night, April 1969, p 51. ST (revised excerpt -- "Bond"), NES, 6 CBH.
B213 "The Nice Thing About Getting a New Heart Is That You Then Meet Famous People. Why, Phil Blaiberg Even Got to Meet Liberace." Saturday Night, May 1969, p 56, 58.
B214 "A Writer's Paris." Montreal Star, Sec. Entertainments, 10 May 1969, pp. 3-4, 18, 23.
B215 "As Our Newest Minority, Will the Wasps of Canada Behave Themselves? Or Will They Have To Be Banned from the Country Club?" Saturday Night, June 1969, pp 50-51.
B216 "'Etes-vous canadien?'" New Statesman, 13 June 1969, pp. 851-52. Rpt. "'Etes-vous Canadlen?'" Toronto Telegram, 12 July 1969, Sec. 3, p. 5. ST; NES; GCBH.
B217 "Our Boorish Senators." Weekend Magazine, 14 June 1969, p. 28.
B218 "The Uncertain World." Canadian Literature, No. 41 (Summer 1969), pp. 23-27. ST ("Why I Write"), NES; GCBH (revised).
B219 "When One Group Among Us Is Smart, and the Rest Pretty Dumb, Doesn't Elementary Justice Demand a Program of Gene-Mixing?" Saturday Night, July 1969, pp. 42-43.
B220 "Onwards & upwards with the Arts." Montreal Star, Sec. Entertainments, 19 July 1969, pp 3-4.
B221 "Baseball a la Francais." Holiday, Aug. 1969, pp. 54-56.
B222 "Now Even Time Magazine Has Gone Liberal on Us. How Can You Bear the Pain When Your Best Enemies Suddenly Turn into Friends?" Saturday Night, Sept.1969, p 47-48.
B223 "My Year in Canada" Weekend Magazine, 27 Sept. 1969, pp 4-6.
B224 "Should a Poor Actor Be Forced To Do with Last Year's Wife?" Take One, 2, No. 7. (Sept-Oct 1969), 11. Rpt. in Saturday Night, Feb. 1970, pp. 38, 41.
B225 "Being an Account of Certain Bedside Tales, of Jenny Diver, Swaney Beane, the Prince of Robbers, and Other Suchlike Villains." Saturday Night, Nov 1969, pp 74-75.
B226 "But an Awful Lot of Them. . ." Rev. of Very Lovely People, by Ludovic Kennedy. Manchester Guardian, 27 Nov 1969, p. 11.
B227 "Those Were the Years, My Child The Great Days in the 1960s When Mandy and Christine Brought Down the Government of England." Saturday Night, Dec. 1969, pp 59-60, 62.
B228 "Solid, Reliable, Lewd, Lusty, Reprehensible, Sexy, Depraved..." Montreal Star, Sec. Entertainments, 27 Dec. 1969, p. 3.
B229 "Fashion News: Trendy Mordy Reports from Mod London." Saturday Night, Jan 1970, pp. 42-43.
B230 "Daddy of Them All." Rev. of Paterfamilias: Allen Ginsberg in America, by Jane Kramer. Manchester Guardian, 5 Feb. 1970, p 9.
B231 "Not Me, Leary, Not Me." Rev. of The Politics of Ecstasy, by Timothy Leary, and Play Power: Exploring the International Underground, by Richard Neville. Manchester Guardian, 19 Feb 1970, p. 9. Rpt. (revised). "Dr Tim Leary's Transcendental Security Blanket." In Saturday Night, April 1971, p 30. ST(excerpt --"Not Me, Leary, Not Me").
B232 "Yes, There Are Still People Who Wear Ties." Saturday Night, March 1970, p. 43.
B233 "He Shoots! He Scores! He Incorporates!" Rev. of Hockey, by Gerald Eskenazi; Hockey Is a Battle, by Punch Imlach; Stan Mikita: The Turbulent Career of a Hockey Superstar, by Stan Fischler; and Strength Down Centre: The Jean Beliveau Story, by Hugh Hood. Montreal Star, Sec. Entertainments, 28 March 1970, pp. 5, 38.
B234 "Let Canada Despoil Her Own Resources!" Saturday Night, May 1970, pp. 51-52.
B235 "Who Is the Jew?" Rev. of Counting My Steps, by Jakov Lind. New Statesman, 1 May 1970, pp. 628-30. Rpt. "Who is a Jew?" In Montreal Star, Sec. Entertainments, 23 May 1970, p. 3. ST (excerpt -- "The Holocaust and After").
B236 "Media Magic." Rev. of Counterblast, by Marshall McLuhan, and Explorations in Communication, ed. Edmund Carpenter and Marshall McLuhan. Manchester Guardian, 4 June 1970, p. 9.
B237 "Real Stuff." Rev. of Fat City, by Leonard Gardner; Going Places, by Leonard Michaels; and The Universal Baseball Association, by Robert Coover. London Magazine, July-Aug. 1970, pp. 181-84.
B238 "Ahoy, Goy, Welcome Aboard." Rev. of Bech: A Book, by John Updike. Montreal Star. Sec. Entertainments, 26 Sept 1970, p. 13. Rpt. "Porky's Plaint." In London Magazine, Nov. 1970, pp. 106-08. ST ("Porky's Plaint").
B239 "Nobody Reads Novels Anymore, Or Do They?" Saturday Night, Oct 1970, pp. 42-43. ST (excerpt -- "Why I Write"); NES, GCBH.
B240 " 'On and Off Broadway the Brutalized Sex on Stage Made Isherwood's Berlin Seem Engagingly Innocent in Retrospect.'" Manchester Guardian, 9 Oct. 1970, p. 12.
B241 "Passengers to Independence." New Statesman, 16 Oct. 1970, p. 496.
B242 "Ottawa Is the Capital of Canada but What Else Is It?" Holiday, Nov 1970, pp. 58, 71-72.
B243 "A Pen-Pusher's Guide for Retarded Authors." Saturday Night, Dec. 1970, pp. 42-43.
B244 "On Writing St. Urbain's Horseman." Works In Progress, No. 3(1971), pp. 279-93. ST (revised-"Why I Write"), NES, GCBH.
B245 "The Life and Times of Detective Inspector Ben Greenberg." Saturday Night. Jan 1971, pp 20-24.
B246 "Some of His Best Friends. . . ." Rev. of The Jewish Community in Canada, by Rabbi Stuart Rosenberg. Montreal Star, Sec. Entertainments, 9 Jan 1971, p. 16. ST ("Following the Babylonian Talmud, after Maimonides. . ."), NES.
B247 "Help Stamp Out Hockey Ties." [Weekend Magazine, 30 Jan 1971, p. 2.
B248 "Radical Causes & Rhetorical Excess." Saturday Night, Feb. 1971, pp 31-32.
B249 "Endure, Endure: The Man from St. Urbain Discovers the West." Maclean's, March 1971, pp. 48-49, 51-52, 54, 57, 59-60.
B250 "Don't Spoil a Good Case by Exaggeration." Community, 2, No 2 (April 1971), 5-6.
B251 "Of the Essence." Rev. of Vital Parts, by Thomas Berger. Manchester Guardian, 8 April 1971, p. 9.
B252 "Canada. 'An Immensely Boring Country' -- Until Now." Life, 9 April 1971, pp. 54-54B, 57-60, 62.
B253 "Nights at the Round Table." Rev. of You Might as Well Live." The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker, by John Keats, and A Month of Saturdays, by Dorothy Parker. Manchester Guardian, 22 April 1971, p. 12.
B254 "Would Canadian Coupon-Clippers Give the People a Better Deal than American Coupon-Clippers? (A Very Good Question Indeed)." Weekend Magazine, 26 June 1971, pp. 4-6.
B255 "The Taxi Driver's Look Cried Phoney." Saturday Night, Aug. 1971, pp. 41-42.
B256 Rev. of Jungle Lovers, by Paul Theroux. New York Times Book Review, 8 Aug 1971, p. 6.
B257 "Perceptions and Portents: The New Canadian Style." Saturday Night, Sept i971, pp. 44-45. See replies to Richler in "Letters," Saturday Night, Nov. 1971, pages 4, 8, by George Woodcock, Anne Montagnes, George Baugh, and Morris Wolfe.
B258 "Maple Leaf Power Time." New York Times Book Review, 26 Sept. 1971, pp 6, 24, 26, 28, 30.
B259 "Malamud's Race War." Rev. of The Tenants, by Bernard Malamud Life, 22 Oct 1971, p. 10.
B260 "There But for the Grace of God, Went God." Rev. of The Citizen Kane Book. New York Times Book Review, 31 Oct. 1971, pp. 3, 20. Rpt "Kane." In Montreal Star, Sec. Entertainments, 6 Nov. 1971, p B1.
B261 "Is This the Twilight of the Age of Prurience?" Saturday Night, Nov. 1971, p. 57.
B262 "Canada." London Sunday Times Magazine, 7 Nov 1971, pp. 99-102.
B263 "The Aging of Mordecai Richler." Weekend Magazine, 27 Nov 1971, pp. 12-14.
B264 "Awards in Search of an Author." Montreal Star, 4 Dec. 1971, p. B1.
B265 "The Science of What Is Not Worth Knowing." Rev. of Intimate Behaviour, by Desmond Morris. New York Times Book Review, 5 March 1972, p. 3. NES ("Intimate Behaviour").
B266 "The Louder They Fall." Rev. of Loser and Still Champion: Muhammad Ali, by Budd Schulberg. Life, 12 May 1972, p R.
B267 "How I Found Fame and (Fred) Fortune" Montreal Star, 16 Sept 1972, pp. C1, C4. ST. ("Answering the Ads").
B268 Rev. of The Impossible Railway, by Pierre Berton. New York Times Book Review, 12 Nov 1972, p. 48.
B269 "Porn in the Sun." Harper's, Aug. 1973, pp. 32, 36-39. NES ("Notes on an Endangered Species").
B270 "Shooting Duddy Kravitz." Weekend Magazine, 16 Feb. 1974, pp. 2-4, 7. Rpt. (revised) "How Duddy's Daddy Did It." In New York, 29 July 1974, pp 50-52.
B271 "A Corporation That Is Hearing Footsteps." Time [Canada], 4 March 1974, pp. 10-11.
B272 "Witches' Brew." Playboy, July 1974, pp. 91-92, 120, 122, 164-65.
B273 "Going Home Again." New York Times Book Review, 1 Sept 1974, pp. 10-12. TS. ("Foreword").
B274 "Canadian Conundrums." American Libraries, Jan. 1975, pp. 24-27.
B275 "Eye on Books." Book-of-the-Month Club News, May 1975, pp 8-9. On Andrew Allan and CBC radio.
B276 "It's a Plot!" Playboy, May 1975, pp 133, 179-82,184-85, 188, 190.
B277 "O God! O Hollywood!" New York Times Magazine, 18 May 1975, pp. 18-20, 22, 24, 28, 30, 35-36.
B278 "About Patrick Watson." Book-of-the-Month Club News, June 1975, p. 4.
B279 "Eye on Books." Book-of-the-Month Club News, June 1975, pp. 6-7. On the Canadian Writers' Union.
B280 "Letter from Ottawa: The Sorry State of Canadian Nationalism." Harper's, June 1975, pp. 28-32.
B281 "Eye on Books." Book-of-the-Month Club News, Aug. 1975, pp 6-7. On Moe Berg, by Louis Kaufman, Barbara Fitzgerald, and Tom Sewell, an error in a review of Laurence's The Diviners, and the Governor-General's Awards.
B282 "Endpiece." Rev. of The Doctor Game, by W. Gifford-Jones. Saturday Night, Sept. 1975, pp 86-87.
B283 "The Home Team, My Heroes." Esquire, Oct 1975, pp. 125-27, 261-63.
B284 "Native-Born Nazis in the Canadian Thirties." Rev. of The Swastika and the Maple Leaf." Fascist Movements in Canada in the Thsrties, by Lita-Rose Betcherman. Saturday Night, Oct. 1975, pp. 74-75.
B285 Rev. of Mike, Vol. 3, by Lester B. Pearson. Book-of-the-Month Club News, Oct. 1975, insert.
B286 "The Perils of Maureen." Rev. of "MO," a Woman's View of Watergate, by Maureen Dean. New York, 3 Nov 1975, pp. 8, 10.
B287 "Eye on Books." Book-of-the-Month Club News, Dec. 1975, pp. 4-5. Brief mention of The Darkening Fire, by Irving Layton; I'm a Stranger Here Myself, by Alden Nowlan; Call Me Sammy, by Sammy Luftspring, and several other books.
B288 Rev. of The Canadian Establishment, Vol. 1, by Peter C. Newman. Book-of-the-Month Club News, Dec. 1975, pp. 1-3.
B289 "Eye on Books." Book-of-the-Month Club News, Feb. 1976, pp. 6-7. Brief mention of Inside the Easter Egg, by Marian Engel; Selected Storses, by Norman Levine, The Swig in the Garden, by Hugh Hood, and other subjects.
B290 "How I Flopped on the Talk-Show Circuit." New York Times, 15 Feb 1976, Sec 2, pp. 1, 33. Rpt. "Richler: Flunking Out on the TV Talk Shows." In The Globe and Mail, 21 Feb 1976, p 21.
B291 "Eye on Books." Book-of-the-Month Club News, April 1976, pp. 6-7. On But Not in Canada, by Walter Stewart; A White Man's Country, by Ted Ferguson; Macdonald, His Life and World, by P. B. Waite, and several other Books.
B292 Rev. of A Man Called Intrepid, by William Stevenson. Book-of-the-Month Club News, April 1976, pp 1-4.
B293 "Buzz a Mountain." Esquire, May 1976, pp. 95,152-53.
B294 "Eye on Books." Book-of-the-Month Club News, May 1976, pp. 8-9. On books on the North.
B295 "Audience Diminished." New York Times Book Review. 30 May 1976, p. 19.
B296 "Eye on Books." Book-of-the-Month Club News, July 1976, pp. 8-9. On The Olympic Games, by M. I. Finley and H. W. Pleket, Official Album: Olympic Sports, by Roger de Groote, For My Brother Jesus, by Irving Layton, and of her books.
B297 Rev. of When I Was Young, by Raymond Massey. Book-of-the-Month Club News, July 1976, pp. 1-4.
B298 Rev. of Lady Orade, by Margaret Atwood Book-of-the-Month Club News, Aug 1976, pp 1-3.
B299 "Home Thoughts." The Canadian, 14 Aug. 1976, pp 4-7.
B300 Rev. of Ordinary People, by Judith Guest, and The Easter Parade, by Richard Yates. Book-of-the-Month Club News, Oct. 1976, pp. 2-3.
B301 "Pucksure." Weekend Magazine, 30 Oct. 1976, pp. 4-6.
B302 "A Ballet Story for Hard Hats--And Balletomanes Too." The Canadian, 13 Nov 1976, pp. 12-14, 16, 19.
B303 Rev. of The Pioneer Years 1895-1914, by Barry Broadfoot. Book-of-the-Month Club News, Midwinter 1977, pp. 1-4.
B304 "Writing Inside Out." The Canadian, 7 May 1977, p. 16.
B305 Rev. of Condominium, by John D. MacDonald. Book-of-the-Month Club News, June 1977, pp 1-3.
B306 Rev. of By Persons Unknown: The Strange Death of Christine Demeter, by George Jonas and Barbara Amiel. Book-of-the-Month Club News, Aug 1977, pp. [I], 1-4.
B307 "Iberian Dream." Toronto Life Travel Guide, Autumn 1977, pp. 9-13, 22, 24, 27. IS (revised -- "Introduction").
B308 Rev. of Close to the Sun Again, by Morley Callaghan. Book-of-the-Month Club News, Oct 1977, pp. 1-4.
B309 "Oh! Canada! Lament for a Divided Country." Atlantic Monthly, Dec. 1977, pp. 41-55.
B310 "A Day in the Life." Weekend Magazine, 11 March 1978, p. 9.
B311 "It's a Great Honour, But You Shouldn't Have Done It (Really Wish You Hadn't!)" Maclean's, 20 March 1978, p. 67.
B312 Rev. of Trudeau, by George Radwanski. Book-of-the-Month Club News, Spring 1978, pp. [i], 1-3.
B313 "Once You Get by Hollywood's Sleazy Exterior You Find a Sleazy Interior." Maclean's, 17 April 1978, p. 77.
B314 Rev. of The World According to Garp, by John Irving. Book-of-the-Month Club News, May 1978, pp. 2-3.
B315 "Awards Must Mean Something -- Or Why Would We Hand Out So Many?" Maclean's, 15 May 1978, p. 78.
B316 Rev. of Men for the Mountains, by Sid Marty. Book-of-the-Month Club News, June 1978, pp. 1-3.
B317 "O Israel, Quebec and Canada, I Stand On Guard for Ye!" Maclean's, 12 June 1978, p 68.
B318 Rev. of A Place for Noah, by Josh Greenfeld. Book-of-the-Month Club News, July 1978, pp. 14-15.
B319 "As Great Leaps Forward Go, Laurin's Ranks Between Stumble and Pratfall." Maclean's, 10 July 1978, p. 58.
B320 Rev. of By the Rivers of Babylon, by Nelson DeMllle. Book-of-the-Month Club News, Aug 1978, pp [i], 1-2.
B321 "Be It Ever So (Increasingly) Humble, There's No Place Like Home." Maclean's, 7 Aug 1978, p. 54.
B322 Rev. of Picture Palace, by Paul Theroux. Book-of-the-Month Club News, Sept. 1978, p 11.
B323 "The Temptation Is Great, Sometimes, To Line Up with the 'Sexual Oppressors.'" Maclean's, 4 Sept 1978, p. 57.
B324 "Writing Jacob Two-Two." Canadian Literature, No. 78 (Autumn 1978), pp. 6-8.
B325 Rev. of The Wild Frontier, by Pierre Berton Book-of the-Month Club News, Oct. 1978, pp 2-5.
B326 "So You Would Become a Mano Puzo, Eh? First Listen to This Cautionary Tale." Maclean's, 2 Oct 1978, p 58.
B327 "Take Heart, Canada! For Every 'Gong Show' We Give Them Back a Harlequin Romance." Maclean's, 30 Oct 1978, p. 55.
B328 "Big Blue Whales and Puppy Dogs' Tails, That's What Good Kiddy Mags Are Made Of." Maclean's, 27 Nov 1978, p. 65.
B329 Rev. of Bronfman Dynasty: The Rothschilds of the New World, by Peter C. Newman. Book-of-the-Month Club News, Dec. 1978, pp 2-4.
B330 "Matters of Fact Like Fiction, Brought to You Every Single Morning in Black and White." Maclean's, 25 Dec. 1978, p 44.
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B331 The Bells of Hell. Toronto Life, Feb 1974, pp. 41-43, 46-55 Rpt. (revised) Les Cloches d'enfer. Trans. Gilles Rochette. Montreal: Editions Lemeac, 1974. The Toronto Life text is the uncut version differing in a number of details from the CBC TV production in January 1974. For an account of the controversy surrounding the CBC production, see Toronto Life, February 1974, page 40. See also A16.
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Note: When an item is reprinted in one of Richler's books, this fact is noted in the entry through one of the following abbreviations:
The Acrobats ............................AC
Son of a Smaller Hero .................SOSH
A Choice of Enemies .....................CE
The Apprenticeshsp of Duddy Kravitz .....DK
The Incomparable Atuk .................. IA
Cocksure ............................... CO
St. Urbain's Horseman ..................SUH
The Street ............................. TS
Hunting Tigers under Glass ........... HTUG
Shovelhng Trouble .......................ST
Notes on an Endangered Species .........NES
The Great Comic Book Heroes .......... GCBH
Canadian Writing Today .................CWT
Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang ....JTT
Images of Spain .........................IS
Note: Includes short stories, excerpts from novels, satire, and the kind of autobiographical story included in The Street.
B1 "Shades of Darkness (Three Impressions)." Points, No. 8 (Dec. 1950-Jan 1951), pp 30-34.
B2 "The Secret of the Kugel." New Statesman, 15 Sept 1956, pp. 305-06 Rpt. "Tante Fanny's Hemmelighed." Trans. Elisabeth Rasmussen. In Magasinet Tillaeg Til Politiken, 31 Aug. 1957, pp 1-2. Rpt. "The Secret of the Kugel." In The Montrealer, Nov. 1957, pp 22-23. Rpt. in Star Weekly, 13 Sept 1958, pp. 20-21, 54.
B3 "Benny, the War in Europe, and Myerson's Daughter Bella." The Montrealer, Oct. 1956, pp. 23-25.
B4 "Job Hunting" The Montrealer, April 1957, pp. 47-49, 5l, 53
B5 "Mortimer Griffin, Shalinsky, and How They Settled the Jewish Question." The Tamarack Review, No. 7 (Spring 1958), pp 30-43 Rpt. "It's Harder To Be Anybody." In Maclean's, 7 Oct 1961, pp 24-25, 82, 84, 86-88, 90-94 Rpt. m Town, Nov 1963, pp 77-79, 91, 93. Rpt. in Jewish Life, Aug 1965, pp 12-17. CO(revised). The Maclean's version is much longer, and told from a different point of view, than the other versions.
B6 "The World of Duddy Kravitz." Part One Maclean's, 26 Sept 1959, pp. 18-21, 37, 41, 43-45, 48-52 DK(revised).
B7 "The World of Duddy Kravitz." Conclusion. Maclean's, 10 Oct 1959, pp 18-19, 44, 46-52, 54, 56 DK (revised).
B8 "Wally Sylvester's Canadiana." The Tamarack Review, No. 17 (Autumn 1960), pp. 27-32.
B9 "Making It with the Chicks." Maclean's, 8 Oct. 1960, pp. 30-31, 46-47. Rpt. (revised) in New Statesman, 16 Aug. 1963, pp. 193-94. Ch. viii, TS (revised).
B10 "It's Harder To Be Anybody." The Montrealer, June 1961, pp. 20-22. Rpt. (revised) "Bambinger." In New Statesman, 13 April 1962, pp 524, 526. Rpt. "Bambinger." In Atlantic Advocate, Dec. 1965, pp. 30-31, 33. Rpt. "Bambinger." Trans. Walter Riedel. Moderne Erzahler der Welt: Kanada. Tubingen and Basel: Horst Erdmann Verlag, 1976, pp. 306-12 Ch. vi, TS.
Bll "Goldberg, Gogarty and Ko." The Montrealer, Sept. 1961, pp. 20-21.
B12 "Red Menace." New Statesman, 22 Sept. 1961, pp. 380-82. Ch. iii, TS (excerpt).
B13 "Some Grist for Mervyn's Mill." Kenyon Review, 24 (Winter 1962), 80-105. Rpt. in Town, April 1962, pp. 60-63, 78, 80, 82, 84 Rpt. in The Montrealer, June 1962, pp. 24-31. Rpt. "Wasser auf Mervyns Muhle." Trans. Peter Kleinhempel. In Die weite Reise: Kanadische Erzahlungen und Kurzgeschichten. Ed. Ernst Bartsch. Berlin: Verlag Volk und Welt, 1974, pp. 150-80. Ch. ix, TS.
B14 "The War, Chaverim and After." Canadian Literature, No. 18 (Autumn 1963), pp. 21-29. Rpt. "My Sort of War." In New Statesman, 4 Sept. 1964, pp. 313, 315. Ch x, TS (revised).
B15 "Going to New York." In Modern Occasions. Ed. Philip Rahv. New York: Noonday, 1966, pp. 107-22. SUH.
B16 "Playing Ball on Hampstead Heath." Gentlemen's Quarterly, Aug. 1966, pp. 90, 140, 142-48. Rpt. in The Running Man, 1, No. 2 (July-Aug. 1968), 22-28 SUH (revised).
B17 "St. Urbain's Horseman." The Tamarack Review, No. 41 (Autumn 1966),pp. 137-42,145-50, 153-56, 159-60. SUH (revised).
B18 "Dinner with Ormsby-Fletcher." New American Review, No. 1 (Sept 1967), pp. 70-80. SUH.
B19 "A Liberal Education." Parts Review, No. 42 (Winter-Spring 1968), pp. 55-65. CO.
B20 "This Year at the Arabian Nights Hotel." The Tamarack Review, No. 47 (Spring 1968), pp 9-18. Rpt. "Cette annee, A l'hotel des mille et une nuits." Trans. Pierre Villon. In Liberte, 11, No 2 (mars-avril 1969), 163-79.
B21 "Preparing for the Worst." The Running Man, 1, No. 1 (May-June 1968), 52-53.
B22 "Love Affair." McCall's, Jan. 1971, pp 92-94. SUH (revised).
B23 "The Passing of Issy Hersh." The Tamarack Review, No. 57 (Second quarter 1971), pp. 5-29 SUH.
B24 "The Greening of Hersh." Chatelaine, May 1971, pp.38, 58-60. SUH.
B25 "St. Urbain's Horseman." Montreal Star, 29 May 1971, pp. 27, 29. SUH.
B26 "A 'Film' Marriage." London Magazine, Aug-Sept. 1971, pp. 5-14. SUH.
B27 "Manny Moves to Westmount." Saturday Night, Jan.-Feb. 1977, pp. 29-36.
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B332 The Acrobats. CBC, 21 Oct. 1956.
B333 Benny, The War in Europe, and Myerson's Daughter Bella. CBC, 10 Dec. 1958.
B334 The Spare Room. CBC, 4 June 1961.
B335 It's Harder to Be Anybody. CBC, 7 Nov. 1965.
B336 Such Was St.Urbain Street. CBC, 27 Sept 1966. Television Plays.
B337 The Acrobats. CBC, 13 Jan. 1957.
B338 Friend of the People. CBC, 26 May 1957.
B339 Paid in Full. ATV (England), 18 May 1958.
B340 The Trouble with Benny ABC (England), 12 April 1959.
B341 The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. CBC, 10 April 1960.
B342 The Fall of Mendel Krick. BBC, 17 Feb. 1963. An adaptation of Joe Melia's translation of Isaac Babel's "Sunset."
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B343 No Love for Johnnie. Screen play by Nicholas Phipps and Mordecai Richler; dir. Ralph Thomas; prod. Betty E. Box, a Five Star Production, 1961.
B344 Tiara Tahiti. Screen play by Geoffrey Cotterell, Ivan Foxwell, and Mordecai Richler, based on the novel by Geoffrey Cotterell; dir. Ted Kotcheff, prod. Ivan Foxwell; a Rank Organization-Ivan Foxwell Production, 1962.
B345 The Wild and the Willing. Screen play by Nicholas Phipps and Mordecai Richler, based on the play The Tinker, by Laurence Dobie and Robert Sloman; dir. Ralph Thomas; prod. Betty E. Box; a Rank Production, 1962. Released in the U.S A. in 1964 as Young and Willing.
B346 Life at the Top. Screen play by Mordecai Richler, based on the novel by John Braine; dir. Ted Kotcheff; prod. James Woolf and William Kirby; a Romulus Production, 1965.
B347 The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. Screen play by Mordecai Richler; adapted by Lionel Chetwynd; dir. Ted Kotcheff; prod. John Kemeny; a Cinemedia Production, 1974.
B348 Fun with Dick and Jane. Screen play by David Giler, Jerry Belson, and Mordecai Richler; dir. Ted Kotcheff; prod Peter Bart and Max Palevsky; a Bart/Palevsky Production, 1977.
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B349 "Benny, the War in Europe, and Myerson's Daughter Bella." In Canadian Short Stories. Ed Robert Weaver. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1960, pp. 410-20.
B350 "The Summer My Grandmother Was Supposed To Die." In Ten for Wednesday Night. Ed. Robert Weaver. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1961, pp.25-41.
B351 "Benny, the War in Europe, and Myerson's Daughter Bella." In A Book of Canadian Stories. 3rd ed. Ed. Desmond Pacey Toronto: Ryerson, 1962, pp 318-26.
B352 "Some Grist for Mervyn's Mill." In The Best American Short Stories 1963. Ed. Martha Foley and David Burnett. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1963, pp 246-68.
B353 "The Summer My Grandmother Was Supposed to Die." In Modern Canadian Stories. Ed. Giose Rimanelli and Roberto Ruberto. Toronto: Ryerson, 1966, pp. 287-301.
B354 "Playing Ball on Hampstead Heath." In Canadian Winter's Tales. Ed. Norman Levine. Toronto: Macmillan, 1968, pp. 114-30.
B355 "Some Grist for Mervyn's Mill," "This Year at the Arabian Nights Hotel." In Canadian Short Stories 2nd. Ser. Ed. Robert Weaver. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1968, pp. 150-82, 183-98.
B356 "Bambinger." In Sixteen by Twelve. Ed. John Metcalf Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1970, pp. 90-94.
B357 "Dinner with Ormsby-Fletcher." In Canadian Writing Today. Ed. Mordecai Richler. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1970, pp. 285-95.
B358 "Playing Ball on Hampstead Heath." In Great Canadian Short Stories. Ed. Alec Lucas. New York: Dell, 1971, pp 276-88.
B359 "Pinky's Squealer." In Kaleidoscope. Ed. John Metcalf Toronto: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1972, pp. 74-82. TS (excerpt).
B360 "This Year at the Arabian Nights Hotel." In Contemporary Voices: The Short Story in Canada. Ed Donald Stephens Scarborough, Ont.: Prentice-Hall, 1972, pp. 143-51.
B361 "'Quebec Oui, Ottawa Non!'" In The Evolution of Canadian Literature in Enghsh 1945-1970. Ed. Paul Denham. Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973, pp. 213-26. Non-fiction.
B362 "Mortimer Griffin, Shalinsky, and How They Settled the Jewish Question." In The Canadian Experience. Ed. A.J.M. Smith Toronto: Gage, 1974, pp. 273-85.
B363 "Mortimer Griffin, Shalinsky, and How They Settled the Jewish Question." In Selections from Major Canadian Writers. Ed. Desmond Pacey Toronto. McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp 233-42.
B364 "The Art of Kissing." In Modern Canadian Stories. Ed. John Stevens. New York: Bantam Books, 1975, pp. 140-47. TS (excerpt).
B365 "The Uncertain World." In The Canadian Novel in the Twentieth Century: Essays from Canadian Literature. Ed. George Woodcock. New Canadian Library, No. 115. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975, pp. 271-75. Non-fiction.
B366 "Bambinger." In Transitions II: Short Fiction. Ed. Edward Peck. Vancouver: CommCept, 1978, pp. 155-60. Also includes "What Matters," comment by Richler on pp. 269-71. A companion volume, Teaching Short Fiction: A Resource Book to Transitions II: Short Fiction, by Bruce Nesbitt and Jack Hodgins (same publisher and date), contains commentary on "Bambinger" on pages 28-29.
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C8 Duncan, Dorothy "My Author Husband." Maclean's, 15 Aug. 1945, pp. 5-7. Dorothy Duncan claims that there are two MacLennans, the one she married and the novelist. She outlines aspects of both sides of her husband in this biographical, personal sketch.
C9 Magee, W. H. "Trends in the Recent English-Canadian Novel." Culture, 10 (March 1949), 29-42. Magee compares Canadian fiction to American fiction. MacLennan is singled out as the most prominent novelist depicting "Canadian" issues. Barometer Rising is strongly nationalistic; Two Solitudes examines a major problem in Canada; and The Precipice defines Canada in negative terms. However, MacLennan has not transmuted his ideas into convincing fictional terms.
C10 Weaver, Robert. "A Sociological Approach to Canadian Fiction." Here and Now, 1 (June 1949), 12-15. MacLennan is a self-conscious and didactic writer whose characters are unreal because their author concentrates more on their destinies than on their humanity. Literature cannot be created like this from the top of the mind alone or in a spirit approaching intellectual chauvinism.
Cll Ballantyne, M. G. "Theology and the Man on the Street: A Catholic Commentary on Cross-Country." Culture, 10 (Dec. 1949), 392-96. In times which are increasingly atheistic, MacLennan draws attention to man's growing sense of impotence about world events. Since theology is not merely symbolic, but also analogical, Catholics must disagree with some of MacLennan's comments.
C12 Bonenfant, Jean-Charles. "Les Livres Canadiens-Anglais." La Revue de L'Universit Laval, 4 (April 1950), 742-45. The first part deals very positively with The Precipice. The second part deals with Cross-Country and says that it embodies the Canadian spirit.
C13 Woodcock, George "Hugh MacLennan." Northern Review, 3 (April-May 1950), 2-10. In the works of MacLennan, aspects of Canadian nationalism form an imposed pattern. Barometer Rising, MacLennan's best integrated novel, is elaborately contrived. It contains satisfying and powerful description. Two Solitudes is well unified in the first part, but should have ended with Tallard's death. The Precipice in many ways parallels Two Solitudes, the early part is valid, but the ending is disappointing.
C14 Phelps, Arthur L. "Hugh MacLennan." In Canadian Writers. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1951, pp 77-84. Phelps traces MacLennan's "Canadianism" through Barometer Rising, Two Solitudes, The Precipsce, and Each Man's Son. He claims that MacLennan is the best-known Canadian novelist and lauds his depiction of the Canadian scene.
C15 Watters, R. E. "Hugh MacLennan and the Canadian Character." In As A Man Thinks. Ed. E. Morrison and W. Robbins. Toronto: Gage, 1953, pp 228-43. Watters defines the "Canadian" character, mostly by negatives, claimmg that it is "one of the most complex in the world." Asserting that it is through art that definition is given to life, he attributes to MacLennan the ability to perceive and record this elusive character.
C16 McPherson, Hugo. "The Novels of Hugh MacLennan." Queen's Quarterly, 60 (Summer 1953), 186-98. HM. The simplicity of MacLennan's structure is discussed with reference to his first four novels. McPherson feels that Barometer Rising is MacLennan's best-constructed allegory; that Two Solitudes emphasizes the conflict of social groups; that The Precipice is convincing only in the description of Grenville; and that in Each Man's Son the conclusion is too contrived.
C17 Hill, O. Mary. "How Factual is the Novelist's Businessman?" Canadian Business, June 1955, p. 29. Using the character of Huntley McQueen from Two Solitudes as an example, Hill claims that novelists have always portrayed the businessman darkly. Until the businessman is represented more humanely, the business saga will suffer.
C18 Brown, Alan. "Gabrielle Roy and the Temporary Provincial." The Tamarack Review, No. 1 (Autumn 1956), pp 61-62. Brown compares Two Solitudes and Gabrielle Roy's Bonheur d'occasion. Of the former he says that the emphasis is on the political and social, characters are used to illustrate ideas, the sex is hollow, and the Church is over-emphasized. In contrast, Bonheur d'occasion is vital, the characters are alive, making Roy's points only incidentally, the sex is believable, and religion is subtly presented.
C19 Daniells, Roy. "Literature: I, Poetry and the Novel." In The Culture of Contemporary Canada. Ed. Julian Park. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1957, pp 1-80. Canadian writers are preoccupied with regionalism and with nationalism in the sense of corporate self-examination and self-realization. Two Solitudes is a striking example of an attempt to deal with English/French problems. The Precipice shows how the common denominator of a Puritan background informs Canadian and American ways of life. Daniells quotes from a letter by MacLennan: "Our writing is a late germination in a cold climate. Not nationalism, but the necessity to communicate with readers, was the reason I introduced so much seeming nationalistic material in my early books. "Danlells rates MacLennan as the most provocative of our novelists. Together with Callaghan he has made the most serious effort at interpreting Canada.
C20 McPherson, Hugo. "Introduction." In Barometer Rising. New Canadian Library, No 8. Toronto: McCleland and Stewart, 1958, pp. ix-xv. McPherson emphasizes MacLennan's remarkable pioneering achievement in Barometer Rising. The novel, he argues, represents "Canada's coming of age." However, looked at as an aesthetic entity only, the novel is not entirely successful, there are too many didactic sections and the characters are seen less as individuals than as parts of a broad pattern of events. Seen as a whole, the novel is primarily a parable in which Colonel Wain represents the old order which is replaced by the new order, represented by Neil and Penny Angus. Murray is the observer or artist, belonging fully to neither order. The greatest technical achievement in the book is the skill with which the symbolic statement explodes at the same moment as the actual Halifax explosion.
C21 Davies, Robertson. "MacLennan's Rising Sun." Saturday Night, 28 March 1959, pp 29-31. HM. Davies discusses the "Canadianness" of The Watch That Ends the Night, claiming that MacLennan captures well the subtleties of human feeling and conduct. Davies sees Jerome Martell as a man "who mistakes his own abundant energy for thought," Catherine as a "spiritual vampire," and George as an intelligent, peceptive narrator.
C22 Vallerand, Jean. "Hugh MacLennan, ou La Tendresse Dans La Litterature Canadienne." Le Devoir, 28 Nov. 1959, p. 11. No Canadian author has analysed the paradoxical relationship between French and English as well as MacLennan. Tenderness is the secret of MacLennan's art. Vallerand especially praises The Watch That Ends the Night.
C23 Boeschenstein, Hermann. "Hugh MacLennan, a Canadian Novelist." Zeitschrif fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 8 (1960), 117-35 Trans C. Maurlce Taylor HM. Boeschenstein surveys MacLennan's novels from Barometer Rising, which portrays the awakening self-awareness of Canadians, to The Watch That Ends the Night, which is almost completely free of the "spectre of nationalism" and whose last chapters are among the best MacLennan has written. Nonetheless, The Watch That Ends the Night does not live up to the promise of Barometer Rising.
C24 Tallman, Warren. "Wolf in the Snow: Part I." Four Windows onto Landscapes." Canadian Literature, No. 5 (Summer 1960), pp. 7-20. Rpt. in Contexts of Canadian Criticism: A Collection of Critical Essays Ed. Eli Mandel. Chicago: Univ of Chicago Press, 1971, pp. 232-45. This article is a comparative study of Philip Bentley in As For Me and My House, Brian O'Connal in Who Has Seen the Wind, David Canaan in The Mountain and the Valley, Alan MacNeil in Each Man's Son, and Duddy Kravitz in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. All these characters are alienated and do not have a normal childhood. Instead, they play an assigned role which is unsatisfying. In Each Man's Son specifically, Alan MacNeil is caught between violent needs which drive his father away, and the obsession which compels Dr. Ainshe to study Greek. Alan is seen throughout the novel from the adults' points of view, not his own. Incidentally, Tallman claims that Archie MacNeil is the finest single portrait in MacLennan's novels.
C25 Pacey, Desmond. Creative Writing in Canada. Toronto: Ryerson, 1961, pp. 186, 203,217-22,228, 234, 255-56, 266, 275,278. Pacey groups MacLennan with F.P. Grove, Morley Callaghan, and Philip Child as "realistic" fiction writers. MacLennan is set apart from these by his use of regional bases for the construction of national themes. Consequently his work reflects the increasing self-consciousness of the Canadian nation. Pacey assesses the novels chronologically, finding Two Solitudes, Each Man's Son, and The Watch That Ends the Night superior to Barometer Rising and The Precipice. Two Solitudes, he predicts, will probably become one of the few classics of Canadian fiction despite its weak second half. Each Man's Son, although its dialogue is unconvincing, is a brilliant regional novel. The Watch That Ends the Night, though too schematic and explicit, strikes universal concerns. Barometer Rising, despite its superb explosion scene, is unduly complicated and peopled with stock characters. The Precipice is an unmitigated failure.
C26 Goetsch, Paul. "Too Long the Courtly Muses." Canadian Literature, No. 10 (Autumn 1961), pp 19-31. Goetsch argues that most of MacLennan's themes and his style derive from older traditions. Barometer Rising is modelled on the Odyssey; Two Solitudes is similar to Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure; The Precipice, MacLennan's least successful novel, recalls Henry James; The Watch That Ends the Night is influenced by Jung's psychology and analytic technique. George is a naive narrator, like Serenus Zeitblou in Mann's Dr. Faustus.
C27 Woodcock, George. "A Nation's Odyssey: The Novels of Hugh MacLennan." Canadian Literature, No. 10 (Autumn 1961), pp 7-18. MacLennan's importance and reputation are based on the original manner in which he interpreted the Canadian scene, rather than on any originality of approach to the art of the novel. The Precipice is his worst novel because he is unable to penetrate into a woman's mind. On the whole, MacLennan is not so much interested in his characters as in what they represent, which is usually the destiny of Canada. Each Man's Son is a tense and well-constructed book in contrast to the preceding novels. The Watch That Ends the Night's piestic smugness at the conclusion is a diplomatic evasion of sex.
C28 Lucas, Alec. "Introduction." In Each Man's Son. New Canadian Library, No 30. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1962, pp. 7-13. Each Man's Son is about "man's struggle against the forces that inhibit him in his search for freedom of spirit." It differs from Barometer Rising, although both novels are "regional," because it stresses people instead of place. The setting is nonethless important, especially the mine which is a "heart of darkness" prompting different responses from the various characters. Dr. Ainshe moves away from a puritan fear of life to a recognition of its beauty through unselfish love.
C29 Lynn, S. "A Canadian Writer and the Modern World." Marxist Quarterly, 1 (Spring 1962), 36-43. Lynn looks at the opposition of spiritual values and the debasing effects of our materialistic society in The Watch That Ends the Night. At first impression, she saw MacLennan's theme as a search for spiritual salvation in reaction to the Cold War. She gives a short history of anti-Communist movements during the post-war period along with an existential interpretation of the novel. Lynn finds in MacLennan's support of petitions against nuclear weapons proof that he has gone beyond the system of ideas in The Watch That Ends the Night.
C30 Roberts, Ann. "Dilemma of Hugh MacLennan." Marxist Quarterly, 1 (Autumn 1962), 58-66. Roberts claims that MacLennan achieves a still-life effect in The Watch That Ends the Nsght, because he misunderstands the dynamics of the first part of the century. She sees MacLennan as "anti-socialist" and accuses him of distorting the historical facts. His ideology is "near nihilism."
C31 Wilson, Edmund. O Canada: An American's Notes on Canadian Culture. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1964, pp 59-80. After a brief biographical sketch, Wilson describes the uniquely "Canadian" point of view found in MacLennan's work, both fiction and non-fiction. Barometer Rising, which he calls "a landmark in Canadian writing" with its excellent descriptive explosion scene, is seen as representative of the Canadian assertion of independence from England. The Precipice is similarly interpreted as a statement of Canada's rejection of certain aspects of the United States. The Watch That Ends the Night, despite its contrived optimistic ending, is evidence of an organic national identity. Wilson, on the other hand, finds Two Solitudes and Each Man's Son disappointing: the former because its too schematic, the latter because it has been "walled rather than lived." Wilson finds MacLennan's methods old-fashioned and his writing uneven. His "decent" women characters, with the exception of Catherine who is romanticized, are excellent. He is at his best, however, with geographic settings which locate the characters not only on the land but in the larger cosmos. On the whole, MacLennan is like Balzac, characteristically "the secretary of society."
C32 McPherson, Hugo. "Fiction 1940-1960." Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English. Gen ed. and introd. Carl F. Klinck. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1965, pp 472,491,612,694, 699-703, 711, 719, 845. Commends MacLennan above all for his essays which he terms "perhaps the truest image of Hugh MacLennan's gifts." On the other hand, Brandon Conron, in his chapter, "Essays 1920-1960," claims that MacLennan's essays will always take second place to his fiction. Conron summarizes briefly Cross-Country, Thirty and Three, and Scotchman's Return, showing how they explore themes and ideas later worked out in his fiction. The essays are described as highly autobiographical and well-crafted, although the transformation of personal opinions into general truths may be irritating. McPherson assesses MacLennan's fiction as typical of the main development of the forties and fifties in which Canadian fiction finds its identity. Barometer Rising is seen as a pioneer work which fuses a realistic treatment of the Halifax explosion with a classical plot suggestive of the Perseus legend. It becomes a parable marking the end of the colonial era and the upsurge of Canadian self-consciousness. McPherson sees MacLennan from that point on as attempting to reconcile these "opposed elements of realism and symbolic statement." The first part of Two Solitudes is praised as "one of the best things in Canadian fiction," but the final section lapses badly. The symbolic method breaks down in The Precipice because MacLennan applies the same techniques to psychic states as he had to social forces, with little success. Each Man's Son is more successful. The Watch That Ends the Night is even more so, although it is too didactic. Northrop Frye, in his "Conclusion," finds in this novel an example of the individual allying himself with nature against society.
C33 New, William H. "The Apprenticeship of Discovery," Canadian Literature, No. 29 (Summer 1966), pp 18-33. Rpt. in Articulating West: Essays on Purpose and Form in Modern Canadian Ltterature. Toronto: new press, 1972, pp. 108-27. This article is a comparative study of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and The Watch That Ends the Night. Duddy's position as a child is analogous to Jerome's. Both these characters are similar to George Stewart in that all three embark on a quest. George's "voyage" is to find God and the self--a search for identity which is beyond politics, but not outside of time.
C34 Kattan, Naim. "Le Roman Canadien-Anglais." Lettres Nouvelles, Dec. 1966 to Jan. 1967, pp 21-30. This article traces the slow coming-of-age of Canadian literature. As soon as English Canadian authors started to write for a Canadian audience, the literature came out of limbo. This new wave was characterized by humour, as, for example, in the works of Stephen Leacock, Thomas Haliburton, and more recently, Robertson Davies. Hugh MacLennan in particular had a set goal to interpret Canada for Canadians and, if possible, for others. Barometer Rising traces the line of demarcation between Canada and Great Britain. Two Solitudes deals with the problem of two cultures in one country. The Precipice concerns the influence of the United States on Canada. Each Man's Son treats Calvinism, and The Watch That Ends the Night illustrates the Canadian character. Kattan asserts that MacLennan is not as good an author as Callaghan; he is more traditional, even though he reaches wider audiences. Kattan goes on to mention the new wave of novelists: Mordecai Richler, Adele Wiseman, Brian Moore, and Kildare Dobbs.
C35 New, William H. "The Storm and After: Imagery and Symbolism in Hugh MacLennan's Barometer Rising." Queen's Quarterly, 74 (Summer 1967), 302-13. HM. New traces the imagery of weather in this article with particular reference to the garden, the blizzard, the explosion, war, light and dark and seasonal changes to show Barometer Rising's allegorical structure.
C36 Rubinger, Catherine. "Two Related Solitudes: Canadian Novels in French and English." Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 3 (July 1967), 49-57. Early French-Canadian novels urge the renewal of pride and courage while early English-Canadian novels are "colonial," being addressed mainly to audiences in England. Two Solitudes is one of the first novels to show concern with the two societies. The contemporary Canadian novel is obsessed with escape. For French Canadians violence is a release, for English Canadians it is imposed by society. The novel is still explaining Canada to Canadians.
C37 Chambers, Robert D. "The Novels of Hugh MacLennan." Journal of Canadian Studies, 2 (Aug 1967), 3-11. HM. Chambers shows how MacLennan, when he began writing, had the problem that there was no background he could assume his readers knew, consequently, he had to be willing to start from scratch. MacLennan's view of history is powerfully dramatic, the old order is characterized by success, the new order by humanity. The Watch That Ends the Night uses the counterpoint of past and present superbly.
C38 Kattan, Naim. "Le Mystere des Deux Solitudes." Le Devoir, 26 Aug 1967, p 13. With reference to Return of the Sphinx, Kattan points out that times have changed since Two Solitudes was published, especially the French-Canadian point of view. Kattan maintains that Return of the Sphinx is MacLennan's most ambitious novel to date. He focuses on the French characters, Marielle, Gabriel, and Chantal to show that, because the historical framework and social setting are gone, they are less effective than the French characters in Two Solitudes.
C39 Thomas, Clara. "Happily Ever After. Canadian Women in Fiction and Fact." Canadian Literature, No 34 (Autumn 1967), pp 43-53. Thomas deals with Penelope Wain from Barometer Rising. She finds her a character in the tradition of Susanna Moodie and Duncan's Advena Murchison. Morally branded because of her affair with Neil Macrae, she is also socially branded because she works in the Shipyards.
C40 Hirano, Keiichi. "Jerome Martell and Norman Bethune: A Note on Hugh MacLennan's The Watch That Ends the Night." English Literature (the English Literary Society of Japan), 1968, 37-61. HM. This article traces some of the similarities between Dr. Norman Bethune and Jerome Martell. Hirano attempts to show how MacLennan distorts the facts about Bethune's life to create his Character.
C41 New, William H. "Winter and the Night People." Canadian Literature. 36 (Spring 1968), pp 163-72. HM. This article is heavily critical of Return of the Sphinx. New argues that the first sixty pages of the novel are the worst MacLennan ever wrote. Eventually the novel emerges from this low point, but it is only sometimes successful. There is some familiar imagery of night, winter, and flowers. However, MacLennan guides the reader to a point of view rather than letting his characters do it.
C42 Thorne, W B. "The Relation of Structure and Theme in The Watch That Ends the Night." Humanities Association Bulletin, 20 (1969), 42-45. Thorne describes the structure of the novel as a pyramid. There are six parts to it: part one, the present, part two, the past, part three, the present, part four, the flight from reality, part five, the saga of Jerome (the key to the novel's structure); part six, the delicate balance between structure, character, and theme (a foil to part five). This structure is made possible by the first-person narration of George Stewart.
C43 Farmiloe, Dorothy. "Hugh MacLennan and the Canadian Myth." Mosaic, 2 (Spring 1969), 1-9 HM. MacLennan gives a steadily deepening analysis of the national scene which culminates in his explanations of the Canadian myth in The Watch That Ends the Night and the essay "The People Behind This Peculiar Nation." Farmiloe traces this development through each of MacLennan's novels and asserts that his best writing is his description of Canada's geography.
C44 Jones, D. G. Butterfly on Rock: A Study of Themes and Images in Canadian Literature. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1970, pp. 29, 36, 62-65, 71, 84-87, 134, 139-40, 157-62, 165, 173, 183. Jones uses three of MacLennan's novels to illustrate his theory that a persistent theme in Canadian literature, as Northrop Frye pointed out in his "Conclusion" to the Literary History of Canada, is that of social framework as being strongly informed by Puritanism. In Each Man's Son, for example, can be found the stern Presbyterian ethic which endorses an aggressive, political movement to destroy a weak and vascillating older generation. Daniel, consequently, is a false or ironic hero. The Watch That Ends the Night is most fully treated as the novel in which MacLennan shows "a view of life that only comprehends suffering and death but sees in them the conditions that make possible the highest human values." By showing George Stewart moving from an external or "garrison" framework of values to an internal or "natural" set of principles, MacLennan affirms the values of the more passive "wilderness," revealing it to be a "garden." Jerome Martell is seen as a Jesus figure, providing the motif of death and resurrection essential to this Christian novel.
C45 Sutherland, Ronald. Second Image: Comparative Studies in Quebec/Canadian Literature. Toronto: new press, 1971, pp. 12,14,23-24,27,38,52,55-56,68,70,75,92,109,123-27,129-31,134,138,144,149,151-53,155-56,161-62. Sutherland outlines three eras in Canadian literature as represented by three themes: The land and divine order, the breaking up of the old order, and the search for divine truth. Barometer Rising, Two Solitudes, and Each Man's Son depict some crucial problems in the "Old Order." The Watch That Ends the Night is typical of the second and third Of Sutherland's themes. As the "Old Order" breaks up, socialism, for a time, fills the remaining vacuum. Ultimately, an existential experience forces the characters to seek "Divine Truth." In Return of the Sphinx, MacLennan demonstrates an awareness of the four types of separation currently found in Quebec as part of the "Search for Divine Truth" that succeeds the political separation, as represented by Aime Latendresse; opportunism, as represented by Uncle Ephrem, and psychological necessity, as represented by Joe Lacombe. MacLennan is consequently one of the few writers in the mainstream of English-and French-Canadian writing.
C46 Atwood, Margaret. Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1972, pp 137-38, 141, 182, 208, 241. In her chapter called "Family Portraits," Atwood uses Each Man's Son to elucidate the three-generational schema she finds characteristic of Canadian literature. In this novel, the "Parent" generation is represented by Dr. Ainslie, an obsessive worker who has internalized the guilt his Calvinist father (a "Grandfather" figure) has instilled. Dr Ainshe's wife, Margaret, is symbolically sterilized. The "Child" they adopt, Alan, is likely to be warped in some way. The whole novel is peopled with "losers" who merely survive.
C47 Buitenhuis, Peter. "Two Solitudes Revisited: Hugh MacLennan and Leonard Cohen." The Literary Half-Yearly [University of Mysore], 13 (July 1972), 19-32. Buitenhuis compares MacLennan's Two Solitudes and Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers. MacLennan's novel is an historical chronicle depicting "two solitudes" as a national fact, in which the author greatly underestimated the separatist movement in Quebec. Cohen's novel, on the other hand, is a more realistic novel based on personal psychology, depicting the messianic nature of the Quebecois vision with accuracy.
C48 Arnason, David. "Canadian Nationalism in Search of Form." Journal of Canadian Fiction, 1 (Fall 1972), 68-71. Arnason terms MacLennan the "Grand Old Man" of Canadian literature in this essay on Barometer Rising. It was only when he turned to a Canadian subject that MacLennan was successful. His chief skill is his ability to write sustained passages of descriptive narrative, such as the explosion scene in this novel. In this scene, the characters confront themselves rather than each other. The action of the novel, however, is continually interupted by contemplations about Canadian society and the closing is weak. Arnason observes that MacLennan distrusts certain aspects of progress because he has a deep emotional attachment to the old order.
C49 Davis, M. J. "Fathers and Sons." Canadian Literature, No. 58 (Autumn 1973), pp 39-50. Davis begins with the essays in which MacLennan shows the peculiar influence of religion on the Canadian Psyche. The puritanical effects of both Calvinism and Jansenism significantly determine the relationship between fathers and sons in Each Man's Son and Return of the Sphinx. In the former, the burden of guilt is passed from father to son. In Return of the Sphinx, the Calvistic sense of duty explains much of Alan Aanshe's behavlour. Daniel is emotionally crippled by the effects of Jansenism.
C50 Moss, John. Patterns of Isolation in English-Canadian Fiction. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1974, pp 9, 56, 58-62, 120, 132, 190-91, 196-97, 215-18, 222-2,4, 226-27. In a chapter titled "Callaghan and MacLennan," Moss treats one aspect of each novelist. In MacLennan's work he singles out the theme of "solitude"--not in its political sense, but as an experience common to MacLennan's characters. Thus Paul Tallard in Two Solitudes, Jerome Martell, George and Catherine Stewart in The Watch That Ends the Night, and Lucy in The Precipice demonstrate the isolation of the individual which is "both the reward and the suffering of consciousness of self in the universe." Moss finds MacLennan's use of irony more controlled than Callaghan's, especially in his best novel, The Watch That Ends the Night. The ironies created by personal relationships in Return of the Sphinx result in "didactic strength" but "narrative weakness." In his chapter called "The Ubiquitous Bastard," Moss argues that "the farther the recurrent pattern of the isolated child is removed from the geophysical context, the less it seems to imply of the moral conditions of the character involved." Hence, Jerome's orphan state, because it is rooted in wilderness experience, results in "moral complexity" and a life lived outside conventional society.
C51 Zezulka, Joseph. "MacLennan's Defeated Pilgrim. A Perspective on Return of the Sphinx." Journal of Canadian Fiction, 4, No 1 (1975), 121-31. Zezulka argues that Return of the Sphinx is not as pessimistic as many critics have believed. Using Dave Godfrey's remark that MacLennan's work shows the search for "a holy city," he explores the "pilgrim" figure in MacLennan's novels, culminating with Alan Ainslie.
C52 Hyman, Leslie Robert. "Hugh MacLennan: His Art, His Society and His Critics." Queen's Quarterly, 32, No 4 (Winter 1975), 515-28. Hyman gives an overview of MacLennan's career as a writer to show that "as fictions only [the] novels are commonplace", as structured analyses of his country's character and identity they are unique. He points out that MacLennan's techniques are outdated and iappropriate and that his moral purpose of articulating a national consciousness "runs counter to the geographical and physic facts of Canada's existence" (i.e. regionalism). MacLennan's critics have done him a disservice by applying a "peculiar double vision" to his works, ignoring his shortcomings and lauding his seriousness. MacLennan is consequently treated as "a Canadian institution." The time has come for a re-evaluation of MacLennan.
C53 Hyman, Roger. "Return to Return of the Sphinx." English Studies in Canada, 1 (Winter 1975), 450-65. In Return of the Sphinx, Hyman says, MacLennan returns to the concern for national unity found in Barometer Rising and Two Solitudes. This pessimistic novel, in Hyman's opinion, is a failure mainly because of structural deficiencies. The main strength of the novel is in its prophetic quality.
C54 Cameron, Elspeth. "The Overlay Theme in Hugh MacLennan's The Precipice." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No 20 (1977), 117-24. With reference to Robert Kroetsch's theory that the theme of "unhiding the hidden" typifies contemporary Canadian fiction, Cameron argues that this theme was also found earlier both in Robertson Davies' play, Overlaid, and in MacLennan's The Precipice.
C55 Sutherland, Ronald. The New Hero: Essays in Quebec/Canadian Literature. Toronto. Macmillan, 1977, pp. ix, 4, 6, 16, 27, 38, 53-54, 65, 94. Sutherland finds the heroes of MacLennan's work, especially George Stewart in The Watch That Ends the Night, to be typical pre-1970 Canadian heroes in that they are determined losers, somewhat masochistic, torn internally between their own aims and the dictates of the system. After 1970, a "new hero," more assertive, non-conformist and visionary, predominates in Canadian fiction. Sutherland maintains that such characters have been minor characters in MacLennan's pre-1970 fiction.
C56 Stevenson, Warren. "A Neglected Theme in Two Solitudes." Canadian Literature, No. 75 (Winter 1977), pp. 53-60. Although Stevenson agrees that the main theme of the novel is Canadian self-awareness and unity, he points out a secondary theme which helps to unify the novel--the theme of individual self-awareness. This theme is worked out by contrasting those characters who learn to come to terms with "the ultimate solitude" (e.g. Captain Yardley, Paul Tallard and Heather Methuen) and those who cannot do so (e.g. Huntly McQueen, General Methuen, Athanase Tallard and Kathleen).
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C77 Governor-General's Gold Medal, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia (1928).
C78 Rhodes Scholar, Canada-at-Large (1928).
C79 Guggenhelm Fellow (1943-44).
C80 Governor-General's Award for Fiction for Two Solitudes. (1945).
C81 Governor-General's Award for Fiction for The Precipice (1948).
C82 Governor-General's Award for Non-Fiction for Cross-Country (1949).
C83 D. Litt., University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick (1952).
C84 D. Litt., University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario (1952).
C85 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1952).
C86 The Lorne Pierce Medal for Literature, The Royal Society of Canada (1952).
C87 The Quebec Prize for Literature for The Precipice, Each Man's Son, and Cross-Country (1952).
C88 D. Litt., University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba (1953).
C89 Governor-General's Award for Non-Fiction for Thirty and Three (1954).
C90 LL.D., Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia (1955).
C91 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. (1956).
C92 The Critics Circle Award (1959).
C93 Governor-General's Award for Fiction for The Watch That Ends the Night (1959).
C94 LL.D, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (1959).
C95 The Alberta Medal (1960).
C96 D. Litt, Waterloo Lutheran University, Waterloo, Ontario (1961).
C97 Canada Council Grant (1963).
C98 D.C.L., Bishop's University, Lennoxville, Quebec(1965).
C99 D Litt., McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario (1965).
C100 LL.D, University of Toronto (1965).
C101 LL.D., Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario (1966).
C102 Molson Award (1966)
C103 Companion of the Order of Canada (1967).
C104 D Litt., University de Sherbrooke (1967).
C105 LL. D., Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario (1967).
C106 Royal Bank Award (1967).
C107 Royal Society of Literature, Companion of Literature (1967).
C108 D. Litt., University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia (1968).
C109 LL.D., St Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia (1968).
C110 LL.D., Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick (1969).
Clll D. Litt., University of Waterloo (1977).
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C1 Goetsch, Paul Das Romanwerk Hugh MacLennans: Eine Studie zum literischen Nationalismus in Kanada. Hamburg Cram, de Gruyter, 1961. 140 pp. In five chapters Goetsch deals with following aspects relating to MacLennan's work: Literary nationalism in Canada, MacLennan as a critic, MacLennan's novels, main features of the writing of MacLennan, and the state of research on the subject. Goetsch places MacLennan in the English Novel tradition and in an American context. He characterizes MacLennan as a "new conservative literary critic." The book includes a useful bibliography of material on MacLennan and on the social context in which he wrote.
C2 Buitenhuis, Peter. Hugh MacLennan. Toronto: Forum House, 1969. 83 pp. In eight chapters, one biographical, one on each novel and one on the non-fiction, this study places MacLennan in a North-American context. MacLennan is described as "the great trail-blazer" whose sense of place and ability to project himself into one central character are his major achievements. MacLennan's lack of concern with technique and his reliance on "old-fashioned" narrative methods mark his main limitations. The tightly controlled novels, Barometer Rising and Each Man's Son, are evaluated as the most successful, The Precipice is seen as the least successful. Of the non-fiction, the "occasional essays" are preferred to the "think pieces."
C3 Woodcock, George. Hugh MacLennan. Toronto: Copp Clark, 1969. 121 pp. After a biographical sketch, this book offers three chapters which use the non-fiction to illustrate the philosophical, political, and artistic aspects of MacLennan respectively. There follow six chapters, one for each of the six novels in which the thesis is developed that MacLennan is "Canada's best social novelist. "The relevance of Greek myth, especially that of Odysseus, to MacLennan's work is shown throughout. The Watch That Ends the Night is evaluated as "the most impressive of MacLennan's works."
C4 Lucas, Alec. Hugh MacLennan. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1970. 61 pp. In addition to its introduction and conclusion, this book examines five more aspects of MacLennan's work in the chapters entitled "Constructing a Canada," "The Uses of Romance," "Chronicle of Young Men," "Types and Myth" and "The Social Themes." MacLennan's seen as a "forerunner" whose main purpose has been "to analyse and imaginatively to present ideas and issues related to the individual and the society of the modern age." Technically, MacLennan is shown to be an experimenter" who "expanded romance into the novel of social analysis." Philosophically MacLennan is "essentially a religious novelist."
C5 Cockburn, Robert H. The Novels of Hugh MacLennan. Montreal: Harvest House, 1971, 165 pp. This is an analysis of MacLennan's six published novels, one chapter devoted to each. Cockburn hints that MacLennan's novels are never really harmonious because Maclennan relies too heavily on the techniques of non-fiction. Barometer Rising is said to be first-rate, though little known; Two Solitudes is categorized as "a flimsy excuse for fiction." The Precipice is MacLennan's least successful novel, while Each Man's Son, though not perfect, deserves high acclaim. Cockburn feels that The Watch That Ends the Night is a disappointment, while Return of the Sphinx is a powerful book. In the conclusion, the author provides a brief character analysis.
C6 Morley, Patricia A. The Immoral Moralists: Hugh MacLennan and Leonard Cohen. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1972. 144 pp. After an examination of the beliefs of the Puritans in the 17th century, Morley points out that there are many respects in which they are similar to the beliefs held by MacLennan and Leonard Cohen. The result is a comparative survey of MacLennan's and Cohen's work, tracing puritanism and its effects. Many references are taken from MacLennan's novels, notably Each Man's Son and The Watch That Ends the Night.
C7 Goetsch, Paul. Ed. Hugh MacLennan. Toronto: McGraw Hill Ryerson,1973. 179 pp. (Hereafter abbreviated as HM.)This study aims "to document the major trends in MacLennan criticism and to suggest that MacLennan's reputation so far rests chiefly on Barometer Rising and The Watch That Ends the Night." The collection of essays and book reviews consists of the following four general studies (George Woodcock, "Hugh MacLennan"; Hugo McPherson, "The Novels of Hugh MacLennan"; Herman Boeschenstem, "Hugh MacLennan, a Canadian Novelist"; Robert D Chambers,"The Novels of Hugh MacLennan"), two studies of Barometer Rising (William H. New, "The Storm and After", Kathleen O'Donnell, "The Wanderer in Barometer Rising"), two studies of Two Solitudes(I.M.S., "Two Solitudes" and Merrill Denison, "Where Two Civilizations Meet"), two studies of Each Man's Son (Joyce Marshall, "Each Man's Son" and George Woodcock, "Each Man's Son"), seven studies of The Watch That Ends the Night (William Dunlea, "An Enoch Arden of the Thirties"; W.A. Deacon, "People in Their Environment", Walter O'Hearn, "A Sense of Wonder Preserved and Shared"; Robertson Davies, "MacLennan's Rising Sun", Keiichi Hirano, "Jerome Martell and Norman Bethune"; W. B. Thorne, "The Relation of Structure to Theme in The Watch That Ends the Night", Dorothy Farmiloe, "Hugh MacLennan and the Canadian Myth") and three studies of Return of the Sphinx (J. M. Stedmond, "Return of the Sphinx: Douglas Spettigue, "Beauty and the Beast"; William H. New, "Winter and the Night People").
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C70 Mck., L. M. "Decency and Good People Can Be Interesting." Toronto: Telegram, 21 Feb 1959, p 33. This interview on the occasion of the publication of The Watch That Ends the Night concentrates on discovering MacLennan's feelings about his novel and how he came to write it. MacLennan states that his novel is worth all the previous ones put together. MacLennan also comments on the developing "Canadian" literature and on the future of the novel in general.
C71 Kattan, Naim. "Montreal and French-Canadian Culture. What They Mean to English-Canadian Novelists." The Tamarack Review, No. 40(Summer 1966), pp. 40-53. Kattan asks two questions of MacLennan and seven other English-Canadian novelists: Does Montreal seem to you to be a French city, and is this reflected in your work? and has French-Canadian literature had any influence upon you and your work? MacLennan replies that only the base of the city is French; like all great cities, it is essentially international. Aside from the obvious fact that two of his novels are set in Montreal, MacLennan maintains that the city has been a strong influence on him because of the tensions of cross-fertilization. In addition, his classical training and the novel Trente Arpents have influenced him.
C72 "Canadian Publishing Answers to a Questionnaire." Canadian Literature, No. 33 (Summer 1967), pp. 5-15. This interview presents the opinions of Earle Birney, Kildare Dobbs, Arnold Edinborough, Robert Fulford, Roderick Haig-Brown, Carl F. Klinck, and Robert Weaver, as well as Hugh MacLennan. MacLennan claims that Canadian publishing has, in the past, tended to down-play Canadian material. He praises McClelland and Stewart's New Canadian Library Series as an example of the change for the better in this area and urges Canadian publishers in general to be more willing to take chances on Canadian writers.
C73 Untitled. [1968]. 4 pp. Copy at Calgary. This interview chiefly concerns the "psychic crisis" of the 1960s. The young student reporter discusses with MacLennan the university "sit-ins," the political scene in Canada, the educational system, and modern literature. MacLennan points out some of the weaknesses in the position taken by contemporary youth, while praising their ideals.
C74 Cameron, Donald. "The Tennis Racket is an Antelope Bone." Journal of Canadian Fiction, 1 (Winter 1972), pp 40-47. Rpt. In Conversations With Canadian Novelists -- I. Toronto: Macmillan, 1973, pp 130-48. MacLennan speaks of his writing, he feels that Return of the Sphinx is his best work. He discusses parochialism and his sense of "Canadian."
C75 Sutherland, Ronald. "Hugh MacLennan." Canadian Literature, Nos. 68-69 (Spring-Summer 1976), pp 40-48. This interview concerns MacLennan's background and his fiction to date. After some detailed biographical information, MacLennan discusses how his classical education and his athletic endeavours affected his novels. He claims a special "feel" for Quebec originated in his Celtic background. Characters and situations for his novels come from real life absorbed "through the pores." His views on regionalism are given in the context of the development of his own attitudes to fiction.
C76 Kennedy, Paul. "Hugh MacLennan: Prophet and Prof." Quill & Quire, April 1978, pp 25, 32. MacLennan states that his contact with the younger generation is extremely important to him. He speaks of his life as a teacher at McGill and of the renewed interest in his work due to the political situation in Quebec. He asserts that Canadian literature has now evolved to universal significance.
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D1 Southron, J. S. "Catastrophe at Sea." New York Times, 5 Oct 1941, p 32. Southron covers the background to the Halifax explosion and the heroic salvage of the city. He claims that MacLennan has scored a bull's-eye first shot. The catastrophe rights everything without any strain on credulence. The novel shows how the greatest miracle of all is the liberation of frozen energy, frozen kindliness, and frozen love. The plot is brilliant and fast-moving. Overall, the novel concerns the place of Canada, "this unborn mightiness," in the scheme of things.
D2 Ballantyne, Craig. "Hugh MacLennan's Halifax Story Fine Piece of Historical Writing." The Gazette [Montreal], ll Oct 1941, p. 11. There are two major flaws in the novel first, that MacLennan is too conscious of writing a "Canadian" novel and, second, that he leaves too little to the imagination.
D3 Davies, Robertson. "Disaster and a Canadian Family." Saturday Night, 11 Oct, 1941, p 20. Davies praises the plot of the novel which is simple but strong. The story, he claims, is unfolded in a way that is "compact and exiguous without being bold." Its most serious fault is the "rigid prose." Davies urges readers to pay attention to this novel because it is "an important addition to our Canadian literature." Too often, he says, Canadians neglect their own artists until they are recognized abroad.
D4 Deacon, William Arthur. "Critical Novel of Wartime Halifax." The Globe and Mail. 11 Oct 1941, p. 8. Deacon praises the novel for its impressive balance of several factors: courage, honesty, and skill.
D5 Andrews, G. L. Rev. of Barometer Rising. The Canadian Forum, Dec. 1941, p. 282. Andrews praises the novel for its exceptionally mature attitude toward society and hopes it will be widely read. He finds the plot "thin and unconvincing," however, mainly because of the restrained style in which the book is written. This same style is better suited to the description of the explosion, and it is the success of this section of the book which draws attention away from the plot and characters.
D6 W., E. H. Rev. of Barometer Rising. Queen's Quarterly, 48 (Winter 1941), 428. After a few biographical details, the reviewer praises the novel as a well-written and a well-balanced book. It may be taken as a sign of Canada's real national existence, for only a Canadian could have written it. The explosion has a tension which is "quietly and competently heightened to the full." Overall, it is a welcome book because it has "intrinsic neatness, competence and Canadianness."
D7 MacGillivray, J. R. Rev. of Barometer Rising. University of Toronto Quarterly, 11 (1941-42), 298-300. MacGillivray reviews Barometer Rising and As For Me and My House. Of Barometer Rising, he says that it is a convincing and lively picture of Halifax both during the war in general and in the throes of the great explosion of 1917. He gives a rundown of the characters, finding Roddie an excellent secondary character. Although he finds the plot neither completely convincing nor exciting, the novel contains memorable scenes, characters, settings as well as shrewd and amusing social comment.
D8 S., H. L. Rev. of Barometer Rising. Dalhousie Review, 21 (Jan 1942), 512. This reviewer finds Barometer Rising a striking and well-deserved success. The story lives, he says, because it is peopled with real men and women "in very different circumstances of fortune, of joy and sorrow, of intrigue and heroism and wickedness."
D9 Kattan, Naim. Rev. of Barometer Rising. Le Devoir, 28 May 1966, p. 11. Now that the novel is translated into French twenty-five years after its original publication, it can be seen as an historical novel. In it, Odysseus attempts to demonstrate Canada's growth into nationhood.
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D31 Prescott, Orville. "Books of the Times." New York Times, 9 April 1951, p 23. Prescott feels that the characters are sympathetic and the story moves well, but the novel is somehow disappointing. He concludes that, although it is not completely successful, its literary virtues outweigh its shortcomings.
D32 Rev. of Each Man's Son. New Yorker, 14 April 1951, p. 137. The reviewer summarizes the plot and describes the main characters. He finds MacLennan "an honest and painstaking writer who becomes timid and even clumsy when he tries to deal directly with his own people."
D33 Allen, Thomas. "Wish and Fulfillment." New York Times, 15 April 1951, p. 5. Allen says that the novel is rich with minor characters. In this favorable review, he praises the universality of theme and the controlled simplicity of the writing.
D34 Deacon, William Arthur. "Doctor in Mining Town on Cape Breton Island." The Globe and Mall, 21 April 1951, p 12. Deacon finds this novel a departure from MacLennan's earlier novels. The earlier novels are characteristically brilliant studies in social criticism, while Each Man's Son is a warmer and more intimate book, filled with tenderness and understanding. Deacon goes on to praise the novel for being well-balanced and well-written.
D35 S. B. K. "The Ancient Curse." Saturday Night, 24 April 1951, p. 35. This reviewer finds that MacLennan is filled with missionary zeal and that the novel's chief fault is that MacLennan does not allow the characters to tell their own story. He feels that the main characters are less interesting than the minor characters, especially Archie MacNeil who steals the show.
D36 Swados, Harvey. Rev. of Each Man's Son. New Republic, 20 Aug. 1951, p. 21. In this predominantly negative review, Swados criticizes both the novel's conclusion and the portrayal of its chief character, Dr Ainslie. Of the resolution he claims that it is much too neat and discloses little that we could not have learned from the Preface. As for MacLennan's portrait of Dr. Ainslie, Swados says, "The author has doggedly traced--although with taste and craftsmanshlp--a preconceived portrait of a dedicated man that is never really illuminating, for all its warmth and sympathetic rendering."
D37 Marshall, Joyce. Rev. of Each Man's Son. The Canadian Forum, Sept. 1951, p. 140. HM. Marshall claims that the novel has two Protagonists: Dr Ainslie and Calvinism. She finds the women characters unconvincing.
D38 Woodcock, George. Rev. of Each Man's Son. Northern Revsew, 5 (Oct-Nov 1951), 40-42 HM. Woodcock points out the theme of Calvinist guilt in the novel. He finds many merits in the book: the depiction of the relationship between classes, the portrayal of the relationships between individuals, the novel's many sensitive and evocative passages. The ending, however, he criticizes as being "almost grotesquely artificial and imposed." And here, as in his other novels, MacLennan has a tendency to force the natural growth of human relationships into the pattern of a mechanistic fate.
D39 Bissell, Claude T. "Letters in Canada: 1951." University of Toronto Quarterly, 21 (1951-52), 263-64. Bissell finds this novel better than The Precipice, praising in particular the clear and eloquent prose style. However, he criticizes the novel's lack of unity due to the fact that the ideas are not related to either the characters or the action.
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D64 Callaghan, Barry. "MacLennan's Latest Stuffy, Lifeless, Platitudinous." Toronto Telegram, 19 Aug 1967, p. 21. Callaghan considers this an old-fashioned novel and a second-rate One. The function of each character, he points out, is to "illustrate the social problem at hand."
D65 Fulford, Robert. "The Saddest Book of Our Centennial Summer." Toronto Star, 19 Aug 1967, p. 30. Fulford states that Return of the Sphinx is "essentially superficial and possibly harmful." He attacks MacLennan's political views as well as his style of writing.
D66 Buitenhuis, Peter. Rev. of Return of the Sphinx. New York Times, 20 Aug 1967, p. 4. Buitenhuis claims that MacLennan is too little of a politician to give a good diagnosis of the problem of separatism in this novel, and too much of an artist to offer any solutions. Consequently, the conflicts and tensions raised in Return of the Sphinx are left up in the air. Furthermore, although MacLennan has a deep moral concern and seriousness of purpose, the book often seems disconnected and he is unable to make a dramatic whole out of the questions raised. However, some parts of the novel are written with great perception and grace and overall, MacLennan has a rare command of the social, professional, and political milieu of Quebec.
D67 Kattan, Naim. "Le Mystere des Deux Solitudes." Le Devoir, 26 Aug. 1967, p. 13. Kattan points out that this novel is a continuation of Two Solitudes in theme. It is the most ambitious novel MacLennan has attempted; however, it does not come up to the ambitions of its author nor to the expectations of this reader.
D68 Maloff, Saul. Rev. of Return of the Sphinx. Newsweek. 28 Aug 1967, p. 77. Maloff terms MacLennan "the best known of Canada's English language novelists." He summarizes the novel's theme as "a nation's agony reflected in the irreconcilable conflict between father and son." Although he thinks the book works as a dialogue between contending points of view, he says that as fiction it fails to dramatize the theme.
D69 Gzowski, Peter. "Yes, But Can Our Major Writers Write?" Maclean's, Sept 1967, p. 90. Gzowski gives the novel an extremely negative Review. He terms it "stilted, joyless and without insight." He regrets MacLennan's habit of "laying on the symbolism as thick as meringue." Overall, MacLennan falls far short of his aims in the novel.
D70 Pickrel Paul. Rev. of Return of the Sphinx. Harper's, Sept 1967, p. 118. Pickrel feels that the father-son conflict is presented with great point and vigour and that the novel gives a convincing picture of Quebec politics. Also, the minor characters are especially good. In the end, however, the book is a little disappointing because it never involves the emotions deeply. The story's resolution is weak in that it is more fictional than inevitable.
D71 Dudek, Louis. "Hugh MacLennan's New Novel." The Gazette [Montreal], 9 Sept 1967, p. 30. Dudek summarizes the reviews that the novel has received to date and claims that most of the bad reviews are undeserved. He asserts that, although it has its flaws, Return of the Sphinx should not be missed.
D72 Fuller, Edmund. "Canada and Change." Wall Street Journal, 12 Sept. 1967, p. 20. Fuller urges Americans to read this novel as it provides a penetrating look at Canadians from which they might learn something. He finds MacLennan a careful writer who strikes a balance in his book.
D73 Cockburn, Robert. Rev. of Return of the Sphinx. The Dalhousie Review, 47 (Autumn 1967), 435-39. Cockburn finds this a bitter and disappointing novel mainly because of the same artistic flaws which have been evident in all his previous novels. These include the tendency to confuse fiction and non-fiction, the sacrifice of characters to theme, and MacLennan's insistence on teaching rather than creating. Thus, although the book's father-son conflict and the contemporary milieu of Ottawa and Montreal are potentially interesting, Return of the Sphinx is as much a failure as The Precipice.
D74 Spettigue, Douglas. "Beauty and the Beast." Queen's Quarterly, 74 (Winter 1967), 762-65 HM. Spettigue observes that this novel is an unexpected sequel to Each Man's Son. Here, as in MacLennan's earlier novels can be seen the Odyssean hero, although the human quest is reduced in this novel to a new simplicity. Some of the author's familiar weaknesses are apparent in the book: the preponderance of a thesis and the use of characters primarily as spokesmen rather than people. It is almost as if the book were meant to round off MacLennan's fictional view. The heroic quest is over and the illusions of the importance or even the necessity of Canada's survival are shattered.
D75 Stedmond, J. M. Rev. of Return of the Sphinx. University of Toronto Quarterly, 37 (July 1968), 383-84. HM. Stedmond finds this novel apparently prompted by a sense of duty, rather than by any new insight, to return to the theme of Two Solitudes. Ainslie is awkwardly borrowed from Each Man's Son as the main character. The novel's main fault lies in the characterization. Characters are spokesmen for a point of view and are, consequently, wooden, rhetorical devices, not imaginative creations as they should be.
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D56 Deacon, William Arthur. "Hugh MacLennan: Essayist." The Globe and Mail, 17 Sept. 1960, p. 11. Deacon praises the collection highly, especially for its wit. He thinks that this book of essays will interest and please readers more than some of MacLennan's novels and predicts that it will enjoy a longer life than the fiction.
D57 Hutchens, John K. Rev. of Scotchman's Return. New York Herald Tribune, 23 Sept. 1960, p 17. Hutchens terms MacLennan a first-class essayist, especially in the field of literary criticism.
D58 Erskine, J. S. Rev. of Scotchman's Return. Dalhousie Review, 41 (Spring 1961), pp. 119-23. Erskine singles out the intellectual essays as the best, finding the personal essays "slight." In comparing the collection with Davies' A Voice From the Attic, he finds similar concerns.
D59 "Inside Stuff." The Spectator, 22 Sept. 1961, p. 395. Although this reviewer finds MacLennan "a man of considerable influence, vast good will and integrity," he does not like the collection of essays because he finds little wit and not much narrative skill in them.
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D60 Randal, Alan. Rev. of Seven Rivers of Canada. The Gazette [Montreal], 4 Nov. 1961, p 23. Randal praises this skillfully written work for giving Canada's rivers their due. He says that MacLennan has caught the personality of every river about which he writes.
D61 Fulford, Robert. Rev. of Seven Rivers of Canada. Toronto Star, 7 Sept. 1974, p. H5. Fulford finds that MacLennan, in this book, offers mood rather than analysis. In his opinion, the book is not successful because the historical perspective is not very good and MacLennan's style is not shown to best advantage.
D62 Rev. of Seven Rivers of Canada. Maclean's, Dec 1974, p 104. This reviewer considers MacLennan as a "literary A. Y. Jackson." Seven Rivers of Canada is written in an intensely personal way, revealing its author as conservative and romantic. Nonetheless, the book is not frivolous, it is a success.
D63 Bangay, G. E. Rev. of Seven Rivers of Canada. Canadian Geographical Journal, May 1975, p 53. This book deals with Canada's rivers as agents of historical development and presents them in a romantic light. Bangay finds that MacLennan has a good grasp of Canadian geography and the effect it had, and still is having, on the developing Canadian nation. The book's only flaw is the inconsistent use of names for the rivers.
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D76 Woodcock, George. "From Both Sides Now." Books in Canada, Nov. 1978, pp. 12-14. The re-issue of The Colour of Canada is praised, although Woodcock feels that the title is misleading, since MacLennan does not see Canada with a painter's eye, but from an historical perspective.
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D77 Woodcock, George. "From Both Sides Now." Books in Canada, Nov. 1978, pp. 12-14. Woodcock feels that the title of this book is misleading because MacLennan is not a "divided" man, but a well-integrated personality. However, he praises the collection as illustrating MacLennan's "outstanding qualities as an essayist" and for "illuminating" his novels.
D78 Godfrey, Dave. "The Apocalyptic Christianity of Hugh MacLennan." Saturday Night, Special Supplement: The Literary World, Nov. 1978, 56-58. These essays are unlike MacLennan's sometimes turgid and parochial novels; they are light, witty, and exotic. Godfrey concludes that MacLennan is a wistful eccentric whose view of the world has been shaped by apocalyptic Christianity.
D79 Newman, Peter. "Hugh MacLennan as Canada's Boswell: A Voice Unwavering, Tender and Clear." Maclean's, 6 Nov 1978, p. 3. Newman concludes in this editorial review that MacLennan is "the master of Canadian prose. "He sees MacLennan as Canada's Boswell, recording the truth about the aspirations and afflictions of the Canadian people.
D80 Inness, Lorna. "MacLennan's $125 Essays Were Personal, Very Enloyable to Do." Halifax Mail Star, 9 Dec 1978, pp 34-35. Inness bases her review on an interview with MacLennan, consequently it is filled with anecdotes and quotations from the author. She claims that the book is one to treasure and re-read.
D81 Grantham, Ronald. "Attractive Human inside Novelist." Ottawa Citizen, 23 Dec 1978. Grantham discusses several of the various Essays in the book, praising the collection for bringing the reader closer to the "attractive human being inside the talented writer." Many biographical details are given about MacLennan.
D82 Bailey, Bruce. "Flip Side." The Gazette [Montreal], 13 Jan. 1979, p. 53. Bailey finds that MacLennan has mellowed over the years and generally praises his skills as an essayist. He notes that MacLennan is adept at yoking apparently disjunctlve ideas together to make a new thought.
D83 Groves-St. Jacques, Alice. "Keen Sense of Irony, Complete Acceptance." Ottawa Journal, 13 Jan 1979. Groves-St. Jacques singles out "The Shadow of Captain Bligh," "By Their Foods," and "Remembrance of Men Past" as the best essays from MacLennan's "well-seasoned" mind. She criticizes "An Orange from Portugal" for including too much material. Finally, she recommends the book highly.
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D23 Compton, Neil M. "The North American." The Gazette [Montreal], 19 June 1948, p 25. The novel deals with some aspects of Canadian-American relations searchingly, but Compton feels there is much left unsaid.
D24 Grey, Rodney. "MacLennan's Novel Is an Essay: Ideas Dominate His People." Saturday Night, 28 Aug 1948, p. 17. Grey accuses MacLennan of being more interested in expounding than in writing novels. The Precipice marks the completion of MacLennan's lashing out at the Canadian consciousness.
D25 Austen, George. "Barometer Falling." Mayfair, Sept 1948, p. 98. In this negative review, Austen says that MacLennan meant the novel to be significant, but that he failed to make it so.
D26 Dubois, William. "Tensions in Two Lives." New York Times, 12 Sept 1948, p. 5. Dubois praises MacLennan's sense of ease in this novel. The description of New York is good, as is the characterization. On the whole it is an absorbing novel.
D27 Denison, Merrill. "Surmounting the Border." Saturday Review, 18 Sept 1948, p. 26, Denison hails this novel as the "first North American novel." Its description is good and it is absorbing. It should, he claims, win a large American following for MacLennan.
D28 Owen, Patricia. Rev. of The Precipice. The Canadian Forum, Nov.1948, p 190. Owen says that those who enjoyed Barometer Rising and Two Solitudes will be disappointed with this novel, mainly because the ending is naive and weak.
D29 Bissell, Claude T. Rev. of The Precipice. University of Toronto Quarterly, 18 (1948-49), 263-65. Bissell says that, although this is MacLennan's most involved and elaborately constructed novel to date, it is the least successful. In developing its main theme of the search for a national idea, it is not well-sustained. The characters are too insubstantial and the situations too trite to support the weight of comment and analysis, most of which is given to the reader by an intrusive author. MacLennan has not yet learned how to fuse character, incident, and theme into an imaginative unity.
D30 Deacon, William Arthur. Rev. of The Precipice. Canadian Author and Bookman, 25 (Autumn 1949), 36. Deacon expresses the hope that the awarding of the Governor-General's Award for this novel will end the controversy about its relative merits. He believes that The Precipice is MacLennan's best novel by far. He attributes the bad reviews the novel has received to a misguided taste for the sensational which makes many readers unable to appreciate the "serious, finely textured" prose of this novel. He urges the Canadian public to rise to the challenge of becommg more thoughtful readers so that they can appreciate MacLennan's work in the future.
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D42 Ross, Malcolm. Rev. of The Watch That Ends the Night. Queen's Quarterly, 66 (Summer 1959), 343-44. Ross praises the novel mainly because, unlike the current beatnik writers and "angry young men," MacLennan has something to say. In fact, The Watch That Ends the Night is a novel of religious affirmation as well as being a political book. Ross comments that although MacLennan is a competent craftsman, he is not a technical innovator.
D43 Tallman, Warren. "An After-Glance at MacLennan." Canadian Literature, No l (1959), pp 80-81. Tallman considers MacLennan's art "divided against itself." On one level he has mastered the art of representation, on another level he has an indifferent sense of where his strength as an artist is located. George Stewart's narration, for example, is badly marred. MacLennan's artistic powers are best when he depicts people driven to experimental extremes, but they falter when he is representing the less interesting, but more central, types of the ruminative mind. However, MacLennan does have an intensity of perception, and this imperfect novel nonetheless contains "some of the finest writing of our time."
D44 Woodcock, George. "Odysseus Ever Returning." The Tamarack Review, No. 11 (1959), pp. 77-83. Woodcock maintains that MacLennan, despite his obvious limitations as a literary psychologist, is nearer than any other contemporary Canadian writer to being a master of fiction. The novel's main faults are that Jerome is an unacceptable character, the ending is pietistic smugness, and the treatment of love and sex is evasive. However, MacLennan is a competent workman. His central character, George, is a sensitive intermediary" and his handling of his leaps of memory is unobtrusive and skilful.
D45 Deacon, William Arthur. "People in Their Environment." The Globe and Mail, 14 Feb. 1959, p 16. Deacon claims that MacLennan, with this novel, has reached his plateau as a writer. He is in complete control of his narrative, all parts of the book not only fit, but are necessary. Thematically, the book is a philosophical and political assessment of the left-wing movement that grew out of the Great Depression. In the plot, suspense is maintained and the ending is close to inevitable. The characterization of Jerome is a shrewd demonstration of child psychology. On the whole, MacLennan has deepened his understanding as well as improved his technique.
D46 Johnson, Sydney. "MacLennan's New Novel." The Montreal Star, 14 Feb. 1959. Johnson sees the novel as concerned with the effects of relationships, environment, and world events on the three main characters. He feels that there is a weakness in the book as a whole.
D47 O'Hearn, Walter. "A Sense of Wonder Preserved and Shared." New York Times, 15 Feb 1959, pp 4-5. O'Hearn describes MacLennan as a novelist of increasing stature. The Watch That Ends the Night is his most recent and best book, but O'Hearn thinks it is a pity that so many potential books have been sacrificed by MacLennan in order to write it. Martell, for example, deserves a novel all his own and Waterloo School could be the setting for an entire story. Like hls central character, George Stewart, MacLennan preserves a sense of wonder, a quality O'Hearn calls hls real gift.
D48 Scott, James. "The Book Everyone is Talking About." Toronto Telegram, 21 Feb 1959, p. 33. Scott feels that MacLennan's "good intentions" show through the novel, although he did not personally feel exasperated when reading it. On the whole the novel is exciting and provocative.
D49 Rev. of The Watch That Ends the Night. New Yorker, 28 Feb. 1959, pp. 117-18. The reviewer thinks that MacLennan is a fine storyteller whose descriptions of Montreal are marvellous. He discusses the structure of the novel and MacLennan's use of the supernatural.
D50 Beresford-Howe, Constance. Rev. of The Watch That Ends the Night. The Montrealer, March 1959, pp. 35-36,39. Beresford-Howe claims that the novel is MacLennan's best to date. His technical skill is so great that it is unobtrusive. The last chapters "rise steadily like some great sea and engulf us in an immense mystery."
D51 Davies, Robertson. "MacLennan's Rising Sun." Saturday Night, 28 March 1959, pp 29-31. HM. This novel is a further exploration by MacLennan who is a pioneer of the Canadian consciousness. He demonstrates a new mastery over the two strongest elements in his work the storyteller and the self-explorer. Davies terms Catherine a "spiritual vampire" and considers George the strongest character. The setting of the depression is skillfully depicted and kept in focus. On the whole, the novel is a triumph for MacLennan, capturing, as it does, the subtleties of human feelings.
D52 Layton, Irving, Hugo McPherson, and George Woodcock. Rev. of The Watch That Ends the Night. Anthology, CBC Radio (24 April 1959), 10:30-11:00 pm. With Mr Steinhouse as interviewer, this inter-city discussion takes place from Vancouver (Woodcock), Toronto (McPherson), and Montreal (Layton). To the quotation from Carlos Baker that the novel is "the best novel by a Canadian I have ever read, and it surpasses in interest and importance most of the American novels being written today," the three critics reply that Under the Volcano is a better novel(Woodcock), that it is an "important" novel rather than a good novel (McPherson), and that The Sacrifice is a better novel (Layton). McPherson feels that the novel is a marked technical advance over MacLennan's earlier fiction because for the first time MacLennan filters the novel through a first-person narrator. Since this narrator is human and fallible, with obvious weaknesses and blind spots, MacLennan sets himself the difficult task in using him as the central commentator. The novel is "a cautious affirmation" of religious belief and reverence in an existential world. Jerome is a legendary hero of the 1930s. Woodcock finds the novel uneven and finds that MacLennan's equanimity and the quiet mood of the writing get in the way of its being a work of art. He finds the character of Jerome intolerable and incredible on a realistic level, instead, he must be seen as an allegorical figure. The Watch That Ends the Night is impressive because of its "largeness of conception", it is not a "great" book. Layton finds many faults in the book. He feels that MacLennan is essentially "an eighteenth century essayist" like Addison and Steele, and that the 1930s do not emerge as he himself remembers the era. MacLennan is too serene, and the book attains only "an admirable Mediocrity." Only when the triangle of major characters is seen symbolically (Jerome as the 1930s, George as the 1950s, and Catherine as a sick society) does the novel become interesting. Layton accuses MacLennan of flirting with radicalism as he had in earlier novels flirted with sex "to thrill the Westmount biddies."
D53 Watt, F. W. Rev. of The Watch That Ends the Night. University of Toronto Quarterly, 29 (July 1960), 460-65. Watt feels that the novel "aspires sincerely and at times movingly to affirm the value of the human spirit, but its subtlety and its permanence are impaired by its technical flaws as a work of fictional art." For example, human feehngs are distorted and there is a failure in the relationship between author and narrator. As with his other novels, the ratio of action to commentary is weighted in favour of the latter, although in this book it is more effective. However, the novel is a bold allegory and MacLennan achieves a good counterpointing of past and present by beginning his story near the end.
D54 Fowke, Edith. Rev. of The Watch That Ends the Night. The Canadian Forum, June 1966, p 66. Fowke finds this novel a marked advance over MacLennan's earlier work. His storytelhng technique is greatly improved by the skillful use of flashbacks. The most effective parts of the book are the sections that recreate the depression. Somewhat less successful are his characters: George is not always convincing, Catherine is not much more than a symbol, and Jerome is larger than life-size. Although the book is not completely successful, it will hold most readers.
D55 Biron, Herve. Rev. of The Watch That Ends the Night. Culture, 29 (1968), 271-73. This review of the French edition of the novel praises the translation of Jean Simard. Biron is struck by the almost total absence of French Canadians in a book set in Montreal. He notes that the decline of Montreal British society is obvious in the story. Other than that, the novel is a magnificent study of Montreal life. Furthermore, it is extremely polished when dealing with the psychological aspects of the characters.
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D40 Rev. of Thirty and Three Saturday Ntght, 11 Dec 1954, p. 2l
The essays in this collection express MacLennan's thoughts and feelings about "all manner of things that fascinate and delight him," but which must be left out of his novels. The diversity of subjects is great: Oxford and Ottawa, April and midsummer, Hemmgway and Homer. The reviewer finds MacLennan temperamentally well-suited to the essay form as he has "a keen eve, a well-stocked soul, a sense of humour and a personal style." His essays reflect the tasks and views of the civilized mind.
D41 Eggleston, W. Rev. of Thirty and Three. Queen's Quarterly, 62 (1955), 264-65. Eggleston finds this collection of essays intelligent, sensitive, disciplined, and reflective. He mentions that much of the credit must go to Dorothy Duncan who edited the book.
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D10 Dubois, William. "Novel of Quebec, Between Two Wars." New York Times, 21 Jan. 1945, p. 5. Dubois sets the time and place of the novel, both historically and politically. He suggests that the novel gives a rounded picture of the Canada of yesterday which is probably similar to the Canada of tomorrow, judging from recent headlines. Dubois then gives a summary of plot and character, praising MacLennan for his eloquent perception. He recommends a wide reading on both sides of the border.
D11 Kennedy, Leo. "Old and New Canada in a Major Novel." Chicago Sun Book Week, 21 Jan 1945, p. 1. Kennedy calls this book the great Canadian novel. He gives a rundown of the plot and cites the Rainer Maria Rilke quotation. He says the novel is clean-cut, penetrating, exciting, and memorable.
D12 Trilling, Diana. "Fiction in Review." The Nation, 24 Feb 1945, pp. 227-28. The reviewer claims that the novel is more workmanlike than gifted. It represents one of those "rare instances in which an author's seriousness and decency do a very good job as proxy for art." Not only is the subject not an urgent one, the novel is "pedagogically inspired" and lacks skill in narrative, characterization, and style. It has very little true drama.
D13 Powell, S. Morgan. "Problem of French Canada is Discussed with Candor." The Montreal Star, 31 March 1945, p 18.The novel presents the Quebec scene from the inside with candor. Powell gives a plot summary and concludes by praising the style of writing.
D14 Rev. of Two Solitudes Saturday Night, 7 April 1945, p. 21. The reviewer states that this is "a brilliant and timely novel, indeed, perhaps a great one" Well-constructed and stylistically sound, the novel's few faults are the result of the "expansiveness" of the author. Main faults are the tendency of the author to intercede for his characters and the characteriztion of women in the novel.
D15 Deacon, William Arthur. "French Canadian Problem in Daring and Timely Novel." The Globe and Mail 7 April 1945, p. 18. Deacon claims that Two Solitudes is "the best and most important Canadian novel ever published."
D16 McNaught, Eleanor. Rev. of Two Solitudes. The Canadian Forum, May 1945, p. 46. McNaught believes that Two Solitudes reflects the substance of Canada. She gives a rundown of the plot and shows how Athanase Tallard dominates the novel. This novel, along with F. P. Grove's Master of the Mall, mark a new maturity in the Canadian novel.
D17 Lower, A. R. H. Rev. of Two Solitudes. Canadian Historical Review, 26 (1945), 326-28. Lower claims that Two Solitudes represents a milestone passed in Canada. The book presents a way of life in rapid disintegration peopled by an insecure and bewildered generation. These people are caught between the solid assured world of the past and the new world of the future.
D18 Stewart, H. L. Rev. of Two Solitudes. Dalhousie Review, 25 (Oct 1945), 378-79. The reviewer praises the novel for its excellent characterization. However, he feels the artistic unity of the book is marred by "the pornographic parenthesis," a trick familiar on much lower literary levels.
D19 S.I.M. Rev. of Two Solitudes: Queen's Quarterly, 25(Oct 1945), 494-96. This reviewer finds the novel disappointing because there is so little illusion of reality in either its atmosphere or its character drawing. Episodes such as the funeral of Sir Rupert Irons which is based wholly on sarcasm reveal that the author is too aloof. What is needed in this overly coarse novel is more humour.
D20 MacGillivray, J. R. Rev. of Two Solitudes. University of Toronto Quarterly, 15 (1945-46), 280-83. Although MacGillivray finds this "the most impressive book" to come within his range during the current year, he finds it a disappointment after the promise of Barometer Rising. He gives a rundown of the plot and praises the novel's many free peripheral qualities, but he says the novel is ultimately empty at the centre.
D21 Rev. of Two Solitudes. Times Literary Supplement, 6 July 1946, p. 317. After giving a summary of plot and character, the reviewer praises the novel for giving a fair picture of Canadian life in careful prose.
D22 Kattan, Naim. Rev. of Two Solitudes. Le Devoir, 25 April 1964, p. 13. Kattan poses the question whether the novel has withstood the test of time in the twenty years since it was written. He concludes that the French and English have been separated more by legends than anything else.
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C57 Ogulnik, Lea Lutterman. "The Realistic Novels of Hugh MacLennan." M.A. Thesis Montreal 1957. This thesis maintains that MacLennan has discovered the Canadian character and has put Canada on the literary map through his realistic novels. A definition of realism is given in the introduction, followed by a profile of MacLennan. The novels treated are Barometer Rising, Two Solitudes, The Precipice, and Each Man's Son.
C58 Cockburn, Robert Hood. "The Novels of Hugh MacLennan." M. A. Thesis New Brunswick 1966. Since most criticism on MacLennan is too brief and too general to be conclusive, it is impossible to use it alone to assess whether or not MacLennan is a firstrate writer. MacLennan's strengths as a writer are the portrayal of minor characters, sequences of violent action, and the depiction of Canadian settings. Of his novels, only Each Man's Son is a reasonably harmonious work, the other novels are unsuccessful, mainly because of failure of the imagination and a disregard for the novel as an art form.
C59 George, Gerald. A "Theme and Symbol in the Novels of Hugh MacLennan." M.A. Thesis Laval 1967. MacLennan accurately portrays "some of the major facets of the Canadian character" through two main themes (the "national theme" and the "puritan theme") and several traditional symbols such as the myth of Odysseus, the cycle of decay and growth, nature, catastrophe and the city.
C60 Gilley, Robert Keith. "Myth and Meaning in Three Novels of Hugh MacLennan." M.A. Thesis British Columbia 1967. The principles of formal criticism are applied to Barometer Rising, Each Man's Son, and The Watch That Ends the Night to analyze the use of romantic and ironic plots and classical and Christian myths.
C61 Morley, Patricia. "Puritanism and the Novels of Hugh MacLennan." M.A. Thesis Carleton 1967. This thesis discusses and analyses the attitudes towards puritanism found in MacLennan's writings. Giving an historical account of the meaning of puritanism as background, Morley finds that, although MacLennan attacks puritanism as negative, materialistic, guilt-reducing, and anti-aesthetic, some aspects of puritanism are found in his own moral idealism. Consequently, MacLennan's attitudes towards action, work, and pleasure are ambivalent, causing him to oppose matter and spirit and to condemn matter as evil or insignificant. The ending of The Watch That Ends the Night provides the best example of this thesis.
C62 Thompson, Barbara J. "The City of Montreal in the English and French-Canadian Novel, 1945-1965." M. A. Thesis Montreal 1967. Aspects of the city of Montreal are treated according to broad themes such as the arts, religion, race, etc. MacLennan's novels, Two Solitudes and The Watch That Ends the Night, are referred to insofar as they depict Montreal.
C63 Wing, Ted. "Puritan Ethic and Social Response in the Novels of Sinclair Ross, Robertson Dawes and Hugh MacLennan." M. A. Thesis Alberta 1969. Wing examines the religious elements and their social consequences common to these three writers and contrasts their treatment of them. MacLennan, springing from the Scottish Calvinist tradition, is seen to have a "broader vision" than Ross or Davies and an ability to "delve deeper into character." The Precipice, Each Man's Son, and The Watch That Ends the Night are Analyzed. One has more hope for MacLennan's characters who are victims of a negative religious ethic than for those of Ross or Davies.
C64 Froese, Edna. "The Guilty Heroes in the Novels of Hugh MacLennan and Margaret Laurence." M. A. Thesis Sakatchewan 1972. MacLennan's "guilty heroes" are arranged in three groups 1)Revolutionaries (Marius Tallard in Two Solitudes, Daniel Ainslie in Return of the Sphinx); 2) Calvinists (Bruce Fraser and Stephen Lassiter in The Precipice, Archie MacNeil and Dr.Ainslie in Each Man's Son); and 3) Humanitarians(Athanase Tallard in Two Solitudes, George Stewart and Jerome Martell in The Watch That Ends the Night, Alan Ainslie in Return of the Sphinx). Of these, the first group is merely neurotic and confused, while for the third group, guilt is the mainspring of responsible social action. Through his heroes, MacLennan shows that a puritan sense of guilt has produced the Canadian character.
C65 Hyman, Roger L. "The Prose of Hugh MacLennan. A Re-evaluation." Diss. Toronto 1972. Examines the novels chronologically to demonstrate that, despite "formal weakness" due to MacLennan's lack of technical experimentation, they are important because of MacLennan's serious moral purpose. They are "unique" as "structured analyses of his country's character and identity." The influence of early reviews on later criticism is traced. MacLennan's goals are examined and his characters shown to be "types."
C66 Zezulka, Joseph. "Historical, Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives in the Work of Hugh MacLennan." Diss. Queen's 1972. MacLennan's analysis of Canadian society in his novels is considered in terms of historical, philosophical, and scientific themes from the essays. MacLennan's reflections on the historical process provide an intellectual framework within which his conceptions of free will and determinism operate. Related to these is his conception of the state, how and why cultures rise and fall within civilizations. Ultimately, spiritual and artisitic achievements determine a culture's place in civilization. In his portrayal of these themes, MacLennan is comparable to the nationalism of Melville and Joyce.
C67 Brown, Rod S. "Three Perspectives on the Depression: Morley Callaghan, Hugh MacLennan, Earle Barney." M. A. Thesis Manitoba 1974. This thesis examines the effect of the Great Depression on four novels by three Canadian authors: Such Is My Beloved and They Shall Inherit the Earth (Morley Callaghan), The Watch That Ends the Night (MacLennan) and Down the Long Table (Earle Birney). After a background discussion of the Depression, Brown shows in each novel the triumph of the individual over the political, economic, and social systems that control him. The third chapter treats The Watch That Ends the Night as showing how characters align themselves with great forces. MacLennan's investigation of man's quest for meaning during a period in which traditional values break down and those of the future are as yet vague, results in an affirmation of Christian faith.
C68 Legault, Roger H. "The Individual versus Society in the Novels of Gabrielle Roy and Hugh MacLennan." M. A. Thesis Sherbrooke 1975. This thesis compares the novels of Gabrielle Roy and MacLennan and examines the critical material concerning them. In particular, Legault discusses each of the main characters in relation to his or her society. He explores the differences between the individual's social, cultural, and political relationship to his milieu, revealing conflicts based on class, individual disputes, and between the individual and his society. Legault also compares the motives of the two writers.
C69 Murray, Melanie. "The Garden of the Self: A Study of the Pastoral Vision of Hugh MacLennan's Novels." M. A. Thesis New Brunswick 1976. Analysis of MacLennan's imagery and symbolism reveals a pastoral vision that underlies all his novels. The dialectic between the two recurring symbols of the "garden" and the "city" constitutes both their structure and content. Consequently, realism is sometimes marred by stereotyped characters who represent either the pastoral or urban way of life and by a naïve idealization of rural living. However, MacLennan's pastoral vision matures in the course of his writing until it is used effectively as a vehicle for social commentary.
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C3 Cohen, Nathan. "Heroes of the Richler View." The Tamarack Revsew, No. 6 (Winter 1958), pp. 47-60. MR. A scathing attack on Richler's work. Claims that Richler is out of touch with his own time, that his themes of "the Marxist mirage and the Jewish middleclass family unit" are dated, and that Son of a Smaller Hero, for instance, is less true to life than Herman Wouk's Marjorie Morningstar. "The salient fact about Mordecai Richler's blasting instruments (heavy irony, political attitudinizing, a pious taking for granted of one's superiority and greater wisdom) and his targets for attack is that of themselves they refute his belief that he is coping, squarely and frankly, with the relevant dilemmas of our time" There are some positive aspects of Richler's work -- specific scenes and characters (the funeral in Son of a Smaller Hero, Charlie Lawson in A Choice of Enemies, to name two) are effectively drawn, but for the most part his characters are "empty, trivial, disgusting" and "not worth caring about." The heroes of the Richler view are all alike in their selfishness and insensitiveness. Finally, Richler's first two novels are condemned for "the slovenly, undisciplined craftsmanship, the unsettling ambivalence of thought, the contrived violence and abundant bedwetting.
C4 Scott, Peter "A Choice of Certainties." The Tamarack Review, No 8 (Summer 1958), pp. 73-82. MR. Begins by attacking Cohen's "Heroes of the Richler View." Focusing on A Choice of Enemies, Scott suggests that for Richler this novel represents a movement toward maturity, with more objectivity and complexity in the presentation of character There has also been a change in style, with greater concentration on essential detail. Richler's theme in A Choice of Enemies is survival, emphasizing Norman's decision to belong to a community, rather than live in self-imposed exile. However, Scott concludes that the ending is ambiguous, somewhat vitiating his argument.
C5 Hicks, Granville. "Novelists in the Fifties." Saturday Review, 24 Oct 1959, pp. 18-21. There is a brief discussion of Richler's novels on page twenty, significant largely for the fact that this is the first critical discussion of his work in an American magazine, other than reviews. The emphasis is on The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, which is praised for its energy and control. Richler has succeeded in the creation of a complex character, and in his skilful handling of comic scenes.
C6 Tallman, Warren. "Wolf in the Snow. Part Two: The House Repossessed." Canadian Literature, No. 6 (Autumn 1960), pp. 41-48. MR. Rpt. in A Choice of Critics. Ed. George Woodcock. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1966, pp. 67-76. Rpt. in Contexts of Canadian Criticism: A Collection of Crstical Essays. Ed. Eli Mandel. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1971, pp. 245-53, and elsewhere. Part I, "Four Windows onto Landscapes," appeared in the previous issue of Canadian Literature, discussing Buckler's The Mountain and the Valley, Ross's As for Me and My House, MacLennan's Each Man's Son, and Mitchell's Who Has Seen the Wind. With The Apprentsceshfp of Duddy Kravitz, Richler shifts his interest from concerns of war and ideology to more personal themes--family and selfhood. Duddy is different from the other characters in the book in that he is not concerned with maintaining false appearances. His emotions are real and sincere, unlike the others whose ideal, the Boy Wonder Jerry Dingleman, suggests the limitations of their dreams. Richler's new style, used most effectively in the documentary film scene, emphasizes distortion and the grotesque. He shows us in Duddy the need for a new sensibility to come to terms with the distortions of modern urban life. The style is that of Caliban rather than Prospero, the triumph of the vulgar over the refined. Duddy alone can free himself from the burdens of history, his insouciance, the "utter absence of pretentiousness" in his character, enables him to repossess the house, to be the truly North-American hero.
C7 Pacey, Desmond. Creative Writing in Canada. Toronto. Ryerson, 1961, pp. 264-66. A review of the novels up to The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. Richler's world is public, not private, and his tone is boisterous and bitter.
C8 Kattan, Naim. "Mordecai Richler: Craftsman or Artist." Canadian Literature, No 21 (Summer 1964), pp. 46-51. MR. Basically a put-down of Richler as a serious writer, condemning him for never having gone beyond his adolescence. Kattan suggests that Richler's opposition to Canadian provincialism was prompted by his need to escape from the provincialism of his own family. Son of a Smaller Hero, for instance, is seen as Richler's revenge against his family. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is seen as a combination of the bitterness of Son of a Smaller Hero and "the dream of a world in which frankness, straightforwardness and love reign together." But Richler's characters are only uncomprehending caricatures and his world is "sentimental and false." Also discusses The Incomparable Atuk, concluding that the influence of American pop culture has prevented Richler from achieving his true potential.
C9 Woodcock, George. "Introduction." In Son of a Smaller Hero. New Canadian Library, No. 45 Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1965, pp vii-xii MR. Richler focuses on the themes of isolation and division from his own Jewish ghetto background which relect the central problems of Canada. His universal theme is "the predicament of the man who sets out honestly to find and to be himself in a world where most men fear their own natures and try to live by comfortable falsehoods." The picture of life in the ghetto is extremely vivid and Richler possesses a "Dlckensian eye for the foibles and tics of behaviour and speech," and though his characterization comes near to satirical caricature at times, he is always compassionate. Noah realizes the need for self-definition not simply in opposition to his family, but in positive action. Has ruthlessness reflects the tone of the book: "taut, twanging, and a little discordant."
C10 McPherson, Hugo. "Fiction 1940-1960." In Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English. Gen. Ed. and introd. Carl F. Klinck. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1965, pp. 712-15. MR ("A Survey of Richler's Fiction"). A balanced assessment of the novels up to The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. Richler most resembles the English "angry young men" or American "beat" writers in his attempts to expose pretentiousness, but unlike them, he does not embrace alienation. Instead, he creates a new order -- "bracing in its directness, and electric with energy."
Cll Bowering, George. "And the Sun Goes Down: Richler's First Novel." Canadian Literature, No. 29(Summer 1966), pp. 7-17. MR. The Acrobats negates the Hemingway ethos that "no man is an island." In post-war Spain, there is no such humanitarian commitment. The novel is peopled with tired, effete characters, and only the prostitute Toni looks to survive, while those who struggle for a lost cause, like Andre or Guillermo, are doomed. Andre is burdened with self-hatred and guilt, mainly at the death of his Jewish girlfriend after an abortion, and his inability to love. Bowering notes the influence of Hemingway on Richler's style; there are some clumsy aspects which are typical of a first novel. Richler has a good ear for dialogue, but his interior monologues are cliched. One of his successes is the sympathetic portrayal of unsympathetic characters like Barney and Kraus.
C12 New, William H. "The Apprenticeship of Discovery: Richler and MacLennan." Canadian Literature, No. 29 (Summer 1966), pp. 18-33. Rpt. in Articulating West: Essays on Purpose and Form in Modern Canadian Literature. Toronto: new press, 1972, pp 108-27 MR. Discusses The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and MacLennan's The Watch that Ends the Night. New argues that the same basic situation is common to both novels: "The discovery and habitation of a new land becomes a metaphor for an attitude of mind, and that attitude is at the forefront of present literary thought." The childhood situations of Duddy and Jerome Martell in The Watch are similar in the lack of close relationships with their parents. Duddy's search for land is also a search for selfhood. He needs independence from the world of St Urbain if he is to be more than just another Boy Wonder, and he needs to acquire the trust of his family to realize selfhood. The final act of trust at the end of the novel makes Duddy a somebody on his own terms. New thinks Duddy's aim is valid, that the "comic triumph" at the end justifies the means. Duddy's achieved identity is both typical of his society and beyond it.
C13 Kareda, Urjo. "Banned In Britain." Toronto Daily Star, 1 June 1968, p. 29. W. H. Smith and Sons, the largest bookstore chain in England, unofficially banned the sale of Cocksure. Kareda discusses the circumstances surrounding the ban, and its effects on sales. Richler defends the book as follows' "For me, a dirty book--and I'm not against dirty books--is one which is written to titillate, to arouse, to create a masturbatory situation. Well, Cocksure is very moral. It's also very obscene, I'm not denying that. But it is not salacious or suggestive. It's been treated seriously."
C14 Fiedler, Leslie. "Some Notes on the Jewish Novel in English." The Running Man, 1, No. 2 (July-Aug 1968), 18-21. MR. Fiedler considers the problem of exile for the modern writer; for Richler it has enabled him to participate in American culture. His subject is exile, while still indulging in black humour, the surreal, and the grotesque. Richler's satire seems harmless, but not his suggestion that all of us are really Jews, that Jewishness is a metaphor for the exile that we feel in the modern world. The comedy of The Incomparable Atuk is of the "Mack Sennet" variety, but Cocksure comes closest to what Fiedler would prefer to the merely funny--the "truly obscene."
C15 Bevan, A. R. "Introduction." In The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. New Canadian Library, No. 66 Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1969, n. pag. MR. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz would appear to be a Bildungsroman in the tradition of Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man or Lawrence's Sons and Lovers in which the protagonist makes an affirmative choice at the end. But Duddy shows no development or moral affirmation. He is a "maternalistic demon" for whom we have no sympathy because "he is just too aware of the enormity of his own actions to pass for an innocent, and he causes the destruction of too many people to be seen only as a victim of his unfortunate environment." In fact, he becomes another Boy Wonder. The other characters are not fully developed. In style and technique, Richler is a "traditionalist," but he handles dialogue very well.
C16 Reference Division, McPherson Library, University of Victoria. "Richler, Mordecai." In Creative Canada: A Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Creative and Performing Artists. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1971, Vol I, p. 259. A brief biography and good bibliography verified by Richler himself.
C17 Ross, Malcolm. "Introduction." In The Incomparable Atuk. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1971, pp. vi-xi. The Incomparable Atuk is black humour about the Canadian "branch-plant culture" and the dangers posed by the debased American Dream. But the "Canadian dilemma" is a universal one. "It is almost as if Richler had an intuition into the nature of original sin as it thrives in the permissive culture of the electronic civilization."
C18 Sheps, G. David. "The Novels of Mordecai Richler: An Interpretatlon." In Mordecai, Richler. Ed. G David Sheps. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 6. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1971, pp ix-xxvi. Richler's technical development as a novelist reveals a movement "from a dominant narrative mode of realistic characterization, verisimilitude of action and psychological plausibility to a dominant mode of conscious caricature. In characterization, purposeful implausibility of action and fantasy in events." Parallel to this change in style is a philosophical movement from "a tentative Romanticism to a kind of Classicism " Sheps discusses Richler's characters as descen- dants of the romantic Byronic hero, arguing that they are self-centred and face only defeat and resignation. Unable to define themselves in opposition to ideology, they frequently aspire to a state of "disembodied ecstasy," but for the protagonists of Richler's first four novels, there is no escape from mundane reality. In The Incomparable Atuk and Cocksure, however, which can be read as comedies of manners, the characters are merely stereotypes and do not aspire to change or moral awareness. The purpose of these satirical books is to "represent the current dilemma of the legacy of romanticism in the cold light of comedy" and they have no philosophical message to convey.
C19 [James, Geoffrey.] "The Expatriate Who Has Never Left Home." Time [Canada], 31 May 1971, pp. 7-11. This Time cover story marks a high point in Richler's public career as a writer. The biographical details are mostly culled from The Street and other well-known sources. Included are comments on Richler by his mother, his pubhsher Jack McClelland, Irving Layton, Morley Callaghan, and Robert Fulford, and a very favourable review of St. Urbain's Horseman.
C20 Cameron, Donald "The Professional Canadian." Canadian Literature, No. 50 (Autumn 1971), pp. 103-04. Admires Richler as a novelist, but not as a journalist. Cameron resents Richler for writing pieces on Canada when he doesn't live there, and has never visited any province outside of Quebec and Ontario. Attacks Richler's novels of the 1960s as "bores."
C21 Mitcham, Allison. "The Isolation of Protesting Individuals Who Belong to Minority Groups." Wascana Review, 7, No 1 (1972), 43-50. A characteristic of Canadian fiction in the last two decades has been a concern with the individual who is doubly isolated: first as a member of a minority group, and secondly through his rejection of the values of his own group. Discusses the role of the Eskimo in The Incomparable Atuk and in the novels of Yves Theriault. In Son of a Smaller Hero and St Urbain's Horseman, protest takes the form of flight, but for Duddy and Atuk, seeking material well-being, there is only loneliness and rejection.
C22 Thomas, Clara. "Mordecai Richler." In Our Nature -- Our Voices." A Guidebook to English-Canadian Literature. Vol. I. Toronto: new press, 1972, pp 161-65. A survey of the novels emphasizing Richler's themes of "Jewish experience, the writer-artist and Canadian society and its attitudes." Duddy is seen as Richler's most successful character. Includes a bibliography.
C23 Cameron, Donald. "Don Mordecai and the Hardhats." The Canadian Forum, March 1972, pp. 29-33. A straightforward and skilful skewering of Richler's anti-nationalist pieces. Shows up Richler's habits of misquotation, and his ignorance of Canada and Canadian culture, though Cameron in turn gets two of Richler's titles wrong. The Incomparable Atuk and Cocksure are judged failures because Richler had been cut off too long from the real source of his inspiration.
C24 Cloutier, Pierre. "Mordecai Richler's Exiles: A Choice of Enemies." Journal of Canadian Fiction, 1, No. 2 (Spring 1972), 43-49. Sees A Choice of Enemies as a political novel that "dramatizes the passage from the age of collective ideology to that of individual ethics." Richler suggests that in the wasteland of postwar Europe, a man can only cultivate the virtues of "moral privacy and a capacity for compromise." The argument of this article is obscured by the inpenetrability of the language.
C25 Birbalsingh, F. M. "Mordecai Richler and the Jewish-Canadian Novel." Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 7, No. 1 (June 1972), 72-82. Richler is concerned with Canadianism and Jewishness. "His novels deal, in general, with the large national problem of assimilating a Canadian identity out of disparate racial and cultural elements and, in particular, with the process of assimilating Jewish elements into an integrated Canadian culture." Richler's attacks on Canadian culture are motivated not by malice but by patriotism. He wants to see Canada achieve a real culture--not parochial, but international. For Richler, Jewishness is "a state of mind which confers a prescribed form of behaviour on groups of people whose main common feature is that they are social minorities." His novels give original insights into sexual pathology and Zionism, and he alone of Jewish-Canadian writers approaches the achievements of Bellow, Roth, and Malamud. His protagonists, however, are "spiritually fragmented" as there is no Canadian ethos that can be taken for granted, as there is for an American writer. Comparing Richler to V. S. Naipaul, Birbalsingh finds that Richler's characters have more humanity, but that neither writer is as successful as Leacock.
C26 Nadel, Ira. "The Absent Prophet in Canadian Jewish Fiction." English Quarterly, 5, Nos. 1 & 2 (Spring-Summer 1972), 83-92. The absent prophet is "the presence of a particular figure whose reported but unseen actions lead the protagonist to a new religious and psychological affirmation of the self." Discusses Joey Hersh in St. Urbain's Horseman and Uncle Melech in Klein's The Second Scroll as types of the absent prophet.
C27 Myers, David. "Mordecai Richler as Satirist." Ariel, 4, No. 1 (Jan. 1973), 47-61. Argues that Richler's development "has carried his writing away from a rather melodramatic realism towards satirical fantasy and farce." In discussing Son of a Smaller Hero, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Cocksure, and St. Urbain's Horseman, The Apprentsceship of Duddy Kravitz is seen as the pivotal Work. In Son of a Smaller Hero, the satire is concentrated in specific scenes, and directed against Jewishness and sex. In The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, the targets are Duddy's victims, and the "tragic undertone" prevents the book from lapsing into total farce. Cocksure is compared to Nathanael West's Day of the Locust, but found to be less bitter and grotesque than the American novel. St Urbain's Horseman is the culmination of elements from previous works. The targets of satire here are hypocritical rich middle-aged Jews, while a serious social criticism of the British class system is presented through the career of Harry Stein. The many parodies and set-pieces are part of the novel's "exuberant and chaotic fullness."
C28 Tallman, Warren. "Need for Laughter." Canadian Literature, No. 56 (Spring 1973), pp 71-83 Rpt. in The Canadian Novel in the Twentieth Century: Essays from Canadian Literature. Ed. George Woodcock. New Canadian Library, No. 115. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975, pp. 258-70. Rpt "Four Takes on Mordecai Richler's Fiction." In Open Letter. 3rd Ser, No. 6 (Winter 1976-77), 57-69. Basically a summary of the plot of St Urbain's Horseman, written in an idiosyncratic style, marred by the lack of grammatical construction, and heavy on free association. Tallman dislikes the set-pieces (such as the dinner with Ormsby-Fletcher) because the writing "tightens into a forced hilarity and loses comic resonance." The "need for laughter" is most strongly felt in those passages where Jake is involved with lowlife characters--the Hersh family, Ruthy, and Harry Stein. Ends by comparing Richler to Swift, noting that Richler, unlike his illustrious predecessor, is on the side of humanity.
C29 Godfrey, Dave. "Once More with Feeling, Mr Richler." The Canadian Forum, April 1973, pp. 5, 43. An attack on Richler's anti-nationalist stand.
C30 Brandeis, Robert C. "Up from St Urbain." Jewish Dialog, Passover 1973, pp. 46-47. A defence of Richler against the charge of attacking the traditional beliefs of those who grew up around St Urbain. Brandeis dissects the idea of the "expatriate," showing it to be part of the ongoing search for the self. The strong autobiographical element in Richler's novels is suggested by his repeated use of creative people as protagonists.
C31 Moss, John. Patterns of Isolation in English-Canadian Fiction. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1974, pp. 227-30, 235-37. Discusses Son of a Smaller Hero, suggesting that Noah's resistance to his family and heritage is also attraction, he loves what he longs to leave, and this pattern carries over into his relationship with Miriam. Moss also suggests that Noah may be the most convincing of Richler's protagonists because of his "capacity to suffer." The book is discussed in the context of Moss's thesis about isolation and compared with Laurence's The Stone Angel and Buckler's The Mountain and the Valley. There are brief mentions of irony in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and exile in A Choice of Enemies.
C32 Ferns, John. "Sympathy and Judgement in Mordecai Richler's The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz." Journal of Canadian Fiction, 3, No. 1 (Winter 1974), 77-82. There is widespread critical disagreement over Duddy's character. Warren Tallman's positive approach dismisses the importance of the other characters, while A. R. Bevan's negative view is equally narrow. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Krawtz relies for its effect on "an oscillating pattern of sympathetic and judicial response to its central character." Duddy is both winner and loser at the end. He is loyal to his own family, but cannot love the goys who are devoted to him--Virgil and Yvette. Ferns also discusses the Duddy Kravitz of St Urbain's Horseman, finding him the victim of insecurity and self-hatred. Draws on Richler's statements in interviews to justify his view of Duddy's character, a balance of sympathy and judgement. Duddy expresses Richler's "continuous concern for ordinary humanity."
C33 Sheps, G. David. "Waiting for Joey: The Theme of the Vicarious in St Urbain's Horseman." Journal of Canadian Fiction, 3, No 1 (Winter 1974), 83-92. (The original article contains a large number of errors in typography and layout. These are corrected on a separate page which appears between pages 92 and 93 of Journal of Canadian Fiction, 3, No 2 (1974), and is designed to be cut out and inserted in place of pages 87-88 in the original. This annotation is based on the corrected article.) "Perhaps the major trait of Mordecai Richler's protagonist in St. Urbain's Horseman, Jake Hersh, is his inability to experience his own life in a direct, unrefracted way." Sheps compares Jake to the film-obsessed Polly Morgan in Cocksure, but notes that all of the characters in St. Urbain's Horseman live vicariously; for them, fantasy has become reality and only Jake "grasps his life as parody." Unlike Richler's previous novels, St. Urbain's Horseman looks backward in time; Jake identifies with Harry as something akin to an adolescent self. Joey represents in part the Jewish heritage that Jake has forsaken, and is shown to be in the Jewish messianic tradition. But Jake's concern for the Jews stems more from feelings of guilt and fear of revenge than it does from self-sacrificing solicitude. The kind of revenge that the Horseman will bring is self-devouring.
C34 Scully, Robert Guy. "Le Monde de Mordecai Richler." Le Devoir, 5 Jan 1974, p. 11. A general discussion (in French) of St Urbain Street and Richler's novels, interspersed with comments by Richler. See "Vertus et limites de M. Richler," a letter to the editor from Philip Baxter, in Le Devoir, January 26, 1974, page fifteen.
C35 Mathews, Robin. "Messiah or Judas: Mordecai Richler Comes Home." Canadian Review, 1, No 1 (Feb 1974), 3-5. An extreme nationalist denunciation of Richler as a reactionary imperialist and an expatriate who has sold out to the Americans. His novels are "decadent, jaded works."
C36 Knelman, Martin. "How Duddy's Movie Brings Us All Back Home." Saturday Night, March 1974, pp. 17-24. Rpt. in This Is Where We Came In: The Career and Character of Canadian Film. By Martin Knelman. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, pp. 115-34. On the making of the movie The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, offering interesting biographical details of Richler's life and critical reactions to his work.
C37 Sarkar, Eileen. "The Uncertain Countries of Jacques Ferron and Mordecai Richler." Canadian Fiction Magazine, No. 13 (Spring 1974), pp. 98-107. The worlds of Ferron's Contes and Richler's The Street are both uncertain countries in which minority groups try to survive. Their common enemy is the WASP. The choice of narrative voice enables both writers to present their worlds without sentiment or rhetoric.
C38 Evanier, David. "The Jewish Mordecai Richler." Mainstream, Dec. 1974, pp. 24-36. "What has remained consistent in Richler as a writer is his continuing need to probe more deeply into his identity as a Jew in the modern world." Defending Richler against the charge of anti-Semitism, and accepting his anti-nationalist stand, Evanier links him with Saul Bellow, rather than with Roth or Malamud, in seeing environment as more important than heritage. Focuses on the books which have the strongest Jewish themes: Son of a Smaller Hero, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Cocksure, St. Urbain's Horseman, and The Street. Basically an overview of the novels, with some reference to stories and essays, but with some interesting comments. Claims that The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is the book for which Richler will be remembered, and that the author is dismayed at Duddy's ruthlessness, and tries to show the vulnerable and generous side of his character. The Street is "really Richler's autobiography, presented in a form that is partly fictional." St. Urbain's Horseman is not his best work, lacking coherence, structural unity, and vitality. The plot is mechanical, and Jake's friendship with Harry and idolization of Joey are not believable.
C39 Warkentin, Germaine. "Cocksure: An Abandoned Introduction." Journal of Canadian Fiction, 4, No. 3 [No 15] (1975), 81-86. Originally written for a New Canadian Library edition of Cocksure that was abandoned because of problems with publisher's rights. Argues that "the central premise of Cocksure is that the only possible standard of normalcy is the abnormal." Since Mortimer is ostensibly normal, he is an outsider and Richler takes his side rather than mocking him. The book is not black humour but "corrective satire." The ending is decisive--Richler's conclusion that there is no place in this world for an honest man is followed to its logical conclusion.
C40 Makow, Henry. "At the Master's Feet: The Pedagogical Method of Mordecai Richler." Weekend Magazine, 26 April 1975, pp. 21-22, 25. On Richler's creative writing class at Carleton University, 1973-74.
C41 Smith, Denis. "The Education of Mordecai Richler." The Canadian Forum, Sept. 1975, pp. 4-5. An attack on Richler's "Letter from Ottawa: The Sorry State of Canadian Nationalism," Harper's, June 1975, pages 28-32.(See B280). C42 Cluett, Robert. Prose Style and Critical Reading. New York: Teachers College, 1976, Chs. vii, ix, et passim. With the use of a computer concordance to Hunting Tigers under Glass, Cluett makes some interesting comparisons between Richler's style and that of a number of other writers, including Callaghan, Davies, James, Orwell, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway. Tables give frequency of usage of attributive and appositive nouns, predicates, adverbs, adjectives, and other parts of speech.
C43 New, William H. "Faction." In Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English. 2nd ed. Gen. ed. and introd. Carl F. Klinck. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1976, III, pp. 241-42. Richler's novels of the sixties reflect "the tension between committed private artist and accomplished public entertainer." St. Urbain's Horseman is a more serious piece of work than either Cocksure or The Incomparable Atuk, exploring "complex moral dileminas" through the character and experience of Jake Hersh.
C44 Northey, Margot. "Satiric Grotesque Cocksure." In The Haunted Wilderness: The Gothic and Grotesque in Canadian Fiction. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1976, pp. 95-100. There are two levels of satire in Cocksure: one is more gentle humour, concentrating on Mortimer's daily life and role as lecturer, and mocking the follies of modern society. The second is more biting satire, attacking darker evils, and concentrated around the Star Maker. Northey suggests that Richler's moral position is clear: he supports Mortimer's decency against a collective, impersonal, coerove progressivism. Much of Northey's argument will be unintelliglble to the reader who does not first digest the book's thesis, as presented in the Introduction and in Ch vi.
C45 Woodcock, George. "Richler, Mordecai." In Contemporary Novelists. 2nd ed. Ed James Vinson. London: St James, 1976, pp 1165-69. Richler's main theme is "that of the Jew who is powerfully conscious of his people's past, and deeply nostalgic for a childhood spent in the chaotic and colourful background of the ghetto, yet who understands that in the modern world traditional Jewish attitudes have become irrelevant." Yet the Jew is only a type of individual whose dilemma is paralleled in the situation of the average Canadian. "What his novels suggest is that 'the Idea of a Jew' is very much like the idea of a Canadian, for Canada is a land of minorities, regions, disguised ghettoes." St. Urbain's Horseman is Richler's key novel, representing both a stylistic and thematic reconciliation, in which the realistic and fantastic strains in his writing coalesce. A brief biographical sketch and bibliography precede Woodcock's comments.
C46 Cohn-Sfetcu, Ofelia. "Of Self, Temporal Cubism, and Metaphor: Mordecai Richler's St. Urbain's Horseman." International Fiction Review, 3, No 1 (Jan 1976), 30-34. The structural principle of St Urbain's Horseman is time, and the major premise of the book is that "the concept of self is inseparable from the concept of time." Employing the technical equivalent of cubism, Richler allows the reader to see the same event from different points in time. Jake's personality is the result of a process of identification with the Horseman, the controlling metaphor of the book. A provocative theory, but little textual evidence is offered in support of it.
C47 Ower, John. "Sociology, Psychology, and Satire in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz." Modern Fiction Studies, 22 (Autumn 1976), 413-28. Suggests that psychological characterization expresses social background in the novel There are three groups in The Apprentsceship of Duddy Kravitz: the WASPs, French Canadians, and Jews. The latter two are oppressed by the WASPs, but while the Jews identify with the victimized French, they will also use them in the struggle to get to the top, as can be seen in Duddy's exploitation of Yvette. Richler rejects the assimilating Jew like Irwin Shubert, preferring Duddy, Dingleman, and Cohen who do not deny their ethnic heritage. But all these are morally flawed characters. Duddy's urge to own land is equated with his interest in his mother, suggesting the Oedlpal desire to supplant the father and possess the mother which Duddy does at the end. This is a hollow triumph though, for Duddy cannot love. Because of his mother fixation he is rendered impotent. But Richler is much harsher to his other characters, who are condemned for their weakness and stupidity. Confronting the harsh reality of Duddy's viciousness with the dictates of traditional morality. Ower can only extol ambivalence and contradiction, echoing Ferns's conclusions in "Sympathy and Judgement in Mordecai Richler's The Apprenticeshsp of Duddy Kravitz," Journal of Canadian Fiction, 3, No 1 (Winter 1974), 77-82 (See C32). A well documented and provocative article, with interesting observations on imagery and allusion in the novel, but suffering from some rather extreme Freudianism.
C48 Moss, John. Sex and Vsolenee in the Canadmn Novel." The Ancestral Present. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, pp. 123-25, 131-39, 144-45 Rpt. (revised)"Richler's Horseman." In The Canadian Novel: Here and Now. Ed. John Moss. Toronto: NC, 1978, pp. 156-65. Compares St. Urbain's Horseman to Atwood's Surfacing. The world of St Urbain's Horseman is realistic, but the narrative consciousness is satiric. Moss suggests that the form is not of much interest, but that the book should be read as "rambling confessional satire." Otherwise Moss's conclusions are fairly conventional "Jake's outrage over the past and future of the Jews, combined with Richler's devastating wit and passionate invocations of shame and blame, suggest the author's profound concern." In keeping with the theme of his book, Moss quotes as many references as possible to sex, but does not draw any conclusions from them.
C49 Stovel, Bruce. "Introduction." In A Choice of Enemies. New Canadian Library, No. 136. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, pp vii-xv. Unlike his first two novels, A Choice of Enemies shows Richler in firm control of his material. Stovel notes a pattern of irony in the novel, beginning with the title "to choose one's enemies is choosing a state of conformity, of legislated acts and attitudes. A choice of enemies is a choice of unfreedom and so, paradoxically, a relection of choice altogether." The alternative is the affirmation of a personal identity. Compared to the previous books, A Choice of Enemies shows more objectivity in characterization, and a smoother, rapidly flowing plot. Notes that Ernst and Norman are doubles, both learn from each other and have grown in moral stature at the book's conclusion.
C50 Cohen, Edgar H. "Richler and Montreal Jewry." Montreal Star, 19 March 1977, p. D4. Typical of the many attacks on Richler over the years for allegedly depicting the Jews in an unfavourable light, thus encouraging anti-Semitism. The occasion for Cohen's onslaught is Richler's "Manny Moves to Westmount," Saturday Night,Jan-Feb 1977, pages 29-36. (see B27). Richler is denounced as "superficial, frequently glib, undignified, vicious and vastly overrated." See "A satirist and his loyalty," letters to the editor from Keith Garebian, Susan Stein, Shirley Marcovitz, and D. Sorensen, mostly in defence of Richler, in the Montreal Star, March 26, 1977, page C7.
C51 Cude, Wilfred "The Golem as Metaphor for Art: The Monster Takes Meaning in St Urbain's Horseman. Journal of Canadian Studies, 12, No 2 (Spring 1977), 30-69. Jake Hersh is the model of a good, honest, and decent man. His basic morality, compassion, and empathy for the victims and losers in life would have endeared him to Samuel Johnson, whom he resembles in other ways. In his career, though, Jake has failed to do anything that will add to the heritage of mankind, and sees his cousin Joey as the Jewish avenger, the golem, who will revenge the evils of the holocaust against Dr. Josef Mengele. But the golem is the creation of an artist, "the body without a soul" formed from clay, and Jake's Uncle Abe exposes the feet of clay of Joey, who as drug-dealer, blackmailer, and punk, is "Mengele's Jewish doppleganger." Jake makes the error of confusing the dangerous golem with the Horseman, "a projection of his own conscience onto the person of cousin Joey." Though Joey may die, the figure of the Horseman does not, because it is infused with Jake's human spirit, the "affirming flame" of the book's epigraph. A well-written, thoughtful article, with much attention to theme and character.
C52 Boutelle, Ann. "The Dorian Gray Phenomenon." The Dalhousie Review, 57 (Summer 1977), 265-76. Suggests that The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is indebted to Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. They have a common theme--the corruption of Innocence; in both books, monsters remain at the end, and there is an allusion to Wilde in Uncle Benjy's speech. Boutelle discusses the many characters who are crippled or deformed or sick, mentally and physically. At the end, Duddy's red face and his sweating link him to both Jerry Dingleman and the portrait of Dorian Gray. Also mentions some parallels between The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and Robertson Dawes' Fifth Business.
C53 Fulford, Robert. "Introduction." In The Great Comic Book Heroes and Other Essays. New Canadian Library, No 152. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978, pp. 7-10. This collection shows Richler the "conservative cultural anarchist" attacking the pretensions and foibles of our culture. Fulford defends Richler's much-maligned anti-nationalist stand. The tone of his essays is usually mocking, responding to a situation which he sees as in need of correction. His style is a mixture of the journalistic and literary. Fulford examines the persona adopted by Richler and concludes that the essays can tell us much about the novelist.
C54 Pollock, Zailig. "The Trial of Jake Hersh." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No 22 (1978), pp. 93-105. The trial scene in St Urbain's Horseman provides the central metaphor for the novel. Jake Hersh has never had to submit himself to a trial--to face up to a situation demanding his commitment--and he feels himself a failure. The many games and tests in the book further the theme of trial in which W. H. Auden is set up as a judge. Jake must define himself as a Jew and as a Canadian, and come to terms with both the positive and negative aspects of his dual heritage. Harry Stein's role as a double for Jake is explored through a number of intriguing parallels, and Jake shows the best aspects of his Jewish-Canadian heritage in choosing not to abandon Harry at the trial. The Horseman suggests to Jake the need for action and commitment but it is only with Joey's death that Jake can, in becoming the Horseman himself, show his aspiration and self-sufficiency.
C55 Cohn-Sfetcu, Ofelia. "To Live in Abundance of Life: Time in Canadian Literature." Canadian Literature, No. 76 (Spring 1978), pp 25-36. Basically the same argument as presented in her earlier article (see C46). For Richler, time is psychologically continuous" in that memory joins past and present in the formation of the self. The technique of St. Urbain's Horseman is "temporal cubism" which "suggests that what one commonly calls the self can be experienced solely against the background of a biography defined not only as an objective structure of temporal movements, but also as a subjective associative network, a plurality of aspects whose significance consists in its totality." Richler, like Grove, Purdy, Avison, and Aquin, realizes that man's triumph lies in his ability to transcend the limits of linear time.
C56 Greenstein, Michael. "The Apprenticeship of Noah Adler." Canadian Literature, No. 78 (Autumn 1978), pp. 43-51. Discusses the significance of names and the contrasting images in Son of a Smaller Hero. Notes the similarities between Noah and his grandfather, and Noah and his uncle; both relatives are akin to selves of Noah that he relects. Greenstein suggests that "Richler advocates the replacement of false dimensions with positive commitment to ethical, aesthetic, and scholarly traditions." Note: Fulford, Robert. Mordecai Richler. Toronto: Forum House, 1969. This title appears in several bibliographies of Canadian literature, but it is a ghost. According to Mr. Fulford, the book was planned but never written.
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C71 President's Medal for the best general article published in a Canadian magazine, University of Western Ontario, Londoia, Ontario. (1959).
C72 Canada Council Junior Arts Fellowship (1959-60, 1960-61).
C73 Guggenheim Fellowship in creative writing (1961-62).
C74 Canada Council Senior Arts Fellowship (1966-67).
C75 Governor-General's Award for fiction and essays for Cocksure and Hunting Tigers under Glass (1968).
C76 Paris Review Humour Prize for "A Liberal Education" (excerpt from Cocksure) (1968).
C77 Writer-in-Residence, Sir George Williams University, Montreal, Quebec (1968-69).
C78 Governor-General's Award for fiction for St Urbain's Horseman (1971).
C79 Writer-in-Residence, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario (1972-74).
C80 Golden Bear Award, Berlin Film Festival, for the film The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974).
C81 Writers' Guild of America Annual Award for the film The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974).
C82 Canadian Association of Children's Librarians English Medal Award for Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang (1976).
C83 Editorial Board, Book-of-the-Month club (1976- ).
C84 Ruth Schwartz Children's Book Award for Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang (1976).
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C57 "Mordecai Richler: A Selected Bibliography." Inscape, 11, No. 2 (Spring 1974), 51-61. A very selective and poorly-organized checklist of works by and about Richler. There are no annotations. Includes a list of book reviews, many of which are not annotated here, but there are frequent errors in dates and pagination.
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C1 Sheps, G. David, ed. Mordecai Richler. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 6 Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1971 124 pp. (Hereafter abbreviated as MR.) A collection of previously published articles and book reviews, with an introduction by the editor and a brief bibliography. Annotations of individual articles and reviews will be found under the names of their authors.
C2 Woodcock, George. Mordecai Richler. Canadian Writers, No. 6. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1971 64 pp. One of the best books in the Canadian Writers series, it ts unfortunately too long to summarize effectively here. Discusses the novels from The Acrobats to Cocksure, with brief mention of the stories and essays. Woodcock relates The Acrobats to the other novels in terms of theme, but argues that Son of a Smaller Hero more readily fits the traditional role of the first novel. A Choice of Enemies is a transitional work between realism and fantasy, while The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is Richler's best book, chiefly due to the convincing character of Duddy, "without rival Richler's most memorable creation." The Incomparable Atuk is not to be regarded too seriously, though it anticipates Cocksure in its use of fantasy as a background to satire. Cocksure suffers from the fragmentation of tone; Mortimer's personal life seems unrelated to the world of the Star Maker.
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C63 Cohen, Nathan. "A Conversation with Mordecai Richler." The Tamarack Review, No 2 (Winter 1957), pp. 6-23. MR. Subjects treated include Richler's decision to leave Canada, his feelings about being an expatriate, his literary influences, the writing of The Acrobats and critical reception of his first two books, and his forays into journalism and script-writing. Richler comments on values in the modern world: "I think we are coming back to a very personal and basic set of values because the exterior values have failed. There has been a collapse of absolute values, whether that value was God or Marx or gold. What I am looking for are the values with which in this time a man can live with honour." The interview took place in September 1956 in London.
C64 [Interview with Mordecai Richler.] The Five Cent Review, forerunner issue (Dec 1968), pp 16-17. Richler gives his standard opinions on the lack of Canadian culture. Canadian writing as over-praised and over-subsidized.
C65 Toppings, Earle. Canadian Writers on Tape: Mordecai Richler / Sinclair Ross. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, cassette tape, 1971. Side One of the tape is a thirty-minute interview with Richler. Richler compares the novelist with the satirist, takes a swipe at Canadian nationalim, and regrets his early publication. He admits that St. Urbain's Horseman is a fusion of the two strains in his writing, the satirical and the novel of character. He also discusses film and its effect on the writer, his own shaping influences, the writer as personality, and the most important skill of a writer--hard work.
C66 "Authors and Editors." Publisher's Weekly, 28 June 1971, pp. 29-31. Richler quotes himself from various articles, including "Why I Write."
C67 Cameron, Donald. "Mordecai Richler: The Reticent Moralist." Conversations with Canadian Novelists -- 2. Toronto: Macmillan, 1973, pp. 114-27. Richler talks about critics, the reception of Cocksure and his own view of it ("A very moral book"), satire, the writing of St Urbain's Horseman, and the ambiguity of the Horseman figure. One of the most interesting points he makes is that "running through all my novels, I think, there has been a persistent attempt to make a case for the ostensibly unsympathetic man." He cites Ernst, Duddy, Mortimer, and Harry Stein as examples. The interview was conducted on June 10, 1971, in Montreal.
C68 Gibson, Graeme. Eleven Canadian Novelists. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1973, pp. 265-99. Richler talks about writing ("I write out of a kind of disgust with things as they are. . ."), film, critics, and his novels. He says that The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and Cocksure are the two books which have satisfied him the most, and admits that his female characters are one-dimensional. Often he seems evasive in the face of Gibson's proferred interpretations. The interview predates the publication of St Urbain's Horseman.
C69 Metcalf, John. "Black Humour: An Interview with Mordecai Richler." Journal of Canadian Fiction, 3, No. 1 (Winter 1974), 73-76. Richler discusses black humour, satire, film, his return to Montreal, and some authors he likes, including Evelyn Waugh and Cyril Connolly. His real interest is the novel of character and he admits that satiric novels like Cocksure sacrifice character. At the same time, Mortimer Griffin is not mocked in that book; it is written in an eighteenth-century satirical tradition of moral conservatism. On St. Urbain's Horseman, Richler notes that the Horseman is a Golden Calf that Jake has made for himself. This interview, conducted in April 1973 in Montreal, is the most interesting one since Nathan Cohen's in The Tamarack Review, 1957.
C70 Waller, Adrian. "Once a Month." Quill & Quire, Nov. 1974, pp 7, 17. Mainly on Richler's job with the Book-of-the-Month Club.
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C58 Basman, Itzik Zacharias. "Aspects of Form as World." An Interpretation of the Novels of Mordecai Richler." M.A Thesis British Columbia 1971. An examination of the worlds and world views of Richler's novels as expressions of form. Discusses the novels chronologically, suggesting that Richler's darkening world-view in the novels of the 1960s reflects the shift from realism to fantasy, while the return to verisimilitude in St Urbain's Horseman is accompanied by a tension between his characteristic pessimism and the possibility of affirmation afforded to Jake Hersh.
C59 Darling, Michael E. "Reality and Fantasy in the Novels of Mordecai Richler." M. A. Thesis McGill 1974. In his novels, Richler attempts to convey the tension between the fantasies and ideals of his characters and the harsh realities that prevent their fulfillment. The novels are discussed chronologically and it is suggested that the characters who attain some measure of favour in Richler's eyes are those, like Mortimer Griffin, Norman Price, and Jake Hersh, who try to live with decency and honour.
C60 Johnston, Patricia C. M. "Theme and Structure in the Novels of Mordecai Richler." M.A. Thesis Calgary 1974. A chronological discussion of Richler's novels, showing their progression from traditional concerns with plot and characterization through forms that rely on "extensive thematic sub-structures" culminating in the unity of theme and structure in St. Urbain's Horseman.
C61 Quigley, Benjamin Allan. "The Development of Perspective in the Novels of Mordecai Richler." M.A. Thesis Regina 1975. A study of the protagonists and their perspectives in the novels. Period I, including The Acrobats, Son of a Smaller Hero, and A Choice of Enemies, involves the search for values and self-esteem. Period II, including The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, The Incomparable Atuk, and Cocksure, satirizes Period I, suggesting that the pursuit of absolute values is futile. Period III reveals a mature synthesis of previous perspectives in the culmination of his work, St. Urbain's Horseman.
C62 Ramraj, Victor J. "The Ambivalent Vision: Richler and the Satirical Tradition in the Canadian Novel." Diss. New Brunswick 1975. The Canadian satirical tradition from McCulloch to Davies is one of ambivalence in that our satirists suspend severe moral judgement and lack a sustained satirical vision. This is laid to the Canadian ethos which involves conciliation, compromise, and egalitarianism, all tending away from intransigent criticism. Richler is seen to be in this tradition, aware of extenuating circumstances that lesson the severity of vice, suggesting the possibilities of good in every evil character, and preferrmg sympathy to harsh satire. Only The Incomparable Atuk, which is mainly farce, and the ambivalent Cocksure, can be read as satire. In a more or less chronological discussion of the novels, Ramraj concentrates on satire directed against the "Jewish Ghetto" (Son of a Smaller Hero and The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz), the "Ghetto of Ideologies" (The Acrobats and A Choice of Enemies), the "Canadian Ghetto" (The Incomparable Atuk), and concludes with an examination of Cocksure and St. Urbain's Horseman, in which Jake Hersh is seen as the archetypal Canadian satirist, preferring tolerance to criticism.
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D14 "Outsiders." Times Literary Supplement, 4 Oct 1957, p. 589. Praise for "a thoughtful and lively novel" is somewhat vitiated by the reviewer's frank admission that he was happy to see Ernst get his in the end. The depressing aspect of Richler's writing is lightened by his facility for observation and description of character and incident.
D15 H[onderich]., T[heodore]. "Youthful Inquisitor." Toronto Daily Star, 5 Oct. 1957, p. 28. Praises the novel for its power, vitality, sincerity, and skill in presenting character. "Mr. Richler observes life with the eye of an inquisitor." Justifies the coincidences in which Ernst kills Norman's brother. Argues that "the political leanings of Norman Price will seem reprehensible or worse to most readers."
D16 Drown, Henry. "New Novels." Time and Tide. 26 Oct. 1957, p 1345. The conversations on art and politics in A Choice of Enemies are reminiscent of Simone de Beauvoir's The Mandarins. A mixed review, poking fun at the plot, but concluding that Richler's dialogue and narrative are fast-paced, and there are good descriptions of the "sub-arty world" of Chelsea and Hampstead.
D17 Hughes, Isabelle. "Montreal's Richler Unhappy in London." The Globe and Mail, 30 Nov 1957, p. 19. The plot is disjointed, the conclusion obscure, and the characters unappealing. The confusing relationships left the reviewer "with feelings of exasperation and impatience."
D18 Bissell, Claude T. "Letters in Canada: 1957." University Of Toronto Quarterly, 27 (July 1958), 457. Compares Norman to the hero of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger. The Canadian girl holds the only chance of hope in the novel, but that proves illusory, and the book ends despondently. A Choice of Enemies is disappointing after the promise of Son of a Smaller Hero, and Richler is condemned for his "brashness" and his "veto of vulgar sexual romanticism."
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D6 "Life's Little Ironies." Times Literary Supplement, 29 July 1955, p. 425. The real triumph of the novel is in its memorable depiction of the Montreal ghetto. The plot is thin, and Richler is not quite able to handle the basic irony of Wolf's situation, but "there can be no doubt of his prodigal talent."
D7 B., J. "Canadian But. ." Toronto Telegram, 1 Oct 1955, p. 33. A "tawdry and completely unimportant" book. The narrative reminds this reviewer of a slide show at a children's party.
D8 Cote, Langevin. "Our Town as Mr. Richler Sees It." The Gazette [Montreal], 1 Oct. 1955, p. 26. Montrealers will appreciate the vivid description of the ghetto. Praises Richler's "keen sense of detail and skill at dialogue," singling out the search for Wolf's body and the funeral as especially good. The weaknesses are few: "a certain abruptness in transitions, some passages that sound obscure.
D9 "Montreal Ghetto Richler's Locale." Toronto Daily Star, 1 Oct 1955, p. 12. A "savage, angry and uncompromising" novel.
D10 Walker, Joan. "Bitterly Dissatisfied " The Globe and Mail, 8 Oct. 1955, p. 23. "A violent book this, with some excellent writing in the modern stream-of-consciousness style, but hardly one which will do anything to further the interests of the Jewish race. Mr Richler's Jews are small, mean people. A grasping and frequently dishonest bunch for whom nobody could feel much sympathy."
Dll Weaver, Robert. "Canadian Fiction." Queen's Quarterly, 63 (Spring 1956), 126-30. Though the theme of the intellectual's search for identity and freedom from cultural ties is a trite one, the book is written "with real emotional and intellectual force." The minor characters are well-portrayed with the exceptions of Theo and Miriam who are stereotyped. Richler is going to be "a tough, prolific and vigorous professional, who will be quite capable of writing poor things, but who ought to have a number of serious and exciting novels in him."
D12 Bissell, Claude T. "Letters in Canada: 1955." University of Toronto Quarterly, 25 (April 1956), 305-07. This is "one of the best portraits that we have ever had in our literature of a particular Canadian group and place." Objective and unsentimental, the novel's centre is the irony of Wolf's martyrdom. Not simply a bildungsroman, Son of a Smaller Hero is a skllfull portrait of a community, which in itself is the most interesting character in the book.
D13 Tallman, Warren. "Politics Neglected." Canadian Literature, No 30 (Autumn 1966), pp. 77-79. Rpt. in "Four Takes on Mordecai Richler's Fiction." In Open Letter, 3rd Set, No. 6 (Winter 1976-77), 50-52. Reviews the New Canadian Library edition. Tallman wonders why Richler's output of fiction has dwindled from four novels in the 1950s to only one so far in the 1960s, suggesting that he may have "written himself out of touch" with his two main sources of inspiration: his childhood environment and the kind of idealistic politics represented by Panofsky in Son of a Smaller Hero. Noah is oppressed by the weight of family traditions, and is weak and sentimental where his successor Duddy Kravitz is tough and exuberant.
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D1 Metcalf, John. "New Novels." Spectator, 23 April 1954, p 503. The Acrobats is "an astonishing little book. As a guide to intelligent, contemporary pastiche it is unique." Richler's models are Hemingway, Dos Passos, Miller, and Norris. He succeeds in giving life to his Characters. A strong recommendation for the book, but Metcalf suggests that Richler go back to Canada and write about what he knows.
D2 Kervin, Roy. "A Desperate Gaiety." The Gazette [Montreal], 15 May 1954, p. 26. A successful depiction of the atmosphere of contemporary Spain--despair and drunkenness. The dialogue is excellent, the characters revealed in depth, except Andre, who is unconvincing. "Richler seems obsessed, fascinated by filth, physical, moral and verbal." Dislikes Richler's attacks on religion and suggests that the sordid parts mar the book and will offend many readers.
D3 Stone, Jerome. "Young Expatriates." Saturday Review, 2 Oct. 1954, p. 62. Andre's psychological problems perhaps reflect Richler's own, but the vivid awareness of people and places makes up for the lack of maturity. If the scenes seem contrived, the emotions are nonetheless genuine, and Richler's portrait of urban life in Spain is realistic and accurate.
D4 Lyell, Frank H. "An Expatriate's Search for Truth." New York Times Book Review, 2 Jan 1955, p 11. This is a "depressing story" told well, with some measure of originality. The characters, though descendants of those in The Sun Also Rises, are convincing, with the exception of the American tourists, who are unflatteringly depicted because of Richler's anti-Americanism.
D5 Bissell, Claude T. "Letters in Canada. 1954." University of Toronto Quarterly, 24 (April 1955), 262. Reminiscent of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. "The book is heavy with undisciplined emotion, but it displays a pleasant mastery of colloquial dialogue, and a skill in handling the typical modern techniques of discontinuity."
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D19 D[obbs]., K[ildare] Rev. of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. The Tamarack Review, No. 13(Autumn 1959), p. 134. Duddy is a picaresque descendant of Defoe's Colonel Jack. He deserves our sympathy despite his nastiness because Richler makes us aware of his better qualities. Richler has clearly found his style in this book, and Duddy may resemble his creator "in his harassed pursuit of an elusive vision."
D20 Crowther, Florence. "Montreal Meteor." New York Times Book Review, 25 Oct 1959, p. 64. Funny, pathetic, realistic, but often "unnecessarily vulgar." Compares Duddy to Sammy Glick in Budd Schulberg's What Makes Sammy Run. The minor characters are well-portrayed in this bold and powerful book.
D21 Waterhouse, Keith. "New Novels - 1." New Statesman, 7 Nov. 1959, p. 636. Although unfamiliar with Richler's other novels, the reviewer senses that this one is a "consolidationpoint." He thinks it very funny, especially the parody exemplified in Virgil's epileptic newspaper, but still too anecdotal.
D22 "Mammon Men." Times Literary Supplement, 20 Nov. 1959, p. 680. Compares The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz to Schulberg's What Makes Sammy Run and Jerome Weidman's I Can Get It/or You Wholesale. Admits that Duddy is a fascinating character study, even though he is distasteful.
D23 Beresford-Howe, Constance. Rev. of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. The Montrealer, Dec. 1959, p. 43. The book fails in its depiction of character and as a satire of Jewish life. The style is uncouth, and the comedy "threadbare." The novel is no more than "an exorcism of old private resentments, dreams and fears."
D24 Fraser, Eileen. Rev. of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. The Twentieth Century, 167 (1960), 187-88. Thinks Duddy is unscrupulous, but that his viciousness lacks "complex motivation." Suggests that "Salinger-style probing" might have helped an otherwise energetic book.
D25 Tallman, Warren. "Richler and the Faithless City." Canadian Lsterature, No. 3 (Winter 1960), pp. 62-64. Rpt. in "Four Takes on Mordecai Richler's Fiction." In Open Letter, 3rd Ser., No. 6 (Winter 1976-77), pp. 48-50. Sees Duddy as a traveller toward freedom in a world in which he is the aggressor and the victims rush to serve him. Duddy alone has faith in himself and in the dream that his grandfather has suggested to him. Duddy serves an apprenticeship of selfhood, but in breaking through conventions, finds no alternatives. The "faithless city," in this case Montreal, is a typically North-American setting for a typically North-American story. There is much praise for Richler's success in turning the vernacular into poetry, but Tallman ends with an implicit criticism that Duddy and his creator lack the deeper insight into life after apprenticeship.
D26 Dooley, D. J. Rev. of The Apprenticeshtp of Duddy Kravitz. Dalhousse Review, 40 (Spring 1960), 129, 131, 133. Generally unfavourable. The theme is trite, the style fashionably conventional, the humour often distasteful, the non-Jewish characters weak, and Duddy is much too horrible--"utterly without decency."
D27 Mandel, E. W. "Two Novels." Queen's Quarterly, 67 (Spring 1960), 130-31. The novel is not only good picaresque, but a kind of parody of Exodus in which the vision of the promised land is corrupting rather than redeeming. Mandel draws attention to the skllfully portrayed grotesques--Dingleman, Calder, and the Jewish businessmen. Duddy is a complex character, "an imagemaker who gathers about himself the wrecked artists of our time," who reaches the pathetic conclusion that he has not succeeded in the way he wanted to. Compares different treatments of the same theme in Adele Wiseman's The Sacrifice and John Marlyn's Under the Ribs of Death.
D28 Watt, F. W. "Letters in Canada: 1959." University of Toronto Quarterly, 29 (July 1960), 463-65. Duddy bridges the gap between fantasy and psychological realism. Only apparently vicious, he is actually soft and vulnerable inside: "his crassness and vulgarity are a distillation of society's." Duddy's quest for land is seen as a search for peace and beauty which in the end is corrupted. Watt appreciates the book's humour and bawdry, and the energy embodied in the style.
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D29 Hicks, Granville. "The Adaptation of Atuk." Saturday Review, 24 Aug 1963, pp. 37-38. A freely-ranging satire attacking the phony world of advertising and media. The ending is decried as so barbarous that "it goes beyond the bounds of legitimate satire." The book reminds this reviewer of Heller's Catch-22, but Richler's novel falls between satire and the novel of the absurd typified by Pynchon's V. When not satirizing the obvious, Richler strays to what is implausible, rather than "the truly absurd."
D30 Carroll, John. "On Richler and Ludwig." The Tamarack Review, No. 29 (Autumn 1963), pp. 98-102. No more than "an amusing toy," The Incomparable Atuk offers familiar targets for satire, and is not unlike a Marx Brothers' movie. The sketches of familiar Torontonians are the weakest part of the book, though the composite figures, those not readily identified with a real person, are more successful. Carroll compares Richler to Nathanael West, though he lacks the American novelist's biting wit.
D31 Bryden, Ronald. "Bedbugs." New Statesman, 18 Oct 1963, p. 535. A pleasant book which superficially resembles Max Shulman's "American college humour" but is also similar to East-European tales in which an innocent peasant shows up the sophisticated townspeople. The parody of Jewish obsessions--Zionism and assimilation--extends to Canadian concerns--nationalism and the fear of American cultural imperialism. D32 Cohen, Peter. "Journey into Life." Spectator, 25 Oct. 1963, p. 538. Despite stereotyped characters and laboured comic effects, this collection of "slapstick sketches" has its moments. Notes Richler's awareness that tolerance and intolerance are basically the same.
D33 Taaffe, Gerald. Rev. of The Incomparable Atuk. The Montrealer, Nov. 1963, pp. 55-56. More than just a satire aimed at Toronto cultural figures and institutions, this is "a classic attack on intolerance," although the farcical events tend to neutralize the harshness of the attack. Although brief, this is one of the most laudatory reviews of The Incomparable Atuk, praising it as one of the two best Canadian works of satire, the other being Bessette's Le Libraire.
D34 Buitenhuis, Peter. "Novel Satirizes Toronto Customs." The Globe Magazine, 23 Nov 1963, p. 22. A brilliant, witty satire of Canadian life, but it may not have much meaning for readers outside of Toronto. Richler's moral purpose is "to show the effects of total commercialization and exploitation of the arts and the media of communications." There is much praise for the novel's "skilful plotting" and "deft and sharp characterization."
D35 Rabinovitch, Marvin. "Slings and Arrows." The Gazette [Montreal], 23 Nov. 1963, p. 49. Finds The Incomparable Atuk "mellower" and less severe than Richler's previous works, but still "second to none" as satire. Richler's style is "lean, almost austere, and well-adapted to the tongue-in-cheek understatements which provide most of its bite."
D36 Kaufmann, Stanley. Rev. of Stick Your Neck Out. Commentary, Dec. 1963, pp. 492, 494-96. The targets are familiar, the characters "a gallery of moral grotesques," but this is still an amusing piece of satire. "The proof of his quality is that he is amused, and amusing, as if he had just landed on earth and were sending us back a report."
D37 Tallman, Warren. "Performers and Entertainers." Canadian Lsterature, No. 19 (Winter 1964), pp 49-51. A "brilliantly conceived novel" but the writing is not up to the standard of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, as everything is subordinated to the satirical purpose. Suggests that the model for the critic Seymour Bone in The Incomparable Atuk is Nathan Cohen, who had attacked Richler in a Tamarack Review article in 1957, and the Bone caricature is an attempt to even the score with Cohen.
D38 Watt, F. W. "Letters in Canada 1963." University of Toronto Quarterly, 33 (July 1964), 389-91. The Incomparable Atuk has "more in common with the stage review than with the conventional novel form." The characters are two-dimensional and the plot farcical. Compares Atuk to Duddy, noting that in this book, the Jews are Eskimos. Watt makes plain his feeling that this is a slight achievement in comparison to The Apprentsceship of Duddy Kravitz.
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- Gabrielle Roy An Annotated Bibliography; Introduction
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To chronicle Gabrielle Roy's career is to understand much of the development of modern French-Canadian literature. When Gabrielle Roy was contributing her early work to newspapers and journals in the late 1930s and early 1940s and was fashioning Bonheur d'occasion, other French-Canadian writing also focused on social concerns and in particular the urbanization of Quebec society with its resultant problems of isolation and alienation for French-speaking Quebeckers.
With those concerns still central, there has been a subtle evolution in Gabrielle Roy's writing and in the mainstream of French-Canadian fiction, toward the problems of the individual. His attempts to develop an inner life, based on the experiences of his past and on his hopes despite an uncertain future, have now become the focal point. This movement in its broadest outline may be seen as a transition from literature concerned with external reality to writing concerned with internal needs. It is similar to the general change from nineteenth- to twentieth-century European literature: the passage from realistic and naturalistic writers such as Balzac, Flaubert, and Zola to the introspective and subjective novelists beginning with Gide and Proust. However, there are certain aspects of Gabrielle Roy's works which do not parallel the general movement of French-Canadian fiction: for example, she embraces no clearly-defined political ideology or values.
In his book on Gabrielle Roy, Francois Ricard notes that until 1954 there were few references to her past in Manitoba. Then she wrote "Souvenirs du Manitoba" for the Societe royale du Canada and this opened the floodgates of memory which has since produced Rue Deschambault (1955) and La Route d'Altamont (1966), essentially autobiographical collections of short stories that recount some of the more vivid childhood memories of Christine, the character who apparently represents the author's persona. It is not that the social concerns expressed earlier in the "Montreal novels," Bonheur d'occasion (1945) and Alexandre Chenevert (1954), are no longer valid or have been rejected. It seems to me that Roy felt the need to explore her individuality and uniqueness before she could begin to examine her role in the world and what she had in common with her fellows. Ricard suggests that this self-knowledge lends a certain serenity to her works after 1966, and he cites Cet Ete qui chantait (1973) as a perfect example. This is to some extent true, although the serenity in it is no more exquisite than is found in "Ma Coqueluche" (Rue Deschambault [1955]).
One finds that the central preoccupations remain unchanged throughout her works: Maria's struggle in Un Jardin au bout du monde (1975) is essentially the same as Alexandre Chenevert's search for meaning and Pierre Cadorai's quest in La Montagne secrete (1961). At least two principles remain fundamental and constant in the works. The first is the interdependence of all creation -- human life and the natural world. This means that man reaches an understanding of himself in the most profound sense, not by neglecting his link with nature, but by exploring it. The second principle is that the most important human activity is communication -- the individual understanding himself and sharing that discovery with his fellows.
Studies devoted to Gabrielle Roy's work have been varied in their approaches -- from Vachon's and Blais's structural criticism to Bessette's psychocriticism, Shek's socio-critical reading, and a host of other analyses, all of which yield different but valuable insights. In recent years, scholars have been exploring new perspectives in the author's work. A good example is the examination, by Rejean Robidoux, of Proustian parallels in Gabrielle Roy's fiction, but much work remains to be done in that area. Another is the link between the author's journalistic writing, now more accessible with the publication of Fragiles Lumieres de la terre (1978), and her later volumes; but again, a beginning has barely been made.
The one major lacuna is the lack of a serious and systematic analysis of Gabrielle Roy's use of language. For the most part, with the exception of a few critics such as Shek and Bessette, the cliche that she writes "naturally" and "in the traditional style" has for too long directed critical attention away from her craftsmanship.
As one can ascertain by examining this bibliography, much good research has already been done on Gabrielle Roy. There is room for a great deal more.
I wish to express my appreciation to Gabrielle Roy herself, for providing me with useful information about her interviews and awards. I am pleased to acknowledge her gracious contribution. I am very grateful also to Harvey Bride who placed at my disposal materials used in preparation of his M. Phil. dissertation, Bio-bibliographie de Gabrielle Roy. His research and co-operation have proven invaluable. I have had the good fortune to be able to consult with David M. Hayne and Ben-Zion Shek of the University of Toronto, and their assistance is deeply appreciated.
I should like to call to the attention of those working in the field of French-Canadian studies the existence of a research tool of which not everyone is aware. Otto Klapp's Bibliographie Der Franzosischen Literaturwissenschaft has for some years now been including information on studies of French-Canadian literature. A very important characteristic of this unannotated publication is that it deals with European as well as North American scholarship.
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In From There to Here Frank Davey wrote that "Margaret Atwood has enjoyed a spectacular climb to the summit of Canadian letters"; and in The Canadian Novel in the Twentieth Century George Woodcock observed that a consideration both of Atwood's prose writings and of her poetry shows "the versatility with which her intelligence plays over the horizons of her perceptions. . . .No other writer in Canada of Margaret Atwood's generation has so wide a command of the resources of literature, so telling a restraint in their use."
In many ways, Margaret Atwood is regarded popularly as well as academically as one of the brighter stars of the Canadian literary scene. She is one of those writers who have greatly improved the stature of Canadian literature at home and abroad. She is heard on the radio, seen on television, read about in Chatelaine and Toronto Life. Her books are known and read by the general public. Her name and her writings are recognized in the United States and Britain. Her books are taught at school. However, like most living writers still in the flood of production, Atwood must suffer changes in the critical esteem in which she is held. Some people feel that Atwood has done too many different things too well. She writes poetry and ficnon, criticism and drama, she writes for adults and she has now ventured into writing for children, she even illustrates her own books.
In addition to her novels and short stories, Margaret Atwood has published seven major poetry collections. The essential feature both of her fiction and poetry has been described as a search for a personal and national identity. Survival is a central theme throughout her works, as is the quest for self unity.
The Circle Game, Atwood's first important collection, was enthusiastically received. The imagery, the language, and the poetic discipline were all noted and praised by reviewers, one of whom wrote that Atwood's craft was deceptively simple and displayed sureness of touch. Hugh MacCallum in The University of Toronto Quarterly claimed that Atwood's vision was one in which ritual and pattern create a charmed circle of art that imprisons the mind, from which the poet endeavours to escape. Imprisonment and the need for escape, the search for identity, and above all, the struggle to survive were all seen as themes of The Circle Game. Gary Ross in Canadian Literature (and other critics as well) treats The Circle Game as a poetic sequence which deals with isolation and human alienation and the need to break out of this "circle" and to enter into positive relations with others.
The Animals in That Country was seen as a continuation of Atwood's exploration of the principles of identity and of the experience of alienation. Tom Marshall found her poems "a little inhuman" but another reviewer felt that they represented a real progression from the severely personal poetry of The Circle Game, and even F. M. Macri in his critical review in Modern Poetry Studies in 1974 claimed it as the best collection to that date.
The Journals of Susanna Moodie and Procedures for Underground were published in the same year Robin Skelton, in reviewing both, felt they exhibited Atwood's strong sense of place and ambiguous feelings about Canadian culture. Carolyn Allen in Essays on Canadian Writing in 1977 found "transformation" to be one of the major themes in Atwood's poetry, reflected particularly in The Journals of Susanna Moodie and the later You Are Happy, where Atwood created women who were willing to break out of mythic or social moulds. Another reviewer felt that Procedures for Underground continued in the same vein as earlier collections but displayed a variety of subjects and concerns, and these poems offered a more visible attempt to maintain contact with another human being.
Power Politics, the most personal of Atwood's collections, was very well received, though some reviewers found the expressed emotions raw and intense and the relationship described as too destructive for comfort. As George Bowering wrote "A beautiful book of poetry--it hurts." And as Gloria Onley observed in West Coast Review, the power structure is patriarchal, so that a woman's energies and self "have no existence except as defined and canalized by the colonizing, victimizing male." Onley extended her study of the sexual politics behind Power Politics in an article in Canadian Literature, where she describes the theme as "role-engulfment."
The poems in You Are Happy are much calmer, and end with a kind of coming-to-terms with the world of man-woman relationships. Robert Fulford wrote that the poems drag the reader along "on a kind of forced march through the intricate sensibility of one of our most remarkable writers." As another writer expressed it, You Are Happy "moves beyond the problem of individual survival and begins as exploration of what's to be found in a life of comingled feeling."
Margaret Atwood is undoubtedly an important figure in the Canadian literary scene, but before 1974, when a preliminary version of this bibliography appeared in Canadian Library Journal, virtually no bibliographic work on her had been published. The first "Checklist" was revised for the special "Atwood Issue" of The Malahat Review, January 1977. The present publication contains considerable revisions and additions, in an attempt to provide an accurate and useful record of Atwood's continuing output and of critical writings on her.
Bibliographic work on a living writer as active in so many fields as Margaret Atwood is difficult. Apart from using standard periodical indexes and the somewhat inadequate annual lists of critical works which are published in such journals as Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews, one depends to a large extent on the careful and persistent perusal of as many relevant periodicals as one may find. In addition, items are reported by interested friends and colleagues and by the writer herself. Some discoveries even seem to be made quite by chance. However, I wish to acknowledge in particular the usefulness of the bibliography included in Andrew Scott's M. A. Thesis, "Margaret Atwood: A Critical Appreciation," and the continuing assistance of Jerry Rosenberg, who is working on a book on Atwood. Help was also gained from Carol Fairbanks' Margaret Atwood: A Bibliography of Criticism, which appeared in Bulletin of Bibliography, 36, No. 2 (April-June 1979), 85-90, 98.
Certain omissions from the bibliography are deliberate, in particular, no attempt has been made to include all newspaper articles or reviews. Similarly, the listing of anthologies which include Atwood's work is selective.
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A12 Ma Vache Bossie. Montreal: Lemeac, 1976. 45 pp.
Illustrated by Louise Pomminvllle. See B42.
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A1 Bonheur d'occassion. Montreal: Societe des Editions
Pascal, 1945. 2 vols 294, 296-532 pp.
Paris: Flammarion, 1947 473 pp.
The Tin Flute. Trans. Hannah Josephson. New York:
Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947. 315 pp.
May Selection of the Literary Guild of America.
The Tin Flute. Trans Hannah Josephson. Toronto:
McClelland and Stewart, 1947. 315 pp.
Felicidad ocasional Trans. Dr Carlos Juan Vega.
Buenos Aires, S.A.: Editorial Bell, 1948. 350 pp.
The Tin Flute London: William Heinemann, 1948.
336 pp.
Blikflojten. Trans. Merete Engberg. Copenhagen: Gyl-
dendal, 1949 330 pp.
Prilezitostne stastie. Trans. Fedor Jesensky. Zivena:
Turciansky Svaty Martin, 1949. 408 pp.
Trumpet av bleck och drommar. Trans. Einar Malm.
Stockolm: Wahlstrom & Widstrand, 1949. 319 pp.
Blikkfloyten Trans. Caro Olden Oslo: Gyldendal
Norsk Forlag, 1950 356 pp.
The Tin Flute. Trans. Hannah Josephson. London.
William Heinemann, 1951 336 pp.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1954. 315 pp.
The Tin Flute. Introd. Hugh McPherson. Trans.
Hannah Josephson. New Canadian Library, No. 5.
Toronto: McClelland ans Stewart, 1958. 274 pp.
Montreal: Beauchemin, 1965. 345 pp. (ne varietur)
[sic] Coll. Le Club des grands prix litteraires. Pref.
Henriette Guex-Rolle. Geneva: Edito-Service, 1968.
456 pp.
This edition is distributed by Le Club du biblio-
phile de Geneve, Evreux, and Brussels, and published
with the authorization of the Editions Flammarion,
Paris. [Levallois-Perret]: Cercle du bibliophile, [1968].
456 pp.
Le Club des grands prix litteraires. Original
frontispiece by Daniel Briffaud.
Fericire intimplatoare. Pref. Valer Conea. Trans. El-
vira Bogdan. Bucarest: Editura pentru literatura uni-
versala, 1968. 344 pp.
Cover by Stan Done.
Schast'e To Sluchaju. Introd. T. Balashova. Trans. I.
Grushetskaja. Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Khudozhestven-
nala Literatura, 1972 358 pp.
Collection 10 sur 10. Montreal: Editions Alain Stanke,
1978. 396 pp.
Livre de poche "Texte revu par l'auteur."
A2 Alexandre Chenevert. Montreal: Beauchemin, 1954.
373 pp.
Cercle du Livre de France selection for April 1954.
Paris: Flammarion, 1954. 297 pp.
The Cashier. Trans. Harry Lorin Binsse. New York:
Harcourt & Brace, 1955. 251 pp.
The Cashier. Trans. Harry Lorin Binsse. Toronto:
McClelland and Stewart, 1955. 251 pp.
The Cashier. Trans. Harry Lorin Binsse London:
William Heinemann, 1956. 278 pp.
Gott geht weiter als wir Menschen. Trans. Theodor
Rocholl. Munich: Paul List Verlag, 1956. 277 pp.
The Cashier. Trans. Harry Lorin Binsse. Toronto:
McClelland and Stewart, [C] 1963. 221 pp.
The Cashier. Introd. W. C. Lougheed Trans. Harry
Lorin Binsse. New Canadian Library, No. 40. Toronto:
McClelland and Stewart, 1970. 221 pp.
Montreal: Beauchemin, 1973. 384 pp.
A3 La Montagne secrete. Montreal: Beauchemin, 1961
222 pp.
Paris: Flammarion, [C] 1962. 218 pp.
The Hidden Mountain. Trans. Harry Lorin Binsse.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, [C]1962.
186 pp.
The Hidden Mountain. Toronto: McClelland and
Stewart, [C] 1962. 186 pp.
Introd. Mary Jane Edwards. Trans. Harry Lorin Binsse.
New Canadian Library, No. 109. Toronto: McClelland
and Stewart, 1974. 186 pp.
Montreal: Editions La Fregate, 1975.
Special limited-edition loose-folio version, featuring the work of Richard,
including drawings produced especially for that occasion. All works were numbered
and signed by both Richard and Roy.
A4 La Riviere sans repos. Montreal: Beauchemin, 1970.
315 pp.
Windflower. Trans. Joyce Marshall. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1970. 152 pp.
Abridged edition Excludes "Les Nouvelles esquimaudes."
Paris: Flammarion, 1972. 234 pp.
Windflower. Introd. Lorraine MacMullen. Trans. Joyce Marshall. New Canadian Library,
No. 120. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975 152 pp.
Abridged edition. Excludes "Les Nouvelles esquimaudes."
Includes "Les Satellites," "Le Telephone," "Le Fauteuil roulant," "La Riviere sans
repos."
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A5 La Petite Poule d'eau. Montreal: Beauchemin, 1950.
272 pp.
Paris: Flammarion, 1951 236 pp.
Where Nests the Water Hen. Trans. Harry Lorin
Binsse. New York: Harcourt & Brace, 1951 251 pp.
Where Nests the Water Hen. Trans. Harry Lorin
Binsse. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1951 251
pp.
Where Nests the Water Hen. Trans. Harry Lorin
Binsse. London: Heinemann, 1952 226 pp.
Coll. Les Tresors du livre 34. Geneva: Editions S.A R.I., 1953. 211 pp.
Das kleine Wasserhuhn. Trans. Theodor Rocholl.
Munich: Paul List Verlag, 1953 235 pp.
Das kleine Wasserhuhn. Trans. Theodor Rocholl. Coll.
Neue Schweizer Bibliothek. Zurich: Schweizer Druckund Verlagshaus AG., 1953 235 pp.
This edition was published with the authorization of Paul List Verlag, Munich.
Toronto: Clarke Irwin, 1956 230 pp.
School edition without "Le Capucin de Toutes-Aides." Foreword (pp vii-viii) by
Gabrielle Roy. Pref (v-vi), introd. (xi-xvii), exercises and vocabulary (pp. 133-
230) by R. W. Torrens.
Where Nests the Water Hen. Introd. Joseph Marks.
London: George G Harrap, [C] 1957. 175 pp.
Montreal: Beauchemln, 1957. 272 pp.
Definitive edition.
Where Nests the Water Hen. Toronto: Clarke Irwin, 1959. 230 pp.
Das kleine Wasserhuhn. Trans. Theodor Rocholl. List
Taschenbucher 122 Munich: Paul List Verlag, 1959.
170 pp.
Unabridged edition.
Das kleine Wasserhuhn. Trans. Theodor Rocholl. Barmerlea, England: Barmerlea Book
Sales Ltd., 1959 171 pp.
This edition was published with the authorization of Paul List Verlag, Munich.
Where Nests the Water Hen. Introd. Gordon Roper.
Trans. Harry Lorln Binsse. New Canadian Library, No 25. Toronto: McClelland and
Stewart, [C] 1961. 160 pp.
Where Nests the Water Hen. Trans. Harry Lorin Binsse. Vancouver: Evergreen, 1965
160 pp.
In Canada. Coll. Les Portes de la vie 1. Saint-Cloud: Editions du Burin, 1967 263
pp.
This volume contains: a) "Message" by Paul Gerin-Lajoie (pp. 11-12), b)
"Portrait d'un jeune geant" by Roger Gaudry (pp. 13-59), c) La Petite Poule d'eau
by Gabrielle Roy (pp. 61-175) without "Le Capucin de Toutes-Aides" and with eight
original illustrations by Zarou and the same preface (pp. 65-69) as that of the
school edition published by George G. Harrap (London), and d) "L'Education au
Canada fran~ais" by Jeanne Lapointe (pp. 177-260).
Montreal: Beauchemin, 1970 272 pp.
Montreal: Gilles Corbeil, editeur, 1971. 133 pp.
Limited deluxe edition, illustrated by Jean-Paul Lemieux.
Includes "Les Vacances de Luzina," "L'Ecole de la petite poule d'eau," "Le
Capucin de toutes-aides."
A6 Rue Deschambault Montreal: Beauchemm, 1955. 260
pp.
Paris: Flammarion, 1955. 234 pp.
Street of Riches Trans. Harry Lorin Binsse. New
York: Harcourt & Brace, [1957] 246 pp.
Street of Riches. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, [C]
1957. 246 pp.
La Strada di casa mia. Trans. Peppina Dore. Coll. I
Romanzi di Gioia 20. Milan: Instituto di Propaganda
Libraria, [1957] 219 pp.
Street of Riches. Introd. Brandon Conron Trans.
Harry Lorin Binsse. New Canadian Library, No. 56.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, [copyright 1967] 158 pp.
Rue Deschambault. Trans. Lucille Roger. Toronto:
Forum, 1968 50 pp.
An identical edition was published in 1968 by Coles, Toronto.
It is number 761 of the Coles Notes and is a translation of five of
the stories.
Includes "Les Deux negres," "Petite misere," "Mon chapeau rose," "Pour empecher
un mariage," "Un Bout de ruban jaune," "Ma coqueluche," "Le Titanic," "Les
Deserteuses" (B37), "Le Puits de Dunrea," "Alicia," "Ma tante Theresina Veilleux,"
"L'Italienne," "Wilhelm" (B38), "Les Bijoux," "La Voix des etangs" (B36), "La
Tempete,'" "Le Jour et la nuit," "Gagner ma vie."
A7 La Route d'Altamont Coll L'Arbre 10. Montreal
Editions HMH, 1966. 261 pp.
The Road Past Altamont. Trans. Joyce Marshall.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, [copyright 1966]. 146 pp.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, [1966]. 146 pp.
Paris: Flammarion, 1967. 232 pp.
Coll. L'Arbre 10. Montreal: Editions HMH, 1967.255
pp. Die Strasse nach Altamont. Trans. Renate Benson.
Zurich: Manesse-Verlag, [1970] 337 pp.
The Road Past Altamont. Introd. and trans. Joyce
Marshall. New Canadian Library, No. 129. Toronto:
McClelland and Stewart, 1976. 146 pp.
Includes "Ma Grand-mere tout-puissante" (B39),
"Le Vieillard et l'enfant," "Le Demenagement," "La
Route d'Altamont."
A8 Cet Ete qui chantait. Quebec: Les editions francaises,
1972. 207 pp.
Includes photographs. Illustrated by Guy Lemieux.
Enchanted Summer. Trans. Joyce Marshall. Toronto:
McClelland and Stewart, 1976. 127 pp.
Includes "Monsieur Toung," "La Gatte de mon-
sieur Emile," "Les Vaches d'Aime," "Jeannot-la-
Corneille," "La Trotteuse," "Ames en peine," "Un
Mobile," "La Grande-Minoune-Maigre," "Les Freres-
Arbres," "La Fete des vaches," "La Paire," "Danse,
Mouffette!" La Messe aux hirondelles," "Le Jour ou
Martine descendit au fleuve," "Les Visiteurs de la
journee," "La Nuit des lucioles," "L'Enfant morte,"
"Les Iles," "De retour a la mare de Monsieur Toung."
A9 Un Jardin au bout du monde. Montreal: Beauchemin,
1975 218 pp.
Garden in the Wind. Trans. Alan Brown. Toronto:
McClelland and Stewart, 1977 176 pp.
Includes "A Tramp at the Door," "Where Will
You Go, Sam Lee Wong?", "Hoodoo Valley," "Garden
in the Wind."
A10 Ces Enfants de ma vie. Montreal: Stanke, 1977. 215 pp.
Includes photographs.
Includes "Vincento," "L'Enfant de Noel," "L'Alou-
ette," "Demetrioff," "La Maison gardee," "De la truite
dans l'eau glacee."
All Fragiles Lumieres de la terre. Montreal: Les Editions
Quinze, 1978. 240 pp.
Presentation by Gabrielle Roy. Note by Francois
Ricard.
Includes "Peuples du Canada" (Bl16), "Les
Hutterites," "De turbulents chercheurs de paix"
(Bl17), "Les Mennonites," "L'Avenue Palestine"
(B123), "Les Sudetes de Good Soil," "Petite Ukraine,"
"Les Pecheurs de Gaspesie -- Une Voile dans la nuit"
(B131), "Le Manitoba" (B49), "Mon Heritage du
Manitoba" (B52), "Retour a Saint-Henri," "Comment
j'ai recu le femina" (B47), "Memoire et creation,"
"Terre des hommes."
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B45 "Reponse de Mademoiselle Gabrielle Roy." Sociedte Royale du Canada, section francaise, No. 5 (1947-48), pp. 35-48. Rpt. "Bonheur d'occasion aujourd'hui." In Le Bulletin des agriculteurs, Jan 1948, pp. 6-7, 20-23.
B46 "Souvenirs du Manitoba." Memoires de la Societe Royale du Canada 48, 3e serie, lere section (June 1954), 1-6. Rpt. in Revue de Paris, 62e annee, No 2 (Feb 1955), 77-83. Rpt. in Le Devoir, 15 Nov 1955, p. 17. FLT.
B47 "Comment j'ai recu le Femina." Le Devoir, 15 Dec. 1956, pp. 2, 7. FLT.
B48 "Quelques Reflexions sur la litterature canadienne d'expression francaise." Le Quartierlatin, 27 Feb 1962, p. 2.
B49 "Le Manitoba." Magazine Maclean, July 1962, pp. 18-21, 32-38. FLT.
B50 "Les Terres nouvelles de Jean-Paul Lemieux." Vie des Arts, No. 29 (Winter 1962-63), pp. 39-43.
B51 "Germaine Guevrement 1900-1968." Deliberations de la Societe royale du Canada, serie IV, tome VII, 1969, pp. 73-77.
B52 "Mon Heritage du Manitoba." Mosaic, 3, No. 3 (Spring 1970), 69-80 Rpt. (abridged) in Gabrielle Roy. By Francois Ricard. Montreal: Fides, 1975, pp. 157-64. FLT.
B53 "Jeux du romancier et des lecteurs." Visages de Gabrielle Roy. Montreal: Beauchemin, 1973, pp. 263-72. Speech delivered on 1 Dec. 1955 to the Alliance Francaise in Montreal, extracts of which are in Marc Gagne's Visages de Gabrielle Roy.
B54 "Le pays de 'Bonheur d'occasion.'" Le Devoir, Supplement litteraire, 18 May 1974, pp. viii-ix.
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B55 "Choses vues en passant. . . ." La Liberte et le patriote [Winnipeg], 27 July 1938.
B56 "London a Land's End." La Liberte et le patriote, 12 Oct 1938 Rpt. in La Revue moderne, Nov. 1939, pp. 13, 40-41.
B57 "Les Derniers Nomades." Je suis partout [Paris], 21 Oct 1938.
B58 "Les Jolis Coins de Londres." La Liberte et le patriote, Nov. 1938.
B59 "Si Pres de Londres." si loin." "La Liberte et le patriote, Dec 1938.
B60 "Une Grande Personnalite anglaise, Lady Francis Ryder." Le Devoir, 29 Dec 1938, p. 5.
B61 "Winnipeg Girl Visits Bruges." La Liberte et le patriote, 29 Dec. 1938.
B62 "Noels canadiens francais." Je suis partout, 30 Dec. 1938, p. 6
B63 "Amusante hospitalite." Le Jour, 6 May 1939, p. 7.
B64 "Les Logeuses de Montreal." LeJour, 20 May 1939, p. 7.
B65 "Chacun sa verite." Le Jour, 27 May 1939, p. 7.
B66 "Le week-end en Angleterre." LeJour, 3 June 1939, p. 7.
B67 "Les Chats de Londres." Le Jour, 10 June 1939, p. 4.
B68 "L'Heure du the en Angleterre." Le Jour, 17 June 1939, p. 7.
B69 "Nous et le ruines." Le Jour, 24 June 1939, p 2.
B70 "Strictement pour les monsieurs. . . ." Le Jour, 1 July 1939, p. 7.
B71 "Ces Chapeaux." Le Jour, 8 July 1939, p. 3
B72 "L'Instinct nomade chez les Anglais." Le Jour, 8 July 1939, p 2.
B73 "Quelques jolis coins de Montreal." Le Jour, 22 July 1939, p. 2.
B74 "Parmi ceux qui font la traversee." Le Jour, 29 July 1939, p. 5.
B75 "La 'Maison du Canada." " La Revue populaire, 32nd year, No. 8 (Aug 1939), 7, 57.
B76 "Les Pigeons de Londres." Le Jour, 5 Aug. 1939, p 5.
B77 "Douce Angleterre." Le Jour, 12 Aug. 1939, p 4.
B78 "Comment nous sommes restes Francais au Canada." Je suis partout[Paris], No. 456, 18 Aug. 1939.
B79 "Encore sur le sujet de l'hospitalite anglaise." Le Jour, 19 Aug 1939, p 2.
B80 "La cuisine de Mme Smith." Le Jour, 9 Sept. 1939, p. 2.
B81 "Le Petit Dejeuner parisien." Le Jour, 30 Sept 1939, p. 2.
B82 "Ceux dont on se passerait volontiers au cinema." Le Jour, 7 Oct. 1939, p. 2.
B83 "The Meet." Le Jour, 14 Oct. 1939, p 2.
B84 "Une Trouvaille parisienne." Le Jour, 21 Oct. 1939, p. 2.
B85 "L'Anglaise amoureuse." Le Jour, 4 Nov 1939, p. 2.
B86 "Si on faisait la meme chose au Parc Lafontaine." Le Jour, 11 Nov. 1939, p. 4.
B87 "En vagabondant dans le midi de la France. Ramatuelle a Hyeres." Le Jour, 2 Dec 1939, p. 7.
B88 "Noel chez les colons ukrainiens." Le Jour, 30 Dec. 1939, p. 2.
B89 "Le Theatre sans femmes." Le Jour, 30 Dec. 1939, p. 7.
B90 "Une messe en Provence." Le Jour, 27 Jan 1940, p. 2.
B91 "Ce que j'ai surtout aime a Londres. Les passants." Le Jour, 2 March 1940, p. 2.
B92 "L'Hospitalite parisienne." Le Jour, 16 March 1940, p. 2.
B93 "Off en est Saint-Boniface." La Revue populalre, 32nd year, No 9 (Sept. 1940), 68.
B94 "La Belle Aventure de la Gaspesie." Bulletin des agriculteurs, Nov. 1940, pp. 8-9, 67.
B95 "Mort d'extreme vieillesse." Bulletin des agriculteurs, Feb 1941, pp. 8, 34-35.
B96 "La Ferme, grande industrie." Bulletin des agriculteurs, March 1941, pp. 14, 32-33, 43.
B97 "Nos agriculteurs ceramistes." Bulletin des agriculteurs, April 1941, pp. 9, 44-45.
B98 "Le Regime seigneurial au Canada francais." Aujour d'hui [Montreal], No 19 (April 1941), pp 53-58.
B99 "Une Menagerie scientifique." La revue moderne, May 1941, pp. 8-9, 36.
B100 "Les Deux Saint-Laurent." Bulletin des agriculteurs, June 1941, pp 8-9, 37, 40.
B101 "Est-Ouest." Bulletin des agriculteurs, July 1941, pp. 9, 25-28.
B102 "Du Port aux banques." Bulletin des agriculteurs, Aug. 1941, pp. 11, 32-33.
B103 "Un Homme et sa volonte" Bulletin des agriculteurs, Aug. 1941, pp. 9, 31-32.
B104 "Apres trois cents ans." Bulletin des agriculteurs, Sept. 1941, pp. 9, 37-38.
B105 "La Cote de tous les vents." Bulletins des agriculteurs, Oct 1941, pp. 7, 42-45.
B106 "Vive l'Expo." Bulletin des agriculteurs, Oct. 1941, pp. 11, 36-38.
B107 "Heureux les Nomades." Bulletin des agriculteurs, Nov 1941, pp. 7, 47-49.
B108 "La Terre secourable." Bulletin des agriculteurs, Nov. 1941, pp 11, 14-15, 59, 63.
B109 "Le Pain et le feu." Bulletin des agriculteurs, Dec 1941, pp. 9, 29-30.
B110 "Le Chef de district." Bulletin des agriculteurs, Jan. 1942, pp. 7, 28-29.
B111 "Chez les Paysans du Languedoc." Paysanna [Montreal] [copyright 1942], pp. 14-15, 23.
Bl12 "Plus que le pain." Bulletin des agriculteurs, Feb. 1942, pp. 9, 33-35.
B113 "Pitie pour les institutrices." Bulletin des agriculteurs, March 1942, pp. 7, 45-46.
B114 "Bourgs d'Amerique." Bulletin des agriculteurs, April and May 1942, pp. 9, 43-46, and 9, 36-37.
B115 "Laissez passer les jeeps." Le Canada, 24 Nov. 1942, p. 5.
Bl16 "Peuples du Canada -- le plus etonnant: les Hutterires." Bulletin des agriculteurs, Nov. 1942, pp. 8, 30-32. FLT.
B117 "Turbulents Chercheurs de paix." Bulletin des agriculteurs, Dec 1942, pp. 10, 39-40. FLT.
B118 "Si l'on croyait aux voyages. . . ." Le Canada, 7 Dec. 1942, p. 2
B119 "Notre ble." Le Canada, 21 Dec. 1942, p. 2.
B120 "Femmes de dur labeur." Bulletin des agriculteurs, Jan. 1943, pp. 10, 25.
B121 "Les Battages." Le Canada, 5 Jan 1943, p. 4.
B122 "Apres les Battages." Le Canada, 16 Jan. 1943, p. 4.
B123 "L'Avenue Palestine." Bulletin des agriculteurs, Feb. 1943, pp. 7, 32-33. FLT
B124 "De Prague a Good Soil." Bulletin des agriculteurs, March 1943, pp. 8, 46-48.
B125 "Ukraine." Bulletin des agriculteurs, April 1943, pp. 8, 43-45.
B126 "Les Gens de chez-nous." Bulletin des agriculteurs, May 1943, pp. 10, 33, 36-39.
B127 "La Prodigieuse Aventure de la compagnie d'aluminium." Bulletin des agriculteurs, Jan. 1944, pp. 6-7, 24-25.
B128 "Le Pays du Saguenay: son ame et son visage." Bulletin des agriculteurs, Feb 1944, pp. 8-9, 37.
B129 "L'Ile-aux-Coudres." Bulletin des agriculteurs, March 1944, pp. 10-11, 43-45.
B130 "Un Jour, je naviguerai." Bulletin des agriculteurs, April 1944, pp 10, 51-53.
B131 "Une Voile dans la nuit." Bulletin des agriculteurs, May 1944, pp 9, 49, 53. FLT.
B132 "Allons, gai, au marche." Bulletin des agriculteurs, Oct. 1944, pp. 8-9, 17-20.
B133 "Physionomie des Cantons de l'Est." Bulletin des agriculteurs, Nov. 1944, pp. 10-11, 47-48.
B134 "L'Accent durable." Bulletin des agriculteurs, Dec. 1944, pp. 10-11, 42-44.
B135 "Le Carrousel industriel des Cantons de l'Est." Bulletin des agriculteurs, Feb. and March 1945, pp. 8-10, 27-29, and 8-11, 18.
B136 "L'Appel de la foret." Bulletin des agriculteurs, April 1945, pp. 10-13, 54, 56-58.
B137 "Le Long, Long, Voyage." Bulletin des agriculteurs, May 1945, pp. 8-9, 51-52.
B138 "La Magie du coton." Bulletin des agriculteurs, Sept. 1945, pp. 8-10, 26-27.
B139 "La Foret canadienne s'en va-t-aux presses." Bulletin des agriculteurs, Oct. 1945, pp. 8-11, 19.
B140 "Dans La Vallee de l'or." Bulletin des agriculteurs, Nov 1945, pp. 8-10, 51-52.
B141 "How I Found the People of Saint-Henri." Wings: Bulletin of Literary Guild of A merica [New York], May 1947.
B142 "Chez-nous." Le Devoir, 17 July 1948, p. 5.
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B143 "Le Puits de Dunrea." In Contes de nos jours. Ed. Dr. R. W. Torrens and Dr. J. B. Saunders. Toronto: Copp Clark, 1956, pp. 182-201 RD (excerpt).
B144 "La Premiere Ecole de Mademoiselle Cote." In Pres de la fontaine. Ed. Albert St-Jean. Toronto: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1958, pp. 104-07, 109-12, 114-16. PPd'E (excerpt).
B145 "Mon Chapeau rose." In Vignettes. Ed. Morr,s Sniderman. Toronto: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1959, pp. 36-46. RD (excerpt). Illustrated by W. Alex Fraser.
B146 "The Gadabouts." In Portrait of a Country. Ed. Leslie Hannon. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1960, pp. 209-14. RD (excerpt).
B147 "Grandmother and the Doll." In Ten for Wednesday Night. Ed. Robert Weaver. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1961, pp. 143-47 Rd'A (excerpt).
B148 "Rose-Anna's Daniel." In A Book of Canada. Ed. William Toye. Toronto: William Collins Sons, 1962, pp. 179-87. Bd'o (excerpt).
B149 "The Voice of the Pools." In Adventures in Appreciation. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963, pp. 328-31 RD (excerpt). Laureate edition by Walter Loban and Rosalind A. Omsted.
Bl50 "Wilhelm." In Jusqu'a nos jours. Ed. Roy A. Clark. Toronto: McGraw-Hill, 1964, pp. 62-69 RD (excerpt).
B151 "Christine." In Textes pour la lecture et l'explication. Ed. Jacques Blais et al Montreal HMH, 1967, pp 162-70. Rd'A (excerpt).
B152 Untitled. In Quebec: hier et aujourd'hui. Ed. Raymond Turcotte. Toronto: Macmillan, 1967, pp. 159-61. Bd'o (excerpt).
B153 "Um eine Heirat zu verhindern."Pour empecher un mariage.") In Kanadische Erzahler der Gegenwart. Ed. Armin Arnold and Walter Riedel. Zurich: Manesse Bibliothek Der Weltliteratur, 1967, pp. 329-39. RD (excerpt).
B154 "Les Deserteuses." In De Quebec a Saint-Boniface: recits et nouvelles du Canada francais. Ed. Gerard Bessette. Toronto: Macmillan, 1968, pp. 195-227 RD(excerpt).
B155 "Alexandre Chenevert decouvre la bonte des autres," "La Visite de Rose-Anna." In Litterature canadienne-francaise contemporaine Ed. Gerard Tougas. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1969, pp. 16-31. AC (excerpt).
B156 "Luzina Takes a Holiday." In The Great Short Stories of the World. New York: The Reader's Digest, [copyright 1972], pp. 772-88 PPd'E (excerpt).
B157 "The Move." In Stories from Western Canada. Ed. Rudy Wiebe Toronto: Macmillan, 1972. Rd'A (excerpt).
B158 "The Cashier." In Marked by the Wild. An Anthology of Canadian Literature Shaped by the Wilderness. Ed. Bruce Littlejohn and Jon Pearce. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973, pp. 208-11. AC (excerpt).
B159 "The School on the Little Water Hen." In Oxford Anthology of Canadian Literature. Ed. Robert Weaver and William Toye. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1973, pp. 450-54. PPd'E (excerpt).
B160 "What Are You Doing Tonight?" In Canadian Literature: Two Centuries in Prose. Ed. Brita Mickleburgh. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973, pp. 195-206. Bd'o (excerpt).
B161 "The Well of Dunrea." In The Immigrant Experience. Ed. Leuba Bailey. Toronto: Macmillan, 1975, pp. 38-51. RD (excerpt).
B162 "The Road Past Altamont." In Women in Canadian Literature. Ed. M. G. Hesse. Ottawa: Borealis, 1976, pp. 189-92 Rd'A (excerpt).
B163 "Wilhelm." In Kanada. Ed. Walter Riedel. Stuttgart: Horst Erdmann Verlag, [copyright 1976], pp. 67-73 RD (excerpt).
B164 "Miss O'Rorke and the Union Jack." In Voices from Quebec. Ed. Philip Stratford and Michael Thomas. Toronto: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1977, pp. 10-13. PPd'E (excerpt).
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Bonheur d'occasion ......................Bd'o
La Petite Poule d'eau ..................PPd'E
Alexandre Chenevert ...................... AC
Rue Deschambault ....................... RD
La Montagne secrete ...................... MS
La Route d'Altamont .................... Rd'A
La Riviere sans repos ................... RsR
Cet Ete qui chantait .................... CEC
Un Jardin au bout du monde .............. JBM
Ma Vache Bossie ....................... MVB
Ces Enfants de ma vie ................... CEV
Fragiles Lumieres de la terre ........... FLT
B1 "La grotte de la mort." Le Samedi, 23 May 1936.
B2 "Cent pour cent d'amour." Le Samedi, 31 Oct 1936.
B3 "La Conversion des O'Connor." La Revue moderne, Sept. 1939, pp. 4-5, 32-33. Prize of La Revue moderne for best story of year.
B4 "Un monde a l'envers." La Revue moderne, Oct. 1939, pp. 6,34.
B5 "Cendrillon '40.' "La Revue moderne, Feb. 1940, pp. 8-9, 41-42.
B6 "Nicolai Sulez." Le ]our, 3 Feb 1940, p. 7.
B7 "De La Triste Loulou a son amie Mimi." Le Jour, 17 Feb. 1940, p. 7.
B8 "Une Histoire d'amour." La Revue moderne, March 1940, pp. 8-9, 36-38.
B9 "Le Roi de coeur." La Revue moderne, April 1940, pp. 6-7, 33-39.
B10 "Gerard le pirate." La Revue moderne, May 1940, pp. 5, 37-39.
B11 "Bonne a marier." La Revue moderne, June 1940, pp. 13, 40-42.
B12 "Avantage pour." La Revue moderne, Oct 1940, pp. 5-6, 26.
B13 "Les Petits Pas de Caroline." Le Bulletin des agriculteurs, Oct 1940, pp. 11, 45-49.
B14 "La Derniere Peche." La Revue moderne, Dec 1940, pp. 8, 32-34.
B15 "Le Joli miracle." Le Bulletin des agriculteurs, Dec. 1940, pp 8, 29-30. Pseud. Aline Lubac.
B16 "Un Noel en route." La Revue moderne, Dec. 1940, pp. 8, 32-34.
B17 "La Fuite de Sally." Le Bulletin des agriculteurs, Jan. 1941, pp. 9, 39. Pseud. Aline Lubac.
B18 "La Sonate a l'Aurore." La Revue moderne, March 1941, pp. 9-10, 35-37.
B19 "A Okko." La Revue moderne, April 1941, pp 8-9, 41-42.
B20 "Six Pilules par jour." La Revue moderne, July 1941, pp. 17-18, 32-34.
B21 "Embobeline." La Revue moderne, Oct. 1941, pp. 7-8, 28, 30, 33-34.
B22 "La Grande Voyageuse." La Revue moderne, May 1942, pp. 12-13, 27-30.
B23 "La grande Berthe." Le Bulletin des agriculteurs, June 1943, pp. 4-9, 39-49.
B24 "La pension de vieillesse." Le Bulletin des agriculteurs, Nov. 1943, pp. 8, 32-33, 36.
B25 "La vallee Houdou." Amerique francaise, Feb. 1945, pp. 4-10.
B26 "Un Vagabond frappe a notre porte." Amerique francaise, Jan. 1946, pp 29-51. Rpt. "The Vagabond." In Mademoiselle, May 1948, pp. 34, 136, 137, 218-33.
B27 "La Source au desert." Le Bulletin des agriculteurs, Oct. and Nov. 1946, pp. 10-11, 30-47, and 13, 42-48.
B28 "Dead Leaves." Maclean's, 1 June 1947, pp. 20, 37-38, 40, 42. Rpt. "Feuilles mortes." In La Revue de Pans, 56th year, No. 1 (Jan. 1948), 46-55.
B29 "La Lune des moissons." La Revue moderne, Sept. 1947, pp. 12-13.
B30 "Security." Maclean's, 15 Sept. 1947, pp. 20-21, 36, 39. Rpt. trans. "Securite." In La Revue moderne, March 1948, pp. 12-13, 66-68.
B31 "La Justice en Danaca et ailleurs." Oeuvres Libres. Paris: Librairie Artheme Fayard, nouvelle serie, No. 23 (1948), pp 163-81.
B32 "Un Grand Recit canadien: La pelisse par Gabrielle Roy." Nouvelles litteraires, 22 March 1951, p. 4. PPd'E.
B33 "L'Ecole de la Petite Poule d'Eau." Revue de Paris, March and April 1951, pp. 35-43, 50-84 PPd'E.
B34 "Sainte-Anne-la-Palud." Nouvelle Revue canadienne [Ottawa], 1, No. 2 (April-May 1951), 12-18 FLT.
B35 "La Camargue." Amerique francaise, May-June 1952, pp. 8-18. FLT.
B36 "The Voice of the Pools." The Tamarack Review, No. 4 (Summer 1957), pp. 51-54. RD.
B37 "The Gadabouts." Maclean's, 17 Aug 1957, pp. 18, 34-42, 44. RD.
B38 "Wilhelm." Chatelaine, July 1959, pp. 60-62. RD.
B39 "Grand-mere et la poupee." Chatelaine, Oct 1960, pp. 25, 44-46, 48-49. Rpt. trans. "Grandmother and the Doll." In Chatelaine, Oct. 1960, pp. 44-45, 82-86. Rd'A.
B40 "La Montagne secrete, un texte inedit de Gabrielle Roy, inspire de la vie du peintre Rene Richard." Le Nouveau Journal, 16 Dec. 1961, p. 29 MS.
B41 "Sister Finance." Maclean's, 15 Dec. 1962, pp. 35, 38-44. Rpt. trans. "Ma Cousine econome." In Le Magazine Maclean, 3, No. 8 (Aug. 1963), 26, 41-46.
B42 "Ma Vache." Terre et foyer, July-Aug. 1963, pp. 9, 10, 25 MVB.
B43 "L'Arbre." Cahiers de l'Academie canadienne-francaise. Montreal: Academie canadienne-francaise, Versions, No 13 (1970), pp 5-27.
B44 Untitled. "Manitoba in Literature: An Issue on Literary Environment." Mosaic, 3, No. 3 (Spring 1970), 133-40 Rd'A.
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Marshall, Tom. "Les animaux de son pays: Notes sur la poesie de Margaret Atwood." Ellipse, No. 3 (Spring 1970), pp. 81-86.
Claims the principal themes of Atwood's poetry are imprisonment and the need to escape, the search for identity, and above all, the struggle to survive. These were expressed in her first book, The Circle Game; in the second, The Animals in That Country, there is some optimism but also the fear that we may destroy what we need to live with, such as the country itself. Lack of form and lack of structure are real threats.
C4 Brown, Rosellen. "The Poetry of Margaret Atwood." Nation, 28 June 1971, pp. 824-26. Finds Atwood's poems exemplary as the testimony of a woman who bears with her "the curse of the underground" but who appears very rational. Sees Atwood as a haunted, quietly functioning woman, who writes of her primitive vision of stone, water, and animals as our grandfathers and ourselves.
C5 Waters, Katherine E. "Margaret Atwood: Love on the Dark Side of the Moon." In Mother Was Not a Person. Comp. Margret Andersen. Montreal: Content Publishing and Black Rose Books, 1972, pp 102-19. Explores the sexual politics of the man-woman relationship in Atwood's poetry. The poet uses the personal as a particularization of the socio-political and this in turn becomes a metaphor for the universal. Atwood does this from a feminist viewpoint. "The man-woman relationship is symptom and symbol of the unsolved riddles of her humanity."
C6 Woodcock, George. "Margaret Atwood." Literary Half-Yearly, 13, No. 2 (July 1972), 233-42. Identifies three essential characteristics of Atwood's poetic character: the sharp, ironic inversion, the movement from the metaphorical to the literal use of images, and the combination of visual sensibility with intellectual discipline. The identity of her poems and her first novel is very close--both are about the distances and defences between human beings. Atwood's experience in handling images and myths in her poetry is reflected in the craftsmanship of The Edible Woman. In addition, this is a "social novel of high perceptiveness." Atwood does for her own generation what Jane Austen did for hers. The Journals of Susanna Moodie shows Atwood as poet conscious of a sense of history and of the land, but there is also a "kind of transference," which extends links between what is perceived and the perceiver.
C7 Ayre, J. "Margaret Atwood and the End of Colonialism." Saturday Night, Nov 1972, pp. 23-26. "Nationalist radicals" like Atwood believe that the older writers such as Callaghan and Richler "are locked into alienated colonialist attitudes, persisting in their belief that cultural standards are set in New York or London." Because of her intense feelings about this, Atwood spent the last year spreading her ideas about Canadian literature and national identity. Some biographical details follow and some perceptive comments about her writing--she "plays the role of psychic iconoclast, pulling the categories of existence apart and presenting a broken, confused reality that her readers must often put back in order for themselves."
C8 French, William. "Icon and Target: Atwood As Thing." The Globe and Mail, 7 April 1973, p 28. A summary of Atwood's speech to the Empire Club in April 1973. She realizes that she has become a sort of symbol of Canadian national cultural aspirations, a "Thing" rather than a celebrity. The answers a "Thing" gives are listened to but are shot at as well as worshipped. Serious cultural nationalists want a distinctive culture and are unafraid to measure it against international standards.
C9 Webb, Phyllis. "Letters to Margaret Atwood." Open Letter, 2nd Ser., No. 5 (Summer 1973), 71-73. A personal response to Atwood and her work inspired by the publication of Survival.
C10 Piercy, Marge. "Margaret Atwood: Beyond Victimhood." American Poetry Review, 2, No. 6 (Nov-Dec. 1973), 41-44. A long general article covering the two novels, five books of poetry, and Survival, which Atwood had then written The author admires Atwood and hopes that, as she has come to identify herself in the tradition she has defined as literature of a victimized colony, she will "help consciously define another growing body to which her work in many of its themes belongs: a women's culture."
C11 Davey, Frank. "Margaret Atwood." In From There to Here: A Guide to English-Canadian Literature Since 1960. Our Nature--Our Voices, Vol. II. Erin, Ont.: Porcepic, 1974, pp. 30-36. A short, positive survey of Atwood's work, of which her poetry is claimed as her most accomplished and important. In The Circle Game, Atwood's world is full of danger and the surfaces are unstable. "The 'circle game,' the self-deception most people practise to convince themselves there is stability and order, is ultimately for Atwood the most insidious aspect of this environment; since. . .it threatens her psyche." Later volumes amplify this conception--man attempts to impose order and form on ever-changing "space" only thus to bring about his alienation from nature. Power Politics is much more obviously personal. The first two novels elaborate on the themes expressed in the poetry and make them more explicit without expanding them. The usefulness of Survival has been in provoking interest in Canadian writing. Atwood claims the themes of victimization and survival dominate the literature, but she can only do this by being very selective in choosing her texts.
C12 Onley, Gloria. "Breaking through the Patriarchal Nets to the Peaceable Kingdom." West Coast Review, 8, No. 3 (Jan 1974), 43-50. Contrasts Shadbolt's blurred and neo-romantic poetry, as seen in Mind's I, with the sharply visual and laconic quality of Atwood's. In Power Politics, her perception and emotion struggle in the role-playing prompted by the need for order in personal relationships. Characterizes her poetry as primarily "showing a woman's mind unable to live with the structures imposed on it by her culture," a culture based and fed on power. The power structure is the patriarchy: the woman's energies and self "have no existence except as defined or canalized by the colonizing, victimizing male." When this structure is broken, the problem of identity becomes central.
C13 Onley, Gloria. "Power Politics in Bluebeard's Castle." Canadian Literature, No. 60 (Spring 1974), pp. 21-42. A study of the sexual politics evidenced in Atwood's work. The theme of Power Politics is "role-engulfment"--romantic love, a devastating mode of existence. Sexual love is imaged several times as a shattering of the ego; the body is described as a mechanism remotely controlled by the head. These themes are repeated in Surfacing, where sex is linked with mechanization, coercion, and death. A link between depersonalized sex and modern technology was suggested by George Sterner in his In Bluebeard's Castle: Notes Towards a Redefinition of Culture, and there is also expressed the view that syntax is an active mirroring of systems of power and order. In Surfacing language is seen as a means of imposing psychological power structures, and in Power Politics language is described as turning from tool to weapon. Language itself is Bluebeard's castle. Atwood suggests that the end of sexual politics might come only with the end of civilization as we know it. Her works are "frighteningly precise image structures, iconoclastic keys to getting mentally outside Bluebeard's Castle."
Cl4 Rogers, Linda. "Margaret the Magician." Canadian Literature, No. 60 (Spring 1974), pp. 83-85. The writer's response to Atwood's poetry is an intensely personal one. She is fascinated by the language but finds "there is no dialogue on any level. . . . Atwood, the magician, hypnotizes with the brilliant image which dazzles without illuminating."
C15 Ross, Gary. "The Circle Game." Canadian Literature, No. 60 (Spring 1974), pp. 51-63. A detailed criticism of The Circle Game as a poetic sequence and not as a collection of individual poems. From the beginning the haunting sense of isolation is associated with geographical wilderness; but urban "civilization" means human alienation--it obliterates humanity. "The Circle Game" is the pivotal poem--it confirms these previous themes; evaluates human relationships as destructive, and above all crystallizes the feeling of imprisonment. The previously unquestioning acceptance of the poet's predicament is now changed--she wants to break the circle. From now on, the wilderness becomes less intimidating and she sees relations with others more positively. A love relationship, however, is threatening to her individuality, and we face the problem of how to escape from isolation without losing our separate wholeness. Some sort of reconciliation is achieved--as physical landscape reflects the inner state of the perceiver, the poet's recognition of affinities with others, the terror of landscape disintegrates.
C16 Glicksohn, Susan Wood. "The Martian Point of View." Extrapolation, 15, No. 2 (May 1974), 161-73. This article claims that Atwood's poetic vision is that of a contemporary individual trying to comprehend an alien world and of an unworldly creature revealing the reality beneath the civilized surface of this world. In her poetry humans are changed into non-human shapes, the everyday world becomes a nightmare landscape, the self is literally as well as figuratively submerged. The horror is the more chilling because the poet expresses it so calmly. The language and imagery of science and technology, particularly in Power Politics, contribute to the feeling of alienation and horror. Science fiction themes and concepts such as time travel enable her to describe the exploration of her own human complexity.
C17 Jones, D. G. "Cold Eye and Optic Heart: Marshall McLuhan and Some Canadian Poets." Modern Poetry Studies, 5, No. 2 (Autumn 1974), 170-87. Jones claims that three Canadian poets-P. K. Page, Margaret Avison, and Margaret Atwood--tell us to look at the world with our heart and not our head. For Atwood, sight threatens to let us see only the surface of things and not the reality beneath. In Atwood's "photograph" poems, the speaker is not visible in her own photograph, for she has, as it were, retreated under the surface of the film. She proposes that if our vision is faulty, we should close our eyes and may thus recover our other senses.
C18 Macri, F. M. "Survival Kit: Margaret Atwood and the Canadian Scene." Modern Poetry Studies, 5, No. 2 (Autumn 1974), 187-95. A most critical survey of Atwood's poetry, whose imagery and themes are claimed to be transparent and continually repeated. There are slight variations, but these are few and so infrequent as to give little feeling of artistic merit." The Journals of Susanna Moodie repeats already familiar imagery and repeats all the poet has said previously. In Macri's opinion, the critical acclaim accorded this book by Canadian reviewers is due more for its historical persona than for its poetry. Procedures for Underground reiterates the images, compounds the schizophrenia, and intensifies the paranoia. More of the same in Power Politics, though the poetry deals directly with the problems of male-female cohabitation. The Animals in That Country is the best collection. Atwood's technique is surgical, her verse line concise, and the trick of taking a thought and turning it inside out is repeated and transparent. A reading of her prose works, particularly Survival, helps one appreciate better her creative talents. However, the exposition of themes, motifs, and recurrent patterns adds up to a theory of Canadian literature which may confuse a whole generation into seeing victims everywhere.
Cl9 French, William. "The Women of Our Literary Life." Imperial Oil Review, 59, No. I (1975), 2-7. Rpt. in Canadian Author & Bookman, 51 (Spring 1976), 1-6. A brief survey of women fiction writers in Canada from Frances Brooke, whose novel The History of Emily Montague was published in 1769, to the present day. French describes Atwood as "the best-known and most versatile" of the leading women writers today.
C20 Norris, Ken. "Survival In the Writings of Margaret Atwood." CrossCountry, No. I (Winter 1975), pp. 18-29. A reading of Atwood's work which finds the theme of survival central to her fiction and poetry. Many of the early poems express the perspective of the pioneer. There is also the question of survival in love relationships--whether to remain cold and essentially uninvolved or whether to give oneself to a relationship and lose one's individual personality. In You Are Happy ("a brilliant collection") Atwood shows herself able to form a relationship without having to sacrifice any part of herself. "Perhaps what is most impressive about You Are Happy is that it moves beyond the problem of individual survival and begins an exploration of what's to be found in a life of commingled feeling."
C21 Woodcock, George. "Margaret Atwood: Poet as Novelist." In The Canadian Novel in the Twentieth Century: Essays from Canadian Literature. Ed. George Woodcock. New Canadian Library, No. 115. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975, pp. 312-27. This article, dated 1974, was constructed from two previously published articles which appeared in the Literary Half-Yearly (see C6) and Ariel, 4, No. 3 (July 1973), 16-28 ("Surfacing to Survive Notes on the Recent Atwood" which is devoted to her prose writings [see ABCMA, Vol. I, C10]). Woodcock's conclusion is that a consideration both of Atwood's prose writings and of her poetry shows "the versatility with which her intelligence plays over the horizons of her perceptions. No other writer in Canada of Margaret Atwood's generation has so wide a command of the resources of literature, so telling a restraint in their use."
C22 Frankel, Vivoan. "Margaret Atwood: A Personal View." Branching Out, 2, No. 1 (Jan-Feb 1975), 24-26. Apart from offering an interesting picture of Atwood reading to university audiences in Montreal, this is a simplistic article. It relates some misconceptions which have arisen about the "Atwood legend"--that she is hostile to men, and finds them threatening, that she is a menacing pessimist. It asserts that Atwood knows what is important to her and what is not. Contains good photographs.
C23 Conlon, Patrick. "Margaret Atwood: Beneath the Surface." Toronto Life, Feb 1975, pp. 44-51. A good, professionally journalistic article, mostly biographical. It provides some interesting insights into Atwood's relations with the public, her friends, and the reviewers.
C24 Ladousse, Gillian. "Some Aspects of the Theme of Metamorphosis in Margaret Atwood's Poetry." Etudes Canadiennes, No. 2 (1976), pp 71-77. The author claims that the theme of metamorphosis in Atwood's poetry is obsessive. Her vision is one of perpetual mutation which provides a means of access to a different kind of reality where form is abolished. Two kinds of metamorphosis are identified -- the Protean aspect and the change from man to animal (the Circe myth).
C25 MacGregor, Roy. "Mother Oracle." The Canadian, 25 Sept. 1976, pp. 15-18. An interview-style article which describes Atwood's private life and how the public intrudes. She feels that she has become a "Thing"--"people make up what you are, then praise or attack you for it." As for her work, MacGregor claims she is telling Canadians about themselves rather than about herself. A study of Survivalwoman in the comic strip "Kanadian Kultchur Komics," written and illustrated by Atwood, will produce a good picture of what she is like today. Well illustrated with colour photographs.
C26 Allen, Carolyn. "Margaret Atwood: Power of Transformation, Power of Knowledge." Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 6 (Spring 1977), pp. 5-17. One of the major themes in Atwood's poetry is "transformation." In The Journals of Susanna Moodie and the Circe/Mud poems in You Are Happy, she creates women who are willing to break out of mythic or social moulds, and create themselves.
C27 Dilliott, Maureen. "Emerging from the Cold: Margaret Atwood's 'You Are Happy.'" Modern Poetry Studies, 7, No. 1 (Spring 1977), 73-90. A generally favourable and detailed review article which finds that after the stridency and monotony of some poems in the second section, and ideas and images which are not new, the book opens out in the last section. There the themes and imagery used earlier are woven into "warmer, more lyrical verses than any Atwood has yet produced." Some of these last poems are "the best that Atwood has ever written."
C28 Davey, Frank. "Atwood's Gorgon Touch." Studies in Canadian Literature, 2, No. 2 (Summer 1977), 146-63. Rpt. in Brave New Wave. Ed. Jack David. Windsor: Black Moss, 1978, pp. 171-95. Davey maintains that Atwood's poetry as preoccupied with a struggle between time and space. She expresses the human need to transcend time, using such devices as mythology, art, and imagination, but these "must be recognized as either weapons or crutches used by the weak in the face of mutability." Her poems construct a catalogue of evasions that are all extensions of the human need to believe "nothing can change." But appearances are deceptive "the appearance of stasis conceals process; the appearance of solidity conceals liquidity, the appearance of order conceals chaos, the appearance of predictability presages surprise." From Double Persephone to You Are Happy, Atwood's poems express her efforts as an artist to escape the static aesthetic of space and enter time, process, and mortality. Yet the irony is that for Atwood art itself seems inevitably to possess the "gorgon touch": "like a mirror [the poet] creates art at the expense of [her] own participation in reality."
C29 Foster, John Wilson. "The Poetry of Margaret Atwood." Canadian Literature, No. 74 (Autumn 1977), pp. 5-20. Atwood's poetry is concerned with the self's inhabitation of spaces, and with the physical space of Canada, both past and present. The pioneer experience is a metaphor for the psychic journey towards acceptance of forms, spaces, and roles at once inescapable and constantly to be resisted. Atwood's inward journey is an exploration of the self and its relationships.
C30 Landsberg, Michele. "Late Motherhood." Chatelaine, Oct 1977, pp. 44-46, 119-23, 125. A fairly superficial article based on interviews with some of Canada's most celebrated women who had babies later than usual. Atwood is able to relax and enjoy her baby--if she had become a mother an her twenties "it would have been a catastrophe. . .a very destructive thing to do."
C31 Stevens, Peter. "Explorer/ Settler/ Poet." University of Windsor Review, 13, No 1 (Fall-Winter 1977), 63-74. A discussion of the poetry of Atwood, Newlove, Purdy, and McNeil which uses the figures of early pioneers to construct a sense of a Canadian literary consciousness. Dealing at length with "The Journals of Susanna Moodie," Stevens finds that Mrs. Moodie fits admirably into the theme of explorers and settlers as embodiments of the search for poetic language to express Canadian myths.
C32 Grace, Sherrill E. "Introduction." In The Circle Game. By Margaret Atwood. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1978, pp. 9-15. The writer believes that certain fallacies arose in reviews of these early poems when first published that have tended to follow Atwood--that her poems are autobiographical, that she is a "mythopoetic poet" of the Frye school, that she is a feminist and a Canadian nationalist. Fewer than half of the poems appear in the Selected Poems so that the sense of pattern formed by the sequence of the poems is missing. In The Circle Game Atwood is exploring the fallibility of human perception--we distort and delimit life; freedom is both necessary and dangerous.
C33 Mallinson, Jean. "Ideology and Poetry: An Examination of Some Recent Trends in Canadian Criticism." Studies in Canadian Literature, 3, No. 1 (Winter 1978), 93-109. An examination of three separate instances of ideological criticism of Canadian poetry, criticism which is doctrinaire and baleful because it interprets the poetry that exists and prescribes certain attitudes and poetic modes as desirable. The three critics dealt with are John Bentley Mays, Frank Davey, and George Amabile. After a brief mention of Davey's criticism of Power Politics--"the flashily contrived wit of most of the poems parallels the 'castrating bitch' manipulativeness of the persona" -- Mallinson concentrates on Amabile's review of You Are Happy in CV/II (see D51) where he finds reasons for not admiring the poems because he does not like what he thinks they are saying. His interpretation may be rooted in the social and psychological expectations which he, as a male, has about attitudes he believes are appropriate to women. Mallinson concludes with her own sympathetic reading of the poems.
C34 Bilan, R. P. "Margaret Atwood's 'The Journals of Susanna Moodie.'" Canadian Poetry, No. 2 (Spring-Summer 1978), pp. 1-12. This article claims that the book is tightly organized and tied to a chronological sequence showing the growth of the central character. To understand it fully one must take full account of the structure. The poems are also linked by the repetition of a number of key images: trees, fire, light, and darkness. "As in much of Atwood's poetry, the exploration of a new land is also a psychological exploration of the self." The arrangement of the poems in "Journal II" makes untenable a simple reading of Moodie's relationship to the land as becoming consistently more positive. While she begins to recognize the reality of her new country, she is still struggling to come to terms with it. At the end, she prefers the land to society, but it is only in death that she can become one with the land.
C35 Sillers, Pat. "Power Impinging: Hearing Atwood's Vision." Studies in Canadian Literature, 4 (Winter 1979), 59-70. A review article dealing with Atwood's Selected Poems. The style of the poems is almost ascetically direct and to the point, even when the language seems dull, its opacity transmits significance. Nearly all the poems are preoccupied with pictures, viewpoints, landscapes -- but in order to hear what the poet is saying, the reader also is implicated. The poems are specifically addressed to an audience and are so reader-involving, using rhetoric to achieve power and force.
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C43 Halpenny, Francess. A Dialogue with Margaret Atwood. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto, Faculty of Library Science. A cassette audio-tape, forty-five minutes duration. Not published. A general interview before a class at the Faculty. October 18, 1972.
C44 Levenson, Christopher. "Interview with Margaret Atwood." Manna, No 2 (1972), pp. 46-54. A rather defensive interview. Deals mostly with her poetry-- writers who influenced her, what poetry attempts to do, how she starts writing (from images rather than from ideas), how to read poetry aloud. Two interesting comments--poetry does not express emotion but evokes emotion from the reader, and she wrote The Journals of Susanna Moodie as separate poems.
C45 Gibson, Graeme. "Margaret Atwood." In Eleven Canadian Novelists. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1973, pp. 1-3l. One of a series of interviews first taped for broadcasting on the CBC. Matters discussed include the difference between writing poetry and fiction, what the novelist's role is, the Canadian tradition in writing, the problems of getting published and of being a woman writer, and answers to detailed questions about The Edible Woman and Surfacing.
C46 Miner, Valerie. "Atwood in Metamorphosis: An Authentic Canadian Fairy Tale." In Her Own Woman: Profiles of Ten Canadian Women. Ed. Myrna Kostash. Toronto: Macmillan, 1975, pp. 173-94. Rpt. (condensed) "The Many Facets of Margaret Atwood." In Chatelaine, June 1975, pp. 32-33, 66-70. A useful interview in the biographical details it provides of Atwood's childhood and the influence of her parents. About her childhood she said "The only thing I regard as important was the moment I realized I wanted to be a writer. . . I stopped writing from age eight to grade 12. I consider it my sterile period." Describes the complexity of her personality and her reluctance to talk about some aspects of her personal life.
C47 Swan, Susan. "Margaret Atwood: The Woman as Poet." Communique, No. 8 (May 1975), pp 8-11, 45-46. An interview which concentrates on the changing image that a female poet has with the public at large and with other writers. It contains some insights into Atwood's views about women's relationships with men. In French and English.
C48 Van Varsveld, Gail. "Talking with Atwood." Room of One's Own, 1, No. 2 (Summer 1975), 66-70. Deals with Atwood's attitude towards feminism in literature. She does not feel she should be "propagandist" in her writings, and talks about the development of a separate female mythology, about magazines for women only, and about sexual discrimination in reviews.
C49 Kaminski, Margaret. "Interview with Margaret Atwood." Waves, 4, No. 1 (Autumn 1975), 8-13. A rather scrappy interview--Atwood discusses The Edible Woman and considers it not a feminist novel; the story is not autobiography but fiction. Then on to poetry, and the effect of reviews. Atwood feels that a lot of interest in You Are Happy, as in Power Politics, is mythological.
C50 The Education of Mike McManus: Margaret Atwood. Ontario Educational Communications Authority, 1976. Videotape, colour, thirty minutes duration. A television interview.
C51 Gibson, Mary Ellis. "A Conversation with Margaret Atwood." Chicago Review, 27, No. 4 (Spring 1976), 105-13. Atwood describes what she attempted to do with Survival--"It's not an academic book. . . it gives you a way into the literature" -- and how the literary and publishing scene in Canada has changed drastically over recent years.
C52 Slopen, Beverley. "Margaret Atwood." Publisher's Weekly, 23 Aug. 1976, pp. 6-8. An interview given just after publication of Lady Oracle. Provides some interesting biographical details including those which relate to incidents in the novel.
C53 Slinger, Helen. "Interview with Margaret Atwood." Maclean's, 6 Sept. 1976, pp. 4-7. Fairly superficial, dealing with what it is like to have a baby and with Atwood's views on the awakened interest in Canadian literature, and on Canadian politics.
C54 Schiller, William. "Interview with Margaret Atwood." PWP, 2, No. 3 (Fall 1976), 2-15. An interesting interview which concentrates on Atwood's poetry. She talks of the poets who influenced her early work. She does not subscribe to theories--"Theories are useful to poets only insofar as they can make poetry out of them." Says that it is difficult to interview poets about their own work: "I have some difficulty recalling what processes were going on." Feels that reviewers often tend to write about a book of poetry as though reviewing the book that came out before it.
C55 Struthers, J. R. (Tim). "An Interview with Margaret Atwood." Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 6 (Spring 1977), pp. 18-27. A stimulating interview which touches on many topics; serious but not solemn. It deals both with the poetry and the fiction, with some emphasis on Lady Oracle. There is discussion about the Canadian tradition in fiction and poetry, and its influence on Atwood; comments on her response to good and bad reviews, and about women writers.
C56 Oates, Joyce Carol. "An Interview with Margaret Atwood." New York Times Book Review, 21 May 1978, pp. 15, 43-45. Provides some biographical background information. Atwood explains her interest in the Gothic and in supernatural fantasy, and gives her views on writing--"For me, every poem has a texture of sound which is at least as important as the 'argument'"; "If you can think of writing as expressing 'itself' rather than 'the writer,' this makes total sense" (that is, that the disciplines of prose and poetry evoke an almost totally different personality). Finally there is a discussion about writing not necessarily being autobiographical, and in answer to the question, why do you write? she answers "Why doesn't everyone?"
C57 Davidson, Jim. "Margaret Atwood." Meanjin, 37, No. 2 (July 1978), 189-205. An interview in Australia which deals with Atwood's views on Canadian nationalism and Quebec cultural nationalism. She compares the Canadian and Australian consciousness of time -- "There's nothing lost in the mists of history, because history, as we know it, is not misty." The importance of women writers and the victimization of women are discussed. There is an interesting contrast between the "survivor" in Canadian literature and the "failed hero" or "loner" in Australian literature.
C58 Kappler, Mary Ellen, and Mike Zizis. "An Interview with Margaret Atwood." Intrinsic, No. 7/8 (Spring 1979), pp. 91-95. A lightweight interview with few revelations.
C59 Hammond, Karla. "An Interview with Margaret Atwood." American Poetry Review, 8, No. 5 (SeptOct. 1979), 27-29. An important interview in which Atwood gives her views on such matters as the emergence of Canadian nationalism, feminism, myths, and the nature of poetry.
C60 Whiten, Clifton. "PCR Interview with Margaret Atwood." Poetry Canada Review, 1, No. 4 (Spring 1980), pp. 8, 10. Atwood discusses comma splices, interviews, literary prizes, and the creative act.
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C1 Sandler, Linda, ed. Margaret Atwood: A Symposium (The Malahat Review, No. 41, Jan 1977.) Victoria: Univ. of Victoria, 1977. 228 pp. Contents: Linda Sandler, "Interview with Margaret Atwood," pp. 5-27; Rosemary Sullivan, "Breaking the Circle," pp. 30-41; Jane Rule, "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Normalcy--The Novels of Margaret Atwood," pp. 42-49; George Woodcock, "Transformation Mask for Margaret Atwood," pp. 52-56; Rick Salutin, "A Note on the Marxism of Atwood's 'Survival,'" pp. 57-60; Al Purdy, "An Unburnished One-Tenth of One Per Cent of an Event," pp. 61-64; Margaret Atwood, "An Album of Photographs," pp.65-88; Tom Marshall, "Atwood Under and Above Water," pp. 89-94; Robert Fulford, "The Images of Atwood," pp. 95-98; John Hofsess, "How To Be Your Own Best Survival," pp. 102-06; Robin Skelton, "Timeless Constructions--A Note on the Poetic Style of Margaret Atwood," pp. 107-20; Margaret Atwood, "Worksheets," pp. 121-33; Rowland Smith, "Margaret Atwood: The Stoic Comedian," pp. 134-44; Margaret Atwood, "Threes," p. 152; Eli Mandel, "Atwood Gothic," pp. 165-74; Margaret Atwood, "The Resplendent Quetzal," pp. 175-88; Jerome H. Rosenberg, "On Reading the Atwood Papers in the Thomas Fisher Library," pp. 191-94; Alan J. Horne, "A Preliminary Checklist of Writings by and about Margaret Atwood," pp. 195-222.
This special issue of The Malahat Review is a collection of critical essays and appreciations. Sullivan's article attempts to show how Atwood, in her poetry and fiction, tries to disengage from history, from time, from the inheritance of human nature, to break out of the "circle game" of language and logic. Like the narrator in Surfacing, she comes to terms with the past and refuses to be a victim, but has not achieved spiritual regeneration. Rule describes The Edible Woman as a farce about the pursuit of normalcy; to the narrator in Surfacing, normalcy is terrifying and important; in Lady Oracle, the "pursuit of normalcy, down all the misleading by-ways of language, is controlled by Margaret Atwood [who]. . . has written a satire of the first order." Marshall points to Atwood's search for a personal and a national identity, in both the poetry and the fiction, as the essential feature of her work. Skelton suggests that Atwood, in many of her poems, uses a structure he calls "modular," and cites Pound, Stevens, and Yeats as precedents. Modular poetry is about states of being rather than events. Smith examines Atwood's fiction as observations of the grotesqueries of middle-Canadian life. Mandel sees Atwood's repetitive use of reduplicating images (mirrors, photographs) and her totemic animal imagery as owing much to the traditional patterns of gothic horror. The "Album of Photographs" is a fascinating chronological record.
C2 Grace, Sherrill. Violent Duality: A Study of Margaret Atwood. Montreal: Vehicule, 1980. 154 pp. Certain themes and forms persist in Atwood's writing. "Duality, the tension between art and life, the dilemma of the artist, problems of role-playing, victimization, the fallibility of human perception, and of course, portrayal of the Canadian landscape" are the dominant themes. Of the books of poetry, The Journals of Susanna Moodie is "Atwood's malor poetic achievement to date." As for the novels, "If The Edible Woman is an anti-comedy and Surfacing is a ghost story, then Lady Oracle must be an anti-Gothic. . . ." In terms of other Canadian writers, "Her nearest of kin are James Reaney and, Possibly, Jay Macpherson."
Atwood's formal poetic strengths include "a cool, acerbic wit, ironic eye and laconic phrase. . . . [T]he combination of detachment and irony coupled with cut-off line and duplistic form dominates her poetry." Her novels employ "first-person narrators, ironic self-reflexive narratives, and symbolic or even mythic structures. . . . " She also draws on the Canadian tradition which emphasizes "the past and the individual's need to be part of a social context. . . ." It is in her poetry that Atwood "is truly distinctive and commanding." Thus, except for Surfacing, "Atwood fails to sustain in her fiction the eerie, disembodied voice that rivets our attention in her poetry." For Atwood the dynamic of violent duality is a function of the creative act. . . . [S]he has continued to explore the inescapable tension between art and life, the two immortalities. . . .and of the need to accept and work within them. To create, Atwood chooses violent dualities, and her art re-works, probes, and dramatizes the ability to see double."
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C61 E. J. Pratt Medal (1961).
C62 President's Medal, Poetry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario (1965).
C63 Governor-General's Award for Poetry for The Circle Game (1966).
C64 The Centennial Commission Poetry Competition, First Prize for The Animals in That Country (1967).
C65 The Union Poetry Prize from Poetry (Chicago) for five poems from Procedures for Underground (1969).
C66 Writer-in-Residence, University of Toronto (1972-73).
C67 D. Litt., Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario (1973).
C68 The Bess Hokins Prize from Poetry (Chicago)(1974).
C69 LL.D., Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario (1974).
C70 The City of Toronto Award for Lady Oracle (1976).
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C36 Yeo, Margaret E. "The Living Landscape: Nature Imagery in the Poetry of Margaret Atwood and Other Modern Canadian Lyric Poets." M.A. Thesis Carleton 1969. One of the concerns frequently expressed in modern Canadian poetry is the impact of the power, energy, and indifference of the landscape upon man. A desire to belong to the land, and the problems it creates, are tied to the search for a Canadian identity. The poetry of Atwood offers one approach to the problems Canadians find in coming to terms with their violently powerful environment.
C37 Power, Linda Laporte. "The Reality of Selfhood: A Study of Polarity in the Poetry and Fiction of Margaret Atwood." M.A. Thesis McGill 1973. Explores the relationship between the concept of polarity and the quest for the reality of selfhood in selected works by Atwood. It examines the structure, methodology, and the chronological development of the quest from its first appearance in her early poetry to its definitive form in Surfacing, while simultaneously analyzing the patterns of polarity which inform the selected works.
C38 Regan, Nancy. "The Geography and History of the Mind: An Analysis of the Works of Margaret Atwood." M. A. Thesis Rhode Island 1975. Discusses the relation between environment and history in selected works by Atwood.
C39 Scott, Andrew. "Margaret Atwood: A Critical Appreciation." M.A. Thesis New Brunswick 1975. A critical examination of Atwood's work published up to 1974. Evaluates significant themes and images, and examines Atwood's use of myth and her possible alignment with a group of Canadian mythopoetic poets. Some basic archetypal rhythms and symbolic patterns are identified.
C40 Parks, Claudia Susan [now Ingersoll]. "The Solitary Dancer: Isolation and Affirmation in the Poetry of Margaret Atwood." M. A. Thesis Memorial 1976. Explores Atwood's themes and imagery and traces a growing movement away from alienation toward hope, discovery, and individual potential.
C41 Gronvigh, Joanne. "Thematic Development in the Work of Margaret Atwood." M.A. Thesis Dalhousie 1977. Gronvigh comments on the themes of survival and male-female relationships as they emerge through Atwood's prose and poetry. A wide-ranging study.
C42 Packer, Miriam. "Beyond the Garrison: Approaching the Wilderness in Margaret Laurence, Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood." Diss. Montreal 1978. Analyzes the way in which Atwood's and Munro's protagonists transcend the so-called garrison mentality. Particular attention is given to linguistic analysis and comparison.
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D1 Scott, Peter Dale. "Turning New Leaves." The Canadian Forum, Feb 1962, pp. 259-60. Includes a brief note of Double Persephone, which the reviewer finds serious and thoughtful, but too derivative, too contrived. It does show precision and rhythmic economy.
D2 Mandel, Eli. "Seedtime in Dark May." Alphabet, No. 4 (June 1962), pp. 69-70. A mention only: the poems exhibit the paradoxical contrast of the stillness of life and the dance of art.
D3 Wilson, Milton. Rev. of Double Persephone. University of Toronto Quarterly, 31 (July 1962), 448-49. Finds the gloss and precision startling.
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D15 Gasparini, Len. Rev. of The Animals in That Country. The Canadian Forum, Dec. 1968, p. 212. The poems in this book demonstrate the split between two worlds, one of the present, of beauty, material gain, and power, the other of the spirit. No transitions from one to the other are possible. "Her animals are human."
D16 Barbour, Douglas. Rev of The Animals in That Country. The Dalhousie Review, 48 (Winter 1968-69), 568-70. The reviewer finds this book represents a real progression from the severely personal poetry of The Circle Game. Her persona is an isolated character, locked in, trapped. In this collection the danger of love is the danger of delight and of beauty.
D17 Purdy, Al. "Poet Beseiged." Canadian Literature, No. 39 (Winter 1969), pp. 94-96. Atwood's poems make complicated things simple as the human animal has the same simple motivations as other animals. The imagery in the poems amounts to the poems themselves. The poems are "black"-- the poet is besieged by her own inner perceptions.
D18 Helwig, David. Rev. of The Animals in That Country. Queen's Quarterly, 76 (Spring 1969), 161-62. Highly disciplined poems, astringent and centred on certain obsessive images. Atwood is concerned with forms, especially form as limitation.
D19 Marshal, Tom. Rev. of The Animals in That Country.Quarry, 18, No. 3 (Spring 1969), 53-54. "Her poems are beautifully made and always intelligent, but a little inhuman." They express the search for ways in which to define oneself, but her poetic form seems "too tight."
D20 MacCallum, Hugh. Rev. of The Animals in That Country. University of Toronto Quarterly, 38 (July 1969), 343-44. A continuation of Atwood's exploration of the principles of identity. The one constant feature is the experience of alienation.
D21 Van Duyn, Mona. "Seven Women." Poetry, 115 (March 1970), 432-33. One of seven books reviewed. The reviewer sees the compulsive theme of the poems as distrust of the surface world, of man, even of the poem itself. But ambivalence is displayed when Atwood expresses fear of a time before man, of the subterranean. The love poems express the same ambivalence: she wishes to assimilate both the world and her lover, but fears love will consume them.
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D4 MacCailum, Hugh. Rev. of The Circle Game. University of Toronto Quarterly, 35 (July 1965), 383. A mention only of the early Atwood/Pachter version, which finds the poetry and pictures well matched.
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D5 Rutsala, Vern. "An Authentic Style." Kayak, No. 12 (1967), pp. 63-65. The realization at the heart of the book is that the surface world exists to keep people apart. Something else fundamental separates people, a sort of animal fear. The "circle" is never broken and perhaps never will be--to "get inside" a person is usually impossible. The poet is wise and resigned, and the poems are relentless and skilful.
D6 Gibbs, Robert. Rev. of The Circle Game. The Fiddlehead, No. 70 (Winter 1967), pp. 69-71. The poems exhibit the world as at once both overcivilized and savage. They reflect the endless human lot of quest and disappointment, and the only occasional escape from isolation.
D7 Harrison, Keith. Rev. of The Circle Game. The Tamarack Review, No. 42 (Winter 1967), pp. 73-74. The simplicity and lightness of Atwood's style and language are foils for a darker undertone of meaning. Her control is detached and witty.
D8 Ondaatje, Michael. Rev. of The Circle Game. The Canadian Forum, April 1967, pp. 22-23. Ondaatje finds the poems full of Atwood's own personal mythologies, and private and traditional worlds blend into one. She pits herself against the too-ordered world of "civilization." Exceptional imagery and discipline survive each other."
D9 Stevens, Peter. "On the Edge, on the Surface." Canadian Literature, No. 32 (Spring 1967), pp. 71-72. The landscapes of Atwood's vision are uncertain and stunted and there is a subterranean menace. We must travel and explore this--and explore ourselves --even though "the expression of these discoveries may be a self-defeating notion." The relationships between human beings offer little hope and there is little real communication. In spite of its lack of variation in tone, The Circle Game "is a volume well worth reading."
D10 Seaman, Roger. Rev. of The Circle Game. Quarry, 16, No. 4 (Summer 1967), 40-42. The poet tries to break out of the "circle," which is many things--isolation, convention, the ordinary senses of our bodies which provide limited perceptions. What succeeds in breaking the circle are "metamorphoses of the body," but many of these transformations are frightening and touched by horror. Perhaps there is no form nor central pattern, but there is love and there are words.
Dll MacCallum, Hugh. Rev. of The Circle Game. University of Toronto Quarterly, 36 (July 1967), 357-59. "Fastidious and evocative poetry" which explores the forms by which the mind shapes experience into patterns. Atwood's vision is one in which ritual and pattern create a charmed circle of art that imprisons the mind and feeling, from which the poet endeavours to escape.
D12 Thompson, Eric. Rev. of The Circle Game. The Fiddlehead, No. 75 (Spring 1968), pp. 76-77. Finds the poems elaborately structured and preoccupied with self. Atwood's craft is deceptively simple and "displays a sureness of touch which enables her to clarify... the myth-real relationships." But her experience is small and she is unwilling to investigate the foregrounds of consciousness.
D13 Moon, Samuel. "Canadian Chronicle." Poetry, 112 (June 1968), 204-05. The world of The Circle Game is one of conventionality and propriety, a "circle" from which it seems impossible to escape, producing frustrations, cruelty, and self-pity. There is no liberation from the allegories of myth and tradition, and although there is a loss of "self," the poet must continue the search.
D14 Garnet, Eldon. "For the Poets, the Landscape Is the Great Canadian Myth." Saturday Night, Feb. 1970, pp. 31-33. The reviewer deals generally with how the land tradition is of essential importance to the Canadian poet who is able to project his personality into it and see it as a metaphor for his life condition. "The Canadian poet has transformed the land into a myth."
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D70 Sypnowich, Peter. "Canadian Writing Today Is Yesterday's News." Toronto Daily Star, 25 Aug. 1970, p. 24. Richler gives us older work from established writers, and nothing from new writers like MacEwen, Carrier, Robert Hunter, and Graeme Gibson. He omits such well-known writers as Callaghan, Roy, and McLuhan. The prose selections are much too brief. Richler even includes an excerpt from a novel that he had previously panned in a review.
D71 Richmond, John. "Behind the Times with Canadian Writing." Montreal Star, 12 Sept 1970, p. 72. A mixed review, disagreeing with the 'today' in the title, as the Canadian literary scene has changed so quickly. Richmond praises most of the selections, except for the piece by Trudeau, but wonders why Richler includes an extract from Godbout's Knife on the Table which he had once reviewed unfavourably.
D72 French, William. "Books and Bookmen." The Globe and Mail, 19 Sept. 1970, p. 18. Generally favourable, though puzzled as to the inclusion of Galbraith and Trudeau, and the exclusion of Callaghan, MacLennan, Garner, and Mowat.
D73 Grosskurth, Phyllis. "A Troubled Apologia, a Gesture of Hope." Saturday Night, Oct. 1970, pp. 33-34. The title of this review suggests the conflicting elements in Richler's introduction to the anthology. Grosskurth senses that Richler the expatriate is on somewhat unfamiliar terms with the present state of Canadian literature, but she praises him for his "judicious, balanced, and tasteful selection." The anthology suggests that Canadians write good discursive prose, and that one characteristic of our writers seems to be "a wry, skeptical view of life." The reviewer notes that while Morley Callaghan is not represented in this collection, his influence can be seen in the stories of Hugh Hood, Norman Levine, and Alice Munro. The selections of poetry and French-Canadian writing are of low quality.
D74 Callaghan, Barry. "Mordecai's Back in Town." Toronto Telegram, 10 Oct. 1970, p. 30. An unfavourable review, criticizing the introduction as provincial, aimed at the London literary crowd who know nothing about Canada. Callaghan disagrees with many of the selections. Why is Trudeau included but not Borduas? Why Colombo but not Helwig, Rosenblatt, or Kroetsch? The book is especially weak in its selections from French-Canadian writers.
D75 Fraser, Keath. "Richler's Canadiana." Canadian Literature, No. 48 (Spring 1971), pp. 89-91. Richler's own contribution is praised but his introduction and editorial work are damned. The poetry selection is very poor, there is nothing representative of West Coast writing, and Morley Callaghan is omitted.
D76 Helwig, David. "Economic Fictions." Books in Canada, introductory edition (May 1971), p. 8. Richler fulfils his own view of Canada by making his anthology as boring as possible. The poetry selection is very weak, with nothing at all from Avison, MacEwen, Macpherson, Ondaatje, Nichol, or Lee, and nothing of importance from Layton. The fiction selection is better, but should have included Godfrey and Ray Smith. There is too much discursive prose, and the anthology, though perhaps indicative of Richler's personal taste, is not really representative of Canadian literature in 1970.
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D39 "Minorities are Funny." Time [Canada], 8 March 1968, p. 84. A heavy-handed satire on traditional targets, Cocksure lies within the American black humour tradition. Richler turns inside out the self-persecution of the liberal Jew, and shows how hard it is to be a WASP. There are lots of laughs here, but nothing too disturbing -- never more than "stylish" farce."
D40 Burgess, Anthony. "A Good Man Destroyed--Hilariously." Life, 15 March 1968, p. 8. Calls Cocksure probably "the funniest book published this year." Defending what might be labelled obscenity, Burgess notes that it is not the book but the world it attacks that is obscene, while fantasy lightens the harshness of the satire.
D41 Fulford, Robert. "Disgusting, Dirty Funny, Distinguished." Toronto Daily Star, 23 March 1968, p. 37. Calls Cocksure "possibly the dirtiest book of the 1960's." Fulford notes that Richler takes Mortimer's side, identifying himself with decency and Puritanism. Richler, like most satirists, is a conservative.
D42 M[aloff]., S[aul]. "Test Case." Newsweek, 8 April 1968, pp. 126B, 128. The tangled plot gets lost in slapstick. The best parts of the book are the set pieces in which Richler is "outrageously funny." The reviewer is uncertain how to judge what he terms "pornography" when it is at the same time brilliantly witty and inventive.
D43 Igoe, W. J. "Pop Strip." The Times, 20 April 1968, p.23. MR. Cocksure reads like a comic strip written by a collaboration between Kafka and Nathanael West, but carries a very moral message. Suggests that "Mordecai Richler evokes Dean Smith brooding over Soho at high noon."
D44 Batten, Jack. Rev. of Cocksure. Saturday Night, May 1968, pp. 37-38. The book is brilliant, funny, cynical, and cinematic, carrying the bizarre to its outer limits. But more than funny, it is "dirty and malevolent," to which the reviewer expects readers to react with "self-disgust."
D45 Toynbee, Philip. Rev. of Cocksure. London Magazine, May 1968, pp. 77-79. MR. Richler is a skllful and deliberate satirist, and hits some justifiable targets, though Toynbee deplores his attitude towards Germans. But Toynbee claims that Richler has no sure moral position from which to attack, and that he joins in the persecution of Mortimer. Still "a highly entertaining book, and often a properly uncomfortable one."
D46 "Wasp, Where Is Thy Sting?" Times Literary Supplement, 16 May 1968, p. 497. Sees the book as a thorough assault on liberalism, but less severe than it might have been through a lack of organization. The nature of the satiric attacks leaves some doubt as to whether Richler has any moral values he would uphold.
D47 French, William. "Gross Caricatures in an Alien Conundrum." The Globe Magazine, 15 June 1968, p. 15. This is a slick, funny book, though many WASPs may object to it. Too often it drifts into farce and the characters are mere caricatures. French sees the novel as an attack on WASPs or on Jews, and is uncertain of Richler's moral standpoint, suggesting that he may be going square.
D48 Pacey, Desmond. Rev. of Cocksure. The Fiddlehead, No. 76 (Summer 1968), pp. 88-89. Richler's response to the phoniness of contemporary society is black humour by way of reductio ad absurdum. But the book is "pathetic" because it has no tragic hero. Richler does not show us any positive alternative, and Pacey would like to see him present a character embodying goodness.
D49 Warn, John. Rev. of Cocksure. New York Review of Books, 22 Aug. 1968, pp. 34-35. Praises the inventiveness of Richler's satire but claims it is old-fashioned, reminiscent of Aldous Huxley's After Many a Summer. The characters are "cardboard cut-outs" but intentionally so, and the best thing in the book is Polly Morgan. Finally no more than "an Indian rope-trick" as Richler has no moral base to stand on, no sure point from which to attack.
D50 New, William H. "Cock and Bull Stories." Canadian Literature, No. 39 (Winter 1969), pp. 83-86 Rpt. in Articulating West: Essays on Purpose and Form in Modern Canadian Literature. Toronto: new press, 1972, pp. 164-68. Generally negative. The book wears easily, and Richler is trying to appeal to the wrong audience.
D51 Cameron, Donald. "Expatriate's Dilemma." Journal of Commonwealth Literature, No. 8 (Dec. 1969), pp. 150-52. Cocksure takes trends to their extreme, becoming tedious in the process. The novel shows the effects of Richler's lack of contact with contemporary Canada, as Griffin is a "period cliche." Cameron looks forward to St Urbai n's Horseman after which Cocksure will be seen as "a jeu d'esprit in which he tried out some ideas and techniques that bore fruit in the later book."
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D52 French, William. "Two for the Sixties, with Style and Sense." The Globe Magazine, 9 Nov. 1968, p. 16. Comparing Hunting Tigers under Glass with Fulford's Crisis at the Victory Burlesk, French finds Richler and Fulford alike as critics and satirists, though Fulford's collection is judged the better one. The best pieces in Hunting Tigers under Glass are "Jews in Sport," "This Year in Jerusalem," "The Catskills," and "Norman Mailer," but too many of the essays are dated.
D53 Gottlieb, Paul. "Collected Richler." The Gazette [Montreal], 9 Nov. 1968, p. 45. Like Sinclair Lewis, Richler has a good ear for cliches, but though enjoyable, most of these essays are dated. Richler is a "Canadian mini-Mailer," obsessed with himself, and "his concern with our parochialism, after these past whirlwind years, seems quaintly parochial itself." The best pieces are those on sports; the most monotonous those on the Catskills and Jerusalem.
D54 Zolf, Larry. "Why, Why Should Mordecai Bother with Us At All?" Toronto Telegram, 16 Nov. 1968, Sec. 4, p. 5. MR. Defends Richler against attacks labeling him a "professional Jew" or "Jewish anti-semite," criticizing the Canadian WASP elite and the paranoiac Canadian Jewish community who have not appreciated Richler's Talents. He is at his best when he is most personal, as in "The Great Comic Book Heroes" and "Jews in Sport." He should resist the urge to be Canada's Edmund Wilson, and his comments on writing and film-making are indistmguishable from those of academics, but on the whole the book is a success.
D55 "On the Block." Tsmes Literary Supplement, 23 Jan. 1969, p. 83 MR. A long and favourable review suggesting that Richler's success as a journalist may be due in part to the fact that he writes about his own world and his own apprenticeship, bringing both sympathy and irony to bear on his subjects. He is especially good in his critiques of Jewish and Canadian provincialism. Richler "cuts through the glossy romanticisms and belaboured intellectual worries in the interests of establishing the real feel of the thing."
D56 Turner, E. S. "Two Ghettoes." The Listener, 20 March 1969, pp. 393-94. Richler is without malice and has a sharp eye for foibles. His shots at self-inflated film-makers are especially keen. There is "some uncommonly diverting stuff" here, but the publishers have not caught his spelling mistakes.
D57 Rev. of Hunting Tigers under Glass. Spectator, 25 April 1969, p. 551. Richler is not a savage critic but actually a "defender of the faith" and a patriot. The reviewer praises Richler's astute eye for human foibles and vanities. Only occasionally in these "engaging and wholly inoffensive" essays does he show anger at fools and prejudice.
D58 Gasparini, Len. Rev. of Hunting Tigers under Glass. Queen's Quarterly, 76 (Autumn 1969), 547-48. This is a "scurrilous book," in which Richler tells us nothing we haven't heard before. He is obsessed with himself and his Jewishness, and sounds like Norman Mailer. Only "O Canada" and "Expo 67" were of interest to this reviewer.
D59 Tallman, Warren. "Beyond Camelot." Canadian Literature, No. 42 (Autumn 1969), pp. 77-81. Rpt. In "Four Takes on Mordecai Richler's Fiction." In Open Letter, 3rd Ser., No 6 (Winter 1976-77), pp. 52-57. Richler the novelist and Rlchler the journalist are not as different as they might seem. Both are concerned with the same themes from the same viewpoint. In the 1960s, Richler has been preoccupied with the "madcap experiences of lowlifers" which Tallman contrasts with the romantic novels of the 1950s. Richler himself is high-brow, his satire is most often directed against the middle-brow, but his special attention and interest is in the low-brow. The rest of the review is given over to a discussion of Norman Mailer.
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D120 Clery, Val. "Books for the Sagging Coffee Table." Quill & Quire, Dec. 1977, p. 28. Praises the photographs, but Richler's text, though "lively and perspicacious," is too brief, and no more than "an impressionistic travel essay"
D121 Santana, Hubert de. "Jingo Bells, Jingo Bells." Books in Canada, Dec. 1977, pp. 18-20. "He writes with affection and insight about Spain and its people, and as one who knows the country well, I am full of admiration for the beauty and accuracy of his observation." The photographs are superb.
D122 MacDonald, David. "Photographs Reveal Beauty, History of Spain." Winnipeg Free Press, 10 Dec. 1977, Sec. Leisure, p. 5. The text is "jerkily written and tedious, failing to capture the soul of Spain." It would have been better to have more pictures and omit Richler's prose.
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Dl13 Laurence, Margaret. "Richler's Tender, Two's Magic, and So's Fang." The Globe and Mail, 26 April 1975, p. 37. A "swift-paced, zany, hilarious, serious, strange and moving" book. Tenderness is the key quality in this, as in Richler's other writings.
Dl14 Oakes, Gary. "Jacob Two-Two Fine for Kiddies." Toronto Star, 24 May 1975, p. F7. Well-written and appealing to children, but not recommended to adults.
Dl15 Hambleton, Alixe. Rev. of Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang. In Review, 9, No 3 (Summer 1975), 39-40. Praises Richler's skill in handling reality and fantasy. The book has a universal theme and an implicit message, but the reviewer doesn't say what the message is.
Dl16 Ayre, John. "Mordecai Richler's Subversive Accomplishment." Saturday Night, July-Aug. 1975, pp. 65-66. Richler is here revealed as "an incorrigible softy." The book is more "delightful" than "involving," though Jacob is a very human character with real-life problems. Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang "has the look of a book that belongs more to children than to adults--a subversive but happy accomplishment."
Dl17 Parr, John. "Richler Rejuvenated." Canadian Children's Literature, 1, No. 3 (Autumn 1975), 96-102. A fresh satire of the adult world from a child's viewpoint. Parr tries to relate Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang to Richler's other work and to Canadian children's literature as a whole, suggesting that the book is a sentimental tale in the tradition of McClung and Montgomery, though the fantasy is touched with realism. Some seemingly tongue-in-cheek criticisms about influences and vulgarity are really intrusions in an otherwise favourable review.
Dl18 Huth, Angela. "Openings." Spectator, 6 Dec. 1975, pp. 733-34. A fast-paced story, but Jacob is not likely to endear himself to real children. Perhaps some words are too advanced for a youthful audience. The events take place in "Alice-like dreamy confusion."
Dl19 Rees, David. "Over-exposed." Times Literary Supplement, 2 April 1976, p. 376. Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang left this reviewer feeling sick. The writing is witty, but not suitable for children. The book would give them nightmares.
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D109 Whitehead, Ralph, Jr. "From the Bleachers, Mordecai Richler Watches the Show." Chicago Tribune, 14 April 1974, Sec 7, p. 3. Richler is entertaining, funny, relaxed, and sharp. Quotes long extracts from the book with approving comments.
D110 Kennedy, William. "Unsentimental Chronicler." New Republic, 18 May 1974, pp. 28-29. The best of these essays, on the Catskills, filmmakers, and Paris in the 1950s, are very good indeed. Though Richler's style is "traditional," and the book is minor compared to St. Urbain's Horseman, his journalism will still outlast that of his "flashier" contemporaries.
D111 Graver, Lawrence. "Cultural Policeman." New York Times Book Review, 2 June 1974, pp. 42-43. Richler's tone is usually "boisterously satiric," but sometimes he seems to be searching for a "vantage point from which he might give his satire a more coherent direction and a larger shape." Many of the pieces now seem trivial, time-worn, and lifeless. The freshest are those that deal in some way with Richler's personal life, such as "Why I Write" or "A Sense of the Ridiculous." In the essay on the Cannes Film Festival, Richler achieves success by giving insight into the characters and backgrounds of his subjects, the film producers.
Dl12 Hoffman, Eva. "Treating the Trivial with Panache." New Leader, 6 Jan 1975, pp. 17-18. Although seemingly unrelated, all the essays collected here centre on Richler's favourite sublects-"being Jewish, Canadian, and a writer." The style is "hard-boiled lyricism." Most of the essays are very dated and deal with trivial subjects. Richler is at his best when he takes satirical glances at other people's books, as in "Intimate Behaviour" or "Bond." But too often he is concerned only with his own persona, which this reviewer finds unappealing. "He presents himself as tough, pragmatic, impulsive, a man of the people, blasphemous, and mercilessly driven by his libido."
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D77 Godfrey, David. "A Major Canadian Novel." Books In Canada, introductory edition (May 1971), pp. 1-2. This review offers some of the most intriguing insights and provocative statements about St. Urbain's Horseman. Godfrey suggests that "Jacob Hersh is the closest that Richler has ever come to putting himself in a novel." St. Urbain's Horseman is a kind of sounding board for Jake's fears and frustrations, and his personality is a wide-ranging net. Jake's love for his wife Nancy "ties together much of the strange admiration for Protestantism which ironically underlies Cocksure." Caught between the bestial Harry Stein and the angelic Joey Hersh, Jake "is to Stein as Mengele is to The Horseman." Godfrey notes a number of similarities between Richler and Hugh MacLennan in their attitude to evil, their portrayal of women, the torment of their past, and the necessity of seeing the body of their work as more important than each individual novel. Richler is not so good at delineating characters with whom he has little in common. Despite the praise he accords St. Urbain's Horseman, Godfrey still considers The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz to be the major Richler novel.
D78 Blaise, Clark. " 'Rich and Funny, It's Richler's Best Book Yet.' " The Gazette [Montreal], 22 May 1971, p. 44. St. Urbain's Horseman is Richler's best novel to date. Blaise compares Jake with Bellow's Herzog: "a mask of the author, at times profound, at times a clown. "A fully human character, Jake is liberated by his commitment to Joey and to Harry Stein, and by the knowledge that he can live without them.
D79 Dobbs, Kildare. "Mordecai Richler's Latest Novel Bursts with Life." Toronto Daily Star. 22 May 1971, p. A9. This is Richler's most successful novel, and there is a good deal of the author in the character of Jake Hersh. Richler's satire springs from moral indignation and he is acutely conscious of mortality. The funniest scene is "Dinner with Ormsby-Fletcher."
D80 Desbarats, Peter. " 'St. Urbain Street Now Reaches to the Ends of the Earth.'" Montreal Star, 29 May 1971, p. 29. This is Richler's most important novel to date, and Harry Stein is his most memorable character, "as memorable as Fagin." Desbarats compares the description of Jake's mother and father with Pierre Vallieres' portrait of his parents in White Niggers of America. Jake's relationship with his wife is finely handled, and the rumor characters are well-drawn, "each one as carefully set down as a figure in a Breughel painting."
D81 Eulford, Robert. "All the Mordecais, Together at Last." Saturday Night, June 1971, pp. 25-26. St. Urbain's Horseman is the culmination of Richler's career, bringing together the many disparate aspects of his writing talents, and is "the best Canadian book in a long time." It is the closest to autobiography of all of Richler's novels, as Jake's beliefs and those of his creator are seen to be identical. St Urbain's Horseman gives us "fantasy rooted in experience" and triumphs not only in its portrait of the physical world, but even more memorably in its depiction of Jake's inner world.
D82 Buitenhuis, Peter. "A Deli Window Rich to Excess." The Globe Magazine, 12 June 1971, p. 15. Condemns the book for having too many episodes, too many characters, and too many digressions. The horseman figure is unconvincing, and obscures the real subject: "the search for identity by the Jew who rejects the ghetto and its ways." Jake's problems stem from his rejection of his Jewish heritage. The review ends on a positive note, suggesting that the novel is a testament to the importance of roots.
D83 Cameron, Donald. "Aren't We All Made of Flesh?" The Nation, 14 June 1971, pp. 759-61. A very favourable review, praising Richler as "a master craftsman." According to Cameron, "The Jewish experience becomes a metaphor for the human situation, a situation man is loath to face." But the Horseman represents the importance of facing up to violence and madness with an assertion of dignity and resistance. Jake can assume the responsibilities of the Horseman finally because he too stands for the values of honour and courage, and has the capacity to love.
D84 Kattan, Naim. "Le nouveau Richler: St Urbain's Horseman." Le Devoir, 19 June 1971, pp. 11, 8. St. Urbain's Horseman is the most ambitious and successful of all Richler's novels. Kattan notes that Jake identifies with Harry Stein as well as with Joey. Clever observation on Richler's part redeems the satire when it is pushed to the limits of caricature. Richler's style is mordant wit combined with bitter-sweet reflection. The review is in French.
D85 Fetherling, Doug. "Richler's Big Book." Jewish Di'-al-og, Summer 1971, pp. 33-34. Compares Richler to Anthony Burgess in England, and Norman Mailer in the USA. Notes the journahstic technique used in the novel, but gives no examples. Fetherling acknowledges the importance of the work, but feels that wit almost overpowers the heart.
D86 Yardley, Jonathan. "Thirty-Seven: Young Too Late, Old Too Soon." New York Times Book Review, 27 June 1971, pp. 7, 16. The virtues of this fine novel are its humour and skilful satire, real characters, prose style, and a secure grasp of truth. Comparing St. Urbain's Horseman to Walker Percy's Love in the Ruins, Yardley claims that the modern liberal is really a moral conservative worried about the abandonment of traditional values. The targets of Richler's satire are "depicted devastatingly, yet engagingly."
D87 Pryce-Jones, David. "A Stuntman with the Language." Life, 9 July 1971, p. 14 Richler's trademark is the "concise and deflating comedy" of the "Playing Ball on Hampstead Heath" scene. He is a master of the illuminating moment and the psychological insight. The ending of the book may be too conventionally sentimental.
D88 C[ooper]., A[rthur]. "Barman on Horseback." Newsweek, 12 July 1971, pp. 87-88. Mostly plot summary, though very favourable to the novel. Not only does the reviewer consider St Urbain's Horseman to be Richler's best book, but one of the best of the year--"a minor masterpiece." Richler's satire is effective, and his ability to create real characters with a minimum of words is admirable.
D89 Granite, M. J. "Bewitched and Bewildered." Canadian Jewish Outlook, July-Aug 1971, pp. 17-18. More a string of short stories than a novel, St. Urbain's Horseman is full of trite symbols and lacks sympathetic characters. "The book demonstrates, more effectively than anything I have recently read, the despair of our contemporary generations, the widening gulf between man and man; a transformation in terms of self-rejection and dissolution."
D90 Gordon, Michael. "On 'St Urbain's Horseman.'" Atlantic Advocate, Sept 1971, p. 51. St. Urbain's Horseman combines the elements of realism and satire from the earlier books, adding compassion and rage. The review is mostly concerned with defending Richler against the charge of anti-Semitism, seeing his message as one of anger at the holocaust and suggesting: "Being a Jew is different, he seems to say, it is being a survivor, it is remembering."
D91 Davies, R. R. "Many Cravings." New Statesman, 3 Sept 1971, p. 308. Richler, like his protagonist, is a worried man, and exposes the "habitual honest nakedness" of Jake's needs. "Hersh is characterised by the tangibility of the needs which link him with the things he knows, even the odious Harry, to whom tenuous responsibility, horrified fascination and sheer blackmail have attached him." The Horseman figure is intriguing, though unresolved, because it fulfills a universal need.
D92 "Horsing Around." Times Literary Supplement, 3 Sept 1971, p. 1045. Too often "crudely and woodenly facetious," the book is basically about the problems of "successful, liberal Jewry." It lacks any fully rounded characters and is mired in farce, sexual humour, and "Jewish detail."
D93 Waugh, Auberon. "Auberon Waugh on Mr Richler's Jumbo Sandwich." Spectator, 11 Sept 1971, pp. 377-78. St. Urbain's Horseman is Richler's best book, though really two novels in one, and not quite satisfactorily knitted together. The first novel concerns Jake's relationship with Harry Stein. Stein's portrait is a great achievement, evoking sympathy for a heartless character. The second novel is about Jake's Jewish background and his relationship with his cousin Joey. Waugh seems to criticize Richler as a Jewish apologist hoping to incite anti-Semitic reaction in order to justify his condemnation of Jew-baiters, but then excuses Richler's obsession with the holocaust as showing a genuine concern, not just employing a literary device to obtain an emotional reaction. Ends on an appallingly patronizing note, awarding Richler a symbolic gold medal, partly "in deference to the suffering of his people, and because one would not like to be thought anti-semitic."
D94 Woodcock, George. "The Wheel of Exile." The Tamarack Review, No. 58 (Third quarter 1971), pp. 65-72. The longest and most perceptive review of the book. Woodcock begins with a review of Richler's career as a novelist. Comparing him to Wyndham Lewis, Woodcock notes that Richler lacks the bitterness of a true satirist, and that his monsters--Star Maker, Twentyman, Boy Wonder--are only hollow "bogeymen." Shalinsky and Lord Woodcock in Cocksure are more convincing and more memorable characters than the Star Maker. "Richler is less successful as a writer of satirical fantasy than he is as a novelist in the old sense as a chronicler of human conflict." His novels reflect society, and he is aware, "like Balzac, of the interplay between an individual's will and the social and historical imperatives that bear upon him." St Urbain's Horseman is in one sense a recapitulation of the earlier novels: backgrounds and situations show a good deal of similarity. For instance, the "friendship between a good man and a predatory misanthrope" is a common theme. On the whole, Richler's novels are concerned with the theme of exile, and in St. Urbain's Horseman, he has achieved through the character of Jake a successful reconciliation between exile and ghetto, and in terms of style, between the fantastic and the realistic, bringing to an end what Woodcock sees as the first cycle of his novels.
D95 Hansen, E. A. "An International Novelist: Mordecai Richler: History, The Horseman and the Aspidistra." Literary Half-Yearly, 13, No. 1 (Jan. 1972), 183-89. Compares Richler to Mailer and Faulkner, but unlike them, Richler's outlook is international. He lacks the sentimentality of the American writers, possessing more energy and a drier irony. The autobiographical element is important to him, as St. Urbain Street is the foundation on which he builds his world. The reviewer praises the minor characters, the social commentary, and the irony. St. Urbain's Horseman reflects international events, but is still rooted in its own time and place.
D96 Rooke, Leon. Rev. of St. Urbain's Horseman. The Malahat Review, No. 21 (Jan. 1972), pp. 118-19. Compares the "Rabelaisian" St. Urbain's Horseman with Bellow's "encyclopedic" Herzog, and with a Damltriu's Incognito and Boll's Billiards at Half-Past Nine. Though the book suffers from "a flabby middle structure," its compassion and humour make it the best novel of Richler's career. "It is essentially through Jake's costly loyalty to Harry that he becomes something of a Horseman himself."
D97 Thomas, Audrey. "An Offwhite Horse." Canadian Literature, No. 51 (Winter 1972), pp. 83-84. The book is a penetrating study of the malaise of modern society. The dark theme of the holocaust is always present in the background of the comic scenes. Satire is liberally applied, but not to the one character who really seems to be good, Jake's wife Nancy. There are some interesting points made in this review, such as Thomas' observation that as a TV director, Jake is involved in the creation of "fake emotion."
D98 Magid, Nora. "Canadian Club." Commonweal, 7 Jan. 1972, p. 330. The novel involves a search for another self, with Jake "a Walter Mitty in reverse." Magid notes the intricate weaving of elements of time, space, and experience, giving a multiple perspective on moral choice. The style and energy of the writing are praised, but some of the secondary characters, like Nancy and Luke, are seen as no more than two-dimensional.
D99 Cuddon, J. A. Rev. of St. Urbain's Horseman. Books and Bookmen, March 1972, pp. 61-62. An amusing, honest, and vital book. Richler is good at giving precise details that bring to life character and incident. Sees the Horseman not only as Jake's alter ego, but also as "his better half." The characterization of Harry Stein is a triumph: "'it's a measure of Mr. Richler's humanity and laconic compassion that he is able to make him a sympathetic character." The reviewer maintains that Richler is a very moral writer, but he would still not recommend the book to readers under the age of eighteen.
D100 H[elwig]., D[avid]. Rev. of St. Urbain's Horseman. Quarry, 22, No. 1 (Winter 1973), 77-79. Jake's consolations are tolerance, irony, and an almost religious sense of his own shortcomings. It's not surprising to find that one of his heroes is the conservative Dr. Johnson. If not Richler's best book, this is his most personal, attempting to come to terms with the history of his own generation.
D101 Newman, Christina. "In Search of a Native Tongue." Maclean's, Sept. 1972, p. 88. "What's real to Richler is his own pain. What's important to him is that he's probed this pain in other places, London, Paris, Surrey, far from where it was inflicted." Shovelling Trouble is stale, recycled stuff, showing that Richler's attitudes are those of the remote past, the provincial come home to boast about where he's been.
D102 French, William. "Richler Reruns." The Globe and Mail, 14 Sept 1972, p. 13. The new pieces in Shovelling Trouble are not very good, and the old ones have been recycled so often they no longer entertain. This is not as good a book as Hunting Tigers under Glass. Richler writes best when he writes about himself.
D103 Murray, Don. "Richler and His Shovel." The Gazette [Montreal], 30 Sept 1972, p. 50. Richler is boring and talks too much about Himself. The piece on Bond is the most interesting thing in the book, but Richler's hatred of the Germans and his attack on Fleming's anti-Semitism show a moral double standard.
D104 "Protocols of 007." Times Literary Supplement, 27 Oct. 1972, p. 1278. Praises Richler's vivid recall of his own generation, and his satire of mindless double-talk, but the piece on Bond is "abrasive polemic."
D105 McSweeney's, Kerry. "Richler's Non-Fiction." Queen's Quarterly, 79 (Winter 1972), 584-85. Compared to Hunting Tigers under Glass, this is not a very interesting book. Richler is simply trying to bank on his own personality, which is over-exposed and uminteresting.
D106 Sutherland, Fraser. "Richler Recycled." Journal of Canadian Fiction, 2, No 1 (Winter 1973), 95. Richler is "funny, clever, and usually on target, but rarely profound." His targets -- the Governor General, magazine ads--are too easy to hit. The essay on Bond makes a weak case against Fleming, the argument being "laboured and gratuitous." Only in "The Holocaust and After" does his passion and rage stem from a real sense of commitment. "As a prolegomena [sic] to St. Urbain's Horseman the essay is invaluable; as a document of one Jew's attitude it has the logic of the gut."
D107 Fetherling, Doug. "Richler's Journalism." Canadian Literature, No. 57 (Summer 1973), pp. 118-20. A mixed review with the familiar conclusion that Richler is a better novelist than journalist. The reviews collected here are no better than average newspape reviews, but where he has allowed himself the time to get the feel of his subject, the writing improves. "A Sense of the Ridiculous" is very good, and "Bond" is convincing. Richler might have done well practising the kind of journalism offered by Mailer and Baldwin, among others, but he remains the "iconoclastic nostalgist."
D108 Dyroff, Jan Michael. "Dancers Dancing." Lakehead University Review, 6, No. 2 (Fall-Winter 1973), 268-70. There is too much emphasis on Richler's personality, and collectively, the pieces are repetitive and should not have been reprinted. Only "Bond" is convincing.
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D60 French, William. "Sardonic Warmth for the Good Old Ghetto." The Globe Magazine, 17 May 1969, p. 26. Richler endows St. Urbain Street with the legendary qualities of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County or John O'Hara's Gibbsville. A warm and nostalgic book, but conveying the hostility of the outside world and the narrowness of the ghetto. "So much of Richler's talent comes from the tension of his love-hate relationship with the ghetto and his attempt to come to terms with it that his career probably would have taken an entirely different turn without its influence."
D61 Glutman, Izzy. Rev. of The Street. The Five Cent Review, 1, No. 1 (June 1969), 10. Asserts that Richler is a good writer by international, not just Canadian standards. The reviewer has some difficulty in determining what is autobiography and what is fiction in The Street. The characters in the book are larger than life, but they are not caricatures, and Richler always treats them with compassion.
D62 Compton, Neil. "Coming of Age on St. Urbain Street: the Adolescence, in All Its Pimply Splendour, of Duddy, Noah, Jake -- and Mordecai." Saturday Night, July 1969, pp. 36, 38. A personal memoir of Compton's life on St Urbain, and a paean to Jewish-Canadian writers. Points to Richler's moral conservatism, allying him with Saul Bellow against the more reckless Malamud and Roth As a "Jewish Diogenes," Richler gives us an accurate and vivid account of ghetto life in the thirties, and of adolescence in general, though the book is still "not quite vintage Richler."
D63 Jewison, Don. Rev. of The Street. Canadian Dimension, Aug-Sept. 1969, p. 59. Fast-paced, but without "significant movement" or development. The Street is mostly a "lightly satirical piece of nostalgia" with lots of local colour. The best stories, with the exception of the last, are those in which the narrator ts not the protagonist.
D64 Kattan, Naim. Rev. of The Street. Liberte, 11, No. 5 (Nov-Dec 1969), 109-12. The central character is the street itself, though Richler is present in every story, not hiding behind a persona. He does not make his characters into caricatures, instead they possess dignity and wisdom. The review is in French.
D65 Faulkner, Chris. "Benny Garber." Alphabet, No. 17 (Dec 1969), pp. 73-76. An unfavourable review. Only four of these pieces are really short stories, and the book is "chaotic" and "repetitious." The best piece is the story about Benny Garber which has the virtues of "objectivity . . . spareness and understatement."
D66 Purdy, A. W. "Betrayed by the Evening Star." Canadian Literature, No. 44 (Spring 1970), pp. 84-86. An excellent book, though slight by Richler's Standards. He is always on the attack and his moral truth is the opposite of what he attacks. He "sees the world as a sea of chaos and cruelty, having a few rare islands of calm and gentleness."
D67 Porter, Peter. "O Montreal." New Statesman, 25 Feb. 1972, p. 246. Compares his own Australian Protestant upbringing with Richler's Canadian Jewish heritage, finding Richler's experience much fuller. Porter appreciates Richler's humour and verbal economy, more reminiscent of Wallace Markfield and Willard Manus than Bellow or Malamud, and is surprised by the apparent cruelty and anti-Semitism in Montreal of the 1930s and 1940s.
D68 Waugh, Auberon. "Pen Sketches." Spectator, 26 Feb 1972, p. 317. A possible source-book for students of Richler's novels. The Street is either meant only as light reading, or else Richler has turned over a new leaf and shed his earlier persona for one more benign and gentle.
D69 Magid, Nora L. "The Natural Province of Mordecai Richler." New York Times Book Review, 5 Oct 1975, pp. 6-7. Though the American edition reproduces the spelling errors of the Canadian edition, "it's a lovely book, irrepressibly alive, funny, mean, self-derisive." The Street "cannot be read as literal autobiography" and in Rlchler's style, "sweetness and abrasiveness go hand in hand . . . ."
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Al6 What Was in the Garden. Santa Barbara, Cal.: Unicorn, 1969. 1 leaf. A broadside with colour illustrations by Charles Pachter. One of twelve broadsides by Canadian poets in Unicorn Folio Series 3, Number I, A Canadian Portfolio.
A17 Dreams of the Animals. N.p.: np [1970?] 1 leaf. The poem, later published in Procedures for Underground, is here printed from an original drawing by Atwood, in the form of a broadside.
A18 Marsh, Hawk. Toronto: Dreadnaught [1977]. 1 leaf. A broadside, illustrated by Suzanne Mogensen; one of fifty-two broadsides printed as a collection entitled 52pickup.
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A15 Up in the Tree. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart [1978]. 28pp. Written and illustrated by Atwood for children.
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A19 The Trumpets of Summer. [Toronto]: n.p.[1964]. 15 pp. Choral suite for mixed chorus, four soloists, male speaker, and six instruments, commissioned by the CBC for the Shakespeare Quatercentenary. Music by John Beckwith, text by Margaret Atwood. First performed in Montreal, November 29, 1964. The text only printed here.
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A20 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario.
The University of Toronto Library is the major depository of Margaret Atwood's manuscripts. The material is housed in boxes and an outline of their contents follows.
Box 1: Correspondence, miscellaneous items including biographical notes, an essay entitled "My Poetic Principles," dated October 29, 1962, announcements of poetry readings, typescript of Trumpets of Summer, with working copy, printed libretto, correspondence with John Beckwith. Also some unpublished poems.
Box 2: Prose--short stories and The Edible Woman.
Box 3: Prose--The Edible Woman (continued).
Box 4: Poetry, including The Animals in That Country; an unpublished play in verse, "Thus Parts the Hero."
Box 5: Poetry--early manuscripts circa 1958-63.
Box 6: Poetry--early manuscripts (continued), and material written in Vancouver in 1964-65.
Boxes 7-9: Poetry-- later work.
Box 10: Page proofs of The Edible Woman.
Box 11: Negative microfilm and paper copy of Charles Pachter's thesis for the degree of Master of Free Arts, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
Boxes 12-15: Vocal score of Trumpets of Summer; manuscript and typescript of "Oratorio for Sasquatch, Man and Two Androids", various drafts of Surfacing, an unpublished novel, "Up in the Air So Blue"; The Journals of Susanna Moodie; Procedures for Underground; Power Politics; and manuscript of "Rhyming Cats" (written circa 1948-50).
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A1 Double Persephone Market Book Series, Book 1. Toronto: Hawkshead, 1961. 16 pp.
A2 The Circle Game. Bloomfield Hills, Mich.: n.p., 1964. 18 leaves. Printed in a limited edition of fifteen copies designed, printed, and illustrated with eight colour plates by Charles Pachter.
A3 Kaleidoscopes Baroque: A Poem. Bloomfield Hills, Mich: np., 1965 15 pp. Printed at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in a limited edition of twenty copies, with colour illustrations by Charles Pachter.
A4 Talismans for Children. Bloomfield Hills, Mich.: n. p, 1965. 6 leaves. Printed in a limited edition of ten copies with colour illustrations by Charles Pachter.
A5 Expeditions. Bloomfield Hills, Mich. n.p, 1966. 10 leaves. Printed in a limited edition of fifteen copies, with colour illustrations by Charles Pachter.
A6 Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein. Bloomfield Hills, Mich.: n.p, 1966. 29 pp. Printed at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in a limited edition of fifteen copies, designed, illustrated, and printed by Charles Pachter.
A7 The Circle Game. Toronto: Contact, 1966. 80 pp. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1967. 80 pp. One hundred copies of this House of Anansi edition were published in cloth with a slipcase, and signed by Atwood. Introd. Sherrill Grace. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1978. 90 pp.
A8 The Animals in That Country. Boston: Little, Brown [1968]. 69 pp. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1968. 69 pp.
A9 The Journals of Susanna Moodie. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1970. 64 pp. Illustrated. "The collages and cover design are by Margaret Atwood."
A10 Procedures for Underground. Boston: Little, Brown [1970]. 79 pp. Toronto: Oxford Univ Press, 1970. 79 pp.
A11 Power Politics. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1971 58 pp. New York: Harper and Row [1973] 56 pp.
A12 You Are Happy. New York: Harper and Row [1974] 96 pp. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1974. 96 pp.
A13 Selected Poems. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press [1976]. 240 pp. New York: Simon and Schuster [1978] 240 pp. Contains a selection from six books of poetry. The Circle Game, The Animals in That Country, Procedures for Underground, The Journals of Susanna Moodie (in full), Power Politics, and You Are Happy.
A14 Two-Headed Poems. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1978. 112 pp.
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B308 The Journals of Susanna Moodie. Canadian Poets 2. [Toronto]: CBC, 1969. A twelve inch phonodisc 33 r.p.m. Read by Mia Anderson.
B309 The Twist of Feeling [Toronto]: CBC, 1971. An audio-tape, cassette and reel-to-reel, thirty minutes duration. Margaret Atwood discusses the ideas and emotions behind her poems in Power Politics and reads some of the poems.
B310 Margaret Atwood. [Toronto]: High Barnet, 1973. A cassette audio-tape, sixty minutes duration. Atwood reads from The Circle Game, The Animals in That Country, and Procedure for Underground.
B311 Progressive Insanities of a Pioneer. [Willowdale, Ont.]: Universal Education and Visual Arts, n. d. A sixteen mm. colour film, duration five minutes. A film interpretation of the poem.
B312 The Journals of Susanna Moodie [Willowdale, Ont.]: Universal Education and Visual Arts, n. d. A sixteen-mm. black and white film, duration fifteen minutes. A film interpretation of the volume of poetry.
B313 The Poetry and Voice of Margaret Atwood [New York]. Caedmon, XC 489, 1977. A twelve-inch phonodisc 33 r.p.m. Atwood reads a selection from The Animals in That Country, Procedures for Underground, Power Politics, and You Are Happy.
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B314 Programme cover design for "The Pirates of Penzance." Produced by Victoria College Music Club, Feb. 1959.
B315 Programme cover design for "The Big F." Produced by Victoria College Book Review, Nov. 1959.
B316 Programme cover design and sketches for "The Mikado." Produced by Victoria College Music Club, Feb. 1960.
B317 Programme cover design and posters for "Epicoene, or, The Silent Woman." Produced by Victoria College Dramatic Society, Dec. 1960.
B318 Programme cover design and sketches and posters for "The Yeomen of the Guard." Produced by Victoria College Music Club, Jan. -Feb. 1961.
B319 Cartoons in The Strand. 10 March 1961. See B27 and B28.
B320 Collages for The Journals of Susanna Moodie. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1970. See A9.
B321 "Kanadian Kultchur Komics." Published under the pseudonym of "B.G." (Bart Gerrard). A comic strip which has appeared in every issue of This Magazine since Vol. 8, Nos. 5-6, (Jan - Feb 1975).
B322 "Portrait of the Artist As a Young Cipher." Graduate, 5, No. 1 (Sesquifall Issue 1977), 8-9. A comic strip written and drawn by Atwood.
B323 "Hairdo." Weekend Magazine, 4 Feb 1978, pp. 6-7. A comic strip written and drawn by Atwood.
B324 Up in the Tree. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, [1978]. Written and drawn by Atwood. See A15.
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following abbreviations.
The Circle Game (A7) ..................CG
The Animals in That Country ...........TAITC
The Journals of Susanna Moodie ........JSM
Procedures for Underground ............PFU
Power Politics ........................PP
You Are Happy .........................YAH
Selected Poems ........................SP
Two-Headed Poems ......................THP
B1 "The First Brush-Cut." Clan Call [Leaside High School], 1, No. 6 (1954-55), 29.
B2 "The Mind." Clan Call, 2, No 1 (1956-57), 37.
B3 "The Conversation." Acta Victoriana, 83, No. 1 (Nov. 1958), 11.
B4 "Spratire." Acta Victoriana, 83, No. 2 (Dec. 1958), 22. This poem is one of several contributions by "Shakesbeat Latweed" which, according to Margaret Atwood, is the "joint author" pseudonym under which Atwood and Dennis Lee wrote while students at Victoria College.
B5 "Knell and Nativity." Acta Victoriana, 83, No 6, (Feb. 1959), 19.
B6 "Fruition." The Canadian Forum, Sept. 1959, p. 130.
B7 "Confessional." Acta Victoriana, 84, No. 1 (Dec. 1959), 8.
B8 "Small Requiem" The Canadian Forum, Dec 1959, p. 202.
B9 "Paeon." The Sheet, No 1 (Jan. 1960), p. 7.
B10 "Hanging Garden." Acta Victoriana, 84, No. 2 (March 1960), 10. Rpt. in The Canadian Forum, Aug. 1960, p. 114.
B11 "Inscription. "Acta Victoriana, 84, No. 2 (March 1960), 13. Rpt. in The Canadian Forum, Aug. 1960, p. 115.
B12 "Mausoleum." Acta Victoriana, 84, No. 2 (March 1960), 12 Rpt. in The Canadian Forum, Aug. 1960, p. 115.
B13 "Pharos." Acta Victoriana, 84, No. 2 (March 1960), 12 Rpt. in The Canadian Forum, Aug. 1960, p. 115.
B14 "Pyramid at Sunrise." Acta Victoriana, 84, No. 2 (March 1960), 13. Rpt. in The Canadian Forum, Aug. 1960, p. 115.
B15 "Sculpted Zeus." Acta Victoriana, 84, No. 2 (March 1960), 11. Rpt. in The Canadian Forum, Aug. 1960, p. 114.
B16 "Small Colossus." Acta Victoriana, 84, No. 2 (March 1960), 10. Rpt. in The Canadian Forum, Aug. 1960, p. 114.
B17 "Temple of Artemis." Acta Victoriana, 84, No. 2 (March 1960), 11. Rpt. in The Canadian Forum, Aug.1960, p. 114.
B18 "The Bottled Woman." Varsity, 79, No. 68 (18 March 1960), 6 Rpt. in The Tamarack Review, No. 21 (Autumn 1961), p. 21.
B19 "The Expelled." Varsity, 79, No. 68 (18 March 1960), 6.
B20 "The Triple Goddess: A Poem for Voices." Acta Victoriana, 85 (sic) [84], No. 3 (April 1960), 8-13.
B21 "Harvesters." The Canadian Forum, June 1960, p. 60.
B22 "Towered Woman." The Canadian Forum, June 1960, p. 60.
B23 "The Girl Too Early." The Sheet, No. 2 (Sept 1960), p. 3.
B24 "Reflection." The Sheet, No. 2 (Sept. 1960), p. 3.
B25 "The Kollege Koffee Krowd. . .a Pome." The Strand [Victoria College], 14 Oct. 1960, p. 3. Published under the pseudonym "Shakesbeat Latweed."
B26 "From the Island: Three Small Songs." Acta Victoriana, 86 (sic) [85], No. 1 (Nov 1960), 13.
B27 "A Hymn to VCU." The Strand, 11 Nov 1960, pp. 3-4. Published under the pseudonym "Shakesbeat Latweed."
B28 "To the Strand, on Demand." The Strand, 25 Nov. 1960, p. 3. Published under the pseudonym "Shakesbeat Latweed."
B29 "Event." The Sheet, No 3 [1961?], p. 3.
B30 "News from Nowhere." The Sheet, No 3 [1961?],p. 3.
B31 "Pastoral Elegy." The Sheet, No 3 [1961?], p. 4.
B32 "Childhood under Glass." Acta Victoriana, 86 (sic) [85], No. 4 (March 1961), 1.
B33 "Eye " Acta Victoriana, 86 (sic) [85], No. 4 (March 1961), 1.
B34 "The Field of Souls." Acta Victoriana, 86 (sic) [85], No. 4 (March 1961), 2.
B35 "Island, Fall." Acta Victoriana, 86 (sic) [85], No. 4 (March 1961), 1.
B36 "We and Our Lost Souls." Acta Victoriana, 86 (sic) [85], No. 4 (March 1961), 2.
B37 "Seaweedy." The Strand, 10 March 1961, pp. 2-3. Published under the pseudonym "Shakesbeat Latweed."
B38 "Proserpine." Jargon, No. 2 (Spring 1961), p. 4.
B39 "The Triple Woman." Jargon, No 2 (Spring 1961), p. 3.
B40 "Wind in Weeds." Jargon, No. 2 (Spring 1961), p. 4.
B41 "Woman by the Water." The Canadian Forum, April 1961, p. 5.
B42 "Invasion." Delta, No. 15 (Aug 1961), p. 19.
B43 "Lover." The Tamarack Review, No. 21 (Autumn 1961), p. 21.
B44 "Woman on the Subway." The Tamarack Review, No. 21 (Autumn 1961), p. 20.
B45 "Etc." Alphabet, No 3 (Dec 1961), p. 74.
B46 "Garden." The Canadian Forum, July 1962, p. 92.
B47 "The Interior Decorator." The Sheet, No. 5 (Sept. 1962), p. 7. Rpt. in The Tamarack Review, No 27. (Spring 1963), p. 33.
B48 "The Whore and the Dove." Alphabet, No. 5 (Dec 1962), pp. 48-49.
B49 "The Witch and the Nightingale." Alphabet, No. 5 (Dec. 1962), pp. 44-45.
B50 "The Apotheosis of Guinivere." The Fiddlehead, No. 55 (Winter 1963), pp. 12-13.
B51 "The Betrayal of Arthur." The Fiddlehead, No. 55 (Winter 1963), p. 11.
B52 "Elaine in Arcadia." The Fiddlehead, No. 55 (Winter 1963), p. ll.
B53 "The King." The Fiddlehead, No. 55 (Winter 1963), p.13.
B54 "The Kings." The Fiddlehead, No 55 (Winter 1963), p. 10.
B55 "The Recollections of Vivien." The Fiddlehead, No. 55 (Winter 1963), p. 10.
B56 "The Rider." The Fiddlehead, No. 55 (Winter 1963), p.12.
B57 "The City Girl." In Poesie/Poetry 64. Ed. Jacques Godbout and John Robert Colombo. Montreal: Les Editions du Jour; Toronto: Ryerson, 1963, pp. 107-08.
B58 "Houses." In Poesie/Poetry 64. Ed. Jacques Godbout and John Robert Colombo. Montreal: Les Editions du Jour; Toronto: Ryerson, 1963, p. 113.
B59 "The Lifeless Wife." In Podste/Poetry 64 Ed Jacques Godbout and John Robert Colombo. Montreal: Les Editions du Jour, Toronto: Ryerson, 1963, p. 110.
B60 "The Slideshow." In Poesie/Poetry 64. Ed. Jacques Godbout and John Robert Colombo. Montreal: Les Editions du Jour; Toronto: Ryerson, 1963, p. 111.
B61 "The Somnabulist." In Poesie/Poetry 64. Ed. Jacques Godbout and John Robert Colombo. Montreal: Les Editions du Jour; Toronto: Ryerson 1963, pp. 110-11.
B62 "The Cold Philosopher." The Tamarack Review, No. 27 (Spring 1963). P. 30.
B63 "The Dwarf." The Tamarack Review, No. 27 (Spring 1963), p. 32. Rpt. in Manitoba Law School Journal, 1, No. 2 (1963), 146.
B64 "The Little Sister." The Tamarack Review, No. 27 (Spring 1963), p. 29.
B65 "What Happened to the Idiot Boy." The Tamarack Review, No. 27 (Spring 1963), p 3l.
B66 "Little Nell." Alphabet, No. 6 (June 1963), p. 54.
B67 "Mad Mother Ballad." Alphabet, No. 6 (June 1962,), p. 53. Rpt. in The Canadian Forum, June 1963, p. 70.
B68 "The Mad Mother." The Canadian Forum, June 1963, p. 70.
B69 "My Leper Lover." The Canadian Forum, June 1963, p. 71.
B70 "The Orphan from Alberta." Alphabet, No. 6 (June 1963), p. 51.
B71 "Poor Tom." Alphabet, No. 6 (June 1963), p. 52.
B72 "The Idiot Boy Unborn." Evidence, No. 7 (Summer 1963), p. 90.
B73 "Pig-Girl." Delta, No 22 (Oct 1963), p. 28.
B74 "Exhibition Rides." Volume 63, No 1 (Dec 1963), pp. 59-60.
B75 "The Acid Sibyl." The Fiddlehead, No. 59 (Winter 1963), p. 60.
B76 "The Double Nun." The Fiddlehead, No. 59 (Winter 1963), pp. 61-62.
B77 "Fall and All." The Fiddlehead, No. 59 (Winter 1963), p. 58.
B78 "The Revelation." The Fiddlehead, No. 59 (Winter 1965), pp. 60-61.
B79 "The Revenant." The Fiddlehead, No. 59 (Winter 1963), pp. 58-59. Rpt. in Kayak, No. 14 (April 1968), p. 9. TAITC.
B80 "The Siamese Twins." The Fiddlehead, No. 59 (Winter 1963), p. 60.
B81 "The Witch's House." The Fiddlehead, No. 59 (Winter 1963), pp. 62-63.
B82 "A Failure of Spells in the Necropolis." Canadian Poetry, 27, No. 2 (Feb 1964), 29-30.
B83 "Voices: Ancestors." Canadian Poetry, 27, No. 2 (Feb 1964), 30-31.
B84 "Descent as Dissection." The Canadian Forum, March 1964, p. 280.
B85 "He/She/It." Queen's Quarterly, 71 (Spring 1964),40-41.
B86 "In My Ravines." Queen's Quarterly, 71 (Spring 1964), 42-43. CG.
B87 "Willow Pattern Plate." The Canadian Forum, April 1964, p. 23.
B88 "After the Flood, We." The Canadian Forum, Sept. 1964, p. 131 CG, SP.
B89 "A Meal." TheCanadian Forum, Sept 1964, p. 131. CG.
B90 "Office Lady." The Canadia Forum, Sept. 1964, p. 131.
B91 "Against Still Life." Kayak, No. 2 [1965?], pp. 6-8. Rpt. in Ellipse, No. 3 (Spring 1970), pp. 70, 74, 76. Rpt. (trans.) in Ellipse, No. 3 (Spring 1970), pp. 73, 75, 77. CG.
B92 "Boar." Evidence, No. 9 (1965), p. 14.
B93 "Epithalamion." Evience, No. 9 (1965), pp. 12-13.
B94 "Evening Trainstation before Departure." Kayak, No. 2 [1965?], pp. 4-5. CG.
B95 "Pink Lady (Sea Anenome, Stanley Park.)" Evidence, No. 9 (1965), pp 11-12.
B96 "This Is a Photograph of Me." Kayak, No. 2 [1965?], p. 3 Rpt. in English, 16, No. 94 (Spring 1967), 142. Rpt. in Ellipse, No. 3 (Spring 1970), p. 54 Rpt. (trans) in Ellipse, No 3 (Spring 1970), p. 55 CG; SP.
B97 "The Commuters." Edge, No. 4 (Spring 1965), p. 83.
B98 "The Mountain Climbers." Edge, No. 4 (Spring 1965), p. 84.
B99 "On the Streets, Love." Edge, No. 4 (Spring 1965), pp. 82-83. CG.
B100 "Camera." Kayak, No. 4 (1965), pp. 49-50.
B101 "The Impossibility." Kayak, No. 4 (1965), pp. 48-49.
B102 "A Pair of Complements." Kayak, No 4 (1965), pp. 46-47.
B103 "The Stamps." Kayak, No. 4 (1965), pp. 45-46.
B104 "The Explorers." Prism International, 5, No. 1 (Summer 1965), 28-29. CG; SP.
B105 "Gardens." Literary Review, 8, No. 4 (Summer 1965), 513-14.
B106 "The Settlers." Prism International, 5, No. 1 (Summer 1965), 29-30. Rpt. in Ellipse, No. 3 (Spring 1970), pp. 50, 52 Rpt (trans.) In Ellipse, No. 3 (Spring 1970), pp. 51, 53. CG; SP.
B107 "Talismans for Children." The Canadian Forum, July 1965, pp. 86-87. See A4.
B108 "Descents." English, 15, No. 90 (Autumn 1965), 216-17.
B109 "Migration: C.P.R." Alaska Review, 2, No. 1 (Fall 1965), 27-31 CG, SP.
B110 "A Messenger." Kayak, No. 7 (1966), pp. 7-8. CG.
B1ll "Part of a Day." Kayak, No 9 (1966),p. 12. TAITC.
B112 "The Shadow Voice." Kayak, No. 9 (1966), p. 11. TAITC.
Bl13 "The Soldiers." Kayak, No. 9 (1966), p. 14.
Bl14 "Where Are You." Kayak, No. 9 (1966), p. 13.
Bl15 "The Listener." Quarry, 15, No. 3 (March 1966), 7-8.
B116 "Man with a Hook." Quarry, 15, No 3 (March 1966), 9. CG.
B117 "Private Life of Mr Z the Detective," Quarry, 15, No. 3 (March 1966), 6-7.
Bl18 "Una Voz." Parva [Mexico], No. 5 (May-June 1966), pp. 8-9. A Spanish translation of "A Voice" from The Animals in That Country.
B119 "More and More." Talon, 4, No. 3 (1967), 4 Rpt. in Ellipse, No. 3 (Spring 1970), p. 68. Rpt. (trans) in Ellipse, No 3 (Spring 1970), p. 69 TAITC, SP.
B120 "Roominghouse, Winter." Talon, 4, No. 3 (1967), 2-3 TAITC, SP.
Bl2l Chronology." Prism International, 6, No. 3 (Spring 1967), 39-40. Rpt. in Ellipse, No. 3 (Spring 1970), pp. 56, 58. Rpt. (trans) in Ellipse, No. 3 (Spring 1970), pp. 57-59.
B122 "An Icon." Prism International, 6, No. 3 (Spring 1967), 38-39. TAITC.
B123 "Provisions." Prism International, 6, No. 3 (Spring 1967), 40. Rpt. in Ellipse, No. 3 (Spring 1970), p 44. Rpt. (trans.) in Ellipse, No. 3 (Spring 1970), p. 45. TAITC.
B124 "At the Tourist Centre in Boston." Saturday Night, June 1967, p. 49. TAITC; SP.
B125 "It Is Dangerous to Read Newspapers." Poetry Australia, 3, No. 16 (June 1967), 6. TAITC; SP.
B126 "I Was Reading a Scientific Article." Poetry Australia, 3, No. 16 (June 1967), 5. Rpt. in Other Voices, 3, No. 3 (Nov 1967), 17. TAITC; SP.
B127 "Arctic Syndrome: Dream Fox." The Tamarack Review, No. 44 (Summer 1967), pp. 34-35 TAITC.
B128 "Astral Traveller." The Tamarack Review, No. 44 (Summer 1967), pp. 38-39. TAITC.
B129 "A Fortification." The Tamarack Review, No. 44 (Summer 1967), p. 38. TAITC; SP.
B130 "A Foundling." The Tamarack Review, No. 44 (Summer 1967), p. 36. TAITC, SP.
B131 "The Green Man." Quarry, 16, No. 4 (Summer 1967), 6. TAITC.
B132 "Interview with a Tourist." The Tamarack Review, No. 44 (Summer 1967), pp. 32-33. PFU.
B133 "Poem." The Tamarack Review, No. 44 (Summer 1967), p. 39. Rpt. in Ellipse, No. 3 (Spring 1970), p. 42. Rpt. (trans.) in Ellipse, No. 3 (Spring 1970), p. 43. TAITC ("Axiom: You Are a Sea"); SP ("Axiom").
B134 "Progressive Insanities of a Pioneer." Quarry, 16, No. 4 (Summer 1967), 8-11. TAITC; SP.
B135 "The Reincarnation of Captain Cook." The Tamarack Review, No. 44 (Summer 1967), p. 37 TAITC; SP.
B136 "The Surveyors." The Tamarack Review, No. 44 (Summer 1967), pp. 33-34. TAITC.
B137 "A Voice." Quarry, 16, No. 4 (Summer 1967), 12. TAITC; SP.
B138 "What Happened." Quarry, 16, No. 4 (Summer 1967), 13. TAITC.
B139 "I Contain Death." West Coast Review, 2, No. 2 (Fall 1967), 33.
B140 "The Animals in That Country." Other Voices, 3, No. 3. (Nov 1967), 16. Rpt. in Ellipse, No. 3 (Spring 1970), pp. 44, 46. Rpt. (trans.) in Ellipse, No. 3 (Spring 1970), pp. 45, 47. TAITC; SP.
B141 "Attitudes towards the Mainland." Other Voices, 3, No. 3 (Nov 1967), 16. Rpt. in Ellipse, No. 3 (Spring 1970), pp. 48, 50. Rpt. (trans.) in Ellipse, No. 3 (Spring 1970), pp. 49, 51. TAITC.
B142 "The Gods Avoid Revealing Themselves." Other Voices, 3, No. 3 (Nov 1967), 17. TAITC.
B143 "Notes from Various Pasts." Other Voices, 3, No. 3 (Nov 1967), 16-17. TAITC.
B144 "A Pursuit." Other Voices, 3, No. 3 (Nov 1967), 18. Rpt. in Adam, 32, Nos. 314-315 (1967), p. 46. Rpt. in Ellipse, No. 3 (Spring 1970), p. 78. Rpt. (trans.) in Ellipse, No. 3 (Spring 1970), p. 79. TAITC.
B145 "Sundew" Other Voices, 3, No. 3 (Nov 1967), 18. TAITC.
B146 "Backdrop Addresses Cowboy." Kayak, No. 14 (April 1968), pp. 6-7. TAITC; SP.
B147 "The Trappers." Kayak, No. 14 (April 1968), pp. 7-8. TAITC.
B148 "Closet." Pluck, 2, No. 1 (Fall 1968), 4-5. Rpt. in Spectrum: The Richmond Tri-Annual Review, 5, No. 2 (Winter 1969-70), 45-46.
B149 "Cyclops." Catalyst, 2, No. 1 (Fall 1968), 19. PFU; SP.
B150 "Two Versions of Sweaters." Catalyst, 2, No. 1 (Fall 1968), 18. PFU.
B151 "National Film Board: Shorts before Features." Saturday Night, Oct. 1968, p. 30.
B152 "The Creatures of the Zodiac." Kayak, No. 18 (1969), p. 60. PFU.
B153 "Death of an Unidentified Insect: Atonement and Apotheosis." Kayak, No. 18 (1969), p 61.
B154 "Earth Dances in a Bad Area." Kayak, No 18 (1969), p. 62.
B155 "Game after Supper." Merry Devil of Edmonton, No. 1 (1969). Broadside. Rpt. in Field, No. 2 (Spring 1970), p. 19. PFU; SP.
B156 "Hypothesis: City." Kayak, No. 18 (1969), p. 63.
Bl57 "A Night at the Royal Ontario Museum." Atlantic, Jan. 1969, p. 93. TAITC.
B158 "We Don't Like Reminders." Merry Devil of Edmonton, No. 1 (1969). Broadside. PFU.
B159 "Even Here in the Cupboard." Canadian Author & Bookman, 44, No. 3 (Spring 1969), 23.
B160 "Carrying Food Home in Winter." Poetry, 114, No. 1. (April 1969), 38. PFU, SP.
B161 "Dream: Bluejay or Archeopteryx." Poetry, 114, No. 1 (April 1969), 35-36. PFU.
Bl62 "For Archeologists." Poetry, 114, No. 1 (April 1969), 34. PFU.
B163 "Projected Slide of an Unknown Soldier." Poetry, 114, No. 1 (April 1969), 39. PFU; SP.
B164 "Three Desk Objects." Poetry, ll4, No. l (April 1969), 37. PFU; SP.
B165 "Easter 1968: 84th Street, Edmonton." Black Moss, 1, No. 2 (May 1969), 19-20. PFU.
B166 "Dreams of the Animals." Edge, No. 9(Summer 1969), pp. 114-15. PFU; SP.
B167 "3 Moons." Maclean's, Aug. 1969. P. 8.
B168 "Ancestors" Spectrum: The Richmond Tri-Annual Review, 5, No. 1 (Fall 1969), 19-20.
B169 "Three Delayed Messages." Quarry, 19, No. 1 (Fall 1969), 9-11. First section-i. "As We Sat by the Shore"-rpt. as "Delayed Message" in Procedures for Underground.
B170 "Time Trap." Spectrum: The Richmond Tri-Annual Review, 5, No. 1 (Fall 1969), 21.
Bl71 "Automatic Pension." Duel, No. 1 (Winter 1969), p.66.
B172 "Fragments: Beach." Imago, No. 13[1970?], pp. 27-29.
B173 "He Is a Strange Biological Phenomenon." Kayak, No. 23 (1970), p. 41. PP.
B174 "He Is Last Seen." Kayak, No. 23 (1970), p. 42. PP.
B175 "In Restaurants We Argue." Blewointment, Fascist Court Issue (1970), p. 33. PP ("They Eat Out"); SP.
B176 "Lying Here, Everything in Me." Armadillo (1970), p. 58 PP; SP.
B177 "Oratorio for Sasquatch, Man and Two Androids." In Poems for Voices. Toronto: CBC, 1970, pp. 14-28. The first eleven lines are not by Atwood; the CBC later produced an erratum slip apologizing for this.
B178 "Untitled One." Kayak, No. 23 (1970), p. 38. PP ("I Look Up, You Are Standing"); SP.
B179 "Untitled Three." Kayak, No. 23 (1970), p. 40. PP ("This Year I Intended Children").
B180 "Untitled Two." Kayak, No. 23(1970), p. 39 PP ("My Beautiful Wooden Leader"); SP.
B181 "You Mean You Can't Fly and See." First Encounter (1970), p. 36.
B182 "Dancing Practice." The Tamarack Review, No. 54 (Winter 1970), pp. 45-46. PFU.
B183 "A Dialogue." The Tamarack Review, No. 54 (Winter 1970), pp. 40-41. PFU.
B184 "Girl and Horse." Atlantic, Jan. 1970, p. 70. PFU; SP ("Girl and Horse, 1928").
B185 "Magician as Junkman." The Tamarack Review, No. 54 (Winter 1970), pp. 43-44.
B186 "Poem Nov. 22." Merry Devil of Edmonton, No. 2 (Jan 1970). Broadside.
B187 "Procedures for Underground." The Tamarack Review, No. 54 (Winter 1970), pp. 39-40. PFU; SP.
B188 "A Spell for the Director of Protocol." The Tamarack Review, No. 54 (Winter 1970), pp. 41-42. PFU.
B189 "Woman Skating." The Tamarack Review, No. 54 (Winter 1970), pp. 42-43. PFU; SP.
B190 "Fishing for Eel Totems." Field, No. 2 (Spring 1970), p. 20. PFU; SP.
B191 "Habitation." Prism International, 9, No. 3 (Spring 1970), 85 PFU; SP
B192 "Highest Altitude." Prism International, 9, No. 3 (Spring 1970), 84 PFU; SP.
B193 "Midwinter, Presolstice." Ellipse, No. 3 (Spring 1970), p. 70. Rpt. (trans.) in Ellipse, No. 3 (Spring 1970), p.71 PFU, SP.
B194 "A Morning." Prism International, 9, No. 3 (Spring 1970), 82. PFU; SP.
B195 "Pre-Amphibian." Ellipse, No. 3 (Sprang 1970), pp. 64, 66. Rpt. (trans.) in Ellipse, No. 3 (Spring 1970), pp. 65, 67 CG; SP.
B196 "Resurrection." Ellipse, No. 3 (Sprang 1970), p. 62. Rpt. (trans.) in Ellipse, No. 3 (Spring 1970), p. 63. JSM; SP.
B197 "River." Ellipse, No. 3 (Spring 1970), p. 60. Rpt.(trans.) in Ellipse, No. 3 (Spring 1970), p. 61. TAITC.
B198 "Return Traps, West." Prism International, 9, No. 3(Spring 1970), 80-81. PFU; TAITC.
B199 "A Soul, Geologically." Prism International, 9, No. 3 (Spring 1970), 82-83. PFU; SP.
B200 "You Are the Sun." New, No. 12 (April 1970), p. 22. Rpt. in It Ain't Me Babe, 1, No. 10 (23 July 1970), 16 PP; SP.
B201 "You Fit into Me." New, No. 12 (April 1970), p. 23. PP; SP.
B202 "You Too Have Your Gentle." New, No. 12 (April 1970), p. 23 Rpt. in PP as Section 2 of "Small Tactics."
B203 "Buffalo in Compound: Alberta." The Canadian Forum, April-May 1970, p. 20. PFU; SP.
B204 "Chrysanthemums." The Canadian Forum, April- May 1970, p. 57. PFU.
B205 "The Small Cabin." The Canadian Forum, April-May 1970, p. 4 PFU; SP.
B206 "Descent." New Yorker, 27 June 1970, p. 50.
B207 "Christmas Tree Farm: Oro Township." The Malahat Review, No. 15 (July 1970), pp. 97-98.
B208 "The Shrunken Forest." The Malahat Review, No. 15 (July 1970), p. 96. PFU.
B209 "6 am., Boston, Summer Sublet." The Malahat Review, No. 15 (July 1970), p. 95. PFU.
B210 "Younger Sister, Going Swimming." The Malahat Review, No. 15 (July 1970), pp. 94-95. PFU; SP.
B211 "You Refuse to Own." Blewointment, Occupation Issue (Aug 1970), p. 1. Rpt. in Poetry, 117, No. 2. (Nov. 1970), 107. PP; SP.
B212 "I See You Are a Fugitive, Stumbling across the Prairie." Vigilante, No. 2 (Fall 1970), p 3. PP; SP.
B213 "Yes at First You." Vigilante, No. 2 (Fall 1970), p. 3. Rpt. in Mademoiselle, July 1972, p. 156. PP; SP.
B214 "Hesitations outside the Door." Poetry, 117, No. 2 (Nov. 1970), 100-06. PP; SP.
B215 "He Discovers It Is No Longer a Dignified Profession." Seven [1971?], p. 23.
B216 "Sleeping in Sun-." Blewointment, Oil Slick Speshul [1971?], p. 7. PP.
B217 "After the Agony in the Guest." The Canadian Forum, March 1971, p. 420. PP; SP.
B218 "Beyond Truth." The Canadian Forum, March 1971, p. 422 PP; SP.
B219 "For Stones, Opening." The Canadian Forum, March 1971, p. 420. PP.
B220 "He Reappears." The Canadian Forum, March 1971, p. 420. PP.
B221 "It Is a Trap." Tuatara, No 4 (March 1971), p. 17.
B222 "I Walk the Cell, Open the Window." The Canadian Forum, March 1971, p. 420 PP.
B223 "Not the Shore but an Aquarium." The Canadian Forum, March 1971, p. 420. PP.
B224 "Spring Again, Can I Stand It." Tuatara, No. 4 (March 1971), p. 18. PP.
B225 "There Are Better Ways of Doing This." The Canadian Forum, March 1971, p. 420. PP.
B226 "These Days My Fingers Bleed." The Canadian Forum, March 1971, p. 420. PP.
B227 "They Were All Inaccurate." The Canadian Forum, March 1971, p. 422. PP; SP.
B228 "Waiting for News of You." The Canadian Forum, March 1971, p. 420. PP.
B229 "We Hear Nothing These Days." Saturday Night, March 197l, p. 8. PP, SP.
B230 "What Is It, It Does Not." The Canadian Forum, March 1971, p. 422. PP; SP.
B231 "Near the High Bridge with Traffic." Moving Out, 2, No. 2 (1972), 84.
B232 "You Are Happy." Manna, No. 2 (1972), p. 55. YAH; SP.
B233 "First Prayer" Di-al-og, Passover Issue (1972), p 46. YAH.
B234 "Singing and Dancing: Near Lake Ontario." Toronto Life, June 1972, p. 12.
B235 "Last Prayer." Unmuzzled Ox, 1, No. 3 (Summer 1972), 57.
B236 "Your Back Is Rough All." Mademoiselle, July 1972, p. 180. PP.
B237 "First Element." Blackfish, No. 3 (Summer 1972), pp. 24-28. Rpt. in Vanderbilt Poetry Review, 1, No. 2 (Fall-Winter 1972), 21-22.
B238 "You Try Undressing Me." Edge [New Zealand], No. 4 (Aug 1972).
B239 "Head against White." Vanderbilt Poetry Review, 1, No. 2 (Fall-Winter 1972), 24-26. Rpt. in Exile, 1, No. 1 (1972), 40-42. YAH; SP.
B240 "Newsreel: Man and Firing Squad." Vanderbilt Poetry Review, l, No. 2 (Fall-Winter 1972), 22-23. YAH; SP.
B241 "I Knew What I Wanted." Unmuzzled Ox, 1, No. 4 (Autumn 1972), 21.
B242 "Tricks with Mirrors." Aphra, 3, No. 4 (Fall 1972), 16-19. Rpt. in Is., No. 14 (Summer 1973), pp. 22-25. Rpt. in Miss Chatelaine, Fall Fashion Issue (1974), p. 19. YAH; SP.
B243 "A Return." Northern Journey, No. 2 (1972-73), pp. 77-78.
B244 "Book of Ancestors." Impulse, 2, Nos. 3 & 4 (1973), 19-21 YAH; SP.
B245 "Variations for the Termite Queen." Kayak, No. 32 (1973), p. 3.
B246 "Late August." New York Times, 21 Jan. 1973, p. 17. YAH; SP.
B247 "There Is Only One of Everything." Nation, 29 Jan 1973, p. 151. Rpt. in Boundary 2, 3, No 1. (Fall 1974), 6. YAH; SP.
B248 "Paradigm #3." Applegarth's Folly, No. 1 (Summer 1973), p. 104.
B249 "Audience." Ariel, 4, No 3 (July 1973), 38-39.
B250 "Marsh, Hawk." Nation, 22 July 1973, p. 22. THP. Also published separately, see A18.
B251 "Digging." Stooge, No. 9 (Fall 1973), n. p. Rpt. in Boundary 2, 3, No. 1. (Fall 1974), 4-5. YAH; SP.
B252 "Here Are the Holy Birds." Field, No. 9 (Fall 1973), p. 8. YAH.
B253 "It Was Not My Fault, These Animals." Field, No. 9 (Fall 1973), p 5. YAH.
B254 "Repent." Stooge, No 9 (Fall 1973), n.p. Rpt. in Pocket Poetry Monthly, 1, No. 2 (July 1975), 11. YAH.
B255 "There Must Be More for You to Do." Field, No. 9 (Fall 1973), p. 6. YAH.
B256 "When You Look at Nothing." Field, No. 9 (Fall 1973), p. 7 YAH.
B257 "Four Evasions." Nation, 15 Oct 1973, p. 374. Rpt. in Branching Out, 2, No. 1 (Jan-Feb. 1974), 27. YAH.
B258 "War Movie II." Times Literary Supplement, 26 Oct. 1973, p. 1294.
B259 "Chaos Poem." Branching Out, Preview Issue (Dec 1973), p. 22.
B260 "Four Auguries." Blewointment, What Isint Tantrik Speshil Issue (Dec. 1973), pp. 20-21. YAH; SP.
B261 "Life Mask." Branching Out, Preview Issue (Dec. 1973), p 23.
B262 "Not You I Fear." Atlantic, Dec. 1973, p. 121. YAH.
B263 "Fishbowl." New, Nos. 22 & 23 (Fall-Winter 1973-74), p. 30.
B264 "Circe Mud Poems." Unmuzzled Ox, No. 3 (1974), pp. 30-32. YAH; SP.
B265 "Songs of the Transformed." Poetry, 123 (Feb. 1974), 257-67. YAH.
B266 "I Am Not a Saint or a Cripple." Branching Out. 1, No. 1 (March-April 1974), 13.
B267 "Love Is Not a Profession." Branching Out, 1, No. 1 (March-April 1974), 13.
B268 "Too Much Rain This Year." Mademoiselle, May 1974, p. 136.
B269 "For G Making a Garden." Craft Horizons, 34, No. 3 (June 1974), 14.
B270 "Paradigm #1." Craft Horizons, 34, No. 3 (June 1974), 17.
B271 "Silence." Craft Horizons, 34, No. 3 (June 1974), 31.
B272 "I Made No Choice." Arts in Society, 11, No. 1 (Spring-Summer 1974), 150. YAH.
B273 "We Walk in the Cedar Grove." Arts in Society, 11, No. 1 (Spring-Summer 1974), 151. Rpt. in The Malahat Review, No. 41 (Jan 1977), p. 133. YAH.
B274 "November." Atlantic, Nov. 1974, p. 97. Rpt. in Books in Canada, Nov. 1974, p. 17. YAH; SP.
B275 "Marrying the Hangman." Capilano Review, No. 7 (Spring 1975), pp. 17-19. Rpt. in Ms. Magazine, Oct. 1978, pp. 58-59. THP.
B276 "The Santa Claus Trap." Weekend Magazine, 25 Dec. 1976, pp. 7-9.
B277 "Five Poems for Dolls." Exile, 4, Nos. 3&4(1977), 5-9. THP.
B278 "Threes." The Malahat Review, No. 41 (Jan. 1977), p. 152.
B279 "Untitled." Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Spring-Summer 1977, pp. 10-11. THP ("Two Miles Away").
B280 "Once I Could Move." Mademoiselle, July 1977, p. 142.
B281 "Night Poem." Field, No. 17 (Fall 1977), p. 38. THP.
B282 "Two-Headed Poems." This Magazine, 11, No. 5 (Oct 1977), 18-21. Rpt. in American Poetry Review, 8, No. 5. (Sept-Oct 1979), 26. THP.
B283 "The Man with a Hole in His Throat." Waves, 6, No. 2 (Winter 1978), 30-31. THP.
B284 "Dust." Field, No. 18 (Spring 1978), pp. 80-81.
B285 "Nasturtium." Field, No. 18 (Spring 1978), pp. 78-79. THP.
B286 "The Woman Makes Peace with Her Faulty Heart." Field, No. 18 (Spring 1978), pp 76-77 THP.
B287 "The Woman Who Could Not Live with Her Faulty Heart." Field, No. 18 (Spring 1978), pp. 74-75. THP.
B288 "All Bread." The Canadian Forum, June-July 1978, p. 22. THP.
B289 "Another Night Visit." The Canadian Forum, June-July 1978, p. 20.
B290 "Footnote to the Amnesty Report on Torture." The Canadian Forum, June-July 1978, p. 21. THP.
B291 "Four Small Elegies." The Canadian Forum, June-July 1978, pp. 21-22. Rpt. in American Poetry Review, 8, No. 5 (Sept-Oct 1979), 26. THP.
B292 "Today the Lawn Holds." The Canadian Forum, June-July 1978, p. 22. THP. ("Today").
B293 "You Begin." The Canadian Forum, June-July 1978, p. 22. THP.
B294 "The Puppet of the Wolf." Acta Victoriana, 102, No. 2 (Fall 1978), 7. THP.
B295 "Solstice Poem." Meanjin, 37, No. 2 (July 1978), 186-88.
B296 "Foretelling the Future." American Poetry Review, 8, No. 5 (Sept-Oct 1979), 23. THP.
B297 "The Dwarf." In Best Poems of 1963. Palo Alto: Pacific Books, 1964, p. 9.
B298 "August Still Life," "Bring with You," "Eventual Proteus," "The Explorers," "Returning to the Room," "The Settlers," "Summer Again." In Modern Canadian Verse in English and French. Ed. A. J. M. Smith. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1967, pp. 401-11.
B299 "Interview with a Tourist," "The Reincarnation of Captain Cook," "A Voice." Best Poems of 1967. Palo Alto Pacific Books, 1968, pp. 9-11.
B300 "The City Planners," "Descents." In New Voices of the Commonwealth. Ed. Howard Sergeant. London: Evans Brothers, 1968, pp. 42-44.
B301 "After the Flood We," "A Night in the Royal Ontario Museum," "The Animals in That Country," "Astral Traveller," "At the Tourist Centre in Boston," "Backdrop Addresses Cowboy," "Elegy for the Giant Tortoises," "The Green Man," "Journey to the Interior," "The Landlady," "Playing Cards," "This Is a Photograph of Me." In Five Modern Canadian Poets. Ed. Eli Mandel. Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970, pp. 56-71.
B302 "The Animals in That Country," "Death of a Young Son by Drowning," "Further Arrivals," "Game after Supper," "The Immigrants," "The Islands," "A Night in the Royal Ontario Museum," "Procedures for Underground," "Progressive Insanities of a Pioneer," "Some Objects of Wood and Stone," "Younger Sister Going Swimming." In 15 Canadian Poets. Ed. Gary Geddes and Phyllis Bruce. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1970, pp. 163-80.
B303 "After the Agony in the Guest," "I Can Change My--," "In Restaurants We Argue," "Lying Here, Everything in Me," "This Year I Intended Children," "We Are Standing Facing Each Other," "Your Back Is Rough All," "You Refuse to Own," "You Want to Go Back." In New American and Canadian Poetry. Ed. John Gill. Boston: Beacon, 1971, pp. 9-16.
B304 "The City Planners," "It Is Dangerous to Read Newspapers," "Man with a Hook." In Live Poetry. Ed. Kathleen Sunshine Koppell. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971, pp. 7-10.
B305 "The Accident Has Occurred," "A Dialogue," "Dream: Bluejay or Archeopteryx," "Eden Is a Zoo," "He Is Last Seen." In 40 Women Poets of Canada. Ed. Dorothy Livesay. Montreal: Ingluvin [1972?], pp. 15-20.
B306 "The Animals in That Country," "Death of a Young Son by Drowning," "Dream 1: The Bush Garden," "Dream 2: Brian the Still-Hunter," "They Travel by Air," "Three Desk Objects." In The Oxford Anthology of Canadian Literature. Ed. Robert Weaver and William Toye. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1973, pp. 7-13.
B307 "The Animals in That Country," "Chronology," "Dreams of the Animals," "Journey to the Interior," "Procedures for Underground," "There Is Only One of Everything," "They Eat Out," "You Refuse to Own." In Canadian Poetry: The Modern Era. Ed. John Newlove. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, pp. 21-3.
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Cl10 Prize of La Revue moderne for the best short story of the year (1939). The $500 was shared equally with Mme Laurette Larocque-Anger, who also won first prize. The winning story was "La Conversion des O'Connor."
C111 Medallle Richelieu from l'Academie canadienne-francaise for Bonheur d'occasion (1946).
Cl12 Bonheur d'occasion won the Prix Femina in France (1947).
Cl13 Gabrielle Roy was elected to the Royal Society of Canada, the first woman to be so honoured (1947).
Cl14 Governor-General's Award for fiction for The Tin Flute (1947).
Cl15 Lorne Pierce Medal of the Royal Society of Canada for The Tin Flute (1947).
Cl16 The Tin Flute was the selection of Literary Guild of America (1947).
Cl17 "Woman of the Year" in literature by the Canadian Women's Press Club for Where Nests the Water Hen (1951).
Cl18 Medal from l'Academile canadienne-francaise (1956).
Cl19 Prix Duvernay of the Saint-Jean Baptiste Society for her works (1956).
C120 Governor-General's Award for fiction for Street of Riches (1957).
C121 "Woman of the year" in the realm of Arts and Letters by the Canadian Women's Press Club (1958).
C122 Companion of the Order of Canada (1967).
C123 Doctorat honoris causa granted by Universite Laval (8 June 1968).
C124 Received Medal of Canada Council for her work (26 Nov 1968).
C125 Prix David for her work by the Quebec government (1971).
C126 Governor-General's Award for Ces Enfants de ma vie (1978).
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C1 Genuist, Monique. La Creation romanesque chez Gabrielle Roy. Montreal: Le Cercle du livre de France, 1966. 174 pp. Superficial. The chapter on characters appears to be the same kind of sketch done by Suzanne Paradis in her book, in an expanded form. However, Genuist does come to an interesting conclusion: "Chez les hommes, la part de l'ideal, de la quete de l'infini est beaucoup plus importante que chez les femmes; celles-ci, placees dans des situations plus concretes, trouvent dans l'amour conjugal et maternel une raison suffisante a la vie.. les hommes chez Gabrielle Roy sont des etres tourmentes aux prises avec leur destin tragique. Les femmes, par leur confiance et leur attachement au monde reel, apportent une certaine paix." The study of the relationship between social reality and the fictional world in 'Etudes des moeurs et du milieu' is much more effectively accomplished by Ben Shek in his book. The chapter on composition and style is the most disappointing. It yields no insights.
C2 Grosskurth, Phyllis. Gabrielle Roy. Canadian Writers and Their Works. Toronto: Forum House, [copyright 1972] 64 pp. This monograph consists largely of plot summaries of the books from The Tin Flute to The Road Past Altamont. The critic writes well and the summaries are skillfully done, but there are many strange opinions. Grosskurth insists that Jean Levesque is ". . . the most complex character-study" in The Tin Flute, and that the novel suffers from its "constantly shifting point of view." Both points are demonstrably untrue. The critic claims that The Hidden Mountain was written as a "companion-piece" to The Cashier, since both central characters are propelled by an "instinctive quest towards a goal they do not comprehend." In addition, Grosskurth takes Gabrielle Roy to task because her characters "act intuitively; they do not engage in rational or irrational analysis, they are not torn by mental conflict, they are uninterested in ideas." Partially because of the preceding, "we must deny her a place with the greatest novelists."
C3 Gagne, Marc. Visages de Gabrielle Roy. Montreal: Beauchemin, 1973. 327 pp. Interesting material although it must be read critically, since the conclusions are sometimes dubious. Gagne points out Gabrielle Roy's optimism and her belief that the world is progressing: "Gabrielle Roy croit que l'univers -- peniblement sans doute -- marche vers son perfectionnement." Progress, however, is complex, composed of what Pascal termed itus and reditus; that is, periods of advancement and of "backward steps." The fact that Gabrielle Roy draws a great deal on the reditus, says Gagne, does not vitiate the fundamental progressive thrust at the heart of her writing. He recognizes that progress in Gabrielle Roy's terms means not technical advancements but accomplishments on a human level. "L'homme doit depasser le mal par un progres dans la connaissance et l'amour." He also draws our attention to those characters with close contact to the soil: "Aux travailleurs de la terre est offerte la possibilite d'une connaissance immediate des grands rhythmes de l'univers." "Les dialogues que l'homme noue avec la nature sont des dialogues avec sa propre conscience." As a result, he sees the natural world and the human world as one. Gagne points out that the real problem examined in the two "Montreal novels" is the dehumanization of modern society and the fact that it robs men of an opportunity to form relationships with those around them. The urban characters' sense of isolation from other characters has its roots in the fact that the uniformity of modern life does not allow them to come to an understanding of themselves. The theme of movement and voyage is linked to the idea of improvement, in that the characters endeavour to discover both themselves and the world by travelling. Their movement indicates an inherent desire for advancement and the search for a new world. In his discussion of the presentation of space in Gabrielle Roy's works, Gagne points out both the characters' need for protection from the ruder aspects of life, i. e., "espaces intimes," as well as the characters' need for a sense of hope expressed through the idea of new beginnings, i.e., "espaces immenses." In Jungian psychology, the sun's path across the sky during the day, its setting and then rising again, is similar to Gabrielle Roy's use of the image of the earth receiving the sun as it sets and being regenerated by it. Gagne accents the desire for progress or renaissance as a religious yearning for contact with God. Gagne's study of the images of childhood, the flower, and the tree as symbols of universal rebirth also reinforce the conclusion that there is in Gabrielle Roy's works the manifestation of an intense desire for a better world. The image of the child, for example, comes to represent man's opportunity to reanimate himself. "La jeunesse de l'homme s'unit a la jeunesse du monde et routes deux se fondent aux confins du conscient et de l'inconscient avant de penetrer dans l'oeuvre d'art." In his final chapter, he suggests that this desire can be satisfied by an aspiration toward God. Finally, in his examination of the aesthetic elements of Gabrielle Roy's work, Gagne touches upon the role of the artist: "Et dans la realite d'un monde qui ne cesse de mourir parce qu'il ne cesse de naitre, l'artiste occupera une place de demiurge tendu dans l'effort de regenerer l'univers."
C4 Ricard, Francois. Gabrielle Roy. Ecrivains canadiens d'aujourd'hui, 11. Montreal: Fides, 1975. 191 pp. The best full-length study of Gabrielle Roy's works. Ricard views Gabrielle Roy's writing as an attempt to recreate the world that she knew as a child, that is, the warmth, security, and fellowship of that youthful period. He fully recognizes the paradox at the heart of her writing and to which Gabrielle Roy herself alludes in Rue Deschambault, for example -- the solitude which is absolutely necessary to creativity, and the need to communicate and feel at one with the world. Ricard sees a design emerging from the works: Bonheur d'occasion and Alexandre Chenevert are novels of suffering and alienation (exile), La Petite poule d'eau is one of peace and tranquility (return); next, we have three works which are the reverse -- Rue Deschambault and La Route d'Altamont are works of reconciliation (return), separated by a novel of exile, La Montagne secrete. Northrop Frye claims that the limit of the imaginable in literature would be a world of perfect accord . In that context, Ricard asserts, Cet Ete qui chantait is "une tentative, particulierement ambitieuse d'atteindre a une certaine limite, a un point extreme de la creation litteraire. Car ce que compose ici Gabrielle Roy, c'est une sorte de pur jardin, un monde parfaitement accorde aux souhaits du coeur et de l'imagination, ou toute coupure entre l'homme et son entourage fait place a une amitie, a une harmonie presque absolues." Cet Ete qui chantait is therefore, in a sense, the necessary and inevitable resolution of the tensions of exile and return which characterize her works.
C5 Saint-Pierre, Annette. Gabrielle Roy sous le signe du reve Saint-Boniface: Editions du Ble, 1975. 137 pp. Disappointing. The potential exists for an interesting study, but the presentation is confusing and deals more with psychological theory than with Gabrielle Roy's works.
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C81 Paterson, B. "Gabrielle Roy's Novel of St. Henri Realizes Fragile Five-Year Hope." The Montreal Gazette, 29 Aug. 1945, pp. 11-12. A very short interview in which some now commonly-known autobiographical details are sketched. "Your life," says Gabrielle Roy, "cannot be recorded in facts, but in dreams and experiences difficult to put quickly on paper."
C82 Deacon, W. A. "Celebrity Hopes Fame Won't Interrupt Work." The Globe and Ma,l, 22 Feb. 1947, p. 12. Deacon stresses the universal critical acclaim for Bonheur d'occasion and records Gabrielle Roy's fears of the invasion of her privacy as her work becomes better known. Gabrielle Roy proves optimistic about the future of French-Canadian writers: "We are forgetting to be afraid of ourselves and getting away from the habit of imitating others. We are getting down to our own truth and our own experiences."
C83 Duncan, D. "Le Triomphe de Gabrielle." Maclean's, 15 Aprll 1947, pp 23, 51, 54. In spite of the title, the article is in English. It is largely biographical. Aware that she is becoming a celebrity, and that this may make serious demands on her time, Gabrielle Roy notes that "it takes more character to withstand success and what it brings, than it does to face the hardship of a struggle at the beginning." She gives her definition of talent: "Talent is infinite patience coupled with a limitless capacity for sacrifice. Of the two, sacrifice is the most important." Dorothy Duncan observes that Gabrielle Roy "shows an amazing combination of warmth, observation and withdrawal in a roomful of people .... The same characteristics stand out markedly in her writing, where she combines intuitive understanding of her characters, laughter at them, a detachment from them, and deep sympathy for them."
C84 Dartis, Leon. "La Genese de Bonheur d'occasion." La Revue moderne, May 1947, pp 9, 26. The idea for Bonheur d'occasion came to Gabrielle Roy, not suddenly, but after she had frequented Saint-Henri over a period of time and had let its atmosphere impress itself upon her. Once she had basically delineated the general traits of a character, he became "le maitre de sa propre destinee." The author wrote the book in its entirety, without corrections. Then began the task of going over it, chapter by chapter, until she was satisfied with it. Chapters were completely rewritten, some up to seven times. Dartis tells us of one chapter that was left out: it concerns Evelyne, Boisvert's fiancee, and constitutes "une des choses les plus follement amusantes que l'on air encore ecrites au Canada."
C85 Desmarchais, Rex. "Gabrielle Roy vous parle d'elle et de son roman." Le Bulletin des agriculteurs, May 1947, pp. 8-9, 36-39, 43-44. Disappointing. The interviewer, Desmarchais is a French-Canadian novelist, and there is a good deal of space accorded the interview, so the potential was there for a penetrating one. However, Desmarchais does go into more detail than others in having Gabrielle Roy recount her reasons for leaving Mani- toba, her stay in Europe, her association with the Bulletin des agriculteurs, and her sojourn in Montreal while writing Bonheur d'occasion.
C86 "People Who Read and Write." New York Times Book Review, 1 June 1947, p. 8. The author talks to the journalist about winter "up north," and "that incredible moment when liquid pulp is transformed into paper. . ." Mme Roy is quoted as saying that it is duller to live in "the world of actual people" than "with creations of your own imagination."
C87 Ambriere, Francis. "Gabrielle Roy, ecrivain canadien." La Revue de Paris, 54th year, No 12 (Dec. 1947), 136-39. Ambriere is deeply impressed by Gabrielle Roy's modesty and sincerity. He terms her "cette authentique romanciere," and he says that this genuineness is reflected in her work: "Et parce qu'elle sait ce dont elle parle, parce qu'elle connait dans sa realite mediocre tout le contenu de ces existences, parce qu'elle est femme aussi, c'est-a-dire mieux preparee qu'un homme a penetrer dans le detail les mille et une difficultes triviales ou se consume la necessite d'etre, il se trouve qu'elle a brosse de la condition ouviere un tableau qui vaut tous les peuples du monde, et non seulement pour Montreal.
C88 Guth, Paul. "Un quart d'heure avec Gabrielle Roy. Prix Femina 1947, auteur de Bonheur d'occasion." Flammes: Bulletin d'information des editions Flammarion, No. 9 (Dec 1947), pp. 1-4. A rewrite of the article Guth published with La Gazette des lettres during the same month (See C89).
C89 Guth, Paul. "L'Interview de Paul Guth: Gabrielle Roy, prix Femina 1947." La Gazette des lettres, 13 Dec 1947, pp. 1-2. The sole interest of this article is the tone of the interviewer -- patronizing French Canadians are, for this Frenchman, a cultural curiosity. And Gabrielle Roy?: "Bref, Gabrielle Roy, au nom d'archange et de monarque couronne, roule sur l'or et le neon."
C90 Ringuet. "Prix Femina 1949 [sic], Gabrielle Roy publie La Petite Poule d'eau ." Flammes: Bulletin d'information des editions Flammarion, No. 36 (May 1951), pp. 6-8 Rpt. "Conversation avec Gabrielle Roy." In La Revue populaire, 44, No. 10 (Oct 1951), 4. Ringuet says of Gabrielle Roy: "Je ne sais personne de plus secret, de plus ennemi de soi. Elle repond en parlant de mes livres a moi." Speaking of La Petite Poule d'eau, Gabrielle Roy says that "La famille Tousignant dans ce desert de terre et d'eau, c'etait l'humanite sans la civilisation, l'humanite avant la civilisatlon. Le debut de la cooqute des grandes solitudes inhumaines. Des hommes simples, point tous ni toujours bons, mais jamais hargneux. " She feels that creativity springs from the unconscious: "Car, j'en suis convaincue, chez l'ecrivain, chez l'artiste, l'inconscient a plus de part a la creation que le conscient. Infiniment. Comment expliquer autrement que l'idee de ce recit me soit venue la bas, en France? Et que je l'aie termine ailleurs, en Angleterre, dans la foret d'Epping?" Her final comment is quite revealing: "Peut-etre . . . peutetre faut-il etre loin des hommes pour vraiment les aimer."
C91 Robillard, J.-P. "Interview-eclair avec Gabrielle Roy." Petit Journal [Montreal], 8 Jan 1956, p. 48. Gabrielle Roy talks about the Canadian West: "L'Ouest est un pays merveilleux. L'immensite du ciel et des horizons favorise la reverie et nous pousse, partir d'un certain age, vers nos souvenirs. . . ." The journalist claims that Gabrielle Roy said she regretted using "le langage 'canayen' " in Bonheur d'occasion, and that she now favours a more traditional French. This is surprising, since colloquial speech was used in the novel only in conversations, and was a very effective and highly-lauded technique of the novelist. Gabrielle Roy names some of her favourite authors: Lagerkvist, Thomas Wood, Balzac, Mauriac, Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare, and especially Selma Lagerlof.
C92 Duval, Monique. "Notre entrevue du jeudi: Gabrielle Roy, ecrivain." L'Evenement-Journal [Quebec], 17 May 1956, pp. 4, 6. Gabrielle Roy talks of her fondness for Scandinavian (Selma Lagerlof, Knut Hamsun, and Par Lagerkvist), Russian (Gogol, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy), and French writers (Maurlac, Bernanos, Camus, and Proust). Canadian writers she is most impressed with are Langevin, Anne Hebert, and Marcel Dube. She warns that the writer must not confuse the need to write with the thirst for success: "Ecrire, c'est s'affranchir, c'est se liberer de soi et par le fait meme c'est liberer les autres. Chacun est enferme en soi. Par son art le peintre, le musicien ou l'ecrivain arrive a briser cette prison et a entrer en contact avec les autres. Mais rout art, pour bien repondre a ce qu'on en attend, doit etre libre et independant. Travail et sacrifices font partie de la vocation d'ecrire qu'il n'est pas exagere qualifier de sublime, puisqu'elle repond a ce grand besoin de communication des etres entre eux."
C93 "Gabrielle Roy nous parle de son Femina." La Presse, 13 Dec 1956. The journalist reports on a speech Gabrielle Roy gave to the St-Jean Baptiste Society. In it, Mme Roy says that she is happier to be appreciated at home than abroad. She recounts, with caustic humour, the flurry of "political" activity surrounding her award of the Femina, and seems more pleased with the Prix Duvernay, "prix de chez nous," which she had just received from the Society.
C94 Allaire, Emilia B. "Notre grande romanciere: Gabrielle Roy." L'Action catholique, 5 June 1960, p. 16. This interview is uninteresting except for Gabrielle Roy's response to a question about the role of literary criticism: "Un livre devrait etre accueilli comme on accueille un inconnu que l'on recoit chez-soi: avec impartialite et confiance. Oui, je dis bien, confiance; peut-etre s'en fera-t-on un ami, peut-etre qu'on le rejettera, mais encore faut-il essayer de l'approfondir avec impartialite."
C95 Jasmin, Judith. "Entrevue avec Gabrielle Roy." Television programme Premier-Plan, 30 Jan. 1961, Radio-Canada, Montreal. The sound track of this interview is available through the "Service de la documentation des emissions sonores. "Authorization must be obtained from Administrateur du service de prete et de vente des emissions au Canada, Radio-Canada, 1400 Est, Boulevard Dorchester, Montreal.
C96 Murphy, John J. "Visit with Gabrielle Roy." Thought, Fordham University Quarterly, 38, No 148 (Spring 1963), 447-55. A chatty piece, concerned mostly with Gabrielle Roy's impressions of her husband's pairings, and with relating a series of anecdotes. On the subject of Alexandre Chenevert, she says "that she had not enjoyed writing it but did it out of a sense of duty. Who is to say what is madness, she said. Are those mad who, like Alexandre, cannot divorce themselves from the plight of mankind? Are only those of us who have separated ourselves, become callous to the plight of mankind, are indifferent to those around us, to be called not mad?" They discuss death, and Gabrielle Roy tells Murphy "that the death [the artist] fears most is that of his talent or genius. The adjustment to the decline of creativity is extremely difficult, almost impossible to achieve, and it is better to be cut off physically before talent dies."
C97 "Gabrielle Roy." In Archives des lettres canadiennes No. 3: Le roman canadien-francais. Montreal and Paris: Fides, 1964, pp. 302-06. Asked how to define the ideal novel, Gabrielle Roy responds that she could not, but that great novels deal with feelings, not ideas, and capture a dream common to all people. She tells the interviewer that, as a child, she was deeply moved by Tchekov's La Steppe. The New Novel does not impress her greatly: "Passe l'eblouissement de la premiere lecture, il reste peu en effet a quoi s'accrocher pour la rappeler a la memoire. Mais notre epoque ne tend-elle pas a se satisfaire justement de ces emotions-chocs, vite percues, vite oubliees."
C98 Tasso, L. "Bonheur d'occasion est le temoignage d'une epoque, d'un endroit et de moi-meme." La Presse, 17 April 1965, p. 9. Rpt in La Liberte et le patriote [Winnipeg], 53, No 4 (22 April 1965), 6. Gabrielle Roy tells the interviewer that she would not write Bonheur d'occasion in exactly the same way if she had it to do again. The novel "a des defauts que je ne pourrais plus supporter et des qualites que, peut-etre, je voudrais avoir encore -- comme la ferveur et l'elan." She was not surprised that some inhabitants of Saint-Henri took exception to her portrayal of them in the novel, since few like to see their own misfortunes described. Asked if she has thought of writing for the theatre, the author responds that she tried to, but that she feels more comfortable with the novel: "Le roman est silencieux, plus secret, peut-etre plus subtil. La, le personnage est capte, devoile peu a peu par l'auteur et semble passer davantage par l'interpretation de ce dernier, encore que ce ne soit qu'une apparence." She would like to write for the cinema "Ce genre me parait se preter exceptionellement a capter la poesie de la vie."
C99 "Gabrielle Roy: des nouvelles." La Praise, 15 Jan 1966, Sec. Supplement, p. 2 Gabrielle Roy's publication of La Route d'Altamont is announced. The author says that she has read Monique Genuist's book (see Cl) "pour verifier des faits," but is unwilling to pass judgement on it.
C100 Parizeau, Alice. "Gabrielle Roy, la grande romanciere canadienne." Chatelaine, April 1966, pp. 44, 118, 120-22, 137, 140. Interesting. The interview touches on numerous subjects, but its main focus is women in society and Gabrielle Roy's own role as creative artist. She sympathizes with the goals of the woman's liberation movement to some extent: "Pendant longtemps les femmes furent les esclaves des temps modernes. Au Quebec ce fut pire d'ailleurs qu'en Europe. Rien d'etonnant qu'elles se revoltent aujourd'hui." However, she feels strongly about the importance of the traditional family: "Et pourtant une mere qui reussit son enfant, c'est encore la plus belle realisation humaine. Que serais-le, moi, sans le souvenir de ma mere? Si elle n'avait pas ete ce qu'elle a ete, serais-je capable d'ecrire ce que j'ai ecrit? J'en doute." Why does she write?: ". . . on ecrit justement parce qu'on veut donner. Parce qu'on veut partager avec les autres Parce qu'on a ressenti, ou compris, la verite de certains etres et qu'on doit le dire."
C101 Bessette, Gerard. "Interview avec Gabrielle Roy." In Une Litterature en ebullition. Montreal: Editions du Jour, 1968, pp. 303-08. Bessette explores with Gabrielle Roy her reasons for leaving Manitoba for France and England in 1937, and her feelings about Teilhard de Chardin's theology relating to the perfectibility of the world. Bessette persists in asking Gabrielle Roy to interpret aspects of her work -- the symbolism of the mountain in La Montagne secrete, for example -- and she resists at every turn. Finally, she confides in him her grave doubts about the nature of the whole exercise. "Vous savez, j'ai u peur de me faire intervier comme ca. Ca me force a reflechir, a me poser des questions, a essayer de voir clair en moi-meme. . . .Et si on voit trop clair en soi meme on est comme decu: on se dit: 'Ce n'est que ca, moi.' Et quand la penombre est partie, que reste-t-il? Est-ce qu'il restera quelque chose a dire?"
C102 Beaudry, Pauline. "Gabrielle Roy. Repondre a l'appel interieur. . . ." Terre et foyer, 27, No 7 (Dec.-Jan. 1968-1969), 5-8. Gabrielle Roy talks about her belief in the essential goodness of mankind and man's ability to change the world for the better. She reflects on the warmth and friendship she experienced as a teacher.
C103 Morissette, Robert. "Interview avec Gabrielle Roy." "La Vie ouvriere urbaine dans le roman canadien-francais contemporain," M A Thesis Montreal 1970, pp. 164-68. A discusslon about Azarius and Jean Levesque of Bonheur d'occasion. Gabrielle Roy agrees with the interviewer that Azarius typifies the worker as he once was, and Jean, as he will be. She cautions the interviewer, though, that "je n'ai jamais pense prouver quoi que ce soit, ou d'etablir des rapports comme ca, non, je ne me suis jamais preoccupee que de la verite des etres."
C104 Cameron, Donald. "Gabrielle Roy: A Bird in the Prison Window." In Conversations with Canadian Novelists -- 2. Toronto: Macmillan, 1973, pp. 128-45. Good. Gabrielle Roy comments on her own works as she does in no other interview. She discusses her characters, her "children of the mind": "It's as if you were following someone in the crowd, you know, trying not to lose sight of him." There is an important distinction between wit and humour, for her. She appreciates, even prizes, the latter, but dislikes the former ("It's mean. It's brilliant, all right, but it's mean."). She is wary of political commitment ("I begin to see in one direction only") and prefers another route: "It's futile to say which is the most important, the man of action who fights for the rights of his brother, or the poet, the bird that sings at dusk between the bars of the prison." Her evaluation of the emancipation of French Canadians is unique: "Sometimes I dream that the French Canadians will be happy not so much when they themselves feel free and find their own identity, but when they find in themselves enough to give to the others and contribute to the others." Donald Cameron sums up his own feelings about Gabrielle Roy: "What I respond to in Gabrielle Roy, finally, is a quality that unites her child-like openness, her store of experience, her subtlety, her humanity: a quality I can only call wisdom."
C105 Gagne, Marc. "Entretiens avec Gabrielle Roy." In Visages de Gabrielle Roy. Montreal: Beauchemin, 1973, passim. Gagne records, at numerous points throughout his book, conversations held with Gabrielle Roy on a variety of topics. One of them, for example, deals with her reasons for abandoning organized religion and her subsequent return. Another deals with her impressions of Teilhard de Chardin. See also C3.
C106 Scully, Robert Guy. "Le Monde de Gabrielle Roy." Le Devoir, 30 March 1974, p. 17. Gabrielle Roy is aware of the criticism levelled at her; namely, that she is no longer writing socially-oriented literature. But she retorts that "... les ecrivains de qualite reussissent en s'ancrant en euxmemes, envers et contre tous, en s'ancrant dans leurs defauts. . . . Ce que les jeunes ecrivains me demandent, de continuer comme avant, serait justement une concession a ma conscience."
C107 Reeves, John. "Gabrielle Roy." Saturday Night, Sept. 1975, p. 32. Reeves is a photographer who presents portraits and his impressions of famous Canadian women: Frances Hyland, Eugenie Groh, Celia Franca, Michele Lalonde, Karen Kain, and Gabrielle Roy. The written account is of little interest. The photograph is inspired.
C108 Cobb, David. "Seasons in the Life of a Novelist: Gabrielle Roy." The Canadian, 1 May 1976, pp. 10, 12-14. This interview is in English and is well done. It makes Gabrielle Roy accessible to an English-speaking audience, although it breaks no new ground. The author talks about Canada "You see, I think of myself as living in a large rural house in one room. I love the whole house but it's that one room I'm completely at ease in. And that room is Quebec."
C109 Houle, Alain. "Les Voyageries de Gabrielle Roy et de Rene Richard." North/Nord, 24, No 6 (Dec 1977), 36-43. This piece brings together Gabrielle Roy and Rene Richard, the man who served as the source of inspiration for Pierre Cadoral of La Montagne secrete. Several sketches by Richard, taken from a special Richard/Roy edition of the novel, are featured, and a brief biography of both artists is presented.
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C6 Marcotte, Gilles. "En relisant Bonheur d'occasion." L'Action nationale, 35, No. 3 (March 1950), 197-206. Marcotte is one of the most provocative critics on the French-Canadian scene. In this article, he points out the similarity between Gabrielle Roy and the French writer Peguy in that they both focus on poverty and its human toll. Unlike Lemelin's, Gabrielle Roy's descriptions are not merely external: ". . . supprimez les caracteristiques purement locales de Bonheur d'occasion, il reste le fait combien capital et significatif de vies humaines asservies a la misere. Le livre de Gabrielle Roy, c'est sa marque propre, nous donne la couleur canadienne de la misere." If Marcotte cannot bring himself to like Florentine, he is able to sympathize with her intense and obsessive desire to escape her oppressive environment. Most other members of the family, indeed the whole district of Saint-Henri, yield to dreams, vain hopes, and escapist thoughts and actions. Rose-Anna is the exception. In some measure because of her rural upbringing, she is a woman of profundity, character, and true hope. Pronouncing judgement on Gabrielle Roy's style, Marcotte quotes the French critic Thierry Maulnier who says that the book is good but not great. Marcotte concurs and states that the style is lifeless. Nevertheless, the novel as a whole is "[un] acte de notre evolution culturelle. . . un acte de premiere importance pour nous." It is interesting and informative to note that Marcotte's evaluation of style is unsubstantiated. This is generally true of those who criticize Gabrielle Roy's use of language: the comments are the result of an "impression" rather than an analysis.
C7 Bessette, Gerard. "Bonheur d'occasion." L'Action uriversitaire, 18, No. 4 (July 1952), 53-74. Bessette is a novelist as well as a critic, and his intriguing analysis probes the creative act itself and, in particular, the way in which characters are drawn. The exercise is fascinating and informative for the reader, but the danger, and he falls prey to it to some extent, is that one risks joining the I-could-have-done-it-better school of criticism. Bessette begins with a preamble in which he expresses serious reservations about judging the value of a book by its ability to portray "reality" faithfully. A Parisian "n'essaie pas de detrrminer [ou de verifier] si tel on tel Paris correspond a celui qu'il connait, directement, mais il tache de voir sil est vivant, coherent, suggestif. Et c'est la seule bonne methode pour juger une oeuvre litteraire." The critic then turns his attention to characters, for "ce qui fait la valeur d'un roman, c'est la vie des personnages." All the female characters are successfully drawn, although not equally so, but the male characters are not. "Gabrielle Roy semble incapable de mettre sur pied un personnage masculin, complexe, pleinement developpe." The absence of male characters equal to their female counterparts is the single biggest flaw in the book, states Bessette. To give an example of poorly drawn male characters, he gives detailed analyses of Jean and Emmanuel. One of the greatest strengths of Gabrielle Roy's writing -- one which is missing from continental French writers except for Alphonse Daudet -- is "la sympathie envers ses personnages." By that he means "compassion, pitie, fusion intime, comprehension." Another quality is the poetical dimension to her work; that is, as Bessette defines the term, a spontaneity and beauty that emanates from the character. This richness of characterization is due in part to what Bessette calls "le dynamisme antithetique," a concept which he develops well. This is a thought-provoking article that merits a discriminating reading.
C8 Brown, Alan. "Gabrielle Roy and the Temporary Provincial." The Tamarack Review, 1, No. 4 (Autumn 1956), 61-70. The main virtue of this piece is that it serves as a springboard for Hugo McPherson's excellent article "The Garden and the Cage." It is the following comment by Brown that prompts McPherson: Gabrielle Roy's novels "might be said to form a dialogue of experience and innocence. The characteristics of innocence are happiness and curiosity; the characteristics of experience are knowledge and, most often, regret. What seems to interest Gabrielle Roy is the interaction of the two conditions: curiosity as the beginning of knowledge; and regret as an inverse recognition of the possibility of happiness. Man expels himself from the Garden but can never quite forget the significance of the time he passed there." Brown does make some other pertinent observations. He quotes Jose Ortega y Gasset: "The author must see to it that the reader is cut off from his real horizon and imprisoned in a small, hermetically sealed universe. To turn each reader anto a temporary provincial is the great secret of the novelist." Brown says that Gabrielle Roy creates a novelistic world that accomplishes this. Brown asks readers to make the effort to learn French to "spare themselves ploughing through clumsy translations of their best native authors." He adds that the dilemma confronted by Camus in L'Homme revolte -- "How to live without grace and without justice" -- is the core of Alexandre Chenevert. Jack Warwick (The Long Journey) picks up on this idea but both men overemphasize the point.
C9 McPherson, Hugo. "The Garden and the Cage: The Achievement of Gabrielle Roy." Canadian Literature, No. 1 (Summer 1959), pp. 46-57. McPherson's goal is ". . . to look steadily at the vision of life which she [Gabrielle Roy] has created." He agrees with Alan Brown ("Gabrielle Roy and the Temporary Provincial") that the "values of the garden, childhood, innocence, and the past, array themselves against the forces of the city, adulthood, 'experience,' and the present." That is the essence of the opposition between the "garden" and the "cage." He disagrees with him in his assertion that fulfillment can be achieved only in frontier regions. "Gabrielle Roy as unflinchingly aware that there is no real escape from the present." Rue Deschambault and La Petite Poule d'eau are not escapist, they are "rediscoveries, deceptively gentle and subjective, of the meaning of valour, pain, aspiration and love." Taken together, the "Montreal novels" and the "rural novels" constitute "a debate between the steely voice of the urban present and the secret voice of the self which knows that values do exist, however cruelly the world appears to deny them." In Bonheur d'occasion, Gabrielle Roy portrays the problems of modern life, and the reader comes to see certain truths that both Florentine and Jean "strike us as disarmingly pathetic, for neither the opportunist nor his victim is really in control of his destiny, and neither realizes that wealth, if it is not somehow warmed by compassion and love, can be as hideous as poverty"; and that therefore "the love-pain nexus that bands people together is more important than the digits of a bank account." But it is in Alexandre Chenevert that one finds the true response to the challenge of modern urban existence: "There can be no return to the garden, but meekness and love can plant flowers in the cage and the wasteland."
C10 Siroas, Antoine. "Le Mythe du Nord." Revue de l'Universite de Sherbrooke, 4, No. 1 (Oct 1963), 29-36. Antoine Sirots points to the relatlonship between the human world and the natural world, and to the implications of this relationship for Pierre's (the central character's) understanding of himself. Sirois says that Canada's northland is one of the few remaining areas untouched by men, and is thus capable of sustaining myth. The myth he sees evolvang in La Montagne secrete is that of man finding himself through the symbols afforded by nature. Sirois analyses four signs -- water, night, tree, and mountain -- and discusses how each contributes to Man's understanding of himself. From Sirois' study we can see that the city, as it is presented in the novel, inhibits understanding and self-acceptance because it is removed from the elemental forces that allow man to become human.
C11 Gaulin, Michel-Lucien. "Le Monde romanesque de Roger Lemelin et Gabrielle Roy." Le Roman canadien-francais (Archives des lettres canadiennes), 1964, pp. 133-51. Michel Gaulin is quick to seize upon the idea of art as the ultimate solution for the dilemmas raised in the novels. He sees Gabrielle Roy's quest for self manifested in the one unifying theme of the search for happiness. The author begins her quest treating the theme of youth (Bonheur d'occasion), which gives her no satisfactory solutions, works her way through the theme of escape (La Petite Poule d'eau) which also fails to give her a satisfactory solution, and ultimately settles on the idea of artistic creation (La Montagne secrete) as fulfillment of the self.
C12 Le Grand, Albert. "Gabrielle Roy ou l'etre partage." Etudes francaises, 1, No. 2 (June 1965), pp. 39-65. A very important article. Le Grand sees Gabrielle Roy as 'letre partage," that is, divided against herself, in the sense that in her novels she oscillates between opposing values -- security and liberty, the civilized and the primitive, childhood and adulthood, West and East. But this oscillation, he asserts, is positive in value. It involves the necessary exploration of changing attitudes and feelings that precedes final discovery of self, as well as the reconciliation of self with the world: "Ces aller et retour entre l'interieur et l'exterieur, entre le petit et le grand espace, etablissent les conditions meme d'une liberte necessaire a la construction de soi et a la possession du monde." Le Grand sees the rural novels representing a regretted youth and past while the Eastern novels represent the maturity of the present. He quotes from Gabrielle Roy's article "Souvenirs du Manitoba" in Memoires de la societe royale du Canada to show that Gabrielle Roy considered Saint-Boniface an island of security, and that this is important because Emmanuel in Bonbeur d'occasion is fascinated by islands in the river, Alexandre Chenevert dreams of an island in the Pacific and La Petite Poule d'eau is about an island in Northern Manitoba. In short, the security associated with one's youth is always at the heart of the search for self. The individual must understand and accept and be reconciled to his past, he must be whole and not "divided against himself" before he can face the world. Thus the rural novels capture one aspect of the modern dilemma -- the self coming to terms with the past. But the point is that the line between city and rural novels is not always neatly drawn. The rural and urban settings are to be found together in both novels, and when the rural setting is transplanted into the city it forms a closed world out of touch with its more modern surroundings, it becomes insensitive to its surroundings and is ultimately destroyed. The example he uses is Saint-Henri. Saint-Henri as a kind of rural transplant is a fixed centre to which, and from which, movement constantly takes place, but Saint-Henri itself has become insensitive to the call of adventure. We have then only the illusion that Saint-Henri is in contact with the outside world, whereas in reahty it is a cloistered centre giving rise to oppositions of liberty and imprisonment; it is an anachronism from which Jean and Florentine feel they must escape. In Saint-Henri, the wind (symbol of liberty) becomes whirlwind (symbol of destruction, by definition, that which turns in upon itself) as the mountains and grain elevators contain the wind and cause it to become a whirlwind. As the novel progresses, the destructive movement touches the heart of resistance, the home -- the train shakes the house, the noise is so loud that people must shout to be heard, and finally the male exodus from Saint-Henri spells its demise as an alternative to the more modern life around it. The "island," when in contact with modern urban life, is doomed to destruction. Le Grand seems to feel that La Montagne secrete reconciles, or at least tries to reconcile, past and present, youth and maturity, the urban and the rural. And it is done, he claims, by artistic expression.
C13 Murphy, John J. "Alexandre Chenevert: Gabrielle Roy's Crucified Canadian." Queen's Quarterly, 72, No 2 (Summer 1965), 334-46. Rpt. (excerpt) in Gabrielle Roy, Dossiers de documentation sur la litterature canadienne-francaise. Ed. Roland M. Charland and Jean Noel Samson Montreal: Fides, 1967, pp. 50-58. This is one of the relatively few studies devoted exclusively to Alexandre Chenevert. The premise is an improbable one: "The story of Alexandre Chenevert is a fictionalized explication of the Catholic doctrine of the Mystical Body of Christ set forth in John 15, 5: I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, bears much fruit, for without me you can do nothing.'" Murphy, like Gagne, sees more religious symbolism and commitment in the works than there is.
C14 Bessette, Gerard. "La Route d'Altamont clef de La Montagne secrete de Gabrielle Roy." Livres et autears canadiens (1966), pp. 19-24. Rpt. in Trois Romanciers qudebecois. Montreal: Editions du jours, 1973, pp. 185-99. Bessette equates Pierre's killing the caribou to assure his physical survival, with Christine's killing her mother by leaving home to assure her survival as a writer. Pierre will make amends for the killing by studying in Paris to prepare himself to pay homage to the mountain (an idealized symbol of the mother), just as Christine wants to justify her departure by learning to write well in Europe so that she may seem worthy in her mother's eyes. The conclusion is that Gabrielle Roy is attempting through her novels to immortalize her mother because of the guilt she, the author, fees, at having abandoned her. Bessette's study, then, is concerned with motivation and psychology.
C15 Brochu, Andre. "Themes et structures dans Bonheur d'occasion." Ecrits du Canada francais, No. 22 (1966), pp. 163-208. Rpt. in L'Instance critique, 1961-1973. Montreal: Lemeac, 1974, pp. 206-46. Important. Andre Brochu focuses on the relationship between characters in his study of Bonheur d'occasion, and comes to the conclusion that the character's alienation is based on the irreconcilable opposition between feminine values and masculine values as they are presented in the novel. Brochu claims that the author opposes the femimine world, symbolized by the circle, to the masculine world, symbolized by the "droite" or straight line. Women in the novel are given characteristics ("attente," "interiorite") that are irreconcilable to the masculine world ("evenement," "exteriorite") and the opposition necessarily brings about the dissolution of the family. Brochu's article is an interesting one in pointing out the distinction between the two value systems, and in recognizing that setting and character are closely associated. "Le premier soine de Gabrielle Roy, lorsqu'elle amorce une nouvelle scene, est de situer son personnage dans un décor; jamais d'endroits vagues, imprecis, jamais on ne voit un personnage s'abandonner a ses pensees, dans l'absence de tout décor. Et les lieux sont intimement meles a l'action romanesque, al l'evolution des destins et de l'oeuvre." Thus, certain places are associated with feminine characterzstics (e. g. "le foyer"), and others with masculine ones (e.g. the street), and the two categories are irrevocably separated in Brochu's view. The intermediate places ("lieux intermediaires") permit contact between the two worlds, but not lasting relationships.
C16 Paradis, Suzanne. Femme fictive; femme reelle; le personnage feminin dans le roman feminin canadien-franfais, 1884-1966. [Quebec]. Garneau, [1966], pp. 44-62. This series of character sketches summarizes and describes rather than analyzes its subjects. Those of Gabrtelle Roy's characters discussed are Rose-Anna and Florentine Lacasse, Luzina Tousignant, Eugenie Chenevert, and Eveline. On page forty-four, the title page of the section, there is an obvious error. Why the critic chose to discuss Eugenie Chenevert, and completely to leave out Christine is a mystery I cannot fathom.
C17 Robidoux, Rejean, and Andre Renaud. Le Roman canadien-francais du vingtieme siecle. Ottawa: Editions de l'Univ. d'Ottawa, 1966, pp. 75-91. Good. Bonheur d'occasion is the product of a combination of the author's indignation, or protest against the poverty she witnessed, and the compassion and love embodied in Rose-Anna: "Cette presence simultanee de la protestation et de la collaboration de l'artiste, devant l'amere realite humaine qui lui sert de materiau, concretise et incarne une recherche forcenee du bonheur -- ideal ou d'occasion -- et constitue le ressort essentiel non seulement de la premiere oeuvre de l'auteur, mais de toutes les autres jusqu'a ce jour." All of her writing represents "son autobiographle du possible": "Ainsi Bonheur d'ocasion (1945) traduit l'experience de la misere du peuple, -- individus et groupes, -- devenue, par communion intense, misere personnelle." Her writing is traditional in style and structure, yet extremely rich: the individual, social, and universal levels of action touch each other and influence one another, lending resonance, depth, and complexity not seen before in the French-Canadian novel. Good discusslon of several aspects of style.
C18 Vachon, G.-A. "L'Espace politique et social dans le roman quebecois." Recherches sociographiques, 7, No. 3 (1966), 261-73. A very important study and one that complements Le Grand's. Vachon's study combines sociology and structuralism, examining the roles of time and space, and showing the link between literary forms and social space. Vachon points out that the "city books" are placed in the present and are in novel form, while the "country books" are removed in time to the past and are in short-story form. He sees La Montagne secrete as a compromise attempt since it is neither a series of short storms nor a novel, but a "recit" that is "a la recherche de sa forme," and it takes place in a mythic North during a universalized time. Like Le Grand, Vachon realizes that the city novels demonstrate how the urban scene is uninhabitable for the individual who has not come to terms with himself and his past. La Petite Poule d'eau is the story of the return to that past -- to the French, Cathohc, rural origin of matriarchal organization -- and it is the story of its dissolution when the teacher, representative of the outside world, comes to destroy its unity. In Rue Deschambault the mother goes to Montreal and the father to Doukhobor country but neither one could remain in the city because they were not prepared to be urban dwellers. Why they cannot be urban dwellers is demonstrated in La Montagne secrete whose lesson is that one cannot be a Montrealer before one is in possession of oneself: "Le chemin qui mene de l'espace rural a l'espace urbain passe obligatoirement par l'espace interieur." Here Vachon and Le Grand seem to be in total accord, but whereas Le Grand confines his study to the level of the individual consciousness, Vachon goes on to draw an interesting parallel: Vachon links the personal and social levels of action. He sees the individual's movement from country to city, from past to present as a metaphor for an archaic rural French-Canadian society moving into modern urban reality. While Vachon implies that the ultimate consequence of Gabrielle Roy's message is a study of the self (and thus the importance of the allegorical La Montagne secrete), he spends a lot of time pointing out that the drama of Alexandre Chenevert best captures the dilemma facing modern man, and what the obstacles are which must be overcome. Chenevert is an urban man, and he knows it, and without an inner life he will be destroyed. The screen between himself and the world is attributable to economic realities (he handles huge sums of money which are not his) and to bourgeois morality (incarnated In l'abbe Marchand and M. Fontaine). The screen between his outer or public self, and his inner self, is attributable to the gap between modern man and rural man -- a metaphor for French Canada thrust into modern society.
C19 Allard, Jacques. "Le Chemin qui mene a La Petite Poule d'eau." Cahiers de Sainte-Marie, No 1 (May 1966), pp. 57-69. Rpt. in Gabrielle Roy. Ed. Roland M. Charland and Jean-Noel Samson. Dossiers de documentation sur la litterature canadienne-francaise. Montreal: Fides, 1967, pp. 37-46. Jacques Allard's analysis of La Petite Poule d'eau is a response to Brochu's thesis that Gabrielle Roy's novelistic universe is based on the opposition between the "droite" and "circle." First, he points out that the characters' values are not irreconcilable, as he argues that Luzma is the embodiment of a reconciliation between the two value systems. As a mother she assumes the characteristics of the "cercle," and as a traveller she assumes those of the masculine world or "droite." Allard is sensitive also to the symbohc reconciliation of values as represented in the Capuchin. Secondly, Allard is aware of the fact that the characters' relationship to each other is partially determined by outside influences -- with the introduction of the school into the novel, he notes, the change in time (from vague to precise, from impefect to passe simple) indicates the end of an intensely personal world and the incursion of the exterior or "real" world.
C20 Tougas, Gerard. Histoire de la litterature canadienne-francaise. Paris: Presses Univ. de France, 4th ed, 1967, pp. 156-60. A good general study of French-Canadian literature from its beginnings to the contemporary period. In the section on Gabrielle Roy, Tougas states that Alexandre Chenevert, not Bonheur d'occasion, is the author's best work.
C21 Bessette, Gerard. "Correspondance entre les personnages et le milieu physique dans Bonheur d'occasion." Une Litterature ebullition. Montreal: Editions du Jour, 1968, pp. 257-77. Gerard Bessette presents a multiplicity of examples in which characters are aware of their own and of other characters' physical attributes. By means of this perception they form impressions about themselves as well as others. In Bonheur d'occasion, for example, the fact that the principal male characters are strong physically and grow old gracefully, and that the women are fragile and prone to physical decline, underlies the lack of communication between the men and women in that novel. (The distinction, Bessette points out, is lost in Alexandre Chenevert in which the central character, a man, falls victim to physical ailments).
C22 Warwick, Jack. The Long Journey: Literary Themes of French Canada. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1968, pp. 86-100, 140-44. Warwick's sophisticated study outlines the historical foundation for several themes that he subsequently analyzes in French-Canadian literature, they are: the themes of Empire, Quest, Regeneration, and Revolt. La Montagne secrete is seen as an allegorical "Quest," and Alexandre Chenevert fits into the tradition of "Revolt." La Montagne secrete is " . . an important picture of the artist's mission, an attempt to draw an inner portrait of the French-Canadian writer. In sacrificing himself as a man, [Pierre Cadorai] is paradoxically liberating man. These are the elan vital' and protest, which are the real meaning of the 'coureur de bois' spirit and the North, applied to literature." In the case of Alexandre Chenevert, the hero's "final serenity is equivalent, in view of his mild character, to the Absurdist's resignation to a world without deliverance, where human dignity feeds on an inner conquest." One cannot help questioning this conclusion, but Warwlck's "pattern" approach is rare among critics of French-Canadian writing and is interesting.
C23 Grandpre, Pierre de. Histoire de la litterature francaise du Quebec. Volume IV, Roman, theatre, histoire, journalisme, essai, critique de 1945 a nos jours. Montreal: Beauchemin, 1969, pp. 27-35. Pierre de Grandpre's four-volume series is the Canadian equivalent, at a less advanced level, of France's Lagarde et Michard, that is, a chronicle of the writing of Canada and France from an historical perspective, with the aid of passages from the original texts.
C24 Tougas, Gerard. Litterature canadienne-francaise contemporaine. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1969, pp.14-31. These are extracts from French-Canadian texts with good introductions.
C25 Lemire, Maurice. "Bonheur d'occasion ou le salut par la guerre." Recherches sociographiques, 10, No. 1 (Jan.April 1969), 23-35. A good reading of the novel from a sociological perspective, placing it within the context of pre-war Montreal.
C26 Bessette, Gerard. "Alexandre Chenevert de Gabrielle Roy." Etudes litteraires, 2, No. 2 (Aug. 1969), 177-202. Rpt. in Trois Romanciers quebecois. Montreal Editions du Jour, 1973, pp. 203-37. This article is built on the premise, established in Bessette's article "La Route d'Altamont clef de La Montagne secrete," that Gabrielle Roy is writing in order to purge herself of the guilt she feels for having abandoned her mother in 1937:" si refoules soientils, la hantise de la mere et le desir de la retrouver, de la recreer par l'art constituent le moteur secret de La Montagne secrete; ils expliquent a la fois les errances et la vocation artistique de Pierre." Bessette declares that the role of the mother is no less important in Alexandre Chenevert: "Nul ne saurait comprendre Alexandre en profondeur, se faire de son caractere une conception genetique et dynamique s'il n'a pas saisi et senti le role primordial de la mere." He examines ten instances in which the presence of the mother, either directly or indirectly, profoundly influences the conduct of Alexandre and of the story as a whole.
C27 Shek, Ben-Zion "The Jew in the French-Canadian Novel " Viewpoints, 4, No. 4 (Winter 1969), 29-35. A solid treatment of an issue which is just now being discussed more fully. Gabrielle Roy "mingled with people of wide ethnic diversity in Winnipeg, herself the daughter of parents who had uprooted themselves from their native Quebec." She was able, therefore, to bring "a fresh gaze to bear on Canada's minority groups." In her article for the Bulletin des Agriculteurs, which portrays the life of Jewish farmers in Saskatchewan, and in her novels, she avoids stereotyping: "Instead of caricatures, Gabrielle Roy created more life-like characters, each having his quirks and shortcomings, but being no worse than any other and as good as anyone else."
C28 Therio, Adrien. "Le Portrait du pere dans Rue Deschambault de Gabrielle Roy." In Livres et auteurs quebecois, 1969, revue critique de l'annee litteraire. Quebec: Les Presses de l'Univ. Laval, pp. 237-43. A very interesting article in which Therio responds to the claim, made by some critics, that the male characters in Gabrielle Roy's fiction are poorly drawn. The writer shows Edouard to be a richer and more complex character than one might imagine: "Par sa facon de nous raconter cet homme, de la faire raconter par personnes interposees, l'auteur reussit nous le falre voir avec tous ses defauts, toutes ses qualites, a lui donner une epaisseur d'humanite comparable sinon superieure a celle d'Eveline, sa femme."
C29 Shek, Ben-Zion. "The Portrayal of Canada's Ethnic Groups in Some French-Canadian Novels." Slavs in Canada 3. Proc. of the Third National Conference on Canadian Slavs 1970. Ottawa, pp. 269-80. It was Gabrielle Roy "who first broke through the traditional suspicions and prejudices of a society preoccupied with 'survivance,' to meet the 'etranger' half-way, to see him, too, as a human being." Shek examines the books "to discern her treatment of the ethnic minorities," and situates Gabrielle Roy's humanistic treatment of minorities in comparison with that of her predecessors and contemporaries.
C30 Blais, Jacques. "L'Unite organique de Bonheur d'occasion." Etudes francaises, 6, No 1 (Feb. 1970), 25-50. Jacques Blais' study of Bonheur d'occasion is a masterful structural analysis that deals with Brochu's 1966 argument about irreconcilable opposites activating the plot. Blais claims that the structure of the novel is based on the principle of Florentine's oscillation between Jean ("living for self") and Emmanuel ("living for others"). He attempts to undermine Brochu's pessimistic conclusion by stating that the prediction of the old lady to Emmanuel that there is some hope for the future, and the image of the tree struggling for life, both presented at the end of the novel, suggest a promising resolution.
C31 Shek, Ben-Zion. "L'Espace et la description symbolique dans les dux romans 'montrealais' de Gabrielle Roy." Liberte, 13, No 1 (May 1971), 78-96. Like Sirois, Ben Shek discusses the relationship between the physical world and the human world, but unlike Sirois, he sees the social importance of this relationship as it applies to the two novels situated in Montreal. Precise, topographical realism in Bonheur d'occasion, he suggests, does not preclude a symbolic interpretation. Indeed, it leads one closer to it. Shek finds, for example, the precise locations of "la dompe," of Westmount, and of Saint-Henri, highly suggestive of the polarization of Montreal society. In Alexandre Chenevert, a much more introspective book, while there is precise topographical naming, and while the physical background is credible, there is greater emphasis on space as symbolic of the character's economic and cultural alienation. Shek feels that the novels become successively less concerned with photographic realism and more expressive of symbolic space as the questions raised become more individual and interiorized.
C32 Urbas, Jeannette. "Gabrielle Roy et l'acte de creer." Journal of Canadian Fiction, 1, No. 4 (Autumn 1972), 51-54. Jeannette Urbas discusses the emphasis placed on creative endeavour in Gabrielle Roy's works, and some of the joys and constraints of the artist.
C33 Robidoux, Rejean. "Gabrielle Roy a la recherche d'elle-meme" Canadian Modern Language Review, 30 ( 1973-1974), 208-11. Robidoux takes up the point mentioned in his 1966 article about Gabrielle Roy's works as "une autobiographie du possible: Il s'agit donc d'inventer (au double sens de deouvir et de crier) a la vie une signification qui n'est pas dans sa poursuite mais dans sa reconstitution. A cet egard, le schema proustien est emminemment revelateur 'vivre,' c'est 'perdre son temps,' c'est a dire se disperser dans la futilite et s'ecouler irremediablement dans un passe a jamais evanoui, 'raconter,' (se retrancher du 'vivre,' pour le scruter et le faire 'revivre'), c'est 'rechercher' et 'retrouver' mysterieusement son temps, en le dotant d'une valeur irremplacable et permanente."
C34 Edwards, Mary Jane. "Introduction." In The Hidden Mountain. Trans. Harry Lorin Binsse. New Canadian Library, No. 109. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1974, n pag. A short, but very good, summary of the main themes of the book. Edwards writes about its strengths and weaknesses in a fair and balanced manner, and makes the reader aware of some of the difficulties inherent in translations.
C35 Ricard, Francois. "Gabrielle Roy ou l'imposslble choix." Critere, No. 10 (Jan 1974), pp. 97-102. A short presentation of the principle that is elaborated in Ricard's 1975 book and 1976 article. Unlike other critics who recognize the fundamental dichotomy in Gabrielle Roy's works, but who also sees its resolution, Ricard claims that the dichotomy exists and is irreconcilable. "Ce double appel -- vers la separation d'une part, vers la participation d'autre part, ou, si I'on prefere, vers le deracinement et vers l'enracinement --ce double appel, dis-je, sous-tend l'oeuvre entiere de Gabrielle Roy et lui donne ce que plusieurs ont appele son mouvement pendulaire, et que pour ma part je prefere decrire comme un dechirement, ou mieux un insoluble paradoxe."
C36 Socken, Paul. "Gabrielle Roy as Journalist." Canadian Modern Language Review, 30, No. 2 (Jan. 1974), 96-100. The article demonstrates that Gabrielle Roy's journalism "prove[s] an illuminating companion to the novels" because one finds there "many of the preoccupations that take shape in the novels." Those thoughts are "... that her countrymen not lose touch with the soil lest they lose an understanding of themselves, that human qualities be stressed, and her conviction that the future is theirs to shape.. " In the articles and short stories, the author "shows herself to be most concerned with personal communications, and those communications are dependent upon the characters' relationship to their environment and upon their understanding of themselves. While there are positive features in it, the urban setting is less conducive to profound human relationships than the rural setting. The rural environment is not a magical and automatic panacea for all human problems, however. . . . The rural setting offers rather an opportunity for sensitive characters to discover values as they explore themselves and establish their relationships with other characters. Moreover, the author's contact with the artistically-inclined Ukrainian community reveals to her the importance of artistic expression in conveying those values."
C37 Hind-Smith, Joan. Three Voices. Toronto: Clarke Irwin, 1975, pp. 62-126. A useful work, although it lacks the probing quality of great biography. One has the nagging feeling that Hind-Smith is arranging the events of Gabrielle Roy's life to fit the works, instead of presenting the works as expressions of her life. Credit must be given to Hind-Smith, though, as she is one of the very few, except for interviewers, to give the reader biographical detail on Gabrielle Roy.
C38 Socken, Paul. "Art and the Artist in Gabrielle Roy's Works." Revue de l'Universsite d'Ottawa, 45, No. 3 (July-Sept 1975), 344-50. Should be read in conjunction with Ricard's "Gabrielle Roy, 30 ans d'ecriture" and Socken's " 'Le pays de l'amour' in the Works of Gabrielle Roy. "If one of Gabrielle Roy's main themes is the utopianism or ideal world discussed in those articles, then the artist's role is to give ". . .definite shape to those ideals. . ." Several instances are examined in which art is seen to have the power to draw people together, "to cross boundaries of time and space and to bring men together in a common experience." The concept of art itself is broadened in Gabrielle Roy's novelistic universe to include such diverse elements as the fruit of M. Emile's labour -- he is the farmer in Cet Ete qui chantait -- and the symbolism of Alexandre Chenevert's existence. In the final analysis, ". . . the very lives of these characters are a form of artistry, for they consist of the same values and have the same effect as a work of art. The ideal of a world of human fellowship is realized by the everyday life of certain characters who embody the values captured by the artists that Gabrielle Roy creates."
C39 Srabian de Fabry, Anne. "A la recherche de l'ironie perdue chez Gabrielle Roy et Flaubert." Presence francophone, No. 11 (Autumn 1975), pp. 89-104. This is a thought-provoking article, even if the conclusion it comes to -- that Gabrielle Roy and Flaubert are both cynics -- is more than a little dubious. The critic treads on even more dangerous ground by postulating that the value of a work of art is directly proportional to its degree of irony. Nevertheless, the discussion of some of the techniques or irony, for example, parody and paradox, is not without merit. The point is made convincingly that Gabrielle Roy's fictional world is charged with various levels of irony, at some points different from, but at others similar to, Flaubert's.
C40 Urbas, Jeannette. From Thirty Acres to Modern Times: The Story of French-Canadian Literature. Toronto: McGraw-Hall Ryerson, 1976, pp. 45-63. A book intended for use at the secondary or college level by English-speaking students reading the texts in translation. The book deals with the twentieth century French-Canadian novel (not poetry or theatre, as the title suggests), and devotes one chapter to Gabrielle Roy. It threads together commonly-held views of the novels into a coherent pattern. The presentation is informed and intelligent.
C41 Ricard, Francois. "Gabrielle Roy, 30 ans d'ecriture: Le cercle enfin uni des hommes." Liberte, 103, 18, No. 1 (Jan-Feb 1976), 59-78. Capital. Ricard is the single most important critic on the subject of Gabrielle Roy. This article is in some ways a succinct version of the book (Gabrielle Roy) published by Ricard in 1975. His basic argument is that Gabrielle Roy is ". . . partagee entre ses deux exigences -- la quete de l'ideal et la reconnaissance du reel. . . ." This fundamental tension can be seen in all her works, from Bonheur d'occasion, in which the latter dominates, to Cet Ete qui chantait, in which the former, "les traits de l'utopie," reign. When realism is portrayed, it is "un realisme qu'on dirait esperant," because it includes "la possibilite d'un renversement de cette negation [the more pessimistic aspect of her portrayals] et donc d'un rachat." And when Utoptianism prevails, its opposite is nevertheless present: "La souffrance, la mort, la solitude ne sont donc pas absentes de Cet Ete qui cbantait, bien au contraire; elles y jouent implicitement un role primordial, etant en quelque sorte le principe a partir duquel se construit tout cet univers, qui a pour fonction directe et speclfique de les affronter et, les affrontant, de possiblement les vaincre." As part of this conception of her work, Ricard discusses the reasons why Alexandre Chenevert is "de tous les personnages de Gabrielle Roy, celui dont la souffrance est la plus profonde, et qui sera ecrase le plus durement." Further, he points out the central importance of the symbols of family and school to her work. For a related but expanded treatment of the question of Utopianim in Gabrielle Roy's work, see Paul Socken, " 'Le pays de l'amour' in the Works of Gabrielle Roy." (C43).
C42 Gremer-Francoeur, Marie. "Etude de la structure anaphorique dans La Montagne secrete de Gabrielle Roy." Voix et images, 1, No 3 (April 1976), 387-405. The critic discovers a number of Judeo-Christtan and Greco-Roman myths in the novel, and states that three others -- more specifically Quebecois -- are at its heart. "Il s'agit des mythes de l'artiste, du coureur de bois, et de la montee vers le Nord, qui se manifestent dans des structures de type culturel d'une part et stylistique d'autre part, puisque l'auteur qui les emprunte a sa societe les transforme en principes organisateurs de son oeuvre." This article has some merit, as it demonstrates complexity and richness in what others have termed a faded work.
C43 Socken, Paul. " 'Le pays de l'amour' in the works of Gabrielle Roy." Revue de l'Universite d'Ottawa, 46, No. 3 (July-Sept 1976), 309-23. The point of departure is a passage in "Le Vieillard et l'enfant." (La Route d'Altamont) in which 'le pays de l'amour' is named and characterized. Other similar scenes in the works of Gabrielle Roy are examined, and a pattern emerges. In many forms in the novels, sometimes explicitly, sometimes implicitly, Gabrielle Roy alludes to an ideal world which is her central preoccupation. Her main goal is to communicate this vision. The critical component in the creation of this ideal is the capacity for pity and love, which is achieved through ". . . a profound and personal understanding of human suffering. . ." In Gabrielle Roy's novels, her "most important characters become aware of their own and other characters' fragility and vulnerability. They realize that there is much suffering in the world, and ultimately they see that it is this common bond of suffering that links them to others." The concept discussed, " . . never completely attained and yet constantly alluded to, implies a generosity of spirit and warmth of human fellowship on a grand scale. These values are based partially on nostalgia, as they reflect a less comphcated rural past that the author obviously cherishes and often recreates. They are based as well, though, on a visionary sense of what the world should strive to attain if it is to fully realize itself."
C44 Robidoux, Rejean. "Le Roman et la recherche du sens de la vie. Vocation: ecrivain." Melanges de civilisation canadienne-francaise offerts au professeur Paul Wyc- zynski. Cahiers du Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne-francaise 10. Ottawa: Editions de l'Univ. d'Ottawa, 1977, pp. 225-35. A fuller treatment of the Proustian aspect of Gabrielle Roy's works, which Robidoux had explored briefly in his article in the Canadian Modern Language Review (1973/1974). Through art, the writer confers, on her characters and on herself, an importance and a meaning that they could never otherwise achieve: "Pour etre dote d'un sens, d'une valeur positive, le 'vivre' a besoin d'etre dessine dans le rayonnement d'un acte de conscience qui en fait une experience creatrice, poetique dans toute l'acception du mot et capable, alors, de donner au flux des instants un prix d'eternite." Robidoux admits to being disillusioned with the gap between the goal and the realisation, especially with Cet Etd qui chantait. This places Robidoux in dia- metrical opposition to Ricard in his evaluation of Cet Ete qui chantait.
C45 Shek, Ben-Zion. Social Realism in the French-Canadian Novel. Montreal: Harvest House, 1977, pp. 65-111, 173-203, et passim. Excellent. Two chapters of this probing study are devoted to Gabrielle Roy -- one to Bonheur d'occasion and one to Alexandre Chenevert. Shek rightly points out that, in the case of Alexandre Chenevert, for example, critical attention has not sufficiently focused on "the key economic, social and political components." It is from this perspective that the writer views French-Canadian literature from 1944 to 1969. Due to a remarkable attention to detail, the critic is able to build an impressive case for the importance of Gabrielle Roy's novels: "Through her concern about cultural alienation, her relentless questioning of the Church's social and temporal role, her ardent expression of the need for peace and understanding among the world's peoples, and her vision of the need for social reconstruction and reform, Gabrielle Roy anticipated the Quiet Revolution of the 1960's and went considerably beyond its ideological confines. " Shek's book is unique in three ways. First, it examines the literature from a point of wew that has rarely been used, that is, the social, political, and economic framework. In that respect, the introductory chapters are particularly useful and most reformative. Secondly, Shek proposes Azarius Lacasse as a major character, and in so doing he makes us take another and a closer look at Bonheur d'occasion. (See Adrien Therio's study ["Le Portrait du pere dans Rue Deschambault"] of the father figure in Rue Deschambault). Thirdly, in treating Alexandre Chenevert at length, he focuses richly deserved attention on that critically important novel.
C46 Socken, Paul. "L'Harmonie dans l'oeuvre de Gabrielle Roy." Travaux de linguistique et de litterature, 15, No. 2 (1977), 275-92. A detailed analysis which establishes the links between Gabrielle Roy's characters, their physical environment, their relation to others, and ultimately, their understanding of themselves. The study interprets five scenes, taken from Bonheur d'occasion. La Riviere sans repos, La Route d'Altamont, and Cet Ete qui chantait. In order to illustrate the interde-pendence of the physical, social, and personal levels of action in the works. The following conclusion emerges "Meles a la nature, les heros en decouvrent l'unite et comprennent qu'ils en font partie au meme titre que les roches et les arbres. Ils adoptent cependant une nouvelle perspective lorsqu'ils se rendent compte qu'ils appartiennent davantage encore au monde humain. Ils ne peuvent, par consequent, aller se perdre dins la nature, mais sont appeles a prendre conscience des liens etroits qui les unissent aux autres hommes. Les relations harmonieuses qu'ils etablissent avec le milieu naturel ne constituent donc pas une fin en soi mais plutot le commencement d'une nouvelle comprehension d'euxmemes et du sentiment accru de l'importance des autres."
C47 Chadbourne, Richard. "Two Visions of the Prairies: Willa Cather and Gabrielle Roy." In The New Land: Studies in a Literary Theme. Ed. Richard Chadbourne and Hallvard Dahlie. Waterloo. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 1978, pp. 93-120. A good comparative analysis of the major differences and important similarities of the two female Western writers. Chadbourne argues convincingly that the "greatest of their affinities was undoubtedly the way in which the Prairie West of their childhood nourished their imaginations, so that without it, the work of neither would have been what it was."
C48 Socken, Paul. "Use of Language in Bonheur d'occasion: A Case in Point." Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 11 (Summer 1978), pp. 66-71. The article attempts to reveal the subtlety of Gabrille Roy's use of langage by studying the occurence of the word "joie" in Bonheur d'occasion. The word "appears in the novel sixty-five times in the singular and seven times in the plural, rather more frequently than one might imagine in a novel of social realism portraying the abject and the suffering." For two of the central characters, Florentine and Rose-Anna, "there are opposing values that attach themselves to the theme-word, a set of positive values (mostly where the word links up with themes of memory and the past) and another, even stronger, set of negative values, where in various ways the word is contradicted." One must conclude that "joy is nowhere for Rose-Anna and Florentine except in a past which they cannot hope either to recapture or to recreate." An examination of the word "joie" as it is applied to Emmanuel yields quite different results, since "for Emmanuel the hope and the opportunity for happiness have not been eradicated. Their joy forms part of their past, his may yet be realized. "The following conclusion is reached: "The paradoxical meanings of the word 'joie' and the ostensibly contradictory images at the end of the novel reinforce the idea contained in the title, Bonheur d'occasion: joy and happiness exist in the world of the novel but they represent realities that are anything but stable. Both hope and ostensible hopelessness seem to inhabit the same space and even to coexist in a fascinating manner."
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C49 La Follette, James-E. "Le Parler franco-canadien dans Bonheur d'occasion." M. A. Thesis Laval 1950. La Follette states that French-Canadian usage as seen in Bonheur d'occasion is a faithful representation of French as at is spoken: "Somme toute, nous n'avons fait que demontrer bon gre mal gre que le parler franco-canadien n'est au fond qu'une mosaique composse de l'ensemble des patois et des dialectes que parlaient les premiers colons du XVIIe siecle. Les dialectes et patois ont subi ici, au cours de plus de trois cents ans, une evolution parfois particuliere, mais le plus souvent parallele a celle du francais de France ...."
C50 Bosco, Monique. "L'Isolement dans le roman canadien-francais." Diss. Montreal 1953. One chapter, "Bonheur d'occasion ou les echecs de la femme," is devoted to Gabrielle Roy. Ultimately, the book's female character is seen to be hopelessly power- less.
C51 Bachert, G. "L'Element religleux dans le roman canadien-francais: etude de son evolution dans les romans de 1900 a 1950." Diss. Laval 1954. This study begins with "Les Romanciers du debut du siecle" and treats only Bonheur d'occasion by Gabrielle Roy: "L'heroine Florentine est l'incarnation d'un cynisme si grossier qu'on se demande ou est alle le sentiment religieux si marque dans les oeuvres du debut du siecle."
C52 Tuchmaier, Henri S. "Evolution de la technique du roman canadienne-francais." Diss. Laval 1958. Tuchmaier discusses at length various definitions of the novel and theories of novelistic techniques. He then focuses on the French-Canadian novel and analyses its evolution as a genre from the nineteenth century and the "roman de la fidelite," a term he coined and which is now used widely, to the contemporary period. Gabrielle Roy's narrative technique is found to be good but traditional.
C53 Maillet, Antonine (Soeur Marie-Gregoire). "La Femme et l'enfant dans l'oeuvre de Gabrielle Roy." M.A. Thesis Saint-Joseph de Memramcook Moncton New Brunswick 1959. "A travers une dizaine de creations feminines, la romanciere nous a revele un genre nouveau d'heroines romanesques: la petite fille, la jeune fille, puis la femme profondement liees a la vie, et devant lutter avec elle pour realiser une ame pleine de candeur, de poesie de reves et de force patiente." Alexandre Chenevert, Father Joseph-Marie, and Edouard are the only successful male characterizations of the novelist and this is due in part to the fact that they resemble in some ways the female characters.
C54 Le Vasseur, Joseph-Marie. "Gabrielle Roy, peintre de la famile canadienne-francaise." M.A. Thesis. Montreal 1960. Le Vasseur states that in three of the works, La Petite Poule d'eau, Rue Deschambault, and Bonheur d'occasion, the father deserts the family, if not physically, then morally: "L'attitude anormale et etrange des membres de familles depourvues de chefs, la demission du pere ont entraine le malaise au foyer, le desequilibre, les dissensions et l'evasion."
C55 Bureau, J.-J. "Le Complexe de la maternite chez Luzina dans La Petite Poule d'eau de Gabrielle Roy." M.A. Thesis Montreal 1961. "Toute l'ambiance de l'ile est tellement maternelle qu'elle nous semble avoir ete brossee a l'intention meme de Luzina. . . . . Le bel equilibre psychologique dans lequel baigne le roman nous a particulierement plu. So la trame de ce roman a ete conduite de main de maitre, le style en est aussi des plus remarquables; il est puissant et clair. . . . Le roman tout entier est, selon nous, des mieux construits et sait se tenir a la hauteur des autres fresques sociales brossees par Gabrielle Roy."
C56 Laforest, Marie-Therese (Soeur Sainte-Marie-Eleuthiere). "La Mere dans le roman canadien-francais contemporain, 1930-1960." Diss. Montreal 1961. The author of the thesis discusses the place of the mother in French-Canadian society, several myths and symbols associated with the mother, and ends with a presentation of several mother-types ("la mere instinctive," "la mere odieuse," "la mere idealisee"). Gabrielle Roy's mother figures are seen as examples of "la mere authentique."
C57 Collet, Paulette. "L'Hiver dans le roman canadien-francais." Diss. Laval 1962. "Dans les deux premieres parties, nous avons examine le ro1e joue par l'hiver dans la vie au Canada, son effet sur les coutumes et le temperament, tels qu'ils sont decrits dans le roman. . . La troiseme partie de la these est consacree au style. Nous y avons etudie la valeur litteraire des descriptions de paysages hivernaux et la fonction de ces paysage dans le roman." Gabrielle Roy is "un des auteurs chez qui cette alliance entre les personnages et la nature est la plus marquee." (See also C59.)
C58 Gaulin, Michel-Lucien. "Le Theme du Bonheur dans l'oeuvre de Gabrielle Roy." M.A Thesis Montreal 1962. In the first part, the conditions necessary for happiness are studied as well as the obstacles. The second part deals with attempted solutions such as escapism, religion, and finally, artistic creation.
C59 Pelletier, Lea. (Soeur Marie-Rachel-Eveline, s.n.j.m.) "L'Hiver dans le roman canadten." M. A. Thesis Montreal 1962. A study of the influence of physical environment on character. Of the three parts, one is devoted to Maria Chapdelaine, one to "Les romans paysans," and the last to "les romans urbains." Examins Bonheur d'occasion and La Petite Poule d'eau.
C60 Saint-Amour, Robert. "Le Sentiment religieux et son evolution dans le roman canadien-francais de 1930 a 1950." M. A. Thesis Montreal 1963. "A partir des observations faites au cours des recherches, nous avons decouvert un infantilisme religieux qui affecte le personnage de notre roman canadien-francais. . . . Si jadis il y eut une vie religieuse profonde, nous ne pouvons en dire autant des personnages de notre roman. Leurs manifestations religieuses denotent une absence totale d'esprit religieux." Examines only Bonheur d'occasion from this point of view.
C61 Seers, Pierrette. "Le Theme de la solitude dans l'oeuvre de Gabrielle Roy." M.A. Thesis Montreal 1963. Four chapters study the solitude of the child, the adolescent, the woman, the man and the priest.
C62 Warwick, Jack. "The Journey in French-Canadian Literature." Diss. Western Ontario 1963. See C22.
C63 Bertrand, Maurice. "La Montagne secrete et l'esthetique de Gabrielle Roy." D.E.S. Thesis Montreal 1965. The writer addresses himself to the following questions: "Que signifie ce roman au-dela de l'interet romanesque? Pouvons-nous y retracer les grandes lignes d'une esthetique? Pouvons-nous croire aussi que le roman lui-meme, dans son aspect formel, demontre que cette esthetique est bien vivante? Pouvous-nous croire. . .que l'auteur a voulu, consciemment on non, expliquer a lui-meme et a tous, non seulement son cheminement dans le domaine de l'art, mais encore la necessite (ou la fatalite) de ce cheminement?"
C64 Desrochers, Jean-Paul. "La Famille dans l'oeuvre de Gabrielle Roy." M.A. Thesis Laval 1965. Gabrielle Roy is a traditional writer in her portrayal of the family, as she never dissociates herself completely from the rural family even in her urban novels.
C65 Genuist, Monique. "La Creation romanesque chez Gabrielle Roy." Diss. Rennes 1965. See C1.
C66 Santerre, Jean-Marie. "Les Enseignants dans le roman canadien-francais de 1940 a 1960." M.A. Thesis Montreal 1966. Examines Bonbeur d'occasion, Alexandre Chene- vert, and La Petite Poule d'eau. The purpose of the thesis is to determine what the authors think of teachers and the system of education between 1940-60 in the province of Quebec. The view of teachers and teaching is very unflattering in the novels, and in the final chapter, the writer of the thesis compares her findings with those of a Royal Commission on Education and concludes that the novelists can be considered "d'une certaine facon comme des precurseurs dans les reformes educationnelles presentement amorcees dans la province."
C67 Comeau, Amelia. "Les Romans de Gabrielle Roy: Etude des principaux personnages." M. A. Thesis Laval 1967. The following characters are studied: Rose-Anna, Azarius, Florentine, Emmanuel, and Jean (Bonheur d' occasion ), Alexandre (Alexandre Chenevert), Luzma (La Petite Poule d'eau), and Pierre (La Montagne secrete). Comeau establishes the fact that social conditions permit no real happiness for the characters. Those who do attain some measure of happiness do so thanks to "une invincible confiance en la lumiere qui [les] appelle a grandir, et ainsi repondre a l'infinie attente de la creation et du createur.
C68 Thompson, Barbara J. "The City of Montreal in the English and French-Canadian Novel, 1945-1965." M. A. Thesis Montreal 1967. This sociologically-oriented thesis examines thirty English-Canadian and fifty-nine French-Canadian novels, two of which are Gabrielle Roy's Bonheur d'occasion and Alexandre Chenevert. Such themes as race relations, education, political life, social movements, money, religion, art, and love are studied. French-Canadian novelists, more than their English counterparts, are found to deal with existential problems rather than with interpersonal relationships or with man and his environment. Analysis of structural and stylistic considerations tends to confirm this hypothesis -- French-Canadian writers rely more on interiorized, first-person narration, with more introverted heroes than the English-Canadian novelists.
C69 Shek, Ben-Zion. "Aspects of Social Realism in the French-Canadian Novel, 1944-1964." Diss. Toronto 1968. See C45.
C70 Bride, J Harvey. "Bio-bibliographie de Gabrielle Roy." M. Phil. Thesis Toronto 1970. A brief biography of Gabrielle Roy, followed by a complete, unannotated bibliography of the primary and secondary sources. Includes the works from Bonheur d'occasion to La Route d'Altamont.
C71 Morissette, Robert. "La vie ouvriere urbaine dans le roman canadien-francais contemporain." M. A. Thesis Montreal 1970. The writer considered 225 novels written be- tween 1945 and 1960. The only work of Gabrielle Roy's examined is Bonheur d'occasion. That novel is said to be unique, since Azarius Lacasse, one of the characters, is the only one in all 225 novels who is proud of his trade: "Seul, il exprime la digmte du travailleur, l'amour du metier." It is one of the rare novels among those studied in which the characters are successfully drawn and have an inner life of their own.
C72 Saint-Pierre, Annette s. j.s. h. "Gabrielle Roy sous le signe du reve." M. A. Thesis Ottawa 1970. See C5.
C73 Urbas, Jeannette. "Le personnage feminin dans le roman canadien-francais de 1940 a 1967." Diss. Toronto 1971. Urbas studies all phases of female life -- the young girl, the mother, the grandmother, love within and outside of the framework of marriage, the spinster, the nun, the widow, and the woman-worker. "The thesis concludes with two chapters of a more general nature: the study of woman as a predominantly symbolic element in certain groups of novels; and the examination of concepts of femininity as revealed in the writings of male and female authors and the critics." The greatest evolution is in the image of the mother, who develops individually and personally. This evolution is reflected in a variety of literary techniques examined by the author of the thesis. Gabrielle Roy novels examined: Bonheur d'occasion, La Petite Poule d'eau, Rue Deschambault, Alexandre Chenevert, La Montagne secrete, La Route d'Altamont, and La Route sans repos.
C74 Gagne, Marc. "L'Homme et le monde dans l'oeuvre de Gabrielle Roy. " Diss. Laval 1972. See C3.
C75 Savoie, Guy. "Le realisme du cadre spatio-temporel de Bonheur d'occasion." M.A. Thesis Laval 1972. "Nous nous proposons seulement de determiner dans quelle mesure le cadre spatio-temporel du roman correspond aux donnees du reel."
C76 Merzisen, Yves. "L'Inspiration romanesque de Gabrielle Roy." Diss. British Columbia 1974. The first part of the thesis studies literary influences on Gabrielle Roy and in particular Georges Duhamel and Marcel Proust. The remainder is devoted to an examination of the themes of voyage and the image of the tree.
C77 Socken, Paul. "The Influence of Physical and Sooal Environment on Character in the Novels of Gabrielle Roy." Diss. Toronto 1974. "One finds that the characters tend to perceive their surroundings as hostile and often feel alone and alienated in a world they do not comprehend. Gabrlelle Roy explores the range of possible responses to this alienation, and it is the varied responses of the different characters that are examined in depth in the body of the thesis."
C78 Trudeau, Mireille. "Bonheur d'occasion et la presse francaise." M. A. Thesis Montreal 1976. The writer finds an astonishing resemblance between the publicity announcements and critical comment on Bonheur d'occasion in France. There is a virtual homogeneity of critical opinion. This leads her to conclude that the publishing house succeeded in impressing the journalists, and that the latter were content to write up mere paraphrases. In addition, the French reader seems to be taken aback by the modern, urban picture of French Canada as depicted in the novel. In the final analysis, and as a result of the preceding, the book was read more as a social document than as a novel.
C79 Sartiliot, Claudette E. "The Artist-Figure in the Work of Margaret Laurence and Gabrielle Roy." M. A. Thesis Saskatchewan 1977. "The purpose of this thesis is to compare and contrast the way two Canadian writers, one French-Canadian, Gabrielle Roy, the other, English-Canadian, Margaret Laurence, both from Manitoba and writing at approximately the same time, see the artist, his predicament, and his role in society."
C80 Gostick, Patricia Lynn. "La Signification du voyage dans l'oeuvre de Gabrielle Roy." M. A. Thesis Alberta 1977. In the belief that it is the theme of voyage "qui fait avancer l'histoire, qui revele le caractere, qui cree la tension dramatique et qui enrichit le niveau symbolique des ouvrages," the author of the thesis studies "le voyage dans l'espace," "le voyage dans le temps," "le voyage personnel," "le voyage spirituel," and "la valeur symbolique du voyage."
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D17 Beraud, Jean. "Alexandre Chenevert de Gabrielle Roy." La Presse, 13 March 1954, p. 74. "Voila l'etre neutre a qui nous avons affairre et qui donne un roman ... neutre."
D18 Brown, Alan. "Man and the World Today." The Gazette [Montreal], 13 March 1954, p. 26. McLuhan's assertion that modern man is challenged by the fragmentary way in which the world presents itself is given concrete form in thin novel. "This is an absorbing and powerful book, and its Canadian setting, far from being an embarrassment to the reader, is an integral part of what the book has to say -- gives it, in fact, something unique to say to the rest of the world . . ."
D19 Marcotte, Gilles. "Vie et mort de quelqu'un." Le Devoir, 13 March 1954, p. 6 For all the novelist's attempts to render her character an individual, Alexandre "existe moins qu'il ne represente. Il est l'homme-moyen-type, le proletaire essentiel, le bouc emissaire de la grande solitude contemporaine." What saves the novel to some extent from the dangers of abstraction is the fact that there are two voices superimposed -- that of the novelist and that of Alexandre -- which lend it profundity and credibility at certain points. It strikes this reviewer that, in this novel, Gabrielle Roy has taken one aspect -- and not the richest -- of Bonheur d'occasion and has exhausted its possibilities: "Mais voila, Alexandre Chenevert reste un theme, plutot qu'un homme."
D20 Panneton, Philippe. Pseud. RINGUET. "Alexandre Chenevert de Gabrielle Roy." La Revue populaire, 47, No. 4 (April 1954), 6. "Oui, il faut lire Alexandre Chenevert parce que seule la lecture de ce beau roman vous permettra de gouter le talent fremmisant, l'exquise sensibilite et la chaleur profondement humaine d'un des plus grands ecrivains de notre temps."
D21 Duhamel, Roger. "La Destinee d'un anonyme." L'Action universitaire, 20, No. 4 (July 1954), 50-52. Rpt. in Presence de la critique. Ed. Gilles Marcotte. Montreal: Editions HMH, 1968, pp. 46-49. Bonheur d'occasion was the story of the plight of a family. Alexandre Chenevert examines the drama of a man alone: "Prisonnier de son propre personnage, il tourne sans cesse en rond, refusant jusqu'a la fin toute abdication. C'est ce qui lui confere une sombre grandeur." It is in the third part of the novel that Gabrielle Roy reaches the heights of her art. The only criticism the reviewer makes is that Gabrielle Roy tends to write rather long works whose dramatic intensity would be heightened in a more succinct form. There is too much attention to detail: "J'estime que la poesie perd beaucoup a cette servilite a l'oblet."
D22 Roz, Firmin. "Temoignage d'un roman canadien." La Revue francaise de l'elite europeene, 6th year, No. 59 (Aug. 1954), 33-34. "En ajustant sa verite locale a une si exacte verite d'epoque, ce roman canadien s'eleve a une sorte d'universalite qui les depasse l'une et l'autre pour atteindre jusqu'a l'humaine verite, independante du temps et de l'espace. . .il nous faut donc ajouter que la qualite de la forme, sans laquelle il n'y a pas d'oeuvre litteraire achevee, est egale a la valeur du fond."
D23 Janeway, Elizabeth. "The Man in Everyman." New York Times Book Rewew, 16 Oct. 1955, p. 5. The danger in writing such a book is in boring the reader, but "here is Mlle Roy's achievement -- though Alexandre suffers what every man suffers, he is not Everyman. He is not a hollow symbol but a differentiated human being and thus the proper subject of fiction. . . . Alexandre's gift of feeling is also his triumph. He cannot compromise. He demands absolutes. He will not be satisfied with less than justice, with less than truth, with less than the complete burden of responsibility for what he experiences." In the final analysis, "man is the measure of all things, and. . . no abstraction can be valued unless we reckon it by the value of such an individual as the cashier." A review of the translation.
D24 Heidemann, Margaret. "Whipping Post." Saturday Night, 26 Nov. 1955, p. 18. "It takes art to make such a depressing character so sympathetic that the reader follows his almost plotless progress with absorption. Miss Roy has discovered the common denominator in Canadian character. Alexandre Chenevert portrays an individual who rouses the reader's pity, annoyance and sympathy as well as a national type that has its counterpart in this troubled age everywhere in the modern world." A review of the translation.
D25 Weaver, Robert. "Canadian Fiction." Queen's Quarterly, 63, No 1 (Spring 1956), 128-29. "Chenevert's death and triumph are simply the fitting climax of a beautifully proportioned work of fiction by a writer who must be regarded as one of our most ambitious and admirable novelists." A review of the translation.
D26 Fowke, Edith. "The Cashier." The Canadian Forum, April 1956, p. 20. This review of Lemelin's In Quest of Splendour and Roy's The Cashier asserts that both are worth reading but that the Roy novel is "the finer creation." "Alexandre Chenevert would never have aspired high enough to consider his life a quest for splendor, but from the death of this poor fragment of a man we get more understanding of the splendor of the human spirit than from the colorful adventures of Pierre Boisjoly [the hero of the Lemelin novel]." A review of the translation.
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D1 Alain, Albert. "Bonheur d'occasion." Le Devoir, 15 Sept 1945, p. 8. Gabrielle Roy "possede incontestablement ce qu'il faut de talent, d'aptitude, de psychologie et de moyens d'expression pour ecrire du roman." The plot is simple and traditional, but is given richness and meaning through simple and precise descriptions of the setting. Alain criticizes the length -- some 500 pages in 2 volumes -- due in part to the long social-political discussions engaged in by some of the characters. (Note: Gabrielle Roy did omit much of these in the subsequent single-volume edition.)
D2 Gagnon, Louis-Philippe. "Bonbeur d'occasion." Le Drost, 24 Nov 1945, p. 2 Gagnon as intrigued by the role of Florentine as seductress. He finds this reversal of roles a refreshing change and convincingly rendered. Until the present, "notre litterature d'imagination avalt decrit ce qu'on peut appeler. . .le cerveau de Montreal. . . .Personne n'avait encore ose braquer son objectif sur le ventre de Montreal." In what way can the novel be said to be true?: "Faire vrai. . . j'ose dire que le traitement du sujet, dans l'oeuvre de Gabrielle Roy, nous donne la sensation aigue du reel, du vecu, au point de nous emporter la ou s'agitent et triment les personnages du roman."
D3 Easton, Stewart C. "French-Canadian Tale Has Social Import." Saturday Night, 2 March 1946, p. 17. This review was written before the English translation appeared, and the author urges that a translation be done since "it is far the best book that has yet appeared in this country, either in French or English, that deals with the social effects of the depression and the war on Canadian city-dwellers." The novel will inevitably be compared to Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and the writer asserts that it is an equally impressive one. The book as "a terrible indictment of our civiliization." Interestingly, he finds all characters, including the men, well drawn, which French-Canadian critics rarely do.
D4 Sylvestre, Guy. "L'Annee litteraire 1945." Revue de l'Universite d'Ottawa, 16, No. 2 (April-June 1946), 220-21. The critic is impressed most by the authenticity and objectivity of the book -- its truth: ". . .les effets de la depression economique partout sensibles, ne sont pas evoquees ici en vue d'une action sociale a organiser ou a developper; tous ces details ne sont la que parce qu'ils sont vrais." The novel is "le plus abondant, le plus ample, le plus humain peut-etre de toute notre litterature. . . ."
D5 Collin, W. E. "French-Canadian Letters." University of Toronto Quarterly, 15, No. 4 (July 1946), 412-13. The novel "stands out as a perfect example of naturalism, a work of art which is at the same tame an accurate case-history of a social disease, poverty." The writer claims that it "owes nothing to the main determinants of French-Canadian literature. It contmues a nineteenth-century French tradition and as a work of art it depends solely on its perfection as an experimental novel."
D36 McGrory, Mary. "Annals of the Poor." New York Times Book Review, 20 April 1947, pp. 5-7. This rewewer writes of the "bleak, poverty-shadowed existence of the Lacasses (ironically softened by the war)" as "depicted with uncompromising realism." She states that Florentine is "a rather unappealing figure" although the reasons for her being as she is are easily understood. "Miss Roy's great triumph is the characterization of Rose-Anna, the humbly valiant matriarch of the Lacasse family." Finally, "American readers, while they must admire the author's vivid characterization, unflinching honesty and dry-eyed compassion, may find the book heavy going: they are sure to rebel at its lack of humor." A review of the translation.
D7 Rousseaux, Andre. "Un Roman canadien." Le Figaro, 5 Nov. 1947. This novel breaks with tradition and establishes on the literary scene a Canada which is urban, modern, and industrialized. The descriptions of the districts of Montreal are exceedingly well done as are the conscientiously-documented patterns of speech. The latter fascinates this writer who wishes that a short glossary had been included. But the descriptions and the characters are the result of "un effort tout externe, sans rien devoir a cette liberation de soi-meme qui arrache le personnage au romancier quand celui-ci peut prononcer l'aveu celebre: 'Madame Bovary, c'est moit.'" In the final analysis, the novel is a truthful social document and a forceful moral statement.
D8 Leclerc, Rita. "'Bonheur d'occasion de Gabrielle Roy." Mes Fiches, 5 May 1948, pp. 13-14. A compilation of contemporary attitudes toward Bonheur d'occasion by Rita Leclerc. The three fundamental qualities are seen to be "la surete du tempo," "la promotion voulue et heureuse de l'accessoire au role du principal," and "l'ampleur de la portee sociale."
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D67 Marcotte, Gilles. "Gabrielle Roy et l'institutrice passionnee." Le Devoir, 24 Sept 1977, p. 15. "Jamais, ne semble-t-il, Gabrielle Roy n'a jamais rien ecrit d'aussi passionnee, d'aussi troublant, que ces recits de la vie apparemment toute sage d'une institutrice manitobaine. De Bonheur d'occasion a Ces Enfants de ma vie, que de chemin parcouru, vers le plus secret du coeur!" The era of realistic literature has apparently passed, and Gabrielle Roy, who is best stated to write about "les mouvements essentiels de notre histoire collective," has chosen another path. Nevertheless the writing she is producing is very beautiful.
D68 Riddick, Thuong Vuong. "Gabrielle Roy dans la plenitude de son art." Le Devoir, 20 Oct 1977, p. 20. If this reviewer had to choose between Bonheur d'occasion and Ces Enfants de ma vie, she would choose the latter: "Car aux qualites humaines et a la richesse d'observation presentes dans le premier s'ajoute encore, dans le dernier, toute l'experience acquise depuis, qui permet de filtrer les elements de l'univers encore 'realiste' et parfois 'naturaliste' du debut, pour aboutir a la stylisation qui fait l'oeuvre d'art." It is refreshing to read such a work after "les subtilites et les contorsions" of the New Novel.
D69 Theriault, Yves "Les Enfants de la vie de Gabrielle Roy." L'Express, 7 April 1978, p. 8. "Ce que j'aime profondement, dans toute l'oeuvre de Roy, et plus que jamais dans Ces Enfants de ma vie, c'est la discrete beaute du style. Sans le moindre artifice, mais avec cette admirable precision du mot qui suscite l'image, elle nous amene en ses pays, elle fait vivre intensement les personnages, elle les incarne presque visuellement pour nous et cela n'est jamais clinquant ou fausse dorure. . .aujourd'hui plus que jamais, j'aurais voulu, je voudrais encore et toujours j'aurais voulu, savoir ecrire comme Gabrielle Roy, et savoir aimer mes personnages comme elle aime les siens, et comme elle les comprend."
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D62 Ethier-Blais, Jean. "Comme si la terre elle-meme ecrivait son histoire." Le Devoir, 11 Nov. 1972, p. 16. "Ce n'est pas la voix metphysique de l'Abbe Savard, qui utilise toutes les ressources du langage francais pour redonner au notre, denature, sa saveur. C'est plutot la douce constatation d'un coeur et d'un esprit proches de la realite des choses, qui savent s'emouvoir ensemble, intelligence et sensibilite, lors-qu'un arbre charge d'oiseaux. . . fremit dans le vent ou qu'une vieille dame revolt la mer pour la derniere fois."
D63 Gay, Paul. "Cet Ete qui chantait." Le Droit, 30 Dec. 1972, p. 13. This book is the incarnation of what Alexandre Chenevert had been seeking. "La paix, une paix indicible, une paix de Paradis terrestre, regne dans Cet Ete qui chantait." The most poetic chapter is "La Messe aux hirondelles": "C'est du pur Daudet." The most amusing is "La Grande-Minoune-Maigre": "le lecteur ne peut s'empecher de sourire tout le temps."
D64 "Cet Etd qui chantait." Chatelaine, Sept. 1976, pp. 8, 11. This collection of stories, reminiscent of the writing of Colette, and well translated by Joyce Marshall, conveys a sense of place that "captures in luminous prose what is most poetic in country living." A review of the translation.
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D70 Marcotte, Gilles. "Gabrielle Roy, 'chercheur d'horizon.'" Le Devoir, 22 April 1978, pp 29, 44. "Tous ces textes ne sont pas d'egale valeur litteraire, et n'interessent pas le lecteur au meme titre. Mais tous, ils meritaient d'etre publies de nouveau. Reunis, ils s'eclairent les uns les autres et composent un univers de pensee, d'exerience, qui rejoint par ses voies propres celui de l'oeuvre romanesque." Marcotte most admires the articles under the rubric, "Peuples du Canada," describing them as "etonnants, d'une qualite litteraire tout a fait remarquable, ou se manifeste cette passion de Tetranger,' de l'homme demuni, depayse, qui parcourt toute l'oeuvre de Gabrielle Roy."
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D38 Ethier-Blais, Jean. "La Montagne secrete de Gabrielle Roy." Le Devoir, 28 Oct 1961, p. 11. "Ce qui importe, c'est le pouvoir magique de la nature, qui refuse qu'un peintre la viole, elle et son secret. Pouvoir petrifiant et semblable a celui de la Gorgone, qui s'amusait autrefols a se defaire ainsi de ses ennemis . . . . L'idee n'est pas neuve, c'est celle du Sainn-Graal. Elle est le secret qui ne sera jamais revele qu'aux purs; et ceux-ci, apres avoir perce le mystere, doivent mourir." Gabrielle Roy invests her characters with a dignity that lends them their appeal. The structuring of the novel into two segments is brilliantly achieved: "le premier appelle le second, le second fait ressortir le premier. C'est a Paris que Pierre decouvrira le secret de la montagne, donc son propre secret, donc lui-meme. The style of writing is oddly affected and yet it is perfectly suited to the story. "Gabrielle Roy a maitrise la fluidite du style. . . l'ecriture coule sans heurt melodique."
D39 Soumande, Francois. "Si vous avez le temps de lire: La Montagne secrete." La Revue de l'universite Laval, 16, No. 5 (Jan. 1962), 449-51. "Je n'ai jamais vu de livre si prenant, si pur, si colore. J'ai lu des critiques: ils n'ont jamais apercu un arbre, encore moins une foret... Marcel Proust a celebre en pages exquises les fleurs de la musique, nous avons enfin quelqu'un qui s'est montre capable de peindre pour jamais les paysages les plus farouches et les plus tendres du monde et de montrer a vif la grandeur d'un peintre du Canada."
D40 Tougas, Gerard. "La Montagne secrete de Gabrielle Roy." In Livres et auteurs canadiens 1961. Quebec: Les Presses de l'Univ. Laval, 1962, pp. 11-12. Gabrielle Roy excelled as "le peintre des douleurs cachees," but in this novel, which is really "une autobiographie romancee," she tries her hand at descriptLon and fails abysmally: "Un air de decouragement plane sur cette derniere oeuvre, si inegale, de Gabrielle Roy. Souhaitons qu'il soit de courte duree, car sans cette voix, a laquelle nous tenons, la litterature contemporaine nous semblerait radicalement appauvrie."
D41 Beresford-Howe, Constance. " 'Canada's Best Writer.' Gabrielle Roy's New Novel Entertains." Montreal Star, 3 Nov 1962, p. 7. Gabrielle Roy is "most impressive" for her "wide range of tone and subject." In La Montagne secrete she writes yet another kind of study, "an allegory of the artist's struggle to achieve his vision -- an austere story which transcends everything personal and deals with man and the Creator who gave him the torment and mystery of creative genius." The dimensions of this theme are so great that they cannot successfully be contained withm a single short novel "without contrivances that seem clumsy." The descriptions themselves, however, make the book worthwhile and admirers of Gabrielle Roy "have no cause to regret a failure in The Hidden Mountain." A review of the translation.
D42 Last, Martin. "The Hidden Mountain." New York Herald Tribune Books, 11 Dec. 1962, p. 11. "The fundamental idea -- man destroyed when his indomitable creative force meets realities too cosmic for it -- is not foohsh, but the execution disappoints." A review of the translation.
D43 McPherson, Hugo. "Prodigies of God and Man." Canadian Literature, No. 15 (Winter 1963), pp. 74-76. In this "first novel by a Canadian to consider the tension between the artist's creation and God's," the subject "is less the artist's relation to society than the nature of artistic vision." In spite of its "flashes of great beauty," however, it lacks "coherence and control." The thought and technique are new to Gabrielle Roy. She has chosen the parable, "but she is not. . . a master of this mode, and Harry Binsse's all-too-literal translation further diminishes the power of her language." Further, her interventions and commentaries detract from the story and, finally, "she has not found images which grow organically. . .to produce a sustained symbolism." Yet for all its deficiencies, McPherson finds the book "rewarding." A review of the translation.
D44 Prevost, J.-L. "La Montagne secrete." Livres et lectures [Issy-les-Moulineaux, France], No. 173 (Jan. 1963), p. 24. "Un livre personnel et de qualite, renouvelant le talent sur de la romanciere canadienne."
D45 La Vergnas, Raymond. "A la recherche de soi." Les Annales, 70th year, NS 148 (Feb 1963), pp. 32-33. It is the first part of the story, with its rich descriptions of the North, that most appeals to this reviewer. Unlike the hero of her own story in La Montagne secrete, Gabrielle Roy has succeeded in communicating "la totalite de sa vision et une suite d'images a la fois merveilleusement precises et d'un lyrisme envoutant."
D46 Hornyansky, Michael. "Countries of the Mind." The Tamarack Rewew, No. 27 (Spring 1963), pp. 85-86. The central character "not only lacks a home-life and a society, he virtually lacks a personality." Nevertheless the author "makes his story fascinating and timeless" by concentrating on the "brooding presence" of the northland and on "his art, and its demands on him. . . ." What results is "a complete parable, which (like Pierre's painting) makes us see what hitherto we have only looked at." Unfortunately, the last part of the book, which takes place in Paris, is strikingly inferior: "We have come down from the timeless to the diurnal, the commonplace, the stock. And the hell of it is that in retrospect the legend is infected too, and 'la montagne secrete' begins to dwindle." A review of the translation.
D47 Watt, F. W. "Letters in Canada." University of Toronto Quarterly, 32, No. 4 (July 1963), 404. The novel is "a poetic fable" which is "described with power and beauty." The last part of the novel is less successful but "Gabrielle Roy's intensity makes this exploration of the relation between artistic loneliness and human love, between the individual search for meaning and the history of art, a moving experience even when in terms of realism it may appear more than a little ridiculous." A review of the translation.
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D9 Marcotte, Gilles. "Gabrielle Roy retourne a ses origines." Le Devoir, 25 Nov. 1950, p. 18. This reviewer notes the "humeur delicieux, tres fin, qu'on sent de connivence avec son objet, un humeur qui ne blesse pas, mais caresse comme un sourire. . . . Il semble que Madame Roy, en retrouvant son pays, ait retrouve sa joie de vivre." The character of the Capuchin is one of the most colourful ever drawn in French-Canadian literature. "Mais on esperera, aussi, retrouver ce personnage et les autres dans une oeuvre de plus grande envergure, ou l'organisation soit a la mesure de la matiere."
D10 Thompson, Claire. "Winnipeg Author Tells Western French Story." Toronto Telegram, 10 Feb 1951, p. 15. The book is "beautifully, exquisitely written." In the last part of the book "Gabrielle Roy has excelled herself in giving us a glimpse of a man's soul." "Miss Roy knows Manitoba very well and has conveyed the feeling of unlimited space as well as the aloneness of the little island. All in all Gabrielle Roy has fulfilled the promise of her first success. This is a good book in the truest sense of the word."
D11 Sylvestre, Guy. "La Petite Poule d'eau." La Nouvelle Revue canadienne, 1, No 2 (April-May 1951), 68-70. "Reunis, ces recits constituent une sorte de chronique de la vie des pionniers du Manitoba, comme Bonheur d'occasion etait une sorte de grand reportage sur les miseres des families pauvres de Saint-Henri." There is, however, a tendency for the plot to be encumbered with "[le] pittoresque" and this detracts from the work. "Ces deux recits, peu animes, plaisent par cet heureux me1ange de tendresse et d'ironie, par ce regard attendri et neanmoins lucide que Gabrielle Roy jette sur les hommes et sur les choses, et ils nous retiennent encore par cet amour authentique qu'eprouve Gabrielle Roy pour ses personnages et qu'elle reussit a nous faire partager. . . . Gabrielle Roy n'est pas un grand ecrivain, mais elle est un des plus honnetes conteurs que nous ayons et certes un de ces rares ecrivains canadiens qui ne nous laissent pas indifferents."
D12 Collin, W. E. "Letters in Canada." University of Toronto Quarterly, 20, No. 4 (July 1951), 395-96. The three parts of the collection "represent the three stages of man: birth, the opening of the mind, and mature life." The best scenes are the description of Saturday night on Main Street, "the irony of Presbyterian Kathy perturbed by the decline of religious spirit and seeing in the Capuchin another John Knox, and lastly, the sermon preached by the missionary on the occasion of a Metis celebration." "The story closes with the sad thought that a man, a religious man, had to leave the old life of Europe behind and come into this north land to feel free to love. . . .Perhaps Miss Roy has given us here a picture of the stock out of which will proceed the Canada that is to be."
D13 Billy, Andre. "Les instituteurs canadiens se suivent mais ne se ressemblent pas. . . ." Le Figaro, 5 Sept 1951, p. 7. For this reviewer from France, the French-Canadian vocabulary is fascinating and even a model to be adopted. The varied ethnic background too is seen as important: "Cette bigarrure ethnique et linguistique fait du Canada de La Petite Poule d'eau un pays tres different de celui de Maria Chapdelaine."
D14 Deacon, William Arthur. "One Isolated Family in Northern Manitoba." The Globe and Mail, 3 Nov 1951, p. 12. The reviewer predicts that the book will be misunderstood since the translated version is advertised as a novel. It is in fact reportage or a kind of feature article whose main intent is description. "No other writer of first rate talents has attempted to recreate for us the life of our remotest frontier, where wild hay and a few hundred sheep sustain a solitary family. Miss Roy has brought to her unique task a rarely understanding eye, which is reflected in a style both graceful and gracious. Nowhere else has the literary pioneer reached and recorded the pioneer of the soil." A review of the translation.
D15 Y.C. "Gabrielle Roy's Manitoba Story 'Alive' but Formless." Winnipeg Tribune, 10 Nov. 1951, p. 12. The collection of short stories constitute "a fragmentary thing which lacks both the form and the majesty of first-rate work." A review of the translation.
D16 Prescott, Orville. "Books of the Times." New York Times, 10 Dec. 1951, p. 27 The collection "contains only two characters who are individualized at all. It has neither dramatic power nor any particular humor. As a novel, it is much less ambitious and much less successful than The Tin Flute. But its nostalgic picture of the life of the French Canadians of Manitoba twenty years ago and its affectionate portraits of two good and lovable people make it rather endearing." A review of the translation.
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D58 Grosskurth, Phyllis. "Maternity's Fond but Tedious Tune." The Globe Magazine, 19 Sept. 1970, p. 20. This latest work "illustrates once more her reiterated themes, her characteristic approach, and her inevitable limitations." Her most "persistent theme" is motherhood, which is presented in a way that "seems curiously old fashioned in the Quebec of today" and borders on sentimentality. The avoidance of placing characters in complex social settings makes the novel "disappointingly thin and insubstantial." A review of the translation.
D59 Dickson, Robert. "Un Echec pour Gabrielle Roy?" Le Soleil, 31 Oct. 1970, p. 37. In spite of the topicality of the sublect, one wonders whether "un roman mi-didactique, mi-romantique" can be of real value in our understanding the Eskimo culture-shock as these native Canadians are forced to confront modern white society. The most important criticism that can be levelled against the book is that the author has not matured in her technique since her first novel: "les memes symboles deja trop connus, reviennent souvent et finissent par diminuer la force du recit, au lieu de l'augmenter." Dickson gives as examples the symbols of sky, mountain, and river. In addition, the omniscient narrator leaves little room for subtle psychological probing. In conclusion, "je regretterai que la compassion universelle qui etait autrefois la marque de Gabrielle Roy soit devenue plus sentimentale, faute d'etre controlee par la raison."
D60 Blais, J.-E. "La Riviere sans repos." Le Devoir, 12 Dec. 1970. Gabrielle Roy cannot resists the temptation to draw a lesson for the reader and "ce n'est que grace a un grand art de la narration qu'elle ne sombre jamais dans le didactisme." The author "a senti le dynamisme cruel du destin esquimau. . . a su capter cette presence historique."
D61 Ripert, Pierre. "Et Jimmy se rendit au gratte-ciel." Le Figaro litteraire, 9 Sept 1972. Gabrielle Roy's book is not coldly analytical but warmly human. For her, the Eskimo is "un etre humain dont la simplicite de vie et la naivete d'ame se heurtent a un progres incomprehensible."
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D48 Marcotte, Gilles. "Toutes les Routes vont par Altamont." La Presse, "Arts et lettres," 16 April 1966, p. 4. "La Route d'Altamont est une livre simple, vrai, plein de reve et d'interrogations, un livre d'enfance qui ne pouvait etre ecrit que dans la plus rich maturite." The subject matter is the same as that in Rue Deschambault, but "sur un registre plus etendu." The development of the "memoires," i.e., the autobiographical works, parallels that of the novels in its "[temoignage] d'une sorte d'aspiration mystique." In the "memoires" this is more successfully handled.
D49 Major, Andre. "La Route d'Altamont de Gabrielle Roy." Le Petit Journal [Montreal], 17 April 1966, p 42. Gabrielle Roy knows that "on n'echappe pas a son enfance, clef de l'ame" and has constructed a novel of profound truths ("l'enfant saura que vieillir c'est s'enfoncer irremediablement dans le regret du temps passe"). Those truths are timeless: "L'enfance et la vieillesse se rejoignent dans une sorte de communion sacree; innocence et sagesse s'entendent pour s'elever au-dessus du temps."
D50 Ethier-Blais, Jean. "La Route d'Altamont par Gabrielle Roy." Le Devoir, 30 April 1966, p. 11. The personage of the younger Christine is without any discernible human weaknesses, and she is therefore not an entirely believable character. However, the idea of the similarity of youth and old age and their common ground is eloquently yet subtly demon- strated: "L'art de Mme Gabrielle Roy consiste a raconter des choses sans importance qui illuminent la vie. Tout est dans le ton." The best-drawn character is M. Saint-Hilalre who, because he is French and because he uses words well, is a source of delight for the artist-to-be, Christine. In the final analysis, the book "seme la melancolie dans l'ame. Mais c'est une melancolie douce et noble. Elle nourrit le coeur qui oscille lentement entre le rire et les larmes."
D51 Sanzo, Eileen. "The Road Past Altamont." America, 3 Sept. 1966, p. 232. The Road Past Altamont is "a meditation in four parts," and the road itself is a symbol for time and the changes that occur with time. It is the fruit of wisdom and uncharacteristic of the twentieth-century in its expression of love. The concept of abandoning something in order to progress is fascinating: "Is this not a secular statement of the development and renunciation of good proposed by Teilhard de Chardin?" In spite of its "occasional sentimentality," it is "none the less a delight." A review of the translation.
D52 Clute, John. "New Fiction." Toronto Daily Star, 1 Oct 1966, p. 34. "Too often . . Christine exhibits an adult precision of insight so that she knows altogether too much too soon, and she becomes a mannikin of the adult Gabrielle Roy. . . .Too often, in this way, the vision is fogged with a disingenuous sentimentality." A review of the translation.
D53 Grosskurth, Phyllis. "Quebecker with a Flaubert accent." The Globe Magazine, 8 Oct. 1966, p. 27. Grosskurth is writing "in praise of a book, its author, its translator, its cover and format." The storms themselves "are concerned with the nature of wonder, of the experience of being surprised by joy, of the recurrent search for the fresh expectancy of childhood." Taken together the stories form "a masterpiece: fragile as a flower, hard as a gem." A review of the translation.
D54 Helwig, David. "The New Books." Queen's Quarterly, 74, No. 2 (Spring 1967), 344-45. The four "episodes" of the book, translated into "real English, not translator's English," becomes "a work of meaning and wisdom." A review of the translation.
D55 McPherson, Hugo. "First and Last Things." Canadian Literature, No. 32 (Spring 1967), pp. 59-60. The book contains "none of the astringent social documentation of The Tin Flute . . .and none of the quaintness of anecdote and character that give Street of Riches ~ts special warmth." Instead, we have Proustian remembrances that McPherson, like Eileen Sanzo, calls "meditations." The tales "produce. . . moments of illumination for both narrator and reader." They "elaborate what we now recognize as Miss Roy's presiding metaphor: life is a simultaneously exhilirating and painful process of voyaging, for the present is never enough." The reader witnesses "a sensibility of great depth and a mature artistic control." A review of the translation.
D56 "Le Roman franco-canadien a la recherche d'une identite." Le Monde, 5 April 1967, p. 4. Quebec society has changed dramatically since the beginning of the century, and Gabrielle Roy's "tendre roman" helps us perceive the change: "En evoquant les souvenirs de sa petite enfance, Gabrielle Roy nous offre un terme de comparaison qui permet de mesurer l'ampleur d'un bouleversement dont les jeunes romanciers canadiens-francais sont a la fois les produits et les artisans." Too many writers' reactions to the traditions of the past have been violent, superficial and artistically empty. Gabrielle Roy (and Marie-Claire Blais) are the exception to the rule: "Mais de cette formidable remise en cause et de cette recherche passionnee surgissent quelques romanciers pleins de vitalite et de talent qui veulent echapper au particularisme geographique et historique pour atteindre a l'universel."
D57 Duffy, Dennis. "Critical Sympathies." The Tamarack Review, No. 42 (Winter 1967), pp. 78-81. The author also reviews A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence. This reviewer finds Gabrielle Roy's work reminiscent of Virginia Woolf's except that in The Road Past Altamont there is "a certain earthy solidity which seems to have eluded Woolf." Duffy refers to "this extraordinary sense of the solidity of the spiritual" that yields settings which "reverberate until they become metaphors for states of being, countries of the mind." A review of the translation.
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D27 Grandpre, Pierre de. "Rue Deschambault de Gabrielle Roy." Le Devoir, 8 Oct. 1955, p. 32. This great work would have benefited from a different ordering of the chapters. "Les Deux Negres" does not merit first position. That honour should have gone to "Petite Misere" which would have properly set the tone for the rest of the collection. "Bonne volonte sentimentale, mais gaucherie a l'exprimer et melancolie qui s'ensuit pour les etres trop sensibles, appelesune vie plus pleine, volila le theme general, l'atmosphere dans laquelle baignent la plupart de ces recits." There are not many books in our literature "qui marquent une telle rupture de silence, qui se rapprochent autant de cette expression de soi que la litterature peut et doit etre quelquefois."
D28 Valois, Marcel "Le Dernier-ne de Gabrielle Roy." La Presse, 8 Oct 1955, p. 73. Reading the stories "on retrouve une largeur de vues, une liberte et une justesse d'expression, la presence d'un monde nouveau, celui des coeurs comme des plaines et des rivieres, qui s'apparentent aux romanciers americains." The author's art continues to evolve: "Au talent presque trop photographique du debut de rendre la vie quotidienne, au lyrisme aere et confiant qu'avait revele son deuxieme livre, viennent se greffer aujourd'hui une densite dans l'expresslon et une capacite d'apprecier et de temperer sa propre ecriture qui creent le style." Her best pieces "egalent les meilleures de la litterature contemporaine."
D29 Garneau, Rene. "Rue Deschambault par Gabrielle Roy." Livres de France, 6, No. 11 (Dec 1955), p. 17. Rpt. in Le Droit, 11 April 1956, p. 10. The book is subtitled "novel" but this reviewer suggests that there is more autobiography than fiction in it and that it is termed a novel "surtout pour en souligner l'unite de conception et d'inspiration." Whereas in previous works, the two aspects of the novelist's character ---- "les deux tendances a la pitie et au pessimisme" -- merge, in this collection they can be seen separately and in isolation: "On peut meme dire que de l'ensemble de l'ouvrage se degage une phllosophie pessimiste dont on conclura que le cote noir du temerament de Gabrielle Roy est certes aussi important que son sens de la tendresse et de la pitie."
D30 Gay, Paul. "Gabrielle Roy sait trouver la note juste lorsque chant son ame." Le Droit, 11 Jan 1956, p. 14. Several grammatical errors and cumbersome sentences, especially at the beginning of the book, are "largement compenses par une sensibilite fremissante, un amour et une comprehension des hommes qui elevent son livre au-dessus des petits interets de famille et de province et lui font atteindre a l'universel." If poetry captures all the nuances of setting, if it cherishes solitude in order to promote self-discovery and encompasses a sense of fraternity with all men, then Gabrielle Roy is a poet.
D31 Collin, W. E. "Letters in Canada: 1955 Publications in French." University of Toronto Quarterly, 25, No. 3.(April 1956), 394-95. Every story in the collection "is overcast with a delicate though often sad beauty." The book stands as "a spiritual autobiography" of the author.
D32 Tougas, Gerard. "Rue Deschambault." French Review, 30, No. 1 (Oct 1956), 92-93. The same qualities that made Bonheur d'occasion a landmark in the literature of French Canada contribute to the success of Rue Deschambault: "Interprete des desherites, des douleurs cachees, Mile Roy nous achemine, par des analyses d'une tres fine psychologie, vers une participation a la tendresse et a l'admiration qu'elle ressent devant ce petit peuple dont la vie est faite, depuis des siecles, de renoncement." Tragedy and comedy are juxtaposed in this collection and both are successfully portrayed. The single drawback to this otherwise beautitul book is the explicit and overdone imitation of Proust's techniques.
D33 Hazo, Samuel, J. "Gabrielle Roy 'a True Teller of Stories.' Street of Riches Called Work of Delicate Beauty." Pittsburgh Press, 6 Oct 1957. Hazo praises the translator and asserts that the story "Alicia" is the equal of "the best pages of Willa Cather .... A major excellence of this book is that Miss Roy's occasional concern with human misfortune does not sour her portrayal of incidents of human joy." Her optimism sets her apart from -- and above -- many American contemporaries. A review of the translation.
D34 Sullivan, Richard. "Amid Sadness Green Hope." New York Times Book Review, 6 Oct 1957, p. 4. Gabrielle Roy and Virgil "in spirit. . . seem in one way very close" for in both "there is an essential sadness about being alive, this is not a despairing or rebellious attitude, but an awareness of how all human experience must touch the sensitive mind most deeply." Gabrielle Roy's works deserve "much wider reading and more enthusiastic applause in this country. . . ." A review of the translation.
D35 Honderich, Ted "Gabrielle Roy -- As She Once Was." Toronto Daily Star, 12 Oct 1957, p. 28. "Such matters as the social criticism of The Tin Flute aside, Miss Roy has seen and felt an innate sadness of life and learned to communicate it masterfully. It emerges, this subdued feeling, with a beauty which is quite indescribable in the logical terms of critical prose; Miss Roy comes very close to the writing of poetry, a poetry that is soft-voiced tragedy." A review of the translation.
D36 Richler, Mordecai. "In Review." The Montrealer, Dec 1957, p. 70. Gabrielle Roy "is deservedly one of this country's best-known writers" but Street of Riches is "very slight indeed." The best story is "The Well of Dunrea." Richler hopes that "this book, a thin one, will be followed by another novel as good as The Cashier." A review of the translation.
D37 Waddington, Miriam. "New Books." Queen's Quarterly, 64, No, 4 (Winter 1957-1958), 628-29. In this beautiful book, the author "has attained the point of development where her style is nothing more or less than her own individuality. And it is this individuality, this Gabrielle Roy-ness, which comes through on these pages as naturally, as intimately, and as inevitably as the life process itself." A review of the translation.
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D65 Tremblay, Robert. "L'Emouvant et beau retour de Gabrielle Roy." Le Soleil, 28 June 1975. Many had raised their voices, after the publication of Cet Ete qui chantait, to say that Gabrielle Roy's creative life was at an end. Un Jardin au bout du monde is "ce livre profond, pathetique et a certains egards, prophetique."
D66 Socken, Paul "Fellowship." The Canadian Forum, Feb 1978, p. 36. There are four short stories in this collection and they are "told in beautifully-crafted prose well served by the translation." Garden in the Wind fits solidly within the tradition of Gabrielle Roy's writing. "The link between these stories is the same one that connects all the volumes: peoples' lifelong struggle to understand the integrity of their own lives, to see their lives as a whole, and their need to create bridges of concern and understanding between themselves and others. The result is a dynamic tension between two different and yet fundamental aspects of the author's fictional world the introspective and the outward- looking. It is this very tension, and the success that she has demonstrated in dramatizing it, that makes Gabrielle Roy unique among Canadian writers." A review of the translation.
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Born on November 17, 1861, in Morpeth, a village in western Ontario, Archibald Lampman was the son of the village's Anglican minister. Raised in a home with a fine library, and educated in the best schools of the new province of Ontario, Lampman eventually entered Trinity College at the University of Toronto. There, he contributed poems and essays to the college newspaper, the Rouge et Noir, and for a time, was the paper's editor. English, French, German, Greek, Latin, and Hebrew were among the subjects studied by Lampman at Trinity, and he graduated in 1882 with second-class honours in Classics. A brief stint as a school teacher in Orangeville, Ontario, was followed by a job in the Post Office Department in Ottawa which he retained until his death.
Lampman was a prolific contributor of poetry to Canadian, American, and British periodicals, and his work was read widely during his lifetime. His first volume of poetry, Among the Millet, and Other Poems (1888), was praised by William Dean Howells, and his second book, Lyrics of Earth (1895), also received favourable critical notices. With William Wilfred Campbell and Duncan Campbell Scott, Lampman collaborated on "At the Mermaid Inn," a column in The Globe [Toronto]. Lampman belonged to several organizations, among them the Royal Society of Canada, the Ottawa Literary and Scientific Society, and the Fabian Society of Ottawa. He often delivered addresses to these groups. In the midst of his busy life as a man of letters, Lampman died of a long-standing heart problem on February 10, 1899. A life of thirty-seven years, and a literary career of less than twenty, came to an abrupt halt.
A key figure in the life of Lampman, Duncan Campbell Scott is also a key figure in Lampman's bibliography. Scott was a good friend of Lampman's; they worked with Campbell on "At the Mermaid Inn," exchanged ideas on poetry and philosophy, and took fishing trips together in Quebec. Scott sought patronage for Lampman and, after Lampman's death, became his literary executor He edited and oversaw the publishing of The Poems of Archibald Lampman. The book's major purpose was to raise money for Lampman's widow and children. Scott even shared the funeral expenses when Mrs Lampman died in 1910. By publishing Lampman's collected works and various selected editions of his poetry, Scott kept Lampman's work before the public. A number of articles, written about Lampman by Scott, also served to keep Lampman's work fresh in the mind of the public. It is unlikely that Lampman's poetry would have been as widely read in the twentieth century, nor would it have received as much critical attention, had it not been for Duncan Campbell Scott. Stan Dragland has stated that we owe Scott a debt for his "noble record of activity on behalf of Archibald Lampman." For his selfless dedication to Lampman and his family, and for keeping Lampman's work and name before us, Scott does, indeed, deserve our thanks. As an editor, however, Scott cannot be excused for his radical, yet silent, editing of Archibald Lampman's poetry.
Although Lampman had proof-read Among the Millet, and Other Poems, Lyrics of Earth, and the unpublished "Alcyone," Scott disregarded his friend's creative judgement in editing The Poems of Archibald Lampman in 1900 (reprinted in 1974). Spelling, punctuation, and capitalization were changed. A stanza was omitted from one poem, and the verse structure of "The City of the End of Things" was altered. The previously unpublished poems which Scott included in the collection were given similar treatment; some even had their titles changed. From these altered poems, Scott selected several for inclusion in Lyrics of Earth: Sonnets and Ballads (1925) and Selected Poems of Archibald Lampman (1947). Both books contain sections entitled "Lyrics of Earth," yet the poems in these sections are not all drawn from Lampman's Lyrics of Earth. Instead, the sections include poems from various stages in Lampman's career. Moreover, the "Lyrics of Earth" sections are different in the 1925 and 1947 books. At the Long Sault and Other New Poems (1943, and reprinted in 1974) consists of poems which Scott and E. K. Brown drew from Lampman's manuscript books. All of Scott's editing, in all the aforementioned books, is silent. Bruce Nesbitt has stressed the necessity of returning to the Lampman manuscripts. It is to be hoped that scholars will heed Nesbitt's advice, and that new, collated editions of Lampman's poems will be forthcoming. Only when we see what Lampman, himself, wrote can a just assessment of his work begin.
Criticism of Archibald Lampman's work has been dominated by three general areas of concern. The first area of critical inquiry explores the degree to which Lampman is a poet of nature. Ancestral and biographical approaches to Lampman's poetry constitute the second dominant strain of Lampman criticism, and a third channel of analysis has examined literary and philosophical influences on Lampman's work.
The first area of critical concern--the degree to which Lampman is a poet of nature--begins in 1890 with articles praising him for his skill as a descriptive nature poet. "I venture to assert that there is no living poet in either hemisphere who can present such pictures of natural scenery and natural phenomena as Lampman." In every decade since 1890, Lampman has been lauded for his achievement in writing of the world of nature. A smaller number of critics have de-emphasized Lampman's commitment to nature, and argued that Lampman had a highly developed social conscience. Irving Layton has admitted that Lampman's "Epitaph on a Rich Man" and "Liberty" hit him "like two mortar blasts," when he first read them. Louis Dudek and F. W. Watt have similarly discussed the social criticism inherent in Lampman's work. More recently, critics have looked upon Lampman's nature poetry as something other than merely descriptive. Barrie Davies has examined the manner tn which Lampman tries "to bring to society the organic values of the natural world." John Ower has explored nature as "aesthetic symbol" in Lampman's poetry, and Eli Mandel has shown how Lampman strives "to get past nature" in his poetry.
Seeking connections between Lampman's poetry and his ancestry or biography is the second dominant avenue of inquiry into Lampmans poetry. Attributing qualities in Lampman's verse to inherited qualities in Lampman, himself, was a short-lived, but nevertheless major, preoccupation with a number of Lampman's early critics. Lilly E. F. Barry, for one, was convinced that Lampman's "contemplative disposition" was "a tendency inherited from his Teutonic forefathers." A very strong debate has raged over whether or not Lampman was happy in Ottawa, or in his job at the Post Office. Suggestions that Lampman was dissatisfied with his lot began as early as 1890, found their most maudlin expression in Lampman's mother's 1899 claim that living in a country unsympathetic to art had hastened her son's death, and occasionally find their way into Lampman criticism today. However, Duncan Campbell Scott, Claude Bissell, and Desmond Pacey have been very articulate and persuasive in denying that Lampman's creative growth was stunted by life in Ottawa, or a job in the Post Office. Other biographical approaches to Lampman's poetry have centred on a connection between the death of Lampman's infant son in 1894, and a troubled tone in much of the poetry written by Lampman around that time. Ralph Gustafson, in a 1947 article, argued that a crisis other than the boy's death appears to pervade much of Lampman's poetry. In recent years, Bruce Nesbitt and Margaret Coulby Whitridge have proven Gustafson correct, through their exploration of the relationship between Lampman and Katherine (Kate) Waddell.
Literary and philosophical influences on Lampman's work form the third general area of inquiry with which Lampman's critics have been concerned. Most often, Lampman's poetry is said to be influenced by Keats. Wordsworth and Arnold are also cited on more than one occasion. Burns, Whitman, Tom Moore, Leconte de Lisle and the Parnassians, Thomson, and Poe have also been said to have exerted an influence on Lampman's work. Few recent critics have examined poetic influence on Lampman. Rather, they have broadened the term "influence" to include the historical sources of Lampman's "At the Long Sault: May, 1660" and the influence of religion and social pressures on Lampman's work. The connections between Lampman's essays and his poetry, which is to say the influence of one facet of Lampman's work on another, have also received attention of late. Both Barrie Davies and D. M. R. Bentley have been instrumental in illuminating this previously obscured relationship.
Perhaps the most remarkable fact to emerge from this Lampman bibliography is the consistent and continuing presence of Archibald Lampman as an influence on Canadian writing. There are few characteristics common to the poetry of Duncan Campbell Scott, William Wilfred Campbell, Raymond Knister, Nathaniel Benson, Leo Kennedy, Ralph Gustafson, Irving Layton, Louis Dudek, Eli Mandel, Raymond Souster, and Doug Jones, yet each of these poets has written a critical article, a poem, or both about Archibald Lampman. Whether these poets deal with Lampman favourably or unfavourably, whether they seek to emulate him or to eschew all that he stands for, to some extent they consciously define their aesthetics in relationship to those of Archibald Lampman. With Lampman, Canadian poetry begins; in relation to Lampman, each generation of poets determines our poetry's course.
In the case of Archibald Lampman, the standard bibliographies of Canadian literature contain a great deal of information about secondary sources on the poet's work. While these bibliographies also list Lampman's own books, under primary works, no references are given for the many poems Lampman published in the newspapers and magazines of the late nineteenth century. References for a few of these poems were found in the bibliographies of nineteenth-century American periodicals but the single best source of information proved to be Carl Y. Connor's 1929 work, Archibald Lampman: Canadian Poet of Nature. In an appendix to his biography of Lampman, Connor lists dozens of poems by Lampman and their date and place of publication in periodicals. Tracking down the references Connor provided was the bibliographer's first task, and all but one of Connor's references were found to be correct. On the hunch that Lampman may have published other poems in the magazines and newspapers Connor lists, the annual index of each periodical was checked for the span of Lampman's writing career and for about five years after his death. The hunch proved profitable, for additional poems were found as a result of this line of investigation.
University and public libraries in Metropolitan Toronto hold many of the periodicals for which Lampman wrote or in which he was written about. In some cases, however, microfilm or photocopies of poems and articles were requested from libraries throughout North America. Every poem, article, and review listed in this bibliography was read by the bibliographer to ensure its actual existence, to synthesize its content, and to verify its date, page number, volume number, and so forth. In the case of the poems, the titles, wording, line arrangement, and verse arrangement were checked against the poems as they exist in published volumes of Lampman's poetry. Changes were duly noted in the annotations. It was found that poems by Lampman often appeared in the same issue of periodicals which published articles about the poet. A few previously unlisted poems and articles were found by looking through issues known to contain at least one item by or about Archibald Lampman. The poet's death on February 10, 1899, and the unveiling of a memorial cairn on September 13, 1930, provided specific dates around which newspapers and magazines might be likely to publish material on Lampman. Several articles about Lampman were, indeed, found to date from those periods.
Reading Lampman's poems in their original place of publication is a markedly different experience from reading the poems in Lampman's books. In the newspapers of the last century, Lampman's work is often found amid advertisements for elixirs and corsets. Even in the handsomely produced magazines, where prints complementary to specific poems sometimes accompany Lampman's work, the poems are never more than a page away from accounts of unusual new contraptions or gossip about the privileged and titled. The juxtaposition of art and popular culture in the late nineteenth century is nowhere better illustrated than in the periodicals in which Lampman made his first appearance as a poet. It is hoped that readers of this bibliography will be led back to those journals to see for themselves the manner in which art seeks a place among the more ephemeral concerns of the age. A bibliography may give shape to a writer's canon, but a writer's era has a symmetry that only its artifacts can reveal.
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Despite the high profile which Leonard Cohen has achieved for himself as a writer, it is perhaps fair to say that his work has yet to find its true critic. The first two books (Let Us Compare Mythologies and The Spice-Box of Earth) fit easily into a romantic tradition that stretches back to W.B. Yeats, through him to Baudelaire and the Symbolistes, and eventually to Poe. (It is surprising that no one has ever written about Cohen and Poe.) By Cohen's time, this approach to poetry, with its overlapping senses of magic and despair, and its manipulative use of language to create certain effects of ambiguity that Pound described as "blurry [and] messy," was, if not discredited, at least out of fashion among many of his contemporaries in Canada and the United States. It is not unlikely that Cohen was aware of the new American school; as a friend and student of Louis Dudek he would undoubtedly have come into contact at an early stage with Pound's poetry, and would likely have been informed as well of the work being done by Charles Olson and the other writers who looked to Pound for direction. Cohen, however, has never interested hLmself in this side of Modernism. His influences are Yeats, A.M. Klein, and certain other Jewish writings, and the figure he strikes is the Rimbaldian one. (Had Rimbaud gone on to publish after Les Illuminations, might it not have been such a book as The Energy of Slaves?) It is perhaps significant that it is the "late romantic" phase of Cohen's work which has had the greatest success with both reviewers and the public alike.
With Flowers for Hitler (1964), Cohen's work began to move in a new direction. More and more, beneath the continued surface involvement with established themes (Judaism, violence, sex, etc. ) Cohen's main subject came to be the nature and role of the artist himself. This concern had played a major part in his first novel, but by all appearances it was Cohen's increasing success and popularity as a writer, and then as a pop singer, that served to bring this theme to the fore. The publication in 1968 of both his Selected Poems and his first recording marked an important point in this development. Cohen began increasingly to devote his time to composing and recording, and the fact that he chose to publish a volume of selected poems at this time suggests that he considered a certain phase in his career as a poet to have come to an end.
When The Energy of Slaves was published in 1972, six years had elapsed since Cohen's last book of poems (excepting the Selected Poems), but the voice bears very little resemblance to the one found in the previous volume (Parasites of Heaven). Yet critics who thought The Energy of Slaves unpoetic, uninteresting, unCohenesque even, had forgotten or chosen to ignore certain poems in Flowers for Hitler, and the "New Poems" included at the end of the selected volume. Slaves was almost universally dismissed as Cohen dumping his notebooks indiscriminately on a previously converted public, and most critics on the one hand rejected the work as prosaic and boring, and on the other hand read and accepted Cohen's confessions at face value ("I am no longer at my best practising / the craft of verse / I do better/in the cloakroom with Sara"). Missing in Slaves is any sense of the poet as magician; instead we find a view of art as basically fake, or worse, as betrayal (this is a view which Beautiful Losers ultimately espouses as well). The coldness of the poems (which, if they are songs at all, are so in the manner of Ives's "The Cage") suggests not so much that Cohen has lost his touch as that he will no longer have any part of the concerns and cliches of that tradition dubbed "black Romanticism."
The Energy of Slaves is the only book of Cohen's poetry that might be said to be post-modern. With the recent publication of Death of a Lady's Man, Slaves now appears to have been an even more logical step in Cohen's progress as a writer. Where he used to use women and violence as mirrors in which to observe the hidden processes of his own life, more and more he seems to be discarding these in favour of an object, an actual mirror. Women are still in the room, of course, but the poems evolve now from a more direct confrontation with an objective yet ambiguous image of the self. Disgust has been replaced by a more dispassionate (if nonetheless ironic and humorous) investigation of the paradoxes and unrealities of the artist's life.
The problems encountered in compiling this bibliography have been those which anyone would come up against in the process of dealing with the work of an established poet. Poets, particularly in the early stages of their careers, tend to publish in magazines which are frequently obscure and often short-lived. This type of material rarely shows up in periodical indexes, and sometimes it is not available in even the largest library collections. In Cohen's case, the problem of obscure publications is increased, because many of his books do not contain acknowledgements of previous publication. When they do appear (as in The Spice-Boy of Earth) they are not complete. This leaves the bibliographer the task of searching through every likely little magazine, a tiring and ineffective manner of proceeding. Without unlimited funds it also leaves one dependent on a limited number of libraries, which, however large, cannot be expected to own copies of every Canadian literary magazine published in the last thirty years. With Cohen this difficulty is mitigated by the fact that, after the early 1960s, he seems to have submitted very little work for magazine publication.
Cohen's high profile as both poet and singer creates a second major problem for the bibliographer. Is one to include every squib and article ever published in the press, given the fact that many of them are of the gossip-page variety? On the one hand, such inclusiveness would clog a work which one presumes will be of use primarily to scholars and librarians, the latter are unlikely to be interested in the attention Cohen has received at the hands of Seventeen or People. On the other hand, this aspect of Cohen's public career is not wholly irrelevant to his work as a poet and novelist; it would be manifestly to distort "the Cohen phenomenon" if one were to ignore all the writing about him except for the articles which have been published in the academic and literary press. In any case, the bibliographer has to choose. He may be accused of lacking comprehensiveness (the worst charge in a bibliography court), but perhaps such sifting is the one chance he has to give a personal direction to what is otherwise the most impersonal document outside a volume of mathematical tables.
Where the poet's own work is concerned there is no choice: one has to find everything. If I have made omissions, it is neither by virtue of a lack of time spent thumbing through long rows of the PS section, nor through the fault of any of those who have lent a helping hand. I have been most helpfully received everywhere, but would be quick to point out that any holes in the fabric are no one's fault but my own.
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A15 University of Toronto Library Toronto, Ontario
The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library holds the following Lampman material: a bound manuscript volume of 92 poems inscribed "Christmas 1889," a manuscript copy of "October," a partial manuscript of "The Child's Music Lesson," 3 letters written by Duncan Campbell Scott to Archibald Lampman, 2 letters by Lampman to Scott, and 3 letters written by Lampman to J. E. Wetherell. Lampman was an 1882 graduate of Trinity College, and the College retains the "Minutes of Trinity Literary Institute, 1879-1882." Lampman was a member of the Institute and, for a time, its secretary. Some of the "Minutes" are in his handwriting. The College also has copies of its newspaper, the Rouge et Noir, and its successor, the Trinity University Review. Lampman published poetry and prose in these papers. Christmas cards and letters from Lampman to the Reverend Charles H Shortt, microfilm copies of letters from Lampman to Mrs. May McKeggie and from Miss Annie Lampman to Mrs May McKeggie are also held by the College.
A16 Public Archives of Canada Ottawa, Ontario
Lampman material in the Public Archives includes 22 manuscript workbooks containing over 400 draft poems dating from 1883-99, a bound volume of poems dating from 1894-99, holograph poems, and Christmas cards issued jointly by Lampman and Duncan Campbell Scott. The Archives also contain 112 letters from Lampman to E. W. Thomson, 26 letters from E. W. Thomson to Lampman, 1 letter from Lampman to Duncan Campbell Scott, and 2 letters from Scott to Lampman. Lampman's prose works held by the Archives include an unfinished novel; "The Fairy Fountain"; "Hans Fingerhut's Frog Lesson"; 6 notes on fishing trips, etc; Lampman's essay on "Happiness"; an untitled essay on socialism; and 9 critical essays. The 9 essays are "Armadis of Gaul," "George F. Cameron," "Keats," "The Modern School of Poetry in England," "Poetic Interpretation," "The Poetry of Byron," "The Poets," "Style," and "Two Canadian Poets: A Lecture." Poems by Lampman's father, the Reverend Archibald Lampman who sometimes wrote under the name of "Crowquill," are also held by the Public Archives. Some works by Duncan Campbell Scott, Bliss Carman, and Charles G.D. Roberts are included, as well, in the Archives' Lampman collection.
A17 Library of Parliament Ottawa, Ontario
Four bound manuscript volumes of poems are held by the Library of Parliament: "Alcyone," "David and Abigail," "Miscellaneous Poems," and "The Story of an Affinity."
A18 Library Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia
An untitled volume of poems; Alcyone, with a note by Duncan Campbell Scott; poems written by Lampman for members of his family; and a fragment of "Love and Death" constitute the University's holdings of Lampman's poems. The University also retains a copy of Lampman's prose work "The Character and Poetry of Keats," and letters from Lampman to various members of his family. Also in the Simon Fraser collection are letters to Lampman from several friends and writers (Bliss Carman, Charles G. D. Roberts, William Wilfred Campbell, J. E. Collins, Gilbert Parker, and others); correspondence by various members of Lampman's family; Lampman's sketchbook, family photographs, and certificates.
A19 Library Queen's University Kingston, Ontario
Letters by Lampman to Horace Scudder, Boston; to Copeland and Day, Boston; and to Bliss Carman are held by the University. Queen's also retains part of the printer's copy of Lyrics of Earth.
A20 Library University of New Brunswick Fredericton, New Brunswick
Included in the "Rufus Hathaway Collection" are manuscript copies of "By the Sea" and "To the Warbling Vireo"; 3 letters about Lampman: 1 from Bliss Carman to Duncan Campbell Scott and 2 from Duncan Campbell Scott to Edward Doak Mead (the editor of the New England Magazine); and a letter from Rufus Hathaway to Lampman's son.
A21 Library McGill University Montreal, Quebec
The university holds 2 poems by Lampman: "Ballad of Summer's Rest" and "Winter," 15 letters from Lampman to W. D. Lighthall, and a portrait of Lampman by A. D. Patterson.
A22 Library Women's Canadian Historical Society Toronto, Ontario
Lampman's poem "The Passing of Spring" is held by the Society.
A23 Metropolitan Toronto Library Toronto, Ontario
The "Melvin Hammond Papers" contain the texts of 2 letters written by Charles G. D. Roberts to Archibald Lampman.
A24 Ottawa Public Library Ottawa, Ontario
A 1 page memorandum from Lampman to W. A. Code is held by this library.
A25 Archives of Ontario Toronto, Ontario
In the papers of Sir Alexander Campbell (Postmaster General of Canada) are 4 letters from his son, Archibald Campbell, requesting employment in the civil service for his friend, Archibald Lampman.
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A1 Among the Millet, and Other Poems. Ottawa: Durie, 1888. 151 pp.
A2 Lyrics of Earth. Boston: Copeland and Day, 1895. 56 pp. Ed. D. M. R. Bentley. Ottawa: Tecumseh, 1978. 64 pp. The 1978 edition restores the poems to Lampman's intended order.
Alcyone. Ottawa: Ogilvy, 1899. 110 pp.
A4 The Poems of Archibald Lampman. Ed. Duncan Campbell Scott. Toronto: Morang, 1900. 473 pp. Holiday Edition. 2 vols. Toronto: Morang, 1901. 473 pp. Toronto: Morang, 1905 473 pp. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1974. 473 pp. Scott took a number of editorial liberties in preparing this volume. He made changes within poems, and assigned poems different names in cases where two poems bore the same name. However, the changes Scott made are not specified anywhere in the book.
A5 Lyrics of Earth: Sonnets and Ballads. Ed. Duncan Campbell Scott. Toronto: Musson, 1925. 276 pp.
A6 At the Long Sault and Other New Poems. Ed. Duncan Campbell Scott and E. K. Brown. Toronto: Ryerson, 1943. 45 pp. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1974. 45 pp.
A7 Selected Poems of Archibald Lampman. Ed. Duncan Campbell Scott. Toronto: Ryerson, 1947. 176 pp.
A8 The City of the End of Things. Ed. Michael Gnarowski. Montreal: Golden Dog, 1972. N. pag.
A9 The Poems of Archibald Lampman (Including At the Long Sault). Introd. Margaret Coulby Whitrdge. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1974. 518 pp. This volume combines the works listed in A4 and A6.
A10 Lampman's Kate, Late Love Poems of Archibald Lampman, 1887-1897. Ed. Margaret Coulby Whitridge. Ottawa: Borealis, 1975. 52 pp.
A11 Lampman's Sonnets, 1884-1899. Ed. Margaret Coulby Whitridge. Ottawa: Borealis, 1976. 194 pp.
A12 Comfort of the Fields. The Best-Known Poems. Ed. Raymond Souster. Sutton West, Ont.: Paget, 1979. 125 pp.
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A13 Hans Fingerhut's Frog Lesson, A Fairy Tale. Ottawa:Golden Dog, 1973. N. pag.
A14 Archibald Lampman: Selected Prose. Ed. Barrie Davies. Ottawa: Tecumseh, 1975. 127 pp. This volume contains a wide range of Lampman's prose works, from fairy tales to literary criticism. The eleven chapters include: "At the Mermaid Inn," "Descriptive Fragments of Canoe Trips," "The Fairy Fountain," "Friendship" (B149), "Hans Fingerhut's Frog Lesson" (B156), "Happiness" (B157), "The Modern School of Poetry in England," "Poetic Interpretation," "The Revolt of Islam" (B148), "Untitled Essay on Socialism" (B161), and some letters written by Lampman to E. W. Thomson.
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B148 "The Revolt of Islam." Rouge et Noir, 1, No. 4 (Dec 1880), 4-6. ALP.
B149 "Friendship." Rouge et Noir, 2, No. 1 (Feb 1881), 6-7. ALP
B150 "College Days among Ourselves." Rouge et Noir, 3, No. 1 (Feb. 1882), 7-8.
B151 "College Days among Ourselves." Rouge et Noir, 3, No. 2 (March 1882), 6-7.
B152 "German Patriotic Poetry." Rouge et Noir, 3, No. 2. (March 1882), 4-6.
B153 "College Days among Ourselves." Rouge et Noir, 3, No. 4 (Nov. 1882), 4-5.
B154 "College Days among Ourselves." Rouge et Noir, 4, No. 2 (Feb 1883), 5-6.
B155 "Gambetta" Rouge et Noir, 4, No. 5 (July 1883), 5-10.
B156 "Hans Fingerhut's Frog Lesson." Rouge et Noir, 7, No. 1 (Feb 1886), 9-12. HF; ALP.
B157 "Happiness." Harper's, 93 (July 1896), 309-12. Rpt. in Archibald Lampman's Letters to Edward William Thomson (1890-1898). Ed. Arthur S. Bourinot. Ottawa: Bourinot, 1956, pp. 48-52. Rpt. in Canadian Poetry Magazine, 30, No. 2 (Feb 1967), 40-43. ALP.
B158 "Two Canadian Poets: A Lecture." University of Toronto Quarterly, 13, No. 4 (July 1944), 406-23. Rpt. in Masks of Poetry: Canadian Critics on Canadian Verse. Ed. A. J. M. Smith. New Canadian Library, No. 3. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1962, pp. 26-44.Rpt. in Canadian Literature; The Beginnings to the 20th Century. Ed. Catherine M. McLay. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1974, pp. 302-08.
B159 "The Character and Poetry of Keats." University of Toronto Quarterly, 15, No. 4 (July 1946), 356-72.
B160 At the Mermaid Inn, Conducted by A. Lampman, W.W. Campbell, and Duncan C. Scott. Ed. Arthur S. Bourinot. Ottawa: Bourinot, 1958. 96 pp.
B161 "A Lampman Manuscript." Journal of Canadian Fiction, 1, No. 2 (Spring 1972), 55-58. This essay, which is taken from Volume IV, pages 2500-13 of Lampman's manuscript papers, and dates from about 1890, outlines the poet's views on socialism.
B162 "The Poetry of Byron." Queen's Quarterly, 83, No. 4 (Winter 1976), 623-32.
B163 At the Mermaid Inn: Wilfred Campbell, Archibald Lampman, Duncan Campbell Scott in The Globe 1892-3. Introd. Barrie Davies. Literature of Canada. Poetry and Prose in Reprint, No. 21. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1979. 353 pp. A transcription of the entire run of the "At the Mermaid Inn" column. See also B160.
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B164 Archibald Lampman's Letters to Edward William Thomson (1890-1898). Ed. Arthur S. Bourinot. Ottawa: Bourinot, 1956. 74 pp. The companion volume is The Letters of Edward William Thomson to Archibald Lampman (1891-1897). Ed. Arthur S. Bourinot. Ottawa: Bourinot, 1957. 49 pp.
B165 Some Letters of Duncan Campbell Scott, Archibald Lampman, and Others. Ed. Arthur S. Bourinot. Ottawa: Bourinot, 1959. 63 pp.
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Among the Millet, and Other Poems ......... AM
Lyrics of Earth ........................... LE
Alcyone ................................... A
The Poems of Archibald Lampman .......... PAL
Lyrics of Earth: Sonnets and Ballads ...... LSB
At the Long Sault and Other New Poems ..... ALS
Selected Poems of Archibald Lampman ....... SPL
The City of the End of Things ............. CET
Lampman's Kate, Late Love Poems of Archibald
Lampman, 1887-1897 ........................ LK
Lampman's Sonnets, 1884-1899 .............. LS
Comfort of the Fields ..................... CF
Hans Fingerhut's Frog Lesson, A Fairy Tale..HF
Archibald Lampman: Selected Prose ......... ALP
B1 "The Last Sortie." Rouge et Noir, 3, No. 4(Nov 1882), 4.
B2 "Derelict." Rouge et Noir, 4, No. 1 (Dec 1882), 5.
B3 "A Monition." The Week, 6 Dec 1885, p. 6. AM (revised -- "The Coming of Winter"); PAL.
B4 "Three Flower Petals." The Week, 17 Jan 1884, p. 102. AM; PAL; LSB; SPL.
B5 "A Fantasy." The Week, 7 Feb. 1884, p. 155.
B6 "Spring on the River." Rouge et Noir, 5, No. 5 (May 1884), 5 AM; PAL; LSB; SPL.
B7 "The King's Sabbath." The Week, 18 Dec 1884, p.39. AM; PAL; LSB; SPL; LS.
B8 "A January Sunset." The Current, 17 Jan. 1885, p. 45 Rpt. in Rouge et Noir, 6, No. 1 (March 1885), 11. LS.
B9 "Bird Voices." Century, 30, No. 1 (May 1885), 163. Rpt. in Rouge et Noir, 6, No. 3 (May 1885), 9. AM; PAL.
B10 "The Hepalica." Rouge et Noir, 6, No. 3 (May 1885), 5.
B11 "An August Warning." Rouge et Noir, 6, No. 4 (June 1885), 3.
B12 "The Weaver." The Week, 16 July 1885, p. 522. AM; PAL.
B13 "Ballade of Summer's Sleep." The Week, 12 Nov 1885, p. 794. AM; PAL.
B14 "An October Sunset." Rouge et Noir, 6, No. 6 (Dec. 1885), 8. AM; PAL.
B15 "Winter's Nap." Rouge et Noir, 6, No. 6 (Dec 1885), 11.
B16 "The Three Pilgrims." Rouge et Noir, 7, No. 4 (July 1886), 5-6. AM (revised); PAL.
B17 "The Organist." The Week, 8 July 1886, p. 514. Rpt. (excerpt). In Review of Reviews, 2, No. 8 (Aug 1890), 140 AM; PAL.
B18 "The Little Handmaiden." The Week, 11 Aug 1887, p. 593. AM; PAL.
B19 "The Loons." Scribner's, 2, No. 3 (Sept 1887), 291. AM; PAL; LSB; SPL; LS.
B20 Abu Midjan." The Week, 29 Sept 1887, p. 710. AM; PAL.
B21 "An Old Lesson from the Fields." Scribner's, 2, No. 5 (Nov. 1887), 627. Rpt. in Rouge et Noir, 8, No. 8 (Nov 1887), 6 AM; PAL; LSB; SPL; LS; CF.
B22 "The Railway Station." The Week, 22 Dec 1887, p. 55. AM; PAL; LSB; SPL; LS; CF.
B23 "New Year's Eve." The Week, 29 Dec 1887, p. 69. AM; PAL; LS. The poem begins "Once on the year's last eve in my mind's might" and should not be confused with a different poem of the same name in At the Long Sault and Other New Poems.
B24 "Winter." The Week, 5 Jan. 1888, p. 90. AM; PAL; LSB; SPL.
B25 "Gentlemen." Trinity University Review, l, No. 2 (Feb 1888), 3. LS.
B26 "Hope and Fear." Trinity University Review, 1, No. 2 (Feb 1888), 7.
B27 "A God-Speed to the Snow." Trinity University Review, 1, No. 4 (April 1888), 3. Rpt. "God-Speed to the Snow." In Youth's Companion, 31 March 1892, p. 164. LE; PAL.
In Lampman's books, both the word "A" and the hyphen are omitted from the title and the poem is called "Godspeed to the Snow."
B28 "Despondency." Scribner's, 3, No. 6 (June 1888), 732. AM; PAL; LSB; SPL; LS; CF.
B29 "Midsummer Night." Scribner's, 4, No. 2 (Aug 1888), 173. Rpt. in Living Age, 26 June 1897, p. 842. AM; PAL; LSB; SPL; LS.
B30 "Winter Evening." Scribner's, 4, No. 6 (Dec. 1888),748. A; PAL; LSB; SPL; LS;, CF. The poem is illustrated by J. H. Twachtman in Scribner's.
B31 "April Night." Scribner's, 5, No. 4 (April 1889), 442. A; PAL; SPL, LS; CF.
B32 "Drought." Scribner's, 6, No. 3 (Sept 1889), 362. PAL; LSB; SPL; CF.
B33 "Evening." Scribner's, 6, No. 6 (Dec 1889), 692. Rpt. in Canadian Nature, 14, No. 1 (Jan-Feb 1952), 27. A; PAL, LSB; SPL, LS, CF. In Scribner's, the poem is illustrated by A. Lemaire.
B34 "Knowledge." Trinity University Review, 2, No. 10 (Dec. 1889), 154. AM; PAL; LSB; SPL; LS.
B35 "Among the Orchards." The Week, 27 Dec. 1889, p. 55. A; PAL; LSB; SPL; LS, CF.
B36 "The Moon-Path." Scribner's, 7, No. 2 (Feb 1890), 219 LE, PAL; LSB; SPL.
B37 "The Sun Cup." Harper's, 80 (Feb 1890), 435. LE; PAL; LSB; SPL.
B38 "Dead Cities." Scribner's, 7, No. 5 (May 1890), 624. PAL; LSB; SPL; LS.
Only the first sonnet is printed in Scribner's. Revisions were made before the poem was published in Lampman's books.
B39 "A Morning Summons." Trinity University Review, 3, No. 5 (May 1890), 97. PAL; LSB; SPL; LS.
B40 "River-Dawn." Independent, 22 May 1890, p. 1. PAL ("A Dawn on the Lievre"); LSB; SPL; LS; CF.
B41 "To the Cricket." Scribner's, 8, No. 1 (July 1890), 80. A; PAL; LSB; SPL; LS; CF.
B42 "Across the Pea-Fields." Independent, 14 Aug. 1890, p. 1. PAL; LSB; SPL; LS; CF.
B43 "An Invocation." New England Magazine, 3, No. 1 (Sept 1890), 41. PAL; LSB; SPL; LS.
B44 "In November." Harper's, 81 (Nov. 1890), 936. LSB; SPL; CF. This poem, which begins "With loitering step and quiet eye, / Beneath the low November sky," has been published in Harper's, Lyrics of Earth: Sonnets and Ballads, Selected Poems of Archibald Lampman, and Comfort of the Fields. A different poem, beginning "The hills and leafless forests slowly yield / To the thick-driving snow," but also bearing the title "In November," appears in Among the Millet, and Other Poems, The Poems of Archibald Lampman, and Comfort of the Fields. This latter poem appears under the title "Late November" in Lyrics of Earth: Sonnets and Ballads and Selected Poems of Archibald Lampman, and under both titles in Lampman's Sonnets, 1884-1899.
B45 "Life and Nature." Scribner's, 8, No. 5 (Nov 1890), 556. Rpt. in Current Literature, 21 (March 1897), 246-47. LE; PAL; LSB; SPL.
B46 "Golden Rod." Trinity University Review, 3, No. 12 (Dec 1890), 194. Rpt. "Goldenrod." In Youth's Companion, 28 July 1892, p. 380. PAL; LSB; SPL; LS.
B47 "The March of Winter." Harper's, 82 (Jan 1891), 228. Rpt. in Canadian Nature, 11, No. 2 (March-April 1949), 64. PAL; LSB; SPL; LS; CF.
B48 "Snowbirds." Atlantic Monthly, Jan 1891, p. 44. Rpt. in Current Literature, 21 (March 1897), 247. LE; PAL; LSB; SPL; CF.
B49 "In March." Independent, 5 March 1891, p. 1. A; PAL; SPL; LS; CF.
B50 "Winter Break." Independent, 5 March 1891, p. 1. A ("Winter-Break"); PAL; LSB; SPL; LS; CF.
B51 "Night." Scribner's, 9, No. 4 (April 1891), 515. PAL; LSB; SPL; LS.
B52 "The Meadow." Independent, 9 April 1891, p. 1. LE; PAL; LSB; SPL; CF.
B53 "In Absence." Scribner's, 10, No. 2 (Aug 1891), 194. PAL; LSB; SPL; LS.
B54 "A Sunset on the Lower St Lawrence." Independent, 1 Oct. 1891, p. 1. PAL ("A Sunset at Les Eboulements"); LSB; SPL; LS; CF.
B55 "The Voices of Earth." Scribner's, 10, No. 4 (Oct 1891),417. Rpt. in Book Buyer, 18, No. 3 (April 1899), 189. A; PAL; LSB; SPL; LS.
B56 "A Midnight Landscape." Cosmopolitan, 12, No. 1 (Nov. 1891), 104. PAL; LSB; SPL; LS.
B57 "Music." Century, Nov. 1891, p. 132. LS. This poem, beginning "Oh, take the lute this brooding hour for me" is a different poem from the one which appears as "Music" in Among the Millet, and Other Poems, The Poems of Archibald Lampman, Lyrics of Earth: Sonnets and Ballads, and Selected Poems of Archibald Lampman.
B58 "A Reassurance." Youth's Companion, 5 Nov. 1891, p. 572. LE (revised--"A Re-Assurance"); PAL; LSB; SPL.
B59 "Sunset." Independent, 3 Dec. 1891, p. 1. Rpt. in Current Literature, 21 (March 1897), 247. LE; PAL; LSB; SPL.
B60 "The Sweetness of Life." Youth's Companion, 3 Dec. 1891, p. 630. LE; PAL; LSB.
B61 "A March Day." Cosmopolitan, 12. No. 3 (Jan. 1892), 312. PAL; LSB; SPL; LS; CF.
B62 "Comfort of the Fields." Scribner's, 11, No. 2 (Feb. 1892), 255-56. LE; PAL; LSB; SPL; CF.
B63 "With the Night." Atlantic Monthly, Feb. 1892, p. 153. LE; PAL; LSB; SPL.
B64 "The Better Day." The Week, 13 May 1892, p. 374. A; PAL; LSB; SPL.
B65 "Sleep." The Globe [Toronto], 28 May 1892, p. 9. Rpt. in Harper's, June 1892, p. 49. LS. The poem appears as part of the "At the Mermaid Inn" column in The Globe. Beginning "Behold I lay in prison like St Paul," the poem should not be confused with a different poem, also called "Sleep," which appears in Among the Millet, and Other Poems and The Poems of Archibald Lampman.
B66 "The Return of the Year." Scribner's, 11, No. 6 (June 1892), 675. LE; PAL; LSB; SPL.
B67 "Falling Asleep." The Globe [Toronto], 4 June 1892, p. 8. PAL; LSB; SPL; LS. CF. The poem appears as part of the "At the Mermaid Inn" column in The Globe.
B68 "Reality." The Globe [Toronto], 4 June 1892, p. 9. LS. The poem appears as part of the "At the Mermaid Inn" column in The Globe.
B69 "The Poet's Possession." Youth's Companion, 9 June 1892, p. 296. LE; PAL; LSB; SPL; CF.
B70 "The City." The Week, 1 July 1892, p. 486. LSB; SPL; CF. Beginning "Canst thou not rest o city," this poem appears in The Week, Lyrics of Earth: Sonnets and Ballads, Selected Poems of Archibald Lampman, and Comfort of the Fields. A different poem, also called "The City," appears in Among the Millet, and Other Poems, The Poems of Archibald Lampman, and Lampman's Sonnets, 1884-1899. Both poems are printed in Lyrics of Earth: Sonnets and Ballads, Selected Poems of Archibald Lampman, and Comfort of the Fields.
B71 "By the Sea." Youth's Companion, 11 Aug 1892, p. 404. PAL; LSB; SPL; LS; CF.
B72 "At the Ferry." Independent, 25 Aug. 1892, p. 1. LE; PAL; LSB; SPL.
B73 "An Autumn Landscape." Harper's, 85 (Oct 1892),762. Rpt. in The Globe [Toronto], 15 Oct 1892, p. 9. LE; PAL; LSB; SPL. The poem appears as part of the "At the Mermaid Inn" column in The Globe.
B74 "Amor Vitae." The Globe[Toronto], 29 0ct. 1892, p. 8. A; PAL; LSB; SPL.
The poem appears as part of the "At the Mermaid Inn" column and is untitled in The Globe.
B75 "The Cup of Life." The Globe [Toronto], 29 Oct. 1892, p. 8. Rpt. in The Week, 30 Nov. 1894, p. 10. PAL; LSB; SPL; LS; CF. The poem appears as part of the "At the Mermaid Inn" column in The Globe.
B76 "Vision." The Globe [Toronto], 19 Nov. 1892, p. 8. LE ("Winter-Store"); PAL. The poem appears as part of the "At the Mermaid Inn" column, but does not appear in its entirety, in The Globe.
B77 "Nature Love." Youth's Companion, 1 Dec. 1892, p. 636. PAL ("On the Companionship with Nature"); LSB; SPL; LS.
B78 "Beside the Stream." Youth's Companion, 15 Dec. 1892, p. 664. LE ("By an Autumn Stream"); PAL; LSB; SPL; CF.
B79 "After Mist in Winter." Cosmopolitan, 14, No. 4 (Feb. 1893), 398. PAL ("After Mist"); LSB; SPL; LS; CF.
B80 "Cloud-Break." Independent, 2 March 1893, p. 1. LE; PAL; LSB; SPL.
B81 "April on the Hills." Youth's Companion, 13 April 1893, p. 190. Rpt. "April in the Hills." In Current Literature, 21 (March 1897), 246. LE; PAL; LSB; SPL; CF. In Current Literature and Lampman's books the poem has some changes in the third and fourth stanzas, and includes a fifth stanza not present in the Youth's Companion version of the poem.
B82 "Before the Robin." Independent, 13 April 1893, p. 9. PAL; LSB; SPL; LS; CF.
B83 "Good Speech." Youth's Companion, 25 May 1893, p. 264. A; PAL; LSB.
B84 "June." Cosmopolitan, 15, No. 2 (June 1893), 173-75. LE; PAL; LSB; SPL.
An illustration by Hamilton Gibson accompanies the poem in Cosmopolitan.
B85 "To the Warbling Vireo." Youth's Companion, 22 June 1893, p. 320. PAL; LSB; SPL; LS.
B86 "The Angel of the House." Youth's Companion, 20 July 1893, p. 366. PAL ("The Spirit of the House"); LSB; SPL; LS.
B87 "September." Harper's, 87 (Sept 1893), 506-07. LE; PAL; LSB; SPL; CF.
B88 "Storm Voices." Century, Sept. 1893, p. 655. PAL; LSB; SPL; LS.
B89 "The Autumn Waste." Century, Oct. 1893, p. 938. A; PAL; LSB, LS.
B90 "After the Shower." Youth's Companion, 12 Oct 1893, p. 496 PAL; LSB; SPL; LS; CF.
B91 "Indian Summer." Scribner's, 14, No. 5 (Nov 1893), 548. Rpt. in Canadian Magazine, 22, No. 1 (Nov. 1903), 83. A; PAL; LSB; LS.
B92 "The City of the End of Things." Atlantic Monthly, March 1894, pp. 350-52. Rpt. trans. Jacques Gariepy. In Delta, 25 (Nov. 1965), 5-6. A; PAL; LSB; SPL; CET; CF.
B93 "To Chicago." Arena, 9 (April 1894), 632. LS.
B94 "Successors of Pan." Independent, 5 April 1894, p. 1. LE ("Favorites of Pan"); PAL; LSB; SPL. The Independent version of the poem includes a stanza, between the usual fifth and sixth stanzas of the poem as it appears in Lampman's books. The extra stanza reads "The wastes and moonlit solitudes, / And paths of heaven beyond regard or ken, / And gladness of the hills, and earth cool woods, / And the thronged life of men."
B95 "To My Daughter." Youth's Companion, 17 May 1894, p. 232. A; PAL; LSB; SPL.
B96 "The Wind's Word." Independent, 26 July 1894, p. 1. PAL; LSB; SPL.
B97 "Avarice." The Week, 30 Nov 1894, p. 10. PAL; LSB; SPI; LS.
B98 "Beauty." The Week, 30 Nov. 1894, p. 10. PAL; LSB; SPL; LS.
B99 "The Modern Politician." The Week, 30 Nov. 1894, p. 10. PAL; LSB; SPL; LS; CF.
B100 "Salvation." The Week, 30 Nov. 1894, p. 10. PAL; LSB; SPL; LS.
B101 "Stoic and Hedonist." The Week, 30 Nov. 1894, p. 10. PAL; LSB; SPL; LS.
B102 "To a Millionaire." The Week, 30 Nov. 1894, p. 10. PAL; LSB; SPL; LS; CF.
B103 "To an Ultra Protestant." The Week, 30 Nov 1894, p. 10. PAL; LSB; SPL; LS.
B104 "To Chaucer." The Week, 30 Nov. 1894, p 10. PAL; LSB, SPL; LS.
B105 "Virtue." The Week, 30 Nov 1894, p. 10. PAL; LSB; SPL; LS.
B106 "The Woodcutter's Hut." Scribner's, 16, No. 6 (Dec 1894), 741-45. A; PAL; LSB. Illustrations by Frank French accompany the poem in Scribner's.
B107 "Alcyone." Atlantic Monthly, Jan. 1895, pp. 29-30. A; PAL; LSB; SPL.
B108 "Inter Vias." The Chap-Book, 15 Jan 1895, pp. 207-08. A; PAL; LSB; SPL.
B109 "Personality." Cosmopolitan, 18, No. 6 (April 1895), 751. A; PA; L; LSB; SPL; CF.
B110 "Distance." Youth's Companion, 4 April 1895, p. 166. LE; PAL; LSB; SPL.
B111 "May." Youth's Companion, 2 May 1895, p. 220. PAL; LSB; SPL; LS; CF.
B112 "When the Bobolink Comes." Youth's Companion, 16 May 1895, p. 242. PAL; ("Nesting Time"); LSB; LS; CF.
B113 "The Passing of the Spirit." Century, July 1895, p. 454. PAL; LSB; SPL; LS.
B114 "The Cloud-Fleet." Youth's Companion, 25 July 1895, p. 358.
B115 "The Mystery of a Year." Youth's Companion, 31 Oct. 1895, p. 518 A; PAL.
B116 "The Ruin of the Year." Scribner's, 18, No. 5 (Nov 1895), 570. PAL, LSB; SPL; LS.
B117 "Wind and World." The Chap-Book, 1 Nov. 1895, p. 475.
B118 "Paternity." Youth's Companion, 14 Nov. 1895, p. 584. PAL; LSB; SPL.
B119 "War." Cosmopolitan, 20, No. 5 (March 1896), 481-82. A; PAL; LSB; SPL.
A Pierre Fritel painting is the illustration accompanying the poem in Cosmopolitan.
B120 "In a Copy of Miss Wetherald's 'House of the Trees.'" The Week, 6 March 1896, p. 351.
B121 "The Song of Pan." Harper's, 93 (Aug 1896), 419. A; PAL; LSB; SPL.
B122 "Chione." Canadian Magazine, 7, No. 6 (Oct 1896), 496-98. A; PAL; LSB.
B123 "Night and Sleep," Youth's Companion, 22 Oct 1896, p. 530. PAL (revised--"A Summer Evening"); LSB; SPL; LS; CF.
B124 "Earth: The Stoic." The Week, 6 Nov 1896, p. 1192. PAL ("Earth--The Stoic"); LSB; SPL; LS.
B125 "The Bird and the Hour." Current Literature, 21 (March 1897), 247. LE; PAL; LSB; SPL. Lampman submitted this poem to the Youth's Companion in 1893 under the title "The Hermit Thrush Poem." The magazine, however, rejected it.
B126 "Snow." Current Literature, 21 (March 1897), 247. LE; PAL; LSB; SPL; CF.
B127 "A May Song." Scribner's, 21, No. 5 (May 1897), 651.
B128 "White Pansies." Scribner's, 22, No. 1 (July 1897), 36. A; PAL; LSB; SPL.
B129 "King Oswald's Feast." Youth's Companion, 22 July 1897, p. 346. PAL; LSB.
B130 "We Too Shall Sleep," Scrtbner's, 22, No. 4 (Oct 1897), 436. A; PAL.
B131 "Temagami." Blackwood's Magazine, 163 (March 1898), 397. Rpt. in Living Age, 13 Aug 1898, p. 410. PAL; LSB; SPL; LS; CF.
B132 "An Invitation to the Woods." Youth's Companion, 2 June 1898, p. 304.
B133 "Yarrow." Youth's Companion, 28 July 1898, p. 356. PAL; LSB; SPL.
B134 "Uplifting." Harper's, 97 (Sept 1898), 539. PAL; LSB; SPL; LS.
B135 "The Passing of Autumn." Scribner's, 24, No. 5 (Nov 1898), 634. PAL; LSB.
B136 "To the Robin." Youth's Companion, 9 Feb 1899, p. 68. LS ("The Robin").
B137 "Outlook." Ottawa Evening Journal, 11 Feb. 1899, p. 4. Rpt. "The Outlook." In Living Age, 14 March 1903, p. 704. AM; PAL; LSB; SPL;, LS. This sonnet appears in the Ottawa Evening Journal as part of a tribute to Lampman on the day after his death. The final four lines of the sonnet appear in the eastern face of the Lampman Memorial Cairn, unveiled at Morpeth, Ontario on September 13, 1930.
B138 "Among the Millet." The Globe [Toronto], 18 Feb. 1899, p. l. Rpt. in Living Age, 31 Jan 1903, p. 320. AM; PAL; LSB; SPL; CF. The poem is printed in The Globe as part of Lampman's obituary.
B139 "The Largest Life." Atlantic Monthly, March 1899, pp. 416-17. Rpt. in Current Literature, 27 (Feb 1900). 128. PAL; LSB; SPL; LS; CF.
B140 "The Winter Stars." Scribner's, 25, No. 3 (March 1899), 314. PAL; LSB; SPL; LS; CF.
B141 "The Violinist." Independent, 9 March 1899, p. 678. PAL.
B142 "Hepaticas." Youth's Companion, 6 April 1899, p. 174. PAL; LSB; SPL; CF.
B143 "The Vase of Ibn Mokbil." Independent, 31 Aug. 1899, pp. 244-45. PAL; LSB; SPL.
B144 "Settler's Tale." Canadian Magazine, 42, No. 2 (Dec 1913), 113-16.
B145 "New Year's Eve." Canadian Magazine, 42, No. 3 (Jan 1914), 282. ALS. The poem begins "Yonder through the darkness surging" and appears only in the Canadian Magazine and At the Long Sault and Other New Poems. A different poem, also bearing the title "New Year's Eve," appears in Among the Millet, and Other Poems, The Poems of Archibald Lampman, and Lampman's Sonnets, 1884-1899.
B146 "Unrest." Lippincott's, 94 (Sept 1914), 341. AM; PAL; LSB; SPL.
B147 "Winter Uplands." Canadian Nature, 11, No.2 (March-April 1949), 64. PAL; LSB; SPL; LS; CF. Written on January 30, 1899, this is believed to be the final poem written by Lampman before his death on February 10, 1899.
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B166 "April," "Clouds," "The Frogs," "Heat," "Midsummer Night," "An Old Lesson from the Fields." In Songs of the Great Dominion: Voices from the Forests and Waters, the Settlements and Cities of Canada. Ed. William Douw Llghthall, 1889; rpt. Toronto: Coles, 1971, pp. 369-70, 377, 387, 421-23, 425, 426-28.
B167 "Among the Millet," "The Frogs," "Heat," "Knowledge," "The Largest Life," "Midsummer Night," "A Prayer," "September," "Snowbirds," "The Truth." In The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. Ed. Wilfred Campbell. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1913, pp. 197-210.
B168 "After Rain," "April in the Hills," "April Night," "Heat," "In March," "A January Morning," "The Largest Life," "Morning on the Lievre," "The Railway Station," "The Truth," "War," "Winter Evening." In Canadian Poets. Ed. John W. Garvin. Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild and Stewart, 1916, pp. 61-74.
B169 "The City of the End of Things," "Heat," "In November" (beginning "With loitering step and quiet eye" and not to be confused with a different poem by the same name), "Midnight," "Solitude," "The Song Sparrow," "A Sunset at Les Eboulements," "Winter Evening," "The Woodcutter's Hut." In The Book of Canadian Poetry: A Critical and Historical Anthology. Ed. A. J. M. Smith 1943, rpt. Toronto: Gage, 1957, pp. 175-85.
B170 "Among the Orchards," "Heat," "Life and Nature," "Midnight," "Personality," "Refuge," "September," "Snow," "Solitude," "A Summer Evening," "Winter Evening," "Winter-Solitude." In The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse. Ed. Ralph Gustafson. 1958. Rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1969, pp. 73-83.
B171 "After Rain," "Alcyone," "Among the Timothy," "April," "April in the Hills," "At the Long Sault: May, 1660," "The Autumn Waste," "The City of the End 0f Things," "The Clearer Self," "Death," "Freedom," "The Frogs," "Heat," "In November" (beginning "The hills and leafless forests slowly yield" and not to be confused with a different poem by the same name), "In October," "The King's Sabbath," "The Largest Life," "Midnight," "The Modern Politician," "On the Companionship with Nature," "Personality," "The Railway Station," "Salvation," "The Sun Cup," "To a Millionaire," "To the Prophetic Soul," "Uplifting," "Voices of Earth," "Winter Evening." In Poets of the Confederation. Ed. Malcolm Ross. New Canadian Library, No. 1. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1960, pp. 55-84.
B172 "After Rain," "After Snow," "April," "The City of the End of Things," "The Frogs," "Heat," "In the Wilds," "June," "The Lake in the Forest," "The Largest Life," "The Modern Politician," "Morning on the Lievre," "The Railway Station," "September," "The Woodcutter's Hut." In 100 Poems of Nineteenth Century Canada. Ed. Douglas Lochhead and Raymond Souster. Toronto: Macmillan, 1974, pp. 127-54.
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A10 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario.
Cohen's papers are contained in Manuscript Collection 122. The collection is comprised of 13 boxes of correspondence, working drafts, typescripts, clippings, memorabilia, and related items. Included are the drafts of Let Us Compare Mythologies, The Spice-Box of Earth, The Favourite Game, and Flowers for Hitler, as well as an unpublished novel entitled "The Ballet of Lepers," 3 plays written in collaboration with Irving Layton, and many unpublished poems and prose pieces. The material dates from mid-1950 to 1968. One box is restricted.
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A8 The Favourite Game. London: Secker and Warburg, 1963. 223 pp. New York: Viking, 1963. 244 pp. New York: Avon, 1965. 192 pp. Alsklingsleken. Trans. Olov Jonason. Stockholm: Pan/Norstedts, 1970. 277 pp. Introd. R.J. Smith. New Canadian Library, No. 73. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1970. 223 pp. London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. 244 pp. The Favourite Game. Trans. Michel Doury. Paris: Christian Bourgois Editeur, 1971. 312 pp. The Favourite Game. Trans. Michel Doury. Paris: Union generale d'editions, 1971. 314 pp. New York: Bantam, 1971. 248 pp. Yndlingslegen. Trans. Arne Herlov Petersen. Copenhagen: Lindhardt and Ringhof [1971]. 187 pp. Das Lieblingsspiel. Trans. Elisabeth Hannover-Druck. Frankfurt am Main: Marz-Verlag, 1972. 301 pp. Yndlingslegen. Trans. Kaj Skagen. Oslo: Tiden [1972]. 210 pp. El juego favorito. Trans. Blanca Tesa. Barcelona: Fundamentos, 1974. 264 pp. Il gioco favorito. Trans. Anna Ciavatti and Francesca Valente. Milan: Casa di Longanesci, 1975. 283 pp.
A9 Beautiful Losers. New York: Viking, 1966. 243 pp. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1966. 243 pp. New York: Bantam, 1967. 307 pp. London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. 243 pp. Nageki No Kabe. Trans. Osawa Masayoshi. Tokyo: Shueisha [1970]. 322 pp. Schone Verlierer. Trans. Elisabeth Hannover-Druck. Frankfurt am Main: Marz-Verlag, 1970. 279 pp. Glorieuse Verliezers. Trans. John Vandenbergh. Amsterdam: Bezige Bij [1971] 279pp. Skona Forlorare. Trans. Erik Sandin. Stockholm: Pan/Norstedt [1971] 210 pp. Belli e Perdenti. Trans. Bruno Oddera. Milan: Rizzoli Editore, 1972. 256 pp. Dejlige Tabere. Trans. Arne Herlov Petersen. Copenhagen: Lindhardt and Ringhof [1972]. 202 pp. Les Perdants Magnifiques. Trans. Michel Doury. Paris: Christian Bourgois Editeur, 1972. 323 pp. Skjonne Tapere. Trans. Kaj Skagen. Oslo: Tiden [1972]. 261 pp. Les perdants magnifiques. Trans. Michel Doury. Paris: Union generale d'editions, 1973. 317 pp. Los hermosos vencidos. Trans. Javier Sainz and Susan Hendry. Madrid: Fundamentos, 1975. 266 pp.
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A1 Let Us Compare Mythologies. McGill Poetry Series, No. 1. Toronto: Contact, 1956. 79 pp. With drawings by Freda Guttman. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1966. 76 pp.
A2 The Spice-Box of Earth. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1961. 99 pp. With drawings by Frank Newfeld. New York: Viking, 1965. 88 pp. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1965. 88 pp. New York: Bantam, 1968. 83 pp. Laulula. Trans. Jarkko Laine Helsinki: Otava, 1974. 79 pp.
A3 Flowers for Hitler. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1964. 128 pp. London: Jonathan Cape, 1973. 154 pp.
A4 Parasites of Heaven. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1966 80 pp.
A5 Selected Poems 1956-1968. New York: Viking, 1968. 245 pp. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1968. 245 pp. London: Jonathan Cape, 1969. 245 pp. Poems 1956-1968. London: Jonathan Cape, 1969. 94 pp. An abridged version, including fifty-eight poems. Blumen fur Hitler: Gedichte und Lieder 1965-1970. Trans. Anna von Gramer-Klett and Anja Hauptmann. Frankfurt am Main: Marz-Verlag, 1971. 229 pp. Selections, in English, of poems and songs, with German translations on facing pages. Gedichten. Trans. Remco Campert. Amsterdam: Bezige Bij [197l]. 60 pp. Poetry of Leonard Cohen. Trans. Ruth Oren, Zvia Ginor Ben-Yosef, and Zviv Ekroni. Tel Aviv: Traklin, 1971. 43 pp. Dikter Fran Ett Rum. Trans. Staffan Soderblom and Goran Tunstrum. Stockholm: Pan/Norstedt [1972]. 150 pp. Poemes et Chansons. Adaptes par Anne Rives et al. Paris: Union generale d'editions, 1972. 299 pp. Selections in English, of poems and songs, with French translations on facing pages. Like a Bird on the Wire: Selected Poems. Introd. and trans. Yosi Gamzu. Tel Aviv: Reshafim Publishing House, 1973. 84 pp. Includes illustrations by David Mashilin. Poemas Escogidos. Trans. Jorge Ferrer-Vidal. Barcelona: Plaza and Janes, 1974. 188 pp.
A6 The Energy of Slaves. London: Jonathan Cape, 1972. 127 pp. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1972. 127 pp. New York: Viking, 1973. 127 pp. L'Energie des Esclaves. Trans. Dashiell Hedayat. Paris: Union generale d'editions, 1974. 255 pp. English text with French translations on facing pages. Puckelryggens sanger. Trans. Staffan Soderblom. Stockholm: Pan-Norstedt, 1974. 129 pp. Rakkauden orjat. Trans. Jarkko Laine. Helsinki: Otava, 1975. 128 pp.
A7 Death of a Lady's Man. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978, 216 pp. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979. 216 pp. New York: Viking, 1979. 216 pp.
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B110 Six Montreal Poets. Folkways, FL 9805, 1957. 2s,1.p., 33 1/3. Readings by Cohen, A. J. M. Smith, Irving Layton, Louis Dudek, F. R. Scott, and A. M. Klein. Cohen reads eight poems from Let Us Compare Mythologies.
B111 Canadian Poets 1. CBC Publications, 1966. 4s.,1.p.,33 l/3. Readings by Cohen, Phyllis Webb, Earle Birney, John Newlove, Al Purdy, Irving Layton, George Bowering, and Gwendolyn MacEwen. Cohen reads seven poems from The Spice-Box of Earth and Flowers for Hitler.
B112 Songs of Leonard Cohen. Columbia, CL 2733 [1968]. 2s.,l.p.,33 1/3. Contents: "Suzanne," "Master Song," "Winter Lady," "The Stranger Song," "Sisters of Mercy," "So Long, Marianne," "Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye," "Stories of the Street," "Teachers," "One of Us Cannot Be Wrong."
B113 Songs from a Room. Columbia, CS 9767 [1969] 2s., 1p., 33 1/3. Contents: "Bird on the Wire," "Story of Isaac," "A Bunch of Lonesome Heroes," "The Partisan," "Seems So Long Ago, Nancy," "The Old Revolution," "The Butcher," "You Know Who I Am," "Lady Midnight," "Tonight Will Be Free."
B114 Songs of Love and Hate. Columbia, C 30103 [1971]. 2s,1.p., 33 1/3. Contents "Avalanche," "Last Year's Man," "Dress Rehearsal Rag," "Diamonds in the Mine," "Love Calls You By Your Name," "Famous Blue Raincoat," "Sing Another Song, Boys," "Joan of Arc."
B115 Live Songs. Columbia, KC 31724 [1973]. 2s., 1.p., 33 1/3. Contents: "Minute Prologue," "Passing Thru," "You Know Who I Am," "Bird on the Wire," "Nancy," Improvisation," "Story of Isaac," "Please Don't Pass Me By," "Tonight Will Be Free," "Queen Victoria."
B116 New Skin for the Old Ceremony. Columbia, KC 33167, 1974. 2s.,l.p.,33 1/3 (Also CBS 69087.) Contents: "Is This What You Wanted," "Chelsea Hotel #2," "Lover Lover Lover," "Field Commander Cohen," "Why Don't You Try," "There Is a War," "A Singer Must Die," "I Tried to Leave You," "Who by Fire," "Take This Longing," "Leaving Greensleeves."
B117 The Best of Leonard Cohen. Columbia, ES 90334, 1975. 2s,l.p.,33 1/3. Contents: "Suzanne," "Sisters of Mercy," "So Long, Marianne," "Lady Midnight," "The Partisan," "Bird on the Wire," "Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye," "Famous Blue Raincoat," "Last Year's Man," "Chelsea Hotel #2," "Who by Fire," "Take This Longing."
Bl18 Death of a Ladies' Man. Columbia, 90436, 1977. 2s., 1.p., 33 1/3. Contents: "True Love Leaves No Traces," "Iodine," "Paperthin Hotel," "Memories," "I Left a Woman Waiting," "Don't Go Home with Your Hard-on," "Fingerprints," "Death of a Ladies' Man."
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B100 "A Man Was Killed." Canadian Theatre Review, No. 14 (Spring 1977), pp. 53-68. A collaborative work written with Irving Layton originally in 1959. Preceded by commentary from Layton.
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B101 Owen, Don, dir. Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen. National Film Board of Canada, 1965. 41 minutes, b&w. A film written by Donald Britain and Don Owen, directed by Don Owen. The most telling image in this fascinating film is that of Cohen, sitting in his bathtub(in a scene that was not used in the main body of the film, but is shown as Cohen watches the movie after its completion); he takes a pen and writes "Caveat Lector" on the tile wall. One would be hard put to image better the ambiguous relation between truth and con both in the film and in the Cohen phenomenon as a whole.
B102 Angel. National Film Board of Canada, 1966. 7 minutes, b&w. A film by Cohen's friend, sculptor Derek May, with music by the poet played by the Stormy Clovers.
B103 Poem. National Film Board of Canada, 1967. 5 minutes, b&w. A collaged film made by Tom Daly and based on Cohen's reading of a passage from Beautiful Losers.
B104 Songs of Leonard Cohen. New York: Amsco Music Publishing Company, 1969. Arrangements of songs from Bl14 and Bl15, edited by Harvey Vinson. Reprints William Kloman's article on Cohen from the New York Times (Cl7).
B105 Leonard Cohen. Paris: Editions Musicales Pathe-Marconi, 1972. Includes two articles, a biography, photographs, and songs with French versions.
B106 Songs of Love and Hate. New York: Amsco Publishing Company, 1972. Arrangements for voice and guitar of the songs from the album of the same name (Bl14). Reprints Jack Hafferkamp's "Ladies and Gents, Leonard Cohen" from Rolling Stone.
B107 Leonard Cohen Folk Guitar. New York: Charles Hansen Educational Music and Books, n.d. [1973] Arrangements of Cohen's songs for guitar by Jerry Snyder.
B108 La Complainte du partisan. Paris: Editions Musicales Pathe-Marconi, 1974. "Anthologie 'speciale guitare.' " Includes an interview, biography, photographs, songs, and French versions of the latter.
B109 New Skin for the Old Ceremony. New York: Amsco Music Publishing Company, 1975. Arrangements for guitar and voice of the songs from the album of the same name (B116). Includes review articles reprinted from Crawdaddy (D144), Rolling Stone (D142), etc.
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Note. When an item is reprinted in one of Cohen's books, this fact is noted in the entry through one of the following abbreviations:
Let Us Compare Mythologies ............ LUCM
The Splce-Box of Earth .................. SBE
Flowers for Hitler ....................... FH
Parasites of Heaven ...................... PH
Selected Poems 1956-1968 ................. SP
The Energy of Slaves ..................... ES
Death of a Lady's Man .................. DLM
B1 "An Halloween Poem to Delight My Younger Friends." CIV/n, No. 4 (1953), p. 8. LUCM ("Halloween Poem").
B2 "Poeme en Prose." CIV/n, No. 4 (1953), p. 13.
B3 "Folk Song." CIV/n, No. 5 (1954), p. 11. LUCM.
B4 "Just the Worst Time." Forge (1954), p. 52 LUCM.
B5 "Satan in Westmount." CIV/n, No. 5 (1954), p. 11. LUCM.
B6 "The Sparrows." CIV/n, No. 7 (1954), p. 14 Rpt. in McGill Daily, 44, No. 38 (7 Dec 1954), 1. LUCM; SP.
B7 "To Be Mentioned at Funerals." Forge (1954), p. 51.
B8 "Les Vieux." CIV/n, No 5 (1954), pp. 11-12. LUCM.
B9 "For Wilf and His House." Forge (Spring 1955), p. 26. Rpt. "Pour Wilf et les siens." Trans. Roch Career. In Ellipse, No. 2 (Winter 1970), pp. 40-43. LUCM; SP.
B10 "The Fly." Forge (March 1956), p. 43. LUCM, SP.
Bll "Had We Nothing to Prove." Forge (March 1956), p. 43. LUCM.
B12 "'Perfumed pillows of night.'" The Phoenix, 1, No. 1 (April 1957), n. pag. The Phoenix was a literary magazine edited by Cohen during his stay in New York after graduating from McGill in 1956.
B13 "Poem for Marc Chagall." The Phoenix, 1, No. 1 (April 1957), n. pag. Rpt. in The Tamarack Review, No. 6 (Winter 1958), pp 62-63. Rpt. "Du royaume de ciel." Trans. Richard Giguere and Joseph Bonenfant. In Ellipse, No. 2 (Winter 1970), pp. 42-45 SBE ("Out of the Land of Heaven"); SP.
B14 "Song." The Phoenix, 1, No. 1 (April 1957), n. pag. SBE ("Go by Brooks"); SP.
B15 "'Whatever cities are brought down.'" The Phoenix, 1, No. 1 (April 1957), n. pag. SBE ("You All in White");SP.
B16 "'What shadows the pendulum sun.'" The Phoenix, 1, No. 1 (April 1957), n. pag.
B17 "'You tell me that silence.'" The Phoenix, 1, No. 1 (April 1957), n pag. Rpt. "Gift." In The Tamarack Review, No. 6 (Winter 1958), p. 63 SBE; SP.
B18 "Brighter than Our Sun." Prism [Sir George Williams College] (1958), p. 12. SBE.
B19 "A Cloud of Grasshoppers." Prism [Sir George Williams College](1958), p. 24. Rpt. "Credo." Trans. Monique Grandmangin. In Ellipse. No. 2 (Winter 1970), pp. 50-53. SBE, SP.
B20 "The Cuckold's Song." In Pan-ic: A Selection of Contemporary Canadian Poems. Ed. Irving Layton. New York: n. p., 1958, n. pag. Rpt. "La chanson du cocu." Trans. Camille Cusson. In Ellipse, No. 1 (Fall 1969), pp. 78-8l. SBE; SP. Published as Number Two of "Pan, 4 Issues of Poetry."
B21 "Master and Slave." In Pan-ic: A Selection of Contemporary Canadian Poems. Ed. Irving Layton. New York: n. p., 1958, n. pag. SBE ("Alone the Master and Slave Embrace"). Published as Number Two of "Pan, 4 Issues of Poetry."
B22 "Bait." The Tamarack Review, No. 6 (Winter 1958), p. 64.
B23 "Before the Story." The Tamarack Review, No. 6 (Winter 1958), pp. 61-62. Rpt. in Congress Bulletin [Montreal: Canadian Jewish Congress], Oct. 1959, p. 3. SBE.
B24 "It Swings, Jocko." In The McGill Chapbook. Ed. Leslie L. Kay. Toronto: Ryerson, 1959, n. pag. SBE; SP.
B25 "Now of Sleeping." In The McGill Chapbook. Ed. Leslie L. Kay. Toronto: Ryerson, 1959, n. pag. SBE; SP.
B26 "Song to Make Me Still." In The McGill Chapbook. Ed. Leslie L. Kay. Toronto: Ryerson, 1959, n. pag. SBE.
B27 "Dead Song." Queen's Quarterly, 66, No. 2 (Summer 1959), 303. SBE; SP.
B28 "The Flowers That I Left in the Ground." Queen's Quarterly, 66, No. 2 (Summer 1959), 302-03. SBE; SP.
B29 "An Orchard of Shore Trees." Queen's Quarterly, 66, No. 2 (Summer 1959), 305-06. SBE.
B30 "Twelve O'Clock Chant." Queen's Quarterly, 66, No. 2 (Summer 1959), 303-04. SBE.
B31 "As the Mist Leaves No Scar." Congress Bulletin [Montreal: Canadian Jewish Congress], Oct. 1959, p. 3. SBE; SP.
B32 "Isaiah." Congress Bulletin [Montreal: Canadian Jewish Congress], Oct. 1959, p. 3. SBE (revised); SP.
B33 "Messiah." Congress Bulletin [Montreal: Canadian Jewish Congress], Oct. 1959, p. 3.
B34 "A Kite Is a Victim." Saturday Review, 24 0ct. 1959, p. 54. SBE; SP.
B35 "Beneath My Hands." Moment, No 1 (1960), pp. 14-15. SBE; SP.
B36 "It Is Late Afternoon." Moment, No. I (1960), p. 14. SBE.
B37 "Owning Everything." Moment, No. 1 (1960), p. 15. SBE; SP.
B38 "There Are Some Men." Moment, No. 1 (1960), p. 16. SBE; SP.
B39 "To a Teacher." Moment, No. 1 (1960), p. 16 SBE; SP.
B40 "Action." In Poetry 62. Ed. Eli Mandel and Jean-Guy Pilon. Toronto: Ryerson, 1961, p. 92. PH.
B41 "The First Vision." In Poetry 62. Ed. Eli Mandel and Jean-Guy Pilon. Toronto: Ryerson, 1961, p. 94.
B42 "For Marianne." In Poetry 62. Ed. Eli Mandel and Jean-Guy Pilon. Toronto: Ryerson, 1961, pp. 91-92 FH, SP.
B43 "My Mentors." In Poetry 62 Ed. Eli Mandel and Jean-Guy Pllon. Toronto: Ryerson, 1961, p. 91. FH; SP.
B44 "On the Sickness of My Love." In Poetry 62. Ed. Eli Mandel and Jean-Guy Pilon. Toronto: Ryerson, 1961, p. 93 FH; SP.
B45 "Prayer for Messiah." Shaar Hashomayim Bulletin [Montreal], March-April 1961, p. 7 LUCM; SP.
B46 "Another Cherry Brandy." Evidence, No. 3 (Fall 1961), p. 15.
B47 "Promise." Evidence, No. 3 (Fall 1961), p. 14. FH.
B48 "Song" ['I remember you, pretty frock']. Exchange, 1, No. 1 (Nov. 1961), 24.
B49 "Song" ['I almost went to bed']. Maclean's, 20 Oct. 1962, p. 33. SBE; SP.
B49a "All There Is To Know About Adolph Eichmann." Catapult, No 1 (Winter-Spring 1964), p. [8]. FH; SP.
B49b "The Compleat Physician." Catapult, No. 2 (Summer 1964), p [I].
B49c "For My Old Layton." Catapult, No. 2 (Summer 1964), p. [8]. FH; SP.
B50 "'Snow is falling.'" Intercourse, No. 2 (Spring 1966), p. 4. PH; SP.
B51 "Poem" ['This is for you']. Mademoiselle, Jan 1967, p. 44. SP ("This Is for You").
B52 "Le genie." Trans. Camille Cusson. Ellipse, No. 1 (Fall1969), pp. 74-77. SBE ("The Genius"); SP.
B53 "Autre nuit a l'observatoire." Trans. Michel Euvrard. Ellipse, No. 2 (Winter 1970), pp. 38-39. FH ("Another Night with Telescope"); SP.
B54 "Celebration." Trans. Monique Grandmangin. Ellipse, No. 2 (Winter 1970), pp. 54-55. SBE ("Celebration"); SP.
B55 "Complainte." Trans. Paul Allard. Ellipse, No. 2. (Winter 1970), pp. 44-47. LUCM ("Song"); SP.
B56 "Extraits du journal de mon grand-pere." Trans. Jacques Baron-Rousseau. Ellipse, No. 2 (Winter 1970), pp. 58-69. SBE ("Lines from My Grandfather's Journal"); SP.
B57 "Letter." Trans. Camille Cusson. Ellipse, No. 2 (Winter 1970), pp. 56-57. LUCM; SP.
B58 "Sous mes doigts." Trans. Richard Giguere and Joseph Bonenfant. Ellipse, No. 2 (Winter 1970), pp. 46-49. SBE ("Beneath My Hands"); SP.
B59 "Across the Street." Exile, 5, Nos. 1 and 2 (1977), 54-55. DLM.
B60 "Another Room." Exile, 5, Nos. 1 and 2 (1977), 10-13. DLM.
B61 "Daily Commerce." Exile, 5, Nos. 1 and 2 (1977), 56-57. DLM.
B62 "Death to This Book." Exile, 5, Nos. I and 2 (1977), 8-9. DLM.
B63 "The Dream." Exile, 5, Nos. l and 2 (1977), 34-35. DLM.
B64 "The House." Exile, 5, Nos. 1 and 2 (1977), 16-17. DLM.
B65 "I Bury My Girl Friend." Exile, 5, Nos. 1 and 2 (1977), 26-27. DLM.
B66 "I Like the Way You Opposed Me." Exile, 5, Nos. 1 and 2 (1977), 38-39. DLM.
B67 "I Think I Like It Raw." Exile, 5, Nos. 1 and 2 (1977), 46-47. DLM.
B68 "It's Probably Spring." Exile, 5, Nos. I and 2 (1977), 20-21. Rpt. in CV/II, 3, No. 3 (Jan 1978), 45. DLM.
B69 "It Would Be Cruel." Exile, 5, Nos. 1 and 2 (1977), 14-15. DLM.
B70 "Kefi." Exile, 5, Nos. 1 and 2 (1977), 24-25. DLM.
B71 "The Kwikanice Cafe." Exile, 5, Nos. 1 and 2 (1977), 36-37. DLM.
B72 "Letter from the Government-in-Exile." Exile, 5, Nos. 1 and 2 (1977), 5-7. DLM.
B73 "The Lover after All." Exile, 5, Nos. 1 and 2 (1977),22-23. DLM.
B74 "My Life in Art." Exile, 5, Nos. l and 2 (1977), 58-60. DLM.
B75 "The Plan." Exile, 5, Nos 1 and 2 (1977), 44-45. DLM.
B76 "The Promise." Exile, 5, Nos 1 and 2 (1977), 28-29. DLM.
B77 "The Radio." Exile, 5, Nos. 1 and 2 (1977), 40-41. DLM.
B78 "This Marriage." Exile, 5, Nos. 1 and 2 (1977), 18-19. DLM.
B79 "Traditional Training and Service." Exile, 5, Nos. 1 and 2 (1977), 48-51. DLM.
B80 "The Unclean Start." Exile, 5, Nos. 1 and 2 (1977), 30-33. DLM.
B81 "The Visit." Exile, 5, Nos. 1 and 2 (1977), 42-43. DLM.
B82 "Which Is So Beautiful." Exile, 5, Nos. 1 and 2 (1977), 52-53. DLM.
B83 "I Knelt Beside a Stream." CV/II, 3, No. 3 (Jan. 1978), 45 Rpt. (with italic "commentary") in Toronto Life, Feb 1978, p. 50. DLM.
B84 "The Night I Joined." CV/II, 3, No. 3 (Jan 1978), 45. DLM.
B85 "The Absence of Monica." Toronto Life, Feb. 1978, p. 51. DLM.
B86 "Death of a Ladies' [sic] Man." Toronto Life, Feb. 1978, 50-51. DLM.
B87 "The Beetle." Toronto Life, May 1978, p. [68]. DLM.
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B88 "As the Mist Leaves No Scar," "The Cuckold's Song," "Dead Song," "For Anne," "Go by Brooks," "If It Were Spring," "Inquiry into the Nature of Cruelty," "Last Dance at the Four Penny," "Lines from My Grandfather's Journal," "On the Sickness of My Love," "Sing to Fish, Embrace the Beast," "Story," "You All in White." In Poetry of Mid-Century 1940-60. Ed. Milton Wilson. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1964, pp. 184-95.
B89 "For E J. P.," "I Have Not Lingered in European Monasteries," "The Sleeping Beauty," "Song," "You Have the Lovers." In Canadian Anthology. Ed. Carl F. Klinck and Reginald E. Watters. Toronto: Gage, 1966, pp. 485-88.
B90 "The Genius," "The Only Tourist in Havana Turns His Thoughts Homeward," "Out of the Land of Heaven." In Modern Canadian Verse in English and French. Ed. A. J. M. Smith. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1967, pp. 756-59.
B91 "Another Night with Telescope," "Credo," "What I'm Doing Here." In The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse. 2nd rev. ed. Ed. Ralph Gustafson. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967, pp. 275-77.
B92 "The Bus," "Disguises," "Elegy," "The Genres," "The Music Crept by Us," "Now of Sleeping," "Story," "Style," "Suzanne Takes You Down," "You Have the Lovers." In 20th-Century Poetry and Poetics. Ed. Gary Geddes. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1969, pp. 326-37.
B93 "As the Mist Leaves No Scar," "For Anne," "For E.J.P.," "I Met a Woman Long Ago," "Lovers," "The Only Tourist in Havana Turns His Thoughts Homeward," "Out of the Land of Heaven," "Suzanne Takes You Down," "What I'm Doing Here." In Five More Canadian Poets. Ed. Eli Mandel. Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970, pp. 75-84.
B94 "Gift," "God Is Alive," "I Have Not Lingered in European Monasteries," "The Only Tourist in Havana Turns His Thoughts Homeward." In The Oxford Anthology of Canadian Literature. Ed. Robert Weaver and William Toye. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1973, pp. 71-75.
B95 "Claim Me, Blood, If You Have a Story," "For E.J.P.," "Letter," "Lovers," "One of the Nights I Didn't Kill Myself," "A Person Who Eats Meat," "The Reason I Write," "There Are No Traitors among Women," "This Is the Poem We Have Been Waiting For," "What I'm Doing Here," "You All in White," "You Have the Lovers," "You Know Where I Have Been." In Canadian Poetry: The Modern Era. Ed. John Newlove. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, pp. 63-74.
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B96 "Luggage Fire Sale." Partisan Review, 36, No. 1 (Winter 1961), 91-99. Rpt. in Parallel, I, No. 2 (May-June 1966), 40-44.
B97 "Barbers and Lovers." Ingluvin, No. 2 (Jan-March 1961), pp. 10-19.
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C6 "Item." Rouge et Noir, 4, No. 2 (Feb 1883), 9. This brief item in the Trinity College newspaper notes that Lampman, an 1882 graduate of Trinity, has been appointed to a position in the post office. Remarking upon Lampman's "real ability," the newspaper expresses hope for his future.
C7 Harte, W. Blackburn. "Some Canadian Writers of Today." New England Magazine, 3, No. 1 (Sept. 1890), 21-40. Rpt. (excerpt). In The Search for English-Canadian Literature: An Anthology of Critical Articles from the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Ed. Carl Ballstadt. Literature of Canada. Poetry and Prose in Reprint, No. 16. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1975, pp. 199-202. Harte's article, accompanied by photographs and sketches of Canadian writers, provides American readers of 1890 with a good survey of literary achievements north of the border. Harte considers Lampman to be Canada's best poet: "I venture to assert that there is no living poet in either hemisphere who can present such pictures of natural scenery and natural phenomena as Lampman. In England since Wordsworth there has been no poet to equal him in painting the common life of the country."
C8 Barry, Lilly E. F. "Prominent Canadians-XXXV: Archibald Lampman." The Week, 10 April 1891, pp. 298-300. AL. Barry provides a biography of Lampman in this article and suggests that his "contemplative disposition" is a "tendency inherited from his Teutonic forefathers." Elements of Canadian philistinism and the Puritan work ethic surface at points in this study. For example, it is noted that Lampman is not neglecting his postal duties to write poetry. "Yet it is by no means to be feared that the interests of the Department suffer at the hands of Mr. Lampman, for he is a thoroughly conscientious worker at any task." Lampman's poetry is praised as "a continuous revelation of beauty, peace, order and undisguised beneficence." However, "his fondness for the same class of subjects, the same moods and grooves of thought" is considered a shortcoming. "We would like to see more of the exuberance of youth, with its extremes of joy and pain, its laughter and its tears."
C9 [Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar.] "The Listener." Boston Evening Transcript, 12 Aug. 1891, p. 4. "Mr. Archibald Lampman is a Canadian," the newspaper admits, but it is "a great mistake to speak of him as a 'Canadian poet,'" for "if he has expressed Canada in his verse, he is also an American poet." Noting that Lampman is engaged in "a very prosaic employment" at the Ottawa Post Office, the newspaper makes the following suggestion: "Boston has proved a sort of Mecca for American literary people. It would be a matter for congratulation, certainly for Boston, and perhaps for Mr. Lampman, if he could be persuaded to take up his residence here too." Lampman's work is compared to that of Burns, Whitman, and Tom Moore, and the article concludes with the comment that "Lampman expresses vague inward moods by outward impressions very delicately, and nebulous feelings without any nebulous verse.
C10 "Encourage Merit." The Empire [Toronto], 2 Jan. 1892, p. 6. Noting that Lampman will soon be invited to a chair of literature in an American university, The Empire strongly attacks the provincial government for allowing talented Canadians to be lured to the United States. Lampman declined the offer.
Cll Stringer, Arthur. "A Glance at Lampman." Canadian Magazine, 2, No. 6 (April 1894), 545-48. AL. Stringer begins his article by warning against the excesses of literary nationalism. Proceeding to a discussion of Lampman, Stringer finds him "the true nature poet." Lampman "has an artist's eye for color, and the quiet thoughtfulness of a student for scenery.
C12 Miller, Joseph Dana. "The Singers of Canada." Munsey's Magazine, 13, No. 2 (May 1895), 128-36. Miller finds Lampman's work to be particularly fine. "Lampman's knowledge of nature is something more than intellectual-- it is affinitive. It is impossible not to feel that the passionate love of the country, of outdoor life, of the pastoral panorama, the brown bees, the birds, the brooks, the oxen, the grass, the sky, are not merely the furnishings of Lampman's verse, but the utterance of a close and genuine sympathy."
C13 Crawford, A. W. "Archibald Lampman." Acta Victoriana, 17 (Dec 1895), 77-81. AL. One of the first critics to use the term "the Ottawa School," Crawford identifies Lampman as "one of the foremost poets of this school." Lampman's poetry is "brilliant by reason of its polish, rather than by reason of the inward fire which brightens and gives form to the whole structure." The "essentially ethical and religious" quality of Lampman's work is commended: he has "that supreme regard for everything good and true which characterized Keats."
C14 Waldron, Gordon. "Canadian Poetry." Canadian Magazine, 8, No. 2 (Dec 1896), 101-08. Rpt. (excerpt). In The Search for English-Canadian Literature: An Anthology of Critical Articles from the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Ed. Carl Ballstadt. Literature of Canada. Poetry and Prose in Reprint, No. 16. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1975, pp. 179-82. Waldron attempts to dislodge the Confederation poets from their position of prominence and popularity in late nineteenth-century Canada. Noting that many Canadian poets show early promise, but then stop writing, Waldron speculates on the reasons for "this lack of sustained enthusiasm." Lampman "has a habit of broadly suggesting scenes which is very effective, and of going on to treat them in a way that is very tiresome." However, though his "range of ideas is not very wide, there is an earnest tone in his poetry which, in itself, wins our sympathy, and makes us hope that he will do more than any of the writers mentioned."
C15 "American Poets of To-day: Archibald Lampman." Current Literature, 2l (March 1897), 246. This brief introduction to six of Lampman's poems (listed in Section B of this bibliography) gives a summary of Lampman's llfe and career.
C16 [Whiteside, Ernestine R.] "Canadian Poetry and Poets. II." McMaster University Monthly, 8 (Nov 1898), 68-74. Calling Lampman essentially a nature poet who excels in his sonnets, Whiteside points out that "the ruling characteristic through all Lampman's poetry is his passion for beauty. . . .If Lampman were to be criticized, it would be for his indulgent surrender to mere external beauty. This being 'content to watch and dream,' leaves him weak to pierce into the heart of things, or even fully to analyze and express his own feelings."
C17 "Decease of Fellows--the Historian Kingsford and the Poet Lampman." Royal Society of Canada Proceedings and Transactions, 2nd. Ser., No. 5, Proceedings (1899), xxiv-xxxi. Obituary.
C18 "Canadian Poet Dead. Archibald Lampman Passed Away from an Attack of Pneumonia." Ottawa Citizen, 10 Feb 1899, p. 1. This article provides details of Lampman's final illness, and his death at his residence, 187 Bay Street, Ottawa, at 1 00 am. on Thursday, February 10, 1899.
C19 "Death of Mr. A. Lampman. Canada's Leading Poet Passes Away." Ottawa Evening Journal, 10 Feb 1899, p. 3. A summary of Lampman's life and career as a poet, this article notes that "he was formerly a member of the Fabian Society of Ottawa, and was one of the leading Socialists of the city. One of the last views Mr. Lampman expressed with reference to Canadian nationality and the purpose of a national life was that 'Canada has an opportunity of giving the world an object lesson in the adoption of socialism as a form of government, which would not only make us a nation, but give us a unique place in the world's history. But,' he remarked with a shrewdness which characterized him, 'there is probably no country under heaven in which it would be more difficult to convince the people of the desirability of such a form of government.'"
C20 [Ross, P.D.] "Archibald Lampman." Ottawa Evening Journal, 11 Feb 1899, p. 4. Rpt. in Ottawa Evening Journal, 12 April 1930, p. 8. Ross's tribute to Lampman is, in large part, an attack on Canadian philistinism and a lament for Lampman's plight in a country unsympathetic to the artist. "One can hardly help believing that a man of such essentially refined and artistic feeling as Archibald Lampman's poems and tastes showed him to be would have been better nourished intellectually, and personally far happier had fate placed him in another and artistically richer atmosphere." Ross's article prompted an immediate response from Lampman's mother who agreed entirely with Ross's point of view. (See C49.)
C21 Richardson, Augusta Doan. "The Late Archibald Lampman. Deceased February 10th, 1899." The Globe [Toronto], 18 Feb. 1899, p 1. An obituary accompanied by photographs of Lampman and his birthplace in Morpeth, Ontario.
C22 "Item." Book Buyer, 18, No. 3 (April 1899), 188-89. Notes Lampman's recent death, and gives a short biography.
C23 Scott, Duncan Campbell. "Memoir." In The Poems of Archibald Lampman. Ed. Duncan Campbell Scott. 1900, pp. xi-xxv. Rpt. Toronto Univ. of Toronto Press, 1974, pp. xi-xxv. Rpt. in Selected Poems of Archibald Lampman. Ed. Duncan Campbell Scott. Toronto: Ryerson, 1947, pp. xiii-xxvii. A memoir containing several anecdotes about Lampman's youth.
C24 Burpee, Lawrence J. "Archibald Lampman. A Canadian Poet." North American Notes and Queries, 1, No. 3 (Aug 1900), 84-92. A prelude to Burpee's 1909 study of Lampman in A Little Book of Canadian Essays (see C30). The "very keynote" of Lampman's poetry "is the comfort, the consolation, the peace which Nature has in store for hearts weary of the stress and sordidness of these latter days." Burpee also discusses Lampman's ancestry, biography, and the influence of Arnold, Keats, and Wordsworth on his work.
C25 Wendell, Winifred Lee. "Modern School of Canadian Writers." Bookman [New York], 11 (Aug. 1900), 515-26. Assessing the work of several Canadian writers, Wendell finds that Lampman "has given us poetry of such unusual strength and originality that his untimely death has undoubtedly robbed the world of much which would have helped us not a little in our knowledge of the beauty and use of life."
C26 Burpee, Lawrence J. "Archibald Lampman. A Canadian Poet." North American Notes and Queries, 1, No. 4 (Sept 1900), 105-17. The second part of Burpee's prelude to his book entitled A Little Book of Canadian Essays (see C30).
C27 Scott, Duncan Campbell. "A Decade of Canadian Poetry." Canadian Magazine, 17, No. 2 (June 1901), 153-58. Rpt. (excerpt) In The Search for English-Canadian Literature: An Anthology of Critical Articles from the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Ed. Carl Ballstadt. Poetry and Prose in Reprint, No. 16. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1975, pp. 187-90. In the portion of the article devoted to Lampman, Scott responds to the often expressed criticism that Lampman concerned himself too much with nature, while neglecting human issues in his poetry. "There are but few of Lampman's poems that do not lead from nature by a very short path to human life. The first impulse of his genius was the interpretation of nature, no doubt, but the desire to deal with human emotion, with the spring of human action, with the great hopes and desires of the human soul, was implicit in his mind. From the earliest of his writings to the latest this secondary quality demands attention, will be heard, keeps gaining strength and importance." In fact, Scott stresses, Lampman "had begun to observe a more just balance between the divisions of his genius" in the year or two before he died. Such poems as "The Cup of Life," "The Land of Pallas," and "The Largest Life" are indicative of Lampman's concern with human themes in his work.
C28 Marshall, John. "Archibald Lampman." Queen's Quarterly, 9, No. 1 (July 1901), 63-79. AL. Lampman's work bears the brunt of Marshall's attack on the derivativeness of Canadian poetry. He is attacked for "his lack of originality, his narrow range of thought and feeling and the almost entire absence of any evidence of progress towards dearer and more consistent views of life and art." Noting that Lampman preferred to be judged by his sonnets, Marshall adds "Like all distinct art forms, the sonnet is great support to a weak writer." Marshall rearranges lines in "Stoic and Hedonist" yet still finds it wanting: "But I cannot be expected to furnish rhyme and structure as well as criticism."
C29 "A Poet's Birthplace." Canadian Magazine, 28, No. 2 (Dec. 1906), 201. Accompanied by a photograph of the parsonage in Morpeth, Ontario, where Lampman was born, this article laments that the house has been torn down in order to build a new parsonage.
C30 Burpee, Lawrence J. "Archibald Lampman." In A Little Book of Canadian Essays. Toronto: Musson, 1909, pp. 30-42. AL. Burpee parallels some of the qualities in Lampman's poetry with qualities which Lampman, himself, embodied. Lampman is also given credit for recognizing the poetic potential in Canadian subject matter: he could find beauty and helpfulness in the storm and stress of our northern winter, as well as in the haunting charm of a Canadian mid-summer's day."
C31 Untermeyer, Louis. "Archibald Lampman and the Sonnet." Poet Lore, 20, No. 6 (Nov -Dec 1909), 432-37. AL. Lampman's "dream and flower philosophy" is well suited to the sonnet form. Untermeyer believes that "the sonnet with all its restrictions and limitations" is "the most ravishing of all the classical forms. And it is in the sonnet that Lampman is at the very height of his genius." Lampman's "Among the Orchards" is a masterpiece, no sonnet in the English language excels it.
C32 Logan, J. D. "Literary Group of '61." Canadian Magazine, 37, No. 6 (Oct 1911), 555-63. Logan's intention in this article is to deal first with the "historical position of the primary group of Canadian authors", secondly with "the quality of their writings as literature", and thirdly with the "significance and potency of the social ideas inspiring, or openly expressed in, them." In the segment of his article devoted to Lampman, Logan argues that "Lampman's attitude to nature is not the attitude of an impressionistic portrait painter, but of one for whom physical loveliness is supremely a spiritual revealment." Lampman's "Sapphics" is examined in great detail, and the article concludes on a very optimistic note: "Canadians are notably in the eyes of the nations a sane and happy people and they are so because they keep their souls always clear and valiant, having, as Lampman and Roberts and the rest of the literary group of '61, a sure vision of the greatness of their fate and the means to it."
C33 Marquis, T. G. "English-Canadian Literature." In Canada and Its Provinces. Ed. Adam Shortt and Arthur G. Doughty. 1913; rpt. Toronto: Glasgow, Brook, 1914, XI1, pp. 566-89. Marquis stresses that Lampman "ranks high as a nature poet." He "lived close to the heart of nature, and nature revealed herself to him and gave him the power to reveal her to others with a natural magic." Although "he stands by himself" as an interpreter of nature, Lampman's work, according to Marquis, "has not the splendid sensuousness of Carman's verse, nor has he handled as many and varied themes as Roberts; he lacks, too, the moral profundiy of William Wilfred Campbell in that poet's inspired moments. . . ."
C34 Munday, Don. "Soul-Standards of Archibald Lampman." Westminster Hall Magazine and Farthest West Review, 6, No. 3 (Oct 1914), 15-17. "Like many a poet," Munday writes of Lampman, "it was in descriptions of the beauties of Nature that he developed his powers of expression before seeking other fields."
C35 Muddiman, Bernard. "Archibald Lampman." Queen's Quarterly, 22, No. 3 (Jan-Feb.-March 1915), 233-43. AL. Muddiman attributes certain characteristics of Lampman's poetry to the poet's ancestry. The "meticulous minuteness of detail in much of his verse" and "its calm nonchalence and unruffled flow of thought" are said to derive from his German and Dutch descent Although Lampman's talent for creating a mood of "solemn melancholy" is acknowledged, Muddiman faults Lampman for his numerous retreats to the country. The excursions are not part of a "philosophy of energy or aggression."
C36 Unwin, G. H. "The Poetry of Archibald Lampman." University Magazine [Montreal], 16 (Feb 1917), 55-73. AL. At a time when the poetry of Robert Service is being made into a silent movie, Unwin is pleased to note that "a considerable proportion of readers do not confine their attentions to the vaudeville school of poets." Unwin offers a detailed comparison of the work of Lampman and Charles G. D. Roberts and concludes that "while Roberts gives us beautiful impressions of Nature, Lampman interprets her."
C37 Macdonald, Elizabeth Roberts. "A Little Talk about Lampman." Canadian Magazine, 52, No. 6 (April 1919), 1012-16. Macdonald recalls her sadness upon learning of Lampman's death from her brother (Theodore Goodridge Roberts), gives a brief biography of Lampman, and quotes a number of lines from his poems. "It is Lampman's nature-poems, and his strangely haunting songs," Macdonald declares, "that constitute to my mind his greatest and most individual contribution to literature."
C38 Voorhis, Ernest. "The Ancestry of Archibald Lampman, Poet." Royal Society of Canada Proceedings and Transactions, 3rd ser., No. 15, Sec 2 (1921), 103-21. As Archibald Lampman's brother-in-law, Reverend Ernest Voorhis had access to unpublished family records in the preparation of this paper, read at the May 1921 meeting of the Royal Society of Canada. Voorhis traces Lampman's father's family back to eighteenth-century Hanover under George II. He is able to trace Lampman's mother's family, the Gesner family, to a village in sixteenth-century Switzerland, near the German border.
C39 Scott, Duncan Campbell. "Poetry and Progress." Canadian Magazine, 60, No. 3 (Jan 1923), 187-95. Deploring the provincialism of late nineteenth-century Canada, and pointing to the "dull environment" in which Lampman wrote, Scott notes that "we still feel that lack of national consciousness, but perhaps it is a trifle less evident now." As proof of this claim, Scott notes that the recently deceased Marjorie Pickthall attracted a following in Canada without first receiving praise from critics elsewhere. Lampman, on the other hand, could not attract an audience in Canada until an American critic (William Dean Howells)lauded his work.
C40 MacMechan, Archibald. Headwaters of Canadian Literature 1924, rpt. New Canadian Library, No. 107. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1971, pp. 109-17. MacMechan sees Lampman as a distinctly Canadian poet. "Like most Canadians, he knows the delight of life in the open; he had camped out; he had canoed; he had noted the inexhaustible beauty of the early summer morning, incense-breathing, far from the stain of civilisation.
C41 Macdonald, Adrian. "Archibald Lampman." In Canadian Portraits. Toronto: Ryerson, 1925, pp. 220-30. Macdonald provides a biography of Lampman before proceeding to critical matters. He feels that Lampman's "diction is too frequently marred by a certain affectation to meet the more austere requirements of good taste. He is so much in love with being a poet that he cannot resist a phrase, however weak, if it seems poetic. . . . " Macdonald, however, points out that "when a poet sings of our own land he touches us very closely," and "it is here that Lampman excels."
C42 Scott, Duncan Campbell. "Introduction." In Lyrics of Earth: Sonnets and Ballads. By Archibald Lampman. Ed. Duncan Campbell Scott. Toronto: Musson, 1925, pp. 3-47. In addition to discussing Lampman's early life and offering a lengthy account of his ancestry Scott attempts to dispel any suggestion that Lampman was a lonely man. "Lampman never worked in loneliness or without appreciation. He might feel that his spirit was parched by routine, but he never felt that other desolating consciousness that no one heeded or comprehended him." Although "his letters show a constant stress of strong feeling, the happiness he had in living manifested itself indirectly." Scott concludes that "the true heart of this poet lies in his marvellous interpretations of nature and the breadth and serenity of his outlook through nature upon human life and destiny."
C43 "Lampman, Archibald." The Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Toronto: Macmillan, 1926 Rpt. in The Encyclopedia of Canada. 1936; rpt. Toronto: Murray, 1948. This very brief entry, identical in the two reference works, gives a biography of Lampman and notes that "he has been described as 'the Canadian Keats';. . . .he is perhaps the most outstanding exponent of the Canadian school of nature poets."
C44 Scott, Duncan Campbell. "Who's Who in Canadian Literature: Archibald Lampman." Canadian Bookman, 8, No. 4 (April 1926), 107-09. Summarizing Lampman's work, Scott calls him a master of the sonnet, and states that there is "nothing feigned" in Lampman's poetry. "It is inspired by true feeling and first hand observation. . . .His task was to capture the essential in the object and not to obscure it with conventions. . . .He desired to transfigure life and to strengthen and glorify the universal yearning for order and beauty and peace. The hope was high, but the task was accomplished."
C45 Stevenson, O.J. "The Song of the Spirit." In A People's Best. Toronto: Musson, 1927, pp. 127-33. After providing a biography of Lampman, Stevenson argues that Lampman's nature poetry is not merely descriptive. "He is the interpreter of Nature, the critic of life, the moralist and teacher." Natural scenes "are described not for their own sake, but as part of his own spiritual experience. The poet is himself inseparable from the scene."
C46 Swift, S. C. "Lampman and Leconte de Lisle." Canadian Bookman, 9, No. 9 (Sept 1927), 261-64. Swift speculates that Lampman was conversant with the Parnassians of France, whose "chief and greatest poet" was Leconte de Lisle. "The principal character of the Parnassian School--faultlessness of form--was exactly the quality which would attract Lampman, who, in that respect, was a very good Parnassian himself." Swift offers a detailed comparison of "Midi" by Leconte de Lisle, and "Heat" by Lampman, and concludes that "Heat" is the "direct and legitimate offspring" of "Midi."
C47 Knister, Raymond. "The Poetry of Archibald Lampman." Dalhousie Review, 7 (Oct. 1927), 348-61. AL. "The combination of racial tendencies, Celtic temperament and Saxon endurance. . .made Lampman what he was, and gave him an unusual balance of qualities." Knister, like many critics before him, points to the influence of Keats on Lampman's poetry. Unlike previous critics, however, Knister recognizes the pressure of provincialism on Lampman's writing. "It is obvious that the audience to which he is addressing himself exerts a pressure of influence upon the artist, and that his work is really an adjustment made so that he can be understood, even when it is essentially self-expression. Hence came the peculiarities of much of the literary work of Lampman's time." In his late poetry, "a sense of character, if not psychological subtlety" appeared, and "he probably would have developed" this aspect of his work had he lived longer. "The Cup of Life" with its "explicit doubt and misgiving before life" exemplifies this psychological concern in Lampman's work. Lampman's best work was in the sonnet: "the discipline of the form was one which, sympathetic to him, he did not allow to become too rigid."
C48 Burton, Jean. "Archibald Lampman's Poetry of Release." Willison's Monthly, April 1928, pp. 425-27. Entirely a biographical reading of Lampman's poetry. Burton claims that "his nostalgic melancholy, the oppressed languor of so much of his work, came. . .from definite frustrations in his personal experience. . . ." Burton cites Lampman's uncongenial occupation and ill health as contributing to his frustration and maintains that "his poetry was. . . a means to an end, a search for release. . . . "
C49 Ross, P. D. "Retrospects XLIX. Archibald Lampman." Ottawa Evening Journal, 12 April 1930, p. 8. Noting that a monument to Lampman will be built in Morpeth, Ross states: "But Archibald Lampman belongs most of all to Ottawa. Here he lived his short manhood, here he wrote." Ross reprints his tribute to Lampman published in February 1899 (see C20) and reveals that he received a letter from Lampman's mother, written the day after the tribute appeared. Written at 222 Daly Avenue, Ottawa, and dated February 12, 1899, the letter reads "Dear Mr. Ross--Accept a deeply grieved mother's heartfelt thanks for your tribute to my dear son's memory. I had not thought anyone but myself so fully understood the blockade of adverse circumstances surrounding his life, and which I know too well has helped him to a premature grave. Yours ever sincerely and gratefully, S. Gesner Lampman."
C50 Elson, John Melbourne. "The Lampman Memorial." Canadian Bookman, 12, No. 5 (May 1930), 105-06. A note on the efforts of the Canadian Authors' Association in organizing the ceremony to honour Lampman.
C51 "The Lampman Memorial. Unveiling the Cairn at Morpeth." The Authors' Bulletin, 8, No. 1 (Sept 1930), 42-43. Account of the memorial ceremonies at Morpeth.
C52 "Lampman's Memory Honored. Impressive Ceremonies at the Dedication of a Commemorative Cairn in Trinity Churchyard at Morpeth." Canadian Bookman, 12, No. 9 (Sept 1930), 175-76. An account of the ceremonies and speeches at the dedication of the Lampman cairn.
C53 "Archibald Lampman Lives." The Free Press [London, Ont.], 15 Sept 1930, p. 6. The newspaper's lead editorial asserts that "the unveiling of the cairn erected to the memory of Archibald Lampman will become, we venture to predict, an event of historical significance."
C54 Hammond, M. O. "Archibald Lampman is Honored as Poet and Great Canadian." The Globe [Toronto], 15 Sept 1930, pp. 1-2. An account of the dedication of the Lampman Memorial Cairn at Morpeth, Hammond's article lists many of those present at the ceremony.
C55 "Lampman Cairn Unveiled in Kent." The Free Press [London, Ont.], 15 Sept. 1930, p. 11. Account of the ceremonies at Morpeth, marking the unveiling of the Lampman cairn.
C56 "A Memorial to Archibald Lampman." The Farmer's Advocate [London, Ont.], 25 Sept. 1930, p. 1404. This account of the ceremonies at the dedication of the Lampman cairn at Morpeth notes that "the present generation reveres" Lampman's memory "and feels that he made a real contribution to the little library of Canadian literature."
C57 Benson, Nathaniel A. "The Lampman Cairn at Morpeth." Saturday Night, 27 Sept 1930, p. 8. Benson's account includes a description of the cairn itself: "a strong, dignified monument of varicolored stone, chaste and austere and enduring. Benson also includes some human interest anecdotes.
C58 "A Memorial to Lampman: Cairn at Morpeth, Ontario." Commonweal, 8 Oct. 1930, p. 566. The writer believes that "many will surely pause at Morpeth churchyard to wonder during a moment at this strange lad who may have dreamed that a lyric was more enduring than bronze."
C59 Kennedy, Leo. "Canadian Writers of the Past V: Archibald Lampman." The Canadian Forum, May 1933, pp. 301-03. AL. "Archibald Lampman has been too long and too loudly publicized as John Keats' little Canadian brother, with literary kinship to Wordsworth on the tedious side. . . . Like the late Bliss Carman, his name and work have been seized upon by patriotic women's groups, hot for national cultural advancement at any cost." Kennedy, a spokesman for Modernism in Canadian poetry, sets Lampman's work up as an example of the kind of poetry the Moderns are seeking to overthrow. "His devotion to the rag-tags of the poet's dictionary--the methinks, lo's, o'ers, begones, yesternights and yestereves--is dispiriting and trying." Kennedy and his contemporaries "are impatient of reading into the face of nature the conservative policies of an Anglican omnipotence. We have detected, as the Lampman's do not appear to have done, that all is not right with the world; we suspect that God is not in his Heaven." Lampman's "second-hand poetic inheritance . . . .does not stand the harsh light of our day. . .we are over prone to greet the versified manifestations of both inheritance and outlook with a Bronx cheer."
C60 Collin, W.E. "Archibald Lampman." University of Toronto Quarterly, 4, No. 1 (Oct. 1934), 103-20. AL. Rpt. (revised--'Natural Landscape"). In The White Savannahs. 1936; rpt. Toronto: Univ of Toronto Press, 1975, pp. 3-40. Collin finds that Lampman "produces the effect of opiate slowness by lines of leaden monosyllables. . . or by languid words. . . ." Collin feels that "The City of the End of Things" was influenced by Thomson's "The City of Dreadful Night." Collin explores the provincialism of Ottawa and its effect on Lampman's work, as well as the different literary standards which distinguish the late nineteenth century from the 1930s.
C61 Stringer, Arthur. "Wild Poets I've Known: Archibald Lampman." Saturday Night, 24 May 1941, p. 29. Stringer's recollection of events forty-three years earlier, when he was a young man working for the Montreal Herald, provides the basis of this article. W.H. Drummond invited Stringer to his home one evening to meet the visiting Archibald Lampman. "The carelessly dressed figure before me," Stringer recalls, "looked frail. But from it I harvested an impression of some stubborn inner strength that would mock and defy the fragility of the flesh."
C62 Klinck, Carl F. "In Canada's Capital." In Wilfred Campbell: A Study in Late Provincial Victorianism. 1942; rpt. Ottawa: Tecumseh, 1977, pp. 72-116. "In the thoroughly political environment of Ottawa," Lampman and his fellow-poets "struggled to keep politics out of literature. Nature and books were their inspiration, meditation and congenial companions their sources of strength."
C63 Brown, E. K. "Introduction." In At the Long Sault and Other New Poems. Toronto: Ryerson, 1943, pp. xi-xxix. Rpt. in On Canadian Poetry. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1943, pp. 72-116. Rpt. in On Canadian Poetry. Ottawa: Tecumseh, 1973, pp. 88-118."In Canada, Lampman is the nearest approach to a national classic in verse. . . .In his later years, Lampman's conception of life was much more comprehensive than his readers and interpreters have generally supposed." Had Lampman lived, Brown believes that his "development likely would have tended towards the drama of life and away from the picture of nature." Considering "At the Long Sault" to be Lampman's greatest work, Brown notes that Lampman had a great theme, and an issue of epic significance, yet he chose "to concentrate tightly upon the climactic action," rather than write a long narrative poem.
C64 Scott, Duncan Campbell. "Foreword." At the Long Sault and Other New Poems. By Archibald Lampman. Ed. Duncan Campbell Scott and E. K Brown. Toronto: Ryerson, 1943, pp. vii-x. Scott maintains that At the Long Sault and Other New Poems, drawn from poems in recently acquired notebooks of Lampman's, is "a gathering together, in a liberal spirit, of all that is left of the poet's work." It should be compared, he believes, with The Poems of Archibald Lampman (1900), in that it is inclusive, rather than selective. In editing At the Long Sault and Other New Poems, Scott made a few minor changes in some of the poems "slight rearrangement here and there," and corrections in punctuation.
C65 Scott, Duncan Campbell. "Archibald Lampman." Educational Record [Quebec], 59, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1943), 221-28. Rpt. in Leading Canadian Poets. Ed. W. P. Percival. Toronto: Ryerson, 1948, pp. 98-106. In addition to providing a biography of Lampman, Scott argues that Lampman's contact with the Quebec landscape, rather than that of Ontario, had the most significant effect on his poetry.
C66 Creighton, Donald Grant. Dominion of the North 1944; rpt. Toronto: Macmillan, 1967, pp. 369-71. Lampman and his contemporaries "made Canadians aware of Canadian nature through the tradition of nineteenth-century Romanticism."
C67 Brown, E. K. "Prefatory Note. 'Two Canadian Poets: A Lecture.' [By Archibald Lampman]" University of Toronto Quarterly, 13, No. 4 (July 1944), 406. Because Lampman wrote the accompanying piece as a lecture, "doubtless he depended upon his voice to bring out the importance and relevance of the material." The lecture "contains notable ideas about the nation and the national literature, expresses a many-sided judgment of Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, which will surprise those who have thought of the poets born in the sixties as a group of like-minded men, and closes with an enthusiastic tribute to George Frederick Cameron, whose fame has been under a long eclipse."
C68 Brown, E. K. "Prefatory Note. "The Character and Poetry of Keats.' [By Archibald Lampman.]" University of Toronto Quarterly, 15, No. 4 (July 1946), 356-57. Brown argues that "Keats was the strongest literary influence on Lampman, except, perhaps, in the last years of his life. For the man, whose life in several respects was significantly like his own, he felt an intimate sympathy and a reverent respect." Brown believes that the accompanying essay started on the scale of a somewhat larger work and that Lampman made his quotations and comments briefer as he drew towards a close. "The passages on 'Endymion' and on the odes are studied with happy and suggestive phrases such as only a kindred spirit could find. They enrich the treasury of Keats-criticism."
C69 Gustafson, Ralph. "Among the Millet." Northern Review, 1, No. 5 (Feb-March 1947). 26-34. AL. Gustafson believes that Lampman's poetry reveals a crisis in his life other than the 1894 death of his young son. (Subsequent research has proven Gustafson right, for there is considerable evidence to suggest that Lampman was involved with Kate Waddell, while remaining married to Maud Playter.) "From such sensitive unrest derives much of the essential appeal of Lampman's poetry. It has given his best sonnets their valid profundity." Regarding Lampman's attacks on Ottawa and its inhabitants, Gustafson feels that "the suspicion cannot be avoided that Lampman protested too much and in too general terms. The conclusion is forced upon one that Lampman was shifting responsibility from himself, that his protests were compensation for a lack that lay elsewhere than wholly in his environment." Lampman would not have been happy in literary London, for he could not face "life" in Ottawa. There are indications, Gustafson notes, "that Lampman partook willingly of puritan provincialism" and points to the pinning down of the pages of his notebook which contained love sonnets as proof of this claim. Lampman's disapproval of "brawny passages" in some of Charles G. D. Roberts' work and his temperance beliefs exemplified in "Abu Midjan" are further indications of his puritanism. 'Lampman's inability to fulfill the worldly role he thought he should assume led him to postulations that the world was well lost." By rationalizing his incapacity into a virtue, Lampman could justify his forays into nature. This article elicited a response from Duncan Campbell Scott (See C83.)
C70 Brown, E. K. "Archibald Lampman 1861-1899: What We Lost" Saturday Night, 8 Feb. 1949, p. 15. "To this day no one has captured as Lampman did the beauty of the Canadian landscape, the march of the seasons in their astonishing extremes, the passing of day and night, land and water, storm and stillness, the fields at the city's edge and the untrodden wilds."
C71 Bourinot, Arthur S. "Archibald Lampman and What Some Writers Have Said of Him." Canadian Author and Bookman, 26, No. 2 (Summer 1950), 20-22. Rpt. in Five Canadian Poets. Ed. Arthur S. Bourinot. 1954; rpt. Ottawa Bourinot, 1968, pp. 8-11. Lampman's critics "have overstressed the difficulties of the poet's life and underestimated the joy and happiness."
C72 Bissell, Claude T. "Literary Taste in Central Canada during the Late Nineteenth Century." The Canadian Historical Review, 31, No. 2 (Sept 1950), 237-51. Rpt.in Twentieth Century Essays on Confederation Literature, Ed. Lorraine McMullen. Ottawa: Tecumseh, 1976, pp. 24-40. In assessing the role of the writer in nineteenth-century Canada, Bissell terms the literary establishment of the day "the family compact of intellectuals and men of letters. . . ." The career of Lampman "gives us a pattern of the normal development. It is founded on a family tradition that stresses devotion to things British, to the Church, and to classical literature. It is subsequently toughened by exposure to the world of politics and education, and by immersion in journalism." It is "abundantly clear," according to Bissell, "that Lampman was no pale recluse but an active participator and an acknowledged leader in the intellectual and cultural life of Central Canada." In his poetry, "the cultivated taste of the age finds its most eloquent apology."
C73 Phelps, Arthur. "Archibald Lampman." Canadian Writers. 1951; rpt. Freeport, N. Y.: Books for Libraries, 1972, pp. 51-59. Phelps sees Lampman as a minor poet. "He did not even leave behind him a single poem or group of poems whose vitality of spirit or unflawed craftsmanship might guarantee an incidental immortality."
C74 Sutherland, John. "Edgar Allan Poe in Canada." Northern Review, 4, No. 3 (Feb-March 1951), 22-37. AL. Sutherland's examination of Poe's influence on Lampman is one of a series of articles in the Northern Review dealing with the relationship between the Canadian writer and his literary influences. Lampman mistrusted art, Sutherland maintains "He regarded poetry as an escape into dream, a kind of opiate, but he never ceased to feel that the desire to escape was slightly corrupt. Hence.. .he always felt obliged to relate the hazy reaches of the dream to a large moral truth, no matter how incongruous it might seem. What was, in effect, a split between the imagination and reality grew steadily wider." Sutherland compares Poe's "The City in the Sea" with Lampman's "The City of the End of Things" by offering a line by line analysis of how Lampman's poem echoes Poe's. Proceeding to the thematic similarities between the two works, Sutherland writes that both poems "involve a contrast between death or madness and a state of paradisal bliss." The two poems "develop this contrast in an identical manner, they begin with images of death, then evoke memories of a blissful happiness, and end with a prophecy of utter destruction."
C75 Pacey, Desmond . "A Reading of Lampman's 'Heat.'" Culture, 14 (Sept. 1953), 292-97. AL. Pacey's sensitive explication de texte of "Heat" is one of the most important works of Lampman criticism. Beginning with an examination of the poem's rhythm, Pacey points out that the first seven lines of each stanza are written in iambic trimeter, while the last line of each stanza is in iambic trimeter. Thus, a sense of inconclusiveness is developed through the rhythm, urging us on to the next stanza. This effect is in keeping with Lampman's intention of "projecting a linked sequence of emotional impressions." Pacey sees the poem as being "constructed on the principle of balanced opposites." Recalling Vaughan's glimpse of eternity as a ring of pure and endless light, and noting the dominant image of the wheel in "Heat," Pacey sees the opposites in Lampman's poem as spokes of the wheel: "they have their place in an endless cycle which gives them meaning and a final unity."
C76 Brown, E. K. "Lampman, Archibald." Chambers's Encyclopedia. 1955; rpt. London International Learning Systems, 1969. Brown gives a biography of Lampman and notes that "Lampman's rendering of nature in Ontario and the valley of the Gatineau is at once faithful and poetically suggestive."
C77 Beattle, Munro. "Archibald Lampman." In Our Living Tradition. Ser. 1. Ed. Claude T. Bissell. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1957, pp. 63-88. Beattie believes that ". . .the theory that Ottawa drudgery suffocated Lampman and robbed us of masterpieces he was never permitted to create is best refuted by his decision to remain at his civil service job in Ottawa." For example, Lampman turned down an opportunity to teach at Cornell University. Beattie points to Lampman's "unremitting fastidiousness as a craftsman" and calls him one of the four finest Canadian poets.
C78 Pierce, Lorne. "Lampman, Archibald." Encyclopedia Canadiana 1957; rpt. Toronto: Grolier, 1977. Lampman "had a genius for marshalling details of minute artistic unity of mood and manner. `The spirit's birthright of immortal youth' was his, but in time confinement in a dull and mediocre world galled him. He was something of a socialist, and advocated the complete independence of Canada." Pierce believes that "there is little metrical invention in his art, and much of his work is lacking in depth and range," but Lampman was a supreme nature poet.
C79 Colgate, William. "Archibald Lampman: A Dedication and a Note." The Canadian Forum, March 1957, pp. 279-80. Colgate came across an 1886 romance by Edmund Collins entitled Annette, the Metis Spy; A Heroine of the N.W. Rebellion, whose dedication read: "To my friend / Archibald Lampman / Whose beautiful and unaffected genius / men will some day be / delighted to honor / with / unvarying and unextinguishable love / I dedicate / This volume / The Author." Collins was a Toronto journalist and friend of Lampman's.
C80 Dudek, Louis. "The Significance of Lampman." Culture, 18 (Sept 1957), 277-90. Rpt. in Selected Essays and Criticism. Ottawa: Tecumseh, 1978, pp. 65-78. AL. At the personal level, Lampman reveals the temperament of the typical melancholic, undergoing alternate phases of depression and sudden relief. This provides a pattern of central experience for his poetry. . . . But raised to a philosophical plane, it reveals a questioning and troubled view of nature and man, a dissatisfaction with the complacencies of the popular romantic formula and moves toward new positions of doubt and mental struggle." Dudek sees the subtle expression of social criticism in Lampman's pessimism, and believes that Lampman's struggle with the problems of fundamental emotion and belief mark him as a forerunner of the significant poetry of the twentieth century. There is a marked dearth of references to God in Lampman's poetry. Most often God appears as "Energy" or "the energy divine," Dudek notes. "As a socialist, that is, a rationalist in his approach to society, Lampman might be expected to extend his critical thought to his religious ideas, and this is precisely what we find." However much Lampman "tries to be the romantic seer, the truth forces through; the formula of nature as the great comforter, as entire harmony, and the duty of the poet to achieve joy, in order to justify himself, all these fade before the conviction he gives of his inner unrest, melancholy, and pervading pessimism." His "poems dealing with the city, with social questions, and with Ideas, although not Lampman's preferred subjects, since he would rather eschew them, are his most significant work."
C81 Pacey, Desmond. "Archibald Lampman." In Ten Canadian Poets: A Group of Biographical and Critical Essays. Toronto: Ryerson, 1958, pp. 114-40. Lampman is usually "represented as a poet who was deprived of intellectual stimulation and intelligent appreciation, and who therefore sought refuge in the detailed but superficial description of natural landscape." The contention of Pacey's essay is "that this is an incomplete and unfair conception of both Lampman and his Canadian environment, and that his personality and his poetry were more complex than is commonly recognized."
C82 Watt, F. W. "The Masks of Archibald Lampman." University of Toronto Quarterly, 27, No. 2 (Jan. 1958), 169-84. AL. Watt examines Lampman's concern with social issues. Lampman's life in Ottawa "was not at all one of quiet fruitfulness, but on the contrary one of unrest, dissatisfaction often to the point of despair, and unresolved tension and conflict within himself and with the society in which he lived." Distressed by "the excessive pieties of Victorian Canada," Lampman sought a release from social pressures in the countryside around Ottawa. However, for Lampman, escape created tension. The "grim Idiot at the gate" in "The City of the End of Things" is Lampman's figuring of the creative spirit of the artist in the sterile condition to which the nightmare of rampant industrial urbanism might one day reduce it." In contrast, "The Land of Pallas" presents "an egalitarian, communistic, peaceful, unchanging land of brotherly love."
C83 Scott, Duncan Campbell. "Copy of a Letter. . . to Ralph Gustafson, 17 July 1945 [about Archibald Lampman]." The Fiddlehead, No. 41 (Summer 1959), pp. 12-14 AL. Scott answers some of the charges levelled against Lampman by Ralph Gustafson in his Northern Review article (see C69). Scott insists that Lampman was not unhappy in the post office and never wanted to be a man of affairs, as Gustafson had claimed. Hence, he felt no sense of failure or conflict over his role as poet. "He was interested in both life and nature" writes Scott, in response to Gustafson's claim that Lampman escaped into nature because he could not face life. To Gustafson's charge that Lampman's anti-city poetry arose from his dislike of Ottawa, Scott stresses that "The City of the End of Things" had "no possible source in Ottawa past or present."
C84 Begley, Lucille. "Harmonies canadiennes. Pamphile le May, Archibald Lampman." Lectures, 6 (juin 1960), 296-97. In this article, written in French, Begley points out that in spite of great differences in language and culture, Pamphile le May and Archibald Lampman were both disciples of the Romantic school of poetry. The former was an admirer of Lamartine and Victor Hugo, and the latter, of Keats and Matthew Arnold. Begley proceeds to point out the resemblance between the work of le May and Lampman, noting in particular, the likeness between le May's "La Terre" and Lampman's "Earth--The Stoic."
C85 Beattie, Munro. "Lampman, Archibald." Encyclopedia Britannica 1961; rpt. Toronto: Britannica, 1970. After providing a biography of Lampman, Beattie points out that the poet derived the material for his poems "from his contemplation of Ottawa and its environs, and the Gatineau countryside of Quebec. . . .A few short poems severely criticizing contemporary abuses of power and wealth show him to have been of radical tendencies in politics and economics, but do not create the kind of conviction communicated by his poems of description and reflection."
C86 Burnett, Ian. "Archibald Lampman, Our Most Gifted 19th Century Poet." Ottawa Journal, 18 Nov. 1961, p. 39 Appearing the day after the centenary of Lampman's birth, this article offers a review of Lampman's life and career. For the person interested in tracking down the sites of Lampman's various homes in Ottawa, this article provides a wealth of information.
C87 Coblentz, Stanton A. "Archibald Lampman: Canadian Poet of Nature." Arizona Quarterly, 17, No. 4 (Winter 1961), 344-51. Coblentz examines "Late November," "A Forest Path in Winter," and "Among the Timothy" in the context of nature poetry, before proceeding to discuss poems of Lampman's which are not concerned with nature, notably "The City of the End of Things." Of the latter poem, Coblentz states that "to us of the atomic age, with the menace of hydrogen doom overhanging us like a storm cloud, Lampman's dire foresight should have an immediacy it could not possess for the smug nineteenth century."
C88 Daniells, Roy. "Lampman and Roberts." In Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English. Gen. Ed. and introd. Carl F. Klinck 1965; Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1976, Vol I. 405-21. "The heart of Lampman's poetic achievement consists of a small group of nature poems. Lampman makes to the Ontario landscape a characteristic response, to which we must apply the word of his own choice--dream .... But it is notable that Lampman refuses to give specific content to his dream or to allow his dreaming to lead him towards philosophic or theological concepts or to make of his dreams any incitement or prelude to action. It follows that as we move outward from this dream, we move into spheres which are less and less relevant to his vision. It is nature, and. . . only nature, that induces in him the trance of insight into the life of things." Daniells also discusses the tension of opposites in Lampman's poetry and, before proceeding to a discussion of Charles G. D. Roberts, notes that Roberts is of less significance as a poet, but more of an influence on Canadian writing than Lampman.
C89 Story, Norah. "Lampman, Archibald." In The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1967. Story notes that Lampman was "repelled by urban materialism and the growing mechanization of life and felt lost when the bulwarks of traditional belief fell before the Darwinian concept of evolution and higher criticism of the Bible. For the most part, Lampman did not grapple with the problems of his age. . . ."
C90 Nesbitt, Bruce. "Matthew Arnold in Canada: A Dialogue Begun?" Culture, 28 (mars 1967), 53-54. In this article, Nesbitt speculates as to whether Louis Frechette and Lampman may have been friends. In their lost letters there may exist an early attempt to establish a literacy dialogue between French and English Canadians.
C91 Greig, Peter. "A Check List of Lampman Manuscript Material in the Douglas Library Archives." Douglas Library Notes, 15, No. 3 (Winter 1967), 8-16; Douglas Library Notes, 16, No. 1 (Autumn 1967), 12-27. The first instalment is devoted to Lampman's letters to Bliss Carman, while the second deals with Lampman's correspondence with the publishers Scudder, Copeland and Day.
C92 Jones, D. G. "The Problem of Job." In Butterfly on Rock: A Study of Themes and Images in Canadian Literature 1970; rpt. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1976, pp. 83-110. Jones argues that the Confederation poets "are conventionally regarded as the poets of nature. They were clearly influenced by the nineteenth-century Romantics. But they also reflect an authentic desire to get out of a garrison culture that was becoming increasingly oppressive. . . .Dissatisfied with the established culture, they clearly look to nature in the hope of discovering a larger and more vital conception of life." However, in abandoning the garrison, they are "forced to reconcile themselves to the various threats against which the walls were initially built. . . .Lampman's attempt to escape from boredom and sterility led him to a search for the vital in nature and in language. The cultural confusion of the time is reflected in the mixed diction of his poetry." For example, he attempts to replace conventional expressions with more technical sounding words. "When Lampman maintains that the growth of the soul consists in each creature's following his own bent, he diametrically opposes the central impulse of his culture, which would change or transform life to make it fit some ideal pattern--which would impose an order upon life. Thus, though he may not be fully aware of it, he becomes a spokesman for the God of Job, who recommends all his creatures as equally good."
C93 Ower, John. "Portraits of the Landscape as Poet: Canadian Nature as Aesthetic Symbol in Three Confederation Writers." Journal of Canadian Studies, 6 (Feb 1971), 27-32. Rpt. in Twentieth Century Essays on Confederation Literature. Ed. Lorraine McMullen. Ottawa: Tecumseh, 1976, pp. 140-51. Ower's article examines the way in which Lampman, Campbell, and Roberts "tackle the job of mastering their native environment in a particularly direct and sophisticated manner by projecting upon the Canadian landscape complex and subtle discussions of their aesthetic concerns." A third of the article is devoted to a discussion of Lampman's "Heat." Lampman perceives an analogy between the human psyche and nature, allowing him "to project his mental processes upon external nature, and also to evolve a contrapuntal symbolism which is simultaneously psychological and metaphysical. . . ."
C94 Davies, Barrie. "Lampman: Radical Poet of Nature." The English Quarterly, 4, No. 1 (Spring 1971), 33-43. "... Lampman is very much a poet of the city. Lampman did not escape into nature, he was an exile there. He constantly strove to bring to society the organic values of the natural world . Thus Lampman, using the basic image of the city, directed his poetry against anything which debased, diminished, and degraded the human spirit."
C95 Haines, Victor Yelverton. "Archibald Lampman: This or That." Revue de l'Universite d'Ottawa, 41 (July-Sept 1971), 455-71. The final stanza of Lampman's "Heat" begins: "And yet to me not this or that / Is always sharp or always sweet"; and Haines argues that these lines "are the poem's fulcrum where meditation can pry up the central themes common to a great deal of Lampman's poetry. In this particular poem itself they subsume three or four colloquial meanings over which they are positioned with intricate ambiguity. A careful look at each of these meanings by way of explication that drills right into the verse not only clarifies the structure of this well-known Canadian poem but broadens to an enlightening view of all Lampman's nature poetry."
C96 Nesbitt, Bruce. "A Gift of Love: Lampman and Life." Canadian Literature, No. 50 (Autumn 1971), pp. 35-40. Rpt. in Colony and Confederation: Early Canadian Poets and Their Background. Ed. George Woodcock. Vancouver: Univ. of British Columbia Press, 1974, pp. 142-47. Lampman's "inability to resolve his personal conflicts," particularly his love for Katherine Waddell, led to the writing of poetry of social protest. "There exists positive documentary evidence.. .to indicate that at this time his vaguely humanistic sentiments were being sharply focussed into poems of social protest. Lampman's letters to Edward William Thomson describe his 'spiritual revolution'; the manuscript he presented to Katherine reveals some of the results of this disturbance."
C97 Gnarowski, Michael. "A Note on the Text." The City of the End of Things. By Archibald Lampman. Montreal: Golden Dog, 1972, n. pag. In editing Lampman's poem, Gnarowski notes, he relied on three manuscript versions of "The City of the End of Things." These are a poem in the Public Archives of Canada, dated June 1892, entitled "The City of the End of Things or the Issue of Things that Are"; a poem in the University of Toronto Library, dated August 1892, entitled "The Nameless City"; and a manuscript copy in the Library of Parliament. Gnarowski also points out that he has restored the poem to its original arrangement of five verses of eight, twenty, sixteen, twenty, and twenty-four lines respectively.
C98 Thomas, Clara. "Archibald Lampman." In Our Nature--Our Voices: A Guidebook to English-Canadian Literature. Vol. I Toronto: new press, 1972, pp. 55-57. This summary of Lampman's life and work points out that "he was distressed by all the doubts and fears that tormented sensitive men of the nineteenth century." Lampman confronted those doubts and fears in "The City of the End of Things," though most of his poetry is concerned not with man and society but with nature. A "close-woven and continuing aesthetic" can be discerned in all of Lampman's writing.
C99 Davies, Barrie. "A Lampman Manuscript." Journal of Canadian Fiction, 1, No. 2 (Spring 1972), 55-56. In addition to providing bibliographic information about Lampman's accompanying essay on socialism, Davies places the ideas expressed in the essay into the context of Lampman's entire body of work. "Throughout his work Lampman is concerned with the consequences of the massing of people in cities, the breakdown of tradition, communal patterns, and the acquisitive and competitive stresses promoted by the principles of laisser-faire [sic]. Thus for the human bonds which linked man to man, or 'friendship,' Lampman saw the century as substituting economic ones. Thus industrial society was not a society in any meaningful sense but a collection of individuals motivated by self-interest."
C100 Davies, E. Barrie. "Answering Harmonies." The Humanities Association Bulletin, 23 (Spring 1972), 57-68. "Lampman consciously thought of poetry as a symbol-making art and assigned this as the chief function of the creative imagination. Thus the world viewed through the imagination was organically constructed and the cosmos a unity of sympathetic parts arranged in a pattern or a harmony." Davies examines two image patterns connected with man's origins and subsequent history, as they are expressed in Lampman's poetry. The first derives from the myth of Paradise or the Golden Age, producing images of birth, dawn, spring light, gold, the garden, great stature, movement, music, dancing, and eternity. The second originates in moral and psychological concepts both ancient and modern. The concept of man as a compound of the divine and the bestial is central here. Thus, "a major portion of Lampman's poetry deals with the fallen world of man, a world of warring contraries fragmented, disharmonious, without unity." Nature "is only the concrete manifestation of a spiritual integer of which the sun is Lampman's most suitable symbol. . . ." The sun is the "source and centre of energy permeating and irradiating matter, manifesting the ubiquitous unity inherent in multiplicity."
C101 Davies, Barrie. "Lampman and Religion." Canadian Literature, No. 56 (Spring 1973), pp. 40-60. Rpt. in Colony and Confederation: Early Canadian Poets and Their Background. Ed. George Woodcock. Vancouver: Univ. of British Columbia Press, 1974, pp. 103-23. Davies deals with Lampman's religious experience in three stages: his reection of institutional religion, his perplexity and doubt, and the nature of his religious beliefs. Regarding the first stage, Davies cites a letter written to E. W. Thomson on November 2, 1897, in which Lampman admits "It always depresses me to go to church." Lampman's perplexity and doubt are illuminated by applying to Lampman's poetry the theories expressed in J. Hillis Miller's The Disappearance of God. Romantic poets attempt to reestablish communication between the divine and the human in their poetry. "To Chaucer" and many of Lampman's poems on the seasons explore this "possibility of re-entry into a divine harmony. . . ." Lampman's religious beliefs emerge "through rather than in nature." Lampman became acquainted with transcendentalism through his friendship with William Wilfred Campbell.
C102 Davies, Barrie. "Makeshift Truce: Lampman and the Position of the Writer in Nineteenth-Century Canada." The Dalhousie Review, 53 (Spring 1973), 121-42. The conflict between art and society is explored in Davies' article: "art affirms identity and is the means to selfhood, wholeness, and unity; society and the times demand self-deception, compromise, and eventual dehumanization." Implicit in Lampman's nature poetry is a struggle between commitment to art, and a society that cannot appreciate such a commitment. Although it is distressing, alienation from society is necessary if the poet's artistic vision is to remain uninhiblted by the forces of society. Hence, the numerous escapes from the city in Lampman's poems are not acts of voluntary and deliberate self-exile. Rather, they are a kind of exorcism, or coming to terms with the environment. The "domination of material ends and self-interest is a blight to sensitivity and unworldliness." Therefore the "artist accepts as a blessing his alienation from a society that needs regeneration."
C103 Djwa, Sandra. "Lampman's Fleeting Vision." Canadian Literature, No. 56 (Spring 1973), pp. 22-39 Rpt. in Colony and Confederation: Early Canadian Poets and Their Background. Ed. George Woodcock. Vancouver: Univ. of British Columbia Press, 1974, pp. 124-41. "Lampman's varied poetic stances are related to his exploration of an abyss which he perceives gaping between the benevolent nature which he would like to affirm and the often unpleasant 'reality' of everyday life." The rift is bridged through the metaphor of the "dream," and Djwa points to the final lines of Lampman's "A Vision of Twilight" in developing her argument. Djwa believes that "Lampman's use of the same adverb to describe both states (and the fact that both are perceived through a poem which is itself a 'vision') points up his transitory sense of both states and may be taken to support the view that he often sees the 'visionary' and the so-called 'real' world from the essentially passive state of the observer in the dream." In Lampman's poetry, "the dream, coupled with the stoic stance, becomes a way of circumventing the pain of everyday reality." However it is not always possible to maintain the dream and keep reality at bay. Lampman accepted "the Wordsworthian belief that it is possible to be 'laid asleep in body' and so 'see into the life of things' at the very moment when changing social structures, the Darwinistic imperative, and above all the loss of a settled faith, made it impossible to assert man's spiritual transcendence in nature." When Lampman "was no longer psychologically able to participate in the comfort of nature's dream," a "great press of new realities" appeared in his poetry.
C104 Whitridge, Margaret Coulby. "Introduction." In The Poems of Archibald Lampman (Including At the Long Sault) Ed. Margaret Coulby Whitridge. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1974, pp. vii-xxix. Whitridge discusses the channels of communication among members of the Confederation group of poets and stresses that "sincere praise and interested criticism from his fellow poets provided a continuing stimulus for Lampman, who was locked by illness and insecurity into a life which seemed to him both narrow and provincial." She argues that Lampman "struck the first authentic note of fear in Canadian literature, a fear stripped bare of Victorian dream-garden mysticism and expressed in poems about politicians and money lenders, towering impersonal city buildings and solitary, homeless figures prowling the city streets. . . ."
C105 Davies, Barrie. "Introduction." In Archibald Lampman: Selected Prose. Ed. Barrie Davies. Ottawa: Tecumseh, 1975, pp. 1-9. In addition to providing bibliographic information about the prose pieces included in Archibald Lampman: Selected Prose, Davies stresses that Lampman's prose frequently incorporates "many of the preoccupations and metaphors which characterize his poetry." Davies goes on to comment specifically on each of the selections in the book, their relationship to Lampman's poetry, and the manner in which they illuminate Lampman's philosophical, social, and literary concerns.
C106 Nesbitt, Bruce. "Lampmania: Alcyone and the Search for Merope." In Editing Canadian Texts. Ed. Francess G. Halpenny. Toronto: Hakkert, 1975, pp. 33-48. Lampman scholars must return to the poet's manuscripts in order to determine his intentions in writing his poetry. Nesbitt reveals that Duncan Campbell Scott made substantial changes in Lampman's poems in the process of preparing the 1900 volume, The Poems of Archibald Lampman. He altered punctuation and capitalization, substituted words at will, and even excised an entire stanza from one of Lampman's poems. Criticism of Lampman has been based on these published, and therefore altered, versions of Lampman's poems. Future criticism must be based on Lampman's manuscripts if an accurate assessment of Lampman's work is to be achieved.
C107 Whitridge, Margaret Coulby. "Introduction." In Lampman's Kate, Late Love Poems of Archibald Lampman, 1887-1897. Ed. Margaret Coulby Whitridge. Ottawa: Borealis, 1975, pp. 11-23. Whitridge argues for a biographical reading of the poems she has included in the volume. Lampman and Maud Playter were married on September 3, 1887. Within a few months, according to Whitridge, Lampman was trying to convince himself that he could remain faithful to Maud, and this struggle is illustrated in "The Faithful Lover." Six months later, "Silence!" explores Lampman's growing frustration in his marriage. Whitridge gives 1889 as the year in which Lampman fell in love with Katherine (Kate) Waddell, his co-worker at the post office. In the mid-1890s, Lampman left his wife and took rooms in Ottawa. At the same time, Kate left her family home. Her name is missing from the Ottawa City Directory for this two-year period only, yet records show that she continued to work at the post office. Lampman declined offers to teach in the United States during this same period. Whitridge is convinced that Lampman and Kate were living together. However, Lampman's friends and relatives always denied any relationship between Lampman and Kate. Several letters, presumably concerning Kate, are missing from Lampman's correspondence, and some appear to have been removed neatly with scissors.
C108 Morley, William F. E. "Archibald Lampman's 'Alcyone.'" Canadian Notes & Queries, No. 15 (July 1975), p. 3. Morley accounts for four of the twelve copies of Alcyone printed in 1899 and asks the whereabouts of the other eight. Morley received three responses to his query (see Cl17, C121, and C124).
C109 Wortham, Thomas. "Archibald Lampman and William Dean Howells." Canadian Notes & Queries, No. 16 (Dec 1975), p. 2. At the request of his brother-in-law, Achille Frechette, William Dean Howells wrote a letter on February 14, 1899, on the death of Lampman. The letter appears to be an official statement and Wortham asks if it was printed.
C110 Whitridge, Margaret Coulby. "Introduction." Lampman's Sonnets, 1884-1899. Ed. Margaret Coulby Whitrldge. Ottawa: Borealis, 1976, pp x-xxiv. Defining a sonnet as "the complete expression of a single idea," Whitridge justifies including poems from twelve to sixteen lines in length in the collection. The introduction also includes biographical data about Lampman.
C111 Dragland, Stan. "Duncan Campbell Scott as Literary Executor for Archibald Lampman: A Labour of Love." Studies in Canadian Literature, 1, No. 2 (Summer 1976), 143-57. Dragland credits Scott with "spreading the word" about Lampman through his work as Lampman's literary executor, and by writing a number of articles about Lampman. On a personal level, Scott was an outstanding friend to Lampman and his family.
Cl12 McGill, Jean. "Medals and Medallions of R. Tait McKenzie." Canadian Collector, 11, No. 4 (July-Aug. 1976), 21-23. This account of the work of R. Tait McKenzie, Canadian doctor, physical educator, and sculptor, notes that upon the death of his "cherished friend" Archibald Lampman, McKenzie struck a medallion in honour of Lampman.
Cl13 Bentley, D. M. R. "Archibald Lampman (1861-1899)--A Checklist." Essays on Canadian Living, No. 5 (Fall 1976), pp. 36-49. Bentley's checklist is divided into seven sections, covering: public collections of Lampman material in Canada; poetry; miscellaneous prose; selected reviews of Lampman's poetry; obituaries and related material; studies, including theses dealing with Lampman; and miscellaneous material.
Cl14 Bentley, D. M. R. "The Same Unnamed Delight: Lampman's Essay on 'Happiness' and 'Lyrics of Earth.'" Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 5 (Fall 1976), pp. 25-35. In this article, Bentley analyzes Lampman's "Happiness" and shows how one of the essay's major themes--the causality and attainment of happiness--is also a major concern in several of the twenty-nine poems in Lyrics of Earth. Lyrics of Earth, though dated 1895, was issued in 1896, the same year that "Happiness" was written. "In Lampman's view, 'true happiness' comes. . . to those who, by electing to follow or cultivate their individual 'genius' or 'gift,' are led to an optimistic understanding of the universe." To substantiate his insights "Lampman offers a parable concerning a fisherman's search from lake to lake for a 'grey trout,' which is to say, for happiness. Although the fish is never found, the delights of nature which the fisherman experiences in the course of his search, when 'remembered afterward with luxurious joy' become a source of the happiness which had earlier eluded him." Bentley argues that "at a metaphorical level the arrangement of the poems in Lyrics of Earth may correspond to the quest outlined in the 'parable...'" The poet, like the fisherman, begins the volume by seeking happiness itself, proceeds through a joyful experiencing of nature, and ends by discovering, in the memory of his past experience in nature, the source of lasting happiness.
C115 Bentley, D.M R. "Prefatory Note. 'The Poetry of Byron.' By Archibald Lampman." Queen's Quarterly, 83, No. 4 (Winter 1976), 623. In addition to providing bibliographic information about Lampman's accompanying essay on Byron, Bentley points out that Lampman's assessment of the value of Byron's work "reveals much about the criteria by which," in Lampman's view, "poetry is to be judged. When Lampman says that 'poetry.. . which ranges itself on the side of passion against eternal law is a disturbing influence to human progress and is therefore of no real value to us' he is making a statement that is implicit in many of his other literary essays and which may well be important to a full understanding of his own intentions in poetry."
C116 Bentley, D. M. R. "`Archibald Lampman as I Knew Him at Trinity University,' by Archdeacon G. B. Sage (with a Prefatory Note by D. M. R. Bentley)." Canadian Notes & Queries, No. 18 (Dec 1976), pp. 7-8. Sage, who attended university with Lampman, delivered the "Invocation" at the dedication of the Lampman Memorial Cairn in 1930. The "Invocation," recalling the college age Lampman, is printed in full in this note.
C117 Lamb, W. Kay, and Peter E. Greig. "Archibald Lampman's 'Alcyone.'" Canadian Notes & Queries, No. 18 (Dec 1976), p. 3. In response to William F. E. Morley's query about the whereabouts of copies of Alcyone (see C108), Lamb suggests that there may be a copy in the National Library. Greig, however, points out that there is no reference to Alcyone in the catalogues of the National Library or the Public Archives of Canada.
C118 Mandel, Eli. "The City in Canadian Poetry." In Another Time. Erin, Ont.: Porcepic, 1977, pp. 114-23. Examining the work of such poets as Archibald Lampman, James Reaney, A. M. Klein, Wilfred Watson, Irving Layton, and Dennis Lee, Mandel finds that a two-fold problem faces these writers: " first, whether it is possible to put together, nature and imagination, and second, if it is not possible, how to get past nature itself. For both parts of the question the city seems to be a crucial image." Regarding Lampman's "The City of the End of Things," Mandel notes that such motifs as "the blazing furnace, the three who walk there accompanied by a shadowy fourth," and the city built to music, belong to the magic cites of legend and poem, such as Troy and Camelot, and the fiery furnace of the Bible. "The poem, by means of parody, evokes the horror of a mindless world. In other words, Lampman sees the real opposition not between the nature and machine, but between nature and imagination. The machine he is writing about is nature itself. . . The fire that burns in so many poems on Canadian cities. . . may be seen to be the fire of the poet's own creativity burning away the dead husk of the city or the machinery of the natural world. The answer to the question 'how to get past nature?' is by means of imagination. The furnace or forge symbolizes creative energy, and in that forge new images are hammered into being."
C119 Davies, Barrie. "Lampman Could Tell His Frog from His Toad: A Note on Art versus Nature." Studies in Canadian Literature, 2, No 1 (Winter 1977), 129-30. Duncan Campbell Scott had claimed that the frogs in Lampman's poetry were really toads, and Stan Dragland concurred with Scott in his article on Scott and Lampman (see C111). In response, Davies stresses that the "value of Lampman's poetry does not lie finally in a 'realistic' presentation of the natural scenery, though it is usually accurate enough to satisfy most and mislead others. . . . It is precisely because frogs are conventionally unromantic that they are available to the poetry. . . of Lampman. He is fascinated by their alienness of shape, their physical unobtrusiveness. . . and with their insignificance or unimportance to contemporary civilization. . . .Lampman identified himself with the frogs, and at one level they represent the poet, at another, the ideal sought by the poet."
C120 Boll, David. "Letters of Archibald Lampman." Canadian Notes & Queries, No. 19 (June 1977), p. 5. Boll seeks letters of Lampman's which have not been catalogued or otherwise recorded.
C121 Smith, W. J. "Archibald Lampman's 'Alcyone.'" Canadian Notes & Queries, No. 19 (June 1977), p. 7. In response to William F. E. Morley's query about the whereabouts of copies of Alcyone (see C108), Smith points out that there are copies of the volume in the Public Archives of Canada, and in the Simon Fraser University collection of Lampman material.
C122 Kennedy, Margaret. "Lampman and the Canadian Thermopylae: 'At the Long Sault: May, 1660.'" Canadian Poetry, No. 1 (Fall-Winter 1977), pp. 54-59. Kennedy presents a strong argument that Francis Parkman's The Old Regime in Canada (1874) was the major, and perhaps the only, source for Lampman's "At the Long Sault: May, 1660." While drawing on Parkman's work, Lampman "freely omitted whatever he found unsuitable and judiciously added what he felt was necessary for the unity and effectiveness of his poem."
C123 Talman, James J. "Archibald Lampman As I Knew Him." Canadian Notes & Queries, No. 20 (Dec 1977), p 10. In response to D. M. R. Bentley's article (see Cl16), Talman provides further information about Sage.
C124 Townsend, Patricia L. "Archibald Lampman's 'Alcyone.'" Canadian Notes & Queries, No. 20 (Dec. 1977), pp. 4-5. In response to William F. E. Morley's query about the whereabouts of copies of Alcyone (see C108), Townsend notes that there is a copy of the volume at Acadia University.
C125 Bentley, D. M. R. "Archibald Lampman on Poets and Poetry.'" Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 9 (Winter 1977-78), pp. 12-25. Bentley examines the central ideas of Lampman's literary criticism, both published and unpublished, in order "to approach a little closer, not only. . . Lampman the thinker, but also... Lampman the poet." In "The Revolt of Islam" (1880), Lampman sees "nineteenth-century society exerting a corrupting influence on man who. . . was 'originally pure and good.' The poet can retain or recover his innocence by entering into communion with nature." Lampman's "The Modern School of Poetry in England" (1885), articulates a "quasi-religious conception of poetry as a 'transfiguration'" and argues, as does the undated essay, "The Poetry of Byron," that "poetry which deals with uncongenial aspects of life... cannot be good art." In "Two Canadian Poets" (1891), Lampman "theorizes about the sort of poetry which a Canadian society might produce...." Lampman discusses Keats's work in "The Character and Poetry of Keats" (1893), and amplifies his conception of Keats's work in his undated essay on "Poetic Interpretation." Bentley concludes that "the most important single fact for a full understanding and appreciation of Lampman's literary criticism is that it is part of a much larger philosophy... which is basically and radically realistic, progressive, melioristic, and moralistic. For Lampman, poetry is the servant of spiritual and moral elevation and progress."
C126 Bentley, D. M. R. "Introduction." In Lyrics of Earth. By Archibald Lampman. Ed. D.M. R. Bentley. Ottawa: Tecumseh, 1978, pp. 1-20. After providing a biography of Lampman and tracing the poet's critical reception, Bentley examines the troubled pre-publication history of Lyrics of Earth. In this edition of the book, Bentley has restored the poems to Lampman's intended order. "Not only is this true to the original intentions of the poet but it also restores the poems to their correct 'sequence. . . .'" The poems follow a seasonal pattern which "has a counterpart in the movement of the sun in the course of the day" and "a further counterpart in man's progress from birth. . .towards death. . . ."
C127 Woodcock, George. "Archibald Lampman," In Faces from History. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1978, pp. 192-93. Rpt. (excerpt) "Despairing Critic of Cities." In Toronto Star, 2 Oct. 1978, p. A10. Woodcock discusses Lampman's life and work and points out that his "position among Canadian poets has risen in recent years, largely because his misgivings about the society of his time arouse sympathetic echoes in modern minds."
C128 Davies, Barrie. "Introduction." In At the Mermaid Inn: Wilfred Campbell, Archibald Lampman, Duncan Campbell Scott in The Globe 1892-3. Ed. Barrie Davies. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1979, pp. vii-xxi. Davies sees the "At the Mermaid Inn" column as "a work of great importance and fascination because it is a complex record of three writers' involvement in the special problems not only of their time and place, but perhaps ours, for tendencies and reactions initiated in the nineteenth century have persisted with an increasing sense of anxiety and crisis into our own time."
C129 Souster, Raymond. "Archibald Lampman: A Debt Repaid." Comfort of the Fields. The Best-Known Poems. Ed. Raymond Souster. Sutton West, Ont.: Paget, 1979, pp xi-xviii. Upon reading Lampman's "Morning on the Lievre" at the age of twelve, Souster recalls that he "came away from it with the crazy thought dancing through [his] head that what [he] wanted almost as much as becoming a no-hit baseball pitcher was to make [his] own poems." Souster surveys Lampman's work and credits him with being "the one true classical poet we have produced in this country."
C130 Doyle, James. "Canadian Poetry and American Magazines, 1885-1905." Canadian Poetry, No. 5 (Fall-Winter 1979), pp. 73-82. In the 1880s and 1890s, Lampman and his fellow Confederation poets "looked southward to the periodicals of Boston and New York for editorial and critical acceptance, and this orientation had an important influence on the kind of poetry they wrote, as well as on their conception of Canadian literature as a whole." American exposure was valuable promotion for Canadian poets. "But the more ambitious and venturesome poets, particularly Lampman and Campbell, began to recognize. . . that the relative narrowness of American editorial receptivity and critical praise could impose stringent limitations on Canadian poetry, and reduce perceptions of Canada to a string of romantic and pastoral cliches."
C13l Mezei, Kathy. "Lampman among the Timothy." Canadian Poetry, No. 5 (Fall-Winter 1979), pp. 57-72. Mezel traces the development of a "sense of locality" in Lampman's poetry by discussmg "first the landscapes and places that inspired him and, second, the moments in our history that he seized upon." Her "main concern, however, is with the forms that he initiated to convey these places and moments and with the language and images that he chose to evoke the sense and spirit of place and to transform history into myth."
C132 Steele, Charles R. "The Isolate 'I' (Eye): Lampman's Persona." Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 16 (Fall-Winter 1979-80), pp. 62-69. Steele discusses Lampman's "persistent use of the first person pronoun." It "functions most obviously and fundamentally as a force of structural coherence" but it serves as more than "a unifying technique" in Lampman's poetry. "Lampman's resistent 'I' always remains ultimately discrete and independent, and finally alone," providing glimpses of his alienation from nature.
C133 Wicken, George. "Prelude to Poetry: Lampman and the Rouge et Noir." Canadian Poetry, No. 6 (Spring-Summer 1980), pp. 50-60. The article examines Lampman's six prose contributions to the Trinity College student journal, the Rouge et Noir, and points "to a major issue which the essays reveal. Lampman's struggle to define the poet's relationship to his society." The "college essays tend to manifest both an attraction and a repulsion for what might be termed the world of affairs. Lampman wishes to be an artist, and that requires separation from others, yet he needs the kinship of other human beings, and that requires participation in the world of affairs." In the final essay, "Hans Fingerhut's Frog Lesson," Lampman employs allegory to establish "the ideal definition of the relationship between the artist and other men to which he may have addressed himself before undertaking a career as a man of letters."
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C1 Guthrie, Norman Gregor. The Poetry of Archibald Lampman. Toronto: Musson, 1927. 58 pp. More of an appreciation of Lampman's poetry than a critical study, this first book devoted solely to Lampman's work examines several facets of his poetry. The influence of other poets on Lampman's work, his use of the city as "a sort of symbol of inhumanity to man," and his devotion to "the higher plane" of writing are examined in Guthrie's study. Lampman is seen primarily as a nature poet, and faulted for placing "too slight a value on the human relationships of life." Guthrie concurs with most critics that it was in the sonnet form that Lampman's best poetry was written.
C2 Connor, Carl Y. Archibald Lampman: Canadian Poet of Nature. 1929, rpt. Ottawa: Borealis, 1977. 210 pp. A fine biography of Lampman, this book also offers a wealth of information about Lampman's social and intellectual milieu. Tracing Lampman's life from boyhood, through his college years and teaching days, to his career as a civil servant and poet, Connor's account is marked by an abundance of detail. Although Connor's analysis of Lampman's poetry is not extensive, the book's chief value is in its clear-sighted exploration of Lampman's life and times. Connor is one of the first critics to refuse to paint Lampman as a martyr: "Fate did not deal more harshly with him than with other men, but he was more sensitive than most men, and perhaps more conscious than most, of the goal of perfection toward which he must strive. It is that steadfast devotion to the ideal which was his finest characteristic."
C3 Fox, William Sherwood, E. A. Cruikshank, J. H. Cameron, Arthur Stringer, Nathaniel A. Benson, and Duncan Campbell Scott. Addresses Delivered at the Dedication of the Archibald Lampman Memorial Cairn at Morpeth, Ontario. London, Ont: Western Ontario Branch of the Canadian Authors' Association, 1930. 16 pp. The texts of the six addresses given at the unveiling of the Lampman cairn are contained in this book. They include the Chairman's address by William Sherwood Fox; "The National Importance of Memorials" by Brigadier-General E. A. Cruikshank; "The Place of the Canadian Poet in National Education" by J. H. Cameron; "The Poet in Everyday Life" by Arthur Stringer; Nathaniel A. Benson's sonnet, "The Lampman Cairn at Morpeth"; and "Archibald Lampman," a recollection of the poet's life by his friend, Duncan Campbell Scott.
C4 Gnarowski, Michael, ed. Archibald Lampman. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 3. Toronto: Ryerson, 1970. 224 pp. (Hereafter abbreviated as AL.) Contributors include "Fidelis" (D4), Lilly E. F. Barry (C8), Arthur Stringer (C11), A. W. Crawford (C13), John Marshall (C28), Louis Untermeyer (C31), Lawrence J. Burpee (C30), Bernard Muddiman (C35), G. H. Unwin (C36), Raymond Knister (C47), Leo Kennedy (C59), W. E. Collin (C60), Ralph Gustafson(C69), Duncan Campbell Scott (C83), John Sutherland (C74), Desmond Pacey (C75), Louis Dudek (C80), F.W. Watt (C82). A collection of eighteen critical articles on Lampman published between 1889 and 1958, this book is the single best source of Lampman critiicism up to 1958. Arranged chronologically, the articles reveal varying attitudes towards Lampman's nature poetry, his acts of withdrawing from the city, his social awareness, and the influence of his family and lineage on his work. Often, Lampman is used to illustrate fashionable concerns or prejudices of the critics. The articles in this book are annotated individually throughout Section C of this bibliography.
C5 McMullen, Lorraine, ed. The Lampman Symposium. Re-Appraisals. Canadian Writers. Ottawa: Univ. of Ottawa Press, 1976. 138 pp. This collection of addresses given at the University of Ottawa's symposium on Lampman in May of 1975 deals with a wide variety of topics of concern to Lampman scholars. In "Life and Nature: Some re-appraisals of Archibald Lampman," Ralph Gustafson strives to "cashier this portrait of a morbid poet bedraggled by routine, this portrait of a despondent socialist." Margaret Coulby Whitridge, in "Love and Hate in Lampman's Poetry," identifies love and rejection as "the grading forces which tempered the poet's life." Michael Gnarowski deals with "Lampman's critical reception and its bearing. . .upon his history as a published writer" in "Lampman and His Critics." Carl F Klinck, in "The Frogs: An Exercise in Reading Lampman," finds that "the frogs do not speak wisdom, they breath of it" and "yield symbolic traces, not statements, to the questing heart." Calling Lampman the "last remarkable exponent" of the sonnet in Canada, Louis Dudek discusses the decline of the sonnet in "Lampman and the Death of the Sonnet." Louis K. MacKendrick also discusses Lampman's sonnets in "Sweet Patience and Her Guest, Reality: The Sonnets of Archibald Lampman." MacKendrick derives his title from a passage in Lampman's "To the Warbling Vireo." Dick Harrison, in "'So Deathly Silent:' the Resolution of Pain and Fear in the Poetry of Lampman and D. C. Scott," points out that both mankind and nature are sources of pain and fear in Lampman's poetry. Barrie Davies also examines Lampman's responses to mankind and nature in "The Forms of Nature: Some of the Philosophical and Aesthetic Bases of Lampman's Poetry." Davies finds that "nature for Lampman was both a source of positive, organic values and an implicit criticism of.. .society." Bruce Nesbitt charts Lampman's publishing history in "The New Lampman" and argues that Lampman "both defined and accomplished the break between what has been called colonial romanticism on the one hand, and a variety of close-focussed poetic imagism on the other." Also included in this collection are four assessments of Lampman's achievement by Sandra Djwa, D. G. Jones, Robin Mathews, and James Steele, and a guide to the Lampman manuscripts prepared by Margaret Coulby Whitridge.
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C161 Memorial Cairn dedicated and addresses delivered at Morpeth, Ont (15 Sept 1930). The Western Ontario Branch of the Canadian Authors' Association promoted the building of a memorial cairn to Lampman in the town where he was born. The money was raised through subscription, and an impressive ceremony was held at the unveiling on September 13, 1930. A time capsule, containing Lampman material, was placed inside the cairn. On the north and east sides of the cairn are bronze tablets bearing inscriptions. One reads "In Morpeth was born / the Poet / Archibald Lampman / Buried in Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa / 1861-1899 / Erected MCMXXX." The other tablet contains a quotation from Lampman's poem "Outlook": "Yet, patience--there shall come / Many great voices from life's outer sea, / Hours of strange triumph, and when few men heed, / Murmurs and glimpses of eternity." The addresses given at the ceremony were later published. (See C3.)
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C151 Scott, Duncan Campbell. "Written in a Copy of Archibald Lampman's Poems." The Week, 4 Oct 1889, p. 698. Reading Lampman's poetry inspired Scott to write this poem.
C152 Holmes, C. M. "Among the Millet--By Lampman." The Week, 10 April 1891, p. 298. Upon reading Lampman's first book of poetry, Holmes, a resident of Picton, Ontario, wrote this sonnet.
C153 Campbell, William Wilfred. "Bereavement of the Fields." Atlantic Monthly, June 1899, pp. 837-38. Rpt. in Beyond the Hills of Dream. Toronto: Morang, 1900, pp. 9-12. Rpt. in The Collected Poems of Wilfred Campbell. Toronto: Ryerson, 1905, pp. 176-79. Rpt. in The Poetical Works of Wilfred Campbell. London: Hodder, 1923, pp. 84-86. Campbell's lengthy memorial poem, in honour of his friend Lampman, derives its title and subject matter from Lampman's own "Comfort of the Fields." Campbell wrote his poem very shortly after Lampman's death.
C154 Bernard, Lally. "In Memory of Archibald Lampman." Canadian Magazine, 18, No. 4 (Feb 1902), 375. A black-bordered memorial poem to Lampman, the poem appeared on the third anniversary of Lampman's death.
C155 Benson, Nathaniel A. "The Lampman Cairn at Morpeth" In The Wanderer and Other Poems. Toronto: Ryerson, 1930, p. 30. Rpt. in Fox, William Sherwood, E. A. Cruikshank, J. H. Cameron, Arthur Stringer, Nathamel A. Benson, and Duncan Campbell Scott. Addresses Delivered at the Dedication of the Archibald Lampman Memorial Cairn at Morpeth, Ontario. London, Ont.: Western Ontario Branch of the Canadian Authors' Association, 1930, p. 13. This sonnet was written in 1928, when the erection of a memorial to Lampman was first proposed. Benson recited the poem at the dedication of the cairn on September 15, 1930.
C156 Harden, Verna Loveday. "In Memoriam: Archibald Lampman." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 12, No. 3 (March 1949), 5. Harden's memorial poem to Lampman marks the fiftieth anniversary of the poet's death.
C157 Bourinot, Arthur S. "Duncan Campbell Scott--Archibald Lampman." Canadian Author & Bookman, 26, No. 2 (Summer 1950), 22. Rpt. in Archibald Lampman's Letters to Edward William Thomson (1890-1898). Ed. Arthur S. Bourinot Ottawa: Bourinot, 1956, n. pag. Bourinot's sonnet is a tribute to Scott and Lampman.
C158 Bairstow, David, dir. Morning on the Lievre. National Film Board of Canada, 1961. This handsomely produced 16 mm colour film of Lampman's "Morning on the Lievre" features two paddlers in a canoe gliding along the Lievre on an autumn's morning. Photographer Grant Crabtree captures the river's changing moods as the paddlers move through sun, mist, and shadow. Poet George Whalley reads Lampman's poem against a background of music composed by Eldon Rathburn. The film was released in the United States in 1961 by Encyclopedia Britannica Films. A French version of the film, under the title Matin sur la Lievre, was released by the National Film Board of Canada in 1962.
C159 Bissell, Keith. A Summer Evening [for] S.S.A. and Piano. Waterloo, Ont.: Waterloo Music, 1967. N. pag. Lampman's "A Summer Evening" provides the words for Bissell's score.
C160 Jones, D. G. "Kate, these flowers. . . [The Lampman Poems]." In Under the Thunder the Flowers Light up the Earth. Toronto: Coach House, 1977, pp. 74-87. Jones adopts the persona of a present-day Lampman in these poems addressed to Kate (Katherine Waddell, Lampman's close friend). Jones's poems take the form of a bouquet of flowers to Kate: the first letter of each line of each poem contributes to the spelling out of the names of flowers. Red rose, wild primrose, water hyacinth, and pale snowdrops are among the flowers whose names are contained cryptically in the poems. The volume in which these poems are printed, Under the Thunder the Flowers Light up the Earth, won the Governor-General's Award for Poetry.
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C134 Brennan, Ursula. "The Prosody of Archibald Lampman." M. A. Thesis Queen's 1931. Brennan examines Lampman's poetic craftsmanship. Technical, rather than thematic, concerns of Lampman's poetry are examined in this thesis.
C135 Klinck, Carl F. "Wilfred Campbell: A Study in Late Provincial Victorianism." Diss. Columbia 1943. Klinck examines the Ottawa milieu which included Lampman, Campbell, and Duncan Campbell Scott. The literary concerns of the three men, and their collaboration on "At the Mermaid Inn," a column in The Globe, are discussed by Klinck in considerable detail. The dissertation was published by the Ryerson Press (see C62).
C136 Purcell, Mary Aileen. "The Nature Poetry of Lampman." M. A. Thesis Montreal 1953. Since the first appearance of his poetry in the 1880s, Lampman has been considered a fine nature poet. Purcell, however, is the first person to undertake a thesis devoted solely to Lampman's nature poetry.
C137 Sylvia, Sister Mary. "Archibald Lampman: Lyrist." M.A. Thesis Montreal 1955. Lampman's extensive work with the lyric is the central concern of this thesis which stresses a technical, as well as a thematic, approach to Lampman's poetry.
C138 Watt, F. W. "Radicalism in English Canadian Literature Since Confederation." Diss. Toronto 1958. Watt recognizes Lampman as one of the first Canadian writers to articulate a social consciousness in his work. Lampman's poems about politics, the effects of industrialization on mankind, and his allegorical presentation of an egalitarian, communistic society in his work are indicative of his questioning of the status quo in late nineteenth-century Canada. Lampman is one of the founders of a radical tradition in Canadian writing.
C139 Bedwell, William Thomas. "Archibald Lampman and the Origins of Canadian Nature Poetry." M.A. Thesis Manitoba 1961. Bedwell examines Lampman's poetry, not only on its own terms, but as part of a tradition of writing nature poetry in Canada.
C140 Rogers, Amos Robert. "American Recognition of Canadian Authors Writing in English 1890-1960." 2 vols. Diss. Michigan 1964. Volume II, Appendix IX, pages 670-813 of this dissertation lists book reviews of Canadian works in American periodicals from 1890-1960 Some of these reviews, particularly in the 1890s, concern Lampman's poetry, and are indicative of American critical response to Lampman's work.
C141 Nesbitt, Bruce. "Lampman and O'Dowd: A Comparative Study of Poetic Attitudes in Canada and Australia in the Late Nineteenth Century." M.A. Thesis Queen's 1965. Australia and Canada share certain historical similarities, each having grown from a British colony into nationhood. Nesbitt in this thesis, examines one late nineteenth-century poet from each country (Canada's Lampman and Australia's O'Dowd), as a means of probing the similarities and differences in literary and cultural attitudes in the two countries.
C142 Anderson, Elmer Lloyd. "Polarities and Neutrality in Archabald Lampman." M. A. Thesis Montreal 1966. Examines those poems in which a tension of opposites as present, as well as those poems pervaded by a sense of neutrality.
C143 Davies, Edward Barrie. "The Alien Mind: A Study of the Poetry of Archibald Lampman." Diss. New Brunswick 1970. Davies relies on both published and unpublished works by Lampman. "Lampman is not merely a superficial landscape poet, good at bits of local colour," Davies contends. Davies examines the meaning of nature for Lampman, and considers the implications of Lampman's concept of nature in his poetry. "He is a landscape poet in a special sense because nature has positive organic values for mankind and is ultimately an imaginative order which can allow man to exercise a totality of response and therefore return to him a firmer sense of humanity. The poet, however, alienated from contemporary man and a society tarnished by progressive materialism, as sustained in his exile by an identity through nature with a sense of universal harmony." The poetry of Lampman, Davies points out, "is characterized by an intense questing for real being, for a unified sensibility which fuses intelligence, moral purpose, instruct and imagination." Often, this quest takes place "in a context of hostility and menace. . . because contemporary society is inimical to the values of the imaginative life." The poet's salvation, however, "is eventually achieved through the exercise of that Divine faculty which holds all contraries in synthesis and makes nature a diagram of mind and spirit."
C144 Whitridge, Margaret Evelyn. "Annotated Checklist of Lampman Manuscripts and Materials in Known Repositories in Canada." Diss. Ottawa 1970. Whitridge identifies the chief repositories of Lampman materials as the University of Toronto; the Public Archives of Canada and the Parliamentary Library in Ottawa; and the Simon Fraser University Library. Smaller collections of Lampman material are held at Queen's University, the Women's Canadian Historical Society, McGill University, Ottawa Public Library, and the University of New Brunswick. Letters to Lampman are retained by the Toronto Public Library. There is also an abundance of Lampman material in private hands.
C145 Campbell, Brian R. "Motion in the Poems of Archibald Lampman." M.A. Thesis Alberta 1971. A number of Lampman's poems involve movement: either of the poet or of the poet's eye. Campbell examines how the process of motion is used by Lampman to develop particular effects in his poetry.
C146 Jobin, Madeline Graddon. "Archibald Lampman: Canadian Nature Poet." M. A. Thesis McGill 1971. Lampman's poems concerned with nature, rather than those where he develops social themes, are the main focus of Jobin's thesis.
C147 Miller, Judith Helen. "Towards a Canadian Aesthetic: Descriptive Colour in the Landscape Poetry of Duncan Campbell Scott, Archibald Lampman, and William Wilfred Campbell." M.A. Thesis Waterloo 1971. Lampman, Scott, and Campbell do not use colour in a solely realistic context in their poetry. Rather, colour serves as a means of developing the themes and moods which each poet undertakes to convey in his work. Miller examines the similarities and differences in the presentation of colour in the work of the three late nineteenth-century poets.
C148 Tisdall, Douglas Michael. "The Not Unsimilar Face: A Comparative Study of the Influence of Culture, Religion, and Locale in French-Canadian and English-Canadian Poetry." Diss. Toronto 1971. Very little attention has been paid to the relationship between French Canadian and English Canadian poetry of the nineteenth century. In this dissertation, which examines works from both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Tisdall probes the connections between art and society in Canada's two founding cultures. Lampman is among the nineteenth-century, English Canadian poets studied in Tisdall's dissertation.
C149 Edwards, P. Bruce. "Landscape as a State of Soul in the Poetry of Archibald Lampman and Duncan Campbell Scott." M. A Thesis Western Ontario 1975. The manner in which Lampman's philosophical and artistic concerns are manifested in his use of landscape is probed in Edwards' thesis. Nature is not seen as an external force in Lampman's poetry, but rather, as a projection of the poet's soul upon his environment.
C150 Mezel, Kathy. "A Magic Space Wherein the Mind Can Dwell: Place and Space in the Poetry of Archibald Lampman, Emile Nelligan, and Duncan Campbell Scott." Diss. Queen's 1977. Mezei examines the manner in which tone, form, and diction are used to evoke a sense of place in the poetry of Lampman, Nelligan, and Scott. Lampman's "At the Long Sault: May, 1660" is discussed in considerable detail.
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C6 Purdy, A. W. "Leonard Cohen." Moment, No. 1 (1960), p. 13. This is a brief introduction to the five poems which follow. Purdy remonstrates with Cohen for his stated lack of a political stance. Nevertheless he thinks the poems are "brilliant virtuoso pieces."
C7 Pacey, Desmond. Creative Writing in Canada. 2nd. Ed. Toronto: Ryerson, 1961, pp. 247-48. Cohen is "easily the most promising" in a group of young poets that includes Al Purdy, Peter Miller, George Ellenbogan, and Phyllis Webb. Pacey makes the rather surprising comment (given the nature of Cohen's work at the time) that "the most hopeful feature of his poetry is its straight-forwardness."
C8 Beattie, Munro. "Poetry 1950-1960." In Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English. Gen. Ed. and introd. Carl F Klinck. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1965, pp. 814-16. 2nd. ed Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1976, Vol III, 242-43, 312. Beattie comments on the Jewish Montreal influence on Cohen's work. The poet is spoken of as one "who has not entirely organized his talent." The third volume of the second edition contains brief comments by William H. New (on the two novels) and George Woodcock (on the poetry).
C9 Purdy, A. W. "Leonard Cohen: A Personal Look." Canadian Literature, No. 23 (Winter 1965), pp. 7-16. An interesting essay in which Purdy pays homage to Cohen's great craft and the fine quality of the love poems. Admiration is qualified only by Purdy's feeling that Cohen "must simply be living in another time dimension than my own," for the poems are nostalgic and dream-like. The article concludes with a review of Flowers for Hitler, which Purdy finds unsatisfying, too much a book of "playful exercises."
C10 Ruddy, Jon. "Is the World (or Anybody) Ready for Leonard Cohen?" Maclean's, 1 Oct 1966, pp. 18-19, 33-34. This article embodies an interview, and much typical Cohenesque talk is heard. Biographical material and photographs are included.
Cll Sutherland, Ronald. "Twin Solitudes." Canadian Literature, No. 31 (Winter 1967), pp. 5-24. Rpt. in Second Image: Comparative Studies in Quebec/Canadian Literature. Don Mills: new press, 1971, pp. 1-27. Beautiful Losers is part of the "Search for Vital Truth," in company with Godbout ("Beautiful Losers could almost be a sequel to Godbout's La couteau sur la table") and Aquin.
C12 Djwa, Sandra. "Leonard Cohen: Black Romantic." Canadian Literature, No. 34 (Autumn 1967), pp. 32-42. Rpt. in Poets and Critics: Essays from Canadian Literature 1966-1974. Ed. George Woodcock. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1974, pp. 179-90. Rpt. trans. Jacques Baron-Rousseau. In Ellipse, No. 2 (Winter 1970), pp. 70-82. LC. This essay sees Cohen as the inheritor of a tradition of "black Romanticism" that stretches from Baudelaire to Genet. The author finds this body of literature too removed from the ordinary to be fully convincing, particularly in its substitution of a "hierarchy of art" for the values of human experience.
C13 Pacey, Desmond. "The Phenomenon of Leonard Cohen." Canadian Literature, No. 34 (Autumn 1967), pp. 5-23. Rpt. in Essays in Canadian Criticism 1938-1968. Toronto: Ryerson, 1969, pp. 241-67. LC. The approach of this interesting essay is basically thematic. Pacey observes in Beautiful Losers ("the most intricate, erudite, and fascinating Canadian novel ever written") the close relation between sex and religion, and the frequent links which Cohen forges between polar opposites. The novel's technique is basically symbolist, "weaving recurrent themes, symbols, and images."
C14 Arn, Robert. "Obscenity and Pornography." The Cambridge Review, 2 Dec 1967, pp. 60-63. Musings prompted by the trial in England on charges of obscenity of Hubert Selby's Last Exit to Brooklyn. Terry Southern and Cohen find obscene language an antidote for the "deception of rational discourse."
C15 Goldstein, Richard. "Beautiful Creep." The Village Voice, 28 Dec 1967, pp. 18, 20, 27, LC. A rather pointless piece of journalism that includes such details as that Cohen "pisses in quick panting spurts."
C16 Fiedler, Leslie A. The Return of the Vanishing American. New York: Stein and Day, 1968, pp. 155-57, 164-67, 175-77. Fiedler has long been an admirer of Cohen (he was one of the readers of Beautiful Losers when it was originally submitted to Viking). This book contains scattered commentary on Beautiful Losers.
C17 Kloman, William. "'I've Been on the Outlaw Scene Since 15.'" New York Times, 28 Jan 1968, pp. D21-22. A slick article that, for example, quotes the description of a saint from Beautiful Losers and comments "A saint, then, is literally someone who is groovy. With It."
C18 Brown, Sharon. "King of the Now People." Saturday Night, Feb. 1968, p. 41. Cohen is very popular with the "in-group," and only Dylan can measure up to his brilliance.
C19 Boyers, Robert. "Attitudes toward Sex in American 'High Culture.'" Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, No. 376 (March 1968), pp. 36-52. This study explores the idea that sex is the key to what is most authentic in life, as it can be found in Mailer, Kesey, Barth, and Cohen (Beautiful Losers). Sex for Cohen is a means of self-transcendence, it makes man receptive to the "possibility of harmony among things."
C20 New, William H. "A Wellspring of Magma: Modern Canadian Writing." Twentieth Century Literature, 14, No. 3 (Oct 1968), 123-32. This article includes brief comments on Cohen, in particular how one finds a new kind of logic in his work, an approach akin to the work of Marie-Claire Blais and Rejean Ducharme.
C21 Haite, Barbara, and Carolyn Riley, eds. Contemporary Authors. Detroit: Gale, 1969, pp. 21-22, 113-14. A brief biography and description of Cohen's work, drawing largely on sources such as D75 and D88.
C22 Moritz, Charles, ed. Current Biography Yearbook 1969. New York: Wilson, 1969, pp. 98-100. General and biographical material, some of which is inaccurate (Let Us Compare Mythologies, for example, is given as published by McClelland and Stewart).
C23 Murphy, Karen, and Ronald Gross. "'All You Need Is Love. Love Is All You Need.' So Writes a Rock Poet. But Is That Poetry?" New York Times Magazine, 13 April 1969, pp. 36-38, 40, 42, 45, 48, 50. This article contains a few remarks on Cohen as a rock-poet, and reprints the recorded version of "Suzanne." (p. 50).
C24 Batten, Jack. "Leonard Cohen: The Poet as Hero 1." Saturday Night, June 1969, pp. 23-26. A general article on Cohen's songs, his fame, and his pop sainthood.
C25 Owen, Don. "Leonard Cohen: The Poet as Hero 3." Saturday Night, June 1969, pp. 31-32. Personal reminiscences by the maker of Ladies and Gentlemen ... Mr. Leonard Cohen (B101).
C26 Mothner, Ira. "Leonard Cohen: Songs Sacred and Profane." Look, 10 June 1969, pp. 92-96. A mostly biographical article, with photographs by Michael A. Vaccaro.
C27 Rodriguez, Juan. "Poet's Progress -- To Sainthood and Back." Montreal Star, 21 June 1969, pp. 3-4. LC. A retrospective look at Cohen's books and songs on the occasion of the recent release of Songs from a Room.
C28 Dudek, Louis. "Poetry in English." Canadian Literature, No. 41 (Summer 1969), pp. 111-20. Rpt. in The Sixties: Canadian Writers and Writing of the Decade. Ed. George Woodcock. Vancouver: Univ. of British Columbia Publications Centre, 1969, pp. 111-20. Rpt. "Poetry of the Sixties." In Selected Essays and Criticism. Ottawa: Tecumseh, 1978, pp 269-81. The dissatisfaction of Dudek (see D16) here finds full flower. In his look at the poetry of English Canada in the 1960s, Dudek excoriates Cohen mercilessly. He is "Canada's Messianic hippie," and his career as a singer is the "Quod Erat Demonstrandum of absurdity." Cohen "has wasted his talents in willful excess; he is a sad and tragic figure, not the triumphant success one would imagine."
C29 New, W. H. "The Novel in English." Canadian Literature, No. 41 (Summer 1969), pp. 121-25. Rpt. in The Sixties: Canadian Writers and Writing of the Decade. Ed George Woodcock. Vancouver: Univ. of British Columbia Publications Centre, 1969, pp. 121- 25. New's retrospective includes a brief look at Beautiful Losers.
C30 Davey, Frank. "Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan. Poetry and the Popular Song." Alphabet, No 17 (Dec 1969), pp. 12-29 LC. Both Cohen and Dylan have elevated the pop song to a work of art, their songs "protect a self rather than a mirror image of the culture." Cohen presents a world of desperation whose salvation is to be found through love.
C31 Fiedler, Leslie A. "Cross the Border, Close the Gap." Playboy, Dec. 1969, pp. 151,230,252-54,256-58. Rpt. in The Collected Essays of Leslie Fiedler. New York: Stein and Day, 1971, Vol II, pp. 461-85. Beautiful Losers fits into a developing tradition of the pop or anti-novel that uses such frames as the western, science-fiction, and pornography.
C32 Jones, D. G. Butterfly on Rock: A Study of Themes and Images in Canadian Literature. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1970, pp. 77-82 et passim. As well as commentary scattered throughout the text, there is a section on Beautiful Losers in the chapter "The Dictatorship of Mind." Jones sees the novel as a cry for irrationality and freedom in a world dominated by the masculine logos. Cohen seeks "a larger and more mysterious order in which [mind] must speak through the flesh or with the flesh, and not against it."
C33 Woodcock, George. "The Song of the Sirens." In Odysseus Ever Returning. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1970, pp. 93-110. LC. Woodcock sees Cohen as basically a conservative poet working in derivative and structured forms. With the exception of Flowers for Hitler ("Cohen's only real attempt to emerge from his romantic inner self and face the actual modern world") the poet's writing is solipsistic and passionless. Woodcock's unhappiness with Cohen's work is a long-standing one, but he seems to have no sense of the ironies of the poet's career, ironies of which Cohen is himself aware, and which come (in The Energy of Slaves and Death of a Lady's Man) to play an important part in the work itself.
C34 Scobie, Stephen. "Magic, Not Magicians: 'Beautiful Losers' and 'Story of O.'" Canadian Literature, No. 45 (Summer 1970), pp. 56-60. LC. Beautiful losers deals with "the deliberate attempt to destroy one's own individuality" through sex as an answer to the predicament of life.
C35 Harrison, Dick. "The American Adam and the Canadian Christ." Twentieth Century Literature, 16, No. 3 (July 1970), 161-67. While American fiction often contains a figure representing Adam, Canadian novels are dominated by a redemptive figure who approximates Christ. This idea is applied somewhat superficially to Beautiful Losers.
C36 Mandel, Eli. "Modern Canadian Poetry." Twentieth Century Literature, 16, No. 3 (July 1970), 175-83. Modernism coalesces around the "longing for history. . . for out of that longing emerge finally both the hallucinated terror and the diminished self of contemporary art." Cohen enters this discussion somewhat peripherally, but Beautiful Losers is called "the most striking manifestation of the return of the primitive as hallucination."
C37 Bern, Jeanne. "Avec Leonard Cohen poete canadien: "Magic Is Alive." Les Langues Modernes, 65, Nos. 5-6 (1971), 514-21. Basically a descriptive article. Cohen develops "une poetique des rapports," i. E., he is always speaking to someone, a "you," and a "them," as in "The Master Song," for example.
C38 Fiedler, Leslie A. "Some Notes on the Jewish Novel in English or Looking Backward from Exile." In The Collected Essays of Leslie Fiedler. New York: Stein and Day, 1971, Vol. I, pp. 156-63. Unlike Richler, Cohen is a post-modernist working in a world where the distinctions between high and low art, between mass culture and belles-lettres have fallen away. Cohen has discovered a language "not gross and elegant by turns, but gross and elegant at once."
C39 Talbot, Norman. "The Stranger Songs: Pop Lyrics of the 60's." Poetry Australia, No. 38 (1971), pp. 52-60. Many popular songs, Cohen's preeminent among them, have lyrics which are superior to much of the poetry published today.
C40 Morley, Pamela A. The Immoral Moralists: Hugh MacLennan and Leonard Cohen. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1972. 144 pp. Despite the equal billing given the two novelists in the title, this book contains much more commentary on MacLennan than on Cohen (five chapters against two). In fact, Cohen seems almost like a guest invited at the last minute to make a foursome at some game. The criticism of The Favourite Game and Beautiful Losers {one chapter on each) is nevertheless eminently competent and dispels any suspicions that the book's title may have raised in a prospective reader. Morley sees Cohen as an iconoclast, but a moralist all the same. The messages of Beautiful Losers in particular are quasi-religious admonitions for us to return to the world of the body. The excesses of his style (parody, scatology, pornography, hyperbole) are an attempt to break down puritanical resistance, the first step in the reintegration process. Cohen's fiction, then, "poses the artist in his traditional role as teacher, prophet, seer. . . ."
C41 de Venster, Dagmar. "Leonard Cohen's Women." In Mother Was Not a Person. Ed. Margret Andersen. Montreal: Content and Black Rose, 1972, pp. 96-97. This short piece takes Cohen to task for his portrayal of women. "Do you have an orifice and a pair of breasts? These are the essential if not sole requirements for a female character in a Leonard Cohen novel." Unimaginative as it may be, this article states a point of view very close to that of George Woodcock in C33.
C42 Morley, Patricia A. "'The Knowledge of Strangerhood." "The Monuments Were Made of Worms." Journal of Canadian Fiction, 1, No. 3 (Summer 1972), 56-60. LC. The Favourite Game deals with two themes, the distance of the artist from other people, and the fact of decay in human life. This essay was delivered at a conference at Bishop's University on March 28, 1972, and subsequently revised somewhat and incorporated into C40.
C43 Buitenhuis, Peter. "Two Solitudes Revisited: Hugh MacLennan and Leonard Cohen." The Literary Half-Yearly, 13, No. 2 (July 1972), 19-32. Both novelists are interested in history, but where MacLennan writes it, Cohen deals with it. The comparison made here is a rather odd one, which is the end fails to convince. The essay trails off into moralisms about violence, the Jews, and the blacks.
C44 Cavanagh, David. "Magic in Leonard Cohen's The Favourite Game and Beautiful Loser's" [sic]. Alive, No. 28 (1973), pp. 19-22. Magic in The Favourite Game is the ability to make things happen through the power of will; this creates a distance between people. In Beautiful Losers, by contrast, F. admonishes the narrator to be magic, to be part of the process rather than outside it.
C45 D[avey]., F[rank]. "Leonard Cohen." Supplement to the Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature. Ed. William Toye. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1973, p. 45. Outlines Cohen's career and publications, with general remarks on his work.
C46 Wetherell, Nancy B. "Leonard Cohen: Poems Set to Music." English Journal, 62, No. 4 (April 1973), 551-55. An article on using Cohen in the high school English class.
C47 Macri, F. M. "Beautiful Losers and the Canadian Experience." Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 8, No. 1 (June 1973), 88-96. A somewhat turgid essay that uses Beautiful Losers to demonstrate a view of Canadian literature as embodying a radical split in consciousness. The four main characters are schematized to represent two opposing poles, and the novel is seen as an attempt to reintegrate these opposites (flesh/spirit etc.).
C48 Davey, Frank. "Leonard Cohen." In From There to Here: A Guide to English-Canadian Literature Since 1960. Our Nature -- Our Voices. Vol II. Erin, Ont.: Porcepic, 1974, pp. 68-73. Davey sees Cohen as basically a late romantic, content to write traditionally structured verse that more or less ignores most of the developments in North American poetry since 1945. Only Beautiful Losers and The Energy of Slaves are at all experimental, and Davey's lack of generosity regarding the former is odd in light of his stated bias for writing that embodies a Heraclitean world view. A bibliography is included.
C49 Hutcheon, Linda. "Beautiful Losers: All the Polarities." Canadian Literature, No. 59 (Winter 1974), pp. 42-56. Rpt. in The Canadian Novel in the Twentieth Century: Essays from Canadian Literature. New Canadian Library, No. 115. Ed. George Woodcock. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975, pp. 298-311. A strangely unfocussed essay that attempts to explore a cluster of dichotomies in Beautiful Losers, and finds them ultimately unresolved.
C50 Barbour, Douglas." "'Down With History': Some Notes towards an Understanding of Beautiful Losers." Open Letter, 2nd ser., No 8 (Summer 1974), 48-60. LC. F. attacks history as a limit and a structure; it must be broken out of in order to live in the present, "on the edge." Cohen shows the gradual disintegration of reason and time as the narrator learns to reside in a world of process.
C51 Scobie, Stephen. "Scenes from the Lives of the Saints: A Hagiology of Canadian Literature." Lakehead University Review, 7, No. 1 (Summer 1974), 3-20. This fine study demonstrates how there have been a few figures in our literature who have wanted to break down the walls of the garrison and let the wilderness in. These characters Scobie calls saints, and they are connected with sex, madness, and death. It is such a state of sainthood that the narrator in Beautiful Losers attains, through F's "classroom of hysteria."
C52 Lavigne, Yves. "Leonard Cohen: At the Mercy of Time." Canadian Review, 2, No. 2 (July-Aug 1975), 36-37. A lacklustre piece that finds The Energy of Slaves a disappointment, and includes such sentences as "[Cohen] believes that inhibitions inhibit creativity, thinking, and experience."
C53 Almansi, G. "An Erotic Writer: The 'Minestrone' Novels of Leonard Cohen." "London Magazine, NS, 15, No. 3 (Aug-Sept 1975), 20-39. The term "minestrone novel" is proposed for such books as those of Cohen and Henry Miller. Because there has been no tradition of serious erotic writing, these novelists "are tempted to throw everything on the page, pell-mell, hoping that the miracle of artistic creature, the poetic catalysis, will take place, motu proprio, within the cauldron holding the minestrone ingredients."
C54 Macdonald, Ruth. "Leonard Cohen, A Bibliography, 1956-1973." Bulletin of Bibliography, 31, No. 3 (July-Sept 1974), 107-10. This unannotated bibliography lists all of Cohen's work (excluding separately published poems) and most of the writing about him up to 1973. A few inaccuracies have crept into the text, but generally this is a most useful summary list, and one to which the present writer owes a debt of gratitude.
C55 Jones, D. G. "In Search of America." Boundary 2, 3, No. 1 (Fall 1974), 227-46. One page or so of this essay is devoted to a discussion of Beautiful Losers in terms of the Manichaean dualism of mind and matter that Jones sees operative in Western culture. Cohen underlines our "sado-masochistic contempt for the flesh," at the same time affirming both the spirit and the physical world.
C56 Monkman, Leslie. "Beautiful Losers: Mohawk Myth and Jesuit Legend." Journal of Canada an Fiction, 3, No. 3 (1974), 57-59. Explores Cohen's use of Edward Lecompti'S Une Vierge Iroquoise Catherine Tekakwitha: Le lis des bords de la Mohawk et du St-Laurent, particularly in relation to the myth of Oscotarich.
C57 Garebian, Keith. "Desire As Art: Leonard Cohen's The Favourite Game." Le Chien d'Or/The Golden Dog, No. 4 (Nov 1974), pp. 29-34. This paper (which smacks somewhat of the graduate school essay) attempts to show how Cohen deals with the artist "self-consciously [creating] his own myth." Garebian does not really come to grips with the complex relations between art and life, truth and falseness in The Favourite Game.
C58 Slonim, Leon. "Exoticism in Modern Canadian Poetry." Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 1 (Winter 1974), pp. 21-26. Within the general drabness ("in the widest sense of the word") of Canadian poetry there is a minor tradition of the exotic, to which Cohen's early work made a contribution.
C59 Houle, Ghislaine, and Jacques Lafontaine. Ecrivains Quebecois de Nouvelle Culture. Montreal: Ministere des Affaires Culturelles du Gouvernment du Quebec, 1975, pp. 21-32. An unannotated bibliography of works by and about Cohen, based in large part on C54.
C60 Northey, Margot. "Toward the Mystical Grotesque. Beautiful Losers." In The Haunted Wilderness: The Gothic and Grotesque in Canadian Fiction. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1976, pp. 101-07. Cohen's efforts in Beautiful Losers to lead us "out of the bondage of our dualistic, rationalistic attitudes" fail, in part because he does not come to grips with the problem of evil. What remains is merely grotesqueries of "sado-masochistic extremism."
C61 Lee, Dennis. Savage Fields: An Essay in Literature and Cosmology. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1977, pp. 63-125. This book contains what is undoubtedly the most thought-provoking commentary on Beautiful Losers published so far. Lee begins by outlining the basic conflict between earth and world that he sees as pervading modern existence, and then proceeds to demonstrate how this cosmological and ontological structure operates in two Canadian works, Michael Ondaatje's The Collected Works of Billy the Kid and Beautiful Losers. Regardless of whether or not one is willing to accept Lee's cosmology (based in large part on the philosophy of Heidegger and the political criticism of George Grant), his interpretation of Cohen's novel is extremely perceptive. He sees Catherine Tekakwitha as instancing a fall from "carnal participation in unified being," in this case a fall that has since more or less defined the course of Canadian history. F., in this view, becomes a psychopomp who attempts to lead the narrator out of "the domination of History" into a new and integrated planet (this is the meaning of F's advice to "go down on a saint"). F's attempt and failure to accomplish this soteriological mission thus constitutes the greater part of the novel. Lee sees Book 3 as an effort to show the narrator in an enlightened state, but he finds the coda unconvincing and cheap, "a copout." The novel, he feels, does not present a way out; rather it affirms the endless "nervegrinding oscillation" between the fallen world (Lee's "savage field") and a state of cosmic integration (the "Isis continuum").
C62 Mandel, Eli. "Cohen's Life As a Slave." In Another Time. Erin, Ont.: Porcepic, 1977, pp. 124-36. A fine and stimulating essay that places Cohen in a post-modern tradition that most critics are unwilling to grant him. Mandel probes the relation in Cohen's work between art and the audience, and he sees The Energy of Slaves as a logical progression in Cohen's oeuvre. The book "remains valuable because it elucidates with the precision we used to call poetry the failure of contemporary poetry."
C63 Moss, John. "Forgive Us Our Saints: The Sacred and the Mundane in Beautiful Losers." In Sex and Violence in the Canadian Novel: The Ancestral Present. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, pp. 169-84. Essentially an attack on the novel as an artificial, not a lived, experience. Moss blasts Cohen for his romanticism, his obscenity, his humdrum philosophy (the novel is said to lead into "the private reality of a self-interested prophet, not to the possession of a new terrain for his community of readers -- whatever the intent may be"). Only Catherine Tekakwitha is a real and moving figure. Like Dennis Lee (C61) Moss thinks Book 3 a failure: "only the ideas as artifact remain."
C64 Grant, Judith Skelton "Leonard Cohen's Poems-Songs." Studies in Canadian Literature, 2, No. 1 (Winter 1977), 102-07. The few revisions that Cohen has made have been felicitous ones, and it is a pity that he revises so little. Cohen, says Grant, is guilty of "mere laziness."
C65 Rodriguez, Juan. "A Sitting with Leonard Cohen: Ladies' Man Is Home, Not Dead." The Gazette [Montreal], 7 Jan 1978, p. 35. An article mostly about the recording of Death, of a Ladies' Man. Cohen talks about working with Phil Spector and then a little about living in Quebec, and about his work.
C66 Amiel, Barbara. "Leonard Cohen Says That to All the Girls." Maclean's, 18 Sept. 1978, pp. 55-58. An article rather too typical of the sort of journalism that Cohen has attracted and, in some cases no doubt, encouraged. Cohen's relationships with women are catalogued in order to demonstrate that the title of his forthcoming book (Death of a Lady's Man) is not to be taken without a grain of salt.
C67 French, William. "Monastery Is Vital to Lady's Man." The Globe and Mail, 24 Oct. 1978, p. 21. An article written after a brief meeting with Cohen. Mention is made of Stephen Scobie's recently published critical book on Cohen, and included is a poem from a notebook.
C68 Petrowski, Nathalie. "Leonard Cohen: Portrait Robot d'un Poete Perdu." Le Devoir, 4 Nov 1978, p. 21. Cohen talks (in French) about Death of a Lady's Man, and in particular about the theme of marriage ("Le theme du livre c'est le mariage").
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C94 Literary Award, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec (1956).
C95 Canada Council Arts Grant (1960-6l).
C96 CBC Competition for New Canadian Writers Under 30 for Opium for Hitler [earlier title of Flowers for Hitler] (1962).
C97 Quebec Literary Award for Flowers for Hitler (1964).
C98 Governor-General's Award for Selected Poems (1968). Declined.
C99 D. Litt., Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia (1971).
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C1 Ondaatje, Michael. Leonard Cohen. Canadian Writers, No. 5. New Canadian Library. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1970. 64 pp. A fine study of Cohen's work up to the "New Poems" included in Selected Poems 1956-1968. Ondaatje nicely distinguishes the mixture of egocentrism and sainthood that fuels Cohen's writing virtually from the start. The book, though brief, manages somehow to seem leisurely in its treatment of Cohen's books, and the analysis of Beautiful Losers is in particular highly valuable and revealing. A short bibliography is included.
C2 Vassal, Jacques. Leonard Cohen. Collection Rock & Folk. Paris: Editions Albin Michel, 1974. 189 pp. This book contains songs (wtth French translations on facing pages), a biographical section, photographs, and a critical essay on Cohen's work.
C3 Matos, Manuel Cadafaz de. Leonard Cohen: Redescoberta da Vida e uma Alegoria a Eros. Lisbon: E (co) logiar a Terra, 1975. 286 pp. Matos investigates the relationship in Cohen's work of love and a renewed life. Through Eros, says Cohen, rather than through religion, lies the path of the resurrection of the spiritual life of man.
C4 Gnarowski, Michael, ed. Leonard Cohen: The Artist and His Critics. Critical Views on Canadian Writers. Toronto: McGraw-Hall Ryerson, 1976. 169 pp. (Hereafter abbreviated as LC.) A collection of twenty-four critical articles on Cohen published between 1956 and 1974, this book is an important source of Cohen criticism. The articles in this book are annotated individually throughout Section C of this bibliography. Contributors include: Douglas Barbour (C50, D100), Lawrence M. Bensky (D61), George Bowering (D86), David Bromige (D13), Frank Davey (C30), Sandra Djwa (C12), Allan Donaldson (D4), Dennis Duffy (D68), Richard Goldstein (C15), Michael Harris (C84), Ed Kleiman (D36), Susan Lumsden (C85), Patricia A. Morley (C42), Desmond Pacey (C13), Juan Rodrlguez (C27), Stephen Scobie (C34), Burr Snider, John Wain (D56), Milton Wilson (D5, D45), George Woodcock (C33).
C5 Scobie, Stephen. Leonard Cohen. Vancouver: Douglas and Mclntyre, 1978 192 pp. This monograph provides a basically thematic approach to all of Cohen's work, including the songs but excluding the final published version of Death of a Lady's Man. Within the limits of this kind of criticism, Scobie's book is well-written, informative, and contains few points of interpretation or methodology that one would hasten to take issue with. There is no index, but the bibliography is extensive and useful.
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C82 Ballantyne, Michael. "Poet-Novelist Reflects on the Quebec Scene." Montreal Star, 26 Oct 1963, pp. 2-3. An article based on an interview about Cohen's life and writings, with particular reference to The Favourite Game.
C83 Djwa, Sandra. "After the Wipe-out, a Renewal." The Ulysses [Univ. of British Columbia], 3 Feb. 1967, p. 8. A fine interview. Cohen expatiates on his ideas, and to a lesser extent talks about his work, Beautiful Losers and Flowers for Hitler in particular. He is articulate, and says many interesting things concerning his intuition of where art and the world have come to.
C84 Harris, Michael. "An Interview with Leonard Cohen." Duel, 1, No 1 (Winter 1969). 90-114. Rpt. "Leonard Cohen: The Poet As Hero 2." In Saturday Night, June 1969, pp. 26-31. LC. The only extensive interview with Cohen. The poet obviously liked the interviewer, and he talks about his life and work with a surprising degree of honesty -- i.e., with less con than usual.
C85 Lumsden, Susan. "Leonard Cohen Wants the 'Unconditional Leadership of the World.'" Weekend Magazine, 12 Sept. 1970, pp. 22-25. LC. Based on an interview in Paris. This article contains a lot of silly things, and some interesting quotations from Cohen. Like most of the journalism about Cohen, however, this piece overreaches itself: "So women and God have left the deepest traces on Leonard Cohen."
C86 Saltzman, Paul. "Famous Last Words from Leonard Cohen: The Poet's Final Interview He Hopes." Maclean's, June 1972, pp. 6-7, 77-80. A rather typically slick piece of writing, the last part of which embodies an interview.
C87 Kapica, Jack. "The Trials of Leonard Cohen." The Gazette [Montreal], 25 Aug. 1973, p. 37. A story based on an interview undertaken after the publication of The Energy of Slaves, and following Cohen's statement that he was abandoning pop music. Includes a nice cartoon (by Aislin).
C88 "Leonard Cohen." Beetle, 5, No. 1 (Aug 1973), n. pag. An uninformative interview that portrays Cohen as evasive as usual.
C89 MacSkimming, Roy. "'New' Leonard Cohen Opens Up His Thoughts." Toronto Star, 22 Jan. 1975, p. E16. Cohen, in Toronto on a concert tour, talks about his life and about a book he is working on entitled "The Woman Being Born." Of The Energy of Slaves, he says: "I wanted to clean out the anarchy of language and thought that's all around us, so I could get back into my own baroque from a clean position."
C90 Holden, Stephen. "A Haunting by Spector." Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 1978, p. 17. An interview on the occasion of the release of B118. Cohen tells about the difficulties of working with Phil Spector, and calls the disc "an experiment that failed" due to Spector's monomaniacal need to control all aspects of the production.
C91 Williams, Stephen. "The Confessions of Leonard Cohen." Toronto Life, Feb. 1978, pp. 48-49, 59-62. An interview that combines the usual mixture of confession, thinly disguised braggadocio, and outright con. Says Cohen, "there's nobody in Canada who can judge my work." He goes on to declare that "some decades embrace your work, some decades repudiate it. Shakespeare was eclipsed for 200 years. Donne was eclipsed. Keats. It all goes up and down. The next century probably belongs to Raymond Souster."
C92 Hille, Edward. "Itinerant Cohen Digs Roots." Canadian Jewish News, 14 July 1978, p. 4. Cohen, recently returned to Montreal, talks about Death of a Lady's Man, about his plans, and about poetry in general ("I don't think anyone should try to be a poet; this is a verdict, not a vocation").
C93 Godfrey, Stephen. "A New Artistic Twist for Pied Piper Poet." The Globe and Mail, 1 March 1980, Sec. Entertainment, p 1. An account of Cohen's discussion with the press about his current lifestyle. The piece was occasioned by Cohen's appearance "to talk about a new portfolio featuring seven of his poems and seven lithographs by the Italian artist Gigino Falconi."
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C69 Lyons, Roberta. "Jewish Poets from Montreal: Concepts of History in the Poetry of A. M. Klein, Irving Layton, and Leonard Cohen." M. A. Thesis Carleton 1966. This study attempts to determine how the experience of growing up in the Montreal Jewish community created in the writing of these three poets a strong and distinctive sense of history. Chapter ii contains an outline of Cohen's life and career as a writer, and Chapter v is devoted entirely to an examination of his use and concept of history.
C70 Djwa, Sandra Ann. "Metaphor, World View and the Continuity of Canadian Poetry: A Study of the Major English Canadian Poets with a Computer Concordance to Metaphor." Diss. British Columbia 1968. The continuity of Canadian poetry is broken down into four hypothesized stages, the last of which is characterized by an inquiry into the evil of human nature. It is into this group (the "contemporary Black Romantics") that Cohen falls, and his works are examined, along with those of Margaret Avison, "in relationship to a world view which stresses the fallen world and the primary metaphors of sun-destructive and sun-creative."
C71 Elson, Nicholas William. "Love in the Writings of Leonard Cohen." M. A. Thesis New Brunswick 1969. This paper examines Cohen's attitudes toward love, how they reflect the age, and what they have to say to it. Love is seen to offer a kind of balance to the chaos of existence, and in this sense it functions as a substitute for religious belief.
C72 Kerwin, Elizabeth Anne. "Themes of Leonard Cohen." B. A. Thesis Acadia 1969. A brief analysis of the interrelated themes of love, sex, religion, and history in Cohen's work as a whole.
C73 Knelsen, Richard John. "Flesh and Spirit in the Writings of Leonard Cohen." M. A. Thesis Manitoba 1969. Cohen's search for a fulfilment of both the spirit and the flesh can be shown to parallel the same concerns as those of Hasidism. The sainthood which he seeks is an effort to find a meaning for life inside the confines of the everyday.
C74 Allan, Roy. "The Worlds of Leonard Cohen: A Study of His Poetry." M.A. Thesis Simon Fraser 1970. One of Cohen's major themes is the "creation of interior escape worlds." This thesis outlines the development of the idea of escape through love and art as it is manifested in Cohen's poetry, up to and including the new work published in Selected Poems 1956-1968.
C75 Clifford, Jean Mane. "The Theme of Suffering in the Novels of Jack Kerouac, Leonard Cohen, and William Burroughs." M. A. Thesis British Columbia 1970. In a consideration of the theme of suffering in the work of these three novelists, Clifford examines The Favourite Game and Beautiful Losers from the point of view of their rejection of the "old ritual patterns in which suffering once took its form": religion and history. It is through suffering that Cohen sees the way to a sense of the magical life.
C76 Jantzen, Dorothy Helen. "The Poetry of Leonard Cohen: His Perfect Body." M. A. Thesis York 1971. An important concern in Cohen's poetry is that of art and the artist. With each successive book, Cohen's sense of the role of the artist changes, and this change is mirrored in the techniques and voices which he adopts.
C77 Wilson, Paula Marie. "In Search of Magic: A Study of the Creative Process in the Novels of Leonard Cohen." M. A. Thesis Queen's 1972. In both of his novels, Cohen shows how history must be subsumed in a "present" that is a constant renewal of vision. This vision and the process that produces it form the subject of this thesis.
C78 Johnson, Lewis David. "Bird on the Wire. The Theme of Freedom in the Works of Leonard Cohen." M.A. Thesis Dalhousie 1974. This thesis deals with the theme of the quest for freedom through a chronological examination of Cohen's work. Cohen feels that the artist must be free of all bonds (including those of romantic love), and must seek a "mystical transcendence of corporeal existence."
C79 Kanary, Reynolds. "Leonard Cohen: Sexuality and the Anal Vision in 'Beautiful Losers.'" M. A. Thesis Ottawa 1974. In Beautiful Losers Cohen contrasts sex and anality as forces of life and fear of death respectively. F's concept of the erotogenic body can be shown to be similar to Freud's understanding of the infantile experience of pleasure, a pansexuality that is lost as a child grows up.
C80 Malus, Avrum. "The Face of Holiness in the Writing of Leonard Cohen." Diss. Montreal 1975. An examination of certain figures (teachers, messiahs, priests, heroes, and saints) that appear in Cohen's work. Cohen's sense of a saint is of someone who transcends his separateness in a vision usually achieved through an excess of sexual experience.
C81 Stearns, Linda J. Fong. "The Saint Figure in Leonard Cohen and Robertson Davies." M. A. Thesis Calgary 1975. Cohen in Beautiful Losers, and Davies in Fifth Business, reinterpret the saint figure as someone who lives on the borders of madness and death. Through an emptying of the personality the main characters come to experience a form of divine love.
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D50 Rev. of Beautiful Losers. Kirkus Reviews, 1 March 1966, p. 267. A mixed review that speaks of "[playing] Russian roulette with a phallic pistol," and calls the novel a "via dolorosa of psychosexual decadence." It nevertheless admits that Cohen manages to fuse the sexual and the spiritual to achieve "some sort of transubstantiation."
D51 Clarke, Austin. "Love Is Not All a Bed of Sex." Toronto Telegram, 23 April 1966, p. 21. The characterization of Beautiful Losers is paper-thin, and the book abounds with unrelieved and unredeemed sex.
D52 Legate, David M. "Exercise in Introspection." Montreal Star, 23 April 1966, p. 6. A review in the form of question and answer. He finds Beautiful Losers distasteful, and after quoting D. H. Lawrence ("You can recognize pornography by the insult it offers, invariably, to sex and the human spirit"), the reviewer comments: "Beautiful Losers fits."
D53 West, Paul. "The Gooseflesh You Love to Touch." Book Week, 24 April 1966, pp. 5, 12. A very favourable review that calls the book a great advance in Cohen's art. The sex is "not so much Krafft-Ebbing as Krafft-Flowing," and it adds up to a "sardonic mosaic of guiltiness."
D54 Fulford, Robert. "Leonard Cohen's Nightmare Novel." Toronto Daily Star, 26 April 1966, p. 27. As well as being too derivative and in general a failure, Beautiful Losers is "the most revolting book ever written in Canada." It is nonetheless a very interesting novel. See also the author's "The Protectoress of Canada." Toronto Daily Star, April 29, 1966, page twenty-five, on Catherine Tekakwitha and F.
D55 Fremont-Smith, Eliot. "Howl." New York Times, 27 April 1966, p. 45. Beautiful Losers is about the fact that coherence and intensity in human experience are, after a certain point in one's life, basically antithetical. The novel fails in its attempt to deny this idea.
D56 Wain, John. "Making It New." New York Review of Books, 28 April 1966, pp. 17-19. LC. A receptive review that laments Cohen's use of the modern techniques of narration and free-association, but praises his bravery in dealing with the loneliness of man in a world "where the very idea of contact has vanished."
D57 Hill, Harriet. "Exhibitionism and Sex." The Gazette [Montreal], 30 April 1966, p. 25. Despite its power and erudition, Beautiful Losers only amounts to "an ode to nothingness."
D58 Waddington, Miriam. "Bankrupt Ideas and Chaotic Style." Globe Magazine, 30 April 1966, p. 17. Only the passages which deal with Catherine Tekakwitha are coherent. Otherwise, Cohen offers only "verbal masturbation, rhetorical excess, and, instead of a miracle, a death wish."
D59 Edinborough, Arnold. "New Canadian Fiction." Saturday Night, May 1966, pp. 45-49. The novel is a failure, an "unsuccessful hymn to Onan."
D60 "Nosepicking Contests." Time, 6 May 1966, pp. 83-84. A tiringly typical Time review that consigns Beautiful Losers, Farina's Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me, and Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 all to the flames. Cohen's novel is called "a sluggish, stream-of-concupiscence exposition of what Sartre called nausea."
D61 Bensky, Lawrence M. "What Happened to Tekakwitha." New York Times Book Review, 8 May 1966, pp. 30-31. LC. "What he's done is more of a pastiche of the bodily functions than a created 'story.' If only he and his messy gang would stop jabbering about cosmic issues and leave us to our enjoyment of the rest!"
D62 Watmough, David. "Maverick Style in New Novel." Vancouver Sun, 13 May 1966, Sec. Leisure, p. 20B. A fine and articulate review that calls the novel "one of the most impressive artistic statements ever to come out of Canada." Despite its violence, Beautiful Losers is also gentle and melancholy.
D63 Bannerman, James. "Is Lavatory Scribbling Necessary." Maclean's, 14 May 1966, p. 46. A negative review. "Such relentless insistence in terms of the genitals" makes for a boring and unsavory book.
D64 Kattan, Naim. "'Les Beaux Perdants' et les provocations de Leonard Cohen." Le Devoir, 14 May 1966, p. 14. The central theme is Canada, and Cohen treats sex as the final refuge from an enervated and hollow culture.
D65 Rosenthal, Raymond. "The Lost Treasure." The New Leader, 23 May 1966, pp. 21-22. A basically favourable review that takes Cohen to task for limiting his characters by his extravagant style. Cohen "writes almost as gorgeously as D'Annunzio."
D66 Lamb, Sidney. "'Libalobaglobawoganummynummy' or The Lusts That Bleat or Low.' Sidney Lamb Reviews Leonard Cohen." The Montrealer, June 1966, pp. 35-36. Finds the novel incoherent, too Romantic, and often badly written. The review, however, fails to measure up to its high-faluting title.
D67 Woodcock, George. Rev. of Beautiful Losers. Commentator, 10, No. 6 (June 1966), pp. 25-26. Beautiful Losers is repetitious and boring, despite the fact that at times it comes as close to poetry as prose can. In his treatment of his material, Cohen fails where a novelist like Genet has been successful.
D68 Duffy, Dennis. "Beautiful Beginners." The Tamarack Review, No. 40 (Summer 1966), pp. 75-79. LC. Though the novel could easily have been shorter, it deserves praise for its Lawrencian investigation of "the corruption of love and its replacement by masochism and mechanism."
D69 Feldman, Burton. Rev. of Beautiful Losers. Denver Quarterly, 1, No. 2 (Summer 1966), 116-17. Though Cohen has "wit and language to burn," Beautiful Losers is basically "fun"; as a revolutionary book it is hopeless and superficial.
D70 Gose, E. B. "Of Beauty and Unmeaning." Canadian Literature, No. 29 (Summer 1966), pp. 61-63. A favourable and well-argued evaluation of the novel. He sees it as an affirmation of "something in or behind the pain and chaos of experience."
D71 Mills, John. Rev. of Beautiful Losers. West Coast Review, 1, No. 2 (Fall 1966), 58-60. A mixed review that finds the novel comic, rhetorical (in a positive sense), moral ("Fuck, Cohen seems to tell us, and you'll be a loser. What could be more moral than that?"), but dull at times, and "marred by the preciousness one finds in the author's poetry."
D72 Bowering, George. "Canadian Novel Chronicle." Edge, No. 6 (Spring 1967), pp. 114-19. Beautiful Losers is uneven, but brilliant in parts. The Favourite Game is a better-wrought novel.
D73 bissett, bill "!!!!" Alphabet, No. 13 (June 1967), pp. 94-95. "i give th book of Cohens a good review, a great review, easily million stars."
D74 Mathews, Robin. "Coming of Age in Canada." The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, No. 3 (July 1967), pp. 111-13. Mathews rather predictably berates Cohen for his Americanism, his use of a form and subject that is continental and not Canadian. Beautiful Losers presents the "ultimate North American thing: man out of history in a chaos of stimuli seeking meaning in random, undiscriminated sensation as the criterion of human value."
D75 Purdy, Alfred. Rev. of Beautiful Losers. The Canadian Forum, July 1967, p. 91. The theme of salvation through degradation is an important one, but Cohen sacrifices his characters to the message and smothers them with his wild language.
D76 Stedmond, J. M. "Letters in Canada 1966." University of Toronto Quarterly, 36, No. 4 (July 1967), 379-80. The novel is at best an unrelated congeries of fragments, at worst a failure, and possibly a hoax.
D77 Halio, Jay L. "Second Skins." The Southern Review, NS, 4, No. 1 (Jan 1968), 240-41. Cohen is an extremist whose excesses detract from an otherwise beautiful and powerful novel. He "dissipates his very real gifts on grounds that whatever is, is good."
D78 Jordon, Clive. "Savage Saviour." New Statesman, April 1970, p. 482. Cohen is talented but the book's form is inconsistent. Beautiful Losers is about extremes, and F. can be seen as "a Nietzschean tribute to the Canadian dream."
D79 "Automotively Erotic." Times Literary Supplement, 23 April 1970, p. 445. Beautiful Losers is "an abstraction of all searches for a lost innocence." Though Cohen is talented, his writing is too undisciplined and rhetorical.
D80 Baker, Roger. "Arresting Images." Books and Bookmen, June 1970, p. 47. A favourable review that mistakenly refers to the book as Cohen's first novel. Beautiful Losers possesses economy and precision, and it "genuinely extends the scope of the novel."
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D122 Geddes, Gary. "Death of a Lady's Man." The Globe and Mail, 30 Sept. 1978, p. 27. This new book re-establishes Cohen's reputation as a poet. The form of work-and-commentary allows him to accommodate both the lyrical and the satirical impulses, and the result is "a sort of Prufrockian excursion into the collective mind of the '60s and '70s."
D123 Purdy, Al. "Cohen Has Lost That Special Magic." Toronto Star, 30 Sept. 1978, p. D7. Though this book continues Cohen's dialogue with himself about his ladies, the magic touch is gone. "The suitcase beside the bed now belongs to a wandering troubador with tonsillitis, and the Sleeping Beauty has insomnia." Cohen now appears to believe the myth he has created about himself.
D124 Ajzenstat, Sam. "The Ploy's the Thing." Books in Canada, Oct. 1978, pp. 10-11. The theme of this complex and successful book is Cohen's poetic failure. The poet meditates, Hamlet-like, on his art and life, and the result is inspired and moving. The text is considerably improved over the earlier one that was withdrawn just prior to publication.
D125 Sivyer, E. "Leonard's Back in the Ring." The Varsity, 99, No. 20 (25 Oct 1978), 4. An interesting review, despite certain pretentious intrusions ("All at once it became stylish at cocktail parties to recite that one 'always had liked Cohen'"). Death of a Lady's Man is a comic work, with the voice of the editor-critic combining with that of the artist in a complicated and interesting fashion. The resultant ironies permit Cohen "to accept his public image as Hero Manque [sic] with comic aplomb."
D126 Mandel, Eli. "Leonard Cohen's Brilliant Con Game." Saturday Night, Nov. 1978, pp. 51-53. Mandel is obviously attracted by the book, and speaks enthusiastically of its lyric beauty, its irony, and its zany combination of "Pop culture, apocalyptic yearning, religiosity, and a kind of insane contemporary sociology." The notebook form places the book, in his opinion, in the post-modern tradition of "the poem in process and the forged documentary." Nevertheless, Death of a Lady's Man is, finally, "slack at the centre." Cohen is generally content to depend on the virtuosity of his voice, but as a substitute for true poetic structure this approach is not successful.
D127 Marshall, Tom. "Self-Indulgent Cohen." The Canadian Forum, Feb. 1979, pp. 33-34. Although it contains some interesting bits, the book as a whole is tiresome and self-indulgent. It is a development from Cohen's earlier work in that the subject is marriage, but typically it deals with little "other than a now very familiar public personality."
D128 Virgo, Sean. Rev. of Death of a Lady's Man. Quill & Quire, 8 Sept. 1978, p. 11. Death of a Lady's Man is an interesting book, but it presents Cohen the man, not the poet at his best. Though "a sincere cri de coeur," the book is too self-regarding, and the best passages are lost in a tangle of surrealism.
D129 Precosky, Don. Rev. of Death of a Lady's Man. Canadian Book Review Annual (Toronto Peter Martin, 1978), p. 104. Death of a Lady's Man is a failure. There are half a dozen fine pieces, but the "greater part is disjointed, dull and self-indulgent."
D130 Dempster, Barry. "Three New Books of Poetry." University of Toronto Review, No. 3 (Spring 1979), pp. 22-23. Cohen's book is reviewed along with books by Purdy and Atwood. Dempster thinks the book a mixture of the very good and the deplorable. Cohen's egocentricity prevents it from achieving any coherence.
D131 Oliver, Michael Brian. "Not Much Nourished by Modern Love." The Fiddlehead, No. 121 (Spring 1979), pp. 143-46. This rave review calls Cohen "the most significant Canadian writer to have ever lived." In Death of a Lady's Man, he has tried to rid himself of despair and alienation, but his only partial success results from an uncertainty as how best to free himself. Cohen's lyricism is beyond reproach.
D132 Scobie, Stephen. Rev. of Death of a Lady's Man. Quarry, 28, No. 2 (Spring 1979), 73-76. Scobie claims several times that "this is not a review." Yes and no. It begins with a poem, and then goes on, attempting to avoid the "Fallacy of Initiative Form," to review the book, in a manner of speaking "for the average reader the whole book is a set of highly specific references to a reality one step removed."
D133 McNally, Paul. Rev. of Death of a Lady's Man. Queen's Quarterly, 86 (Summer 1979), 343-45. This argumentative review faults Cohen for his familiar vices -- self-indulgence and self-pity -- but comes out grudgingly in favour of the book. Cohen is a Byron manque, but "we will doubtless continue to pay attention to his hobbling."
D134 Whiteman, Bruce. "The Tygers of Wrath and the Horses of Instruction." Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 16 (Fall-Winter 1979-80), pp.243-47. Death of a Lady's Man embodies structurally some of the multiple levels of meaning which Cohen had hitherto expressed in imagery or tone. This gives the book a post-modernist tone. It is, nevertheless, badly edited and too long, for Cohen's surrealism becomes tiring in its self-indulgence.
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D38 Dudek, Louis. "Peripatetic Poets Show Their Wares." Montreal Star, 31 Oct. 1964, p. 8. Dudek sees the book as manifesting nothing but Cohen's "neurotic affiliations." Despite its fantasy and wit, it is unilluminating. See also Irving Layton's letter to the editor in reply, "Unflattering Review Elicits Equally Uncomplimentary Reply," November 4, 1964, page fourteen.
D39 "Nation's Poets Show Vitality." Toronto Daily Star, 5 Dec. 1964, p. 22. Flowers for Hitler is a "prickly, ambitious book" in a style to which Cohen's readers will take some time adjusting.
D40 Watt, F. W. "Barnstorming Poets Create in Solitude." Globe Magazine, 19 Dec 1964, p. 20. The book is gay, and Cohen celebrates with "a wonderful lyric grace" all those things for which the flowers of the title stand.
D41 Arnold, A. J. "Leonard Cohen -- Disturbing Contrasts." Congress Bulletin [Canadian Jewish Congress], 19, No. 1 (Jan 1965), 3. Rpt. in Canadian Jewish Outlook, 3, No. 7 (Aug. 1965), 10-11. A comparative review of Flowers for Hitler and The Spice-Box of Earth. The former is a far poorer book, in part because of Cohen's cynicism.
D42 Rev. of Flowers for Hitler. Canadian Poetry, 28, No. 2 (Feb. 1965), 38. All the myths of The Spice-Box of Earth have withered or been left behind, and no poetry remains.
D43 Howith, Harry. "Three Poets." Canadian Author & Bookman, 40, No. 3 (Spring 1965), 12-13. The poems are original and the imagery is hauntingly effective.
D44 Pacey, Desmond. "Three Books of Canadian Verse." The Fiddlehead, No. 64 (Spring 1965), pp. 71-75. It is those poems which continue in the lyric mode of The Spice-Box of Earth that stand out. There are too many poems that should never have been published, and the horrors often are artificial and contrived.
D45 Wilson, Milton. "Letters in Canada: 1964." University of Toronto Quarterly, 34, No. 4 (July 1965), 352-54. LC. A perceptive review that sees Cohen's histrionics as an important aspect of his search for spiritual stability, for the poet is fully aware of the ironies of such a quest. Cohen is "potentially the most important writer that Canadian poetry has produced since 1950."
D46 McCarthy, Brian. "Poetry Chronicle." The Tamarack Review, No. 36 (Summer 1965), p 73. With the exception of "The New Step" most of the work in Flowers for Hitler is "vacant posturing", Cohen is too disengaged from his inner self.
D47 Marshall, Tom. Rev. of Flowers for Hitler. Quarry, No. 14 (1965), p. 54. The book is uneven, and Cohen seems to be in a state of transition, he is searching for a tougher and more colloquial style.
D48 Jones, B. W. Rev. of Flowers for Hitler. Queen's Quarterly, 72, No. 4 (Winter 1965-66), 695-96. The poems gain from an overall thematic cohesiveness -- "the celebration of a dark self-knowledge."
D49 Gnarowski, Michael. "Canadian Poetry Today." Culture, 27, No. 1 (March 1966), 76-77. This book evidences a failing of the poet's powers, and an attempt to revive them by taking on emotional and violent subjects. More than half of the poems are failures.
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D1 House, Vernal. "Quarry in the Myrtle Marshes." The Globe and Mail, 16 June 1956, p. 8. A brief non-committal review. "His themes...are personal problems, resolved dispassionately."
D2 Avison, Margaret. "Poetry Chronicle." The Tamarack Review, No. 1 (Autumn 1956), pp. 78-79. A very favourable review, which speaks of Cohen as "a new poet of stature."
D3 Pacey, Desmond. "A Group of Seven." Queen's Quarterly, 63, No. 3 (Autumn 1956), 438-39. Rpt. in Essays in Canadian Criticism 1938-1968. Toronto: Ryerson, 1969, pp. 114-15. Pacey praises Cohen's ear for music, and points to his opposing themes of lyricism and violence. The book he calls "a brilliant beginning of what we hope may be a long and distinguished poetic career."
D4 Donaldson, Allan. Rev. of Let Us Compare Mythologies. The Fiddlehead, No. 30 (Nov 1956), pp. 30-31. Cohen is honest and imaginative, but uses images of sex and violence to excess.
D5 Wilson, Milton. "Turning New Leaves." The Canadian Forum, March 1957, pp. 282-84. LC. Thinks the book a promising one, and praises Cohen's attempt to turn experience into a myth that won't be "academic nostalgia or archetypal primitivism."
D6 Frye, Northrop. "Letters in Canada: 1956." University of Toronto Quarterly, 26, No. 3, (April 1957), 308-09. Rpt. in The Bush Garden Essays on the Canadian Imagination. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1971, pp. 66-68. Cohen's most outstanding quality is "a gift for macabre ballad reminding one of Auden, but thoroughly original." Let Us Compare Mythologies has "the normal characteristics of a good first volume."
D7 Lochhead, D. G. Rev. of Let Us Compare Mythologies. Dalhousie Review, 36, No. 4 (Winter 1957), 425,427. Cohen is self-conscious in has handling of his Jewishness and love, but he has the "energy capable of writing the long poem about a Canada without flags."
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D81 Colombo, John Robert. "Cohen: The Operative I." Globe Magazine, 10 Dec. 1966, p. 22. The book is charming, but limited in its success. Cohen's too evident intensity must be taken cum grano salis.
D82 Pearson, Alan. "Leonard Cohen's New Work." Montreal Star, 10 Dec. 1966, p. 8 This book fails to show any development beyond Flowers for Hitler. Though few of the poems work as a whole, there are many outstanding lines.
D83 Smith, Robert. A Rev. of Parasites of Heaven. Quarry, 16, No. 2 (Jan 1967), 44. Parasites of Heaven is more a notebook than an achieved volume of poetry.
D84 Francis, Wynne. "Five Poets." The Tamarack Review, No 43 (Spring 1967), pp. 84-86. Cohen's poetry of love and religion are related in that the lover often functions as a surrogate for God. This book by Cohen ("the sweetest singer in our midst") continues his spiritual search.
D85 0 Broin, Padraig. Rev. of Parasites of Heaven. Canadian Author & Bookman, 42, No.3(Spring 1967), 19-20. Despite the few good poems in Parasites of Heaven, Cohen appears to have abandoned any desire to communicate.
D86 Bowering, George. "Inside Leonard Cohen." Canadian Literature, No. 33 (Summer 1967), pp. 71-72. LC. A fine review that discovers in Parasites of Heaven both Cohen's greatest strengths and most obvious failings. Cohen is, says Bowering, "ultimate lyric man. That means that he shows any range of his discoveries, mundane to metaphysical, through his consciousness of singular self." Like Frye ten years earlier (D6), Bowering finds the poet at his best when he uses some variation on the ballad form.
D87 MacCallum, Hugh. "Letters in Canada: 1966." University of Toronto Quarterly, 36, No 4 (July 1967), 361-62. That Parasites of Heaven was written over a period of ten years or so is evident from the lack of unity in the book. Central to Cohen's poetry is what is called here "verbal gesture", everything else remains in soft focus.
D88 Sparshott, Francis. "Turning New Leaves (1)." The Canadian Forum, July 1967, pp. 85-86. An interesting review that probes the ambiguities of the book's title and finds it in the end to possess only a "weakly charming evocativeness." Like D87, this review faults Cohen for a softness that will not stand up to the slightest demand for particularized emotion or tough intelligence.
D89 Kattan, Naim. "Les ecrits canadiens-anglais." Liberte, 9, No. 1 (jan-fev 1969), 60-63. Parasites of Heaven confirms both the good and the bad elements of Cohen's work. He is nevertheless "parmi les plus brillants de sa generation."
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D90 Rev. of Selected poems 1956-1968. Kirkus Reviews, 15 May 1968, p. 566. It is to be noted that the book is reviewed in the juvenile section of Kirkus. Cohen's talent is genuine, but the book is very uneven. It will have much appeal to the young.
D91 Dobbs, Kildare. "Leonard Cohen, Pop Poet Hero." Toronto Daily Star, 27 June 1968, p. 29. Dobbs comments rather darkly that it is Cohen's exploitation of sex and violence that makes his work poetry. He suggests that one "send a copy each to members of the Royal Commission on Women."
D92 Gellatby, Peter. Rev. of Selected Poems 1956-1968. Library Journal, 93 (July 1968), 2663-64. A very favourable review that notes Cohen's struggles with the boogey of Romanticism, but nevertheless finds him very contemporary, and a poet "for all seasons and all readers."
D93 Pearson, Alan. "A Creative Drive That's Ready to Accelerate." Montreal Star, 13 July 1968, p. 7. This reviewer finds the collection too narcissistic, but admits that it contains many fine poems.
D94 Callaghan, Barry. "Leonard Cohen: Heavy, Heavy, Heavy Hangs His Sense of Evil." Toronto Telegram, 27 July 1968, p. 49. The evil and despair in Cohen's work is Swinburnian: it amounts to no more than a superficial posturing.
D95 Waddington, Miriam. "A Showman in His Images' Grip." Globe Magazine, 27 July 1968, p. 13. A mixed review that finds Cohen "a true poet," but faults him for excesses of language and for empty posturing. The selections from The Spice-Box of Earth and Flowers for Hitler are the most effective.
D96 Walsh, Chad. "Poets, Out of Their Shells." Book World [Washington Post], 28 July 1968, p. 4. Comments rather oddly that Cohen shows "a keen love of normality in the midst of every abnormality." The poems are sensuous and lyrical in the manner of Theodore Roethke, "with a dash of the Song of Solomon."
D97 Kattan, Naim. "Leonard Cohen, Poete et Troubadour, Nouvelle Idole Chevelue." Le Devoir, 24 Aug 1968, p. 9. This article reviews Cohen's progress as a poet, noting how his themes have changed, and how this is evident in Selected Poems 1956-1968. Though not literally stated, the sense one has is of a favourable review.
D98 "Black Romanticism." Time, 13 Sept 1968, pp. 92, 96, 98. Cohen is burdened by the past and seeking regeneration. His most authentic voice is found in "anxiety and bitterness."
D99 Robinson, Edgar. Rev. of Selected Poems 1936-1968. New: American and Canadian Poetry, No. 8 (Dec 1968), pp. 45-46. Cohen is a natural, but glib poet. The persona of the poems is his greatest creature of all, a "holy fool, eunuch-stud, laughing-crying man."
D100 Barbour, Douglas. "Canadian Books." The Dalhousie Review, 48, No. 4 (Winter 1968-69), 566-71. LC. Cohen's vision has remained constant over the years, but his language has failed him in the books that succeeded The Spice-Box of Earth.
D101 MacCallum, Hugh. "Letters in Canada 1968." University of Toronto Quarterly, 38, No. 4 (July 1969), 34a. A favourable review which praises Cohen's presentation of contemporary experience and his style. "Such writing leads one to feel that perhaps facility of style alone matters."
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D102 Rev. of The Energy of Slaves. Kirkus Reviews, 1 Nov. 1972, p. 1273. Cohen's rage and disgust cannot be taken seriously, because he is too much of a success. This short review takes the book at face value, and rejects it as Cohenesque con.
D103 Shain, Merle. "Hurry Marita. Hear the Gathering Volleys of Foreboding." The Globe and Mail, l1 Nov. 1972, p. 33. The Energy of Slaves is a great disappointment, its contents being "masturbations more than poems."
D104 Jackson, Marni. "Leonard Cohen: He's Bored, Bitter and out of Love." Toronto Daily Star, 25 Nov 1972, p. 64. A negative review. Cohen "sounds like a bored spectator to his own state of mind."
D105 Smith, Beverly. "By Self Possessed." Books in Canada, Nov-Dec 1972, pp. 52-53. A generally favourable review that sees The Energy of Slaves as continuing the themes of slavery and the master-slave relationship from earlier books. Cohen is adept at juxtaposing ordinary language with unusual ideas.
D106 Bagchee, Shyamal. Rev. of The Energy of Slaves. Quill & Quire, Dec. 1972, p 8. The Energy of Slaves is a very uneven book, but it is fascinating to see Cohen, the Romantic poet, repeatedly complaining that he cannot write poetry anymore.
D107 Rockett, W. H. "Leonard Cohen and the Killer Instinct." Saturday Night, Dec. 1972, pp. 52, 54, 56. The book has little variety, but more continuity than Cohen's previous books. From being victim, Cohen has made the transition to being killer. "With Atwood he remains in a class of excellence apart from all other contemporaries."
D108 Estok, Michael. "All in the Family: The Metaphysics of Domesticity." The Dalhousie Review, 52, No. 4 (Winter 1972-73), 655-58. Reading The Energy of Slaves we are spectators watching a poet "losing a war with his own craft." Cohen is deliberately sabotaging his work.
D109 Almon, Bert. Rev. of The Energy of Slaves. New: American and Canadian Poetry, No. 20 (Jan 1973), pp. 57-60. The book is a "new road" for Cohen, but one on which he has a long way to go. The poems in The Energy of Slaves are too casual, they lack "style, idea, everything."
D110 Macfadden, Patrick. "Has Cohen Become His Admirers." The Last Post, Jan. 1973, pp. 45-46. The Energy of Slaves should not have been published. Cohen, who has gone "from poete maudit to a kind of male Rod McKuen" (one supposes that the reviewer believes Rod McKuen to be a woman in disguise), has totally lost his gift for lyric.
D111 "Along the Fingertip Trail." Times Literary Supplement, 5 Jan 1973, p. 10. A very negative review that complains of Cohen's lack of vision, his prosiness, the uncompelling nature of the poems. The rather inane comment is made that "teenyboppers of all ages will have the book on their shelves between the Bhagavad Gita and the unopened copy of the Cantos."
D112 Bedient, Calvin. "A Soft Confusion, a Hard Clarity." New York Times Book Review, 18 Feb 1973, p. 26. The poems in The Energy of Slaves are rhetorical and abstract, and they fail because of Cohen's insistence on talking "rather naggingly" about himself.
D113 Johnson, Rick. Rev. of The Energy of Slaves. Quarry, 22, No. 2 (Spring 1973), 66-68. An excellent review that calls the book "important and valuable," but judges it as scribbling. Cohen is unable to distance himself enough from his present situation. Nevertheless, The Energy of Slaves is symptomatic of the state of literature in our time.
D114 Hoffman, Avron. Rev. of The Energy of Slaves. British Columbia Library Quarterly, 36, No. 4 (April 1973), 74-75. The book is mostly a put-on, and not worth bothering with. "At times he thinks he's King Phallus and all the world full of salivating clitori, and why can't they get together so he doesn't have to be male chauvinistic."
D115 Healy, James W. "Bookmarks." Prairie Schooner, 47, No. 2 (Summer 1973), 185. The Energy of Slaves is a terrible disappointment. Cohen has sacrificed his lyricism to politics, and the poems suffer greatly thereby.
D116 Hornyansky, Michael. "Letters in Canada: 1972." University of Toronto Quarterly, 42, No. 4 (Summer 1973), 368. A brief review that sees The Energy of Slaves as a decline from the poet's previous accomplishments, and finds the book too self-deprecating to be witty.
D117 Scobie, Stephen. Rev. of The Energy of Slaves. The Humanities Association Review, 24, No. 3 (Summer 1973), 240-43. A very perceptive review that penetrates beyond the anti-poetic surface of the poems and sees Cohen using the book to commit "suicide on his own image as a poet." In this he fails, because the anti-poet is only another role of the poet. Cohen's voice is unique and tough, and he speaks in the voice which "may be the voice of our time."
Dl18 Levenson, Christopher. Rev. of The Energy of Slaves. Queen's Quarterly, 80, No. 3 (Autumn 1973), 469-71. Cohen is mostly cynical and sardonic, and The Energy of Slaves is a great decline from Selected Poems 1956-1968.
D119 Lehman, David. "Politics." Poetry, 123, No. 3 (Dec 1973), 177-78. The tension in Cohen's work is between poetry and the elements of songwriting, and the result is superficial. Taking lines from five different poems, the reviewer makes up "the model Cohen statememt":
I don't want you to know who I am
I don't want a purpose
in your life
Keep me out of politics
I dream of torturing you
I'm going to burn down your house
and fuck you in the ass
D120 Morley, Patricia. "Solitary Adventure, or Shared Pain?" The Lakehead University Review, 6, No. 2 (Fall-Winter 1973), 262-65. A favourable review that points out the many-sidedness of the metaphor of the slave. The poems are less egotistical than some of Cohen's earlier work, they read like "shock treatment for his own pain and darkness."
D12l Wayman, Tom. "Cohen's Women." Canadian Literature, No. 60 (Spring 1974), pp. 89-93. The Energy, of Slaves is a "collection of tedious male supremacy, vagueness, sententiousness and mental self-titillation." Cohen's attitude to women makes the poems dull and predictable.
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D19 Bedingfield, Dolores. "Hero of Montreal Novel Rebels against Society." The Globe and Mail, 7 Sept 1963, p.17. The novel is a very uneven, and though interesting, it "all seems a pose."
D20 Poore, Charles. "Young Bohemians -- Canadian Style." New York Times, 12 Sept. 1963, p. 35. A somewhat ambiguous review, that nevertheless calls the book a "churningly avant-garde novel." The Favourite Game will be popular on campus.
D21 Cobb, David. "Not Penny Dreadful This One Costs $4." Toronto Daily Star, 13 Sept. 1963, p. 21. Calls it a pretty dreadful book, whose central character is a "prosaic bore."
D22 Gold, Arthur. "New Fiction." Book Week, 15 Sept. 1963, p. 26. The triviality of the novel stems from a lack of vitality in Breavman.
D23 Kervin, Ray. "Leonard Cohen Tries His Hand at a Novel." The Gazette [Montreal], 21 Sept. 1963, p. 47. A favourable review that fits the book into the coming-of-age theme and does not apologize for the obscenities.
D24 Patton, Lorne. "The Written Word." Vancouver Province, 23 Sept. 1963, p. 17. A very favourable review that speaks admiringly of the magic of Cohen's language and his portrayal of youth.
D25 Pollock, Venetia. "New Fiction." Punch, 2 Oct. 1963, pp. 5O5-06. Cohen is perhaps not yet experienced enough to "fill out a whole novel," but the book is recommended for its "spark and spike."
D26 Fulford, Robert. "On Books: A Rich Vein of Satire in This Fall's Canadian Novels." Maclean's, 5 Oct 1963, pp. 79-80. Both the style and the substance of the novel are bad, it could easily have been half as long or twice as long, without affecting the book.
D27 Stern, Daniel. "Picaros in Montreal." Saturday Review, 5 Oct 1963, p. 42. Finds the novel interesting and enjoyable.
D28 Cohen, Peter. "Journey into Life." The Spectator, 25 Oct 1963, p. 538. "Breavman, the hero of Mr. Cohen's book, is 'that sort of person / Who wanders about announcing his sex / As if he had lust discovered it.' His favourite game is supposed to be making love, but in a burst of purely gratuitous self-analysis he declares to one of his lady-loves that he prefers self-abuse to fair women, and opines that this is because he is a 'creative person.' To prove this last assertion Mr Cohen has inserted in the text a number of poems purportedly by Breavman but really by Mr Cohen. If I were Breavman I should feel insulted, but I am not Breavman, and I am grateful."
D29 Gibson, Graeme. "Two Troubled Young Men." Saturday Night, Nov. 1963, pp. 40-41. Compares the sex-ethos of The Favourite Game to that of Playboy magazine, and complains of a lack of form and selection.
D30 Henault, Gilles. "`The Favourite Game,' ou le jeu de l'amour et du hasard." La Presse, 7 dec. 1963, Sec. Entertainment, p. 7. A very favourable review. He speaks of the book as a "roman de poete cineaste," and compares Breavman's quest to that of Rimbaud, "cherchant a posseder la verite dans une ame et un corps.'"
D31 Irwin, Joan. "A Zest for Life." The Tamarack Review, No. 30 (Winter 1964), p. 95. Praises Breavman's zest for life and the intensity of the novel.
D32 Robertson, George. "Love and Loss." Canadian Literature, No. 19 (Winter 1904), pp. 69-70. The reviewer likes the book, but finds it somewhat sentimental. Its failures are due to its being too autobiographical.
D33 Adam, Ian. "The Human Centre." Edge, No 2 (Spring 1964), pp. 127-28. Calls it a fine first novel that effectively uses the poet's technique. Its compassion and convincingness falter only when Breavman approaches too closely to the author himself.
D34 Percy, H.R. "Two Looks at Love." Canadian Author & Bookman, 39 (Spring 1964), 12. By comparison with June Franklyn's Catch Me If You Can (the other "look at love" in question here), Cohen's novel is very successful.
D35 Watt, F. W. "Letters in Canada: 1963." University of Toronto Quarterly, 33, No. 4 (July 1964), 343-44. The novel is lyrical, but it "suffers from a confusion of intentions."
D36 Kleiman, Ed. "Blossom Show." Alphabet, No. 9 (Nov. 1964), p. 78. LC. Cohen has a great gift for comic situations and illuminating metaphors. The book's weakness resides in its repetition of similar situations throughout its length.
D37 "First Installment." Times Literary Supplement, 18 Sept. 1970, p. 1027. The reviewer finds the book better than any of Cohen's subsequent work (the verse he terms "poetry for people who do not know much about poetry and have no intention of learning more"). Despite this, he thinks the novel suffers from being calculated and mechanical, and too "tuned to media exploitation."
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D8 Eakins, Rosemary. "Cohen's Poems Show New Grace and Skill." Montreal Star, 3 June 1961, p. 8. A generally favourable review that faults Cohen only for his lack of a unifying vision.
D9 Weaver, Robert. "Leonard Cohen's 'Spice-Box' Presents Sombre Vision." Toronto Daily Star, 10 June 196l, p. 29. A laudatory review that basically lists Cohen's themes and speaks of him as "probably the best young poet in English Canada right now."
D10 Bedingfield, Dolores. "Montrealer's Love Poems Win Praise." The Globe and Mail, 17 June 1961, p. 9. The love poems are excellent, but Cohen's propensity for a "prophetic" voice makes for a lack of clarity and for wordiness.
D11 Edinborough, Arnold. Rev. of The Spice-Box of Earth. The Canadian Reader, 2, No. 9 (July 1961), 5-6. Cohen has taken over from Layton as Canada's major poet.
D12 Mandel, E. W. "Turning New Leaves." The Canadian Forum, Sept 1961. Pp. 140-41. A fine review that emphasizes Cohen's wit and playfulness. The reviewer finds the book diverse, but unified, and sees "the wedding of heaven and earth" as the central metaphor.
D13 Bromige, David. "The Lean and the Luscious." Canadian Literature, No. 10 (Autumn 1961), pp. 87-88. LC. The spare quality of such poems as "For Anne" is effective, but too often Cohen is guilty of a flabby romantic diction.
D14 Hornyansky, Michael. "Festive Bards." The Tamarack Review, No. 21 (Autumn 1961), pp. 80-81. Cohen's Jewish poems work well, but frequently his imagery is overwrought and unfocussed.
D15 Edinborough, Arnold. "Elegant Forms." Saturday Night, 14 Oct. 1961, p. 45. Cohen's poems are fresh and his imagery brilliant. Edinborough again calls him the "best young poet in Canada."
D16 Dudek, Louis. "Three Major Canadian Poets--Three Major Forms of Archaism." Delta, No. 16 (Nov 1961), pp. 23-25. Rpt. in Selected Essays and Criticism. Ottawa: Tecumseh, 1978, pp. 153-56. Here can be found the beginnings of Dudek's great disappointment with Cohen's developing career (he had published the poet's first book). Dudek finds The Spice-Box of Earth a less exuberant book than Let Us Compare Mythologies. though better written. "The sacred-oil and sewage-water mixture runs right through the poems."
D17 Vizinczey, Stephen. "Leonard Cohen." Exchange, 1, No. 1 (Nov. 1961), 71-72. The Jewish poems betray a provincialism, but for the most part Cohen's great courage and imagination serve to transform into poetry the most important realities of our time: "the effects of the technological age on man's inner world."
D18 Wilson, Milton. "Letters in Canada: 1961." University of Toronto Quarterly, 31, No. 4 (July 1962), 432-37. An important review that has a curious surface ambiguity. The themes of love and horror in the poems are related ("For this poet, scratch a lover and you find a Bluebeard"); any attempt to evaluate Cohen must deal with the "high ferment of his style and the religious opportunism of his stance."
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D135 "Platters of Poets." Books In Canada, April-May-June 1973, pp. 10-1l. Finds the recording an interesting and enjoyable one. Cohen has "a sleepy, priest-like voice."
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D159 Waxman, Ken. "Rebirth of a Ladies' Man." Saturday Night, March 1978, pp. 61-62. Cohen's music now measures up to the high quality of his lyrics. The record has benefited greatly from Phil Spector's production.
D160 Tudor, Dean. "The Record Track." Ontario Library Review, 62, No 3 (Sept. 1978), 223. Cohen's lyrics are good, but the production by Phil Spector is "empty."
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D140 Clark, David. Rev. of Live Songs. Records and Recording, 16, No. 10 (July 1973), 81-82. "Note do not check the speed, there is nothing wrong with your gramophone, it is just Leonard sounding even more than usual as though he has dropped a couple of jars of Qualudes."
D141 "Leonard Cohen Needs Us and We Still Need Him." Toronto Daily Star, 14 July 1973, p. 67. A favourable review. Cohen appeals to both the mind and the body.
D142 Valdez, Carlotta. Rev. of Live Songs. Rolling Stone, 19 July 1973, pp. 55-56. Cohen is better live than in the studio.
D143 "The Voice of Canadian Poetry." Quill & Quire, Aug.1973, p. 10. Cohen writes songs that are poems in their own right.
D144 Wallenstein, Barry. Rev. of Live Songs. Crawdaddy, Aug 1973, p. 69. Cohen is a better poet in his songs than in his poetry. The album is mixed, but well worthwhile.
D145 Samotie, Bill. Rev. of Live Songs. Sound, 4, No. 5 (Sept. 1973), 66-67. The album is mediocre, more of the same.
D146 Swan, Susan. "Wholly Moses." Books In Canada, Oct. 1973, pp. 11-12. The message in Live Songs and Layton's Layton is "identical -- embrace the joy and pain, the good and evil with all the passion in your soul."
D147 Coppage, Noel. Rev. of Live Songs. Stereo Review, Nov 1973, p. 80. A poor album that is not at all helped by being recorded live. The music is too contrived, and Cohen is far too melancholy.
D148 Jahn, Mike. Rev. of Live Songs. High Fidelity and MusicalAmertca, Jan. 1974, p. 110. A very favourable review.
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D149 W. M. Rev. of New Skin for the Old Ceremony. Melody Maker, 28 Sept. 1974, p. 58. An interesting review that comments on the tension in Cohen's work between "a deeply religious conviction of things and a well-attested carnality." There is no great song on the album to give it focus.
D150 Sloman, Larry. Rev. of New Skin for the Old Ceremony. Crawdaddy: Feb. 1975, p. 83. Calls the album "a monumental [one] " Cohen's work is truly important and "shines like a gem."
D151 Nelson, Paul. "Lovers and Other Strangers." Rolling Stone, 27 Feb 1975, p. 50. The album is not one of Cohen's best, but its lyricism and optimism help to give it strength.
D152 Stuewe, Paul. Rev. of New Skin for the Old Ceremony. Beetle, 6, No. 4 (March 1975), n. pag. This album repeats what Cohen has already done, and his songs, while "bittersweet friends in a lonely space," are merely that and no more.
D153 Coppage, Noel. Rev. of New Skin for the Old Ceremony. Stereo Review, April 1975, p. 75. A negative review that finds the album a mere rehash of old material.
D154 DeVan, Fred. Rev. of New Skin for the Old Ceremony. Audio, Aug. 1975, p. 73. This reviewer was unable to make it through a hearing of the whole album.
D155 Tudor, Dean. "The Record Track." Ontario Library Review, 59, No. 4 (Dec 1975), 259. The album is "out-takes and leftovers that were found in the can." Cohen "quit making records a long time ago."
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D136 Beker, Marilyn. "Leonard Cohen: Poet-Minstrel." The Globe and Mail, 25 Jan. 1968, p. 13. Cohen's songs are almost too private to be shared. They are beautiful, but depressing.
D137 Rev. of Songs of Leonard Cohen. Maclean's, Feb 1968, p. 72. This brief review finds Cohen's lyrics excellent, but states that his technique as a singer is negligible.
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D138 Goddard, Peter, "Leonard Cohen's Album -- The Poet Still Speaks." Toronto Telegram, 13 April 1971, p. 47. Cohen deals with states of mind that "can't be described by words " He is a surgeon of the emotions.
Dl39 Schmidt, Arthur. Rev. of Songs of Love and Hate. Rolling Stone, 2 Sept 1971, p 43. The disc lacks style, and Cohen has returned to the "trash" that filled his first album. "Cohen mostly sets music to verses."
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D35 Stevens, Peter. "Deep Freezing a Love's Continual Small Atrocities." Globe Magazine, 24 April 1971, p. 16. A mixed review. The coldness and sparseness of the language give a sense of unconcern. There is technical skill but the poetic sequence is somewhat repetitious.
D36 Jonas, George. "Cool Sounds in a Minor Key." Saturday Night, May 197l, pp. 30-31. Atwood explores our instincts for love and aggression. Like her earlier works, this should be read as a sequence. The book is controlled, incisive, intelligent, and free from self-pity.
D37 Harcourt, Joan. Rev. of Power Politics. Quarry, 20, No. 4 (1971), 70-73. The poems, angry and sometimes savage, deal with the intrinsic separateness of two people bound together by a relationship. There is a pause in the self-defeating, bitter, and scientific analysis of love only when the poet has a moment of doubt, that perhaps the shadowy "you" of the poems is the necessary victim of the other's tortured consciousness.
D38 Bowering, George. "Getting Used to It." Canadian literature, No. 52 (Spring 1972), pp. 91-92. "A book of beautiful poetry"--"It hurts." These two views are expressed by the reviewer. It is a sequence of lyrics rather than a collection of individual poems. Love is seen as a political struggle: the destructive relationship is the only man-woman relationship there is.
D39 Hornyansky, Michael. Rev. of Power Politics. University of Toronto Quarterly, 41 (Summer 1972), 334-35. A "rave" note: Atwood's poetry shifts to a sardonic account of a love relationship.
D40 Allen, Dick "Shifts." Poetry, 120 (July 1972), 239-40. "A top-flight sequence of poems about a love affair, written with intensity of feeling, careful craft and harrowing imagery."
D41 McCombs, Judith."'Power Politics' The Book and Its Cover." Moving Out, 3, No. 2 (1973), 54-69. A long review article which finds the book about the head or mind's ability to see, to reason, and to control, as well as a critique of love and of human power games. In the poems the irrational as well as the rational, the creative as well as the corrupt, are seen imposing their own distortions upon whatever they touch. Atwood parallels feminist ideas; Power Politics is a psychological study of self and process. The poet's achievement in this book is "to witness and create and understand a complex human reality: her vision is generic, modern, human:. .. a tougher sanity which incorporates the truth and lies of the insane."
D42 Larkin, Joan. "Soul Survivor." Ms., May 1973, pp. 33-35. Describes Power Politics as "a small group of extraordinary lyrics" which explore the theme of victimization while describing the disintegration of an affair. It is not the product of the Women's Movement. Atwood's cold voice demystifies love and exposes how human beings do violence to one another in its name.
D43 Vendler, Helen. "Do Women Have Distractive Subjects, Roles and Styles?" New York Times Book Review, 12 Aug. 1973, pp. 6-7. "A true sequence, a death-struggle between man and woman." A very favourable review, noting the plain, explicit poetry, the terse, bright, and sure images, and the vivacity of the fantasies.
D44 Pritchard, William H. Rev. of Power Politics. Hudson Review, 26 (Fall 1973), 586-87. Much of the book is fragmentary and some of it is pretentious; but Atwood's poems, like Eliot's, "truly germinate in an 'obscure impulse' and have no choice but to work themselves out."
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D28 Barbour, Douglas. Rev. of Procedures for Underground. The Dalhousie Review, 50, No. 3 (Autumn 1970), 437, 439. Continues in the same vein as earlier collections, but displays a variety of subjects and concerns. In these poems there is a more visible attempt to maintain contact with another human being. Every poem--"and there is not a bad poem among them"--offers further evidence of the strength and value of Atwood's vision and craft.
D29 Maddocks, Melvin. "That Consuming Hunger." Time, 26 Oct. 1970, p. 116 (p. 82 in Canadian edition). "She convincingly suggests that the overcivilized and the barbarous are one." Yet hope and despair follow each other in a cycle like life itself, and lyricism keeps thrusting through.
D30 Gibbs, Jean. Rev. of Procedures for Underground. The Fiddlehead, No. 87 (Nov-Dec 1970), pp. 61-65. The ordering of the poems in this book is important--the book must be treated as a poetic unit rather than as a collection of recent poetry. The poet's private world of the first third of the book is a world gone mad. There is childhood innocence but also there are nightmares and alienation. The world of myth and the ideal is rejected, and the second section reaffirms this by the recurring patterns of the imagery. In the third and final section the poet arrives at some sort of a reconciliation, which is only possible through love.
D31 Wainwright, Andy. "Margaret Atwood's Drowned World." Saturday Night, Dec. 1970, pp. 33, 35. Shows a greater wisdom and an acceptance of her position beneath the surface in a drowned world. Her world is "one of stopped time, of starlight reversals, of landscapes and objects that might belong in a Dali painting." The poet is able to commune more calmly with the male-lover, another figure in the Atwood vision. The fear and mistrust of her earlier work is replaced here by "a kind of primordial quiet."
D32 Harcourt, Joan. Rev. of Procedures for Underground Quarry, 20, No. 1 (Winter 1971), 52-53. The nightmare quality of the poems is created by the intermingling of sinister and bleak otherworldly images with calm statements of physical life. Atwood, with her strange landscapes and images of time, produces "pioneer poetry in a science-fiction setting."
D33 Hornyansky, Michael. Rev. of Procedures for Underground. University of Toronto Quarterly, 40 (Summer 1971), 378-79. A brief comment in which the reviewer notes two qualities in the poetry--"an imagination that pinpoints items in a sharp everyday landscape, then moves through and under them into unknown country; and a tight rein, a sureness of control that makes every word count." Her vision is "so exactly matched by her craft that neither can be judged separately."
D34 Stevens, Peter. "Dark Mouth." Canadian Literature, No. 50 (Autumn 1971), pp. 91-92. Despite surface similarities to The Circle Game, this book expresses a promise of "breaking out." Words may break the inhibitions that fetter us--there is a progression towards a fundamental belief in the prerogatives of poetry in a threatening world.
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D54 Colombo, John Robert. "There Is a Delight in Exposing Little Secrets." The Globe and Mail, 24 April 1976, p. 39. A positive review which outlines her literary work, prose as well as poetry. Selected Poems celebrates "the remarkable achievement of a writer still in her thirties."
D55 Fulford, Robert. "Atwood's Poems Show Strength and Anger." Toronto Star, 24 April 1976, p. H6. A very favourable review: "A reading of the Selected Poems produces a fresh appreciation of her very individual talents. Her new book is a seamless whole."
D56 Bobak, E. L. Rev. of Selected Poems. The Dalhousie Review, 56, No. 2 (Summer 1976), 404-06. This selection shows how peculiarly sensitive Atwood is to contemporary psychological attitudes. Her "underground," the metaphor central to her work, is precisely suited to the "urban, secular and inward-looking individual in our society who finds it difficult to connect either with other people or with his natural surroundings, but who continues trying." The selection tends to favour the poet's more recent work, but the imbalance is slight.
D57 Geddes, Gary. "Now You See It... Now You Don't; An Appreciation of Atwood and MacEwen, Two Grand Illusions." Books in Canada, July 1976, pp. 4-6. Atwood is a poet who evokes a response from the reader rather than one who describes her own emotions. Her sincerity is in her technique. This book allows the reader an opportunity to analyse her craft which makes her poetry fascinating and effective.
D58 Sandler, Linda. "The Exorcisms of Atwood." Saturday Night, July-Aug 1976, pp. 59-60. A favourable review which comments on the different collections from which this selection is made.
D59 Woodcock, George. "Playing with Freezing Fire." Canadian Literature, No. 70 (Autumn 1976), pp. 84-86. "Establishes [Atwood] as a major poet in the Canadian tradition." The book displays the unity of her work and the consistency of her themes, revealed also in her prose writings.
D60 Struthers, J. R. (Tim). "Margaret Atwood Has Surfaced: The Fist Is Now a Hand." London Free Press, 22 Jan 1977, p. 31. Sees in Selected Poems a cyclical development in Atwood's poetry, an ascent from the depths of harshness to the warmth and humanity evidenced in the latest poems. The reviewer sees a matching parallel development in technical brilliance.
D61 Forsche, Carolyn. Rev. of Selected Poems. New York Times Book Review, 21 May 1978, pp. 15, 42. "A chronicle of Atwood's preoccupation with surfaces." In a disturbing way, the poet romanticizes the Canadian landscape, the wilderness, and madness too, the uncharted territory of the self. "She seems to suspect that perhaps the disembodied being locked within her flesh knows something she does not know." The reviewer regrets that "her voice so often indulges itself, meandering through these narratives with a stridency and submission to retention that preclude any power of language itself to issue its mysteries."
D62 Wood, Gayle. "On Margaret Atwood's Selected Poems." American Poetry Review, 8, No. 5 (Sept-Oct 1979), 30-32. A review which charts the changes in Atwood's feelings about love and hate as expressed in "The Circle Game" through to "You Are Happy." The poems are disturbing, shocking, and brilliant. Occasionally when Atwood is being academic and clever, she is also tiresome. The poems which "deserve reading" provide a portrait of contradictions.
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D22 Bowering, George. "To Share the World or Despair of It." The Globe and Mail, 2 May 1970, p. 16. "An extended lyric held together by some sort of frame " Atwood's voice finds a sense of place--she wants to share the world rather than possess it.
D23 Barbour, Douglas. Rev. of The Journals of Susanna Moodie. The Canadian Forum, Sept. 1970, pp. 225-26. "Firmly establishes Margaret Atwood as one of our most important young poets." Atwood's Moodie is a mythic creation of the poet's mind but it is this persona we hear, not the poet.
D24 Purdy, Al. "Atwood's Moodie." Canadian Literature, No. 47 (Winter 1971), pp. 80-84. Atwood writes of Moodie's life in Canada as an experience of a kind of alienation, or "as if Atwood were from Mars and Moodie an English woman of 'gentle' birth." The poems all have a consistent and distinctive tone. There is little humour other than satire and little love of anything. There is however a "hard cold look at the human condition." There are many qualities of fictional biography in the book--an undeniably historical personage takes over. Atwood's Moodie is conveyed to us as a real person, but contains a lot of Atwood. By the end "the Atwood-Moodie persona becomes some kind of primitive corn-mother-spirit that sits in a modern bus along St. Clair Avenue in Toronto, embodying the ghostly citified barbarism of this country."
D25 Skelton, Robin. Rev. of The Journals of Susanna Moodie. The Malahat Review, No. 17 (Jan 1971), pp. 133-34. Also reviews Procedures for Underground. Both exhibit Atwood's strong sense of place and ambiguous feelings about Canadian culture. The Canada she portrays is a state of mind--"She has constructed from local and inimitable materials a vision which crosses all territorial boundaries." She has demonstrated a capacity to create a coherent poetic system capable of continual development and enrichment.
D26 Doyle, Mike. "Made in Canada?" Poetry, 119 (1972), 360-62. A "catch-all" review of thirty-five volumes of Canadian verse, which mentions Journals of Susanna Moodie and Power Politics, and notes the tension in both books is the outcome of a desire to merge and a terror of being consumed.
D27 Stephen, Sid. Rev. of The Journals of Susanna Moodie. White Pelican, 2, No. 2 (Spring 1972), 32-36. The reviewer sees the poems as providing a sort of "self portrait" of the poet. The tension in the book results from the struggle between two powerful voices, that of the pioneer and of the poet. Duality is present in much of Atwood's work and in many ways it is the duality which is central to Canadian myth. The reality of the harsh Canadian landscape and of the violence and horror of life is hidden under the pretence of a genteel "civilization."
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D63 Mays, John Bentley. Rev. of Two-Headed Poems The Globe and Maal, 16 Sept 1978, p. 39. A strange and ambiguous review, which sees the poems as providing a political commentary on the present state of the nation. "A hateful unity, a fatal separation; all the rest, cant or sentimental hogwash: are these the only options so earnest a patriot as Atwood can come up with?" The poet's technical skills are noted but they do not save her from a drastic oversimplification of the situation. "Though joined at the head, Atwood and Canada must be separated, or at least distinguished, lest the despair of the first kill all hope in the body of the second."
D64 Matson, Marshall. "Yoked By Violence." Books in Canada, Jan 1979, pp. 12-13. Finds these poems, which tell of life on the land and of the land itself, sadder and more wintry than those in "You Are Happy." The poems reflect no seasonal progress but rather a repetition of winter. The "two-headed poems" are specifically the political ones in the middle of the book; elsewhere the "two-mindedness" reflects the differences of man and woman.
D65 Barbour, Douglas. Rev. of Two-Headed Poems. The Fiddlehead, No. 121 (Spring 1979), pp. 139-42. The poems speak of broader vistas and greater hope than Atwood has previously expressed. Though there is still present the terror and force of conflicting forces, whether it is in the man-woman relationship or in Canada's political situation, the reviewer finds the collection successful because of the "affirmations" which it articulates.
D66 Hornyansky, Michael. Rev. of Two-Headed Poems. University of Toronto Quarterly, 48 (Summer 1979), 341-42. A short, favourable review which, though it finds Atwood's poems do not make exhilarating reading, feels this collection presents a more mellow tone.
D67 Rosenberg, Jerome. "'For of Such is the Kingdom. . .': Margaret Atwood's Two-Headed Poems." Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 16 (Fall-Winter 1979-80), pp. 130-39. Although this collection seems to be a repetition of earlier books, in fact it demonstrates "a new philosophic strength and a continued mellowing of her traditionally caustic tone." Two-Headed Poems also indicates Atwood's variation on Julian Jaynes's The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. "Atwood achieves with clarity a tone of compassion and of love that surpasses all her prior attempts to engage her readers in such emotions."
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D68 Landsberg, Michele. "A Gentle Plot with Good Humored Charm in Red, White and Blue." The Globe and Mail, 1 April 1978, p. 36. A very favourable review which praises both the illustrations and the text as well designed for pre-schoolers.
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D45 Fulford, Robert. "Atwood's New Poetry an Exhilarating Trip." Toronto Star, 14 Sept 1974, p. H7. A most favourable review. The book has a kind of wholeness, moving from discomfort and resentment through magic and mythology to a kind of resolution, ending with a kind of coming-to-terms with the world of man-woman relationships. It "drags the reader along on a kind of forced march through the intricate sensibility of one of our most remarkable writers."
D46 Pearson, Alan. "A Skeletal Novella in Plain Diction. A Bestiary under Iron Grey Skies." The Globe and Mail, 28 Sept 1974, p. 33. An unsympathetic review with idiosyncratic comments on some of the poems. Some are praised but "The Songs of the Transformed" section puzzles the writer and "Siren Song" appears to be totally misunderstood. Atwood's language is so plain as to be "puritanical in its abstractness" and she risks using poetry "as a receptacle for the disposal of emotional refuse."
D47 Sandler, Linda. "Gustafson and Others." The Tamarack Review, No. 64 (Nov 1974), pp 92-93. A comment only: Atwood's vision is most convincing in the two mythical sections of the book.
D48 Lauder, Scott. "We Are Not So Happy." The Canadian Forum, Nov.-Dec. 1974, pp. 17-18. In the first four sections, "the familiar Atwood persona moves on through the lurking horrors which litter the landscape." The poems of the final section are generally positive. Her images are precise and her conceits frequently ingenious. Her faults and strengths are as interesting for what they reveal of the poet as for what they suggest about her ability. Despite Atwood's productivity, the reviewer is still uncertain of her standing.
D49 Jacobs, Anne. Rev. of You Are Happy. The Dalhousie Review, 54, No. 4 (Winter 1974-75), 790-92. The reviewer claims this book is "a refinement of Atwood's earlier books of poetry." The poet explores a wider range of emotions and records this exploration, ending with the idea of reunification, of wholeness regained.
D50 Matson, Marshall. "Seize the Day and the Axe." Books In Canada, Feb 1975, p. 24. Different from Power Politics in that the language is more direct and love is finally regained. There is a more human expression of sexual conflict "and a varying of sharp aphorism and slow meditation with occasional prose poems."
D51 Amabile, George. "Consciousness in Ambush." CV/II, 1, No 1 (Spring 1975), 5-6. An unfavourable review which finds the poems "defiantly even arrogantly bad." Despite too much intellectualism and obscurity mingled with prosiness, verbosity, and an abundance of cliches, there are some fine, subtle passages, startling lines, and admirable discoveries.
D52 Scott, Andrew. "The Poet As Sorceress." Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 3 (Fall 1975), pp. 60-62. Finds that Atwood here continues to explore themes like the politics of sex and the search for mythic roots with which to define a national consciousness. The reviewer suggests that, with her grasp of the techniques of both poetry and prose, Atwood might be tempted towards some experimental fusions of the two genres.
D53 Trueblood, Valerie. "Conscience and Spirit." American Poetry Review, 6, No. 2 (March-April 1977), 19-20. Like her other books, this exhibits a female sense of kinship with the natural world. People are unhungry consumers, killing animals and plundering the land, but the land survives patiently. "Her poetry has the steady unrelenting pace of conscience. But Atwood makes blessings of her exquisite cold landscapes and of the animals, and of the struggle of some of her characters to be humane. " For Atwood words are the only totems left--for her, to name a thing is to propitiate it. "First Prayer" is the best poem in the book and "one of the most accessible and the most pervaded by the mysticism Atwood everywhere resists and makes ironic."
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Al Purdy has been writing poetry since the 1930s and has been an important Canadian figure since the early 1960s, at which time he became the most popular, and possibly most influential, of the poets in Canada. His first publication, The Enchanted Echo (1944), contains poems that are romantic, traditional, rhymed, and filled with cliches. Purdy now calls that book "crap," but it reveals the sentimental idealist that is still hidden inside the often cynical-sounding Purdy. That romantic side surfaces now and again in his later poems, and is always there beneath the realism, prompting the poet to seek the continuities that give life meaning and make love possible, continuities between past and present, Eskimo and urban white man, ancient Egyptian and modern Canadian, man and woman, man and man.
In his books of the 1950s, Pressed on Sand, Emu, Remember!, and The Crafte So Longe to Lerne, Purdy's mature style began to evolve. His poems were becoming looser, more natural, more conversational, more realistic, and highly original. Purdy forsook traditional poetic diction for a voice entirely his own, a voice that is unmistakeable, in spite of all its imitators. With Poems for All the Annettes (1962) and The Cariboo Horses (1965, and winner of the Governor-General's Award in 1966), Purdy found his unique style. His long, rambling "open form" is appropriate to his subjects: the ordinary man, everyday life, Purdy's home area and other parts of Canada, the presence of the past, and the disjointed quality of life. His style reflects that continuous search for truth which never leads to any fixed statement, but is always evolving and changing. Many of Purdy's poems follow the workings of the mind in its process of observation, thought, conclusion, alteration of the conclusion, new observations.
In writing about the everyday and the ordinary, and in beginning with particular objects or events and leading up to general, universal ideas, Purdy began a new movement in Canadian poetry. As he surpassed his previous work with North of Summer (1967), with some of the poems in Wild Grape Wine (1968), and with the revised versions of Poems for All the Annettes (1968, 1973), he became the number one poet in Canada, an idol for younger poets, and the object of interest as much for his rough, direct, and earthy personality as for his poems.
He has continued writing and publishing fine poems, often traveling in search of new subject matter, but always ending up back home in Ameliasburg, Ontario. In the 1970s, he has become more of a public poet, writing on political and social issues, satirizing modern institutions, showing the horrors of war and repressive governments, and profiling some of the world's heroes and anti-heroes. Critics find some of these poems flawed, some say Purdy is resting on his reputation, relying on his image. Although it is true that some of the poems are weak, others are superb, showing Purdy's concern for human beings, and displaying his trademark--a tone of sceptical cynicism, harsh mockery, ironic humour, but gentle hope. The poems of 1977 and 1978 show more of the sentimental side of Purdy, as he observes man's fumblings and his own inadequacies. Purdy fears that he is growing old, and feels that he is winding down his career, but he keeps writing, and there will be much to add to this bibliography. His recent book, Being Alive (1978), is an excellent selection of previously published poems (with minor revisions), representing the best of Purdy for the past twenty years.
In spite of the lavish praise given to Purdy by many reviewers, others have been critical of his lack of organization, sloppiness, and cacophony. But most of these so-called flaws are purposeful on Purdy's part. He is writing about life, and life is never fixed or static. As well, the poems are not as disorganized as they seem, but contain subtle organizing principles which structure, loosely, the experience about which Purdy is writing, and cause an intended effect on the reader. Sometimes Purdy begins with a seemingly inconsequential object or event, discusses it, compares it to objects and events or other times and places, raises it to the level of myth or universal significance, then slams the reader back to earth at the end of the poem. Other devices used include the ironic juxtaposition of contrasting items, and the cataloguing of rambling thoughts leading up to a final realization of a harsh or sad reality. Critics are beginning to realize that Purdy's apparent laziness and carelessness are only a pose. He has taken the care to revise his poems countless times, as is indicated in Section B of this bibliography, to work on line divisions and pauses, to find the word that is exactly right and to put it in the right place. He has made the effort to contribute poems and prose pieces to many magazines, even obscure ones, and has worked as a critic himself, writing a great number of articles and reviews. Nor is Purdy the everyday, common man that he purports to be. Although he is self-educated, his learning is vast, and he brings into his poems information on a variety of subjects.
Purdy is a popular poet for many reasons, but especially because he is dealing with the emotions, aspirations, and fears of the "little guy." Beneath the humour and roughness is always the sentiment, and between the lines written by critics is personal feeling for the poetry, no matter how learned or how casual the analysis. Many reviewers refuse to dissect these poems with which they have identified to such a degree, and prefer to speak of Purdy the man, or generally praise his works. Those who do evaluate the works usually return to the fun or the impact of the poems themselves. Other than the reviews, there has been little critical work done on Purdy, with a few exceptions: for example, the book by George Bowering, and articles by Peter Stevens and Dennis Dully. But the tendency on the part of many to minimize Purdy's work as merely popular seems to be over, and more serious studies of the meaning and form of the poems are now being undertaken. In recent articles, review articles, and theses (see Part II), the writers look beneath the surface to find significance in Purdy's poetry.
In preparing this bibliography it was necessary to peruse, issue by issue, a large number of periodicals. Al Purdy has published extensively in magazines, but there has previously been no complete record of these appearances in a Purdy bibliography or in a periodical index. Purdy's work has also been published in some short-lived and little-known magazines, most of which are not available at libraries.
Early books by Purdy were also difficult to find. In the 1930s he printed and bound several collections of his poetry. Many of the early published books were printed in limited editions, and several poems appeared as limited broadsheets.
Fortunately, most of the early books plus a few broadsheets are part of the special collections of the Rare Book Room of the D.B. Weldon Library at the University of Western Ontario, and librarian Beth Miller was most informative and encouraging. She also showed me a catalogue of Purdy books available from William Hoffer, a bookseller in Vancouver; Hoffer lists several broadsides, books, journals, and unpublished material.
I received valuable information from the libraries which have bought Purdy manuscripts; the largest collections are held by the University of Saskatchewan Library, and by the Douglas Library at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. These materials include the books bound by Purdy in the 1930s (University of Saskatchewan Library), broadsides, plays, some of the obscure journals, manuscripts of books, letters, and unpublished work. In addition, a great deal of bibliographical and editorial information was provided by my husband, J.R. (Tim) Struthers.
Of course, the person who helped me most was Al Purdy himself, who, on my visit to Ameliasburg, shared with me his personal collection of his publications and gave me information concerning forthcoming book and periodical publications.
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From boyhood E. J. Pratt's bias was toward the common man. Brought up a Methodist minister's son in Newfoundland, Pratt early questioned the justice, mercy, and benevolence of a God who allowed the "endless tragedy" of poverty, violence, and death among the native Newfoundlander. Although apprenticed and educated as a minister, receiving his ordination in 1913 and completing his Ph.D in 1917, Pratt did not become a full-time preacher, electing instead to teach psychology (1913-20) and eventually English at Victoria University in Toronto (1920-53). Pratt's literary career began in 1917 with the privately printed poem Rachel. He went on to play an important role in the development of Canadian poetry as poet, lecturer, and editor of the Canadian Poetry Magazine.
A battle of the critics has been waged almost from the beginning of Pratt's literary career, with each critic claiming him for beliefs ranging from Vincent Sharman's Pratt as atheist to John Sutherland's Pratt as total Christian. Religion has been central to all his work: the poems have been the public expression of a continuing inner battle and the driving force of his development. Such diverse elements as the memory of his father, orthodox church tradition, theological training, religious research at university, his Newfoundland experiences, his interest in the sciences (especially evolution), and his faith in the potential of man have all played a role in this struggle. It produced changes in Pratt's outlook, and in turn was reflected in his poetry. His philosophy evolved from a God-centred to a man-centred universe and he created a "New theology" (Cll0), a man-centred religion.
In The Witches' Brew, Pratt whimsically turned his former universe "back-side up" and accomplished his "full and free emancipation" (C27). If The Watches' Brew was Pratt's manifesto of independence, "The Truant" is "a distillation of. . .[his]. . .view of life" (D89), or a "kind of new testament for the poet" (C123). Pratt uses "The Truant" to express his "liberal-democratic defiance of the mechanistic and the inhumane in man, and a reassertion of the creative role of man and of man alone, an 'unrepentant humanism'" (C52). The Christian interpretation that God is evolving "through us and our developing consciousness" (C123) can also be extracted from the poem. Pratt tried to reconcile science and religion, "the old teleology of received religion and the Darwinian world without design, ultimately resisting that design resides within the organism, within the blood and nerve cells of man" (C108). In "The Truant" Genus Homo, in referring to the "All High," states "Before we came / You had no name" and it is clear from this that man makes his own gods. Pratt "makes man the measure of all things. . . . The myth [of Pratt] is based on the divinity of man. . . All gods, all godliness, dwell in the human breast. All things begin and end in man." (C53).
Pratt also became one of the foremost interpreters of the relationship of man and machine (C29) and his work has been described as "the poetry of science and the machine age" (C48). In much of his work, he shows the potential for good in the products of science as well as the power for evil, ever present but tenuously controlled Pratt believed in man, man's science, and the ultimate aim of controlling the universe through understanding and self-knowledge.
The economic and political development of Canada at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century was the impetus for a nationalism that was reflected in contemporary poetry as an overwhelming pride in Canada. The turn of the century saw Canadian poets seeking beauty in the romantic and the exotic. The most popular group (Bliss Carman, Charles G. D. Roberts, Archibald Lampman, Duncan Campbell Scott, William Wilfred Campbell), described the beauty and majesty of Canada's natural landscape.
In the twenties, when Pratt began to publish, Romanticism, rhetoric, and mechanically rigid nineteenth-century poetic forms were being discarded. The poet used imagistic and free verse techniques to capture everyday life. Steeped in the Newfoundland oral tradition which included pulpit oratory, hymn, folk-song, ballad, recitation, and everyday speech, Pratt readily and naturally developed a story-telling form, the narrative epic. He saw poetry "as a kind of rhetorical friendly persuasion, the winning over of an audience" (C90). Bringing together these various elements in his poetry. Pratt became the first Canadian creative writer to truly express "the spirit that forged the nation" (C8).
Sutherland (C2, C34), in trying to transform Pratt into Canada's T. S. Eliot, argued for a Christian, complex, subtle, mythopoeic Pratt, whose poetry rose out of his subconscious, full of symbols. A. J. M. Smith, Lores Dudek, and Desmond Pacey, influenced by Sutherland, attempted to interpret Pratt as a Modernist. Earle Birney (C52) finds Pratt's philosophy to be the opposite of the Modern movement in Great Britain and the United States. Pratt believed in the ultimate triumph of our age through struggle, while Eliot preached the decline of our age. Pratt remained faithful to objective dramatic narrative and epic, while the Modernists withdrew and narrowed their introspective lyrical craft, afraid to look at the frightening, hopeless chaos they imagined. Unlike the Modernists, who tried to find religions in their negativeness, Pratt evolved a "positive religion of man." Recently Sandra Djwa (C7) has defined Pratt as a "Transitional Modern." After showing Pratt could write free, imagist-like, and Eliot-like verse, Djwa contends with the problem of why he continued to write in what to the initiated "seemed [an] embarrassingly old-fashioned" form. Pratt himself, however, saw the need to express "the democratic visions, the creative impulses at work on myths and national origins" (B183) and set to work creating such national myths in Brebeuf and His Brethren and Towards the Last Spike.
Some critics have argued that Pratt accepted the values of his society too readily. Others claimed that he was no ordinary citizen, that he viewed with abhorrence the tragic lives of the Newfoundland outporters, and that he, a former minister and the son of a minister, was driven to change the centre of his religious convictions. Moreover World War I caused him much anguish which developed into the pessimism expressed in The Great Feud. Yet the survival of the ape mother provides a note of optimism. In the period before World War II he attempted to warn against war, dared to hope for peace, and scrutinized and criticized world political leaders through his Fable of the Goats. World War II was to him a struggle of the "democratic vision" against the "slave vision" (C52), and in "Still Life" Pratt condemned the poets who spurned the battlefield as an unpoetic theme.
Pratt's belief in man, his positive view of the function of the poet, and the form which he adopted for the expression of these beliefs, helped make him Canada's national poet. In his vision of the twentieth century, the nuclear age, and man's responsibility to his fellow man, Pratt has been called "the most clear-sighted of our modern poets" (C6). As Northrop Frye has observed, Pratt "took his place at the centre of society where the great myths are formed, the new myths where the hero is man the worker and where the poet is shaping also a human reality which is greater than the whole objective world. . . because it includes the infinity of human desire" (C90).
Although E. J. Pratt has been an important literary figure in Canada from the 1920s, no bibliographical work had been published about him until "E. J. Pratt: A Preliminary Checklist" by Lila Laakso appeared in the August 1977 issue of Canadian Library Journal and in The E. J. Pratt Symposium, edited by Glenn Clever and published by the University of Ottawa in 1977. The main purpose of the present revision is to provide a complete listing of Pratt's work and to present an up-to-date, annotated bibliography of all the critical works about him.
It was evident in compiling this bibliography that standard periodical indexes could not be relied upon since they do not cover many of the Canadian Journals, or the smaller ones. The Canadian Periodical Index did not exist in the early 1900s, and it was necessary to check individual titles. Acta Victoriana and The Rebel are unindexed Canadian publications winch contain early Pratt works. A similar problem was encountered with anthologies. Because of the lack of adequate indexes, individual titles needed checking.
Throughout his literary career, Pratt was a popular public figure. His numerous radio appearances have been recorded, the tapes are available at the CBC Archives, Toronto, and additional material may be found at the Public Archives, Ottawa. A selection of the numerous newspaper reviews has been made. Similarly, only a selection from the many anthologies in which his work has appeared is presented.
Included in the bibliography are broadsides and sheet music as well as the distractive Pratt family Christmas cards, illustrated by Claire Pratt and containing Pratt poems. Claire Pratt materially assisted with the description of these cards and her interest is much appreciated.
Mrs. Viola Pratt was extremely helpful in drawing our attention to relatively unknown Pratt writings including unsigned introductions, prefaces, and articles. Her Scrapbook (now in Victoria University Library, Toronto) provided invaluable assistance for identifying early newspaper reviews.
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A25 .......... , ed. The New Romans: Candid Canadian Opinions of the U.S. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1968 172 pp.
A26.......... , ed. Fifteen Winds: A Selection of Modern Canadian Poems. Toronto: Ryerson, 1969. 157 pp.
A27 ..........., ed. I've Tasted My Blood: Poems of Milton Acorn. Toronto: Ryerson, 1969. 136 pp.
A28 .......... , ed. Storm Warning: The New Canadian Poets. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1971. 152 pp.
A29 ..........., ed. Storm Warning 2: The New Canadian Poets. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1976. 159 pp.
A30 ..........., ed. Wood Mountain Poems. By Andrew Suknaski. Toronto: Macmillan, 1976. 128 pp.
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A31 The Old Woman and the Mayflowers. Ottawa: Blue R [1962].
A32 Nine Bean-rows on the Moon. N.p.: n.p., n.d. The suppressed first state.
A33 Interruption Willowdale, Ont.: Fiddlehead, n.d.
A34 Spring Song. Willowdale, Ont.: Fiddlehead, 1968.
A35 The Winemaker's Beat-etude. Willowdale, Ont.: Fiddlehead, 1968.
A36 The Peaceable Kingdom. N.p.: n.p., n.d.
A37 Lament for Robert Kennedy. N.p.: n.p., n.d.
A38 The Horseman of Agawa. N.p.: n.p., 1970.
A39 Nine Bean-rows on the Moon. N.p: n.p., 22 March 1970.
A40 Scott Hutcheson's Boat. Prince George, B.C.: Caledonia Writing Series, 1973.
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A41 Al Purdy Papers
Douglas Library
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario
Boxes 1-3: Correspondence.
Boxes 4-6: Manuscripts -- poetry, fiction, book reviews, articles.
Box 7: Miscellaneous manuscripts.
Boxes 8-9: Manuscripts and correspondence concerning The New Romans.
Box 10: Galleys, clippings, manuscripts, and correspondence concerning The New Romans, North of Summer, Poems for All the Annettes, and Wild Grape Wine.
Box 11: Material concerning Wild Grape Wine, Fifteen Winds, and I've Tasted My Blood.
Box 12: Material concerning I've Tasted My Blood, biographical material, Earle Birney material, poems by other authors, miscellaneous material, and Scrapbook.
Box 13: Tape recordings.
Box 14: Books and periodicals.
A42 Al Purdy Library Papers
University of Saskatchewan Library
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Box 1: Manuscripts.
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Box 3: Reviews of Purdy's work.
Box 4: Articles on Purdy.
Box 5: Notes on the first Purdys in Canada.
Box 6: Photographs.
Box 7: Tape recordings of Purdy's poems.
Box 8: Material by others.
Box 9: Correspondence.
Box 10: Material concerning The Quest for Ouzo.
Box 11: Oversize material.
A43 University of British Columbia Library
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia
A manuscript of "Yehl the Raven, and other Creation Myths of the Haidas" and five letters to Doug Kay, 1968-71.
A44 Lakehead University Library
Lakehead University
Thunder Bay, Ontario
Manuscript for play "Point of Transfer," and drafts of several poems.
A45 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Drafts of poems and plays; several tape recordings of Purdy's books of poems, articles, and a short story.
A46 William Hoffer, Bookseller
4529 W. 10th Avenue
Vancouver, British Columbia
A catalogue is available from Mr. Hoffer, who sells Purdy's books and manuscripts. His collection includes books (some of them rare), broadsides (see A31-A40), anthologies, periodicals, manuscripts, and unpublished material.
A47 Al Purdy
Ameliasburg, Ontario
This collection includes eighteen boxes of Purdy's manuscripts, as well as correspondence, proofs of books, and tapes.
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A1 The Enchanted Echo. Vancouver: Clarke and Stuart, 1944. 62 pp.
A2 Pressed on Sand. Toronto: Ryerson, 1955. 16 pp.
A3 Emu, Remember!. Fredericton: Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1956. 16 pp.
A4 The Crafte So Longe to Lerne. Toronto: Ryerson, 1959. 23 pp.
A5 The Blur in Between: Poems 1960-61. Toronto: Emblem Books, 1962. 21 pp. Illustrated by R.V. Rosewarne.
A6 Poems for All the Annettes. Toronto: Contact, 1962. 64 pp. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1968. 101 pp. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1973. 108 pp.
A7 The Cariboo Horses. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1965. 112 pp.
A8 North of Summer. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1967. 87 pp.
A9 Wild Grape Wine. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1968. 128 pp.
A10 Love in a Burning Building. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1970. 88 pp.
All The Quest for Ouzo. Trenton, Ont: M. Kerrigan Almey [1971] N. pag.
A12 Hiroshima Poems. Trumansburg, N.Y.: Crossing, 1972. N. pag.
A13 Selected Poems. Introd. George Woodcock. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1972. 127 pp.
A14 On the Bearpaw Sea. Burnaby,B.C. Blackfish, 1973. N. pag. Illustrated by Jean Wong.
A15 Sex and Death. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973. 126 pp.
A16 In Search of Owen Roblin. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1974. N. pag.
A17 The Poems of Al Purdy: A New Canadian Library Selection. Poets of Canada, No. 10. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1976. 61 pp.
A18 Sundance at Dusk. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1976. 11l pp.
A19 A Handful of Earth. Coatsworth, Ont.: Black Moss, 1977. 62 pp.
A20 At Marsport Drugstore Sutton West, Ont Paget, 1977. 62 pp.
A21 Moths in the Iron Curtain. Cleveland: Black Rabbit, 1977. N. pag. Sutton West, Ont.: Paget, 1979. 45 pp. Includes photographs.
A22 No Second Spring. Coatsworth, Ont.: Black Moss, 1977. N. pag.
A23 Being Alive: Poems 1958-78. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978. 208 pp.
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A24 No Other Country. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977. 187 pp. Includes "Aklavik on the Mackenzie River," "Angus," "Argus in Labrador," "Bon Jour" (B423), "Cougar Hunter" (B436), "Dryland Country" (B447), "Harbour Deep" (B444), "'Her Gates Both East and West'" (B424), "Imagine a Town," "Introduction: The Cartography of Myself" (B422), "The Iron Road" (B415 ), "Lights on the Sea: Portraits of BC Fishermen" (B429), "Malcolm Lowry," "Norma, Eunice, and Judy" (B431), "Poets in Montreal" (B440), "Seven-League Skates: An Interview with Brian Glennie" (B437), "Streetlights on the St Lawrence" (B433).
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B451 Rev. of In England Now, by Ada Jackson. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 12, No. 3 (March 1949), 36.
B452 Rev. of Poems of the War Years, ed. Maurice Wollman. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 12, No. 3(March 1949), 35.
B453 Rev. of These Are Mine, by Wendy Warfield. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 12, No. 3 (March 1949), 36.
B454 Rev. of Awake in the Night, by Marcelle Chancellor Leath. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 12, No. 4 (Summer 1949), 37.
B455 Rev. of The Snow Fairies' Recitations and Verses for Children. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 12, No. 4 (Summer 1949), 37.
B456 Rev. of Where the Moment Was, by Henry McLaughhn. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 12, No. 4 (Summer 1949), 37.
B457 Rev. of High on a Hill, by Marjorie Campbell; Gates of Glory, by Thomas B. Windross; and Prairie Skyline, by Enid and Vesta Pickel. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 13, No. 1 (Fall 1949), 27-29.
B458 Rev. of Invitation to Mood, by Carol Coates. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 13, No. 3 (Spring 1950), 33.
B459 Rev. of Spirit of Israel, by Hyman Edelstein; Leaves of Amber Wine, by Edna James Kayser; Recollections of the Gala, by Nicholas Moore, and Theory of Silence, by William Pillin. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 14, No. 1 (Autumn 1950), 24-27.
B460 Rev. of New Poetic Lamps and Old, by Stanton A. Coblentz; Within the Tavern Caught, by Rupert Munday; Peace and War, by R.G. Lovell; Time Is the Measure, by M.E Drew, and Leaves in the Wind, by William McDermott. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 14, No. 3 (Spring 1951), 29-31.
B461 Rev. of Of Time and the Lover, by James Wreford; Moment of Visitation, by Gustaf Davidson, The Iron Harvest, by Geoffrey Johnson, What Matter What Way, by Lilian Found, and Dominant Seventh, by Phillips Kloss. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 14, No. 4 (Summer 1951), 25-28.
B462 Rev. of Collected Poems, by Keith Douglas, and I See a Light, by David Dainow. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 15, No. 1 (Autumn 1951), 30-31.
B463 Rev. of The Searching Image, by Louis Dudek; It Was a Plane, by Tom Farley; Mint and Willow, by Ruth Cleaves Hazelton; and Viewpoint by Myra Lazechko-Haas. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 15, No. 3 (Spring 1952), 28-30.
B464 Rev. of Angry Decade, by Raymond Tong. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 16, No. 1 (Autumn 1952), 31.
B465 Rev. of Collected Poems, by Oliver St. John Gogarty. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 16, No. 2 (Christmas 1952), 30-3l.
B466 Rev. of Poems, by Martin Gray. The Canadian Forum, Aug. 1958, p. 120.
B467 Rev. of Hyphens, by James Russell Grant. The Canadian Forum, Nov 1958, pp. 190-91.
B468 Rev. of Laughing Stalks and En Mexico, by Louis Dudek. The Canadian Forum, Nov. 1958, pp. 187-88.
B469 Rev. of Collected Poems, Vol. II, by Roy Campbell. The Canadian Forum, Jan 1959, pp. 238-39.
B470 Rev. of African Genesis, by Robert Ardrey. The Canadian Forum, April 1962, p. 21.
B471 Rev. of Bridge Force, by Frank Davey, and For the Mean Time, by Eugene McNamara. Canadian Literature, No. 14 (Autumn 1962), pp. 70-72.
B472 Rev. of Balls for a One-Armed Juggler, by Irving Layton. Canadian Literature, No 16 (Spring 1963), pp. 81-82.
B473 Rev. of Burglar Tools, by Harry Howith. Canadian Author & Bookman, 39, No. 1 (Autumn 1963), 18-19.
B474 Rev. of It Catches My Heart in Its Hands, by Charles Bukowski. Evidence, No. 8 [1964?], pp. 137-40.
B475 Rev. of Jawbreakers, by Milton Acorn. Evidence, No. 8 [1964?], pp. 120-24.
B476 Rev. of Tales of Nanabozho, by Dorothy Reid. Evidence, No. 8 [1964?], pp. 135-36.
B477 Rev. of The Rising Fire, by Gwendolyn MacEwen. Canadian Author & Bookman, 39, No. 3 (Spring 1964), 11.
B478 Rev. of The Colour of the Times, by Raymond Souster. Canadian Author & Bookman, 39, No. 4 (Summer 1964), 15-16.
B479 Rev. of Elephants, Mothers & Others, by John Newlove; Kyoto Avis, by Roy Kiyooka; and White Lunch, by Gerry Gilbert. The Canadian Forum, Sept.1964, pp. 142-43.
B480 Rev. of Moving in Alone, by John Newlove. Canadian Literature, No. 25 (Summer 1965), pp. 70-71.
B481 Rev. of Near False Creek Mouth, by Earle Birney. The Fiddlehead, No. 65 (Summer 1965), pp. 75-76.
B482 Rev. of Tiptoeing on the Mount, by Seymour Mayne. Canadian Author & Bookman, 40, No. 4 (Summer 1965), 17.
B483 Rev. of A Dream of Lilies, by Joan Finnegan. Canadian Literature, No. 28 (Spring 1966), pp. 70-71.
B484 Rev. of The Collected Poems of Irving Layton. Quarry, 15, No. 3 (March 1966), 40-44.
B485 "Turning New Leaves." Rev. of Selected Letters of Malcolm Lowry. The Canadian Forum, May 1966, pp. 40-41. Signed "Al something or other."
B486 Rev. of The Life of Dylan Thomas, by Constantine Fitzgibbon. The Tamarack Review, No. 38 (Winter 1966), pp. 91-94.
B487 Rev. of Eskimo Sculpture, by George Swinton. Evidence, No. 10 [1967?], pp. 170-71.
B488 Rev. of Smoking the City, by Bryan McCarthy. Evidence, No. 10 [1967?], pp. 171-72.
B489 Rev. of North-West Fox, by Luke Fox. The Tamarack Review, No. 45 (Spring 1967), pp. 96-99.
B490 Rev. of New Wave Canada, ed. Raymond Souster. Quarry, 16, No. 3 (March 1967), 42-45.
B491 Rev. of Small Change, by Renald Shoofler; Wrestle with an Angel, by R.G. Everson; Lost Diver, by G.V. Downes; Sunday Afternoon at the Toronto Art Gallery, by John Grube; For the Record, by Luella Booth; The Suspended Landscape, by Anne Kekes; and A Canadian Anthology. Ole, No. 7 (May 1967), n. pag.
B492 "Landfall In Vinland." Rev. of Westviking, by Farley Mowat, and Land under the Pole Star, by Helge Ingstad. Canadian Literature, No. 33 (Summer 1967), pp. 63-67.
B493 Rev. of Beautiful Losers, by Leonard Cohen. The Canadian Forum, July 1967, p. 91.
B494 "Turning New Leaves." Rev. of Modern Canadian Short Stories, ed. Giose Rimanelli and Roberto Ruberto. The Canadian Forum, Oct. 1967, pp. 163-64.
B495 "Prose Birney." Rev. of The Creative Writer, by Earle Birney. Canadian Literature, No. 31 (Winter 1967), pp. 61-64.
B496 "Aiming Low." Rev. of The Absolute Smile, by George Jonas; Phrases from Orpheus, by D.G. Jones; Nevertheless These Eyes, by Roy Kiyooka; Poems, New and Collected, by A.J.M Smith; Kingdom of Absence, by Dennis Lee; As Is, by Raymond Souster; Cry Ararat!, by P.K. Page; Pointing, by Lionel Kearns; The Unquiet Bed, by Dorothy Livesay; Selected Poems, by George Woodcock; Bread, Wine and Salt, by Alden Nowlan; and The Making of Modern Poetry in Canada: Essential Articles on Contemporary Canadian Poetry in English, ed. Louis Dudek and Michael Gnarowski. The Tamarack Review, No. 49 (Spring 1968), pp. 81-97.
B497 Rev. of The Distance Everywhere, by Kenneth O. Hanson; Dimensions, by Frederick Candelaria; and Hunt in an Unmapped Interior and Canticle for Electronic Music, by J Michael Yates. Northwest Review, 9, No. 2, (Spring 1968), 121-23.
B498 Rev. of The Absolute Smile, by George Jonas. The Canadian Forum, March 1968, p. 284.
B499 "Achievement and Monument." Rev. of Poets between the Wars, ed. Milton Wilson. Canadian Literature, No. 37 (Summer 1968), pp. 72-74.
B500 Rev. of The Young Toronto Poets, ed. Dennis Lee. The Canadian Forum, Nov. 1968, pp. 181-82.
B501 "Other Vancouverltes." Rev. of From the Portals of the Mouseholes, by Seymour Mayne; Fires In the Temple, by bill bissett; Letters from the Savage Mind, by Pat Lane, and The Circus of the Boy's Eye, by Jim Brown. Canadian Literature, No. 35 (Winter 1968), pp. 83-85.
B502 Rev. of The Poems of James Dickey. Quarry, 17, No. 2 (Winter 1968), 34-37.
B503 Rev. of The Private Labyrinth of Malcolm Lowry, by Perle Epstein. The Five Cent Review, Oct. 1969, pp. 1-3, 11-12.
B504 Rev. of Black Night Window, by John Newlove. Quarry, 18, No. 2 (Winter 1969), 43-45.
B505 "After a Hundred Years." Rev. of Changes, by Ronald Bates; Homage to Mr MacMullen, by Richard Sommer; The Gentlemen Are Also Lexicographers, by Michael Gnarowski; Nothing but Spoons, by Peter Stevens; I've Laughed and Sung through the Whole Night Long Seen the Summer Sunrise In the Morning, by Raymond Fraser; The Welder's Arc, by Stuart MacKinnon; Man: Unman, by Glen Siebrasse; The Gathering and The Ends of the Earth, by David Bromige; Seaweed and Rosaries, by Al Pittman; Man in the Glass Octopus, by J. Michael Yates; The ShadowMaker, by Gwendolyn MacEwen, and The Silences of Fire, by Tom Marshall. Queen's Quarterly, 76, No 4 (Winter 1969), 710-18
B506 "Poet Besieged." Rev. of The Animals in That Country, by Margaret Atwood. Canadian Literature, No. 39 (Winter 1969), pp. 94-96.
B507 Rev. of Contemporary Poetry of British Columbia, ed. J. Michael Yates, The Gangs of Kosmos, by George Bowering; The Journals of Susanna Moodie, by Margaret Atwood; The Mysterious Naked Man, by Alden Nowlan, The Great Bear Lake Meditations, by J. Michael Yates, and Poemas Humanos, by Cesar Vallelo, trans. Clayton Eshleman. Wascana Review, 5, No. 2 (1970), 53-63.
B508 "Betrayed by the Evening Star." Rev. of Why Should I Have All the Grief?, by Phyllis Gotleib, and The Street, by Mordecai Richler. Canadian Literature, No. 44 (Spring 1970), pp. 84-86.
B509 Rev. of Face at the Bottom of the World, by Hagiwara Sakutaro, trans. Graeme Wilson; Fragments of the Dance, by Harry Howith; John Toronto: New Poems by Dr. Strachan, found by John Robert Colombo; and The Dark Is Not So Dark, by R.G. Everson. Quarry, 19, No. 3(Spring 1970), 60-62.
B510 "Amazonian Travels." Rev. of Henry Walter Bates, Naturalist of the Amazons, by George Woodcock. Canadian Literature, No. 45 (Summer 1970), p. 93.
B511 "Calm Surfaces Destroyed." Rev. of The Cave, by John Newlove. Canadian Literature, No. 48 (Spring 1971), pp. 91-92.
B512 Rev. of Our Man in Utopia, by Doug Fetherling, and The Red Fox, by Bill Howell. Books in Canada, Nov. 1971, p. 22.
B513 "Atwood's Moodie." Rev. of The Journals of Susanna Moodie, by Margaret Atwood. Canadian Literature, No. 47 (Winter 1971), pp. 80-84.
B514 "The Woman of Barrie." Rev. of Touch: Selected Poems 1960-1970, by George Bowering; Nobody Owns the Earth, by bill bissett; Our Man in Utopia, by Doug Fetherling, and The Red Fox, by Bill Howell. Canadian Literature, No. 54 (Autumn 1972), pp. 86-90.
B515 "Rock Gothic." Rev. of Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, by John Franklin. Canadian Literature, No. 51 (Winter 1972), pp. 92-94.
B516 Rev. of The Dance Is One, by F.R. Scott. Books in Canada, July-Sept 1973, pp. 50-51.
B517 Rev. of The Dance Is One, by F.R. Scott; Selected Poems, by Ralph Gustafson; Lies, by John Newlove; Headwaters, by Sid Marty; Hob and Other Poems, by Michael Baldwin; and Young and Old, by R.S. Thomas. Wascana Review, 8, No. 2 (Fall 1973), 66-78.
B518 Rev. of Riverrun, by Peter Such. Books in Canada, Oct. 1973, pp. 7-8.
B519 "Farley's Fling at Fiction." Rev. of The Snow Walker, by Farley Mowat. Books in Canada, Oct. 1975, pp. 12-13.
B520 Rev. of The Island Means Minago, and Poems from Prince Edward Island, by Milton Acorn. CV/II, 2, No. 1 (Jan. 1976), 4-5.
B521 Rev. of A Government Job at Last: An Anthology of Working Poems, Mainly Canadian, ed. Tom Wayman. Books in Canada, Oct 1976, pp. 24, 26.
B522 "Enduring Essentials." Rev. of The Faroe Islanders Saga, trans. George Johnston. Canadian Literature, No. 67 (Winter 1976), pp. 104-06.
B523 Rev. of Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English, 2nd ed, Vols I, II, and III, gen. Ed. and introd. Carl F. Klinck. Books in Canada, Jan. 1977, pp. 9-12.
B524 "Tribute to Everson." Rev. of Indian Summer, by R.G. Everson. Canadian Literature, No. 72 (Spring 1977), pp. 80-82.
B525 "A Flooding Past." Rev. of The Alders and Others, by Peter Trower; Jericho Road, by Joy Kogawa; and Images on Water, by Ken Cathers. Canadian Literature, No. 76 (Spring 1978), pp. 126-27.
B526 Rev. of Death of a Lady's Man, by Leonard Cohen. The Toronto Star, 30 Sept. 1978, Sec. D, p. 7.
B527 Rev. of A Border of Beauty: Arthur Lismer's Pen and Pencil, by Marjorie Lismer Bridges. Canadian Literature, No. 81 (Summer 1979), pp. 132-34.
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The Enchanted Echo ...................... EE
Pressed on Sand ......................... PS
Emu, Remember! ......................... ER
The Crafte So Longe to Lerne ............CLL
The Blur in Between ..................... BB
Poems for All the Annettes (1962) ......PA62
The Cariboo Horses ...................... CH
North of Summer ...................... .. NS
Poems for All the Annettes (1968) ..... PA68
Wild Grape Wine ..................... WGW
Love in a Burning Building ........... . LBB
The Quest for Ouzo ...................... QO
Hiroshima Poems ....................... . HP
Selected Poems .......................... SP
On the Bearpaw Sea ..................... OBS
Poems for All the Annettes (1973) ..... PA73
Sex and Death .......................... S&D
In Search of Owen Robin ................. OR
The Poems of A/Purdy ................ .. PAP
Sundance at Dusk ...................... SatD
A Handful of Earth ...................... HE
At Marsport Drugstore .................. AMD
Moths in the Iron Curtain ................ M
No Other Country ....................... NOC
No Second Spring ....................... NSS
Being Alive ............................. BA
B1 "Dramatis Personae." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 8, No. 2 (Dec 1944), p. 39. EE.
B2 "Lay of the Last Mariner." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 8, No. 4 (June 1945), 27-28. EE.
B3 "Definition." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 9, No. 2 (Dec 1945), 29.
B4 "The Hill Farm." The Canadian Forum, Dec. 1945, p. 207.
B5 "Dust." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 10, No. 1 (Sept. 1946), 29-30.
B6 "Small Boys." The Canadian Forum, Dec. 1947, p. 210.
B7 "Defence Counsel." The Canadian Forum, Aug. 1948, p. 115.
B8 "Druids." The Canadian Forum, Aug. 1948, p. 116.
B9. "Identity." The Canadian Forum, Aug. 1948, p. 116.
B10 "Reaction." The Canadian Forum, Aug. 1948, p. 116.
B11 "Mallards." The Canadian Forum, Sept. 1948, p. 140.
B12 "Night Errant." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 12, No. 1 (Sept 1948), 15-16.
B13 "The Old Barn." The Canadian Forum, Sept. 1948, p. 140.
Bl4 "Abstract Plans." The Canadian Forum, Oct. 1948, p. 160.
Bl5 "Wind Bell." Saturday Night 16 Oct. 1948, p. 33.
B16 "Biased Analysis." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 12, No. 2 (Dec 1948), 14-15.
B17 "The Crosstown Bus." The Canadian Forum, Dec. 1948, p. 210.
B18 "Requiem for Whom?" Saturday Night, 25 Dec. 1948, p. 10.
B19 "The Bandit." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 12, No. (March 1949), 15.
B20 "Childhood." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 12, No. 3 (March 1949), 17.
B21 "The Hired Man." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 12, No. 3 (March 1949), 17.
B22 "The Rattlesnake." The Canadian Forum, March 1949, p. 284.
B23 "Forgotten Music." The Canadian Forum, May 1949, p. 43.
B24 "Night Alarm." The Canadian Forum, May 1949, p. 43.
B25 "Winter Harbour." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 12, No. 4 (Summer 1949), 17.
B26 "Farm Grandmother." The Canadian Forum, Sept. 1949, p. 137.
B27 "The Blind Fiddler." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 13, No. 1 (Fall 1949}, 21.
B28 "Living Ice." The Canadian Forum, Nov. 1949, p. 187.
B29 "Poem." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 13, No. 2(Christmas 1949), 11.
B30 "Wood Road." Saturday Night, 27 Dec. 1949, p. 25.
B31 "Weddell." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 13, No. (Spring 1950), 5-7.
B32 "Spanish Hilltop." The Canadian Forum, June 1950, p. 67.
B33 "Concerning Cracksmen." The Canadian Forum, Sept. 1950, p. 137.
B34 "Red Landscape." The Canadian Forum, Sept. 1950, p. 137.
B35 "Canadian." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 14, No. 1 (Autumn 1950), 4-5.
B36 "Mary the Allan." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 14, No. 1 (Autumn 1950), 6-7. PS (revised).
B37 "The Extroverts." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 14, No. 2 (Winter 1950), 26.
B38 "Overheard: 1865." The Canadian Forum, Jan. 1951, p. 235.
B39 "Operation Pipeline." The Canadian Forum, March 1951, p. 283.
B40 "Remembrance." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 14, No. 3 (Spring 1951), 7.
B41 "Paul Kane." The Canadian Forum, May 1951, p. 43.
B42 "Eighteenth Century Foot-note" Canadian Poetry Magazine, 14, No. 4 (Summer 1951), 10.
B43 "Joe Barr." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 14, No. 4 (Summer 1951), 16-17. WGW (revised).
B44 "Trading Post." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 14, No. 4 (Summer 1951), 17.
B45 "The Haymakers." The Canadian Forum, July 1951, p. 89.
B46 "The Baritone." The Canadian Forum, Aug. 1951, p. 105.
B47 "Samuel Champlain." The Canadian Forum, Sept. 1951, p. 125.
B48 "The Old Time." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 15, No. 1 (Autumn 1951), 10-11.
B49 "Poem." The Canadian Forum, Oct. 1951, p. 150.
B50 "Bed-Time Story." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 15, No. 3 (Spring 1952), 10-11.
B51 "Departure." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 15, No. 4 (Summer 1952), 12-13.
B52 "Epitaph." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 15, No. 4 (Summer 1952), 27. Rpt. in Teangadoir, 5, No. 3, Ser. 2 (1 March 1962), 94. Rpt in Canadian Author & Bookman, 39, No. 4 (Summer 1964), 5. PA62 (revised).
B53 "Exercise." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 16, No. 1 (Autumn 1952), 25.
B54 "The Gambling Man." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 16, No. 3 (Spring 1953), 20.
B55 "Soliloquy." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 16, No. 3 (Spring 1953), 23-24. PS.
B56 "Memorial." The Canadian Forum, May 1953, p. 43.
B57 "Retrospection." The Canadian Forum, May 1953, p. 43.
B58 "Alternately." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 17, No. 1 (Autumn 1953), 24.
B59 "Meander." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 17, No. 1 (Autumn 1953), 24-25. PS.
B60 "Contrivance." The Fiddlehead, No. 19 (Nov 1953), p. 3. Rpt. in The Canadian Forum, Jan. 1955, p. 231.
B61 "Anachronism." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 17, No. 2 (Winter 1953-54), 34.
B62 "Autumn Preference." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 17, No. 2 (Winter 1953-54), 33.
B63 "Landscape." The Fiddlehead, No. 20 (Feb 1954), p. 10.
B64 "For the Record." The Canadian Forum, April 1954, p. 17. PS; PA68 (revised); PA73.
B65 "Indian Fisherman along the Skeena." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 17, No. 4 (Summer 1954), 7.
B66 "Lexicon." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 17, No. 4 (Summer 1954), 6.
B67 "Portrait of Sir William Cornelius Van Horne." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 17, No. 4 (Summer 1951), 8-9.
B68 "The Pumpmaker 1925." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 17, No. 4 (Summer 1954), 7-8.
B69 "As a Young Man." The Canadian Forum, Nov. 1954, p. 186. PS.
B70 "Late Arrival." The Fiddlehead, Nos. 23-24 (Feb. 1955), p. 11.
B71 "Spokesman for the Andeans." The Fiddlehead, No. 25 (May 1955), pp. 5-6.
B72 "Artist's Model." The Canadian Forum, July 1955, p. 87.
B73 "I See No Hand." The Canadian Forum, Oct 1955, p. 164.
B74 "Parable." The Canadian Forum, Oct. 1955, p. 165.
B75 "Postscript." The Fiddlehead, No. 26 (Nov 1955), p. 14 ER; CH (revised), PA62 (revised); LBB (revised); BA.
B76 "Complex." The Canadian Forum, Jan. 1956, p. 234.
B77 "Seasonal Malady." The Canadian Forum, April 1956, p. 18. PS.
B78 "In a Far Country." The Fiddlehead, No. 28 (May 1956), p. 29. Rpt. in The Fiddlehead, No. 50 (Fall 1961), p. 48.
B79 "Aunt Cassie." The Canadian Forum, Jan. 1957, p. 233.
B80 "Political Meeting." The Canadian Forum, April 1957, p. 23.
B81 "Small Town at Night." The Canadian Forum, April 1957, p. 23.
B82 "Love Song." The Canadian Forum, June 1957, p. 65.
B83 "Word-Symbols." The Canadian Forum, June 1957, p. 60.
B84 "Gilgamesh and Friend." The Canadian Forum, July 1957, p. 86. CLL; PA68 (revised); PA73.
B85 "Indictment." The Canadian Forum, Aug. 1957, p. 108. ER.
B86 "Lovers." The Canadian Forum, Aug. 1957, p. 108.
B87 "Tomatoes." The Fiddlehead, No. 33 (Aug 1957), pp. 6-7.
B88 "Testament." The Canadian Forum, Sept. 1957, p. 134.
B89 "Vestigia." The Canadian Forum, Sept. 1957, p. 134. CLL (revised); PA68 (revised); PA73; LBB (revised).
B90 "Wash Day Helper." The Canadian Forum, Sept. 1957, p. 134.
B91 "Pre-Epltaph for Love." The Fiddlehead, No. 34 (Fall 1957), p. 29.
B92 "Annette." The Canadian Forum, Oct. 1957, p. 159.
B93 "Early Winter Morning." Delta, No. 2 (Jan 1958), pp. 22-23.
B94 "Incognito." The Fiddlehead, No. 36 (Spring 1958), p. 39.
B95 "At the Mardi Gras." The Canadian Forum, April 1958, p. 14.
B96 "If Birds Look In " The Canadian Forum, April 1958, p. 14.
B97 "Night Song for a Woman." The Canadian Forum, April 1958, p. 14. BB; PA68 (revised); PA73; LBB (revised); BA (revised).
B98 "Palimpsest." The Canadian Forum, April 1958, p. 14. CLL.
B99 "Stencils." The Canadian Forum, April 1958, p. 14.
B100 "Where the Moment Is." The Canadian Forum, June 1958, p. 64. CLL (revised); PA68 (revised); PA73; LBB(revised).
B101 "Incantation." The Fiddlehead, No. 37 (Summer 1958), pp. 24-25.
B102 "Rougeau, Oct. 30, 1955." "The Fiddlehead, No. 38(Fall 1958), p. 20. Rpt. in The Fiddlehead, No. 50 (Fall 1961), p. 49.
B103 "At Evergreen Cemetery." The Canadian Forum, Dec. 1958, p. 205. CLL; PA68 (revised); PA73.
B104 "Passport." Yes, No. 8 (Winter 1958-59), n. pag. CLL.
B105 "The Death of Animals." Yes, No. 9 [1959?], n. pag. BB; PA68 (revised); PA73.
B106 "Visitors." Delta, No. 6 (Jan 1959), p. 23.
B107 "Canadian New Year Resolutions for 1959." Delta, No. 7 (April 1959), p. 2. CLL.
B108 "The Dutch Masters." Delta, No. 7 (April 1959), p. 1.
B109 "Rain Poem?" The Canadian Forum, April 1959, p. 10. CLL.
B110 "From the Chin P'ing Mei." Combustion, No. 10 (May 1959), p. 2. Rpt. (revised) in The Canadian Forum, Oct 1959, p. 155. CLL; PA68 (revised); PA73 (revised); LBB; SP; BA.
B111 "Indian Reservation Caughnawaga, 1957 (after A.M. Klein)." Combustion, No. 10 (May 1959), pp. 1-2.
B112 "Love Song." Combustion, No. 10 (May 1959), p. 1. CLL; LBB; PA73.
B113 "Olympic Room." The Canadian Forum, May 1959, p. 41. CLL.
B114 "Personal." Combustion, No. 10 (May 1959), p. 2.
B115 "After the Rats." The Canadian Forum, June 1959, p. 60. CLL (revised), PA68 (revised); PA 73.
B116 "Old Woman." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 23, No. 1(Fall 1959), 11-12.
Bl17 "Driftwood Logs." The Canadian Forum, Nov. 1959, p. 192. CLL.
Bl18 "Waiting for an Old Woman to Die." The Canadian Forum, Nov. 1959, p. 182. CLL.
Bl19 "Towns." Delta, No. 10 (Jan-March 1960), pp. 1-2.
B120 "And We Shall Build Jerusalem." The Canadian Forum, April 1960, p. 13. Rpt. "And We Shall Build Jerusalem--in Montreal." In The Human Voice, 2, No. 3 (Aug 1966), n. pag. BB.
B121 "Decree Nisi." The Canadian Forum, April 1960, p. 12. Rpt. In The Human Voice, 2, No. 3 (Aug 1966), n. pag. BB; PA68 (revised); PA73.
B122 "In Ellesmereland." The Canadian Forum, April 1960, p. 13. Rpt. in The Human Voice, 2, No. 3 (Aug 1966), n. pag. BB (revised).
B123 "Pause." The Canadian Forum, April 1960, p. 13. BB; PA68 (revised); PA73; BA.
B124 "The Study of Islands." The Canadian Forum, April 1960, pp. 12-13.
B125 "Dimensions." The Tamarack Review, No. 16 (Summer 1960), p. 62.
B126 "Short History of X County." The Tamarack Review, No. 16 (Summer 1960), pp. 63-64. CLL.
B127 "How to Say What You Mean (or Vice Versa)." Delta, No. 12 (Sept 1960), p. 16.
B128 "Plumbing." The Canadian Forum, Sept. 1960, p.136.
B129 "Winter Walking." The Canadian Forum, Sept. 1960, p. 129. Rpt. in The Human Voice, 2, No. 3(Aug 1966), n. pag. BB, PA68 (revised), PA73.
B130 "Gawd, the Eumenides." Delta, No. 13 (Dec. 1960), p. 22. Rpt. in The Human Voice, 2, No. 3 (Aug. 1966), n. pag. BB.
B131 "Miss Adventure." Delta, No. 13 (Dec 1960), p. 26. PA62 (revised); PA68 (revised); PA73; LBB (revised).
B132 "A Second Look at the Teepee." The Canadian Forum, Jan 1961, p. 229.
B133 "The Old Woman and the Mayflowers." Delta, No. 14 (March 1961), pp. 20-21. BB; PA68(revised); PA73; BA.
B134 "On Canadian Identity." Queen's Quarterly, 68 (Summer 1961), 314-15. PA62 (revised).
B135 "Dudek's Crazy Theory Refuted (Or Proven Maybe)." Delta, No. 15 (Aug 1961), pp. 22-23.
B136 "Eli Mandel's Sunday Morning Castle." Delta, No. 14 (Aug 1961), pp. 21-22. PA62 (revised); PA68 (revised); PA 73.
B137 "Mind Process Re a Faucet." Delta, No. 15 (Aug 1961), pp. 23-24. PA62 (revised); PA68 (revised); PA73.
B138 "Evergreen Cemetery." Evidence, No. 5 (1962), pp. 42-44. PA62 (revised); PA68; PA73; SP (revised); BA.
B139 "The Great Man." Yes, No. 10 (Jan 1962), n. pag.
B140 "The Listeners." Evidence, No. 5 (1962), pp. 46-47. PA62 (revised); PA68 (revised); PA73 (revised); LBB(revised).
B141 "O Recruiting Sergeants." Evidence, No. 5 (1962), pp. 40-41. PA62 (revised); PA68 (revised); PA73; BA.
B142 "Policeman." Evidence, No. 5 (1962), p. 45. CH.
B143 "Portrait." Evidence, No. 5 (1962), pp. 39-40. CH (revised).
B144 "On the Apotheosis of Miss Monroe." Evidence, No. 6 [1962?], pp. 77-78.
B145 "Spring Song." Mountain, No. 2 [1962?], n. pag. [poem no. 39]. PA62; WGW (revised); SP (revised); BA (revised).
B146 "Collecting the Square Root of Minus One." The Canadian Forum, Feb. 1962, p. 255. PA62; PA68 (revised); PA73; SP.
B147 "For Norma in Lieu of an Orgasm." The Canadian Forum, Feb. 1962, p. 254. PA62; PA68 (revised); PA73; LBB; BA.
B148 "Poem for One of the Annettes." The Canadian Forum, Feb. 1962, p. 254. PA62; PA68; PA73; LBB; SP; BA.
B149 "The Widower." The Canadian Forum, Feb. 1962, p. 254. PA62; PA68; PA73; LBB (revised).
B150 "Remains of an Indian Village." Teangadoir, 5, No. 3, Ser. 2 (1 March 1962), 92-94. Rpt. in Queen's Quarterly, 74 (Spring 1967), 70-71. PA62; WGW(revised); PAP; BA.
B151 "Biography." The Canadian Forum, April 1962, p. 16. Rpt. in The Human Voice, 2, No. 3 (Aug. 1966), n pag. BB; PA68 (revised); PA73.
B152 "Love Poem." The Outsider, 1, No. 2 (Summer 1962), 53-54.
B153 "The Machines." The Canadian Forum, July 1962, p. 91. BB ("Machines"); CH (revised).
B154 "Douks Disrobe as Dief Declaims." The Sheet, 5 (Sept. 1962), 3.
B155 "Country Snowplow." The Bloody Horse, 1, No. 1 (Jan. 1963), 19. CH.
B156 "Critique." The Canadian Forum, Jan 1963, p. 240.
B157 "My Grandfather Talking--30 Years Ago." The Canadian Forum, Jan. 1963, p. 240. CH; SP (revised); OR; PAP; BA.
B158 "Pickets." The Bloody Horse, 1, No. 1 (Jan 1963), 22.
B159 "Potter." The Bloody Horse, 1, No. 1 (Jan. 1963), 20-21. CH.
B160 "To an Ex-Wife." The Bloody Horse, 1, No. 1 (Jan. 1963), 18. CH; LBB.
B161 "The Country North of Belleville." The Tamarack Review, No. 27 (Spring 1963), pp. 64-66. CH; SP (revised); PAP; BA.
B162 "Indian Summer." The Tamarack Review, No. 27 (Spring 1963), p. 66. PA62; PA68 (revised).
B163 "Necropsy of Love." The Tamarack Review, No. 27 (Spring 1963), p. 63. CH; LBB; SP.
B164 "Postscript." The Tamarack Review, No. 27 (Spring 1963), pp. 69-70. ER (revised); CH (revised); PA62(revised); LBB (revised); BA.
B165 "Transient." The Tamarack Review, No. 27 (Spring 1963), pp. 67-68. CH (revised), SP (revised), PAP; BA (revised).
B166 "Rural Henhouse." Delta, No. 21 (May 1963), pp. 24-25 PA62 (revised); PA68; PA73.
B167 "The Gift of a Water Colour." Amethyst, 2, No. 4 (Summer 1963), 36.
B168 "The Old Girlfriend." Volume 63, No. 1 (Dec. 1963), p. 49. CH; LBB (revised).
B169 "Ballad of the Despairing Wife." Evidence, No. 8 [1964?], pp. 79-80. CH; LBB (revised).
B170 "The Cariboo Horses." Evidence, No. 8 [1964?], pp. 69-70. Rpt. in Hobi Ahi, May 1969, p. 1. CH (revised); SP; PAP; BA.
B171 "Homo Canadensis." Evidence, No. 8 [1964?], pp. 73-74. CH (revised).
B172 "In the Wilderness." Evidence, No. 8 [1964?], pp. 65-68. CH.
B173 "The Madwoman on the Train." Evidence, No. 8 [1964?], pp. 77-78. CH (revised).
B174 "Music on a Tombstone." Evidence, No. 8 [1964?], p. 76. CH; LBB.
B175 "A Power." Evidence, No. 8 [1964?], pp. 75-76. CH.
B176 "To an Attempted Suicide (at Sunnybrook Military Hospital)." Evidence, No. 8 [1964?], pp. 71-72. CH (revised).
B177 "Winter at Roblin Lake." Evidence, No. 8 [1964?], p. 78. Rpt. in New American and Canadian Poetry, No. 3 (April 1967), p. 16. CH; LBB; SP; PAP; BA.
B178 "Mountain Lions in Stanley Park." The Canadian Forum, Jan. 1964, p. 240. CH (revised).
B179 "Late Rising at Roblin Lake." The Canadian Forum, Feb. 1964, p. 255. CH; SP, PAP.
B180 "The Viper's Muse." The Canadian Forum, Feb. 1964, p. 245 CH (revised); BA.
B181 "Notes on Painting." Delta, No. 23 (March 1964), pp. 25-27. CH (revised).
B182 "Helping My Wife Get Supper." Canadian Author & Bookman, 39, No. 4 (Summer 1964), 5. CH; LBB; SP.
B183 "Method for Calling Up Ghosts." Canadian Author & Bookman, 39, No. 4 (Summer 1964), 4 CH; BA (revised).
B184 "Observer." Canadian Author & Bookman, 39, No. 4 (Summer 1964), 4. CH (revised).
B185 "Sunday Swim." Canadian Author & Bookman, 39, No. 4 (Summer 1964), 4. CH.
B186 "Homemade Beer." Prism International, 4, No. 2 (Autumn 1964), 45. CH; LBB; SP; PAP; BA.
B187 "Lu Yu (A.D. 1125-1209)." The Tamarack Review, No. 33 (Autumn 1964), p. 12. Rpt. in New American and Canadian Poetry, No. 3 (April 1967), p. 16. CH.
B188 "Malcolm Lowry." The Tamarack Review, No. 33 (Autumn 1964), pp. 18-19. CH.
B189 "Old Alex." The Tamarack Review, No. 33 (Autumn 1964), pp. 12-13. CH; SP (revised); PAP; BA.
B190 "Percy Lawson." The Tamarack Review, No. 33(Autumn 1964), pp. 16-17. CH; SP; PAP.
B191 "Robin Mills." The Tamarack Review, No. 33(Autumn 1964), p. 11.
B192 "Snow at Robin Lake." The Tamarack Review, No. 33 (Autumn 1964), p. 10. CH.
B193 "A Very Light Sort of Blue Faded from Washing?" The Tamarack Review, No. 33 (Autumn 1964), pp. 14-15 CH (revised).
B194 "Wilderness Gothic." Prism International, 4, No. 2 (Autumn 1964), 44. WGW; SP; PAP; BA.
B195 "Night Woman." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 28, No. 1 (Nov 1964), 4-5.
B196 "Robin's Mills: Circa 1842." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 28, No. 1 (Nov 1964), 3-4. Rpt. "Robin Mills Circa 1842." In Hiram Poetry Review, No. 3 (Fall-Winter 1967), pp. 24-27. WGW; SP (revised--"Roblin's Mills (2)"); OR; BA.
B197 "Beaudoin (1960)." Island, Ser. 2, 8, No. 2 (17 Dec 1964), 45. WGW (revised).
B198 "Complaint Lodged with L.C.B.O. by a Citizen in Upper Rumbelow." Island, Ser. 2, 8, No. 2 (17 Dec. 1964), 44. CH; SP (revised) PAP; BA (revised).
B199 "Hunting Season." Island, Ser. 2, 8, No. 2 (17 Dec. 1964), 48. WGW (revised).
B200 "What It Was" Island, Ser. 2,8, No. 2 (17 Dec. 1964), 46-47. CH (revised); BA (revised).
B201 "Fidel Castro in Revolutionary Square." The Canadian Forum, Jan. 1965, pp. 229-30. CH; SP (revised), PAP; BA.
B202 "Shoeshine Boys on the Avenida Juarez." The Canadian Forum, Jan. 1965, p. 229. WGW (revised); BA.
B203 "Thank God I'm Normal." The Canadian Forum, Jan. 1965, p. 230. CH.
B204 "The Wine-maker's Beat-etude." The Canadian Forum, Jan. 1965, p. 230. Rpt. "The Wine-maker's Beat-Etude." In New American and Canadian Poetry, No. 1 (Sept 1966), pp. 26-27. Broadside. WGW; SP; PAP; BA.
B205 "Cronos at the Quinte Hotel." Quarry, 14 (March 1965), 9-10. CH (revised).
B206 "Death of John F. Kennedy." Quarry, 14 (March 1965), 6-8. CH (revised); SP (revised).
B207 "The Beach at Veradero." Volume 63, No. 3 (Summer 1963), p. 4. Rpt. in Evidence, No. 10 [1967?], p. 77. WGW.
B208 "Hockey Players." Volume 63, No. 3 (Summer 1965), pp. 7-8. CH; SP (revised); BA.
B209 "John." Volume 63, No. 3 (Summer 1965), p. 5. CH.
B210 "Old Settler's Song." Volume 63, No. 3 (Summer 1965), p. 6. Rpt. in Hobi Ahi, May 1969, p. 1. CH.
B211 "I Think It Was Wednesday." Poet, 6, No. 4 (July-Aug 1965), 14-17. CH.
B212 "Death of a Young Poet." Ole, No. 3 (Nov 1965), n. pag. WGW (revised).
B213 "Mr Greenhalgh's Love Poem." Delta, No. 25 (Nov. 1965), pp. 28-29. PA68 (revised); PA73; LBB (revised).
B214 "Dylan." Queen's Quarterly, 72 (Winter 1965-66), 647. Rpt. in Kayak, No. 16 (1968), p. 65 WGW; SP (revised).
B215 "Skeleton by an Old Cedar." Queen's Quarterly, 72 (Winter 1965-66), 648. WGW (revised), BA.
B216 "The Moment Passed." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 29, Nos. 1 and 2 (Feb. 1966), 5.
B217 "Moose Calf of the Chilcotin." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 29, Nos. 1 and 2 (Feb 1966), 6.
B218 "Return to the City." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 29, Nos. 1 and 2 (Feb 1966), 6-7.
B219 "At the Movies." The Tamarack Review, No. 39 (Spring 1966), pp. 42-43. Rpt. in Canadian Poetry Magazine, 30, No. 4 (Aug 1967), 65-66. NS (revised); SP (revised).
B220 "The Country of the Young." The Tamarack Review, No. 39 (Spring 1966), pp. 48-49 NS; SP; PAP; BA.
B22l "Dead Seal." The Tamarack Review, No. 39 (Spring 1966), pp. 40-41. NS.
B222 "Metrics." The Tamarack Review, No. 39 (Spring 1966), pp. 43-45. Rpt. in Northern, 4, No. 1 (Feb. 1967), 65-67. NS (revised).
B223 "The Northwest Passage." The Tamarack Review, No. 39 (Spring 1966), pp. 46-47. Rpt. in North, Jan-Feb. 1968, pp. 25-27. NS.
B224 "Prelude." The Tamarack Review, No. 39 (Spring 1966), p.39. NS.
B225 "When I Sat Down to Play the Piano." The Tamarack Review, No. 39 (Spring 1966), pp. 49-51. NS; SP(revised); PAP; BA.
B226 "Shopping at Loblaws." Ole, No. 4 (May 1966), n. pag. WGW (revised), LBB (revised); BA (revised).
B227 "Aspects." Prism International, 6, No. 1 (Summer 1966), 79. NS.
B228 "Eskimo Hunter." Prism International, 6, No. 1 (Summer 1966), 76 NS.
B229 "Odysseus in Kikastan." In "North of Summer: Arctic Poems and Prose." Beaver, Summer 1966, p. 23. NS.
B230 "The Sculptors." Prism International, 6, No. 1 (Summer 1966), 77-78. NS (revised); SP; PAP; BA.
B23l "Track Meet at Pangnirtung." Prism International, 6, No. 1 (Summer 1966), 74-75. NS.
B232 "The Turning Point." In "North of Summer: Arctic Poems and Prose." Beaver, Summer 1966, p. 19. NS (revised); SP {revised).
B233 "Two Hunters." In "North of Summer: Arctic Poems and Prose." Beaver, Summer 1966, p. 25. NS.
B234 "What Do the Birds Think?" In "North of Summer: Arctic Poems and Prose." Beaver, Summer 1966, p. 27. NS; SP; BA (revised).
B235 "St Francis in Ameliasburg." Intercourse, No. 3 (Midsummer 1966), p. 3. WGW.
B236 "About Being a Member of Our Armed Forces." The Canadian Forum, July 1966, p. 80. Rpt. in The Hiram Poetry Review, No. 1 (Fall-Winter 1966), p. 29. Rpt. in Canadian Poetry Magazine, 30, No. 4 (Aug 1967), 68. WGW (revised); SP; PAP; BA.
B237 "Dominion Day." The Canadian Forum, July 1966, p. 80. WGW (revised).
B238 "Pedestrian in Trenton, Ont." Ole, No. 6 (July 1966), n. pag. Rpt. in Blewointment, Occupation Issue (1977-78), n. pag. HE (revised).
B239 "Sergeant Jackson." The Canadian Forum, July 1966, p. 80 Rpt. in Intercours, Oct. 1968, pp. 11-12. WGW; SP (revised).
B240 "William Lyon MacKenzie." The Canadian Forum, July 1966, p. 80 WGW (revised).
B241 "The Blur in Between." The Human Voice, 2, No. 3 (Aug. 1966), n. pag. BB.
B242 "Hazelton, B.C." The Human Voice, 2, No. 3, (Aug. 1966), n. pag. BB.
B243 "Autumn." The Tamarack Review, No. 41 (Autumn 1966), pp. 127-28. WGW; BA.
B244 "Boundaries." The Tamarack Review, No. 41 (Autumn 1966), pp. 134-35. WGW; SP (revised); BA.
B245 "Dark Landscape: Robin Lake." The Tamarack Review, No. 41 (Autumn 1966), pp. 128-30. Rpt. "Dark Landscape." In Ole, No. 8 (April 1967), n. pag. WGW (revised); LBB (revised); SP (revised); BA.
B246 "The Drunk Tank." The Tamarack Review, No. 41 (Autumn 1966), pp. 132-34. WGW; SP; PAP; BA.
B247 "My '48 Pontiac." The Tamarack Review, No. 41 (Autumn 1966), pp. 130-32. WGW; (revised); SP (revised), PAP; BA.
B248 "South." Delta, No. 26 (Oct 1966), pp. 13-15. NS.
B249 "Watching Trains." The Hiram Poetry Review, No. 1 (Fall-Winter 1966), pp. 27-28. Rpt. in Poetry Australia, 3, No. 16 (1967), 26-27. WGW; SP (revised); BA.
B250 "Arctic River." Evidence, No. 10 [1967?], pp. 70-71. NS (revised).
B251 "Canadian" Evidence, No. 10 [1967?], p. 73. WGW. (revised).
B252 "Hemingway's Villa in Cuba." Evidence, No. 10 [1967?], p. 80.
B253 "House Pride." Evidence, No. 10 [1967?], p. 72.
B254 "I Guess a Poem." Evidence, No. 10 [1967?], pp. 74-75. WGW (revised).
B255 "Innuit." Evidence, No. 10 [1967)], p. 68. Rpt. in The Small Pond, Winter 1968, p. 3. NS.
B256 "The Liars." Evidence, No. 10 [1967?], pp. 78-79.
B257 "Love Poem for My Wife." Evidence, No. 10 [1967?], pp. 75-76 WGW (revised), LBB (revised).
B258 "Tent Rings." Evidence, No. 10 [I967?], pp. 69-70. Rpt. in Arts/Canada, 28, No. 6 (Dec 1971-Jan 1972), 84 NS.
B259 "Return from Kikastan." Adam International Review, Nos 313-314-315 (1967), pp. 45-46. WGW.
B260 "Washday." Evidence, No. 10 [1967?], pp. 66-67. NS (revised); SP (revised).
B261 "U.E. Loyalist Graveyard at Saint John." Saturday Night, Jan. 1967, p. 46.
B262 "Over the Hills." Saturday Night, Feb. 1967, p. 23. WGW (revised); LBB (revised); SP (revised); PAP; BA.
B263 "Elegy for a Grandfather." Queen's Quarterly, 74, No. 1 (Spring 1967), 72-73. ER (revised); WGW (revised); OR (revised); BA (same as WGW).
B264 "Louisbourg Fortress." Queen's Quarterly, 74, No. 1 (Spring 1967) 74. WGW (revised).
B265 "Interruption." The Canadian Forum, June 1967, p. 54. Broadside. WGW (revised); SP (revised); PAP; BA.
B266 "Nothing Is Changed." Talon, 4, No. 3 (June 1967), 22.
B267 "The Road to Newfoundland." The Canadian Forum, June 1967, p. 54. WGW; SP (revised); BA.
B268 "My Grandfather's Country." The Canadian Forum, June 1967, p. 65. WGW (revised); SP (revised); PAP; BA (revised).
B269 "Ameliasburg Stew." Hiram Poetry Review, No. 3 (Fall-Winter 1967), pp. 24-27. WGW.
B270 "Arctic Rhododendrons." Canadian Literature, No. 31. (Winter 1967), p. 73. Rpt. in Hobi Ahi, May 1969, p. 2. NS (revised); SP (revised); PAP; BA.
B271 "Dream of Havana." Kayak, No. 16(1968), p. 55. Rpt. "Dream of Havana 1964." In Hiram Poetry Review, No. 3 (Fall-Winter 1967), pp. 24-27. WGW; SP (revised).
B272 "Attempt." Talon, 4, No. 4(Jan 1968), 21. WGW; BA.
B273 "On the Avenida Juarez." Talon, 4, No. 4 (Jan. 1968), 21. WGW.
B274 "Lament for the Dorsets." Northian, Feb. 1968, p. 36. Rpt. in Arts/Canada, 28, No. 6 (Dec 1971-Jan 1972), 30-31. WGW; SP (revised); PAP; BA.
B275 "Further Development Shalt Not." Quarry, 17, No. 3(Spring 1968), 12-13. WGW (revised); SP (revised); BA.
B276 "News Reports at Ameliasburg." Edge, No. 8 (Fall 1968), pp. 49-50. PA68 (revised); PA73; PAP (revised); BA.
B277 "Roblin Lake." Edge, No. 8 (Fall 1968), pp. 50-51.
B278 "The Jackhammer Syndrome." The Canadian Forum, Oct. 1968, p. 155. Rpt. in The Outsider, 2, Nos. 4-5 (Winter 1968-69), 140-41. QO; S&D (revised); BA (revised).
B279 "Married Man's Song." The Canadian Forum, Oct. 1968, p. 154. LBB (revised); SP (revised); BA.
B280 "Pandora at Roblin Lake." The Canadian Forum, Oct. 1968, p. 154.
B28l "Detail." Quarry, 17, No. 2 (Winter 1968), 3. WGW; BA.
B282 "From a Window." Quarry, 17, No. 2 (Winter 1968), 5-6.
B283 "House Guest." Quarry, 17, No. 2 (Winter 1968), 4-5. PS (revised); PA68 (revised); PA73; SP; PAP; BA.
B284 "The New Romans." Canadian Dimension, 5, No. 7 (Dec 1968-Jan 1969), 14.
B285 "All of Us." The Tamarack Review, No. 52 (1969), pp. 41-43. QO.
B286 "At the Athenian Market." The Tamarack Review, No. 52 (1969), pp. 36-37. QO; S&D (revised); BA (revised).
B287 "Hellas Express." The Tamarack Review, No. 52 (1969), pp. 38-39. QO; S&D (revised).
B288 "Letters of Marque." The Tamarack Review, No. 52 (1969), pp. 39-41.
B289 "Poem." The Tamarack Review, No. 52 (1969), p. 35. QO; LBB; SP.
B290 "Johnston's on St Germain." Inner Space, Spring 1969, n. pag.
B291 "Girl." Hobi Ahi, May 1969, p. 1.
B292 "Listening." Hobi Ahi, May 1969, p. 2. NS.
B293 "The Time of Your Life." Canadian Literature, No. 41 (Summer 1969), pp. 62-65. S&D (revised). Includes information about the revision of this poem.
B294 "Nine Bean Rows on the Moon." Maclean's, Aug. 1969, p. 8. QO; LBB (revised).
B295 "Bored with Ruins." Quarry, 19, No. 1 (Fall 1969), 25-27. QO.
B296 "Ephesus." Quarry, 19, No. 1 (Fall 1969), 27-28. QO, S&D (revised).
B297 "The Pope's 1968 Encychcal." Quarry, 19, No. 1 (Fall 1969), 22-23. QO; S&D (revised).
B298 "St. Paul to the Corinthians." Quarry, 19, No. 1 (Fall 1969), 23. QO.
B299 "Street Scene." Quarry, 19, No. 1 (Fall 1969), 23-24. QO; S&D (revised).
B300 "Dog with Fleas." Wascana Review, 5, No. 1 (1970), 28-29.
B301 "Flight 17 Eastbound." Wascana Review, 5, No. 1 (1970), 29-30.
B302 "The Beavers of Renfrew." The Canadian Forum, April-May 1970, p. 7. S&D (revised); BA (revised).
B303 "Indian Rock Painting under the Cliffs of Lake Superior." Globe Magazine, 25 July 1970, pp. 10-11.
B304 "Poem Worth Fifty Bucks." The Canadian Forum, Oct. 1970, p. 248.
B305 "Floating Down the North Saskatchewan River." Black Moss, No. 5 (197l), n. pag.
B306 "The Peaceable Kingdom." The Canadian Forum, Jan. 1971, p. 358. S&D.
B307 "FLQ Kidnapping." The Tamarack Review, No. 56 (First Quarter 197l), p. 32. S&D.
B308 "A Graceful Little Verse." The Tamarack Review, No. 56 (First Quarter 1971), p. 30. S&D (revised), BA.
B309 "Ten Thousand Bromos." The Tamarack Review, No. 56 (First Quarter 197l), p. 31.
B310 "This Is How." The Tamarack Review, No. 56 (First Quarter 1971), p. 33.
B311 "Tourist Itinerary." The Tamarack Review, No. 56 (First Quarter 1971), p. 34. S&D (revised).
B312 "Along the Ionian Coast." Blackfish, No. 1 (Spring 1971), pp. 38-40. With excerpts from a letter describing the location.
B313 "Literary Feuds in Montreal." Saturday Night, July 1971, p. 33. S&D (revised).
B314 "Atomic Museum."Saturday Night, Aug 1971, pp. 21-22. HP, S&D (revised).
B315 "Buddhist Bell." Saturday Night, Aug 1971, p. 18 HP; S&D (revised); BA.
B316 "In Peace Memorial Park." Saturday Night, Aug. 1971, pp. 20-21. HP; S&D (revised).
B317 "One Thousand Cranes." Saturday Night, Aug 1971, p. 20. HP; S&D.
B318 "Survivors." Saturday Night, Aug. 1971, pp. 18-19. HP; S&D.
B319 "Whose Mother?" Saturday Night, Aug. 1971, pp. 19-20 HP; S&D.
B320 "Picture Layout in Life Magazine (May 8, 1970)," Saturday Night, Sept. 1971, p. 10. S&D.
B321 "Hands." Books in Canada, Nov. 1971, p. 24. S&D.
B322 "Arctic Romance." Arts/Canada, 28, No. 6 (Dec. 1971-Jan 1972), 68 S&D.
B323 "Observing Persons." Chatelaine, Jan. 1972, p. 48. S&D (revised).
B324 "A Charm." The Canadian Forum, Jan-Feb 1972, p. 25.
B325 "8.50 a.m." The Canadian Forum, Jan -Feb 1972, p. 25. S&D (revised).
B326 "For Her in Sunlight." The Canadian Forum, Jan.-Feb. 1972, p. 25. S&D (revised).
B327 "Power Failure in Disneyland." The Canadian Forum, Jan.-Feb. 1972, p. 23 S&D (revised); BA.
B328 "Remembering Hiroshima." The Canadian Forum, Jan-Feb 1972, p. 24. HP; S&D {revised); BA.
B329 "Vera Cruz Hotel." The Canadian Forum, Jan-Feb 1972, p. 22.
B330 "R.C.M.P. Post" Saturday Night, May 1972, p. 45. S&D; BA
B331 "The Scream." Unmuzzled. Ox, 1, No. 3 (Summer 1972), 51-52. PA73.
B332 "Egotism." Waves, 1, No. 2 (Autumn 1972), 11.
B333 "On the Bearpaw Sea." Waves 1, No. 2 (Autumn 1972), 22. BPS.
B334 "Iguana." The Canadian Forum, Sept. 1972, p. 15. S&D(revised).
B335 "'Old Man Mad about Painting.'" The Canadian Forum, Sept 1972, p. 19. Rpt. in New:, Nos. 22-23 (Fall-Winter 1973-74), p. 5. S&D (revised); BA.
B336 "Portrait of Herman and. . . ." The Canadian Forum, Oct.-Nov. 1972, pp. 16-17. S&D (revised).
B337 "Interview." Queen's Quarterly, 79 (Winter 1972), 470-71. PA73.
B338 "On Being a Love-Object." Queen's Quarterly, 79 (Winter 1972), 471-72. Rpt. in Mag-5 (1973), pp. 25-26. S&D.
B339 "Beat Joe McLeod Off Triangle Island." Blackfish, Nos. 4 and 5 (Winter-Spring 1972-73), n . pag. S&D (revised).
B340 "You As Me and I As Her." Mag-5 (1973), p. 26.
B341 "Some Mountains near Banff." Saturday Night, June 1973, p. 46 S&D (revised).
B342 "Chronos at Quintana Roo." Ariel, 4, No. 3 (July 1973), 40-4l. S&D; BA.
B343 "Lampman in Heat." Ariel, 4, No. 3 (July 1973), 42. S&D.
B344 "The Listening Child (Jacques & Susanne Lanctot in Cuba)." Saturday Night, Aug. 1973, p. 5. S&D.
B345 "Melodrama." Queen's Quarterly, 80, No. 2, (Autumn 1973), 408-09. Rpt. in New:, Nos. 22-23 (Fall-Winter 1973-74), pp. 11-12. S&D.
B346 "Siswe Bansi is Dead." Queen's Quarterly, 80, No. 3 (Autumn 1973), 405-08. S&D.
B347 "Dead March for Sergeant MacLeod." Saturday Night, Sept. 1973, p. 43. S&D.
B348 "Depression in Namu, B.C." New:, Nos. 22-23 (Fall-Winter 1973-74), p. 10. S&D; BA.
B349 "Flat Tire in the Desert." New:, Nos. 22-23 (Fall-Winter 1973-74), pp. 6-7. S&D.
B350 "For Her in Sunlight." New:, Nos. 22-23 (Fall-Winter 1973-74), pp. 12-13. S&D.
B351 "Hallucinations of a Tourist." New:, Nos. 22-23 (Fall-Winter 1973-74), p. 7. QO; S&D.
B352 "Temporizing in the Eternal City." New:, Nos. 22-23 (Fall-Winter 1973-74), pp. 8-10. S&D; BA (revised).
B353 "Uncertainties." Waves, 2, No. 3 (1974), 11. Rpt. in CrossCountry, Nos. 8-9 (1977), pp. 42-43. S&D (revised); SatD; AMD; BA.
B354 "Scott Hutcheson's Boat." Jewish Di'al-og (Hanukah 1974), p. 17. PA73. (revised).
B355 "Snapshot from Baffin Island." Jewish Di'al-og (Hanukah 1974), p. 47. SatD (revised).
B356 "Watergate at Floodtide." Jewish Di'al-og (Hanukah 1974), p. 52.
B357 "Murder of D'Arcy McGee." Queen's Quarterly, 82, No. 1 (Spring 1975), 74-75. SatD (revised).
B358 "Night Summer." Queen's Quarterly, 82, No. 1 (Spring 1975), 76. SatD.
B359 "Stopping Here." Canadian Literature, No. 64 (Spring 1975), p. 74. SatD. (revised).
B360 "Excess of Having." The Allegheny Star Route, March 1975, n. pag. S&D; BA.
B361 "Rodeo." Saturday Night, June 1975, p. 12. SatD; BA.
B362 "Kerameikos Cemetery." Canadian Literature, No. 63 (Winter 1975), p. 51. SatD.
B363 "Trees at the Arctic Circle." The Canadian Log House, No. 2 (Spring 1976), p. 71. NS; SP; PAP; BA.
B364 "'I Am Searching for You.'" The Canadian Forum, April 1976, p. 33. SatD (revised).
B365 "Artifact." The Canadian Forum, April 1976, p. 32. SatD (revised).
B366 "Imagine the Andes." The Canadian Forum, April 1976, p. 34. SatD (revised).
B367 "Plaza de la Inquisicion." The Canadian Forum, April 1976, p. 34.
B368 "Transvestite." The Canadian Forum, April 1976, p. 34. SatD (revised).
B369 "Turkish Delight." The Canadian Forum, April 1976, p. 33. SatD (revised).
B370 "Ulysses Alone." The Canadian Forum, April 1976, p. 34.
B371 "Alive or Not." Saturday Night, May 1976, p. 81. SatD; BA.
B372 "Homage to Ree-shard." The Canadian Forum, Dec.-Jan 1976-77, p. 27. SatD (revised).
B373 "Deprivations." The Malahat Review, No. 41 (Jan. 1977), pp. 100-01. SatD; BA.
B374 "Postscript to E. B. B." Waves, 5, Nos. 2-3 (Sprig 1977), 75-76. HE (revised).
B375 "Fiddleheads." Montreal Poems, No. 3 (April 1977), pp. 5-6.
B376 "A Handful of Earth: To Rene Levesque." The Canadian Forum, April 1977, p. 27. Rpt. in The Globe and Mail, 26 Nov. 1977, p. 10. HE; BA (revised).
B377 "Llama." Montreal Poems, No. 3 (April 1977), pp. 3-5.
B378 "Ave Imperator." Canadian Literature, No. 73 (Summer 1977), p. 86. HE (revised).
B379 "No Second Spring." The Canadian Forum, Oct. 1977, p. 40. NSS (revised).
B380 "On the Altiplano." Queen's Quarterly, 84, No. 2 (Summer 1977), 229-30. HE.
B381 "Running." Queen's Quarterly, 84, No. 2 (Summer 1977), 228-29. HE (revised).
B382 "Starlings." Queen's Quarterly, 84, No. 2 (Summer 1977), 227-28. HE; BA.
B383 "On Realizing He Has Written Some Bad Poems." Saturday Night, Nov. 1977, p. 14. BA.
B384 "Bankruptcy Proceedings." Blewointment, Occupation Issue (1977-78), n. pag. HE.
B385 "Encounter in the Lobby." Blewointment, Occupation Issue (1977-78), n. pag. HE.
B386 "Funeral." Blewointment, Occupation Issue (1977-78), n. pag. HE.
B387 "I Guessa Kinda Love Poem." Blewointment, Occupation Issue (1977-78), n. pag.
B388 "President Nixon in Cambodia." Blewointment, Occupation Issue (1977-78), n. pag.
B389 "Doggerel of the Little Dog-Soul." Mountain, No. 3, n.d., n. pag. Poem no. 96.
B390 "Warning." Mountain, No. 3, n.d., n. pag. Poem no. 119.
B391 "A. Reigo." Canadian Literature, No. 79 (Winter 1978), pp. 127-31.
B392 "Writer-in-Rez." In Aurora: New Canadian Writing 1978. Ed. Morris Wolfe. Toronto: Doubleday, 1978, pp. 53-56.
B393 "Angus Unlimited." Queen's Quarterly, 85, No. 3 (Autumn 1978), 454-55.
B394 "Obit for Angus." Queen's Quarterly, 85, No. 3 (Autumn 1978), 453.
B395 "Mexico Four Poems." Queen's Quarterly, 86, No. 3. (Autumn 1979), 420-24.
B396 "Spinning: For Colleen Thibaudeau." Brick: A Journal of Reviews, No. 7 (Fall 1979), back cover.
B397 "Ballad of the Arctic." Beaver (Winter 1979), p. 52.
B398 "There Is a Strength. . . ." The Canadian Forum, April 1980, pp. 46-47.
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B399 "At Roblin Lake," "On the Decipherment of Linear B." In Recent Canadian Verse. Ed Milton Wilson. Kingston: Queen's Quarterly Publication, 1959, pp. 24-26.
B400 "Courtier's Soliloquy," "Dudek's Crazy Theory Refuted(Or Proven Maybe)," "Eli Mandel's Sunday Morning Castle," "Mind Process Re a Faucet," "Sires and Opposites." In Poetry 62. Ed. Eli Mandel and Jean-Guy Pilon. Toronto: Ryerson, 1961, pp. 16-27.
B401 "Dead Seal," "Evergreen Cemetery," "What Do the Birds Think?", "Wilderness Gothic," "The Winemaker's Beat-Etude." In Modern Canadian Verse. Ed. A.J.M. Smith. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1967, pp. 228-36.
B402 "Arctic Rhododendrons," "The Beavers of Renfrew," "The Cariboo Horses," "Detail," "Eskimo Graveyard," "Interruption," "Lament for the Dorsets," "The Runners," "Song of the Impermanent Husband," "Transient." In 15 Canadian Poets. Ed. Gary Geddes and Phyllis Bruce. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1970, pp. 28-42.
B403 "The Cariboo Horses," "Inuit," "Lament for the Dorsets," "Mountain Lions in Stanley Park," "Transient," "Trees at the Arctic Circle," "Wilderness Gothic." In Five Modern Canadian Poets. Ed. Eli Mandel. Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970, pp. 39-53.
B404 "After the Rats," "Beothuk Indian Skeleton," "The Country North of Belleville," "Detail," "Elegy for a Grandfather," "Gilgamesh and Friend," "Home-Made Beer," "Innuit," "Interruption," "Lament for the Dorsets," "The Listeners," "Mice in the House," "Mountain Lions in Stanley Park," "Necropsy of Love," "On the Decipherment of Linear B," "Remains of an Indian Village," "To an Attempted Suicide," "Trees at the Arctic Circle," "Wilderness Gothic." In Poets of Contemporary Canada, 1960-70. Ed. Eli Mandel. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1972, pp. 1-22.
B405 "The Cariboo Horses," "The Country North of Belleville," "Hockey Players," "Innuit," "Lament for the Dorsets," "Mind Process Re a Faucet," "Wilderness Gothic." In The Evolution of Canadian Literature in English 1945-1970. Ed. Paul Denham. Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973, pp. 110-2l.
B406 "Dead Seal," "Girl." In The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry. Ed. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair. New York: Norton, 1973, pp. 959-62.
B407 "The Cariboo Horses," "The Country North of Belleville," "Lament for the Dorsets," "Wilderness Gothic." In The Oxford Anthology of Canadian Literature. Ed. Robert Weaver and William Toye. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1973, pp. 402-08.
B408 "Arctic Rhododendrons," "The Cariboo Horses," "Country Snowplow," "Elegy for a Grandfather," "Elegy for a Grandfather" (revised), "Innuit," "Lament for the Dorsets," "Wilderness Gothic." In Canadian Anthology. Ed Carl F. Klinck and Reginald E Watters. 3rd ed. Toronto: Gage, 1974, pp. 457-65.
B409 "Arctic Rhododendrons," "The Cariboo Horses," "The Country North of Belleville," "Depression in Namu, B.C.," "Percy Lawson," "Poem," "Poem for One of the Annettes," "Roblin's Mills (2)," "Tourist Itinerary." In Canadian Poetry: The Modern Era. Ed. John Newlove. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, pp. 200-13.
B410 "Borderlands," "The Cariboo Horses," "The Country North of Belleville," "Elegy for a Grandfather," "Freydis Eriksdottir in Greenland," "Inside the Mill," "Necropsy of Love," "Robin's Mills," "Tourist Itinerary," "Trees at the Arctic Circle," "Wilderness Gothic." In Literature in Canada. Ed. Douglas Daymond and Leslie Monkman. Vol. II. Toronto: Gage, 1978, pp. 361-74.
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B411 "The Undertaker" The Canadian Forum, Oct. 1963, pp. 156-59.
B412 "My Friend Julio." The Tamarack Review, No. 33 (Autumn 1964), pp. 40-48.
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B413 "Moccasins to Oxfords: Toronto." Habitat, 10, Nos. 3-6, n.d., pp. 77-81.
B414 "Dormez-vous? A Memoir of Malcolm Lowry." Canada Month, Sept. 1962, pp. 24-26.
B415 "The Iron Road." Canada Month, July 1963, pp. 23-24. NOC (revised).
B416 "An Old Man's Memories of Indian Days." Canada Month, Sept. 1963, p. II.
B417 "Leonard Cohen: A Personal Look." Canadian Literature, No. 23 (Winter 1965), pp. 7-16.
B418 "Canadian Poetry in English Since 1867." Journal of Commonwealth Literature, No. 3 (July 1967), pp. 19-35.
B419 "Purdy at 25." Intercourse, No. 9 (Oct 1968), pp. 9-11.
B420 "Canfor's Lit. Section: Of Yesterday and the Day Before." The Canadian Forum, April-May 1970, pp. 47-48.
B421 "Why I Won't Let a US Branch Plant Publish My Poetry." Maclean's, Jan. 1971, p. 14.
B422 "Al Purdy's Canada." Maclean's, May 1971, pp. 14-15. NOC (revised--"The Cartography of Myself").
B423 "Levesque: The Executioner of Confederation?" Maclean's, Oct 1971, pp. 28-29, 83. NOC (revised--"Bon Jour).
B424 "A Feast of Provinces." Maclean's, April 1972, pp. 48-55. NOC (revised--"Her Gates Both East and West").
B425 "Le Canada en quelques grands bonds." Maclean's (French version), avril 1972, pp. 14-15, 18-20.
B426 "Verse Is Blossoming along with Nationalism across the Country." The Toronto Star, 25 Aug. 1973, Sec. H, p. 6.
B427 "Lowry: A Memoir." Books in Canada, Jan.-Feb. 1974, pp. 3-4.
B428 "The Agony of South Africa." Maclean's, April 1974, pp. 34-35, 83-84, 86.
B429 "Caught in the Net." Maclean's, May 1974, pp. 26-27, 85, 87. NOC (revised--"Lights on the Sea: Portraits of BC Fishermen").
B430 "A Time before the Season of Man." Weekend Magazine, 11 May 1974, pp. 8-9.
B431 "How the Salvation of Canadian Literature May Rest on the Good Deed of Three Toronto Prostitutes: Jim Foley's Unlikely Path to the Classroom." Weekend Magazine, 15 June 1974, pp. 7-9. NOC (revised--"Norma, Eunice, and Judy").
B432 "Let He Who Is without Gin Cast the First Stone." Weekend Magazine, 17 Aug 1974, pp. 14-15.
B433 "The Rime of the Fledgling Mariner: Retracing the Route of Canada's Early Immigrants Along the St Lawrence." Weekend Magazine, 10 Aug. 1974, pp. 3-9. NOC (revised--"Streetlights on the St Lawrence").
B434 "Escaping the Quiet Desperation." Weekend Magazine, 23 Nov. 1974, pp. 24-28.
B435 "The Man Who Killed David." Weekend Magazine, 14 Dec. 1974, pp. 16-17.
B436 "In the Shoes of the Fisherman." Weekend Magazine, 28 Dec. 1974, pp. 16-21. NOC (revised--"Cougar Hunter").
B437 "When Your Job Is Child's Play It's Hard to Know How to Behave at Home." Weekend Magazine, 22 Feb. 1975, pp. 2-5. NOC (revised--"Seven League Skates: A Talk with Brian Glennie").
B438 "Boozy Saddles." Maclean's, May 1975, pp. 78-82.
B439 "King Tyee and the Salmon Princess." Weekend Magazine, 3 May 1975, pp. 8-10.
B440 "The Ego Has It Both Ways: Poets in Montreal." Northern Journey, Nos. 7-8 (1976), pp. 127-45. NOC ("Poets in Montreal").
B441 "Al Purdy at the Gardens." In Zap: Hockey. Ed. Barbara Bondar and Robert Reed. Toronto: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1976, pp. 3-7.
B442 "Unstrange Love. How a Bibliophile Learned to Beat Inflation by Collecting the Atomic Bomb." Books in Canada, May 1976, pp. 6-8.
B443 "An Unburnished One-Tenth of One Per Cent of an Event." The Malahat Review, No. 41 (Jan 1977), pp. 61-64.
B444 "A Village out of Time." The Canadian, 12 Feb. 1977, pp 8-10, 13. NOC (revised--"Harbour Deep").
B445 "The Death of a Friend." Canadian Literature, No. 72 (Spring 1977), pp. 94-95.
B446 "Swingin' In the Ritz." Montreal Star, 22 Oct. 1977, p. D4.
B447 "The Grassland Question: Who Shall Inherit the Earth -- People or Prairie Dogs?" The Canadian, 19 Nov. 1977, pp. 12-16. NOC (revised--"Dryland Country").
B448 "That Gift Can of Canadian Beef Will Be 25 Pesos, Senor." London Free Press, 3 March 1978, p. A2.
B449 "Padraig 0 Broin." Poetry Toronto, No. 51 (March 1980), n. pag.
B450 "Metre Readings." Books in Canada, June-July 1980, pp. 6-7.
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B528 Letter from Al Purdy. Tish, No. 4 (14 Dec. 1961), p. 2. A critical commentary on the first issue of Tish. He prefers Frank Davey's poems, because Davey, like Purdy, deals with the specific in order to get to the general.
B529 Letter from Al Purdy. Tish, No. 5 (13 Jan 1962), p. 2. Purdy disagrees with George Bowering's review of Against a League of Liars, by Milton Acorn.
B530 "Letter to Editor from Al Purdy." The Canadian Forum, July 1966, p. 86. Purdy replies to criticisms by Ralph Gustafson, Victor Coleman, and John Mills of his review of Lowry's Selected Letters. He claims not to have intended criticism of Gustafson, and defends his assertion that Mills, as an academic, has little time for writing.
B531 "Written to Charles Bukowski from Al Purdy." Open Skull, No. 1 (1967), pp. 12-21. Purdy writes to Bukowskl in hip sixties style (crowding as many swear words in as possible), about drinking, writing, reviewing, etc.
B532 Letter from Al Purdy. The Tamarack Review, No. 45 (Spring 1967), p. 100 A criticism of the review of Earle Birney's Selected Poems by Hayden Carruth in Number forty-two.
B533 Letter from Al Purdy to the Editor. Books in Canada, Nov. 1979, p. 21.
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A23 "The Line of Ascent: A Tribute to the British Stock." N.p.: n.p., n.d. Broadside. "Written on the occasion of the visit of a delegation of the Publisher's Branch of the Board of Trade [Toronto] to Britain, October 1945."
A24 "A Victory Message and Pledge of Friendship from the Canadian People to the USSR." N.p.: n.p. [1945?]. Broadside.
A25 "Snowfall on a Battlefield." N.p.: n.p., n.d. Broadside.
A26 "The Deed." N.p.: n.p., n.d. Broadside.
A27 "In Memoriam." N.p.: n.p., n.d. Broadside.
A28 "Newfoundland Calling." London: Macmillan, 1949. Broadside.
A29 "A Club's Inventory of Hades." N.p.: n.p. [1958?]. Broadside. Privately printed on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Toronto Arts and Letters Club.
A30 "Sea-Gulls." N.p.: n.p. [1959?] Broadside.
A31 "Inventory of Hades." N.p. [1959]. Broadside. Illustrated by Frank Newfeld.
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A32 E.J. Pratt Library
Victoria University
Toronto, Ontario
Pratt Manuscript Collection:
This major collection, of the manuscripts of E.J. Pratt, consists of notebooks, working papers, rough drafts of poems, typescripts, lecture notes, addresses, essays, and correspondence. Photographs of and materials relating to Pratt are also included. The following outline of the arrangement of the collection lists only the most prominent items in the boxes; the Inventory of the E. J. Pratt Collection of Manuscripts provides a complete listing.
The items in Boxes 1-6 include notebooks, typescripts, printer's proofs.
Box 1: Rachel. A Sea Story of Newfoundland in Verse-typescripts. Newfoundland Verse -- typescript. Titans -- draft, notes, and an address. The Witches' Brew - drafts. The Iron Door." An Ode -- draft and commentary.
Box 2: The Roosevelt and the Antinoe -- partial draft, typescripts, and an address. Many Moods -- draft poems.
Box 3: The Titanic -- drafts, notes, and an address. The Fable of the Goats -- drafts and notes. Brebeuf- draft, notes, typescript.
Box 4: Dunkirk -- drafts, page proofs, and introductory material. Still Life -- draft poems and typescripts. Collected Poems -- proof sheets.
Box 5: They Are Returning -- draft and notes. Behind the Log -- draft, typescripts, proof sheets, and an address.
Box 6: Towards the Last Spike -- drafts, notes, typescripts, and an address.
Box 7: Holograph and typescript drafts of individual poems, some of which have been collected in earlier editions as well as those unpublished in book form or those written after Collected Poems, second edition, 1958. Including: "Cycles," "Bereft," "The Empty Room," "The Deed," "The Human Doctor," "Carlo," "Blind from Singapore," "The Shell," "The Osprey," "Sea-Variations," and "Newfoundland Calling." Holograph and typescript comments on individual poems. Including: "Erosion," "The Fog," and "The Way of Cape Race."
Box 8: Photocopy of typescript of E. J. Pratt's M. A. thesis, University of Toronto, 1912: "The Demonology of the New Testament [Synoptics] in its relation to earlier developments, and to the mind of Christ." Typescripts of unpublished drama Clay.
Box 9: Notes and drafts for academic lectures on English literature; public lectures, formal and informal speeches, toasts, and introductions.
Box 10: Notes and drafts for lectures on Shakespeare, courses on American Literature, radio broadcasts, essays, and book reviews.
Box 11: Correspondence
Box 12: Material on Pratt: Scrapbook on E. J. Pratt 1923-64, compiled by Mrs. Viola Pratt consisting of press cuttings of reviews and articles on Pratt. Typescripts of interviews, talks, and tributes to E. J. Pratt: programmes, announcements, cards, brochures of dinners, receptions, and autographic sessions. Typescript of The Silent Ancestors: the Forebears of E. J. Pratt, by Mildred Claire Pratt. Related correspondence. Audio recordings and tapes. Formal studio portraits; informal photographs and illustrations. Woodcuts by Claire Pratt. Edgar Collection: Correspondence, E. J. Pratt to Pelham Edgar.
A33 Archives Queen's University Kingston, Ontario. Manuscripts of individual poems, notes, other prose, typescripts; correspondence
A34 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario. W. A. Deacon Papers: Correspondence between W. A. Deacon and E. J. Pratt. Birney Collection: Correspondence between Earle Birney and E. J. Pratt. A. J. M. Smith Papers: Correspondence, E. J. Pratt to A. J. M. Smith.
A35 University of Saskatchewan Library Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Gustafson Collection: Correspondence between Ralph Gustafson and E. J. Pratt.
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A22 Studies in Pauline Eschatology, and Its Background. Diss. Toronto 1917. Toronto: William Briggs, 1917. 203 pp.
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A1 Rachel: A Sea Story of Newfoundland In Verse. New York: Privately printed, 1917. 15 pp.
A2 Newfoundland Verse. Toronto: Ryerson, 1923. 140 pp. Decorations by Fredk. H. Varley.
A3 The Witches' Brew. London: Selwyn and Blount, 1925. 32 pp. Toronto: Macmillan, 1926. 31 pp. Decorations by John Austen.
A4 Titans. London: Macmillan, 1926. 67 pp.
A5 The Iron Door: An Ode. Toronto: Macmillan, 1927. 30 pp. Decorations by Thoreau Macdonald. First limited edition of 1000 copies, of which 100 are numbered and signed by the author.
A6 The Roosevelt and the Antinoe. New York: Macmillan, 1930. 44 pp. First limited edition of 100 copies, numbered and signed by the author.
A7 Verses of the Sea. Introd. Charles G. D. Roberts. St. Martin's Classics. Toronto: Macmillan, 1930 xv, 97 pp. Notes by the author.
A8 Many Moods. Toronto: Macmillan, 1932. vi, 53 pp.
A9 The Titanic. Toronto: Macmillan, 1935. 42 pp.
A10 The Fable of the Goats and Other Poems. Toronto: Macmillan, 1937. 47 pp. Governor-General's Award.
A11 Brebeuf and His Brethren. Toronto: Macmillan, 1940. 65 pp. Toronto: Macmillan, 1940. 66 pp. Second limited edition, slightly revised, with new epilogue. Limited to 500 copies. Brebeuf and His Brethren: The North American Martyrs. Detroit: Basilian, 1942. 66 pp. Toronto: Macmillan, 1966. 80 pp. Governor-General's Award.
A12 Dunkirk. Toronto: Macmillan, 194l. 13 pp. First limited edition of 300 copies. Printed especially for Messrs. Johnston, Everson, and Charlesworth, Christmas, 1941. With Christmas greetings from J. G. Johnston, R. G. Everson, and J. L. Charlesworth.
A13 Still Life and Other Verse. Toronto: Macmillan, 1943. 40 pp.
A14 Collected Poems. Toronto: Macmillan, 1944. 314 pp. Introd. William Rose Benet. New York: Knopf, 1945. xv, 269 pp.
A15 They Are Returning. Toronto: Macmillan, 1945. 15 pp.
A16 Behind the Log. Toronto: Macmillan, 1947. xiv, 47 pp. Drawings by Grant Macdonald.
A17 Ten Selected Poems. St. Martin's Classics. Toronto: Macmillan, 1947. ix, 149 pp. With notes by the author.
A18 Towards the Last Spike. A Verse Panorama of the Struggle to Build the First Canadian Transcontinental from the Time of the Proposed Terms of Union with British Columbia (1870) to the Hammering of the Last Spike in the Eagle Pass (1885). Toronto: Macmillan, 1952. 53 pp. Governor-General's Award.
A19 The Collected Poems of E. J. Pratt. Ed. and introd. Northrop Frye. 2nd ed. Toronto: Macmillan, 1958. xxviii, 395 pp.
A20 Here the Tides Flow. Introd. D. G. Pratt. Toronto: Macmillan, 1962. xiv, 169 pp. With notes and questions by D. G. Pitt.
A21 Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt. Ed. and introd. Peter Buitenhuis. Toronto: Macmillan, 1968. xxx, 221 pp. Bibliography and notes by Peter Buitenhuis.
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B136 "A Western Experience." Acta Victoriana, 34, No. 1 (Oct 1910), 3-8.
B137 "The Scientific Character of Psychology." Acta Victoriana, 37, No. 6 (March 1913), 300-04.
B138 "The University and Social Service." The Rebel, 2, No. 6 (March 1918), 266-67. Letter
B139 "Introduction." The Last Home Letter of Hedley Goodyear." Acta Victoriana, 43, No. 1 (Oct 1918), 60. Rpt. from Free Press [St. John's].
B140 "Mental Measurements as Applied to a Toronto School." Public Health Journal, No. 12 (1921), pp. 148-55.
B141 "The Application of the Binet-Simon Tests (Stanford Revision) to a Toronto Public School." Canadian Journal of Mental Hygiene, 3, No. 1 (April 1921), 95-116.
B142 Rev. of Memories in Melody, by A. C. Nash. The Canadian Forum, June 1921, p. 280.
B143 Rev. of Poems, by A. L. Phelps. The Canadian Forum, June 1921, p. 280.
B144 "Golfomania." Acta Victoriana, 49, No. 2 (Nov 1924) 9-13.
B145 Rev. of A Florentine Celebrity `Life of Benevenuto Cellini' by Himself. Saturday Night, Sec. Literary, 12 March 1927, p. 3.
B146 "Introduction." In Caribou Land, by P. Florence Miller. Toronto: Ryerson, 1929, p. 5.
B147 "Introduction." Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale, by Herman Melville. Toronto: Macmillan, 1929, pp. v-xvi.
B148 Rev. of Whiteoaks of Jalna, by Mazo de la Roche. Acta Victoriana, 54, No. 2 (Nov 1929), 21.
B149 "Foreword." In Our Great Ones: Twelve Caricatures Cut in Linoleum, by Jack McLaren. Toronto: Ryerson, 1932, n. pag.
B150 "Preface" and "Notes" by Adrian Macdonald [and E.J. Pratt]. In A Pedlar's Pack: Narrative Poetry for Secondary Schools. Ed. Adrian Macdonald [and E.J. Pratt]. St. Martin's Classics. Toronto: Macmillan, 1932, pp. v-viii, 211-40.
B151 "Canadian Writers of the Past: Marjorie Pickthall." The Canadian Forum, June 1933, pp. 334-35.
B152 "Literature: The Decay of Romance." Canadian Comment, 2, No. 7 (July 1933), 24-25.
B153 "Literature: Changing Standpoints." Canadian Comment, 2, No. 8 (Aug. 1933), 25.
B154 "Literature: Lord Macaulay." Canadian Comment, 2, No. 9 (Sept 1933), 29.
B155 "Literature: The Nature of Poetry." Canadian Comment, 2, No. 10 (Oct 1933), 26.
B156 "Literature: Francis Bacon." Canadian Comment, 2, No. 11 (Nov. 1933), 30.
B157 "Literature: English Meat and Irish Gravy." Canadian Comment, 2, No. 12 (Dec 1933), 8.
B158 "Literature: Twenty Years A-Growing." Rev. of Twenty Years A-Growing, by Maurice O'Sullivan. Canadian Comment, 3, No. 1 (Jan 1934), 31.
B159 "Literature: New Notes in Canadian Poetry." Canadian Comment, 3, No. 2 (Feb 1934), 26-27.
B160 "Literature: The Great Diary." Canadian Comment, 3, No. 3 (March 1934), 26.
B161 "Literature: With Hook and Worm." Canadian Comment, 3, No. 4 (April 1934), 13.
B162 "Literature: The Dickens Vogue." Canadian Comment, 3, No. 5 (May 1934), 23.
B163 "Literature" Simplicity in Poetry." Canadian Comment, 3, No. 6 (June 1934), 22-23.
B164 "Literature: Charles Lamb." Canadian Comment, 3, No. 7 (July 1934), 28-29.
B165 "Literature: A Study in Poetic Development. I. The Earlier Yeats." Canadian Comment, 3, No. 8 (Aug 1934), 20.
B166 "Literature: A Study in Poetic Development. II. The Later Yeats." Canadian Comment, 3, No. 9 (Sept. 1934), 21.
B167 "Literature: The Drama of Ideas." Canadian Comment, 3, No. 10 (Oct 1934), 17.
B168 "Literature: The Comic Spirit." Canadian Comment, 3, No. 11 (Nov 1934), 17.
B169 "Literature: The Fourth Column." Canadian Comment, 3, No. 12 (Dec 1934), 21-22.
B170 Rev. of Halt and Parley, by G.H. Clarke. Canadian Comment, 4, No. 3 (March 1935), 27.
B171 "The Titanic: The Convergence of the Twain." Canadian Comment, 4, No. 10 (Oct 1935), 9-10.
B172 "Foreword." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 1, No. 1 (Jan. 1936), 5-7. Editorial.
B173 "Slang: Why and Why Not." Canadian Comment, 5, No. 3 (March 1936), 28-29.
B174 "Comment." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 1, No. 2 (April 1936), 5-6. Editorial.
B175 "Comment." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 1, No. 3 (July 1936), 5-6. Editorial.
B176 "Introduction and Notes." In Under the Greenwood Tree: Or, The Mellstock Quire: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School, by Thomas Hardy. St Martin's Classics. Toronto: Macmillan, 1937, pp. ix-xiii, 275-79.
B177 "Brighter Days Ahead." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 1, No. 4 (March 1937), 5-6. Editorial.
B178 "Entering the Second Year." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 2, No. 1 (June 1937), 5-6. Editorial.
B179 "Canadian Poetry Night." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 2, No. 3 (Dec 1937), 5. Editorial.
B180 "Foreword." In Down the Years, by Samuel Morgan-Powell. Toronto: Macmillan, 1938, pp. v-viii.
B181 "Bookman Profiles: Annie Charlotte Dalton." Canadian Bookman, 20 (April-May 1938), 11.
B182 "The Third Year." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 3, No. 1 (June 1938), 7-8. Editorial.
B183 "Canadian Poetry--Past and Present." University of Toronto Quarterly, 8 (Oct 1938), 1-10.
B184 Rev. of By Stubborn Stars and Other Poems, by Kenneth Leslie. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 3, No. 4 (April 1939), 44-45.
B185 Rev. of Cross Country, by Alan Creighton. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 4, No. 2 (Oct 1939), 45-46.
B186 Rev. of Fancy Free, by Carol Coates. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 4, No. 4 (May 1940), 47.
B187 Rev. of Postlude to an Era, by Verna Loveday Harden. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 5, No. 1 (Sept. 1940), 45-46.
B188 "Preface and Notes." In Heroic Tales in Verse. St. Martin's Classics. Toronto: Macmillan, 1941, pp. v-x, 207-17.
B189 "Canadian Poetry Night." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 5, No. 3 (April 1941) [5-6]. Editorial.
B190 Rev. of Poems, by Carol Cassidy. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 5, No. 3 (April 1941), 53-55.
B191 Rev. of The Flying Bull and Other Tales, by Watson Kirkconnell. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 5, No. 3(April 1941), 53-55.
B192 Rev. of Lords of the Air, by A. M. Stephen. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 5, No. 4 (Aug 1941), 43-45.
B193 Rev. of The King Who Loved Old Clothes, by Arthur Stringer. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 5, No. 4 (Aug. 1941), 43-45.
B194 Rev. of Victoria Poetry Chapbook, 1941-42. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 5, No. 4 (Aug. 1941), 43-45.
B195 Rev. of Contemporary Verse: A Canadian Quarterly. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 6, No. 1 (Dec. 1941), 46.
B196 "Special Editorial Notice." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 6, No. 1 (Dec. 1941), 11.
B197 Excerpt from a letter by E.J. Pratt. In Night Is Ended, Thoughts in Lyric, by Joseph S Wallace. Winnipeg: Contemporary Pub., 1942, p. 7.
B198 "Foreword." Photography, a Craft and Creed, by Sir Ellsworth Flavelle. Toronto: Ryerson, 1943, [2 pp.]
B199 Rev. of David and Other Poems, by Earle Birney. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 6, No. 4 (March 1943), 34-35.
B200 "Saint-Denys-Garneau's World of Spiritual Communion." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 6, No. 4 (March 1943), 5-6. Editorial comment to Guy Sylvestre's article on Saint-Denys-Garneau.
B201 Rev. of Tasting the Earth, by Mona Gould. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 7, No. 1 (Aug. 1943), 35-36.
B202 Source Material and Poetry (from an Address to the Poetry Group, Montreal Branch, C.A.A.) The Canadian Author & Bookman, 21, No. 1 (March 1945), 15.
B203 "A Greeting." Here and Now, 1, No 1 (Dec. 1947), 7.
B204 "Foreword." In Saint Ignace, Canadian Altar of Martyrdom, by William Sherwood Fox with the collaboration of Wilfrid Jury. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1949, pp. vii-viii.
B205 "Prologue, the Poem 'Newfoundland.'" In This is Newfoundland. Ed. Ewart Young. Toronto: Ryerson, 1949, pp. ix-xii.
B206 "Foreword." In Hidden Springs: A Narrative Poem of Old Upper Canada, and Other Poems, by Jenny O'Hara Pincock. Waterloo, Ont.: n.p, 1950, pp. vii-viii.
B207 "My First Book." Canadian Author & Bookman, 28 (Winter 1952-53), 5-7.
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B227 Brebeuf and His Brethren. Non-commercial CBC recording. P.A.T. 430926-1 and 480317-3 CMC397. With musical arrangement by Healy Willan.
B228 E. J. Pratt Reading His Own Poems. Harvard Vocarium Records P-1124-27. As originally recorded for the poetry room, Harvard College Library, 1949. Contents: v.1: "The Shark,' "Sea-Gulls," "The History of John Jones," Selections from "The Cachalot" v. 2: Selections from Brebeuf and His Brethren: His letter to the Priests in France. The Passion and Death of Brebeuf and Lalemant.
B229 Reminiscences of Newfoundland. Phonodisc. Non-commercial. Recorded at CBC T-9915 to T-9924. Delivered at St John's, Newfoundland, January 27, 1949.
B230 "E. J. Pratt Reading from His Collected Poems." Noncommercial. Audio tape reel-to-reel. Taped March 1956.
B231 "E. J. Pratt Delivering Lecture on King Lear." Non-commercial. Audio tape reel-to-reel. Recorded December 15, 1960.
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B208 "The Great Appeal and Final Triumph." Epilogue written for United Church of Canada, Pictorial Pageant held in Massey Hall, Toronto, 1928.
B209 "The Fly-Wheel Lost." In Open House. Ed. William Arthur Deacon and Wilfred Reeves. Ottawa: Graphic, 1931, pp. 246-55.
B210 "God of All Children of the Earth." Toronto: Woman's Missionary Society, The United Church of Canada, 1937. Part of a closing Ritual on inside back cover. Written especially for One Family, by Viola Whitney Pratt.
B211 "Memories of Newfoundland." The Book of Newfoundland, Vol. II. Ed. J. R. Smallwood. St. John's: Newfoundland Book Publishers, 1937, pp. 158-59. Rpt. in A Book of Canada. Ed. William Toye. London Collins, 1962, pp. 206-07.
B212 "Keep Us Free." Oscar Morawetz, composer. Toronto: Gordon V. Thompson, 1942, 14 pp. Sheet music. An anthem for mixed voices with piano or orchestral accompaniment. The words by E. J. Pratt.
B213 "Mother and Child." [1950]. Christmas greetings card with commercial illustration.
B214 "Hymns." Triumph of the Faith. A Pictorial Presentation, produced by Denzil G. Ridout. 1954.
B215 Magic in Everything. ("With Christmas and New Year greetings from The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, Toronto, in its fiftieth anniversary year.") Toronto: Macmillan, 1955, 6 pp. CP2; HTTF.
B216 "Magic in Everything." [1957]. Christmas greetings card with pictorial accompaniment by Claire Pratt.
B217 "Sea-Gulls." [1958]. Christmas greetings card wtth woodcut accompaniment by Claire Pratt.
B218 "Sea-Gulls." New York: M. Witmark, 1958, 8 pp. Sheet music. Words by E. J. Pratt. Music by Joseph Roff.
B219 An excerpt from "The Truant." Toronto: Oscar Ross, 1959, 4 pp. Edition of one thousand copies. "Prepared for the International Competition for Book Designers. . .Leipzig, 1959."
B220 Lines on the Occasion of Her Majesty's Visit to Canada, 1959. Toronto: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Information Services, Aug. 1959, 4 pp.
B221 "They Tell Us That the Ocean's Birth" [Sea-Shell]. [1960]. Christmas greetings card with aquatint etching [1954] entitled "Pearl" by Claire Pratt.
B222 "Mother and Child." [1961]. Christmas greetings card with wood engraving entitled "Peace" by Claire Pratt.
B223 "Snowflakes on a Battle-field." [1962] Christmas greetings card with woodcut by Claire Pratt.
B224 "Grant Us Lord Amidst the Carols." [carol] [1964]. Christmas greetings card with woodcut by Claire Pratt.
B225 "The Osprey" [1967]. Christmas greetings card with woodcut by Claire Pratt.
B226 "The Lost Cause." In Three Songs of Contemplation. Scarborough: Berandol Music, 1970, 5 pp. Sheet music. Words by E. J. Pratt. Music by Patricia Blomfield Holt.
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Rachel ................................... R
Newfoundland Verse ...................... NV
The Witches' Brew ....................... WB
Titans ................................... T
The Iron Door. An Ode ................... ID
The Roosevelt and the Antine .......... RATA
Verses of the Sea ......................VOTS
Many Moods ........................... .. MM
The Titanic ............................. TT
The Fable of the Goats and Other Poems..FOTG
Brebeuf and His Brethren .............. BAHB
Dunkirk ................................ . D
Stall Life and Other Verse ........... SLAOV
Collected Poems ......................... CP
Collected Poems, Second Edition......... CP2
They Are Returning ..................... TAR
Behind the Log ......................... BTL
Ten Selected Poems ..................... TSP
Towards the Last Spike ................ TTLS
Here the Tides Flow ................... HTTF
Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt ....... SPOEJP
B1 "A Poem on the May Examinations." Acta Victoriana, 32 (April 1909), 561-64.
B2 "The Wind of the West." Acta Victoriana, 39 (Oct 1914), 14.
B3 "The Sea." Acta Victoriana, 39 (Dec 1914), 126 Rpt. in The Rebel, 2, No. 3 (Dec 1917), 88.
B4 "Unseen Allies." Acta Victoriana, 39 (March 1915), 331.
B5 "By the Sea." Acta Victoriana, 40 (Oct 1915), 14.
B6 "The Sacrifice of Youth." Acta Victoriana, 40 (Dec. 1915), frontispiece.
B7 "Dead on the Field of Honour." Acta Victoriana, 40 (June 1916), 373.
B8 "The Seed Must Die. (To the British Dead)." Acta Victoriana, 41 (March 1917), 255. NV.
B9 "The Greater Sacrifice." Acta Victoriana, 41 (June 1917), 320-21.
B10 "For Valor." Acta Victoriana, 42 (Oct. 1917), 11-13.
B11 "The Great Mother." Acta Victoriana, 42 (Dec 1917), 135. NV; VOTS.
B12 "The Largess of 1917." Acta Victoriana, 42(Feb 1918), 248-49.
B13 "The Angler." The Rebel, 2, No. 6 (March 1918), 230.
B14 "The Dear Illusion." Acta Victoriana, 42 (March 1918), 312.
B15 "The Wooden Cross." Acta Vtctomana,42 (June 1918), 363-64.
B16 "October, 1918." Acta Victoriana, 43 (Oct. 1918), 19-2O.
B17 "Amerongen." Acta Victoriana, 43 (Jan 1919), 157.
B18 "The Dear Illusion." The Rebel, 3, No. 5 (March 1919), 218.
B19 "The Hidden Scar." Acta Victoriana, 43 (June 1919), 332. NV.
B20 "A Dialogue by a Stream." The Rebel, 4, No. 3 (Dec. 1919), 131.
B21 "In Memoriam." Acta Victoriana, War Supplement(Dec. 1919), p. 7. NV.
B22 "Blow! Winds, and Roar!" Acta Victoriana, 44 (Jan. 1920), 170.
B23 "On the Shore." The Rebel, 4, No. 6 (March 1920), 232. NV; VOTS; CP; CP2.
B24 "Carlo." The Canadian Forum, Nov. 1920, p. 55. NV; VOTS; CP2; HTTF; SPOEJP.
B25 "Anticipations." The Canadian Forum, June 1921, p. 271.
B26 "The Flood-Tide." The Canadian Forum, June 1921, p. 272. NV; VOTS; CP; CP2; HTTF.
B27 "In Absentia." The Canadian Forum, June 192l, pp. 271-72. NV; VOTS; CP; CP2.
B28 "The Pine Tree." The Canadian Forum, June 1921, p. 272. NV.
B29 "Sea Variations." Canadian Bookman, 2 (Jan 1922), 50-51. NV.
B30 "The Ice-Floes." The Canadian Forum, April 1922, pp. 591-93. NV; VOTS; CP; CP2; TSP; HTTF.
B31 "The Ground Swell." Acta Victoriana, 47 (Jan 1923), 15. NV; VOTS; CP; CP2; HTTF.
B32 "The History of John Jones." The Canadian Forum, Jan 1923, p. 110. NV; VOTS; CP; CP2.
B33 "In Lantern Light." The Canadian Forum, Jan. 1923, p. 111. NV; VOTS; CP; CP2; HTTF.
B34 "The Shark." The Canadian Forum, Jan. 1923, p. 111. NV; VOTS; CP; CP2; HTTF; SPOEJP.
B35 "A Student's Prayer at an Examination." The Canadian Forum, Jan 1923, p. 111.
B36 "Comrades." Canadian Magazine, 62 (April 1924), 381. Rpt. in The Atlantic Advocate, 52 (May 1962), 24. MM; CP; CP2.
B37 "The Frost Over-Night." Canadian Bookman, 6 (April 1924), 87.
B38 "The Lie." Canadian Bookman, 6 (April 1924), 88.
B39 "The Alternative." Canadian Bookman, 6 (June 1924), 135.
B40 "The Last Survivor." The Canadian Forum, June 1924, p. 274.
B41 "The Drag Irons." The Canadian Forum, July 1924, p. 301. MM; CP; CP2; HTTF; SPOEJP.
B42 "Tokens." The Canadian Forum, Sept. 1924, p. 365.
B43 "The Ritual." Canadian Magazine, 63 (Oct. 1924), 347. Rpt. in Acta Victoriana, 50 (Dec 1925), 52. VOTS; MM; CP; CP2; HTTF.
B44 "The Dear Illusion." Dalhousie Review, 4 (Jan. 1925), 437.
B45 "The Cachalot." The Canadian Forum, Nov. 1925, pp. 47-51. T; VOTS; CP; CP2; TSP; HTTF; SPOEJP.
B46 "Tatterhead." Acta Victoriana, 50 (Jan. 1926), 13-14. Rpt. in Queen's Quarterly, 34 (April 1927), 442. Rpt. in Acadie, 1, No 2 (15 April 1930), 13 MM; HTTF.
B47 "The Sea Cathedral." Acta Victoriana, 51 (Dec. 1926), 17. Rpt. in The Canadian Forum, May 1927, p. 237. Rpt. in Acadie, 1, No. 2 (1 May 1930), 2. VOTS; MM; CP; CP2; HTTF.
B48 "The Lee-Shore." The Canadian Forum, Oct. 1927, p. 406. VOTS; MM; CP; CP2; HTTF.
B49 "Cherries." Saturday Night, 8 Oct. 1927. MM; CP; CP2.
B50 "The Decision." London Mercury, 17 (Jan. 1928), 244. MM; CP; CP2.
B51 "Fair-Grounds, Columbus, Ohio." The Canadian Forum, June 1930, p. 314.
B52 "Blind." Acta Victoriana, 55 (Dec. 1930), 23. Rpt. in The Canadian Forum, May 1931, p. 301 MM; CP; CP2.
B53 "Sea-Gulls." Acta Victoriana, 55 (Dec. 1930), 23. Rpt. in London Mercury, 27 (Dec. 1932), 109. MM; CP; CP2; HTTF.
B54 Untitled. World Friends, 2, No. 4 (Dec. 1930), back cover. "That Night There Came to Bethlehem" (first line).
B55 "To Angelina an Old Nurse." The Canadian Forum, Jan 1931, p. 141. MM, CP; CP2; TSP.
B56 "Fugitive." Canadian Magazine, 75 (Feb 1931), 8. MM.
B57 "Old Age." Canadian Magazine, 75 (March 1931), 16. MM; CP; CP2.
B58 "Doors." The Canadian Forum, May 1931, p. 301. MM;HTTF.
B59 "For Better or Worse." The Canadian Forum, May 1931, p. 301.
B60 "At a Sanitarium." The Canadian Forum, July 1931, p. 326.
B61 "Erosion." The Canadian Forum, July 1931, p. 326. MM; CP; CP2; HTTF.
B62 "A Prairie Sunset." Dalhousie Review, 11 (July 1931), 217. Rpt. in Literary Digest, 110 (19 Sept 1931), 24. Rpt. in Canadian National Railway Magazine, Sept. 1931, p. 24. MM; CP; CP2.
B63 "Time-Worn." The Canadian Forum, July 1931, p. 326. MM; CP; CP2; HTTF.
B64 "Water." The Canadian Forum, July 1931, p. 380.
B65 "The Highway." Acta Victoriana, 56 (Oct-Nov. 1931), 15. Rpt. in Dalhousie Review, 11 (Jan. 1932), 472. Rpt. in The Atlantic Advocate, 52 (May 1962), 23 MM; CP; CP2; SPOEJP.
B66 "Armistice Silence." Canadian Home Journal, Nov. 1931, p. 17. MM.
B67 "No. 6000." Canadian National Railway Magazine, Dec. 1931, p. 9. MM ("The 6000"); CP; CP2; TSP; HTTF.
B68 "January the First." World Friends, Jan. 1932, back cover.
B69 "The Lost Cause." Queen's Quarterly, 39 (May 1932), 209. MM.
B70 "The Depression Ends." The Canadian Forum, Oct. 1932, pp. 10-11. MM; CP; CP2; SPOEJP.
B71 "Putting Winter to Bed." Dalhousie Review, 12 (Oct. 1932), 340-44. MM; CP2; TSP; HTTF.
B72 "A Reverie on a Dog." University of Toronto Quarterly, 2 (Oct. 1932), 40-41. MM, CP.
B73 "Bereft." The Twentieth Century, l, No. 1 (Nov 1932), 21. Rpt. in Canadian Magazine, 79 (Feb 1933), 22. Rpt. in Dalhousie Review, 14 (April 1934), 64. Rpt. in The Tamarack Review, No. 41 (Autumn 1966), p. 78.
B74 "The Mirage." The Twentieth Century, 1, No. 1 (Nov. 1932), 21. FOTG; CP2; SPOEJP.
B75 "The Way of Cape Race." London Mercury, 27 (Dec. 1932), 109. MM; CP; CP2; HTTF; SPOEJP.
B76 "The Empty Room." Canadian Magazine, 79 (June 1933), 8. FOTG; CP; CP2.
B77 "Prayer-Medley." The Canadian Forum, Dec. 1933, pp. 92-93. FOTG.
B78 "The Text of the Oath." Acta Victoriana, 58 (Christmas 1933), 13. FOTG.
B79 "Credo Quia non Intellego." Queen's Quarterly, 41 (May 1934), 255.
B80 "The Prize-Winner." Queen's Quarterly, 42 (Feb. 1935), 109.
B81 "The Weather Glass." The Canadian Forum, Nov. 1935, p. 362. FOTG; CP; CP2; HTTF.
B82 "The Prize-Cat." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 1, No. 2 (April 1936), 23. FOTG; CP; CP2; SPOEJP.
B83 "Seen on the Road." New Frontier, 1, No. 2 (May 1936), 15. FOTG; CP; CP2.
B84 "Silences." The Canadian Forum, May 1936, p. 9. FOTG; CP; CP2; HTTF; SPOEJP.
B85 "Text of the Oath." New Frontier, 1, No. 2 (May 1936), 15. FOTG.
B86 "Thanksgiving." The Missionary Monthly, Oct. 1936, front cover.
B87 "Dictator (Baritone)." The Canadian Forum, Dec. 1936, p. 7 FOTG ("The Baritone"), CP; CP2.
B88 "Mother and Child." World Friends, N.S. 8, No. 4 (Dec. 1936), back cover.
B89 "The Twentieth Century Prophet." The Canadian Forum, Dec. 1936, p. 7.
B90 "Puck Reports Back." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 2, No. 2 (Oct. 1937), 43-49. FOTG.
B91 "The Impatient Earth." Queen's Quarterly, 45 (Nov. 1938), 542. SLAOV; CP; CP2.
B92 "The Manger under the Star." World Friends, N. S. 10, No. 4 (Dec. 1938), front cover.
B93 "The Submarine." The Canadian Forum, Dec. 1938, pp. 274-75. SLAOV; CP; CP2; TSP.
B94 "Old Harry." Queen's Quarterly, 46 (Feb 1939), 66. SLAOV; CP; CP2; HTTF.
B95 "Still Life." Saturday Night, 28 Oct 1939, p. 3. SLAOV; CP; CP2.
B96 "The Radio in the Ivory Tower." The Canadian Forum, Dec. 1939, pp. 276-77. SLAOV; CP; CP2.
B97 "The Old Eagle." Queen's Quarterly, 46 (Winter 1939), 428-30. TSP.
B98 "Fire-Worship." Saturday Night, 3 Feb. 1940, p. 1.
B99 "Dunkirk." Maclean's, 15 July 1940, p. 20. Rpt. in Canadian Poetry Magazine, 5 (Sept. 1940), 26. This poem is unrelated to the long narrative poem "Dunkirk."
B100 "Come Away, Death." Poetry, 58 (April 1941), 2-4. SLAOV; CP; CP2, SPOEJP.
B101 "The Invaded Field." Poetry, 58 (April 1941), 1-2. SLA0V; CP; CP2.
B102 "Dunkirk" (excerpts). Poetry, 59 (Oct. 1941), 10-15. Rpt. (excerpt) in New World Illustrated, 10 Dec. 1941, p. 7. D; CP; CP2; TSP; HTTF.
B103 "Heydrich." Saturday Night, 20 June 1942, p. 14.
B104 "The Truant." The Canadian Forum, Dec. 1942, pp. 264-65. Rpt in Voices, No. 113 (Spring 1943), pp. 10-15. SLAOV; CP; CP2; SPOEJP.
B105 "The Stoics." Queen's Quarterly, 49 (Winter 1942), 344 SLAOV; CP; CP2; SPOEJP.
B106 "Father Time." Saturday Night, 13 March 1943, p. 12. SLA0V, CP; CP2.
B107 "Autopsy on a Sadist." Voices, No. 113 (Spring 1943), p. 15 SLAOV; CP; CP2.
B108 "Niemoeller." Queen's Quarterly, 50 (Aug 1943), 268.
B109 "Fuehrer's Pot-Pourri." Saturday Night, 16 Oct. 1943, p. 40. SLAOV.
B110 "They Are Returning." Maclean's, 15 June 1945, pp. 5-6. TAR.
B111 "Behind the Log." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 10 (June 1947), 21-37. CP2; BTL; SPOEJP.
B112 "Lake Success." Outposts, No. 10 (Summer 1948), pp. 6-7.
B113 "Newfoundland Calling." Star Weekly, 31 March 1949. HTTF.
B114 "Displaced." Here and Now, 1 (June 1949), 77.
B115 "Last Watch." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 12 (Summer 1949), 5.
B116 "A November Landscape." Missionary Monthly, 24 (Nov. 1949), front cover. MM; CP2.
B117 "Blind from Singapore (Our Orders Are to Burn the City) "Northern Review, 3, No. 2 (Dec.-Jan. 1949-50), 5. Rpt. "Blind from Singapore." In The Tamarack Review, No. 41 (Autumn 1966), p. 75.
B118 "A Call." Northern Review, 3, No. 2 (Dec-Jan 1949-50), 6. CP2.
B119 "The Good Earth." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 13 (Summer 1950), 4-5. Rpt. in The Atlantic Advocate, 52 (May 1962), 23. CP2.
B120 "Myth and Fact." Poetry Commonwealth, No. 8 (Spring 1951), p. 2. CP2.
B121 "Cycles." Contemporary Verse, No. 36 (Fall 1951), pp. 8-9. CP2.
B122 "The Great Feud: A Dream of a Pleiocene Armageddon." Northern Review, 5, Nos. 3 and 4 (Feb-March and April-May 1952), 3-35. T; CP; CP2.
B123 "The Deed." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 15 (Summer 1952), 7. CP2; SPOEJP.
B124 "The Unromantic Moon." Poetry, 82 (June 1953), 143. Rpt. in Canadian Author & Bookman, 34 (Spring 1958), 17. CP2.
B125 "Come Not the Seasons Here." The Atlantic Advocate, 52 (May 1962), 24. NV; CP; CP2; SPOEJP.
B126 "The Decision." The Atlantic Advocate, 52 (May 1962), 23; MM; CP; CP2.
B127 "Erosion." The Atlantic Advocate, 52 (May 1962), 23. MM; CP; CP2; HTTF.
B128 "The Lament of the Wets." Douglas Library Notes, 12, No. 2 (Spring 1963), 3.
B129 "But Mary Kept All These Things, and Pondered Them in Her Heart." The Tamarack Review, No. 41 (Autumn 1966), pp. 78-79.
B130 "Displaced." The Tamarack Review, No. 41 (Autumn 1966), p. 81.
B131 "The Doctor in the Boat." The Tamarack Review, No. 4l (Autumn 1966), pp. 76-77.
B132 "The Head of the Firm." The Tamarack Review, No. 41 (Autumn 1966), p. 80.
B133 "To D.H. Lawrence." The Tamarack Review, No. 41 (Autumn 1966), p. 77.
B134 "To G.B.S." The Tamarack Review, No. 41 (Autumn 1966), p. 74.
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B232 "In Memoriam." In Our Canadian Literature: Representative Prose and Verse. Ed. Albert D. Watson and Lorne Albert Pierce. Toronto: Ryerson, 1922, pp. 169-70.
B233 "The Convict Holocaust," "The Drag-Irons," "From Java to Geneva," "The Man and the Machine," "The Prize Winners," "Sea-Gulls," "Seen on the Road," "Text of the Oath." In New Provinces: Poems of Several Authors. Ed. F. R. Scott. Toronto: Macmillan, 1936, pp. 41-48.
B234 "The Cachalot, I and II," "Come Away Death," "Dunkirk: In the Skies," "The Old Eagle," "Silences." In The Book of Canadian Poetry: A Critical and Historical Anthology. Ed. A. J. M. Smith. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1943, pp. 277-91.
B235 "Autopsy on a Sadist (after Lidice)," "The Decision," "Erosion," "A Feline Silhouette," "Invisible Trumpets Blowing" from Brebeuf and His Brethren. In Canadian Poems 1850-1952. Ed. Louis Dudek and Irving Layton. Toronto: Contact, 1952, pp. 47-49.
B236 "Behind the Log," "Brebeuf and His Brethren," "Erosion," "Newfoundland," "The Prize Cat," "Sea-Gulls," "The Titanic." In Twentieth Century Canadian Poetry. Ed. Earle Birney. Toronto: Ryerson, 1953, pp. 11-13, 30, 33, 87-88, 115-17, 121, 122-24.
B237 "Burial at Sea," "The Cachalot," "Erosion," "The Ground-Swell," "The Ice-Floes," "Invisible Trumpets Blowing," "The Sea Cathedral." In Canadian Poetry in English. Ed. Bliss Carman, Lorne Pierce, and V. B. Rhodenizer. Rev. ed. Toronto: Ryerson, 1954, pp. 218-28.
B238 "Brebeuf and His Brethren," "Come Away Death," "Come Not the Seasons Here," "From Stone to Steel," "The Prize Cat," "The Titanic." In The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse. Ed. Ralph Gustafson. Harmonds-worth Eng.: Penguin, 1958, pp. 119-25.
B239 "Behind the Log," "The Cachalot," "Towards the Last Spike." In Modern Canadian Verse." In English and French. Ed. A. J. M. Smith. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1967, pp. 1-12.
B240 "The Death of Brebeuf," "The End of the 'Titanic.'" In The Oxford Anthology of Canadian Literature. Ed. Robert Weaver and William Toye. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1973, pp. 392-400.
B241 "The Toll of the Bells," "The Shark," "Sea-Gulls," "The Sea-Cathedral," "From Stone to Steel," "The Prize Cat," "Come Away, Death," "The Truant," "Towards the Last Spike." In Literature in Canada, Vol. 2. Ed. Douglas Daymond and Leslie Monkman. Toronto: Gage, 1978, pp. 249-63.
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B135 "'Hooked': A Rocky Mountain Experience." Acta Victoriana, 38 (March 1914), 286-91.
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D1 Seranus [S. Frances Riley Harrison]. "'Among the Millet, and Other Poems.'" The Week, 28 Dec. 1888, p. 59. This favourable review admits that it "would be a rare privilege in any country to be called upon to notice so delightful a collection of verses as appears between the warm tinted covers of this latest Ottawa publication, but the privilege is one particularly rare and precious an Canada where works are too often vaunted to the skies on account of mere surface Canadianism." Although Lampman is faulted for not writing of "the ring and the rush" and "the impetuosity. . .of youth," he is praised for his skilful use of the sonnet form.
D2 Howland, O. A. "A Canadian Poet." London Spectator, 12 Jan 1889, p. 52 Rpt. in Trinity University Review, 2, No. 3 (March 1889), 37-38. In this generally favourable review, Howland states that "though there is nothing exactly demonstrating true genius in this volume, there is much in it of truth, simplicity, vivacity, and of something that fairly deserves the name of passion. . . ."
D3 "Books of the Month." Atlantic Monthly, March 1889, p. 430. This brief, but favourable, review reads in its entirety: "There is a frequent loving touch of friendliness with nature in these verses, and a restraint of moralizing which makes the poetry genuine even where it is not noticeably strong. It is not impossible that this writer may yet push into the recesses of poetry."
D4 Fidelis [Agnes Maule Machar]. "Some Recent Canadian Poems." The Week, 22 March 1889, pp. 251-52. AL (excerpt). Although generally favourable, the review points to "a certain unsatisfactoriness" in some of the poems. Praising Lampman's "imaginative power, delicacy of perception and. . .high degree of general artistic excellence," Machar finds the lack of a strong human or subjective interest in certain poems to be a drawback.
D5 Howells, William D. "Editor's Study." Harper's, April 1889, pp. 821-23. This very favourable review by the highly respected Howells was of great importance in establishing Lampman's reputation as a poet. The volume, Howells says, "is mainly descriptive, but descriptive after a new fashion, most delicately pictorial and subtly thoughtful, with a high courage for the unhackneyed features and aspects of the great world around us. . .We only hint the riches of this poet's book," Howells says. "It is no part of our business to guess his future, but if he shall do no more than he has already done, we believe that his fame can only await the knowledge of work very uncommon in any time."
D6 Adam, G Mercer. "Two Recent Volumes of Canadian Verse." Trinity University Review, 2, No. 10 (Dee 1889), 153-54. "If anything good ever came out of Ottawa it is this volume of Mr Lampman's," Adam asserts in this very favourable review. Lampman is viewed as a philosophical poet. "He has imagination, insight, and sustained powers of reflection. With pathos and delicacy of feeling, he has the gifts that accompany these qualities--geniality and humour."
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D10 Creighton, Alan. "'At the Long Sault.'" The Canadian Forum, Jan. 1944, p. 238. Partially favourable, this review calls the book "a small but valuable addition to our poetic literature. . . . The title poem is exceptionally fine in its creation of a distinctly Canadian atmosphere that interpenetrates the description of the event itself. . . ." However in many ways, Lampman's work is "beautiful but passe, like the paintings of Cornelius Kreighoff."
D11 L[ayton]., I[rving]. P. "'At the Long Sault and Other New Poems.' By Archibald Lampman." First Statement, 2, No. 5 (March 1944), 16-17. In this favourable review, Layton chides Canadians for failing to recognize "that they have in Lampman a poet of national importance." Layton praises "At the Long Sault" and is particularly enthusiastic about two other poems in the volume. "To this reviewer the two poems 'Epitaph on a Rich Man' and 'Liberty' came like two mortar blasts. For these poems reveal an unexpected social awareness in Lampman. They indicate clearly enough that Lampman, an underpaid civil servant, was not only interested in observing Nature but also the shenanigans on Parliament Hill."
D12 R. H. M. "'At the Long Sault.' By Archibald Lampman." Canadian Poetry Magazine, March 1944, pp. 34-35. Basically an unfavourable review, the reviewer believes that "there is not a nature poem in this latest selection that matches the interpretative perfection of such poems as 'Late November,' 'Heat,' and 'The Frogs.'" Regarding the poems "that manifest Lampman's concern with social problems and with love," the reviewer "feels again. . .that little of intrinsic value has been added to the Lampman store treasured by Canadians."
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D7 "Recent Poetry." The Nation, 4 June 1896, p. 439. This very favourable review notes "the remarkable vigor and freshness with which the younger Canadian poets write of nature, and the manner in which they show also a feeling for the human side, their landscape almost always skillfully including something of that kindlier tie." To illustrate this point, the reviewer points to the introduction of the words "Haytime, and harvest," in the second stanza of "June" as a means of bringing "the human aspect" into "the realm of wild nature."
D8 "Comment on New Books." Atlantic Monthly, Sept. 1896, pp. 425-26. Partially favourable, this review nevertheless expresses disappointment that nature, rather than man, is the main concern of Lampman's book.
D9 "Poetry and Verse." The Critic, 16 Jan. 1897, pp. 39-40. In this very favourable review, Lampman's work is commended for being "refined and clear, rich with imagery and melodious. . . .There is a freshness, a simplicity, a naturalness about Mr Lampman's work which gives to it a distinction nowadays quite unusual."
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C157 Elected to Royal Society of Canada in 1930.
C158 Governor-General's Award for The Fable of the Goats and Other Poems (1937).
C159 Governor-General's Award for Brebeuf and His Brethren (1940).
C160 Royal Society's Lorne Pierce Medal for distinguished service to Canadian literature (1940).
C161 L.L.D., University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba (1945).
C162 In the King's Honour List in 1946, named Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George.
C163 DCL., Bishop's University, Lennoxville, Quebec (1949).
C164 LL.D., McGill University, Montreal, Quebec (1949).
C165 LL. D., Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario (1949).
C166 Governor-General's Award for Towards the Last Spike (1952).
C167 University of Alberta gold medal for literature based on cultural contribution of a distinguished career (1952).
C168 The University of Toronto awarded him an Honorary LED "at the termination of his teaching duties." (1953).
C169 LL.D., Assumption College, Windsor, Ontario (1955).
C170 LL.D., University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick (1957).
C171 LL.D., University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario (1957).
C172 Canada Council paid tribute to him on his seventy-fifth birthday, by awarding him $1,000 (1958).
C173 Civic Award of Merit in Toronto (1959).
C174 Canada Council Medal for distinction in the field of literature. (1961).
C175 LL.D., Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland (1961).
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C152 "Complimentary Dinner to E.J. Pratt." Speakers. Mrs. Pratt, Prof. Frye, Leonard Brockington. 10 Oct. 1953. Audio tape reel-to-reel.
C153 Noseworthy, C.A. Profile of Canadian Poet E.J. Pratt. Phonodisc. Recorded by VOCM, St. John's, Newfoundland. 1 April 1958.
C154 "Service of Commemoration for Professor E.J. Pratt at Convocation Hall, Univ. of Toronto." 28 April 1964. Audio tape reel-to-reel.
C155 "The Naming of the E.J. Pratt Library." 7 March 1968. Tape recording.
C156 "E.J. Pratt Remembered." By Bob Patchell, Grace Irwin, David Knight, Chris Love. Moderated by Sandy Johnson. Toronto, 1978. 1 cassette. Recorded 16 Jan. 1978 at Wymilwood's Music Room.
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C9 Pierce, Lorne. "The Poets." In An Outline of Canadian Literature, French and English. Montreal: L. Carrier, 1927, pp. 102-03. A brief but enthusiastic review of the Newfoundland Verse, The Witches' Brew, and The Titans. "Nothing like his later work has appeared in Canada: its sheer exuberance combined with art, is a fine portent."
C10 Benson, Nathaniel A. "Who's Who in Canadian Literature: Edwin J. Pratt." The Canadian Bookman, 9 (Nov 1927), 323-26. The article begins with a biographical account of Pratt and his statement to Benson: "At heart I shall always be a Newfoundlander. . . ." Of Pratt's first volume of poetry, the critic says "He feels and translates the sorrow of the labouring ships and the fierce exultation of men grappling with a power that is not to be conquered." Benson heaps praise on The Witches' Brew which is "ingenious satire upon almost any theme necessary ...." "The Cachalot," a narrative "of great power and originality, quite unlike any poem in our language" and the allegory "The Great Feud" Benson feels ends "with a superb, almost terrifying bitterness that is overwhelming in its finality." Superlative praise is given Pratt's latest work: The Iron Door. "It may be heresy to say so, but here is no native lyricist, or impassioned child of nature singing of vernal rapture, amorous delights and autumnal woe beneath the inevitable maple or in the usual purpuratic haze. The Iron Door is more than Canadian--it is universal."
C11 Creighton, J. H. "The Poems of Mr. E. J. Pratt." The New Outlook, 30 Nov. 1927, n. pag. An early review article about "the Poems of Mr. E. J. Pratt" written because Pratt is "The most original poet in Canada" and "he has received less than his due of attention from the Canadian public." The article illustrates the level of Pratt criticism and interpretation of the time. "`The Great Feud' is driving at something deeper than appears on the surface and it fails to bring it to view." "The Iron Door" on opening "is a lofty vision of the after-life. . . . As a statement of faith in God and immortality one feels it will long remain unique in Canadian poetry."
C12 Rhodenizer, Vernon B. "Poets Since Service." In A Handbook of Canadian Literature. Ottawa: Graphic, 1930, pp. 240-41. Brief favourable mention of Pratt's work up to 1930.
C13 Roberts, Charles G. D. "Introduction." In Verses of the Sea. By E. J. Pratt Toronto: Macmillan, 1930, pp. v-xiv. In order to give an idea of the breadth and range of the author's genres, which would not be obvious in this collection of sea verse, Roberts gives a brief survey of Pratt's poetry. "In Newfoundland Verse, by reason of the blunt primitive speech employed and bold handling of the themes, the effect achieved was distinctly that of originality and strength." The Witches' Brew is "a masterpiece of exuberant imagination, riotous humour, and sound, constructive craftsmanship." The Great Feud" does not come up to the standards of its predecessors. Confusion results from the combination of the scientific basis and the "sheer extravaganza" of imagination.
C14 Benson, Nathaniel A. "Ned Pratt, Poet of the Sea: 'At Heart He Will Always Be a Newfoundlander.'" The New Outlook, 5 March 1930, p .223. Benson, in an early excellent short critique, reviews Pratt's life and work "in order to understand the peculiar and powerful genius that has at last produced an epic work [The Roosevelt and the Antinoe] which is the first truly great narrative poem of the sea, that has been written by a Canadian." Although by 1930 Pratt had lived in Canada for twenty years, "At heart I shall always be a Newfoundlander," he claimed. Benson believes Pratt's love and understanding of Newfoundland, the sea, and his people helped inspire him and which when combined with his unique poetic technique has helped immortalize such sea epics as The Roosevelt and the Antinoe. Benson, in an inspired conclusion, finds The Roosevelt and the Antinoe "has in it the sombre pathos of his early Newfoundland Verse, the hurdling verbal skill of The Witches' Brew, the resonant thunder of diction and power of description memorable in Titans, and the tragic earnestness of The Iron Door."
C15 Graham, Jean. "Among Those Present: XXI-Dr. E.J. Pratt." Saturday Night, 14 May 1932, p. 5. A review article in which the Pratt background is set down, the major works to 1932 are succinctly reviewed, and the most recent work, The Roosevelt and the Antinoe, is studied in more detail.
C16 Collin, W. E. "Pleiocene Heroics." In The White Savannahs. Toronto: Macmillan, 1936, pp. 119-44. Rpt. (revised) Literature of Canada. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1975. EJP. "From his earliest published verse, from his shorter epic of sealing off Labrador to his last important works, The Roosevelt and the Antinoe and The Titanic, he has been absorbed in the heroic." Collin describes Pratt's imagination as heroic and young The Witches' Brew, a "chantefable, makes no demands on us, it simply invites us to a rollicking ecumenical stag party" while The Roosevelt and the Antinoe depicts the heroic seamen in "a drama of adequate magnitude, purging us of pity and fear which, in the Aristotelian tradition, is the characteristic of tragedy." In The Titanic, Pratt emphasizes "the sense of security felt by officers and passengers alike in a ship designed to meet any conceivable emergency." Because it is unable to fulfill that expectation and fate plays a role, Collin shows that "The Titanic belongs to the Greek order of tragedy in the sense that it is blind, it is epic." Collin analyses Pratt's work using T. S. Eliot's definition of "objective correlative" and draws comparisons with other poets. "Pratt has rejuvenated our poetry, a Canadian Masefield has enriched its vocabulary. . . .If a newer generation of poets, reared in a tempest, render homage to Pratt . . .it is because of his heroic imagination and his grip on life."
C17 Collin, W. E. "Poetry." In Canadian Literature Today: A Series of Broadcasts Sponsored by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Publications, No. 6. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1938, pp. 28-30. Pratt is "the great-hearted poet who has always celebrated generous living and heroic fights." Pratt's view of life and his sense of the heroic are expressed in "gigantic pictures." This is illustrated by quotations from "The Fable of the Goats," "a satire on dictatorships. The satire comes out in the compromise the poet arranges between the two goat leaders."
C18 Wilson, H. Rex. "Idol Gossip: Edwin J. Pratt." Acta Victoriana, 67, No. 2 (Nov 1942), 12-15. An intimate, humorous, biographical, and anecdotal article briefly covering Pratt's life from early youth to his position of Professor at Victoria College. Included is a listing of Pratt's publications to Dunkirk, along with his literary awards.
C19 Brown, E. K. "E. J. Pratt." In On Canadian Poetry. Toronto: Ryerson, 1943, pp. 132-52. 2nd ed. Toronto: Ryerson, 1944, pp. 143-64. EJP. Newfoundland Verse, Pratt's first collection of poetry, was the "work of a poet who has not yet come to grips with himself; it is the work of an experimenter who is continuing to clutch at a tradition although that tradition is actually stifling him." Titans, three years later, "is the work of a poet who has defined his personality and determined his form." Pratt has in "The Cachalot" resourcefully changed the tetrameter couplets, using quatrains, not rhyming regularly, and distributing stresses in a manner to counteract over resonant monotony of the form which "remained a favourite with him." In Brebeuf and His Brethren, for the first time, there is a lifelike character in his poetry. Pratt came to believe "that human beings radiate such excitement as he long found only in ice-bergs, whales, prehistoric giants and ocean storms." Still Brebeuf is only a symbol, who certainly belongs in epic poetry but who is not the "epic hero that Homer drew." In The Fable of the Goats and Other Poems, Pratt foresaw the war and complained of the inadequacy of "brain in the leaders, whose shortcomings must be made good by the fatal courage of young heroes." Pratt's range was limited in his lyrics because love and passion are an "almost negligible part" of his poetry.
C20 Edgar, Pelham. "E. J. Pratt." Educational Record [Quebec], 59 (July-Sept. 1943), 178-80. Rpt. In Leading Canadian Poets. Ed. W. P. Percival. Toronto: Ryerson, 1948, pp. 177-83. Edgar establishes Pratt "not only as a singularly attractive human being but as a genuinely important poet." After brief careers as a dry goods salesman and a producer of patent medicine Pratt continued his education, his first published work being his thesis Pauline Eschatology. Pratt's own description of his attempts to get his first long poem Clay published and its eventual fiery destruction is given. The publication in 1925 of The Witches' Brew established his reputation. His major poems that followed have been "narratives of actual or imagined incident" remarkable for "his concern for accuracy of detail." This is evident in both The Roosevelt and the Antinoe and Brebeuf and His Brethren. A musical score for the latter has been written by Dr. Healey Willan and there is the possibility of a "musical and dramatic pageant near the site of the martyrdom."
C21 Brown, E. K. "The Originality of E. J. Pratt." In Canadian Accent. Ed. Ralph Gustafson. London: Penguin, 1944, pp. 32-44. A study of Pratt's work "in relation to the tradition of Canadian poetry and as a powerful expression of an original personality." At the time Pratt began to publish, the Canadian literary tradition was mainly regional in nature. Poetry tended to be descriptive landscape poetry with very little originality evident. Pratt's early works were not very successful, even Newfoundland Verse is the "work of an experimenter who is continuing to clutch at a tradition although that tradition is actually stifling him." Pratt's originality becomes evident in Titans. This starts with his subject matter which "arose from his revolt against the abstract themes suggested to him by his philosophic formation" and expresses itself "in the exaltation that Pratt experiences in the mere existence before his imagination of supreme strength." Humour and metrical skill are also evident in Titans. Brown quotes the opening lines of "The Cachalot" to reveal "absolute originality of texture." Canadian literature is weak in its treatment of character and Pratt is no exception. Brebeuf is the "closest that Pratt has ever come to animating a character" and even here he is dealing more with a symbol than a flesh and blood human being. Pratt occupies a unique position in the Canadian literary scene. He is "the link between the elder and the younger poets."
C22 Brown, E. K. "To the North: A Wall against Canadian Poetry." Saturday Review of Literature, 29 April 1944, pp. 9-11. Rpt. in Responses and Evaluations: Essays on Canada. Ed. and introd. David Staines. New Canadian Library, No. 137. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, pp. 78-82. Brown of Cornell University believes that "the wall that prevents Canadian poetry from becoming known in this country still stands high and firm." He shows that the wall is "a new erection" for the best Canadian poets used to appear in nineteenth century American journals; and he gives proof of why the wall should be "blown up." Pratt, who has produced twelve volumes of poetry, is "not even a name in this country." Brown refers to Pratt's narratives, epics, and lyrics, his "bounding, resonant tetrameter . . . grave, slow-moving kind of blank verse perfect for epics." Pratt's poetry "is a bigger thing than Robinson's or Masefield's ever was, [in] that it offers something comparable with what you can get from Jeffers." Comments on other Canadian poets conclude the article.
C23 Benet, William Rose. "Introduction." In Collected Poems. By E. J. Pratt. New York: Knopf, 1945, pp. xi-xv. Pratt "is an exciting discovery in modern verse, a man of range, of stature, of great accomplishment." His sustained narratives "of great gusto and imaginative power" depict the heroic in man. Benet relates personal reminiscences of Pratt and observes his "vitality," "exuberance, enthusiasm, generosity, and good-fellowship." He quotes from a letter Pratt had written him: "poetry ought to be, at least in part, the expression of a grand binge, making for healthy physiological releases where the world for a time is seen backside-up and the poet becomes gloriously emancipated from the thralldoms of day-by-day routine."
C24 Sutherland, John. "The Poetry of E. J. Pratt." First Statement, 2 (Feb.-March 1945), 27-30. This article is a rebuttal to one (see C22) written by Professor Brown. Pratt occupies an "isolated position" in Canadian poetry because of his "resolute decision to deal only with symbols of power in the external world. His work stems ultimately from a depth of experience that is beyond the reach of the conventional poet .... And at the same time, being based upon the divorce of poetry from the intellect, it negates all that is most characteristic of modern poetry." By placing the "pictures of strength" in a world farthest from the human, Pratt is able to operate without being "hampered by any statement of creed." The closer Dr. Pratt comes to the human "the more he gives the impression of passing judgement." This explains the weakness of Dunkirk: "the forces of good and. . . evil are not evenly matched, . . .[he has sided with] the forces of good." Pratt's importance decreases "the longer one compares him with those. . . writing in other countries... He is the first of our poets who has shaken himself completely free from literary influences ... [and speaks]. . .in a voice that is entirely his own." The critic believes that Pratt's narratives are the best that have come out of Canada.
C25 Wells, H. W. "The Awakening in Canadian Poetry." New England Quarterly, 18 (March 1945), 6-11. Wells in his study of Canadian poetry's awakening finds that "by 1925 or 1930 at least one poet of considerable nature had appeared [in Canada], namely Edwin J. Pratt." Two streams in Canadian poetry can be delineated: one "stressing social content, led by Edwin J. Pratt, and that stressing refinement of form, subjective subtlety, and cosmopolitan outlook." Pratt, "the oldest as well as the ablest of the leaders of the new era in Canadian poetry" has written poetry of humane and epic spirit. These "narrative poems with epic flavour" depict "man's most strenuous labors and boldest heroism." Against pessimism and despair of the "social aristocracy" he pits the "common man." Beside Pratt "Masefield seems strangely outmoded and outdistanced; . . . the school of Eliot ... may well look to its laurels;. . . Pratt belongs not only to Canada; he belongs also to the present and to the future."
C26 MacMurray, W. Brock. "Professor Ned Pratt." In Great Canadians. Toronto: Imperial Optical, 1946, Talk No. 38, ser. 3, n. pag. A brief biographical sketch, which was originally broadcast as a radio talk. Pratt's early life in Newfoundland is described, with a stress on his belief in the "necessity of a thorough education" and his reputation as a "prolific worker." Although he has gained renown as a poet--"his poetry is known from sea to sea in Canada. . . and it enjoys a fine reputation in the United States" -- he remains "modest," "natural," and "unaffected."
C27 Edgar, Pelham. "The Poetry of E. J. Pratt." Gants du Ciel, 11 (printemps 1946), 31-45. Rpt. in his Across My Path. Ed. Northrop Frye. Toronto: Ryerson, 1952, pp. 109-17. Edgar begins by quoting from a letter from Pratt describing his visit to Halifax to gather material for a poem. His preparations and method of work for The Roosevelt and the Antinoe and Brebeuf and His Brethren show "when facts are vital that he recognizes his responsibility." A "consideration of his verbal and rhythmical technique" reveals that "The impressiveness of his poetic statement is not a matter of mere metrical expertness. It is the expression rather of a genuinely noble nature which had the good fortune to be endowed not only with a riotously rich vocabulary but with the rare ability also to find the discriminating phrase," "Brebeuf and His Brethren is generally regarded as Pratt's most solid achievement. . .it is more revelatory of Pratt's quality than the sea narratives with which his name is usually associated." His shorter poems reveal "meditative depth" and "evidence of a keen satiric talent." Although it is too soon (1946) to give a "final evaluation" of his work, Edgar feels that with the publication of The Witches' Brew Pratt achieved "full and free emancipation."
C28 Frye, Northrop. "La Tradition Narratif dans la Poesie Canadienne-Anglaise." Gants du Ciel, 11 (printemps 1946). 19-30 Rpt. (trans) "The Narrative Tradition in Enlihsh-Canadian Poetry." In Canadian Anthology. Ed. Carl F Klinck and Reginald E. Watters. Rev. ed. Toronto: Gage, 1966, pp. 527-28. Rpt. in The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1971, pp. 145-55. Pratt brings Canadian narrative poetry to its highest stage of development with Brebeuf and His Brethren. "A narrative tradition begotten in the nineteenth century, and heir to all the philosophical pessimism and moral nihilism of that century, reaches its culmination in Brebeuf and is hardly capable of much further development."
C29 Wells, Henry W. "Canada's Best-Known Poet: E. J. Pratt." College English, 7 (May 1946), 452-56. Paralleling developments at this "stage in our culture and civilization" poetry finds "new movements and voices" are taking the place of the prevalent "chief modes." Europe is still our main poetic inspiration but "highly distinguished and refreshing lyricism in Latin America has rightly held considerable attention." The East's verse has become known but "few searchlights have been seriously turned upon the north." Edwin J. Pratt has provided an "unobserved northern light. . .a long-awaited and fresh note in modern verse." He has been able to be "democratic and distinguished." His frank and masculine approach to life has made him one of the best "interpreters of the relation of man to machine." Pratt's "extraordinary poetry dealing with animals" arises from his closeness to nature and his study of natural science. In his "robust folk humor [Pratt] proves far closer to the people than Robert Frost. . .Pratt not only belongs to Canada; in a peculiar pregnant sense he belongs both to the present and to the future."
C30 "Biography." Current Biography, Oct. 1946, 491-93. A biographical account giving background, personal, and factual information about Pratt, including the honours he has received to date. The major works are listed with evaluative and descriptive quotes from critics Brown, Benet, and others. The article indicates that Pratt, who as Canada's "most famous contemporary poet, became more widely known as one of today's greatest writers of verse upon the publication in the United States of his Collected Poems."
C31 Wells, H.W. "The Ascendancy of Impersonalism." In Where Poetry Stands Now. Toronto: Ryerson, 1948, pp. 35-36. In a study which examines the personal and impersonal aspects of poetry, Pratt's longer poems are related to the impersonal as "pieces in which a social theme plays a more conspicuous role than any subjective subtleties." Pratt is most successful "in his highly objective poems celebrating human heroism in public places, and written close to the impersonal point of view of the ancient popular ballads."
C32 Phelps, A.L. "E. J. Pratt." In Canadian Writers. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1951, pp. l-9. The emergence of Pratt's unique style marks a turning point for Canadian poetry. "He loaded his lines with the integrity and authority of personal experience. . .he revelled in his subject matter and out of his subject matter evoked thematic direction and drive." This is exemplified in The Witches' Brew. In Brebeuf and His Brethren Pratt shows his ability to handle "Canadian material with unabashed vigour and enthusiasm, not because it is Canadian, but because it comes as appropriately as anything else within a poet's compass."
C33 Pacey, Desmond. "The Poetry of the Last Thirty Years." In Creative Writing in Canada: A Short History of English-Canadian Literature. Toronto: Ryerson, 1952, pp. 118-24. In the section devoted to Pratt, Pacey states that Pratt's best work displays "his metrical versatility, his mastery of a clear, colloquial style, his exact response to the concrete sensory world, his deftness in the choice of image and illusion. . .plus the vision of man as an errant but ever-seeking pilgrim on the road from the barbaric cave to the divine temple." Pratt's philosophy of life is "Christian humanism" and the values of "courage, courtesy and compassion" are embodied in his poems--most clearly seen in "The Truant" and "From Stone to Steel." During World War II, Pratt was a spokesman in the fight against Hitler. "Pratt emerged as a solitary poet in Canada, and he has always remained an isolated figure."
C34 Sutherland, John. "E J. Pratt: A Major Contemporary Poet." Northern Review, 5 (1952), 36-64. Sutherland attacks other critics' interpretations of Pratt as a "heroic poet. . .concerned with strength and with the celebration of strength." Pratt is concerned with power but more with its social and psychological expression than with its manifestation in nature or in human heroism. Sutherland believes "compassion is to be found, not in the act of sacrifice, but in the moment of contemplation and acceptance of all that power in the world may mean." He finds this "is the deepest meaning of Pratt's three major poems--The Titanic, The Cachalot, and The Great Feud--and of the main body of his work." The rest of the essay investigates each of these poems in great detail to prove this thesis. The "emotional content of The Titanic has the ambiguity common to Pratt's work as a whole; it holds these contrasting feelings, of terror and delight, in an ironic balance which is varied with great subtlety but never substantially changed." In The Great Feud the ape mother with her young is considered a Christian symbol which when taken in "its widest sense. . .becomes the basis of genuine compassion." This arises with the death of the dinosaur "and it is fully revealed when the creature who is responsible for armageddon returns to her lair and her young." "The Cachalot is a psychological drama" where the basic conflict is not between crew and whale, man and nature, but "arises from the psychological nature of power which the whale also symbolizes."
C35 Sandwell, Bernard Keble. "E. J. Pratt, Poet of Martyrdom." St. Paul's Library Guild Bulletin, 1, No. 2 (Dec 1952), 4-5. Sandwell observes the change of attitude in English literature toward martyrdom which has been made "a manifestation of the working of the spirit of God in contemporary life." Pratt's hero, Brebeuf, is an ordinary human being except for his "capacity for martyrdom." With Brebeuf, the "apex of his work," Pratt has made a major contribution to Canadian missionary history for "like the painter of an exquisite and deeply reverent altar-piece, [he] has lifted the prose narrative to the highest level of art." Sandwell concludes by favourably comparing Pratt to Rabelais and Kipling.
C36 Lecocq, Thelma. "Ned Pratt-Poet." In Our Sense of Identity: A Book of Canadian Essays. Ed. Malcolm Ross. Toronto: Ryerson, 1954, pp. 192-200. Lecocq presents an anecdotal biographical sketch of Pratt which is intended to show him as an ordinary man in spite of his poetic talents. "If he dreams sometimes in iambic pentameter, he dreams also of thick juicy steaks and scoring a hole in one." This article presents a superficial picture of Pratt as a poet and as a person.
C37 Reaney, James. "Towards the Last Spike: The Treatment of a Western Subject." Northern Review, 7 (Summer 1955), 18-25. EJP. Reaney examines "The treatments of a western subject," the building of the transcontinental railway by Pratt in Towards the Last Spike. He draws conclusions about "the Canadian poet or artist and his Canadian subject matter." Towards the Last Spike is a logical progression from Pratt's previous work in which he "examines the theme of civilization against Nature, love against evil. . . .And this is the theme of Towards the Last Spike." The critic believes "All too much of our tradition lies only in the history book, the economics textbook and the museum; Dr. Pratt has been one of our poets who has most successfully performed the difficult job of bringing the materials of our tradition into the world of imagination where these materials can perform the useful work of defining and moulding us imaginatively as a nation." The important juxtaposition of the two theories of Canada, "The East-West and the North-South theory" is investigated. Just like at the end of the poem "the workers finish the last tunnels. . .and emerge into daylight," Reaney believes Pratt's poetry is "the first rays of an imaginative daylight" and that Towards the Last Spike might teach us "how to advance even further into that daylight."
C38 King, Carlyle A. "Mind of E. J. Pratt." The Canadian Forum, April 1956, pp. 9-10. EJP. Pratt's narrative poems are praised for the "verve and gusto" with which they tell "a crackling good yarn" but less frequently is it observed that "Pratt is also a thoughtful man reflecting on God and man and concerned with the plight of the human spirit and the fate of the human race in our iron times." King believes that in Brebeuf and His Brethren and Towards the Last Spike Pratt brings out that "the main struggle is with the inner man and not the outer nature; the task is always to conquer the wilderness of the human spirit."
C39 Daniells, Roy. "Literature Poetry and the Novel." In The Culture of Contemporary Canada. Ed. Julian Park. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1957, pp. 54-55. Pratt is described as "the link between older and newer generations of poets." "His constant theme is that of gigantic struggle." The many paradoxes in his work include "a combination of verbal force and liberal mildness," the contrast between the "common touch" and a "hint of remoteness," his Methodist environment at Victoria and the Catholic subject matter of Brebeuf and His Brethren, and Pratt's "great reputation and his lack of influence upon the oncoming generation of writers."
C40 Frye, Northrop. "Preface to an Uncollected Anthology." In Studia Varia. Ed. E.G.D. Murray. Studia Varia, 1. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1957, pp. 21-36. Rpt. in Contexts of Canadian Criticism: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Eli W. Mandel. Patterns of Literary Criticism, No. 9. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1971, pp. 190-92. Rpt. in The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1971, pp. 163-79. In an imaginary anthology of Canadian literature, Frye would include "The Truant" because it is the greatest poem in Canadian literature." Canadian poets, when faced with poetic content that does not harmonize with traditional forms, have returned to primitive forms. Pratt has done this with his narratives "Chaucerian beast-fable in the Pleiocene Armageddon and The Fable of the Goats, saint's legend in Brebeuf, heroic rescue in The Roosevelt and the Antinoe."
C41 Frye, Northrop. "Introduction." In The Collected Poems of E. J. Pratt. Ed. Northrop Frye. 2nd ed. Toronto: Macmillan, 1958, pp. xiii-xxviii. Frye's stated purpose is "to encourage the reader to commit himself to the poet." In a brief biographical sketch Frye sets Pratt in a historical framework observing that Pratt's life experiences "can be easily traced in his work," "religious views are never obtrusive, but they organize all his poetry." He "never followed or started any particular 'trend' in poetry. . . . Out of his self-effacing concern with the poetic object, Pratt developed a flexible, unpretentious speaking style which is amazingly versatile, yet always unmistakably his." Already in Newfoundland Verse can be seen "the unifying of the poet with his society, and of that society with nature." Pratt's hero is "beleaguered society," a society usually in a state of crisis. Evolution, a common theme of Pratt's poems, is depicted as both "pain and cruelty" as well as being "an exuberant, unquenchable force of life." Frye points out that Pratt was neither anti-intellectual nor did he look down on his fellow man; his "moral and social values are where those of most sensible people are, and where the heart usually is in the body, a little left of centre." Pratt, an "unofficial laureate," understood and interpreted the Canadian environment. Frye concludes "And as long as that culture can remember its origin, there will be a central place in its memory for the poet in whom it found its tongue."
C42 Frye, Northrop. "Poetry." In The Arts in Canada. A Stocktaking at Mid-Century. Ed. Malcolm Ross. Toronto: Macmillan, 1958, pp. 85-88. Pratt's poetry finds its roots in the Canadian narrative tradition which dates back to pre-Confederation times. "But in striking contrast to the earlier romantics, Pratt's poetry is intensely social, even gregarious. . . . In relation to what has gone before him, he has clarified and brought into focus a distinctively Canadian kind of imaginative consciousness." Much of contemporary Canadian poetry belongs to what Frye calls the "academic school." Pratt's influence on this group can be seen--"they read him less for the story than for the mythical or symbolic significance of his characters and themes."
C43 Pacey, Desmond. "E.J. Pratt." In Ten Canadian Poets: A Group of Biographical and Critical Essays. Toronto: Ryerson, 1958, pp. 165-93. "An enthusiastic teacher, a warmhearted friend and a human being who restores one's faith in humanity, Pratt has won many honours but has always carried them lightly." Pacey provides brief biographical information relating it to Pratt's developing philosophy; however, he is primarily concerned with the critical analysis of Pratt's work. "Pratt is a poet of deceptive simplicity" and Pacey believes that we fail to "take his poetry seriously enough." Critics are often confused in their interpretations and Pacey observes that no "one hypothesis will serve to elucidate all his poems." Pacey shows why he has concluded that Pratt's values are "courage, courtesy and compassion" and quotes from a letter from Pratt: "My own profession of faith was expressed in 'The Truant,' a comparatively late poem .... It is an indictment of absolute power without recognition of moral ends." Pratt is a "Christian humanist" who finds courage "in simple men such as sailors, courtesy in the tradition of chivalry. . . . and compassion in Christ." Pacey "tests" Pratt's philosophy, illuminating his thesis with quotes from the poet's significant works. Throughout the penetrating analysis, we see that Pratt's main concern has been "the relation between reason and instinct" in his view of the world which "embraces the most primitive past and an apocalyptic future."
C44 Rashley, Richard Ernest. "The Thirties Group, the Third Step." In Poetry in Canada: The First Three Steps. Toronto: Ryerson, 1958, pp. 11-26. In this developmental study of Canadian poetry Rashley illustrates Pratt's break away from the "sixties group" of poets represented by Carman, Lampman, and D. C. Scott whose work was characterized by the "introspective study of the individual in relation to nature." Pratt reacted against the "emotional involvement on which, for him, at least, the sixties technique seems to depend." His work is examined as a step-by-step rejection of the style of the sixties group in an effort to find a suitable vehicle of expression for his major theme "that man must accept the knowledge of his own nature and make love or compassion a means of defeating the pre-human forces and developing the human capacities." Pratt did not become a major poet because of "his failure to invent, through all his experimentation, a completely satisfying full-scale image for his theme."
C45 Ross, Mary Lowrey. "Dr E.J. Pratt: A Poet's Quarter-Century." Saturday Night, Feb. 1958, cover, pp. 14-15, 35. Pratt's seventy-fifth birthday is reported with his background history, a list of his major works and his awards, told in an intimate, friendly manner. The tribute points out an interesting fact that he was "sometLmes a little bewildered by the symbolisms that admirers insist on dredging from the obscurer passages."
C46 "E. J. Pratt." Canadian Author & Bookman, 34 (Spring 1958), 16. A brief biographical note on the occasion of Pratt's seventy-fifth birthday listing some of the special honours awarded him at this time. A "first publication" of Pratt's poem "The Unromantic Moon" showing his "pixilated sense of humour" is on the adjoining page.
C47 McGrath, M. Helen. "Bard from Newfoundland: The Story of Dr E. J. Pratt." Atlantic Advocate, 49 (Nov. 1958), 13-15, 17. An intimate, biographical sketch, full of memorable anecdotes from Pratt's life. Many of the experiences of his childhood and youth made such a vivid impression upon the poet that he was able to write powerfully about them in later life. Tragedies such as the Greenland Disaster "sowed the first seeds of a lifetime's preoccupation--man's Promethean struggle with the blind forces of nature--which is the underlying theme of all Pratt's poetry in one form or another." The article is full of anecdotes on various aspects of his life: attendance at the wireless demonstration, work in a draper's shop, work as a teacher and probationary minister, sale of "Universal Lung Healer," celebration at a "gold medal" feast, various financial adventures in western Canada.
C48 Dudek, Louis. "Poet of the Machine Age." The Tamarack Rewew, No. 6 (Winter 1958), pp. 65-80. EJP. Dudek finds that "The interpretation of the meaning of power in Pratt's poetry is the key to both his motivating emotions and ideas and to his form and style." The "first experiment" in power, The Witches' Brew, is followed by Pratt's major narratives in which "the imagination is used with more conscious and serious intent to explore the moral problem of power that he had thus uncovered .... The genesis of the problem in his poetry. . . sprigs from nineteenth-century geology and evolutionary theory. The war of species, as conceived in Lyell and Darwin. . . ." After documenting his interpretation from the poems, Dudek concludes that "Pratt's concern with a naked power-urge as the substratum of nature, of man, and of the civilized life is only the antithesis of a moral and intellectual struggle. The problem is resolved in an approach to faith, or at least in an admiring consideration of the act of faith as a heroic and incomprehensible necessity." Dudek points out that "Compassion, however, does not provide the ground tone of Pratt's poetry . The personal note is rare in his work." This is taken as part of a style which has allowed "the Canadian poet Pratt, more than any other modern poet [to write] the poetry of science and the machine age." Pratt's human response, "derives from an earlier, religious source [and] is a mark of his unremitting humanity; but the age of science and machinery could only offer him a truncated science, and it is this scientific sense of reality, and even of poetic energy, that is expressed in his poetry."
C49 Mackinnon, Murdo. "The Man and the Teacher." The Tamarack Review, No. 6 (Winter 1958), pp. 71-74. As a teacher Pratt "was the most systematic" of the English teachers at Victoria College. He had carefully "worked up" his notes over the years and "he always knew where he was going." He taught Shakespeare, modern poetry, and modern drama. Although he gave adequate coverage of "the traditional or recent scholarship. . .he spent most time on the text, giving us a poet's interpretation and insight." He was "an inspiring lecturer. . .warm-hearted friend and host."
C50 Smith, A.J.M. "The Poet." The Tamarack Review, No. 6 (Winter 1958), pp. 66-71. This criticism was written in honour of Pratt's seventy-fifth birthday. The critic finds that like other major poets, Pratt's work continued to change, develop, and "increase in strength and vitality as he grew older." Pratt has been able to please Canadians with his poetry but above all he has pleased himself. He has felt a "strong sense of responsibility. . . that is both aesthetic and if not religious at least moral." Most critics have recognized that the idea of Power is fundamental in the Poetry of Pratt" but Sutherland more exactly analyzed the ". . . moral and emotional attitudes that condition the poetry and that rise out of it." Sutherland believed that power "is a fusion of. . . the destroying force and the creative force" and he found that Pratt was attempting the "resolution of conflict into harmony" This is illustrated in The Titanic in which "two poles of creative and destructive power. . .[the ship and the iceberg]. . .are almost identical symbols."
C51 Sutherland, John. "I See Him As a Diver in His Bell." The Tamarack Review, No. 6 (Winter 1958), p. 65. Rpt. in John Sutherland: Essays, Controversies and Poems. Ed. Miriam Waddington. New Canadian Library, No. 81. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1972, pp. 195-96. The poem, "I See Him As a Diver in His Bell," is the first item in this tribute to the poet entitled "A Garland for E. J. Pratt; On His Seventy-fifth Birthday."
C52 Birney, Earle. "E. J. Pratt and His Critics." In Our Living Tradition. 2nd ser. Ed. Robert McDougall. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1959, pp. 123-47. Rpt. in Masks of Poetry." Canadian Critcs on Canadian Verse. Ed. A. J. M. Smith. New Canadian Library, No. 3. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1962, pp. 72-95. Rpt. (excerpt) in Canadian Anthology. Ed. Carl F. Klinck and Reginald E. Watters. Rev. ed. Toronto: Gage, 1966, pp. 528-34. Birney traces the American critical reception of Pratt, then the Canadian, and contrasts these with Pratt's own views on poetry. The American critics' reception of Pratt can be divided into three stages: "the early indifference, the belated praise by the unfashionable [W. R. Benet] and the contemporary rejection [Winfield Scott]." W. E Collin in his White Savannahs "set the early pattern of Pratt interpretation at home." Although Pratt "lacked metaphysical wit and prosodic subtlety... the emphasis was upon his undoubted originality, his epic verve and his realism." He was followed by E. K. Brown, Pelham Edgar, and Northrop Frye. John Sutherland changed radically the direction of Pratt criticism. "This writer argued, in effect, that American neglect of Pratt had arisen out of a failure of home-grown critics to interpret him properly to them." Sutherland set out to prove that Pratt was "complex, subtle, even mythopoeic" and "to raise Pratt to the rank of 'Eliot and Frost' by proving that he was equally Christian." However Birney feels that in spite of "sophisticizings" of critics such as Sutherland and Pacey, it is important to look at the poet himself, to see what he stands for and what he is trying to do. He examines the "aims, themes and values of Pratt." It is Birney's opinion that Pratt "has been undervalued also because his poetry is clear and fundamentally reasoned and ordered in an age which has overvalued the neurotic agonies and their distortion of utterance. . . ." Pratt is writing in the Chaucerian tradition and "the critical task ahead is to establish in detail Pratt's great artistry in this tradition."
C53 Horwood, Harold. "E. J. Pratt and William Blake: An Analysis." Dalhousie Review, 39 (Summer 1959), 197-207. EJP. Pratt resembles Blake more "in the deeper and more profound sense. . ." than any other poet. Both their styles are based on "architectural language." A philosophical parallel of Pratt's The Great Feud is Blake's epic The Four Zoas. In Blake's poetry "creative imagination is the origin of all things, the only 'real' things being things of the imagination,. . . there God himself has his abode." Pratt "castigates orthodox conceptions, and makes man the measure of all things." According to the reviewer both produced a "magnificent failure." Blake's Jerusalem was an attempt to construct a truly monumental epic, "with the result that he fell into the trap of didactics and exposition ...." Pratt's Brebeuf. . .failed because the theme, though heroic enough is not amenable to the medium." "The very core of the Blake-Pratt sympathy lies" in their very similar myths. "The myth of both poets is based on the divinity of man." Blake sees "man to be both the source and the product of divinity. . .Pratt believes that not only all gods, but all godliness, dwell in the human breast. All things begin and end in man." "Pratt, like Blake. . .achieves a myth in which man is absolutely central, but which at the [same] time does not try to deny the validity of science .... Pratt is part of that soul (the soul required for nationhood) in Canada, where he appeared at the most opportune time and became the first poet of real consequence."
C54 "E. J. Pratt." In The Canada Council Medal, 1961. Ottawa: n.p. [1962?],3 pp. Text of the citation read at the presentation of the Canada Council medals for 1961. Pratt is praised in glowing terms. "The genius with which he has enriched our land will be a precious possession forever in our national treasure house."
C55 Pitt, David G. "Introduction." In Here the Tides Flow. By E. J. Pratt. Toronto: Macmillan, 1962, pp. vii-xi. A biographical sketch, describing Pratt's Newfoundland youth as the perfect "seed-bed for a young poetic imagination." Although Pratt is not a "regional poet," "the kind of environment and the circumstances of life that Pratt knew in the Newfoundland outport led the willing imagination with a directness and precision that went straight to the core of things"---"such things as the unremitting, almost 'primordial struggle' for survival of those he knew, whose lives were forever at the mercy of 'Tide wind and crag.'" Pratt is a poet 'of life stripped to its core, to its essential elements, biological, emotional and spiritual."
C56 "E. J. Pratt: Most Beloved Poet." Newfoundland Quarterly, 61 (Spring 1962), 39. The citation which was delivered by Leonard W. Brockington on the occasion of the awarding of the Canada Council Medal to Pratt, February 19, 1962, is published here. Brockington opens by naming "a brilliant and sensitive scholar, a dedicated teacher who has inspired many thousands of Canadian students and a true poet of genius, Dr. E. J. Pratt."
C57 Brockington, Leonard W. "Tribute to a Poet: The Canada Council Medal to E. J. Pratt." The Atlantic Advocate, 52 (May 1962), 22-23. The article is a tribute to Pratt on his receiving a Canada Council Medal, one of the first ten so awarded. The citation was delivered by Dr. L. W. Brockington. Inspirer of thousands of "Canadian students," "true poet of genius," "admired and praised by all who read him," and "beloved by all who know him." The final assessment, "his poems will resist and outlive the rust and ravages of time."
C58 French, William. "The Master Poet: From Medicine Maker to Creator of Epics." The Globe Magazine, 4 Aug. 1962, pp. 8-11. Few new stories, anecdotes, or insights are added to the Pratt legend but French has written a popular review of Pratt's early career in an engrossing, humane manner. An interesting insight is that "Although he has lived in Toronto all that time [almost sixty years], the city does not figure at all in his poetry."
C59 French, William. "The Master Poet: E.J. Pratt's Vigor Has Set Him Apart." The Globe Magazine, 11 Aug. 1962, pp. 15-17. A continuation of The Globe Magazine August 4th article on Pratt from Newfoundland Verse on. The scandal of The Witches' Brew is related. French, in this popular, very readable biography, finds that, agreeing with Frye, Pratt was never what we call an "intellectual." "He is not a poet of verbal jigsaw puzzles, of ambiguities or dense textures or erudite allusions nor has he ever built himself a religio-political Eiffel Tower from which to look down on the human situation."
C60 Story, G. M. "The Newfoundlander Who Is Canada's Greatest Poet." The Newfoundland Record, 1 (Sept-Oct. 1962), 7-8. A brief survey article of Pratt and his work written upon the publication of Here the Tides Flow as it is "an event that should not pass unnoticed, least of all in Ned Pratt's native Island" for the poems illustrate "how central and all-pervasive has been his Newfoundland inheritance." The critic points to the two recurring themes in Pratt's poems: one is what Pratt called "'the ironic enigma of nature and its relation to the Christian view of the world. . . .' The second recurrent preoccupation in the poems is even more important and has already been suggested: the pre-occupation with the quality of the human response--futile though it may be--in emergent danger."
C61 Lane, Grace. "E. J. Pratt: The Poet Who Gave Canada a Voice." The United Church Observer, 24, No. 16 (Nov 1962), 10-11. A warm tribute to Pratt, about to turn eighty, combining a biographical account, a short visit with Dr. and Mrs. Pratt, reminiscences from a number of former students and from Victoria's President. Dr. A Moore. In her brief visit with the ailing poet, Ms. Lane learns of his concerns about modern literature: "It has no form, and little worthy subject matter, he feels. Much of it is obscure, lacking in constructive thought. 'If literature doesn't communicate, it isn't literature,' he says. 'Poetry is hard to write. There is so much to consider--form, rhythm, content, general overall pattern. You don't choose poetry; poetry chooses you.'" Students of Pratt remember him "with affection and gratitude." Northrop Frye, a former student, says "He had a very profound influence on me, as he did on many. . . . But he didn't try for it. He wasn't a conscious 'shaper.' He was too warm, convivial, and relaxed to deliberately seek to impose a pattern on anyone." Of Pratt's work, Dr Frye states that "The essence of him is to be found in all his poetry. . . .You can't cut a chunk out and say, as you can of so many, this is the essential Pratt."
C62 "A Reminiscent Brew; A Note on the E. J. Pratt Manuscripts in the Douglas Library.: 'The Lament of the Wets.'" Douglas Library Notes, 12, No. 2 (Spring 1963), 2-3. A brief piece on the Pratt manuscripts and autographed books in the Edith and Lorne Pierce Collection of Canadiana. "The Lament of the Wets" is printed here for the first time as a toast to Pratt on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. It is from the original and unpublished version of The Witches' Brew (in the Douglas Library) and is described as "more extravagant" and "much longer than the printed text."
C63 Deacon, William Arthur. "Laureate Uncrowned: A Personal Study of E. J. Pratt." Canadian Author & Bookman, 38 (Spring 1963), 2, 20. On Pratt's eightieth birthday Deacon salutes Pratt's "signal contribution to Canadian literature." Reviewing his first book, Newfoundland Verse, Deacon predicted "if this man could keep this up, or improve on it, Canada would have not only a new man with a new voice, but a very important writer." The critic noted after several of Pratt's narratives were published that "Canada at last had an epic poet--a poet of power." The Frye-edited Collected Poems (1958) is superior to the earlier collection (1944) which deserved Adam's (New York Times) praise as the best volume of poetry in North America in 1944.
C64 Deacon, William Arthur. "CPM--The First 27 Years: The Launching." Canadian Author & Bookman, 39 (Winter 1963), 2-3. Deacon describes the launching of the Canadian Poetry Magazine and recalls the founding meeting where Pratt "bashfully demurred but did accept" the first editorship. "None of us knew a thing about how to go about launching a magazine" and Deacon briefly describes some of the pitfalls (Pratt is referred to also in the following sections which trace the life of the magazine: "The early years," "Earle Blarney 1946-1948" "Arthur S. Bourinot 1948-1954.")
C65 Cogswell, Fred. "E. J. Pratt's Literary Reputation." Canadian Literature, No. 19 (Winter 1964), pp. 6-12. Pratt is compared by the critic to Bliss Carman, who is generally considered a "minor poet," and who was "over-rated" during his life-time while Pratt is presently touted as "Canada's leading poet" by most critics. Sutherland, Dudek, Frye, and Pacey have shown "their desire to supply in Pratt's poetry what currently seems necessary to be found in great poetry." The "mythopoeic symbols. . .the justification of poetry," and the proof of the cleverness of the critic have been "often fortuitously" found in Pratt's poems by "his recent admirers." The poet "successfully adapted the epic narrative to the deeds of modern man." He did this by substituting "the language of scientific description. . . for the poetically outworn language of physical description"; and by using a "grammatical syntax and a metrical rhythm that stated the pace of his own age." In his poetry Pratt combines "a sophisticated and masterly poetic technique, a wealth of erudition, and a timeliness. . .with an obsessive poetic vision that is almost incredibly primitive." In a hundred years the reviewer believes Pratt's "literary reputation [will have] paralleled that of. . . Bliss Carman."
C66 Sharman, Vincent. "Illusion and an Atonement: E. J. Pratt and Christianity." Canadian Literature, No. 19 (Winter 1964), pp. 21-32. EJP. Important Canadian criticism (Frye, Pacey, Sutherland) assumed that Pratt's poetry is Christian. A thorough analysis of his poetry shows this to be untrue. Only ten percent of the Collected Poems can be construed to be Christian. Only Brebeuf of the "long, major poems. . .is open to pro-Christian interpretations." Sutherland's wild interpretations and Pacey's misreading are exampled. The critic gives his own fairly detailed analysis using poems to illustrate his views. "In charity and defiance is immortality; there is no Heavenly immortality for men in Pratt..." The critic sees in The Iron Door's ending, that, for the poet, "The door. . . will open no more. . . . The unpitying glare of reason will not permit him the solace of unreasoned belief." In "The Truant" God is defined "as the mechanical force of the universe, the Great Panjandrum who is scarcely aware of mankind. Yet it is man who has made this disinterested force into a deity. "Brebeuf is carefully analyzed from Sharman's viewpoint. A critical examination of The Titanic is used to illustrate "Men's illusions of Nature" and the illusions of "their own capabilities, especially as manifested in their machines." Sharman concludes that from his analysis of Pratt's poetry, "For Pratt, what man must understand is that their salvation lies in themselves, not in Nature, God, systems or in ignorant pride in machines."
C67 West, Paul. "E. J. Pratt's Four-Ton Gulliver." Canadian Literature, No. 19 (Winter 1964), pp. 13-20 Rpt. in A Choice of Critics: Selections from Canadian Literature. Ed. George Woodcock. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1966, pp. 101-09. With the publication of Titans Pratt emerged as a poet having shed "inherited and acquired mental clutter." Pratt's preoccupation with spectacle and conflict is relieved by his humour and the "absence of Terror"--"his cosmology is weirdly genial." West explains Pratt's "relish for the defeat of human presumption" by a "cosmic disgust at man's grandiose incapacity." "Man is not big enough, not near enough to four tons." "For Pratt, man is doomed but, in accepting doom bravely, can be commensurable with Nature and God." Man expresses his humanity, not in trying to exercise power over nature, or even in allying himself with nature but in accepting his fate, stoically and by "inventing spiritualities of his own: charity, courage, honour, love, congeniality over dinner. . . ." Although West is uneasy with some of Pratt's ideas--"anti-Methodism has led him too far into cosmic solecisms and anti-philosophy has made him a bit of a simplifier" -- he nevertheless regards Pratt as a poet of stature to be compared with Milton and Verga.
C68 Edinborough, Arnold. "This Month." Saturday Night, June 1964, p. 7. Editorial. Quoting from Brebeuf and His Brethren and Towards the Last Spike, Edinborough shows how no one who reads Pratt's epics could do so "without thrilling to the adventure and heroism of the people who built this country." He used "muscular, tough and inspiring" language to create exciting poetry." Making familiar the unknown. That is what Pratt did in his poetry [and his] poems will live on."
C69 Johnston, G. "Ned Pratt's Funeral." The Canadian Forum, June 1964, p. 53. The piece is a moving and perceptive tribute to Pratt who Johnston claims is part of Canada's story, "and whatever that story is to be, his part in it will be one of the most admirable." Johnston reminisces: "One of the privileged occasions of my life" occurred when Pratt read passages from Behind the Log while in the midst of composing the work.
C70 Leslie, Arthur K. "E. J. Pratt One of Canada's Leading Poets." Atlantic Advocate, 54 (June 1964), 40-41. A brief, succinct sketch of Pratt's life and work, with a listing of his honourary awards. The writer reveals how Pratt disliked psychology for it was so full of "ids" and "egos" and "perhaps it is pertinent to note that in his subsequent poetry he, as the poet, rarely intrudes." The Witches' Brew evoked differing critical analysis, "some saying the poem supported alcoholism, others that it attacked Methodism, and others seeing it in numerous philosophical references." Pratt's narrative works illustrate that his "main concern is with Man's struggle in Nature rather than against Nature." The article concludes with excerpts from Pratt's work.
C71 Daniells, R. "The Special Quality." Canadian Literature, No. 21 (Summer 1964), pp. 10-12. Pratt's "personal image is no more simple than the image of Pratt the poet whose complexity has been the theme" of many critics. Daniells, probing Pratt's "special quality," suggests it was "the 'plain heroic magnitude of mind' with which he got down to his task of writing." Pratt had a "largeness of mind" which saved him from "pride, pedantry, paranoia, the Messiah-complex, the thirst for recognition, the affectation of 'grand old man,' one upmanship of every description and all the other customary side effects of a talent for writing or occupational diseases of academic life." Daniells concludes his sensitive reminiscence by questioning whether our computer world will nourish such qualities as Pratt possessed, so we "should keep green the greatness and uncontriving simplicity of this good man."
C72 Deacon, William Arthur. "Laureate Takes Leave, E. J. Pratt." Canadian Author & Bookman, 39, No. 2 (Summer 1964), 2. A tribute to Pratt by William Arthur Deacon, a friend since college days. In a biographical, personal sketch, Deacon views Pratt as "a warm human being first; secondly he was Canada's greatest poet so far; lastly he was scholar enough to be a university professor. He broke the barrier between the learned writer and the reader for pleasure."
C73 Frye, Northrop. "The Personal Legend." Canadian Literature, No. 21 (Summer 1964), pp. 6-9. A personal reminiscence full of insight about Pratt who "is the only figure in Canadian literature, so far, who was great enough to establish a personal legend." Frye describes the poet's life at Victoria, his guise of a "duffer. . .in order to stay clear of the enormous complication of committees and similar substitutes for thought and action that are such a bane of university life." His hospitality and love of parties was the "central part of the Pratt personal legend. . . .Friends who could talk, and talk with spirit, content, and something to say" shared these occasions. Frye recollects an evening during the war when he heard "Ned read 'The Truant,' and felt, not simply that I had heard the greatest of all Canadian poems, but that the voice of humanity had spoken once more."
C74 Adams, J. R. G. "Ned Pratt-Canadian." Canadian Poetry, 27, No. 4 (Aug. 1964), 77. J. R. G. Adams' contribution to the Canadian Poetry tribute to Pratt is a sonnet "Ned Pratt-Canadian."
C75 Ball, Helen. "E. J. Pratt." Canadian Poetry, 27, No. 4 (Aug. 1964), 93. Helen Ball in a short poem in tribute to the enduring memory of E. J. Pratt ends with, "This man was his poetry, his poetry this man."
C76 Frye, Northrop. "Silence upon the Earth." Canadian Poetry, 27, No. 4 (Aug. 1964), 71-73. "Like other great men, [Pratt]. . . created a legend, and the legend. . . was much simpler than the man." In his tribute, Frye tells several short anecdotes to reveal Pratt's kindness and hospitality to all. His love of parties is especially mentioned. Pratt's favourite poetic theme was courage and Frye goes on to show that this good understanding of it arises from Pratt's possessing courage himself. Frye ends on a personal note, remembering Pratt's contribution to his edification as a student through his friendship and his poetry.
C77 O Broin, Padraig. "E. J. Pratt--1883-1964." Canadian Poetry, 27, No. 4 (Aug 1964), 63-64. In Canadian Poetry's tribute to Pratt in 1964 Padraig O Broin states that Pratt has been characterized by the statement "This man was his poetry." O'Broin adds "E. J. Pratt is dead. But his poems remain. And his poetry is that man."
C78 "M U N Receives Collection in Honor of E. J. Pratt." The Daily News [St. John's, Nfld.], 18 Aug. 1964. Rpt. in Canadian Association of College and University Libraries Association Canadienne des Bibliotheques de College et d'Universite Newsletter, No. 3 (15 Dec. 1964), pp. 11-12. An account of the ceremonies at the presentation of Pratt manuscripts and first editions, and portrait of E. J. Pratt presented to Memorial University by Mrs. Viola Pratt and her daughter Claire Pratt. An excerpt of the address given by C. C. Pratt, Mrs Pratt's moving presentation speech, and the statement by University Librarian, F. Eugene Gattinger, upon receiving the Collection are included. The books, manuscripts, typescripts, and tributes making up the Collection are listed.
C79 Wilson, Edmund. "Reporter at Large: O Canada, an American's Notes on Canadian Culture--1." New Yorker, 14 Nov 1964, pp. 134-38. Rpt. in O Canada: An American's Notes on Canadian Culture. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965, pp. 95-97. Pratt and Nelligan are the two Canadian poets who "should be brought to the attention of the non-Canadian world." Although the length and style of Pratt's verse prevent it from being easily "picked up" from the page, Wilson commends his eloquence, imagery, and grandiose subjects. Pratt's imagination "could only have been stimulated to such imagery by the materials provided by Canada."
C80 Beattie, Munro. "E. J. Pratt." In Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English. Gen. ed. and introd. Carl F. Klinck. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1965, pp. 742-50. 2nd ed. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1976, vol II, 254-62. In a long favourable review article the critic chronologically surveys Pratt's work. Although "muffled by the idiom and metrics of the early 1920's," the poems in Pratt's first book Newfoundland Verse "expressed a new vision. . .[a] break-through in tone and subject-matter. . .[it] made us see new faces of Canada, hear new voices. The dominant voice was the sound of the sea." The Witches' Brew followed in which the poet "spun his fantastic yarn with untiring vivacity in rapid and witty octosyllabics." Titans contained two longish narratives of which the Cachalot was "the first of his poems to receive the kind of acclaim that was to make Pratt the most popular of Canadian poets." The Roosevelt and the Antinoe is the story of a sea-rescue. The poem illustrates "the marvels of science, [and] the resourcefulness of man." Surpassing all the narratives that preceded it, The Titanic "draws upon a deeper source of tension. . . from the sharply defined conflict between human values and the blind menace of the sea." Brebeuf and His Brethren recounts "the adventures of Brebeuf from his novitiate. . .to his terrible death" at the hands of Indians. Pratt's heroes are "always men committed to a course of action:. . .the drive of Christian faith [for example ] to explore and exploit the whole range of human experience." In Towards the Last Spike "man's struggles against those inveterate opponents, time and space," are recounted in the building of the transcontinental railway.
C81 Frye, Northrop. "Edwin John Pratt, 1882-1964." Proc. of the Royal Society of Canada, 4th ser, vol III, 1965. Ottawa: The Royal Society of Canada, 1965, pp. 161-65. After a lengthy apprenticeship of teaching, theological education, and lecturing in psychology, Pratt was appointed to the Department of English at Victoria College and at thirty-eight years of age began a thirty-two-year career. Numerous books of verse followed with two editions of Collected Poems. "Pratt is generally acknowledged to be Canada's greatest poet in English. . . an interpreter of the Canadian imagination. . . . He is concerned with energy, courage, exuberance, unquenchable life. . . .He is also the only figure in Canadian literature in English, so far, great enough to establish a personal legend." His generosity represented "a genuine enthusiasm for human life and personality, and a sense of the reality of love."
C82 Reaney, James. "The Dragonslayer." In Great Canadians. The Canadian Centennial Library. Selected by The Rt. Hon. Vincent Massey, et. al. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1965, pp. 91-94. Reaney claims Pratt's story-telling ability comes from his Newfoundland background. "His poems are a sort of Newfoundland, a very welcome addition to the less witty, less narrative remainder of Canada." He examines briefly two aspects of Pratt's poetry, its sound and the use of monsters. The sound of Pratt's poetry is distractive and results from his love of words. "long hard words and short fat easy ones." Many of Pratt's poems contain monsters as if he "heeded the advice that if you want to tell a good story put a dragon into it" but they illustrate his theme "that if we can defeat the terror within ourselves, we will find that we have defeated the monster that caused the terror." Pratt's poetry spans from Newfoundland to British Columbia and tells us "more about ourselves than we ourselves know."
C83 Frye, Northrop. "A Poet and a Legend." Varsity Graduate, 11, No. 6 (Summer 1965), 65-69. Rpt. in Vic Report, 7, No. 3 (Summer 1979), 6-7. In an astute and sensitive tribute to Pratt on the occasion of the opening of the E.J. Pratt Room of Contemporary Poetry at Victoria College, Frye tells of the man and the mask. He describes Pratt's early Newfoundland period, explains how his life at Victoria was a "dramatic reversal" of it. Pratt caricaturized himself in order "to concentrate on the primary work of teaching and writing." Frye concludes that "Ned Pratt is the only figure in Canadian literature, so far, great enough to establish a personal legend. And the legend was unique, because it had the poet behind it."
C84 Livesay, Dorothy. "Polished Lens: Poetic Techniques of Pratt and Klein." Canadian Literature, No. 25 (Summer 1965), pp. 33-42. In this study of the poetic techniques of Pratt and Klein, Livesay's aim is "not an analysis of technique for its own sake, but of technique for the sake of enlightenment." In Canada, Pratt was the first poet to turn from nature to the "human condition" using language that was "fresh, muscular, contemporary and often boisterously amusing." Drawing upon examples from the works of both poets, Livesay compares their evolving techniques in their three "phases" discussing: theme, tone, metre, rhyme, stress, vocabulary, rhythm, imagery. Some of Pratt's shortcomings are examined: dependence on the prepositional phrase, tendency to "use nouns to his disadvantage," lack of adjectives and adverbs, lack of "touch, taste, hearing, scent," and colour. Livesay concludes that "Pratt remained a storyteller to the end, an 'old artificer' collecting artifacts and arranging them cunningly without committing his deeper self. . .[while Klein] probed inwards to the human soul, revealing its possibilities for creative joy as well as its predilections for darkness, madness."
C85 McGivern, J. S., Father Brebeuf and His Brethren. Martyr's Shrine Message, 30, No. 4 (Winter 1966), 9-13. The writer wants to "enjoy the beauty and rhythm, the strength and even weakness, the joy and the tragedy" in Brebeuf. Excerpts from the poem are interspersed with commentary on Pratt's research. The critic urges his readers to "be enthralled, be appalled by the dangers, inspired by suffering and encouraged by the spirit of the early missionaries of Huronia." The story is in itself one of greatness, scarce surpassed if at all, in the entire annals of Canada and here in Brebeuf and His Brethren you know its finest telling."
C86 Story, Norah. "Pratt, E. J." In The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1967, pp. 660-61. Rev. Supplement to the Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature. Ed. William Toye. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1973, pp. 269-70. Story presents biographical information on Pratt, indicates some of the major honours bestowed upon him, succinctly summarizes his works revealing their major themes. Quoting from Birney's critical evaluation of Pratt, she notes how Frye shares in "this appreciation of the directness and simplicity of Pratt's work." The Supplement updates the books of criticism available on the poet.
C87 Gustafson, Ralph. "Portrait of Ned." Queen's Quarterly, 74 (Autumn 1967), 437-51. A sensitive, illuminating, personal reminiscence by Gustafson of a friendship with Pratt that "goes back over a quarter of a century." He relates how he had been writing about Pratt even before meeting him for "every serious critic, of course, had to be writing about Ned; he was the figure that was bestriding the transition in Canadian poetry from worn-out romanticism of the late nineteenth century to the accuracy introduced by Yeats and Pound." Comparing Pratt to those two other writers of the time, Gustafson observed "But neither had the power and linguistics of Ned, neither had his sense of comedy and therefore his affectionate irony and alertness to the tragedy of man's nobility." His poetry depicted "the titanic struggles of beast with beast, man with ocean, and man with machines, and man with man." Gustafson includes letters received from Pratt beginning from the early forties, accompanied by explanatory commentary. The "humility and generosity of Ned" is evident as is his strong support of Canadian writers. Gustafson includes the poem he wrote for Pratt's Commemoration Service.
C88 Buitenhuis, Peter, ed. and introd. Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt. Toronto: Macmillan, 1968, pp. xi-xxx. Although Pratt has become a well-known poet, the small amount of critical material that is available tends to misinterpret or misplace the emphasis of his work. "The evolutionary process early became and always remained the central metaphor m Pratt's work. . .and persisted in Pratt's work long after it had ceased to have much force for the twentieth-century poetic and philosophic mind." Buitenhuis criticizes Sharman's interpretation of Brebeuf and His Brethren as a statement of Pratt's atheism and argues that it is "an affirmation of the continuity of history and the transforming power of belief." Although his philosophy may be dated, the enduring qualities of his poetry may best be seen in the narratives, especially Brebeuf. Here the "strength of design" and Pratt's "tremendous narrative energy" exemplify "the way in which he marries his technique to his theme." Buitenhuis theorizes that Pratt's "literary isolation" from contemporary events and literary trends allowed him to develop to become the Canadian "myth and image-maker."
C89 Wilson, Milton. "Pratt's Comedy." Journal of Canadian Studies, 3, No. 2 (1968), 21-30. In his analysis of Pratt's poetry, Sutherland noted that the hero frequently tended to be identified with the enemy and Wilson observes that often the quarrels are "family quarrels and at times the opponents even start to look like mirror images of each other." Frank Scott also has posed the question "then is priest savage, or Red Indian priest?" Wilson states that "the myths and sciences in terms of which he imagines his uncles and his cousins and his aunts slaughtering and signaling one another are a distinctive mixture of the biological and mechanical and the classical." The critic's main concern is to deal with Pratt's "sense of comedy and the way in which these themes contribute to it." The Witches' Brew Wilson calls a "kind of scientific-cum-theologlcal-cum-literary farce" and in "The Great Feud" the comedy ranges from academic wit to low farce. But the themes. . . are desperate and inescapably relevant." To further his thesis, Wilson analyzes The Witches' Brew and "The Great Feud" with reference to setting, situation, and unique characters. The essay concludes with a "coda" to "The Truant" in which the Panjandrum "assumes the airs of a Fascist dictator right from the start." At the climax of the truant's curse, we get both "a human affirmation and also the death of god, this god."
C90 Frye, Northrop. "Silence in the Sea." The Pratt Lecture, 1968. St. John's, Newfoundland: Memorial University, 1969. 14 pp. Rpt. in The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination. Toronto: House of Anansi, 197l, pp. 181-97. EJP. According to Frye, Pratt takes on many of the characteristics "of the poet of an oral and pre-literate society." In such a society the function of the poet was as teacher, scientist, historian, keeper of traditions, heroic legends, myths of its gods, religious and social rituals. "The poet had a central social function from which he has since been dispossessed." Recently there has been a revival of oral poetry, with rise of the "communication media other than the book" and "one would think that some poets might become, once again, spokesmen for their communities, their tales and proverbial philosophies becoming a part of ordinary verbal culture." Christianity has always been both "revolutionary and an institutionalized religion." This contradiction became for Pratt "a fundamental cleavage in Christianity which runs all through his work." At the centre of Pratt's religion "is the enduring, resisting and suffering Christ. . ." ranged against "the dead God of fatality, the mindless, pointless world." In Pratt's poetry the separation between "conscious and mindless worlds" is imaged or is often shown as "the conflict between spirit and the nature of man." Pratt tried in his poetry to "unite the real man with real nature." During his life through his poetry Pratt "took his place at the centre of society where the great myths are formed, the new myths where the hero is man the worker. . . and where the poet. . .is shaping also a human reality which is greater than the whole objective world because it includes the infinity of human desire."
C91 Smith, A. J. M. "Some Poems of E. J. Pratt." Aspects of Imagery and Theme." The Pratt Lecture, 1969 St. John's Newfoundland Memorial University, 1969, 20 pp. Rpt. in Towards a View of Canadian Letters: Selected Critical Essays 1928-1971. Vancouver: Univ. of British Columbia Press, 1973, pp. 99-114. EJP. Pratt's poetry is of "epic proportion" because he is "fascinated with magnitude. . .immense strength. . .incredible power. . . ." The poems are long but they "are as long as they need be." His imagery "is functional. . .and contributes something essential." Smith uncritically and approvingly continues to explore some of Pratt's images more closely. He finds that "Aspects of . . .(the struggle for power or survival) provide the theme of all Pratt's best and major poems ...." Most of the poems. . .have philosophical and religious overtones." Vincent Sharman is doing "an injustice to Pratt by misreading or neglecting some of his most important poems" and thus attributing to Pratt a "purely humanistic and sadly disillusioned view" rather than seeing "an affirmation of faith. . .among Pratt's finest poems." In fact in this grand world with monsters organic and inorganic "that beset the paths of men. . .survival depends on the strength and cunning. . ." displayed to "watch and defeat their antagonists. It would be a meaningless universe were it not for the one inexplicable (miraculous) intervention symbolized by the Rood." Pratt is a poet in the "English tradition" and the poets Smith "thinks of when reading" him are Hardy, Masefield, and Chaucer.
C92 Gibbs, R. J. "Living Contour: The Whale Symbol in Melville and Pratt." Canadian Literature, No. 40 (Spring 1969), pp. 17-25. The whale in Moby Dick is "given size by the size of the book." Pratt's "The Cachalot" is "a minnow by comparison . . . [although] the sense of size in the central image is not wanting." Poetry can telescope meaning using formal methods. Gibbs does not "pretend for 'The Cachalot' the measurements of Moby Dick" but only that both succeed in "making a mythic or epic image, larger even than life. "John Sutherland's pioneer work on the symbolic approach to Pratt's poetry is considered a "perceptive guide" although the critic is not willing "to follow Sutherland all the way." Sutherland, who discovered an "ambivalence" in the poem, gave a highly individualistic interpretation. "Pratt's whale . . . is . . .a Christ-symbol. . . Similar discoveries followed by similar courses are not hard to come by among Melville's critics." Melville's Ishmael "can peer into metaphysical depths denied Pratt [while] Pratt is able to look into physical depths . . .denied Melville." Symbolic meaning is inherent in the artistic process itself. . . " and the critic warns against other critics who through symbolist speculation "will end by creating [their] own book." This is all right "as long as [they don't] make the reader forget the book he started from." The point is to go "a-whaling yourself."
C93 Frye, Northrop. "Ned Pratt." In Canada: A Guide to the Peaceable Kingdom. Ed. William Kilbourn. Toronto: Macmillan, 1970, pp. 299-303. Pratt has emerged as "a kind of unofficial laureate" of Canadian poetry." He is much more of a spokesman than a critic of public opinion and generally accepted social reactions." Both his religious beliefs and his personality are evident in his poetry, particularly in "The Depression Ends." "At one pole of human life is a cross, at the other is a last supper; and these two poles give position and meaning to every thing that occurs between them."
C94 Jones, Douglas G. "The Courage to Be." In Butterfly on Rock: A Study of Themes and Images in Canadian Literature. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1970, pp. 111-23. In an examination of Pratt's philosophy of nature and man's place in the cosmos, Jones finds that "clearly Pratt's initial impulse is to delight in nature and her powers, however prodigious or violent" and that "his poetry implies that life, especially human life, finds its fulfillment in a partnership with the elemental forces of nature." Pratt describes man caught in a struggle with the forces of nature, with the same objectivity and "impersonal sympathy" that he describes the ship or the iceberg that is also part of the conflict. It is only by acting with courage and in a "spirit of self sacrifice" that man can "oppose nature without adding to her destructive violence. Only in this spirit can he claim a superiority to the forces of nature or to a mere God of power." There is much irony in Pratt's work. "Generally, Pratt's poetry implies that whenever man attempts to improve the world or add to his own stature by means of force he fails. His efforts to annihilate nature's imperfection, whether in the name of reason or in the name of morality, always end in irony and in a holocaust of destruction." His irony is never bitter "because Pratt looks upon the folly of mankind from that more comprehensive view in which man is but one creature in the cosmic whole."
C95 Davey, Frank. "E. J. Pratt, Apostle of Corporate Man." Canadian Literature, No. 43 (Winter 1970), pp. 54-66. Pratt's "vision" is an "area of dispute" among Pratt scholars who find him ranging from Christian humanist to atheist. Wrye's comment that Pratt is a "spokesman rather than a critic of public opinion and generally accepted social reaction" has been forgotten except by Cogswell. His poetry and his worldview have bewildered Pratt critics because, as Pacey has observed, "a good deal of the ambiguity in Pratt is not deliberate but involuntary, and there is not only confusion among critics but also confusion in the poet. "The "deceptively simple" poems do not mask "something more complex." Power . . . is one of the keys to Pratt's uncomplicated vision. . .the power he respects and eulogizes is nearly always power wielded or shared in the here and now by material inhabitants of this world. Divine power is contrastingly unimpressive to Pratt." "Pratt admires . . . the loyalty [which causes] the submission of individual will to group prospects significantly greater than oneself." "These observations are supported from Pratt's poems. Today, "glory," of the kind Pratt envisaged, is only possible in the larger corporations. It is through corporate action that the loyal employees can realize both "effective and individual power." Pratt was "a committed and uncritical spokesman for the values of industrial man" and he believed "the machinery of technology and the machinery of social organization as man's best way to salvation." Davey concludes that Pratt's "poetry reads strangely like a celebration of the possibility of a 'brave new world.'"
C96 Djwa, Sandra. "Canadian Poetry and the Computer." Canadian Literature, No. 46 (Autumn 1970), pp. 47-51. A critical reader of English Canadian poets notes that there are continued repetitions of certain words or phrases. Are these related to "a world view, a myth or a cosmology?" Is there continuity in these myths or diction among Canadian poets since the 1880s? Computer frequency counts of words used in the poetry of fourteen Canadian poets from the 1880s on, was seen as a method to attempt to answer the above questions. Patterns appear when the computer printouts are compared and there is some continuity connected with these words in Canadian poetry. "Pratt's encompassing metaphor appeared to be that of 'blood' rather than the expected 'sea' or 'water.'" This is unique when compared to other poets Djwa believes that since there are some demonstrable historical lines of poetic continuity "we need to reevaluate the question of the continuity of Canadian poetry" for no poet's works "emerge from a cultural vacuum, but are intimately related to the development of writing in Canada."
C97 Livesay, Dorothy. "The Documentary Poem: A Canadian Genre." In Contexts of Canadian Criticism: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Eli W. Mandel. Patterns of Literary Criticism, No. 9. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1971, pp. 277-79. The Roosevelt and the Antinoe is an example of Pratt's excellence as a documentarian. His knowledge of the sea, his extensive research, his compelling "power over language," and "his sense of 'cliffhanging'" combine to illustrate his theme: "In a time of crisis men of all races work together as a communal unit--'the breed' against implacable nature."
C98 Gibbs, Robert. "A Knocking in the Clay." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of University Teachers of English, May 1971. St John's, Newfoundland. Rpt. in Canadian Literature, No. 55 (Winter 1973), pp. 50-64. Gibbs examines Pratt's "philosophical-lyrical drama" Clay. Although Pratt considered Clay a failure, Gibbs finds passages in it that show the promise of what he would do in the future--"such verse as this from a young poet bears the mark of no ordinary command and no ordinary imagination." He feels that "its chief interest for us lies in certain relations it reveals between the writer and his material." The cosmic irony which is his central concern in this poem is a recurring theme in his later poetry and he becomes more successful in presenting it in a poetic way rather than rhetorically. "Although the play fails in total conception and realization, it does confront aspects of himself and of the external world that would always be of deep concern to Pratt."
C99 Atwood, Margaret. "Nature the Monster" and "First People." In Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1972, pp. 58-60, 93-95. Atwood suggests that if a central image or symbol could be chosen for Canada (and Canadian literature) it might be survival. As a consequence of this, "preoccupation with one's survival is necessarily a preoccupation with the obstacles to that survival." One of these obstacles is Nature. Atwood's position is that Pratt is an example of a writer for whom Nature is hostile and "consistently destructive." In The Tistanic we "are dealing with a war-with-Nature or let's fight attitude that goes with 'Nature is hostile.' "In Towards the Last Spike Nature is portrayed as "Female Nature-Monster." However "Brebeuf and His Brethren is the all-Canadian poem: it's about a French Catholic priest killed by Indians, as seen by a white English-speaking Protestant from Newfoundland." In this poem, the Indians are allied with hostile, destructive nature and "Pratt dwells consistently not only on the more disagreeable aspects of Nature but on those of the Indians as well... His experience of the Canadian wilderness is like a city-dweller's nightmare of a canoe trip .. . the description of life with them [the Indians] reads like a cross between a slum-clearance proposal and an antacid ad."
C100 Macpherson, Jay. Pratt's Romantic Mythology: The Witches' Brew. The Pratt Lecture, 1972. St. John's Memorial University, 1972. The Witches' Brew is examined from the point of view of the development of imagery from the early manuscripts to the final printed poem. Macpherson also relates The Witches' Brew to the other two "extravaganzas"--The Depression Ends and The Truant--showing how certain ideas which appear only in the manuscript form of The Witches' Brew reappear later in these two poems. Images such as drowned volcanoes, witches, cats, and sparks recur in romantic writers such as Blake, Byron, Shelley, and Goethe as well as Milton and Shakespeare. Macpherson shows how Pratt develops these images in the manuscripts and eventually refines or abandons ideas, although she suggests that Pratt is more interested in words and phrases than in making sense. The Witches' Brew is a very Canadian poem for three reasons-"first, its sexlessness, second, its cheerfully Robinson Crusoe attitude towards the flotsam and jetsam of literary tradition...; third, its fascination with the spectacle of life displaying its energies in a fundamentally alien universe."
C101 New, William. "The Identity of Articulation: Pratt's Towards the Last Spike." In Articulating West. Essays on Purpose and Form in Modern Canadian Literature. Toronto: new press, 1972, pp. 32-42. Rpt. in The Literary Half-Yearly, 13, No. 2 (July 1972), 137-48. Towards the Last Spike is an example of how Pratt contrasts myth and fact in his poetry. The poem is more than just a "political parable," it also illustrates the "tension and . . .the ambivalent relationship between man and land." Another important aspect of the poem is language--"For Pratt .. to mark the movement towards national consciousness, towards 'the last spike,' is to mark a poetic quest for linguistic method (and thus meaning), which again forces the visionary imagination and expediency to collide." New quotes extensively from the poem to show Pratt's use of language to dramatize the tensions in the situation, until "the inaugural sounds of nationality and poetry are then uttered together, for the poet in search of a language and the country in search of its image and voice."
C102 Sutherland, John. "E.J. Pratt" Application for a Grant." In his John Sutherland: Essays, Controversies and Poems. Ed. and introd. Miriam Waddington. New Canadian Library, No. 81. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1972, pp. 172-77. According to Sutherland, Pratt is the most important Canadian poet, but he has been neglected by critics. He feels criticism is now needed to show that "this poetry possesses the qualities of complexity and of depth which have so often been denied to it." In this article Sutherland is asking for assistance to continue a study of Pratt's poetry in which he examines the idea that the "strength" or power which is a central idea in Pratt's poetry must be thought of in religious terms." It is the Christian truths which are most fundamental to his work and it is these which I would stress in my analysis."
C103 Sutherland, John. "E. J. Pratt's Right Hand Punch." In his John Sutherland: Essays, Controversies and Poems. Ed. and introd. Miriam Waddington. New Canadian Library, No. 81. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1972, pp. 164-65. Sutherland claims that "E. J. Pratt is almost alone among the present writers in being able to deliver a right-hand blow." Pratt's work "evokes a direct and enthusiastic response from the reader." His strength is in his narrative poetry. He needs to develop his theme on a large scale. "He does not possess the power for the striking individual line or the varieties of sensuous texture that characterize the lyrical poet."
C104 Sutherland, John. "Ironic Balance." In his John Sutherland: Essays, Controversies and Poems. Ed. and introd. Miriam Waddington. New Canadian Library, No. 81. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1972, pp. 169-72. Pratt's best poems "depend on an ironic balance" between delight in the existence of strength and a realization of its destructive powers. This is best illustrated in The Titanic. In Towards the Last Spike the symbolism is obscured by the clash of personalities.
Cl05 Sutherland, John. "Newfoundland Attitudes." In his John Sutherland: Essays, Controversies and Poems. Ed. and introd. Miriam Waddington. New Canadian Library, No. 81. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1972, pp. 166-69. Pratt occupies a unique position among Canadian poets, in that he is the first to be completely free of past "literary influences." The Cachalot" which is a complete break with the traditions of the past gives "symbolic expression to the poet's internal conflict." Pratt deals with forces of power in the world with "unbounded optimism" rather than with the intellect. In doing this he also separates himself from most modern poets.
C106 Thomas, Clara. "Edwin John Pratt 1882-1964." In Our Nature, Our Voices: A Guidebook to English-Canadian Literature. Our Nature--Our Voices, Vol I. Toronto: new press, 1972, pp. 95-101. In her biographical sketch, Thomas shows how lengthy and varied was Pratt's "career-apprenticeship." She contends that the "Darwinian theory, which so radically altered the tight doctrinal world of his youth, liberated his imagination and excited him always." The themes of his major works and the range of his narrative mode made him a "virtuoso" poet. Pratt not only held a "special position among poets" but also "in the general cultural consciousness of Canada. In Towards the Last Spike, he transcended the real "to the truly mythic in our history."
C107 Djwa, Sandra. "Milton and the Canadian Folk Tradition: Some Aspects of E. J. Pratt's The Witches'Brew." The Literary Half-Yearly, 13, No. 2 (July 1972), 56-71. In The Witches' Brew, along with "farce, hyperbole, fantasy and a most irreverent delight" there is "eating, drinking and fighting" to equal the Newfoundland folk song "The Killigrew's Soiree." In it Pratt has turned "upside down" the world of his previous poetry, as well as making a "parody of [his]. . . earlier religious concerns." Pratt was delighted with the puzzle he had created for his critics with this comic epic. The Witches' Brew "is the comic and demonic obverse of Milton's Paradise Lost." An excerpting, retelling, and interpreting of the poem follows with comparisons to earlier Pratt poems and the comic ballads of Newfoundland folk song writer Johnny Burke. "The relation of The Witches' Brew to (Burke's) 'Kelligrew's Soiree' is the continuity of the Newfoundland folk tradition." It relates to "pulpit oratory, the hymn, and the folk song," and in turn as "a reflection of the pattern of Newfoundland speech rhythmic patterns which Pratt himself retained all of his life." The poem "is uneven and not entirely successful in its attempt to unite its two discordant elements of Milton's thought and Newfoundland song ..."
C108 Djwa, Sandra. "E. J. Pratt and Evolutionary Thought: Towards an Eschatology." The Dalhousie Review, 52 (Autumn 1972), 414-26. "Pratt was a sensitive man greatly troubled by the Victorian conflict between Science and Religion [evolution and ethics] and his poetry continually explores the possibility of finding some acceptable compromise between the two." "His own philosophy, as expressed in his poetry, shows a development suggesting "a series of evolutionary parables in which ethical man. . . is pitted against T. H. Huxley's 'cosmic process'[evolution]." In his attempt to make man more equal to this struggle, "Pratt continually suggests that it is human 'will,' the courage and determination to accomplish a heroic act. . . which established an ethical frame of reference that suggests the existence of a spiritual world." In trying to classify Pratt, Djwa finds that "he is a transitional Victorian, firmly rooted in the evolutionary ethic of the 1890s, and working out a fairly complex evolutionary structure. . . .Pratt is attempting a compromise between the old teleology of received religion and the Darwinian world without design, ultimately insisting that design resides within the organism, within the blood and nerve cells of man."
C109 Waterston, Elizabeth. Survey: A Short History of Canadian Literature. Methuen Canadian Literature. Toronto: Methuen, 1973, pp. 93-98, 117-19. Waterston's Survey "proposes to explore some of the 'hows' and the 'whys' of Canadian art." She includes Pratt among the Canadian novelists and poets who "opened their art to themes and scenes previously censored as unpleasant or improper" and who wrote "with a thinner music of ironic resistance and endurance." Pratt's work is briefly surveyed, pointing out themes and styles from his early poems, "turbulent with sea, storms, and tidal struggles" to his later works showing "religious conviction set against savagery in the forest, and then to human organizing ability conquering rock, space, and height."
C110 Djwa, Sandra. "The Civil Polish of the Horn: E. J. Pratt's Brebeuf and His Brethren. Arie], 4 (July 1973), 82-102. "It is generally agreed that E. J. Pratt is Canada's major poet and that Brebeuf and His Brethren is the most significant poem yet written in Canada." The poem has been described as a "Christian epic," or as an "heroic epic." Other critics claim Pratt's philosophy is "atheism" or "reverent agnosticism." This dichotomy can be resolved, Djwa believes, by seeing that the subject "supremely transcendent 17th century Christianity of Brebeuf," is in contradiction with "the human-centered, turn-of-the-century 'New theology' of Pratt, the poem's maker." Djwa attempts to explain Pratt's philosophy through a well-documented insight into his life and an in-depth study of the poem. Pratt is able by focussing upon "the human and upon the evolution of man, of society, and of religion" to produce "a paradigm of all ethical men at all times of crisis," instead of keeping the poem in "its religious particularity of one man at one time." The poem, experienced as a whole, is a convincing religious epic but focusing on major scenes reveals some ambiguity. Djwa shows it is "an exposition of Pratt's own vision of the religious life and his admiration for the struggle of the dedicated man of faith." Revealed is Pratt's "progressive but somewhat unorthodox 'New theology'" which might explain why he probably was right in believing "that he would not have been well suited for the conventional United Church pulpit of 1917."
Clll Sproxton, Birk E. "E. J. Pratt as Psychologist, 1919-1920." Canadian Notes & Queries, No. 14 (1974), pp. 7-9. Sproxton has studied Pratt's psychological work for the period 1919 to 1920, as represented in "Clay" and other poems. Several critics have underestimated E. J. Pratt as psychologist.
C112 Djwa, Sandra. "Litterae ex machina." Humanities Association Review, 25, No. 1 (Winter 1974), 22-31. Using a computer to manipulate the input of themes from seven representative Canadian poets (1875-1960), Djwa found the image of nature is directly connected to Darwinian theory rather than to any reaction of Canadian poets to the concept of environment as a threatening wilderness. Darwinism was the main influence on Canadian Romanticism from the first and continued through the social Darwinist "northern" vision of the 1920s. Djwa considers Pratt's work in the light of this computer derived theory.
C113 Davey, Frank. "E. J. Pratt. Rationalist Technician." Canadian Literature, No. 61 (Summer 1974), pp. 65-78. "Pratt's concept of poetic form and language are precisely of that rationalist kind [found] in the works of A. J. M. Smith." Pratt believes in "the myth of poetic objectivity. . .[he] stand[s] outside rather than inside his poetic materials, shaping them through sensibility and intelligence, rationally confronting problems of convention, language, and form." Pratt appears interested in measurable reality. His poems are full of "miles, tonnages, names, quotations, that which can be weighed, cited, documented. . .Material reality is assumed to contain. . . the whole." On the other hand "if an event is not totally knowable, one must fake total knowledge." This latter can be a danger since the subject may be "unfairly treated; the metaphor has said far less than needed to be said while pretending to say all." The critic believes that throughout Pratt's career "in both lyrics and narratives, Pratt was an impersonal, manipulative, synthesizing, rationalist craftsman." Pratt is in the "cosmopolitan-traditionalist stream guarded since the fifties by the criticism of Northrop Frye." Pratt was throughout his work "an apologist for the Pelagian view of man--that view in which mankind can, by social co-operation, discipline, vigilance, the application of reason, and the suppression of individualism overcome any difficulty. . . corporate man can be the rationalist craftsman of his own destiny."
C114 Ross, Malcolm. "Pratt, Edwin John." Encyclopedia Canadiana, 1975. A brief article including biographical information, a critical evaluation, a listing of Pratt's works, and critical references to 1958. Ross contends that "there would seem to be little doubt that the poetry of E. J. Pratt is our largest Canadian achievement in verse and that it will find a secure place in the literature of our tongue."
C115 Birbalsingh, F. "Tension of His Time." Canadian Literature, No. 64 (Spring 1975), pp. 75-82. Pratt's poetry can be divided into three groups on the basis of their philosophical outlook: "those describing a world in which God's primacy is undisputed, those in which this primacy is challenged by man, and those in which the challenge of God by man is satisfactorily reconciled." In the first group, "Newfoundland" and "From Stone to Steel" pass the test. In the second category, many of the poems are failures because "the poet's religious point of view is directly contradicted by his scientific outlook, and the result is ambivalence or incoherence .... The Cachalot" and "The Truant" are examples of this type of failure. In "the third group. . . Pratt offers a solution to the underlying conflict between religion and science." Brebeuf and His Brethren is a total success from this point of view .... Pratt finally succeeds in demonstrating the view of life that he held throughout his career, in a harmoniously working, God-controlled universe." Pratt had a simple, conventional view of life which was consistent with his background and the "social and historical circumstances" of his "formative years." Brebeuf, his best work, remains "the greatest. . .[and] the most complete Canadian narrative."
C116 Collins, Robert G. "E. J. Pratt: The Homeric Voice." Review of National Literatures, 7 (1976), 83-109. The most considerable Canadian poet up to the 1960s according to George Woodcock was the "literary conservative E. J. Pratt" whose forte was large mock epics "in Hudibrastic verse." Collins sees a militancy in the new generation of writers, and claims that the "old conservatism" provides a strong foundation for development. What has been noted since Homer's time is the need to know where one comes from, one's heroic tradition. This is "the basis of a distinct culture," the inspiration for each new generation, the chief means of bringing "anonymous masses together as a nation." In Canada "where can a unifying tradition be found? . . .Pratt. . .is the one to whom we turn for an answer." Following Frye and his interpretation of Pratt as Canada's epic poet, Collins surveys and confirms Frye's arguments adding arguments of his own from Pratt's background and his poems. Pratt's weaknesses and strengths are explored and revealed: "There remain the great poems silently chanting within the covers of the Collected Pratt." A closer scrutiny is made of Canada's Aeneid, Brebeuf and His Brethren, of which Collins concludes, "Pratt's treatment of the narrative of the early heroes amply justifies his role as national poet of Canada." Collins quotes Barker Fairley (1926), who noted the uniqueness of Pratt's work and claimed "almost for the first time in Canadian poetry" a Canadian voice.
C117 Enright, Robert. "Knockers on the Iron Door: A Report on the E.J. Pratt Symposium at the University of Ottawa, Spring, 1976." CV/II, No. 2 (May 1976), pp. 3-5. An entertaining, critical report from the E. J. Pratt Symposium. Fred Cogswell, Ralph Gustafson, and Carl Klinck chorused the "touchstone for the Symposium," Pratt's attention to craftsmanship, "taking the stuff of life and giving it imaginative form." Germaine Warkentin "concentrated on the 'essential Pratt' as he revealed himself in the lyrics" while Robert Gibbs argued there is much subjectivity in the lyrics and that they "function as artistic resolutions in a world that remains intellectually unresolved." Sandra Djwa, Peter Stevens, and Peter Buitenhuis dealt with modernism, language, and Pratt and the sea respectively. Glenn Clever "preferred to keep his analyses [of war poetry] general." Enright found the poetry reading "Perhaps the most interesting event of the symposium."
C118 Middlebro', Tom. "A Commentary on the Opening Lines of E. J. Pratt's Towards the Last Spike." Studies in Canadian Literature, 1, No. 2 (Summer 1976), 242-43. Towards the Last Spike is "modelled on the documentary" opening with "a statement of theme" followed by "a succession of particular examples" which the reader himself must "forge into a life-line of meaning."
C119 Gibbs, Robert. "Poet of Apocalypse." Canadian Literature, No. 70 (Autumn 1976), pp. 32-4l. "Any work of the imagination is a kind of apocalypse, generally [with] the alpha-and-omega scope [of] the last book of the New Testament." Gibbs examines The Witches Brew and The Great Feud as the work of the "Poet of Apocalypse." In The Witches' Brew, Tom, the cat from Zanzibar, and "the central figure of the poem,. . . symbolizes an imagination freed to rove through the cosmos, to illuminate its dark places with his fiery tail. . . . Tom. . .bodies forth the very spirit which is the poem's impulse." The female ape "represents the glimmerings of reason and of moral responsibility." Her freedom is the freedom of man in Pratt's universe, the "freedom to work out his own destruction as well as his salvation." The doubling back of evolution is represented by Tyrannosaurus Rex who becomes "the repository of sleeping potential of destructive energy." Thus he "symbolizes the whole of creation and its suffering." Since "no choice, no moral decision, no glimmering of love or sympathy has motivated [Tyrannosaurus Rex] he can't be thought of as a Christ-symbol as Sutherland has claimed. Pratt sees "nature as controlled and driven by impulses that contain their opposites."
C120 Buitenhuis, Peter. "E. J. Pratt." In The Canadian Imagination: Dimensions of a Literary Culture. Ed. David Staines. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1977, pp. 46-68. This essay, in a collection for the American reader, states that although Pratt is considered "Canada's most significant poet" he is barely known in the United States. Buitenhuis briefly describes Pratt's youth and years at Victoria College, the "quintessence of the Ontario mind, bourgeois, austere, dry, with a tradition both strongly theological and liberal." The critic believes that the evolutionary theory, which was "the central metaphor of his work. . . probably had a good deal to do with his decision to leave the ministry." Brebeuf, Pratt's greatest poem, is "about the whole French imperial effort in New France." His incisive analysis shows the numerous ironies in the poem, its "mosaic form," and the shortcomings of W. T. Scott's criticism. Turning to Pratt's earlier epics, he notes how important are the sea and the power struggles. Buitenhuis, who has had naval experience himself, shows how "Pratt makes the point, perhaps the central point of modern war, that the ultimate victory is achieved not by the Nelson touch but by the combined, unrelenting tasks of many men. And he skillfully draws together the themes of Behind the Log in a complex web of imagery of writing, type, blood, body, and machinery." Smith called Pratt "the only Canadian poet who has mastered the long poem" and Buitenhuis believes that even the shorter works become "versions of the heroic." Buitenhuis concludes that "Canada did not find an adequate myth-and-image-maker in Canadian poetry until E. J. Pratt appeared."
C12l Innis, Kenneth. "'The History of the Frontier Like a Saga': Parkman, Pratt, and the Jesuit Enterprise." In The Westering Experience in American Literature: Bicentennial Essays. Ed. Merrill Lewis and L. L. Lee. Bellingham, Wash. Bureau for Faculty Research, Western Washington Univ., 1977, pp. 179-88. Innis states that "By comparing the poem with the historical account that appears to be its major source I hope to bring out some Canadian-American differences in focus and emphasis. . . ." Innis presents a brief historical background, emphasizing the distinctness of the Canadian "Westering" experience which was affected by Canada's northern locale. The movement Westward took place not so much by covered wagons but by birchbark canoes containing "Indian and Jesuit, as well as pragmatic Scottish trader." The critic believes that Parkman, who devoted much attention to his style of writing, lacked objectivity in his recording of events and that he "does not provide a useable version of the heroic origins of the country" the way Pratt does in Brebeuf. Innis goes on to examine Pratt's and Parkman's presentation of the Indians and Jesuits. Although Pratt includes ironies about the Jesuits, they still "remain types of human endurance, of heroic charity, paladins of faith who are finally beyond the range of tragedy and of critical irony. "For Parkman the Jesuits were a "systematized contradiction . . .alien and other, their form of faith a pathetic fallacy, and their quixotic plan of embracing Indians as brothers in Christ and children of France a basic misreading of aboriginal nature and its possibilities."
C122 Laakso, Lila. "E. J. Pratt: A Preliminary Checklist." Canadian Library Journal, 34, No. 4 (Aug 1977), 273,275,277-79,281-83,285,287-91,293-94.
C123 Marshall, Tom "The Major Canadian Poets: E. J. Pratt." The Canadian Forum, Oct. 1977, pp. 19-21. Rpt. (rev.) "Weather: E. J. Pratt." In Harsh and Lovely Land. Vancouver: Univ. of British Columbia Press, 1979, pp. 34-40. Pratt who "set out to be Canada's national poet" can be regarded as Canada's Whitman and Melville because "Like Melville, he questioned man's fate. Like Whitman, he combined a national vision with a sense of man's place in the universe at large. It is this larger vision, the Canadian 'long view,' that informs his best work." Marshall sees Pratt as a Christian poet and Christ for him "symbolizes the ultimate goal of evolution and human development." In "The Truant" Pratt says the "traditional notion of God has got to go." God is evolving "through us and our developing consciousness." Pratt's Christ then becomes "an image of man's potential future." After a closer study of The Titanic, Brebeuf, and Towards the Last Spike, Marshall concludes that the shorter poems, especially "Silences" and "The Truant," are more successful than the long narratives. Grove and Pratt pictured Canada in transition and therefore are "the important writers of the time. They wrestled with facts and dreams, Europe and America, nature and culture, environment and the machine, the Darwinian theory and the vision of a Utopian future."
C124 Darling, Michael E. "E. J. Pratt's Contribution to 'Canadian Comment.'" Canadian Notes & Queries, No. 21 (July 1978), pp. 10-11. The author lists articles written by Pratt in Canadian Comment during the period from July 1933, when he joined the editorial board, until March 1936. Among the "Literature" columns, Pratt was either celebrating "a date in literary history -- the tercentenary of Samuel Pepys -- or discussing the subject of a recent book -- Arthur Bryant's biography of Macaulay, or a newly discovered Dickens Manuscript." Darling lists the writings chronologically.
C125 Whalley, George. "Birthright to the Sea: Some Poems of E. J. Pratt. "Queen's Quarterly, 85 (Winter 1978-79), 578-94. Delivered at the Pratt Memorial Lecture, Memorial University, St John's, Newfoundland, 1977. Whalley wishes "to search out a little the specific quality of Pratt's poetry where it is of greatest intensity and of most complex human and emotional implication." A poem's definition and force is not only in the subject-matter but in "something intrinsic, with its roots in what has been experienced to the bone." Whalley defines three kinds of sea poems by Pratt: "a)poems that engage directly the way of life of fishermen and their people, b) poems that recount memorable events at sea, c) fables in which sea-creatures are depicted and celebrated .... Verbal tone and articulation" are more important than subject matter and theme in typing Pratt's poems, Whalley thinks. For instance, in the Extravaganzas Pratt "sets vibrating a string of peculiar timber, a sound of distinctive potency." In the epic manner, Pratt's masculine characters are "courageous, enduring, strong and skillful. . .[as well as] compassionate, patient, self-sacrificing, unassuming, hospitable, reticent. . . ." Pratt's poetry has the imprint "of the people he had grown up among. . . [and] his poetry often sprang from -- his birthright to the sea."
C126 O'Flaherty, Patrick. "Emigrant Muse." In The Rock Observed: Studies in the Literature of Newfoundland. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1979, pp. 111-26. O'Flaherty recounts the setting -- Newfoundland around the turn of the century -- and the story of Pratt's first twenty-five years. Pratt, having established himself in Toronto, "did not attempt, much less achieve, a comprehensive statement about his [Newfoundland] homeland." Pratt was, "without question, Newfoundland's finest poet" Still, his "poetry showed no interest in Newfoundland history, . . . . no interest in exploring the distinctive traditions and habits of speech of his people,. . . .[ no ] genuine curiosity about the outport way of life, . . .no examination of the mechanics of fishing and sealing, [and] no detailed study of individual fishermen." Although he "pays lip service to the heroism inherent" in the common man, he shows no "intelligent interest in such men." Although Pratt became a "fine Canadian poet," what he would have done if he had "turned his great talent upon the materials supplied by his own people, must be left to conjecture."
C127 Brandeis, Robert C. "Crumbling Pages: The E. J. Pratt Collection -- Restoration and Preservation." Vic Report, 7, No. 3, (Summer 1979), 8-9. The Victoria University Library's "collection of E.J. Pratt manuscripts and printed works is the most comprehensive in Canada." It contains "all the published works of the poet, a substantial number of notebooks, working papers, correspondence, rough drafts of poems and lecture notes." The Library has undertaken a restoration and preservation program to save these invaluable manuscripts. The process is described and a plea is made for the preservation of other similar "unique and valuable materials. . .of our national and cultural heritage."
C128 Love, C. C. "The Evolution of a Pratt Poem." Vic Report, 7, No. 3 (Summer 1979), 10. The Pratt manuscripts provide a possibility "to see the mind of the poet at work and to understand his ideas and his imaginative presentation of them." The poem "Erosion," in three versions, is used as an example: the first and second versions, not usually available, can be compared with the final version.
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C1 Wells, Henry Willis, and Carl F. Klinck. Edwin J. Pratt, the Man and His Poetry. Canadian Men of Letters. Toronto: Ryerson, 1947. viii, 197 pp. The book is both a biography of Pratt and a critical appreciation of his poetry. Klinck explores Pratt's background and its influence on his work. The chapter "Writing in Canada" looks into the Canadian literary scene of the time and shows that Pratt did not wish to be a "link between the Victorians and the disciples of T.S. Eliot"; rather his stated aim is "to write of the struggle of man against himself." Klinck analyses Pratt's philosophy, themes, and method: "The scholar and the common man being united in him. . .He rarely goes into the realm of literary complexities reserved only for the few. His sources are democratic." The biographer observes that Pratt's "poetry is modern and even feminist in that he accepts women as participants in all human affairs, as partners in life, not as children, dolls, idols or foils for masculine sensitivity." Wells examines in essay form Pratt's major narratives in relation to traditional archetypes. "Aeschylean Tragedy" examines The Titanic, "Aristophanic Fooling" deals with The Witches' Brew, "The Religious Epic" studies Brebeuf and His Brethren, and "Epic Valour" concerns The Roosevelt and the Antinoe. Poems which use animal imagery, and poems that deal with tools and machines in relation to man are other areas discussed. Wells observes how Pratt, more than most poets, shows men as "workmen" and he "expresses with no slight imagination the great cultural problem of our age: the relation of man, compounded of flesh, blood, nerves, and thoughts, to his cold, impersonal and arrogant machines." In his summation, Wells concludes that Pratt "aspires to a day when man shall be not victim but master of his machines, and when wars abroad and the still deadlier depressions at home may have been conquered by human intelligence."
C2 Sutherland, John. The Poetry of E. J. Pratt: A New Interpretation. Toronto: Ryerson, 1956. viii, 109 pp. Sutherland concerns himself "with the symbolic implications of Pratt's work, and specifically, though not exclusively, with the Christian symbolism it contains." Sutherland claims he was not primarily concerned with Pratt's conscious aim in his poetry, "but with some part of the vast residue of thought and feeling which may come into a poem in the course of composition irrespective of the poet's intention." He also finds that even if Pratt is not an orthodox Christian, still it is possible that Christian revelation is in the poems. From his study, Sutherland finds a religious meaning behind Pratt's poetry. The Titanic is an allegory of death and resurrection, "The Cachalot" and Tyrannosaurus Rex in The Great Feud symbolize Christ. According to Sutherland, "Pratt is drawn back to a position ultimately very close to the traditional Christian one." Whatever his beliefs, he shows that deep respect for matter which derives from the Christian dogma of incarnation...." In an age of strife he has lived as though in "the core of the cyclone, and given the most powerful to the phantasms of the war of machines."
C3 Pitt, David G., ed. E. J. Pratt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, 1. Toronto: Ryerson, 1969. xx, 155 pp. (Hereafter abbreviated as EJP. Annotations of individual articles and reviews appear with their original publication citation.) The purpose of the collection is "to provide in convenient and accessible form a representative selection of critical writings on the poetry of E. J. Pratt. Books, reviews, and critical analyses reprinted cover the period beginning with a review of Newfoundland Verse written in 1923 to a Pratt lecture delivered at Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1969. The editor provides a bibliography of additional important critical writings excluded from the collection because of lack of space and because they are readily available. In the "Introduction," Pitt summarizes the history of Pratt scholarship, giving some possible reasons for the direction it has taken. "In the long run, 'all the adulation' of the 'Upper Canadian critics' was probably a disservice done to Pratt." He agrees that the poet was " 'an outsize personality'" who affected critics' analyses; however, he concludes that "it cannot but be helpful and illuminating to readers and critics of Pratt to have at hand the thoughtful appreciations and considered judgements of those who knew both the spirit and the flesh."
C4 Wilson, Milton Thomas. E.J. Pratt. New Canadian Library: Canadian Writers, No. 2. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1969. 64 pp. In an excellent, if short critical analysis, Wilson examines Pratt's poetry under the headings: "Shorter Poems," Extravaganzas," "The Sea, the Railway and Brebeuf." There is not a sharp dividing line between Pratt's short lyrics and his long narratives and often the shorter works "read like reshaped chips from the floor of an epic workshop." Pratt wrote about "things in action and in contact." In the lyrics the sense of touch is important: "the fingers, which etch and trace or handle and absorb," the tides are "'great hands'" and the fog, "'silent fingering.'" Wilson finds that in the best of Pratt's last lyrics, death is emphasized. He divides Pratt's narratives into a "four-beat or a five-beat" rhythmic norm. Pratt called the first group "extravaganzas" while Wilson, analyzing The Witches' Brew, "would call it a kind of sclentifc-cum-theological-cum-literary farce." He is critical of Pratt's use of irony and omens in The Titanic. In The Roosevelt and the Antinoe, the style is "more ornate and more direct than its two successors," but the critic can accept this while "touches of showy over-writing In Behind the Log leave me cold." The first lifeboat's journey is selected as "a candidate for the finest sustained passage in all Pratt." Towards the Last Spike is criticized because of "the way the poem assumes the story rather than narrates it." Brebeuf and His Brethren Wilson concedes is a masterpiece; Pratt has said of the poem that it "typifies the struggle to obtain dramatic objectivity.'"
C5 Pratt, Mildred Claire. The Silent Ancestors: The Forebears of E. J Pratt Toronto. McClelland and Stewart, 1971. 239 pp. The Silent Ancestors is Claire Pratt's quest which covered three continents and five years of work to unravel the background of the Pratt heritage. She found that "my story is meagre,. . .unenlivened by family legend and . . .tall tales." It is the "background of an ordinary family. . . warm and close knit. . . now completely forgotten in the very village in which its members had lived for over a century." The concluding chapter, "The Poetry of E. J. Pratt," gives personal, probing insights into the art of Pratt. There is more in Pratt than the sea and Newfoundland "forces are inevitably at work forming and composing the sinews of thought." The "element of hugeness" is from his Yorkshire ancestry. His "gentleness and sensitivity" are "predominant qualities among the Pratts" and thus ancestral. "The Great Feud" is described as "the bloodiest and most ludicrous carnage ever staged." Referring to the often evoked symbolism, Claire Pratt states "deeper layers exist. . . but there is. . .no doubt that the [poem was ] written primarily for pure joy." Other poems are discussed and analyzed in a refreshing way. Pratt worshipped "the group hero, the anonymous man whose unsung deeds permeate his verse." Miss Pratt concludes with her father's poem "Silences" which has relevance to "his life and. . .his ancestors [but also reveals] the civilized need for ordered, meaningful sound."
C6 Djwa, Sandra. E. J. Pratt: The Evolutionary Vision. Montreal: McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, Toronto: Copp Clark, 1974. 160 pp. This "introductory study," the most complete yet undertaken of Pratt's works, combines what Djwa has perceived as Pratt's central concern: "the conflict between Darwinian Nature and Christian ethics-- and demonstrating the centrality of this evolutionary theme in each of the major poems." Djwa has thoroughly researched her project. She used the E. J. Pratt Manuscript Collection at Victoria University and also received help from Mrs. Viola Pratt and Miss Claire Pratt. Pratt's first attempts are "rooted in Victorian evolutionary thought" Still his "sensibility and his developed poetic technique are thoroughly modern in tone." Djwa believes Pratt was "a transitional figure whose poetic development has its roots in both centuries." Each chapter represents "a series of evolutionary parables .... Pratt is greatly distressed by the cruelty of nature; . . .[he] opposes it with human and ethical values." He saw that since man is a part of nature, that man has the potential for amoral action within himself. Pratt often "explores the possibility of making some acceptable compromise between science and religion." For Pratt, "human will," courage, and determination, are what establish a moral frame of reference for human action. He is "a modern story teller and myth maker;. . . he successfully embodies his ethical concern within the national myth." In a nuclear age Pratt may be the most clear-sighted of our modern poets: long before his contemporaries, he had perceived the true temper of the century and the responsibility it would place upon individual man."
C7 Clever, Glenn, ed. The E.J. Pratt Symposium. Reappraisals: Canadian Writers. Ottawa: Univ. of Ottawa Press, 1977. 172 pp. The volume includes the program, some of the papers and panel presentations of The Pratt Symposium held at the University of Ottawa, May 1-2, 1976, and a Preliminary Checklist of Publications by and about Pratt. Editor Clever points out that the intention of the Symposium is "to help establish the literary identity of the author." The opening panel was a biographical one from which both Ralph Gustafson's and Carl Klinck's presentations are published. Germaine Warkentin's "The Aesthetics of E. J. Pratt's Shorter Poems" is an argument for Pratt's shorter poems. She concludes that "In Pratt's completeness, the short poems play not merely a significant, but an essential part. They do so . . . by defining and articulating what Pratt could give voice to in no other way." Sandra Djwa's presentation, "The 1920's: E. J. Pratt, Transitional Modern," shows how "Romanticism came late to Canada and it had not run its course when suddenly revived by the new nationalism, it had a new function to perform--the heroic affirmation of the land and its people," a need to which Pratt responded. In "Language and Man in the Poetry of E. J. Pratt" Peter Stevens presents "the various paradoxes associated with silence and language" as well as the poet as paradoxical and possibly deceitful "spokesman for heroism." The precise role of the sea, the force it embodies, and the development of its function in Pratt's poetry are the problems tackled in Peter Buitenhuis' "E. J. Pratt: Poet of the Sea." Since Brebeuf and His Brethren "is largely misinterpreted by the critics," in his contribution, "E. J. Pratt's Brebeuf and His Brethren--The Critics and the Sources," Peter Hunt undertakes to show how they have erred. In "Pratt as War Poet" Glenn Clever finds that Pratt's war poems do not "seriously concern the morality of war." Pratt believes in certain myths -- "progress" and "political freedom" -- which cause many of his war poems to be "verse propaganda." Following Cogswell, Clever relegates some of Pratt's war poems "to the stoney limbo of that which was not for all time but for an age." Agnes Nyland in "Pratt and History" finds that Pratt "knew our history well and used it accurately." Using Brebeuf and His Brethren as an example Nyland sees in the poem "a profound study of the reaction of a pagan people to the teachings of Christianity, especially those of the Catholic faith. . .the trained mind against superstition, the saint against the savage." In "A True Voice" Pratt as a Lyric Poet" Robert Gibbs poses the question, did Pratt find "for his lyric poems a true voice. . .of feeling"? Gibbs concludes that Pratt's "lyrics are far from being simple rationalizations of complex feelings, the voice or voices which speak the poems are the poet's own. They are true voices, true to a peculiar vision and particular feelings. . . that impelled him to express himself in verse." In the concluding essay "Disjecta Membrane: The Uncollected Pratt" Louis K MacKendick finds that "there is a substantial amount of Pratt's poetic work which remains uncollected but in print." He samples some of these and nominates "several new candidates for inclusion" in a definitive collected poems.
C8 Clever, Glenn. On E. J. Pratt. Ottawa: Borealis, 1977. 70 pp. Clever surveys the "myths on which Pratt's poetry is assumed to rest" and decides that in Pratt "the essential myth is achievement, to moral purpose." In Pratt's age "the times were epic . . .[and] human science replaced the church as the teleological representative in man." Of the poetry that resulted, Clever concludes that Pratt is "the first and only Canadian creative writer to express truly the spirit that forged the nation." Pratt's overall tone is "democratic and optimistic" with "willing participation in great deeds -- not the mindless collective action cited by Davey." Pratt has been criticized by critics for his poetry's lack of human individuals. His "characters are elemental, cast from a heroic mould . . .fixed and unchanging. . .representative of historical forces, symbols of stages of civilization" and therefore individualization would "be a defect in a fictional world predicated on heroic achievement." In examining Brebeuf and His Brethren, the critic suggests how melodrama results because "rhetoric and plot are inconsistent with the narrative imperatives of the topic." Clever believes that because Pratt "takes sides," shows biases, some of his work, like Dunkirk and Behind the Log, is "verse propaganda." He concludes with a brief critical reading of The Iron Door: An Ode.
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C149 Rowland, Nancy. "A Poet at Work." Acta Victoriana, 70 (Oct 1945), 36-37. This article is a student's report of an interview with Professor Pratt in 1945. Pratt had spent his summer aboard Canadian destroyers getting background material for a poem based on the exploits of the destroyer Skeena in 1941 (The product was "Behind the Log.")
C150 Bentley, Allen. "Dinner with E.J. Pratt." Acta Victoriana, 79 (March 1955), 5-10. Based on an interview with Pratt, Bentley surveys the development of Canadian poetry from regionalism to nationalism and shows the role that nature has played in it. These trends reflect also in Pratt's poetic development. He "synthesizes the two conflicting trends" and utilizes the "dynamic conception of nature" to embody the "spirit of Canada" in his narrative epics. Bentley refers to a number of works to support his thesis. One of the few direct quotes from the poet reveals his philosophy on writing: "My ground rule for writing poetry is the golden mean. The poet speaks clearly, with accuracy, but also deeply, and he demands intelligence to make his readers aware of the greatness of his subject. He chooses a theme of universal significance for serious poetry, and makes it concrete by nailing it down with information and numbers of precise examples." On matters of form, Pratt believed that the narrative epic seemed "to be best adapted for sketching the Canadian element. And the struggle of man against Nature has always been my theme." From Pratt, "the stream passes to Earle Birney, so Pratt believes."
C151 Hambleton, Ronald. "E.J.Pratt, an Experience of Life." CBC Times, 6-12 March, 1955, p. 3. 20-26 March, 1955, p. 3. An abridged text of Ronald Hambleton's interview with Pratt which was broadcast on CBC Trans-Canada in the series "An Experience of Life." The interview focuses on fate, irony, and tragedy with particular reference to The Titanic. Pratt contrasts the tragedies of Brebeuf and the Titanic: "When Brebeuf and Lalemant were destroyed by the Indians, it was they, the two Jesuits, who chose to be. It was free will entirely. But when two thousand people died with the Titanic, there was no free will."
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C129 Dorothy Marie, CND, Sister. "The Epic Note in the Poetry of Edwin John Pratt." M.A. Thesis Ottawa 1956. "A careful analysis of four of the major narrative poems of Edwin John Pratt" to "evaluate the various aspects of epic treatment in presentation of the material." After a short introductory biographical sketch of Pratt and a chapter on the definition of epic the author tackles Pratt's Brebeuf and His Brethren which is said to reflect "the folk epic tradition" as well as having the "classic elements of style." The Titanic, The Roosevelt and the Antinoe, and Dunkirk are similarly treated if in less detail.
C130 Dorothy Marie, CND, Sister. "The Poetic Imagery of Edwin John Pratt." Diss. Ottawa 1958. This is a study of the imagery in Pratt's poetry. The "record left by the poet in the imagery that he employs is an unconscious or even a reluctant one"; the author believes the poet's "message to mankind" may be hidden "yet startlingly revealed in his imagery." Pratt calls "a spade a spade," nevertheless "his poetry contains images of strength and beauty that fashion forth a whole world of hidden analogies which can enrich Canadian poetic themes." Since poetry reaches the reader on several levels -- the intellectual, the sensuous, and the emotional -- the author has used these as divisions in her study. A "new poetic evaluation" using imagery in Pratt's poems is also attempted.
C131 Mary Rosalinda, Sister. "Brebeuf and His Brethren: A Great Canadian Poem." M.A. Thesis Ottawa 1959. The author claims that the "detailed study" of Pratt's Brebeuf and His Brethren is the first lengthy analysis of the poem. Pratt's life as related to possible influence on the poem is revealed. The literary evaluation is through "textual analysis," comparison with other Canadian poems by Johnson, Lampman, Pickthall, and Sullivan, and an analysis of criticisms of the poem. The validity of the sources for the poem is evaluated as are Pratt's accuracy of reporting. The theme under "sense, feeling, tone and intention," the texture according to "diction and imagery," the "inspiration" both "intellectual and emotional" are all "carefully studied." Until the present thesis "No one has attempted to weight the body of critical opinion [for] a just evaluation of the poem." In conclusion, Sister Mary Rosalinda finds that the poem "expresses Pratt's compassion and sympathy towards his fellowmen, that this poem is a sound portrayal of Canadian history, true in feeling and in expression to the source from which it was drawn, the Jesuit Relations."
C132 Paisley, Alixe Catherine. "Epic Features of Brebeuf and His Brethren by E.J. Pratt." M. A. Thesis Assumption Univ. of Windsor 1960. In her Introduction Paisey tells of a personal interview she had with Pratt on the form and the content of Brebeuf and His Brethren. Although Brebeuf is considered to be Pratt's greatest work, it has not yet been given the detailed study it deserves. Brebeuf fits into the tradition of the fourteenth- century English literary epics. In providing historical background to Brebeuf, Paisley shows the religious zeal of the time, the relationship of priest and soldier, and priest and Indians in New France. Brebeuf's qualities as hero are examined, the elements of unity of action, character, plot, and Pratt's "poetic powers" are probed. The final chapter deals with the themes in Pratt's major poems, showing parallels with Brebeuf.
C133 Sharman, Vincent Douglas. "Patterns of Imagery and Symbolism in the Poetry of E. J. Pratt." M.A. Thesis British Columbia 1963. Sharman's stated purpose is to trace the patterns of images and symbols in Pratt's poetry in order to "discover their relation to Pratt's main themes of man and the mechanical universe, and to reveal his view of man." Starting with Pratt's lyrics and "less successful narratives" Sharman finds that in them the image patterns are sea, ships, machinery, light, religion, and heroics. These reveal "man as surrounded by death" which man fights with his reason (machines) and with his feelings "which may lead him to sacrifice himself so that others may live." A study of The Roosevelt and the Antinoe by Sharman reveals it as "Pratt's greatest conflict between man and death." Through interpreting the patterns of images in the poem Sharman finds that for Pratt "the power of men acting for others' benefit transcends the power of the natural universe" and that "God is uncaring of men." Sharman turns to "The Titanic in which fate is . . .the antagonist." The Brebeuf and His Brethren image patterns of fire, religion, and hero reveal that Pratt thought "the Jesuits are misguided." Kindness and charity lose out to religious abstractions in the Jesuit illusion on the question of men's welfare. Both Jesuits and most of the Indians ". . .devote their energies to death rather than life. . . in extreme. . . misdirection of the human will to succeed." Sharman concludes with a discussion of Pratt's "total image of man."
C134 Conrad, S. C., Brother. "The Dialectic of Love and Ferocity in the Shorter Poems of E. J. Pratt." Thesis Ateneo de Manila 1964. Brother Conrad claims he is attempting to study Pratt's shorter poems "in order to discover the underlying theme which gives them unity," since "Pratt's lyrics appear simple but contain a deep meaning [and]. . . the poet makes it a point not to offer any direct philosophical generalizations." Following Sutherland, Conrad feels the important themes in Pratt's poetry are "the internecine conflict, the conflict between the "heroic' and the 'demoniac' selves in man" and "the value of Christ-like self-sacrifice as the only possible means of resolving this conflict. "This study of "the dialectic of love and ferocity," a title taken from Frye's introduction to the Collected Poems, is not a novel attack. It probes the shorter poems instead of the narratives. Conrad's method of analysis, "thematic exegesis," is also claimed to be a new approach in Prattian criticism. Following an examination of the sea poems, in which the author has attempted to define Pratt's "concept of man's origin, evolution, and existential condition," Conrad elucidates "the central theme--The Dialectic of Love and Ferocity." He concludes with an evaluation of Pratt's shorter poems. The lyrics show the dialectic struggle within man, "his demoniacal compulsion to destroy himself," and his "spark divine" which can redeem him. The synthesis of ferocity and love, the resolution of man's dilemma, is found in Pratt to be the "seeking to emulate the sacrificial life of Christ."
C135 Desjardins, Maurice A. "A Study of E. J. Pratt's Brebeuf and His Brethren." M.Phil. Thesis: Toronto 1968. In his study of the sources of Brebeuf and His Brethren, Desjardins does not propose to examine each line's origin. He believes much can be traced back to the primary and secondary sources although it is impossible to decide exactly which sources Pratt used and in what order since he consulted The Jesuit Relations and read historians Parkman, Jones, Wynne, Paquin, and Devine. Checking The Jesuit Relations, Desjardins finds that very little is taken directly except "Brebeuf's and Joque's long letters. "He finds "much historical data unaccounted for, and certain discrepancies which are startling." Some of the great sections of the poem, "the initial vision at Bayeux, Brebeuf's meditation at Rouen, Paris and Rennes, the prophetic Mass, and his reverie before the martyrdom," are not in the sources quoted. His aim in the thesis is to determine how Pratt used all the materials. From this study emerges "a clearer picture of his great narrative skill, his dramatic inventiveness, his symbolic use of place and dates quite unexpected, his wrestling with historical characters deeply animated with religious thought which [though he pays lip service to Catholic ritual] is very different from his own." Desjardins' section on religion in the poem and in the sources covers structure, imagery, and whether religion is "the core or the surface of the poem." He believes that "the primary theme suffers from a split in beliefs between hero and poet that no rhetoric can conceal."
C136 Mahoney, Helen, CND, Sister. "Edwin John Pratt: Canadian Poet." M. A. Thesis Villanova 1968. Sister Mahoney's purpose "is to add to the increasing prestige of the poet, Edwin John Pratt, by making better known this man whose wisdom found expression in his art." A chapter on Pratt's Newfoundland years as a child and youth is followed by personal details of his days at Victoria College. His poem Rachel and the play Clay were written at this time. Both proved failures but turned Pratt from philosophy and psychology leading him "to seek the concrete, the intuitive, the emotional approach." This is a folksy, sometimes interesting, and revealing storytelling of Pratt's life culled from many sources.
C137 Tietze, Edna Elizabeth. "Edwin John Pratt and the Epic Quality of His Poetry." M. Phil. Thesis Waterloo 1968. A biographical introduction to the poet is presented in the first chapter. Pratt's philosophy of life was of "a process of evolution determined by the interaction of human, mechanical, and natural dynamics." By reference to the Iliad, Aeneid, Beowulf, and Paradise Lost, the author in this thesis "will strive to develop a definition of epic and to place Pratt's work within that definition." She discusses epic mode in setting, theme, character, and action with specific examples drawn from Pratt's works showing the epic devices he used. "The way in which Pratt expands from the specific to the universal" is examined and illustrations of how Pratt "fuses the three powers by describing natural things in human terms, mechanical things in natural terms, human beings in natural and mechanical terms, and combinations of these" are given. Pratt's hero is modelled on the Christian rather than the classical epic and "Brebeuf emerges as the finest example of Pratt's epic hero acting out the epic mode." Pratt, the epic poet, expresses his "cosmic themes" in "language of simple grandeur and straightforward narrative."
C138 MacLeod, Denise Anne. "The Narrative Technique of E.J. Pratt." M.A. Thesis Mount Saint Vincent 1969. MacLeod sets as her problem the demonstration of "Pratt's mastering of the narrative form in poetry." To do so she surveys critical standards as applied to poetry in general and Pratt's in particular. The characteristics, tradition, and validity of the narrative form are determined and traced. Pratt's poetry as narrative is compared to the "principles established" by the author from her study. In conclusion she believes she has shown that "his poetry is of stature, [and that he] has had the integrity and the ability to work at the form [narrative] until he succeeded in creating something of lasting value."
C139 Gibbs, Robert J. "Aspects of Irony in the Poetry of E.J. Pratt." Diss. New Brunswick 1970. Gibbs finds that "Irony is pervasive in E.J. Pratt's poetry affecting...theme and design. . .diction and movement." The reasons for Pratt's irony are a "native reticence about personal feelings, a distrust of closed systems of thought and belief, and the capriciousness of natural forces in human fortunes." Unresolved tensions in his poetry are created by the combination of the above negatives with "exuberant optimism," "joy in physical being," "fascination with natural mechanics and human technology,. . .and Christian ideals." In the early poems irony "is external and deliberate." In such poems as "The Cachalot," "The Shark," and "Silences" irony becomes an interplay between "alazonic exuberance and emotional detachment." Irony in The Witches' Brew appears "as tension between rhetorical pattern and the released imagination." Gibbs examines irony in other Pratt narratives and lyrics including The Roosevelt and the Antinoe, The Titanic, "The Truant," Brebeuf and His Brethren. From this study the author believes that irony is "more or less present and essential to the greater part of [Pratt's] work."
C140 Stonehewer, Lila Lavinia. "An Interpretation of Symbols in the Work of E.J. Pratt." M.A. Thesis McGill 1970. "The intriguing aspect of the poetry of E.J. Pratt is the complexity underlying the apparent simplicity." In this thesis, Stonehewer examines Pratt's use of the Titan symbol in The Witches' Brew, The Great Feud, The Cachalot, The Titanic, Brebeuf and His Brethren, and some of the shorter poems illustrating how he creates a mythology around it. She divides her thesis into sections dealing with the comic, tragic, and double vision. Using Richard Chase's definition of myth, the writer shows that Pratt's mythology "attempts to bridge the gap between the daylight world of literalities and the night impulses of life." His Titan symbol is connected with man's "eternal search for meaning and his Quixotic refusal to bow before the laws of the universe." Pratt's philosophy, influenced by "primitivism, evolution, religion and psychology" reflected the interrelationship of things in the universe.
C141 Thorpe, John B.M. "Man and Religion in the Poetry of E.J.Pratt." M.A. Thesis McGill 1970. Thorpe attempts "to define Pratt's philosophy of man, and to determine whether this self-sacrificial human quality is based on inborn natural courage, is an automatic human reaction, or is prompted by some mystical or religious belief." The writer follows Pratt's development of the theme of man and his religion from Newfoundland Verse to Towards the Last Spike. Thorpe shows that "in Pratt's view, the importance of religion is proportional to the way in which it stimulates each individual to action, or makes the trials of life easier to bear" but that it is not dependent upon the church. The change in emphasis occurred through several volumes of his work--in the earlier poetry, and particularly in The Iron Door, "Pratt considered man in relation to God and religion. God was the starting point" whereas in "The Truant," "God is seen in relation to man, and it is man who has become the point of reference." As genus homo points out, "man was largely responsible for creating his God." Pratt's work celebrates human potential and heroism and "explores and encompasses a quintessential element of man."
C142 Clark, James Murray. "E.J. Pratt and the Will to Believe: An Examination of His Unpublished Clay and His Poetry." M.A. Thesis New Brunswick 1971. The centre of Pratt's work is "a desperate struggle to possess the will to believe in the meaningfulness of existence." Pratt's early years were a continuous testing of the belief in a "benevolent God of justice and mercy" first by the "endless tragedy" of the Newfoundland fisherman in his struggle against nature's hostility and later at the University of Toronto by the scientific view of existence. Pratt's poetry reflects this intense ideological struggle going on in him. First in "Clay" where the standard, nihilistic, mystical, and humanistic views are put to battle and although doubt loses out and a positive ending is accomplished, Pratt is unable "to maintain the will to believe" by the time of the writing of Newfoundland Verse. From then on, Clark sees in Pratt's poetry the freeing of "himself from the need for God" and the turning "to the world of man to build a will to believe in a humanistic faith." Man has a double battle: he must maintain his humanity against the inhuman forces in himself and he must believe man can understand nature and "direct his evolution through consciously willed moral action." Pratt's "poetry is a record of his struggle with the problem of belief, a struggle in which he takes on the anguish of being and emerges with a defiant will to believe."
C143 Coles, Baxter Matthew. "Man As Hero: A Study of E.J. Pratt's Concept of Heroism." M.A. Thesis Acadia 1971. Coles's aim is to show Pratt's concept of heroism which is found in both his narrative and shorter poems. "Pratt saw man as a potentially heroic being, who rises to heights of true heroism when required to do so", the source of all heroism being "within man himself."This he learned from his early experiences among the people of Newfoundland who exhibited, as part of their daily lives, "courage, endurance, self-sacrifice, resourcefulness, kindness and compassion." Coles quotes from Pratt who in 1941 expressed the view that a poet's role was to interpret events within his world: "The world today provides a background which, appalling though it be, yet vibrates with poetic appeal. The events at Canton, Barcelona, Munich, and Coventry clamour for the attention of the artist as well as the statesman and soldier." His poem "Still Life" expounds this view. Devotion to a cause in itself does not necessarily produce heroes as illustrated by the Nazis who were not heroes "because their aim is evil, and harmful to mankind. . .and drag him back toward his brutal and uncivilized past." Coles examines several of Pratt's works showing how he portrays "ennobling human attributes" in man in his battle against nature and opposing odds.
C144 Mensch, Fred. "Aspects of Heroism and Evolution in Some Poems by E.J. Pratt." M.A. Thesis Simon Fraser 1972. In Pratt's poetry, heroism exists only as part of evolution. Heroism arises if man can establish "an order that is based on ethics and a 'brotherhood of man' as well as. . . strong, instinctual emotions that keep him aware. . .of his evolutionary origin." Pratt's early poetry emphasizes instinctive feeling which when united with ethical compassion makes up "The most significant factor defining heroism." In The Titanic, "the ship symbolizes a society living under an all-encompassing illusion" which almost denies the "possibility of an ideal synthesis." This shows Pratt's development away from the ideal integration in the man-nature, logic-emotion, dichotomy of "feeling for the environment and compassion for other life" earlier exhibited in The Roosevelt and the Antinoe. In Brebeuf and His Brethren the paradoxes within Brebeuf who "gives the Indians 'roar for roar,' yet finds the source of his strength in the vision of the cross," express man's possible contradictory extremes. This dichotomy cannot be resolved by one or the other alone for both extremes, "evolution and Christian ethics,. . .can be equally destructive if allowed to dominate." Pratt's answer is a gradual synthesis of these extremes when at a state of equal tension. This is "the core of Pratt's belief in heroism."
C145 Broad, Margaret. "The Nature of the Evolution of Man in Relation to the Problem of Immortality in the Poetry of E.J. Pratt." M.A. Thesis McGill 1975. Darwinism and scientific determinism affected Pratt's ability to believe in God. Broad sees, however, Pratt's concern over man's spiritual life in the modern world. The solution lies in man endeavouring to live in "harmony with Nature and the Creator [and it] implies Pratt's underlying faith in a supreme mind behind evolution and suggests his belief in immortality in the specific sense of a privilege conditional upon the nature of man's earthly existence."
C146 Hunt, Peter R. "Two Catholic Epics of the Twentieth Century: E.J. Pratt's Brebeuf and His Brethren and James McAuley's Captain Quiros." M.A. Thesis New Brunswick 1975. E.J. Pratt's Brebeuf and His Brethren and James McAuley's Captain Quiros are analyzed and compared as "Two Catholic Epics of the Twentieth Century." Although the poems are "different in outlook and style," they both deal with counter-reformation men, both try to bring out the meaning and significance of the heroic actions they depict, both have remained true to their sources, both poets have been inspired by "'Classical' and Christian humanist values" as revealed in their poems, and both using mainly the European and epic traditions, represent a "creative symbiosis" between Europe and Australia on the one hand, Europe and Canada on the other. McAuley's skepticism toward Quiros' utopian scheme causes a pessimism to creep into his poem. Pratt is considered to have "achieved dramatic objectivity." The author finds Captain Quiros, "has a vision, coherence and power unrivalled by any of Pratt's long narratives before Brebeuf and His Brethren [whose] historical sweep and depth are greater, [and whose] "intensity and focus are better sustained than Captain Quiros."
C147 Beckmann, Susan. "Pratt on Pratt: The Prose Commentaries of E.J. Pratt." Diss. Toronto 1977. For the first time in "Pratt on Pratt: The Prose Commentaries of E.J. Pratt," the texts of "introductory, explicative and evaluative material written by the poet about his own work" are made known. The holdings of the E.J. Pratt Collection at Victoria University Library, where the prose commentaries are housed, are reviewed in the Introduction. A survey of Pratt scholarship to date, and "new bibliographical information about the genesis and development of the poems," are included. The commentaries "document the mind of Pratt the story-teller. . . reveal a good deal of his warm and lively personality. . . provide the outline of Pratt's poetic theory. . . [and] furnish us with the poet's own description of his methods of research and writing."
C148 Maggs, W. Randall. "Tradition and Technology in the Poetry of E.J. Pratt." Diss. New Brunswick 1977. The ability to successfully represent the modern age through "mechanistic devices" in his poetry is one of Pratt's most notable achievements, nevertheless his "outport heritage" continued strongly throughout his poetry and both his "strengths and weaknesses as a poet may be mainly attributed" to this early influence for "he never violated the spirit of. . . [the outport balladeers] tradition." The author, attempting to understand better the influence of Newfoundland life on Pratt's philosophy and poetry, has studied the work of Szwed and other writers concerned with Newfoundland experience. He finds that all other influences are of secondary importance, "The Elizabethan,. . .epic tradition,. . .Masefield,. . . Sandburg, T.S. Eliot,. . .T.H. Huxley,. . .Wilhelm Wendt, Darwin,. . .J.C. Smuts." "Pratt's sensibilities had been substantially shaped in those first twenty-five years of his life." None of the other influences changed his "way of thinking"; they only reinforced the "values of his past and helped him to develop his poetic themes based on these values."
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D67 "Wolf-Pack Attacks Convoy Guarded by Canadian Navy." The Globe and Mail, 6 Dec. 1947, p. 10. "The sea and especially its hazards," have always provided inspiration for Pratt. Returning to this theme again in Behind the Log, "Pratt has added one more masterly achievement to those that have already brought him fame."
D68 L.A.N. Rev. of Behind the Log. The Gazette [Montreal], 13 Dec. 1947, p. 24. Throughout Pratt's poetry there is one constant symbol--the sea. Heroism of man at sea is his favourite theme. In Behind the Log an "epic battle on the water" is again related. Pratt, according to A.N.L., is able, "in this age of the impatient reader. . .to keep the reader's interest throughout" by combining dramatic dialogue and narrative description.
D69 R.W. Rev. of Behind the Log. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 11 (March 1948), 41-42. A brief attack on "certain critics [who] have offered disparaging comments on Pratt's writing as pedestrian in its realism, and as seeking compensation for an inner uncertainty by virility of diction and 'gigantism' of imagery." They have missed the "evocative imagery," the "social satire," the able craft of "the long line... [and] the tone values of words" and ignored the honoured position Pratt has earned as a narrative poet.
D70 Brown, E.K. Rev. of Behind the Log. University of Toronto Quarterly, 17 (April 1948), 258-60. Rpt. in Responses and Evaluations: Essays on Canada. Ed. and introd. David Staines. New Canadian Library, No. 137. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, pp. 264-67. The background for Behind the Log is related. The poem itself has "the familiar Pratt rhythms recur[ring] with undiminished power." "The core of the poem. . . [the third block] draws on his greatest resources of style," which is "assuming a new austerity." "The danger recurred in the new style is the danger of prosaism [and there are]. .. . some lines. . . in which the manner lapses into the prosaic." If the "beautiful quiet close. . . has a fault that is its brevity."
D71 Gustafson, Ralph. Rev. of Behind the Log. The Canadian Forum, June 1948, p. 69. Behind the Log contains "many of the long-admired qualities of Pratt." Although the book "does not equal, as poetry, the earlier narratives of Pratt" it still "effectively reminds Canadians that in Pratt they have not only a great narrative poet but almost the only one writing in English to-day."
D72 Bates, Ronald. Rev. of Behind the Log. Acta Victoriana, 72 (Summer 1948), 19-20. The whole review is a mild attack on narrative poetry and thus on Pratt's Behind the Log which is the subject of review. The poem has "certain shortcomings which are, perhaps, inherent in the form." Pratt is unable to give the poem "emotional unity" through the "infusion of the more specifically poetic" and therefore Behind the Log "has to fall back on the purely narrative link for its unity, which is not enough, poetically." The final damning: "one should bear in mind the limitations of narrative poetry for our age."
D73 Clarke, George Herbert. Rev. of Behind the Log. Queen's Quarterly, 55 (Summer 1948), 229-30. Behind the Log contains some of the "narrative vigour" of his longer sea poems, "but hardly their characteristic thrust." Factual points which Pratt "scrupulously" relates impose "too close a collaboration, in movement and diction alike, between actuality and purely imaginative processes that must fashion and empower any given work of art."
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D43 "Poem Enshrines Martyrs with Halo of New Beauty." Toronto Daily Star, 20 July 1940, p. 9. The reviewer refers to Brebeuf and His Brethren as Pratt's "Canadian Aeneid" in which the poet depicts death "with sublimity." The "artistry is complete" in the poet's description of suffering in his "latest masterpiece."
D44 Deacon, William Arthur. "A Peak of Canadian Heroism." The Globe and Mail, 27 July 1940, p. 20. After "seventeen years of inspired effort" and ten volumes of verse, "Pratt is now at the peak of his power." In his verse the "dramatic qualities. . . are dynamic. His vocabulary is objective, his rhythms positive." In his Brebeuf and His Brethren "the theme is on so exalted a plane that the poet outdoes himself in restraint." Deacon finds the poem "a truly great piece of work." He also calls for more use of Canadian history to provide poetic inspiration;. . .as for these rich resources, "the surface has barely been scratched."
D45 Edgar, Pelham. "A Vivid Poetic Impression of the Canada of 300 Years Ago. . . ." Ottawa Journal, 10 Aug. 1940, p. 21. Edgar rates Brebeuf and His Brethren as "the greatest poem of [Pratt's]. . . career." Pratt has been able to set aside his own philosophy to write about "systems of thought that are naturally alien to his disposition." Pratt's discipline, hard work, and objectivity have produced "the greatest Catholic poem of modern times."
D46 Benson, Nathaniel A. Rev. of Brebeuf and His Brethren. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 5 (Sept 1940), 40-43. The reviewer related Pratt's writing career as success on success until Brebeuf and His Brethren, "Ned Pratt's crowning achievement. . . .[He is] the finest poet of his own generation." Brebeuf and His Brethren is briefly described as "the tremendous stories of the superhuman labours and sufferings, of the glorious lives, and martyrdom of Fathers" of the Huron Mission. No criticism of any kind is made throughout this most favourable review.
D47 Birney, Earle. Rev. of Brebeuf and His Brethren. The Canadian Forum, Sept. 1940, pp. 180-81. Here is "the same narrative verve and dramatic intensity, founded on a fine factual assimilation of his subject, which have helped to make him not only Canada's most remarkable poet but also the freest poet of the sea writing today in the English language." "Technical brilliance,. . .flashing imagination. . .panoramic eye [and] a restraint and a simplicity" are revealed as are "enthusiasm for mankind in its moments of courage, endurance, comradeship and self-sacrifice." Deeds and characters are "heightened into the grand." Birney believes that in "some ways" Brebeuf is Pratt's best work although it is not "illustrative of his manifold talents."
D48 Clarke, George Herbert. Rev. of Brebeuf and His Brethren. Queen's Quarterly, 47 (Winter 1940), 483. "Brebeuf and His Brethren is a stirring narrative poem written in flexible blank verse." Pratt follows with "close fidelity" the factual data of the history. The form shows workmanship which is "generally sound and strong, save in a few instances--the somewhat too prosaic tone." In conclusion, the poem is found to be "even subtler in its feeling and richer in its humanity. . .than his. . .sagas of the sea."
D49 Haines, Lloyd. "Brebeuf and His Brethren and Dr. Pratt." Acta Victoriana, 65 (Jan 1941), 6-8. "E.J. Pratt's distinction is largely a distinctness: there is no one else quite like him." Pratt seems to be obsessed with "That cold, steely, blazing, indomitable, godlike part of man-heroism." He makes the reader suffer "a dozen deaths up and down the St. Lawrence and Great Lakes" in Brebeuf and His Brethren, a "marvellously executed" narrative of heroism. The book abounds with scholarly data: geographical, historical, geological, botanical, astronomical, theological. The iambic pentameter conveys "a vast variety of feeling" yet helps maintain "a superb unity of tone."
D50 Brown, E.K. Rev. of Brebeuf and His Brethren. University of Toronto Quarterly, 10 (April 1941), 283-86. Rpt. in Responses and Evaluations: Essays on Canada. Ed. and Introd. David Staines. New Canadian Library, No. 157. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, pp. 188-91. The choice of a subject from Canada's past "by our noblest living poet is a white milestone in the development of Canadian literature." Pratt faithfully depicts the heroic epic of the Jesuit Martyrs aiming "not at the realization of human figures but at the communication of epic emotion." A "multitude of great images are contained in this quiet, meditative narrative written in blank verse." Along with craftsmanship of the most considered fineness" Pratt gives us "loftiness and calm."
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D58 "A Prattian Convert." Acta Victoriana, 69 (Fall 1944), 38-42. Pratt uses "concrete experience," national and contemporary subjects" with the "cool observation of a sympathetic but impartial outsider." The poetry's strength is in Pratt's "treatment and vision." He returns "to nature and forces as yet unleashed by civilization, to draw his contrast, to point out the unrelenting cruelty of irony." Subjects are large in his narrative poems; in his extravaganzas it is his humour. Strength and irony, major components of his verse, give way to "delicacy of feeling." In his lighter lyrics the reviewer concludes by revealing his own prejudices, understanding, and eventual acceptance of the necessity of wartime verse.
D59 Deacon, William Arthur. "Pratt's Definitive Edition Symbol of Poetic Leadership." The Globe and Mail, 21 Oct 1944, p. 21. The only poet who was not censured in Brown's critical work On Canadian Poetry was correctly Pratt, "the one exception to our mediocrity." Fittingly, Pratt now at "the highest level of his career" offers his work in comprehensive form bringing together "in one volume. . .the best of his works. . . .At 61,. . . Pratt is now free of his past" and the critic predicts tentatively that he will "speak out of the convictions of his head and the promptings of his heart."
D60 Morgan-Powell, S. "New Edition of Poems by E.J. Pratt." Montreal Star, 4 Nov. 1944, p. 22. On the publication of The Collected Poems of E.J. Pratt, Morgan-Powell assesses Pratt as "the only major poet in the Dominion," Two of Pratt's narratives, The Titanic and Brebeuf and His Brethren, have never been equalled by any writing on these themes. Morgan-Powell is astounded by Pratt's range, "That the same man could have written Brebeuf and The Witches' Brew is well nigh unbelievable." Pratt is unequalled in Canadian letters for his "song" is "more authentic Canadian" and he "has penetrated deeper into the heart and soul of Canada" than any other poet or prose writer.
D61 Mackay, L.A. Rev. of Collected Poems. The Canadian Forum, Dec. 1944, pp. 208-09. FJP. The collection of Pratt's poems makes clear the reasons why Pratt is considered "the greatest of the contemporary Canadian poets, and one of the chief figures in contemporary poetry written in English anywhere." Throughout "one idea is dominant, the idea of heroic combat. . .the elation of sheer enormous brute conflict has been exalted and humanized into the heroic struggle of mankind against hostile material, human, and spiritual forces." From the collection it is obvious that "Pratt's gift is. . .epic rather than lyric. . . .[He] has developed a highly individual and effective technique." His is a poetry of "energy rather than delicacy."
D62 K.W. Rev. of Collected Poems. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 8 (Dec 1944), 38-39. The Collected Poems allows me to "gaze with admiring eyes at the solid totality of his output." In general the style is "masculine", this is accomplished by an "impelling vigour," and "intense and controlled power." A wide ranging erudition and intellectuality are other marked qualities of his work which help to give his poetry what Canadian poetry has often lacked, content.
D63 Brown, E.K. Rev. of Collected Poems. University of Toronto Quarterly, 14 (Jan 1945), 211-13. The reviewer of Pratt's Collected Poems finds that he has "wisely . . . sifted his earlier collections" and that in all "the effect on the general reader [will] be much stronger than any that Mr Pratt's work has yet had." He believes the reasons why "such a large body of great poetry has gone so little noticed" are firstly "as a people we are not sensitive to the quality of poetry or appreciative of its importance in the national life." Secondly he finds that the Canadian critics, especially academic critics, are too conservative and have failed to recognize and perpetrate the "genius" of Pratt.
D64 Rev. of Collected Poems. Saturday Review of Literature, 28 April 1945, p. 11. "Pratt is a poet highly sensitive to time as a controlling element in human affairs." A comparison with Thomas Hardy is made on the basis of Pratt's "outline of human events against the flare of time and space." Pratt's "versification is exuberant and usually skilful." The critic agrees with Benet that Pratt "has enough vitality for ten poets. He has also an alert sensitiveness to dramatic contrast, a sweeping view of time, and an abiding interest in the children and victims of time."
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D51 "Celebrates a Glorious Defeat." The Globe and Maild, 25 Oct. 1941, p. 10. Dunkirk was hurried to press so that the event would be "fresh in memory"; this did not allow time to collect "sufficient detail, sift it for authenticity, weave it into an artistic pattern" to do justice to a book-length narrative. Dunkirk is "fleeting impressions of the ragtag armada. . .who sailed to save the army."
D52 Birney, Earle. Rev. of Dunkirk. The Canadian Forum, Dec. 1941, pp. 278-79. "Within the limits of the space and the view, [Pratt] has done a fine job" in recounting the withdrawal from Dunkirk. There are no "cheap patriotics," "fuzzy political moralizing." The poem contains "some of the high spirits of The Witches' Brew, and the Titans" and "Pratt's peculiarly accurate and intense portrayal of the sea." Pratt is "among the top dozen poets of the English tongue today" and with this work he has "made another step toward the writing" of his great epic which will fuse "all his varied gifts" and explore "a rich and indigenous theme."
D53 Brown, E.K. Rev. of Dunkirk. University of Toronto Quarterly, 11 (April 1942), 288-89. Rpt. in Responses and Evaluations: Essays on Canada. Ed. and introd. David Staines. New Canadian Library, No. 137. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, pp. 198-99. Although "Dunkirk is not one of his principal works. . .[It is] a brilliant experiment." It contains an "evergrowing sympathy with man which. . .[gives]. . . a sense for the tragic formerly lacking to his approach. . . .[It] enables him to communicate pity and terror." The poem contains "humour and tragedy, the heroic and the pathetic [which] jostle one another with rugged effectiveness."
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D38 Rev. of Fable of the Goats and Other Poems. The Canadian Forum, Dec. 1937, pp. 321-22. In this "markedly different work there is much experimentation in technique and awareness of the structure and problems of contemporary society." Allegorically Pratt's theme is "the conflict of national interests and ambitions." He has written a poem in which the fierce bounding temperament is subdued to the purest form of Christian temper; the temperament has remained heroic for it has subdued itself." "Silences," among the other poems, "is most. . .stoking and impressive." This collection continues to prove that, in creative force, in sweep of imagination,. . . rhetoric and narrative,. . .[Pratt] is the first of Canadian poets."
D39 "Poet's Progress." The Globe and Mail, 11 Dec. 1937, p. 27. Although "miscellaneous pieces," the Fable of the Goats "is deeply impressive in its evidence of further growth." There is no mere verbiage" in this book with all poems "finished with the finality of great art."
D40 Clarke, George Herbert. Rev. of Fable of the Goats and Other Poems. Queen's Quarterly, 45, No. 1 (1938), 126-27. The Fable of the Goats contains a "spirit of satire" which "derides the social and political follies of our time lest it should weep at them. It indicts and exposes and even condemns, but it does not despair."
D41 Brown, E.K. Rev. of Fable of the Goats and Other Poems. University of Toronto Quarterly, 7 (April 1938), 340-41. Rpt. in Responses and Evaluations: Essays on Canada. Ed. and introd. David Staines. New Canadian Library, No. 137 Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, pp. 161-63. This is "the most important book of poetry published by a Canadian in 1937." The collection shows Pratt's "daring experimentation in techniques and a keen awareness of the structure and diseases of contemporary society." The allegory: "wild creatures exemplify human traits, first greed, ambition, pugnacity, then peace and conciliation." The rhyming tetrameter is retained in the Fable of the Goats while the metre and mood in the "striking and moving" poem "Silences" are quite new to Pratt's work.
D42 "Men, Goats, and E.J. Pratt." Daily News [St. John's], 11 Feb. 1939. Using the parable, or fable form with its inherent possibility for condemning satire, Pratt, in the Fable of the Goats, exposes the stupidities and futilities of war.
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D31 Marquis, T.G. "Original Verse." Saturday Night, Dec. 1932, p. 9. "The latent possibilities of familiar things" are seized on and revealed by Pratt in Many Moods. The verse is a "robust, original, and powerfully imaginative interpretation of life and nature." High ethical values, mordant satire, and riotous imagination are exhibited in the "masterpiece" of the collection, "The Depression Ends."
D32 R.E. Rev. of Many Moods. Dalhousie Review, 12 (Jan. 1933), 561-62. Pratt has not imitated other writers. "It shows that Canadian poetic literature is. . . standing upon its own feet (when we have a writer) who not only by his subject matter but by his mode of thought. . . [and] emotional reactions is independent of external standards." "A hardness of treatment, a resolute avoidance of. . .the sentimental" give Pratt's poems an "intense virility" which is characteristic.
D33 C.G.H. Rev. of Many Moods. Queen's Quarterly, 40 (Feb 1933), 168-69. Pratt is "less certainly impelled" in his short reflective poems or pure lyric as opposed to his narratives but in Many Moods several short poems are "full of gusto and gustation,. . . [have] romantic understanding, [are] finely fashioned, [and] stand the test of repeated re-readings."
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D1 Ivanhoe [W.T. Allison]. "Lively Verse by a Newfoundland Poet." The Winnipeg Tribune, 30 April 1923. EJP (See C3). It is a great pleasure to pick up a volume of poetry of a new Canadian poet in which "we find vigorous red-blooded verse." Since Pratt was born in Newfoundland rather than in Ontario, where "academic dryrot would probably have sapped his lyric vitality years ago," his Newfoundland Verse "has the suppleness of a herringbone and the freshness of sea-kelp."
D2 Morgan-Powell, S. "Newfoundland Verse from a Poet of Inspirational Power." The Montreal Star, 5 May 1923, p. 15. EJP. For Newfoundland Verse Morgan-Powell gives "a hearty thanks--there are no attempts at that wretched stuff miscalled 'free verse.'" Pratt "has the courage to adhere to the recognized conception of poetry."
D3 Rev. of Newfoundland Verse. Globe [Toronto], 12 May 1923, p. 26. Pratt in his first published book of poems, Newfoundland Verse, is heard as "a new voice with vigour and music, colour and understanding." Newfoundland is honoured, for "the first time . . . the island finds dignified and fitting expression in the medium of verse."
D4 Pierce, Lorne. Rev. of Newfoundland Verse. Christian Guardian, 94, No. 21 (23 May 1923), 22. In Newfoundland Verse we "have for the first time a truly Newfoundland epic" written by "A new voice [which] has come among us, as sure in its brushed craftsmanship as it is in its choice of material, its unerring emphasis on truth, its acute appreciation of beauty, its inevitable resonance with the voice of life."
D5 Knox, R.S. Rev. of Newfoundland Verse. The Canadian Forum, June 1923, pp. 278-79. EJP. The reviewer derides subjective poetry "the fashionable cult is still of the inward vision .... To those who still find pleasure in a more objective utterance" as well as "bright display of scenes and actions," Pratt's Newfoundland Verse is welcome. The narratives are the "great things in the volume" and "Mr Pratt lifts himself to a place among the best of recent storytellers in verse."
D6 Rev. of Newfoundland Verse. Canadian Magazine, 61 (June 1923), 192-93. The reviewer relates one of the poems to Prof. W.H. Greaves's Toronto home. This is of interest since Greaves was one of the first to read Pratt's poems in public, "chiefly in Toronto University circles." In Newfoundland Verse Pratt "possesses a sixth sense in word values" and uses successfully the "form" that "appeals to him." The author cites several "particularly fine" poems and concludes that this collection "establishes Dr. Pratt as a poet of rank."
D7 Phelps, Arthur L. Rev. of Newfoundland Verse. Christian Guardian, 94, No. 25 (20 June 1923), 12, 19. "Vitality and variety" are found in Pratt's Newfoundland Verse by Phelps. The sea, the folk, the heart of the island cry out from the poems Pratt has fashioned. Phelps finds "Come Not the Seasons Here" the peak poetical achievement of the book and interprets it as "the author's comment on the war."
D8 Rev. of Newfoundland Verse. Acta Victoriana, 48 (Oct. 1923), 12-14. Although critical of some of the pomposity and sentimentality of the verse, the reviewer concludes that "these faults, however, cannot detract much from the unusually sound merits of the poems."
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D95 Macmillan, Duane J. Rev. of Selected Poems. The Canadian Forum, July 1968, p. 93. This anthology was prepared to make the poet's work more accessible, to provide a bibliography of selected secondary material and a "critical apparatus for understanding Pratt's work." The reviewer questions some omissions, and the abridgement of Towards the Last Spike. While praising parts of the analysis, she criticizes some of Professor Buitenhuis' statements and concludes with "It is dangerous to assume that because Pratt chose not to adopt the poetic styles of his contemporaries, he was somehow 'dated' or 'out of touch' with reality, or less poetic than the free-verse poets of his day."
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D54 Rev. of Still Life. The Globe and Mall, 18 Dec. 1943, p. 11. Pratt's reputation, twenty years after Newfoundland Verse, is so great that it is unnecessary "to deal exhaustively with his new poems in Still Life." Several of the poems, "The Radio in the Ivory Tower," "The Submarine," "The Dying Eagle," and "Still Life" are dealt with sketchily. The critic finds Still Life is "a worthy successor to great predecessors."
D55 Clarke, George Herbert. Rev. of Still Life. Queen's Quarterly, 51 (Spring 1944), 115. There are fifteen poems in this collection of lyrics, satires, and narratives. They show off the poet's "bright energy of fancy, variety in diction and cadence, and a firmly woven texture." Worth mention are the satires, "The Truant" and "The Radio in the Ivory Tower," and special mention of the narrative "The Dying Eagle," which is "The most striking" and "successful" poem in the collection.
D56 Brown, E.K. Rev. of Still Life. University of Toronto Quarterly, 13 (April 1944), 306-08. Rpt. in Responses and Evaluations: Essays on Canada. Ed. and introd. David Staines. New Canadian Library, No. 137. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, pp. 221-22. From this collection of lyrics and narratives Brown selects a number for particular mention. "Pratt has never been happier as a lyrist than he is" in "Come Away, Death" and "The Invaded Field." Irony, a device new to Pratt, is used in "Still Life," "his most sustained study in irony, an assault dangerously polite upon the dwellers in ivory towers." "The Truant" is the poem which most impresses the reviewer, it contains a "powerful Hitler-symbol, and indeed everywhere in the volume war is either a theme or a substantial part of the framework of feeling."
D57 M.B. Rev. of Still Life. Dalhousie Review, 24 (April 1944), 118. "Still Life" and "Missing: Believed Dead: Returned," the shorter poems, are considered among the best in the collection. "When a poem goes beyond twenty lines, the demons of verbosity, banality and flatness try to throttle Prof. Pratt's gift for poetry." His work is criticized as thoughtless and "words and lines follow one another in a ceaseless and meaningless flow."
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D74 Morgan-Powell, S. Rev. of Ten Selected Poems. Montreal Daily Star, 30 Aug. 1947, p. 14. A brief review of a volume which shows Pratt's narrative ability as well as "his right to be regarded as a poet of national stature in terms both of subject-matter and style."
D75 "Pratt's Poems for School Use." The Globe and Mail, 6 Sept. 1947, p. 10. The volume, "well annotated for school use, offer[s ] the general reader a bargain" and the notes and definitions are useful for every one. The few shorter pieces included in addition to the narratives give the reader a "fair idea of the poet's scope."
D76 Brown, E.K. Rev. of Ten Selected Poems. University of Toronto Quarterly, 17 (April 1948), 260-61. Rpt. in Responses and Evaluations. Essays on Canada. Ed. and introd. David Staines. New Canadian Library, No. 137. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, p. 267. Ten Selected Poems is for school use, but the volume provides "an excellent sampling of Mr. Pratt's work for the general Canadian reader." Included are "The Cachalot," "The Titanic," "Brebeuf and His Brethren," and "Dunkirk."
D77 M.,C.R. Rev. of Ten Selected Poems. Telegram [Toronto], 16 April 1948. Ten Selected Poems "seems designed especially for those who enjoy the companionship of poetry in precious free moments of brimming days though actually it was prepared originally for schools."
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D87 Deacon, William Arthur. "35 Years of Pratt." The Globe and Mail, 6 Dec 1958, p. 24. This is a revised and extended Collected Poems that can be termed a "Definitive rather than [a] second edition." Although it is generally believed that most of Pratt's heroic narratives can be "understood at a glance" critical studies of Pratt's work "reveal subtlety--meaning within meanings" and therefore Frye's introduction "will aid readers to a richer comprehension."
D88 Elliott, John K. "Clarity, Variety in New Pratt Collection." London: Free Press, 13 Dec. 1958, p. 20. The Collected Poems of E.J. Pratt shows that the bridge between the "common reader" and poetry "has not been completely destroyed." Although "complicated" and "scholarly," Pratt's verse is "clear."
D89 Bruce, Charles. Rev. of The Collected Poems of E.J. Pratt. Telegram [Toronto], 20 Dec. 1958, p. 34. Bruce finds that "The Truant is the distillation of Pratt's view of life" and that his earlier verse "is feeling its way toward" its statement, while the "later verse is in some measure an explication of its theme." For all the collected verse there is a "central thread That Man's hope hes in his refusal to be ruled by brute strength and blind force, and that his battle with blind force and with himself is an endless, hazardous, tragic and heroic business."
D90 McPherson, Hugo. "With a Wide-Angle Lens He Viewed Great Themes." Toronto Daily Star, 20 Dec. 1958, p. 26. Pratt is both "admired by exacting critics on the one hand and a wide public on the other." He compares to only Robert Frost among Americans in being a success in his own country. Pratt has achieved this popularity with a difference, "with quiet independence" snubbing "all of the literary fashions of his day. . . . Pratt turned boldly to full-scale narrative poems." In opposition to subjective personal poetry he "adopted the impersonal wide-angled lens of the narrator." The Collected Poems of E.J. Pratt is reviewed and proves McPherson's thesis. Pratt has become society's spokesman and prophet, dealing not with the local and personal but with mankind's timeless problems as revealed in Canadian life."
D91 Rev. of Collected Poems of E.J. Pratt. Ottawa Journal, 20 Dec. 1958, p. 46. The differences between first and second editions of Collected Poems are listed. The reviewer agrees with Frye that Pratt's work has "a stature and authority that reaches beyond Canada."
D92 Little, Andrew. "Canadian Poet." The Gazette [Montreal], 27 Dec. 1958, p. 19. A short chronicle of Pratt's life and career is followed by a description of The Collected Poems. Pratt is found to have "displayed a quality in editing which is only surpassed by his ability as a poet."
D93 Daniells, Roy. Rev. of Collected Poems. Dalhousie Review, 39 (Spring 1959), 112-15. The new and enlarged edition "fills a long felt need." Frye's illuminating introduction is a "chart" to grade the reader through a "voyage of fresh discovery" for Pratt is "still startlingly unique." "Come Not the Seasons Here" is "memorable of the shorter poems" and Daniells points to the development of Pratt's language "which now like a forest enfolds the action of Brebeuf." He shows how irony prevails in Pratt's work, how it contains "pity for poverty and suffering," how he "draws habitually on the immemorial and the cosmic for the ingredients of his dominant image patterns," and how "pervasive" the sea image has been throughout.
D94 Watt, F.W. "Edwin John Pratt." University of Toronto Quarterly, 29 (Oct. 1959), 77-84. In an excellent critical analysis, Watt surveys Pratt's works from Newfoundland Verse, with its "strength and originality," through to the present volume which "remains easily the most impressive yet produced by a Canadian poet." Watt shows how Pratt was always involved in his world. "Liberal, humanitarian, Christian" were the features of Pratt's work and his heroes were set in "a world brought to a crisis where action is necessary at once." Watt praises the "energy, wit, verbal exuberance, strength of feeling" in the verse and expresses his few reservations. Frye's Introduction is "witty, vital, and penetrating critical exposition."
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D20 Ivanhoe [W.T. Allison]. "The Riddle of Death." The Winnipeg Tribune, 7 Oct. 1927, p. 4. In writing The Iron Door Pratt "has turned to serious things" in attempting to answer the question, "If a man die shall he have again?" Although the poem bears no resemblance to religious poems, containing only three mentions of God and none of Christ, it is 'deeply religious," making an argument for the "immortality of the soul."
D21 Creighton, J.H. "An Original Note in Canadian Poetry: The Poems of Mr. E.J. Pratt." New Outlook, 3, No. 48 (30 Nov 1927), p. 6. Creighton finds Pratt "The most original poet in Canada at present. . . . Vigour. . . straightforwardness. . .boldness [and] vividness" characterize Newfoundland Verse. Creighton believes The Iron Door is breaking "entirely new ground." The mysteries of "death and immortality" are probed. Creighton interprets the poem to be "a statement of faith in God and immortality."
D22 "The Last Impregnable Retreat." Saturday Night, 22 Oct 1927, p. 10. The Iron Door is "a lengthy poem on death that is more intuitive than philosophical."
D23 "A Powerful Ode." Globe [Toronto], 29 Oct 1927, p. 19. A short study, with excerpts from the poem. The Iron Door has "vision, dignity and symbolic beauty. . . I [which] add a distinct and powerful note to Canadian poetry."
D24 G.H.P. Rev. of The Iron Door. Acta Victoriana, 52, No. 2 (Nov 1927), 26-27. Although Professor Pratt "obtained his Ph.D. degree for a treasure on eschatology," this poem "shows little trace of metaphysical or theological influence." The reviewer proceeds to outline the theme of the ode, the character's search and plight. He concludes that "For boldness of imagery, richness of cadence and imaginative penetration this ode makes a distinct contribution to modern poetry."
D25 Macdonald, J.F. Rev. of The Iron Door. The Canadian Forum, Dec. 1927, p. 476. Brief summary of Pratt's "vision of the grim barrier that prevents our getting even a glimpse of the life beyond." Although the reviewer admits the ode is a powerful work, it "leaves one feeling that Pratt has not yet found the subject in which he can use his full power with perfect sincerity." The sincerity is lacking: "the thought and the emotion are not perfectly fused."
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D26 "Heroic Poem of Rescue at Sea Delights Hart House Audience." Mail [Toronto], 19 Oct. 1929, p. 4. With The Roosevelt and the Antinoe Pratt has achieved "for the first time in full measure, that high and secure place in Canadian literature, of which his first book, Newfoundland Verse, bore the promise in 1923." A short survey of Pratt's pre-1929 published poetry follows. The reviewer ends on a conservative note: "No one in Canada is doing anything like it. It cannot be done better; but we need more of it, very much more of precisely the same sort of poems."
D27 Deacon, William Arthur. "Pratt Makes Great Epic Poem Out of Stern Stuff of Life." The Mail and Empire, 8 March 1930, p. 11. The Roosevelt and the Antinoe is a masterpiece "ranking among the greatest English narrative poems of all time" No praise seems great enough for the poem: "It is a magnificent poem, the exalted but natural climax of Pratt's career begun seven years ago."
D28 H.M.O. "Pratt's Epic of the Sea." Globe [Toronto], 15 March 1930, p. 7 Favourable review of "a great epic of the sea, whose truth, imagery and sustained poetical strength will merely place E.J. Pratt among the major poets of Canada. It is a narrative poem which will live for its art, and its drama."
D29 Norwood, Gilbert. Rev. of The Roosevelt and the Antinoe. Saturday Night, 5 April 1930, p. 3. EJP. Pratt reveals an "originality of spirit, technique and outlook" in "this remarkable work." The critic heaps praise on praise: "Homer-like; "Virgilian"; "recall[s] Victor Hugo", like the "finest work of Kipling"; "his verse technique is consummate", "splendidly appropriate", "perfectly fitted to his subject-matter and his method"; "a notable use of prose", "a vivid and penetrating rhetoric", "truly sublime realism"; and "articulate" through "masterly paragraph-construction." And with a close to the poem that defies "anticlimax," the critic asks, "Has anything nobler been written in our time?"
D30 P.,C. "An Epic of the Sea." Manchester Guardian, 5 Aug. 1930, p. 5. In The Roosevelt and the Antinoe Pratt "has done vastly more than versify." From the log of events "He has revisioned and recreated the moments of that eternal vigil. . . .Altogether, the poem is a worthy memorial of one of the greatest achievements in the chivalry and valour of the sea."
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D34 McInnis, Edgar. Rev. of The Titanic Saturday Night, 16 Nov 1935, p. 6. Two themes run through all of Pratt's best poems: "an interest in monsters. . .[and] an interest in the sea." In The Titanic, happily, both these themes are combined.
D35 Morgan-Powell, S. Rev. of The Titanic. Montreal Dady Star, 23 Nov 1935. Although "Heroic poetry is the most difficult of all verse forms to write," it provides "unlimited scope." It has attracted few, but includes "the world's greatest poets." Canadian poetic output "has been conventional, alike in theme and in form," with few attempting successfully the heroic form. Pratt is an "outstanding exception." A critical study of The Titanic proves this point and makes up the body of the reviews. Powell concludes that The Titanic is "A great poem, written as it should be, as great drama."
D36 Brown, E.K. Rev. of The Titanic. "Letters in Canada: 1935, Poetry." University of Toronto Quarterly, 5 (April 1936), 364-65. Rpt. in Responses and Evaluations: Essays on Canada. Ed. and introd. David Staines. New Canadian Library, No. 137. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, pp. 145-48. Brief favourable review which points out how subject matter of the "foreknown catastrophe" imposed a particular "mode" on the poet. The poem exhibits Pratt's "emotional range," "his rhythms and his imagery," his knowledge of the sea, and his use of technical terminology. The poker-game and dinner descriptions should have been shortened in order to depict "a few more of the rapid memorable pictures of individual passages in the time of crisis."
D37 Rev. of The Titanic. Dalhousie Review, 16 (1936-37), 126. Pratt gives the sinking of the Titanic "the dignity of Greek drama." This short favourable review concludes with "This is a poem not to be missed."
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D9 Brown, E. K. Rev. of The Witches' Brew. Acta Victoriana, 50 (Feb. 1926), 12-13. EJP. A brief, articulate review comparing Pratt's marine poetry to that of Masefield. Mr. Brown continues with another comparison: "The Witches' Brew is, in several respects, a Byronic poem." Because the subjects of the poem are "marine or fabulous," The Witches' Brew is more successful than Pratt's earlier comic verse.
D10 Deacon, William Arthur. "Debauching a Fish." Saturday Night, 6 Feb. 1926, p. 8. William Arthur Deacon finds The Witches' Brew unique not only in Canadian literature but he does not "know in the whole realm of literature any precedent for it." It is an "imaginative orgy, . . . [a] magnificent fooling," and it took a poet combining "dramatic power humour [and] a real feeling for the sea" to produce it.
Dll M.,F.J. Rev. of The Witches' Brew. The Canadian Forum, April 1926, pp. 218-19. "The Witches' Brew is a piece of extravagance tossed off in a fit of high spirits by a highly imaginative man." The plot is outlined and although the reviewer does not believe this poem is equal to Pratt's "The Cachalot," "it has an Aristophanic humour and a kind of imagination unique in Canadian poetry."
D12 Hurley, John. Rev. of The Witches' Brew. Winnipeg Free Press, 3 May 1926, p. 9. EJP. The Witches' Brew is "an extremely diverting and well written narrative poem." Such words and phrases as "rollicking," "reeling with mirth," "gay," "infinite gusto," delicious nonsense" are used to describe the poem. The critic wonders at the topic matter for the poem of "a professor of a religious college in Toronto, a prohibition city." He concludes that perhaps Pratt is suffering from a "suppressed complex."
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D65 Rev. of They Are Returning. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 9 (Sept. 1945), 32-33. "Canada's chief living poet" has penned "with modern vigour and brevity, the Iliad and Odyssey. . . of the young men in Canada's armed forces." A short analysis of the form used in the poem concludes this brief favourable review.
D66 Daniells, Roy. Rev. of They Are Returning. The Canadian Forum, Oct. 1945, pp. 168-69. "They Are Returning is one more proof that poetic imagination can, at will, dispense with the materials of detailed realism."
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D13 DeWitt, N.W. Rev. of Titans. Acta Victoriana, 51, No. 3 (Dec 1926), 33-35. In a rambling criticism which includes the statement that nature "creates" poets but "chance" and "the clumsy intelligence of man" find a place for the talent to "take root and grow," the critic praises and in a friendly manner gives an inside peek into Pratt, the poet, as well as generally reviewing the Titans. Pratt's poetry "is simple and unaffected," and the "ease with which he tosses about big words" is amazing. A final tongue-in-cheek warning that Pratt's "real business is golf," not poetry or teaching English. (The reviewer was a golfing partner of Pratt.)
D14 Pierce, Lorne. Rev. of Titans. The New Outlook, 3, No. 3 (19 Jan 1927), p. 26. EJP. The reviewer recounts the story line of "The Great Feud." The other narrative in the book, "The Cachalot," he finds "is an extravaganza of boisterous nonsense and riotous diablerie." In these poems, by using iambic tetrameter combined with the "independent use of quantity and stress," Pratt produces "a fast flowing narrative style which never tires."
D15 Rev. of Titans. Globe [Toronto], 8 Jan. 1927, p. 18. A short favourable review of Titans ending with an excerpt from "The Great Feud."
D16 Ivanhoe [W.T. Allison]. "A Pleiocene Armageddon." The Winnipeg Tribune, 13 Jan. 1927, p. 4. Ivanhoe finds Pratt "rises upon Canadian contemporary poetry like a new dawn" because of the originality he shows in "conception, rhyming facility, descriptive power and conduct of narrative."
D17 "Brobdingnag Outdone." Toronto Daily Star, 15 Jan. 1927, p. 7. A favourable review of "The smallest book with the greatest number of monstrosities." The Cachalot is a magnified version of Moby Dick the great whale." "The Great Feud" is a tale of Tyrannosaurus Rex in a "Pleiocene Armageddon."
D18 Fairley, B. Rev. of Titans. The Canadian Forum, Feb. 1927, pp. 148-49. EJP. "In this most unusual volume of verse we find the work of a poet who is more at home with whales, octopuses, and dinosaurs than with his fellowmen." A unique Canadianism, "almost for the first time" is recognized by Fairley in Pratt's work.
D19 "Professor Pratt Writes Masterly Poems." University Monthly, March 1927, pp. 270-71. After examining "The Cachalot" and "The Great Feud" the critic answers the questions "whether Canada has a National spirit [and whether it is] expressed in poetry" both with yes, and yes by Pratt.
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Part 2: Works On E.J. Pratt; Selected Book Reviews; Towards the Last Spike
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D78 Rev. of Towards the Last Spike. Toronto Daily Star, 28 June 1952, p. 5. "It is a happy chance that [Pratt] is the first one to seize upon perhaps the greatest epic of Canada's industrial development and commemorate it in" his poem Towards the Last Spike. "With full drama and poetic power" the poet has successfully told the great tale of the building of the "parallels of steel, from coast to coast toward the last spike that served as a linchpin for a nation."
D79 Morgan-Powell, S. Rev. of Towards the Last Spike. The Montreal Star, 5 July 1952, p. 14. In verse panorama Pratt has taken as theme, "one of the greatest events in the history of Canada. . .perhaps the most important development in the story of world transportation. . . the completion of a monument of empire-building," the building of the C.P.R. Morgan-Powell tells the story through long quotes from the poem and short explanatory injections. He also tries to convey the appreciation and approval the nation owes Pratt for his outstanding contribution to 'its cultural growth and well-being."
D80 Deacon, William Arthur. "How the Crazy Canadians Built the Pacific Railway." The Globe and Mail, 12 July 1952, p. 12. The critic awes at the irrational inspiration of the "builders of Canada" brought to life by Pratt in Towards the Last Spike. Pratt has "positive convictions about life" and also "a philosophy of literature." Towards the Last Spike is "one more proof of his lifelong fidelity to his own ideals."
D81 T.F. "Free Narrative Poem by Pratt Describes Building of CPR." Ottawa Journal, 26 July 1952, p. 17. With "a theme as broad as Canada itself," Towards the Last Spike, building the CPR, Pratt "has once again painted a vivid word picture with imagination and humour."
D82 P.,R. "E.J. Pratt's Epic Poem Worthy of Its Subject." Winnipeg Tribune, 26 July 1952, p. 9. The "great Canadian epic," building the CPR, is the worthy subject of Pratt. He catches "the rhythm of one of our most striking national characteristics--an enthusiasm for large-scale physical action of a constructive purposeful character."
D83 Collin, W.E. Rev. of Towards the Last Spike. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 16 (Autumn 1952), 29-30. A short, highly appreciative, review of Pratt's Towards the Last Spike." It is not enough to say that he [Pratt] has an heroic conception of life." He is able to observe, relate and moreover "live the heroic act" and perform "even their [the characters'] mental acts of reflection, even their dreams."
D84 Pacey, Desmond. Rev. of Towards the Last Spike. The Canadian Forum, Oct. 1952, p. 164. The theme is the conflict between the "passionate, the instinctive, the primitive and the logical, the intellectual, and the sophisticated." Pratt writes "compactly, antithetically, in clear hard phrases." In this work Pratt is favourably compared to Dryden because of "the disciplined economy of statement" and the "penetrating character analysis." Although Pacey finds minor flaws in the work, and finds it lacking when compared to the "finest passages" in Brebeuf and His Brethren, he concludes that "in depth and clarity of characterization, and in significance of theme, it marks a definite step forward in Pratt's development."
D85 Stewart, Walt. Rev. of Towards the Last Spike. Acta Victoriana, 77 (Dec 1952), 25-27. "Towards the Last Spike is not the best modern poem in the world, it is the work of a first-class craftsman on a first-class theme, and a competent, occasionally outstanding, job." Although blank or free verse "is the only appropriate medium for Pratt's theme," it is not Pratt's "aptest medium." Pratt writes unemotionally from knowledge and with "the casual air of a browser." He is interested in "man's struggle against himself, and in commenting on that struggle for the enlightenment of all mankind." Narrative poetry, "requires dramatic structure. . . .There is no plot. . . .no proper climax" in Towards the Last Spike.
D86 Frye, Northrop. Rev. of Towards the Last Spike. University of Toronto Quarterly, 22 (April 1953), 270-73. Rpt. "Letters in Canada: Poetry, 1952-1960 (Pratt's `Spike' and Birney's 'Trial' 1952)." In Masks of Poetry: Canadian Critics on Canadian Verse. Ed. A.J.M. Smith. New Canadian Library, No. 3 Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1962, pp. 97-101. Rpt. in The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1971, pp. 10-17. Frye uses Pratt's Towards the Last Spike and Birney's Trial of a City to demonstrate "the theory of cultural containment." According to Frye "there would be nothing distinctive in Canadian culture at all if there were not some feeling for the immense searching distance, with the lines of communication extended to the absolute limit ...." The horizon-focussed perspective" and an interest in the "problems of communication" are common elements in the work of other Canadian artists, writers, and thinkers, including Pratt. His theme in Towards the Last Spike --"the epic art of communication in Canadian history [is] fantastically difficult" but Pratt has shown great ingenuity in dealing with the problems.
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Ernest Buckler An Annotated Bibliography: Introduction
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Critical response to Ernest Buckler as a serious writer in Canada was very slow in developing. Even though his short stories began appearing in Canadian magazines in the early 1940s, and The Mountain and the Valley was published in 1952, his work did not gain substantial critical attention until the late 1960s. The first full-length study of his fiction was Gregory Cook's Ernest Buckler (1972, C1) and the fact that much of that book is made up of reviews and letters is an indication of the kind of critical reception given to Buckler in the first forty years of his career. The short stories are all but ignored in the articles reprinted by Cook and the treatment of anything except The Mountain and the Valley, in the subsequent two short introductory books by Robert Chambers (C34) and Alan Young (C2), is relatively cursory. With the burst of critical activity in Canadian criticism generally in the 1970s, Buckler's work has drawn considerably more attention. Recent reprints of the novels and new collections of the short stories and articles have made the writer's canon more accessible, so that Buckler's place and relative importance in Canadian fiction are gradually emerging.
The first articles were filled with comments about the psychological and possibly autobiographical elements of The Mountain and the Valley. Warren Tallman's frequently reprinted "Wolf in the Snow" (C11) and Douglas Spettigue's "The Way It Was" (C16) concentrated on the psychological dimensions of David's development as related both to the novel's structure and to its significance as a piece of regional writing. The reviewers of the novel took generally the same approach, though there was some disagreement about the effectiveness of Buckler's prose style. Cook's thesis (C61) and later the introduction to his anthology of articles sustained this approach. More recent studies by William French (C23), Clara Thomas (C22), Alan Young (C27, C32, C48), John Moss (C31, C46), and Robert Chambers (C34, C40) have continued and repeated this thematic-psychological-regional emphasis.
There were a number of theses devoted to Buckler in the early 197os and they are of two types. Some specialized in the structure and image patterns in individual novels, while others attempted to fit all the stories and novels together in order to study Buckler's aesthetics and philosophical attitudes. The former emphasized stylistic traits, while the latter attempted to explicate more universal themes and attitudes and their evolution throughout Buckler's works. Richard Reichert (C65) concentrated on the themes of communication and time in The Mountain and the Valley; Bernita Harris (C63) examined the allusions to T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land in The Cruelest Month. My own dissertation surveyed thematic and stylistic developments in the Buckler canon from the first short stories to Ox Bells and Fireflies and, using evidence from the manuscript collection, outlined Buckler's ironic and tragic treatment of the artist's aspirations for himself and for his art (C64).
The concerns first articulated in the theses have now surfaced in the more recent criticism. Young (C2, C39, C44, C48), David Savage (C36), Douglas Barbour (C38), and Sarah Dyck (C55) have begun to see the treatment of David Canaan as more ironical than autobiographical. At the same time, studies by Bruce MacDonald (C42), Jon Kertzer (C35), and Marilyn Chapman (C56) have considered the universal themes of time, hope, and change in Buckler's work. There are, in addition, detailed studies of Buckler's prose and its relationship to theme. David Dooley (C50) and Laurence Ricou (C51), for example, offer this kind of close analysis. It can be seen, then, that threads first discussed in theses have become major points of emphasis in present criticism.
Consequently, Buckler's reputation both as a thinker and as a stylist is beginning to shift. He is perceived now as possibly a more sophisticated and complex writer than was thought formerly. There are even early signs among some critics that more attention has to be given to what Claude Bissell called the "metaphysical style" and what some others such as A. M. Westwater (C43) suspect may be a strain of transcendentalism. Perhaps these ideas will bring about more substantial critical activity on The Cruelest Month and Ox Bells and Fireflies, neither of which have received anything even close to the critical attention they so obviously warrant.
All of the published bibliographies on Buckler's work up to this point have been highly selective. One of the possible reasons for this is that Buckler has scattered very different kinds of works in many different kinds of publications so that his published material is not easy to find. Since he began publishing letters and stories in Esquire (aside from the very early Trinity College articles), his publishing connections were in the United States. The Mountain and the Valley was extensively reviewed in the United States before it was even known here. When he did publish material in Canada, it was not widely distributed, and one senses that Buckler searched widely for a forum at the beginning and that he was willing to try out whatever kind of writing a particular magazine seemed to demand.
Consequently, there are articles and letters to editors hidden in periodicals and this is often the kind of writing that is not indexed very precisely, if at all. Each source has to be checked page by page and that is a time-consuming and painstaking process. I had already gone through that same exercise searching for published short stories when I wrote my dissertation on Buckler in 1968-70. However, the Canadian Periodical Index does not index the smaller journals, so that they had to be checked individually.
The availability of the manuscript collection is of limited use in any search for published material, but it is very enlightening concerning Buckler's literary career. When all the published and unpublished material is seen together, there is, I suspect, much more to it than most readers expect. There is also a wider variety of styles than is generally ascribed to Buckler. He has been a freelance journalist for most of his career.
Buckler has been somewhat shy about publishing anything about himself and his work so that biographical information is slight and repetitive. There is only one substantial interview in print. This was one reason that I felt it important to track down the Master's Thesis mentioned in some of the critical literature and contained in the Buckler manuscript collection. As it turned out, the "thesis" consists of a number of essays on philosophical subjects, themselves interesting in the light of the later literary works. But Buckler's personality as best sought out in has letters and articles--at least before the publication of Whirligig--and it is certainly not the same personality as that found in the characters in his novels and stories.
Reviews of his work have been generally fair and it is clear that Buckler's reputation has been kept alive by a small group of enthusiastic readers including Claude Bissell, Douglas Spettigue, Robert Chambers, and Alan Young. It is hoped that this bibliography will spark further interest in Buckler's work.
It is with the bibliographer's usual combination of confidence and insecurity that I send out this list. Information concerning omissions or errors will be humbly and gratefully received. In the meantime, I would like to acknowledge the assistance of Mrs. Rachel Grover, who has patiently taken me through the manuscript collection time and again over the past ten years. A heartfelt thank you is also due to Peter Mitchell and Elizabeth Russell of the King's College Library, Judy Beth Armstrong for a copy of her preliminary checklist (1975), Ernest Buckler for his prompt reply to my letters, Jack David, Tim Struthers, and my family and those friends who have saved me footsteps and supplied some needed energy.
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B534 Foreword. And Now My Pen Lies Still. By Loretta Parker [1945?], pp. 3-4.
B535 "Leonard Cohen." Moment, No. 1 (1960), p. 13.
B536 "West of Summer: New Poets from the West Coast." The Tamarack Review, No. 47 (Autumn 1967), pp. 22,-38. Introduction to his selection of poems from Vancouver.
B537 Introduction. The United States of Heaven / Gwendolyn Papers / That Chainletter Hiway, by Doug Fetherling. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1968.
B538 Introduction. A Bukowski Sampler, by Charles Bukowski. Ed. Douglas Blazek. Madison, Wisc.: Quixote, 1969, p. 8.
B539 Introduction: I've Tasted My Blood, by Milton Acorn. Ed. Al Purdy. Toronto: Ryerson, 1969, pp vii-xv. Concerning Milton Acorn and Purdy's meeting with him.
B540 "The Journey." Introduction to The Quest for Ouzo. Black Moss, No. 5 (1971), n pag. QO.
B541 Foreword. Tales from the Igloo. Ed. and trans. Maurice Metayer. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1972, pp. 6-9.
B542 "New Women Poets." Selected by Al Purdy, with an introduction. Canadian Literature, No. 66 (Autumn 1975), pp. 87-93.
B543 Introduction. Wood Mountain Poems, by Andrew Suknaski. Ed. Al Purdy. Toronto: Macmillan, 1976, pp. 11-12.
B544 Introduction. Ragged Horizons, by Peter Trower. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978, pp. 9-12.
B545 Introduction. Mad Women, by Fraser Sutherland. Coatsworth: Black Moss, 1978, pp. 7-9.
B546 Introduction. Woods and River Tales, by Roderick Haig-Brown. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1980. NOC.
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B551 Roblin's Mills. Toronto: Cinematics Canada, n.d. A sixteen mm. nine-minute long film of the dramatized poem. Films were also made of other poems, shown on CBC TV.
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B552 "A Gathering of Days." Prod. John Reeves. CBC Radio, 1955 and 1959. CBC Times, 17-23 Oct. 1959, p. 9.
B553 "The Woman of Andros." By Thornton Wilder. Adapted for CBC Radio, 1956.
B554 "The Lost Sea." By Jan de Hartog. Adapted for CBC Radio, 1957.
B555 "The Knife." By Theon Wright. Adapted for CBC Radio, 1960.
B556 "The Fall of Troy." Shoe String Theater, CBC TV, 1960.
B557 "Point of Transfer." Shoe String Theater, CBC-TV [1961?]. Performed at the Theatre in the Dell, 1962. Adapted for CBC Radio under role "Just Ask for Sammy," 1968.
B558 "David." By Earle Birney. Adapted for CBC Radio, 1 Jan. 1961.
B559 "Jericho's Red Brick Battlements." By Margaret Laurence. Adapted for CBC Radio, 1969.
B560 "Maple Leaves and Things Like That." CBC Radio [1970?].
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A5 Whirligig. Introd. Claude Bissell. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977. 128 pp.
Includes "Abyssinia (Revisited) or Not if I See You First, Charlie," "Advice Not Taken, or Ann Landers, Meet Moll Flanders, and Others," "Advice to Lovers," "Alienated: A Dateline," "Artist's Life," "The Battle of the Bulge," "The Best Place to Be" (B135), "Bestsellers Make Strange Bedfellows" (B126), "Blush Rose," "Boring from Within or It Augers Ill," "Come Dance with Me," "Contracepcion," "Crime and Punishment," "Drink Now, Pay Later," "Education at Mimi's" "Excuses, Excuses," "The First Sit-Ins, and Other Childhood Friends (Updated)," "Gardening Hints," "Going to Hell in a Pung," "Hetaera, Et Cetera," "How Quixotic Can You Get?", "How to Get Along with a Woman," "I Am Not, Nor Ever Have Been, a Christian Scientist," "Is the Line Busy, or Pinter Country," "It's All in the Way You Hold Your Mouth," "It's Not the Thought, It's the Card," "Leave Your Leisure Alone," "Live among the Grafitti," "Lives of Great Men All Remind Us...," "Look Out Your Face Doesn't Freeze That Way," "Love Compared to Opponents at Budge, Both Vulnerable," "The Mad Hatters," "Maidens Four," "Marriage, TV Style" (B26), "Matinee Idle," "Memorials," "Mixed Double," "More Is Less," "Muse in Overalls," "Needlecraft," "Never Laugh at a Giraffe," "Next Question?", "Nobody Likes a Smartass," "Noli Me Tangere," "Non!" (B125), "Of Mysteries," "The Priest's Dilemma," "Proud Flesh," "Recurring Decimals and All That or Symbols, Symbols!", "Shakespeare Wrote Bacon," "Single Jingle," "Sounding Brass," "SpellBinders, Go Home," "Subject Matter, Nothing!", "Tenure Be Damned," "That's Enough of Your Lipmann," "Venice Suspicion Ever Going to End?", "Voices When Soft Music Dies," "War and Geese," "A Wasted Life," "Were You There, Papa Hemingway?", "Wishful Thinking," "Withdrawal Symptoms, or Slam, Bam, Thank You Ma'am I Trust You Wore Your Diaphragm," and "You Can Tell a Book by Its Cover."
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A7 Buckler Manuscript Collection
Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
A short list of the contents of the collection follows.
Box 1:
Fan mail arranged by book, letters on The Mountain and the Valley.
Box 2:
Early pieces, sketches, poems, miscellaneous items, and radio plays.
Box 3:
Short stories.
Box 4:
Letters relating to Buckler's professional career, 1937-49.
Box 5 :
Letters relating to Buckler's professional career, 1949-56.
Box 6:
Letters relating to Buckler's professional career, 1957-61.
Box 7:
Letters relating to Buckler's professional career, 1962-68.
Boxes 8-9:
Manuscripts of The Cruelest Month.
Boxes 10-12:
Manuscripts of Ox Bells and Fireflies; letters, biographical and bibliographical notes on Buckler; photographs; revised proofs. (See B198.)
Boxes 13-15:
Drafts, proofs, and letters to publishers about The Mountain and the Valley. (See B197.)
Box 16:
Articles, letters to "The Sound and the Fury" column (Esquire), book reviews by Buckler, and manuscripts of "Maritimes Letter" (Saturday Night).
Box 17:
Plays, score and text for "Christmas in Canada," some short stories. (See B196 and B199.)
Box 18:
"Ajax" letters and business letters.
Box 19:
Restricted correspondence.
Box 20:
Restricted correspondence.
Undesignated:
Manuscripts for Nova Scotia: Window on the Sea, book reviews, some stories and articles, comments on novels for publishers, and hand written essays for his M.A. Thesis. (See B72 and B197.)
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A1 The Mountain and the Valley. New York: Henry Holt, 1952. 373 pp.
[underbar]Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1952. 373 pp.
[underbar]New York: New American Library, 1954. 287 pp.
[underbar]Introd. Claude Bissell. New Canadian Library, No. 23. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1961. v, 302 pp.
See A7, B197, and C71.
A2 The Cruelest Month. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1963. 298 pp.
[underbar]Introd. Alan R. Young. New Canadian Library, No. 139. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977. xiii, 298 pp.
See A7.
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A3 Ox Bells and Fireflies: A Memoir. New York: Knopf, 1968. 302 pp.
Drawings by Walter Richards.
[underbar]Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1968. 302 pp.
[underbar]Introd. Alan R. Young. New Canadian Library, No. 99. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1974. xvi, 302 pp.
See A7 and B198.
A4 The Rebellion of Young David and Other Stories. Ed. Robert Chambers. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975. 138 pp.
Includes "Another Christmas" (B6), "Cleft Rock, with Spring" (B30), "The Clumsy One" (B17), "The Dream and the Triumph" (B25), "The First Born Son" (B5), "Glance in the Mirror" (B27), "Last Delivery before Christmas" (B22), "Long, Long after School" (B38), "Penny in the Dust" (B14), "A Present for Miss Merriam" (B21), "The Quarrel" (B15), "The Rebellion of Young David" (B18), "The Wild Goose" (B37), and "You Could Go Anywhere Now" (B12).
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A6 Nova Scotia: Window on the Sea. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973. 128 pp.
Photographs by Hans Weber. (See A7, B72, and B197.)
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The Cruelest Month ..............................CM
The Mountain and the Valley .....................MV
Nova Scotia: Window on the Sea ................NSWS
Ox Bells and Fireflies: A Memoir ...............OBF
The Rebellion of Young David and Other Stories..RYD
Whirligig ........................................W
B1 "No Second Cup." The Trinity University Review, 46 (Dec. 1933), 74-76.
B2 "Always Old Ending." The Trinity University Review, 46 (June-July 1934), 246-49.
B3 "Always Old Ending." The Trinity University Review, 46 (Oct. 1934), 16-21.
B4 "One Quiet Afternoon." Esquire, April 1940, pp. 70, 199-201.
Some details later used in The Mountain and the Valley.
B5 "The First Born Son." Esquire, July 1941, pp. 54-55, 114. RYD.
Some details later used in "The Rock" in The Mountain and the Valley.
B6 "Another Christmas." Saturday Night, 20 Dec. 1941, p. 25. RYD.
B7 "On the Third Day." Saturday Night, 24 April 1943, p. 33.
B8 "The Finest Tree." Saturday Night, 1 Jan. 1944, p. 17.
B9 "David Comes Home." Collier's, 4 Nov. 1944, p. 24
B10 "A Sort of Sign." Ladies Home Journal, May 1945, pp. 36-37.
B11 "Yes, Joseph, There Was a Woman; She Said Her Name Was Mary." Saturday Night, 8 Dec. 1945, pp. 48-49.
B12 "You Could Go Anywhere Now." Saturday Night, 2 Nov. 1946, pp. 28-29. RYD.
B13 "You Wouldn't Believe Me." Saturday Night, 6 Dec. 1947, pp. 48-49.
A later version of B11.
B14 "Penny in the Dust." Maclean's, 15 Dec. 1948, pp. 18-19, 44. RYD.
B15 "The Quarrel." Maclean's, 15 Jan. 1949, pp. 5-6, 24, 26-27. Rpt. (introd. Ernest Buckler). In Chatelaine, July 1959, pp. 65-68. RYD.
B16 "A Sign of the Times." National Home Monthly, July-Aug. 1950, pp. 11, 32.
B17 "The Clumsy One." Maclean's, 1 Aug. 1950, pp. 8-9, 28-30. RYD.
B18 "The Rebellion of Young David." Maclean's, 15 Nov. 1951, pp. 22-23, 36-38. RYD; CM (excerpt).
B19 "Summer Stock." Weekend, 9 Feb. 1952, pp. 30-31.
B20 "The Educated Couple." Weekend, 7 June 1952, pp. 18-19, 29, 35, 37.
B21 "A Present for Miss Merriam." Chatelaine, Dec. 1952, pp. 8, 36-39. RYD.
B22 "Last Delivery before Christmas." Chatelaine, Dec. 1953, pp. 11, 34-36, 38-40. RYD.
B23 "Goodbye Prince." Canadian Home Journal, Dec. 1954, pp. 6-7, 52-55, 59-60.
B24 "The Line Fence." Better Farming, 125 (Feb. 1955), 32-33. Rpt. in The Advertiser [Kentville, N.S.], May 1963, pp. 13, 22-23.
Better Farming is sometimes referred to by its alternate title, Country Gentleman.
B25 "The Dream and the Triumph." Chatelaine, Nov. 1956, pp. 12, 33-36, 38, 40-44. RYD.
B26 "The Eruption of Albert Wingate." The Atlantic Advocate, Nov. 1956, pp. 27-29. W (revised--"Marriage, TV Style").
B27 "Glance in the Mirror." The Atlantic Advocate, Jan. 1957, pp. 53, 55. RYD.
B28 "By Any Other Name." The Atlantic Advocate, June 1957, pp. 48, 79-80.
B29 "In Case of Emergency." The Atlantic Advocate, Aug. 1957, pp. 69-72.
B30 "Cleft Rock, with Spring." The Atlantic Advocate, Oct. 1957, pp. 89-91. RYD.
B31 "Anything Can Happen at Christmas." Chatelaine, Dec. 1957, pp. 66-68.
B32 "Blame It on the Snow." Star Weekly [Toronto Daily Star], 21 Dec. 1957, pp. 22-23.
B33 "The Concerto." The Atlantic Advocate, Feb. 1958, pp. 65-67.
B34 "The Bars and the Bridge." Family Herald, 24 April 1958, p. 17.
B35 "The Darkest Time." Canadian Home Journal, May 1958, pp. 31, 64-66.
B36 "The Echoing Hills." The Atlantic Advocate, May 1958, pp. 75-77.
B37 "The Wild Goose." The Atlantic Advocate, Oct. 1959, pp. 91-95. RYD.
B38 "Long, Long after School." The Atlantic Advocate, Nov. 1959, pp. 42-44. RYD.
B39 "The Accident." Chatelaine, May 1960, pp. 38-39, 117-18, 120-22, 124-26. (See B193.)
B40 "Humble Pie." The Advertiser [Kentville, N.S.], May 1960, pp. 7, 25-26.
B41 "The Doctor and the Patient." The Atlantic Advocate, July 1961, pp. 65-66. (See B194.)
B42 "Nettles into Orchids." The Atlantic Advocate, Aug. 1961, pp. 70-71.
B43 "One Sweet Day." The Atlantic Advocate, Jan. 1962, pp. 49-51, 53.
B44 "Choose Your Partner." The Atlantic Advocate, Aug. 1962, pp. 62-64, 66-67, 69.
B45 "Guilt on the Lily." The Atlantic Advocate, Aug. 1963, pp. 61-69.
B46 "The Late Bus." The Advertiser [Kentville, N.S.], May 1964, pp. 1, 19-20.
B47 "Seven Crows a Secret." Reader's Digest, Feb. 1969, pp. 64-68. OBF.
B48 "Son's Discovery." Reader's Digest, Nov. 1969, pp. 127-30. OBF.
B49 "I Remember Summertime." Nova Scotia Magazine, 2, No. 2 (Dec. 1971), 30. OBF.
B50 "Song of a Summer's Day." Reader's Digest, July 1973, pp. 33-35. OBF.
B51 "Rarity of June." Reader's Digest, June 1977, pp. 114-16.
B52 "The Orchard." The Review [Imperial Oil Ltd.], 62, No. 3 (1978), 28-29.
Illustrated.
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B53 "The First Born Son." In A Book of Canadian Stories. Ed. Desmond Pacey. Toronto: Ryerson, 1950, pp. 192-203.
B54 "David Leaves Home." In Atlantic Anthology. Ed. Will R. Bird. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1959, pp. 299-307.
B55 "The Quarrel." In Maclean's Canada. Ed. Leslie F. Hannon. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1960, pp. 146-51.
B56 "The Bars and the Bridge." In Stories with John Drainie. Ed. John Drainie. Toronto: Ryerson, 1963, pp. 42-47.
B57 "David Leaves Home." In Anthology of Prose for Seniors. Vol. II of Many Minds. Ed. B. C. Diltz and R. S. McMaster. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1963, pp. 311-20, 423, 433-34, 446.
B58 "Excerpts from The Mountain and the Valley." In Learning English. Ed. Phillip G. Penner and Ruth E. McConnell. Toronto: Macmillan, 1963, pp. 29, 216.
B59 "David Leaves Home." In Canadian Reflections: An Anthology of Canadian Prose. Ed. Phillip Penner and John McGechaen. Toronto: Macmillan, 1964, pp. 210-19.
B60 "The Bars and the Bridge." In Valiant Venture. Ed. George O. Dickinson. Toronto: Ginn, 1965, pp. 317-23.
B61 "Christmas." In Great Canadian Writing: A Century of Imagination. Ed. Claude Bissell. Toronto: Canadian Centennial, 1966, pp. 33-34.
B62 "The Harness." In Modern Canadian Stories. Ed. Giose Rimanelli and Roberto Ruberto. Toronto: Ryerson, 1966, pp. 137-47.
B63 "Penny in the Dust." In Canadian Anthology. Ed. Carl F. Klinck and Reginald E. Watters. 2nd ed. Toronto: Gage, 1966, pp. 324-28.
B64 "Penny in the Dust." In A Century of Canadian Literature. Ed. Gordon H. Green and Guy Sylvestre. Toronto: Ryerson, 1967, pp. 318-22.
B65 "The Wild Goose." In Stories from across Canada. Ed. Bernard L. McEvoy. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1967, pp. 70-78.
B66 "Penny in the Dust." In Voice and Vision. Ed. Jack Hodgins and William H. New. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1972, pp. 77-80.
B67 "Another Man." In Stories from Atlantic Canada. Ed. Kent Thompson. Toronto: Macmillan, 1973, pp. 61-69.
B68 "Man and Snowman." In Voices Down East: A Collection of New Writing from the Atlantic Provinces. Ed. Donald Cameron. Nova Scotia: Fourth Estate, n.d., pp. 13-15.
B69 "The First Born Son." In The Maritime Experience. Ed. Michael O. Nowlan. Toronto: Macmillan, 1975, pp. 33-44.
B70 Excerpts from The Mountain and the Valley and The Cruelest Month. In Women in Canadian Literature. Ed. M. G. Hesse. Ottawa: Borealis, 1976, pp. 67-70, 148-49. (See A7 and B197.)
B71 "Penny in the Dust." In Literature in Canada. Vol. II. Ed. Douglas Daymond and Leslie Monkman. Toronto: Gage, 1978, pp. 172-77.
B72 "From Nova Scotia: Window on the Sea," "The Rebellion of Young David," and "The First Born Son." In Nearly an Island: A Nova Scotian Anthology. Ed. Alice Hale and Sheila Brooks. St. John's: Breakwater, 1979, pp. 11, 42, 102, 119, 126-38, 139-50.
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B73 "The Chase." Dalhousie Gazette, 18 Jan. 1929, p. 2.
B74 "What Price Freedom?". Dalhousie Gazette, 15 Feb. 1929, p. 2.
B75 "Why?". Dalhousie Gazette, 22. Feb. 1929, p. 2.
B76 "Music." Dalhousie Gazette, 15 March 1929, p. 2.
B77 "Visions." Dalhousie Gazette, 15 March 1929, p. 2.
B78 "Thought." Dalhousie Gazette, 22 March 1929, p. 2.
B79 "Casting Suspicion on an Adage." Saturday Night, 14 Dec. 1940, p. 41.
B80 "Flowers Are for Death." Saturday Night, 17 June 1944, p. 40.
B81 "Prayer after Victory, for Those Who Never Felt Need to Pray." Saturday Night, 21 July 1945, p. 25.
B82 "Greetings." Saturday Night, 13 Nov. 1948, p. 41.
B83 "This Later Lycidas." The Atlantic Advocate, Nov. 1963, p. 84.
B84 "Staging the Blues." The Globe and Mail, 19 Jan. 1980, p. 6.
A series of aphorisms.
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B85 "Others Support Compulsory P.T." Dalhousie Gazette, 10 Feb. 1928, p. 3. Published under the pseudonym "E. Redmond Budster, '29."
B86 "What Is Coronet?". Coronet, 25 Jan. 1938, pp. 191-94.
B87 "The Dragnet." Whirligig, Oct. 1938, pp. 26-27, 33.
Pensees and aphorisms.
B88 "Canada's Open Letter to F.D.R." Saturday Night, 5 April 1941, p. 29.
B89 "How to Write an Artistic Novel." Saturday Night, 3 May 1941, p. 25.
B90 "Lullaby: Or 'The Figures.'" Saturday Night, 6 Dec. 1941, p. 37.
B91 "Little Sorrow on the Long Waves." Esquire, Aug. 1943, p. 85.
B92 "Unfinished Story." Bridgetown, N.S., 3 Nov. 1943.
B93 "Maritime Mores Take New Polish as Spring Bursts Out All Over." Saturday Night, 10 May 1947, pp. 20-21.
B94 "Maritimes Want Federal Help to Control Tides, Save Marshes." Saturday Night, 14 June 1947, pp. 24-25.
B95 "Freight Rates Increase, Proposal Brings Squall, Then Hurricane." Saturday Night, 5 July 1947, pp. 14-15.
B96 "Junior Can Eat the Paper Plates if He Tries New Edible Type." Saturday Night, 9 Aug. 1947, pp. 14, 23.
B97 "Scottish Visitors to Gaelic Mod Find Cape Breton Like Home." Saturday Night, 6 Sept. 1947, pp. 16-17.
B98 "The Fish Crisis Needs a Minister Who Knows Skate from Flounder." Saturday Night, 27 Sept. 1947, pp. 20-21.
B99 "Home Is Coming Nearer for Polish Veterans." Saturday Night, 18 Oct. 1947, pp. 12-13.
B100 "Maritimers Enliven Their Fairs with Ox- and Horse-Pulls." Saturday Night, 25 Oct. 1947, pp. 24-25.
B101 "Premier of P.E.I. Figures That Election Might Get Over-Ripe." Saturday Night, 6 Dec. 1947, pp. 12-13.
B102 "Billy Butlin Is Answer to N.S.'s Prayer in Cornwallis Deal." Saturday Night, 21 Feb. 1948, pp. 16-17.
B103 "Woodsmen Now Spare That Tree, Working 'Operation Evergreen.'" Saturday Night, 27 March 1948, p. 16.
B104 "Island Has a Legislating Flurry; Halifax's Million Dollar Voice." Saturday Night, 17 April 1948, pp. 26-27.
B105 "Political Omens Appear in N.B.: The Archbishop Who Attracts." Saturday Night, 29 May 1948, p. 18.
B106 "Poor Treatment for Mentally Ill but Bright Hopes for Change." Saturday Night, 26 June 1948, p. 12.
B107 "How the Liberal Tidal Wave Ran New Brunswick Election." Saturday Night, 17 July 1948, p. 12.
B108 "Signs of Times Are Sadly Evident in Cemeteries of Fruit Trees." Saturday Night, 7 Aug. 1948, p. 11.
B109 "Nova Scotian Educational Crusade Will Meet Some Knotty Problems." Saturday Night, 28 Aug. 1948, p. 26.
B110 "N.S. Miners Ask Wage Increases and Revamped Medical Scheme." Saturday Night, 18 Sept. 1948, p. 26.
B111 "Maritime Medical Care Gets Ready to Provide Complete Coverage." Saturday Night, 23 Oct. 1948, p. 17.
B112 "At U.N.B. a Singing President, at Acadia a Different Tune." Saturday Night, 13 Nov. 1948, p. 23.
B113 "U.S. Consul Sets Object Lesson in Good Neighbour Technique." Saturday Night, 20 Nov. 1948, p. 16.
B114 "Last Stop before Paradise." Maclean's, 1 June 1949, pp. 22-23, 49.
B115 "School and Me." Maclean's, 1 Sept. 1949, pp. 30, 44, 47-48.
B116 "Hands Off My Spare Time." Maclean's, 15 Aug. 1950, p. 48.
B117 "The See-Saw of a Writer's Luck." Quill & Quire, Oct. 1952, pp. 28, 32.
B118 "Love among the Ogives." Health Rays Magazine [Kentville, N.S.], May-June 1954, pp. 94-95.
B119 "The Mouths of Babes." Atlantic Monthly, July 1954, pp. 90-91.
B120 "What I Like or Don't Like on Canadian T.V." Liberty, July 1957, p. 11.
B121 "Longs and Shorts of It." Family Herald, 28 Nov. 1957, pp. 12-13.
B122 "We Never Heard of Dorothy Dix." The Atlantic Advocate, Jan. 1958, pp. 65-67.
B123 "There Oughta Be a Law." The Atlantic Advocate, Sept. 1959, pp. 76-79.
B124 "His Majesty Our Royal Mailman." Family Herald, 12 May 1960, p. 34.
B125 "Non!". The Atlantic Advocate, Sept. 1961, pp. 59-60, 62-63. W.
B126 "Bestsellers Make Strange Bedfellows." The Atlantic Advocate, Dec. 1962, pp. 23, 27-30. W.
B127 "A Little Flag for Mother." Farm Journal, 87 (May 1963), 69-70.
An article about Buckler's mother which could be considered as a story.
B128 "Oxygen Anyone?". The Atlantic Advocate, April 1964, pp. 28-29.
B129 "Small College, Big Deal." Star Weekly, 9 Oct. 1965, pp. 12-18.
B130 "My First Novel." In Ernest Buckler. Ed. Gregory M. Cook. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 7. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1972, pp. 22-27.
Taken from an unpublished text prepared and read by Buckler for CBC Toronto in 1953.
B131 "My Second Book." In Ernest Buckler. Ed. Gregory M. Cook. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 7. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1972, pp. 80-81.
B132 "My Third Book." In Ernest Buckler. Ed. Gregory M. Cook. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 7. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1972, pp. 117-18.
B133 "This Side Paradise, Nova Scotia (Home Is Where You Hang Your Heart)." Maclean's, Sept. 1973, pp. 40-41. Rpt. ("My Places of Peace"). In Reader's Digest, Oct. 1977, pp. 12, 14.
B134 "Dictionaries of the Blood. Bless You, Kate Reid." The Globe and Mail, 23 Oct. 1976, p. 6.
�� A column in "At the Mermaid Inn."
B135 "The Best Place to Be." Graduate [Univ. of Toronto], 1977, pp. 32-33. W.
This article was published in the University of Toronto's alumni bulletin as part of its sesquecentennial celebration issue.
B136 "A House, a House, My Kingdom for a House." The Globe and Mail, 1 Jan. 1977, p. 10.
B137 "Surely the Queen Merits Conservation No Less Than Does the Dolphin." The Globe and Mail, 26 Feb. 1977, p. 6.
A column in "At the Mermaid Inn" includes a satirical poem.
B138 "To Sleep, Perchance? No, It's Never Lights Out for the True Insomniac." The Globe and Mail, 23 July 1977, p. 10. Rpt. (condensed--"Diary of an Insomniac"). In Reader's Digest, Dec. 1977, pp. 166, 168.
B139 "Going Crazy, Pal?: Just Try On a Sanity Quiz to See if Any of Your Marbles Are Chipped and Ready to Fall Apart." The Globe and Mail, 19 Nov. 1977, p. 10.
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B140 "Notable Spring Fiction." Rev. of They Wanted to Live, by Cecil Roberts. New York Herald Tribune Books, 2 April 1939, p. 16.
A notation in Buckler's manuscript reads "My first paid for article."
B141 "On the Frontier." Rev. of Border Country, by Raymond Williams. The Times Literary Supplement, 23 Nov. 1960, p. 753.
Unsigned.
B142 "Spotlit in a Zero Hour." Rev. of A Spirit Rises, by Sylvia Townsend Warner. New York Times Book Review, 1 April 1962, p. 4.
B143 "Domino, Big Mama and Company." Rev. of The Spangled Road, by Borden Deal. New York Times Book Review, 6 May 1962, pp. 30-31.
B144 "People Survive Somehow." Rev. of An Unofficial Rose, by Iris Murdoch. New York Times Book Review, 20 May 1962, p. 5.
B145 "Against the Terror, the Spirit of Sisyphus." Rev. of The Golden Notebook, by Doris Lessing. New York Times Book Review, 1 July 1962, p. 4.
B146 "There Was a Devil In the Village." Rev. of The Rain Bird, by Sara Lidman. New York Times Book Review, 19 Aug. 1962, p. 5.
B147 "There's Nothing Ordinary about Anybody." Rev. of The Golden Oriole, Five Novellas, by H. E. Bates. New York Times Book Review, 30 Sept. 1962, p. 4.
B148 "Down to the Sea to Prove Himself a Man among Men." Rev. of Ultramarine, by Malcolm Lowry. New York Times Book Review, 14 Oct. 1962, p. 5.
B149 "And to the Artist a Towering Mountain Was the Supreme Challenge." Rev. of The Hidden Mountain, by Gabrielle Roy. New York Times Book Review, 28 Oct. 1962, pp. 4, 18.
B150 "The Witch of Epinaie." Rev. of Legend of Madeleine, by Charles Matz. New York Times Book Review, 26 May 1963, p. 27.
B151 "Rendezvous with Truth." Rev. of Sissie, by John A. Williams. New York Times Book Review, 2 June 1963, p. 21.
B152 "Emmie Took Charge." Rev. of Tortoise by Candlelight, by Nina Bawden. New York Times Book Review, 23 June 1963, p. 26.
B153 "Life among the Lepers on Hawaii Isle." Rev. of Molokai, by O. A. Bushnell. Los Angeles Times Calendar, 25 Aug. 1963, p. 17.
B154 "Brotherhood in Battle." Rev. of The Seed and the Sower, by Laurens Van Der Post. Los Angeles Times Calendar, 15 Sept. 1963, p. 20.
B155 "Two Portions of Fact, Fancy." Rev. of Beseiger of Cities, by Alfred Duggan; and Cities of the Flesh, by Zoe Oldenbourg. Los Angeles Times Calendar, 29 Sept. 1963, p. 16.
B156 "On the Trail of Lewis and Clark." Rev. of The Gates of the Mountains, by Will Henry. Los Angeles Times Calendar, 24 Nov. 1963, p. 15.
B157 "To Value a Stolen Ecstasy, a Sense of Sin Was Necessary." Rev. of The Better Song, by Luc Estang. New York Times Book Review, 26 Jan. 1964, p. 4.
B158 "Battling with Awakening Love." Rev. of An Arid Heart, by Carlo Cassola. Los Angeles Times Calendar, 2 Feb. 1964, p. 17.
B159 "An Ornithological Travelogue." Rev. of The Peregrine Falcon, by Robert Murphy. Los Angeles Times Calendar, 2 Feb. 1964, p. 20.
B160 "A Son of Simple Virtue." Rev. of Brightness, by Elizabeth Jenkins. New York Times Book Review, 5 April 1964, p. 46.
B161 "Novels Distinctive in Substance and Integrity." Rev. of The Keepers of the House, by Shirley Ann Grau, and Next Door, by Johanna Moosdorf. Los Angeles Times Calendar, 12 April 1964, p. 22.
B162 "Anti-Paintings of What Wasn't There." Rev. of White Figure, White Ground, by Hugh Hood. New York Times Book Review, 16 Aug. 1964, p. 5.
B163 "Edward Thornhill Self-Appraised." Rev. of The Corrida at San Feliu, by Paul Scott. New York Times Book Review, 1 Nov. 1964, p. 28.
B164 "Skulduggery in St. John's Wood." Rev. of Quadrille, by Frank Swinnerton. New York Times Book Review, 27 June 1965, p. 30.
B165 "A Case of Departure Sickness." Rev. of The Road Past Altamont, by Gabrielle Roy. New York Times Book Review, 11 Sept. 1966, pp. 4-5.
B166 "Night Journey of the Soul." Rev. of A State of Siege, by Janet Frame. New York Times Book Review, 11 Sept. 1966, p. 5.
B167 "Alden Nowlan: An Appreciation." Rev. of Miracle at Indian River, by Alden Nowlan. The Fiddlehead, No. 81 (Aug.-Sept.-Oct. 1969), pp. 46-47.
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B168 "Thinks Dos Passos Opaque." Esquire, March 1937, p. 178.
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B169 "Encore." Esquire, May 1937, p. 10.
B170 "In and about Esq." Esquire, July 1937, p. 10.
B171 "The One Man S. and F." Esquire, Sept. 1937, p. 8.
B172 "Buckler, Like the Brook." Esquire, Nov. 1937, p. 10.
B173 "'Buckler's Bit." Esquire, March 1938, p. 10.
B174 "Our Shield and Our Buckler." Esquire, June 1938, p. 194.
B175 Letter to "Sound and Fury." Esquire, Jan. 1939, pp. 5, 10.
B176 "Reactionary." Esquire, July 1948, p. 10.
B177 "Forever Ernest." Esquire, Oct. 1948, p. 139.
B178 "A Note on 'Life' and the Old Esquire." Esquire, Dec. 1952, p. 10.
B179 "Cojones and Kudos." Esquire, Sept. 1953, p. 12.
B180 "One Up, One Down." Esquire, Oct. 1954, p. 23.
B181 "Characters and Accomplices." Esquire, Sept. 1955, p. 14.
B182 "...And Bouquets." Esquire, Aug. 1956, p. 19.
B183 "Stamp of New Letters." Esquire, Dec. 1956, p. 27.
Bl84 "Think." Esquire, Jan. 1957, p. 12.
B185 "British Issue." Esquire, June 1958, p. 10.
B186 "Books." Esquire, July 1958, p. 10.
B187 "Fiction by the Yard." Esquire, Oct. 1958, p. 18
B188 "The Zing's the Thing." Esquire, May 1960, p. 10.
B189 "Vintage Voice." Esquire, March 1964, p. 16.
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B190 Four on a Match. Canadian Theatre of the Air. CBC, 10 July 1941.
A radio play.
B191 "Three's a Crowd." Canadian Theatre of the Air. CBC, 29 May 1942.
B192 A Staging in the House. Prod. John Hobday. Halifax Theatre, 22 Dec. 1960.
B193 The Accident. Prod. John Hobday. Halifax Theatre, 31 Aug. 1961.
A play adapted by Kay Hill from Buckler's short story of the same name (B39).
B194 "Doctor and the Patient." Stories with John Drainie. CBC, 29 May 1964. (15 min.) (See B41.)
B195 By Sun and Candlelight. Prod. and dir. Peter Donkin. CBC Midweek Theatre [Halifax], 14 Feb. 1968. (57 min.)
B196 Christmas in Canada. Prod. Michael CassBeggs. Narr. Paul Hecht. CBC, 25 Dec. 1968. (57 min.)
A cantata composed by Keith Bissell to a text by Buckler.
B197 Nova Scotia: Window on the Sea (excerpts). In Nova Scotia Novelist Ernest Buckler. By Adrienne Clarkson. CBC Take 30, 30 Jan. 1974. (30 min.) (See A1, A6, A7, and B72.)
A television audio of an interview program (C70) which includes dramatizations of parts of The Mountain and the Valley (C71) and Nova Scotia: Window on the Sea.
B198 Ox Bells and Fireflies: A Memoir (excerpts). (28 min.) In Countdown Nova Scotia. Pt. IVA. Prod. John Douglas. CBC News Special [Halifax], 2 April 1974. (See A3 and A7.)
The chapter entitled "Soft Soap and Drawn Knives" is partly narrated and partly dramatized. The work is, however, interrupted for comments by various people about the Nova Scotia art-scene.
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Cl Bowering, George. Al Purdy. Toronto: Copp Clark, 1970. 117 pp. The only book written solely on Al Purdy, this is a careful study of the growth of Purdy as poet. Bowering analyzes each book of poetry chronologically, comparing the early Purdy to the mature Purdy, and looking closely at some individual poems. He traces the works from the early traditional, "romantic," and very "poetic" poetry to Purdy's open, natural, loose style. Purdy learned to start with the particular and local in seeking the universal, and to concern himself with process and search rather than closed answers. His main theme is "being alive," and his method that of "continuous discovery." Purdy comes into his own with The Cariboo Horses and is even better in North of Summer. In Wild Grape Wine, however, he is too willing to play the role laid out for him by the public. Although its brevity prevents detailed criticism, the book fulfils its purpose of providing an introduction to Purdy criticism and an excellent, overall view of Purdy and his development.
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D111 Wilde, Kelly. Rev. of Al Purdy's Ontario. Books in Canada, Oct. 1973, pp. 12-13. Purdy's style of reading is criticized for its lack of passion and lack of electricity and involvement. Because he seems to be talking to himself, he loses his audience. Purdy sounds like "any one of a score of lesser talented poets at a Canlit jam session," moving among a prosy, anti-poetic tone, a self-conscious detachment, and a tough shell and tired sigh. He should make more effort with his reading and performance skills.
D112 Weaver, Robert. Rev. of Al Purdy's Ontario. The Canadian Reader, 12, No. 5 (n.d.), 5-6. Weaver does not review the record, but discusses Al Purdy as an Ontario poet, and his concern with Eastern Ontario. Purdy is sometimes social historian, but often makes his region and its characters into myth.
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D108 Colombo, John Robert. Rev. of Canadian Poets. The Canadian Reader, 7, No. 12 [1966?]. 4-5. Although none of the poets read as well as Dylan Thomas did, most of them give exciting performances. Colombo enjoys Purdy's "rambling, witty, occasionally coarse voice."
D109 Robertson, George. "Voices of Poets." Canadian Literature, No. 36 (Spring 1968), pp. 70-74. Although Robertson does not usually like readings of poetry, he likes this, and especially the reading by Purdy, whose "rough, hectoring beer-parlour voice is surely the clinching argument in favour of hearing the poet as well as reading him." But his voice doesn't disguise his seriousness of purpose.
D110 Swan, Susan. Rev. of Canadian Poets I. Books in Canada, April-May-June 1973, pp. 19-20. Swan thinks that Purdy reads best of all the poets on this album. His Ontario accent and idiom gives the sense of place to his poems, and his voice, which is nasal and flat, leads up to a flash of recognition and surprise.
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D99 Farmiloe, Dorothy. Rev. of A Handful of Earth. Quill & Quire, 14 Nov. 1977, pp. 9-10. Although Purdy admits that this is his bottom drawer stuff, these poems are worth reading, as they have the Purdy touch and the Purdy voice. These poems are mellower than most of his others; his theme is what we have learned or failed to learn from the past.
D100 Woodcock, George. Rev. of A Handful of Earth, and Selected Strawberries, by Susan Musgrave. CV/II, 3, No. 4 (Summer 1978), 6-7. Poetry has room for two types of voices, Athens (like Purdy) and Delphi (Musgrave). The voice of Athens is that of man speaking to man, is discursive, conversational, and rational. Woodcock finds that Purdy's poetry is an excellent example of that type of voice, and finds this book very good, and even the old poems valuable. Purdy is read widely because of the kind of verse he writes rather than because of his "stature" as a poet, but those who read him for superficial reasons often go back to read him for deeper intents.
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D101 Dempster, Barry. Rev. of At Marsport Drugstore. Quill & Quire, July 1978, p. 12. The book is called "playboy gone literary," a blend of literature and men's magazines. The poems are sometimes clumsy, and are crude, but crude in such a way as to create a different style of poetry.
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D104 Helwig, David. Rev. of Being Alive. The Toronto Star, 23 Sept. 1978, Sec D, p. 7. Helwig appreciates this book, for it is the "best introduction to Purdy," fairly complete, and shows Purdy's development over twenty years. The poems are arranged in a "loosely chronological" fashion, according to Purdy, but also grouped according to theme and feeling. The book is diverse and "resists summary." It contains comic poems, love poems, intimate poems, and everyone's old favourites. Helwig especially likes "The Country North of Belleville," and finds it hard to believe that "anyone ever sat down in a chair and wrote it and then read it for the first time."
D105 Colombo, John Robert. Rev. of Being Alive. The Globe and Mail, 26 Sept. 1978, Sec. 1, p. 16. Colombo calls this book, which marks the event of Purdy's sixtieth birthday, "vintage Purdy, the best possible introduction to the man and his world." One can see in this chronological arrangement of poems Purdy's movement from blunt statement of the world's contradictions to "a lyric and tentative appreciation of its subtleties."
D106 Trethewey, Eric. "Praising Water and Friendship, Praising Love." The Fiddlehead, No. 121 (Spring 1979), pp. 146-49. The reviewer dislikes Purdy's sentimentality and thinks his humour is often flat but admires his "expansiveness and his generosity of spirit which find their expression in a uniquely Canadian idiom."
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D3 Wilson, Milton. Rev. of Emu, Remember! The Canadian Forum, July 1957, p. 87. Of Purdy's earlier book, Pressed on Sand, Wilson says that it "had an occasional, fragmentary brilliance which compensated for its confusion of styles and uncertainty of direction," and that "an authentic idiom kept promising to emerge out of the half-digested cliches of Laurentian primitivism." Purdy shows, in his next book, that he is a visual poet, but with more promise than solid achievement. Wilson criticizes Purdy's "combination of self-educated pedantry and self-conscious Bohemianism," but sees promise for the future, and, having seen Purdy's recent periodical verse, feels that "the future may already be upon us."
D4 Gnarowski, Michael. Rev. of Emu, Remember! Yes, 2, No. 3 (Feb 1958), n. pag. Many of these poems are obscure, unambitious, vague, and mediocre, and shouldn't have been included. Purdy has written better poems, which have been published in magazines.
D5 Hazo, Samuel J. Rev. of Emu, Remember! The Fiddlehead, No. 35 (Winter 1958), pp. 43-44. Although there are some fine poems in this book, sometimes Purdy tries too hard to be clever, and the effect is contrived and calculated. Purdy is at his best when his "highly original wit is fused with a more sedate lyricism which transcends and somehow spiritualizes the poetry."
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D57 Pokorny, Amy. Rev. of Hiroshima Poems, and Theme and Variations for Sounding Brass, by Ralph Gustafson. Quarry, 22, No. 2 (Spring 1973), 75-76. Pokorny writes that Purdy has left the restrictions of traditional prosody behind him, and is now using form that allows him to express himself much better. Purdy's personal sympathy for the underdog is mentioned, and the book is seen as Purdy's expression of his sorrow over the suffering that took place at Hiroshima.
D58 Warkentin Germaine. "Drifting to Oblivion." Rev. of Hiroshima Poems, and Lies, by John Newlove. Canadian Literature, No. 56 (Spring 1973), pp. 121-22. Rpt. (abridged) in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Carolyn Riley. Vol. III. Detroit: Gale, 1975, p. 408. Purdy's response to a civilization that survived oblivion is uneven; he is sometimes too prosy, sometimes too sentimental. "Remembering Hiroshima" is an especially good poem, however.
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D77 David, Jack. Rev. of In Search of Owen Roblin. Quill & Quire, Oct. 1974, p. 24. This book, which resembles a child's book with its photographs and large type, is "a meditation on Purdy's own locus." The purpose of this king poem is to explore a part of Canada in a distinctly Canadian way, to explore "the poet's and the locality's essence."
D78 Levinson, Christopher. Rev. of In Search of Owen Roblin: Atlantic Crossing, by David Helwig; and Change-Up: New Poems, by Raymond Souster. Books in Canada, Dec. 1974, pp. 26-27. This long poem enables Purdy to use his historical imagination in a more sustained way. By interfusing present and past, Purdy transcends the local and personal, and shows the importance of communication with both past and future.
D79 Cameron, Barry. "The Motive for Fiction." Rev. of In Search of Owen Roblin, with mention of Sex and Death, Hiroshima Poems, Poems for All the Annettes (1973), and On the Bearpaw Sea. The Canadian Forum, Jan. 1975, pp. 47-48. In Owen Roblin, Purdy seeks the adequate language and a psychic place that will yield meaning. His theme is man's motive for fiction, which is to shape life so that we can make sense of it, and so that the past can exist in the present. The poem shows the tension between fixity and open-endedness; the poet can never structure permanently any experience. Sex and Death is Purdy's best work technically, but Owen Roblin is the most valuable book in order to understand all his work. Cameron feels that it is unfortunate that the book is an expensive, coffee-table volume, as fewer people will read it.
D80 Gutteridge, Don. Rev. of In Search of Owen Roblin, and Fire on Stone, by Ralph Gustafson. Queen's Quarterly, 82, No. 1 (Spring 1975), 139-40. This narrative of Purdy's ancestors and chronicle of his search for his roots brings together Purdy's strengths and minimizes his weaknesses. Gutteridge believes Purdy's tendency to circle around the truth with accumulated detailed is a strength here. The accumulated detail helps the reader and Purdy know these ancestors fully in order to become human themselves.
D81 Woodcock, George. See D68.
D82 Sandler, Linda. "Purdy on Owen Roblin." The Tamarack Review, No. 65 (March 1975), pp. 98-100. Rpt. in The Canadian Reader, 16, No. 3 (March 1975), 5-7. Sandler calls this poem a "superbly varied 'documentary' poem," which acknowledges the past as a historical reality. Although it tells a powerful story, the poem does not quite work, according to Sandler, as we need to know more about the present to make the recovered past more convincing as a "compass point" for the future.
D83 Dragland, Stan. Rev. of In Search of Owen Roblin. The Fiddlehead, No. 110 (Summer 1976), pp. 138-42. Dragland criticizes this book for its lack of tightness, finding some parts good, others slack. Although the reviewer likes the personal, down-to-earth approach of the Purdy persona, he finds the 'I' sometimes an intruder in this long poem.
D84 Gibbs, Robert. "Presiding Voices: Purdy, Layton, and Gustafson." Rev. of In Search of Owen Roblin; The Pole-Vaulter, by Irving Layton; and Fire on Stone, by Ralph Gustafson. The Dalhousie Review, 56 (Summer 1976), 356-65. This is a very intelligent discussion and comparison of these three books, with emphasis on the personae used by the three poets. Purdy's voice varies between that of the persona undergoing an intimate search and that of the more detached observer, who frames and distances the material. In the attempt to integrate the detached persona with the fully integrated poetic personality, Purdy's quest for self mostly succeeds.
D85 Stevens, Peter. "Explorer/Settler/Poet." The University of Windsor Review, 13, No. 1 (Fall-Winter 1977), 65-74. Canadian writers have turned to early historical figures "as a basis for some mythic ground to construct a sense of a Canadian poetic or literary consciousness." Purdy's search for his ancestors in In Search of Owen Roblin is also a search for a poetic vice, which he finds. His poetry becomes more colloquial, more based on his roots, after he has settled at Roblin Lake. Thus, this book by Purdy tells the story of Purdy's own development as a poet.
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D53 Weaver, Robert. Rev. of Love in a Burning Building. The Canadian Reader, 11, No. 8 [1970-71?], 5-6. This book is highly praised by Weaver for its reflective exploration of the human condition of love, marriage, sex, and all human relationships. It is partially autobiographical, but Purdy often wears a mask and is "a poet who often watches the poet composing his autobiography." Purdy is a witty and very talented poet.
D54 Atwood, Margaret, "Love Is Ambiguous. . .Sex Is a Bully." Canadian Literature, No. 49 (Summer 1971), pp. 71-75. Atwood likes this book, in spite of the flashy cover and the fact that the poems are all revised versions of earlier poems. She says that Purdy writes like "a cross between Shakespeare and a vaudeville comedian." She is one of surprisingly few critics who have recognized Purdy's similarities to the romantic poets, but observes that Purdy yearns for the ideal and eternal with no conviction that they exist. Purdy, as husband in these poems, sees marriage as both refuge and prison, is torn between home-life and adventure--but he always returns to his wife. Purdy's reflections on sex and love, as allaying his fear of death and vanishing, are personal and honest.
D55 Barbour, Douglas. Rev. of Love in a Burning Budding, and Rag & Bone Shop, by Earle Birney. The Dalhousie Review, 51, No. 2 (Summer 1971), 289-90. This book contains many old poems, and many worthwhile new poems. As an introduction to Purdy, it is a "gem." Purdy gives a "marvellously wide-ranging view of homo-sapiens engaged in his most profound and silly activity."
D56 Hornyansky, Michael. "Letters in Canada 1970." University of Toronto Quarterly, 40, No. 4 (Summer 1971), 379-80. The review is much like a Purdy poem, in that the writer undergoes a process, changing his mind part way through the review. Hornyansky is at first skeptical of the book, due to its firelit, passionate cover. "Was this to be a non-stop swagger, with Purdy in his rangy dungfooted leering persona?" The reviewer believes that Purdy's image of surly vitality obtrudes and limits him. However, he finds the book good after all, as Purdy often changes to other personae who mock his "randy swaggerer," and has perfected his skill at craftsmanship. After reading the book, the reviewer was won over.
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D107 Bemrose, John. Rev. of Moths in the Iron Curtain. Toronto Star, 9 June 1979, p. F7. Bemrose thinks this is a minor addition to Purdy's canon.
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D102 Christy, Jim. Rev. of No Other Country. Books in Canada, Oct. 1977, pp. 13-14. This is a harshly critical review. Christy finds this book hackneyed and hack work, published only because Al Purdy is Al Purdy. The book is called depressing reading, sloppy, trite, boring, and bland; Purdy minimizes each place and whatever people he is in contact with.
D103 Barnes, Michael. Rev. of No Other Country. Quill & Quire, 14 Nov 1977, p. 9. Purdy writes well about Canadian landscape and people, according to Barnes, and his story about Roderick Haig-Brown is "pure gold."
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D35 Barbour, Douglas. Rev. of North of Summer Quarry, 17, No. 1 (Fall 1967), 45-47. With this book, Purdy's best to date, he has found himself and his vision; his poems are consciously unpoetic, but provide a special view of life. Purdy does not patronize the Indians, but plays the bumbling outsider, accepting the Eskimos and seeing them as clearly as he can. All the poems are good, some are superb.
D36 Helwig, David. "Canadian Poetry: Seven Recent Books." Rev. of North of Summer; Periods of the Moon, by Irving Layton; Abracadabra, by John Robert Colombo; The Silverthorn Bush, by Robert Finch; The Circle Game, by Margaret Atwood; The Danish Portraits, by Heather Spears; and The Dumbfounding, by Margaret Avison. Queen's Quarterly, 74, No. 4 (Winter 1967), 754-6l. Purdy's book is a public event; it is journalism and a documentary report, with the facts and details often remaining just facts, with no conclusions drawn, as Purdy feels that some real facts cannot be reduced to literature. But the book as a whole makes all the bits add up, one should read the whole book.
D37 Gibbs, Robert. Rev. of North of Summer. The Fiddlehead, No. 74 (Winter 1968), pp. 84-86. Gibbs finds this a handsome book, more carefully devised than at first appears. Purdy is criticized, however, for his complete informality when it becomes itself a mannerism leading Purdy to the vice of self-parody. "Purdy writes almost too much like Purdy."
D38 MacCallum, Hugh. "Letters in Canada: 1967." University of Toronto Quarterly, 37, No. 4 {July 1968), 360-62. This book includes some of Purdy's best poems to date, with a new intensity and cohesiveness of themes, and complete mastery of technique. The reviewer appreciates Purdy's unpretentiousness as a traveller, his direct responses, and his curiosity and wonder. Purdy's warmth enables him to "bridge, momentarily, the gulf which separates him from the Eskimo."
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D68 Woodcock, George. "Purdy's Prelude and Other Poems." Rev. of On the Bearpaw Sea, In Search of Owen Roblin, and eight other books. Canadian Literature, No. 64 (Spring 1975), pp. 92-98. Both these long poems are "used for a rather intensive elaboration of philosophic and moral and historic reflections on the nature and direction of human life, of all life." In On the Bearpaw Sea, the clowning and solemnity flow into each other. Owen Roblin is Purdy's search to recover a sense of himself, and is about time and death and the beauty of transient things. It is also about continuity, about being part of an enduring whole, and is therefore Purdy's Prelude.
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D17 Jones, B.W. Rev. of Poems for All the Annettes (1962), and A Local Pride, by Raymond Souster. Queen's Quarterly, 69, No. 4 (Winter 1962-63), 646-47. Jones is not favourably impressed by this book. He finds Purdy too often "obtrusive and affected," and his language lacking in flexibility. Thus Purdy cannot pass on to the reader what might have been his own sensitive response.
D18 Webb, Phyllis. Rev. of Poems for All the Annettes(1962). Canadian Literature, No. 15 (Winter 1963), pp. 80-81. Purdy is called one of the few important voices in Canadian poetry today. His method and tone are often criticized and found offensive. "Archaeology of Snow" is the central poem in the collection; although it seems at first clumsy and fragmented, the style reflects the theme of time and division. Purdy's weakness is clutter, lack of trimming.
D19 Bowering, George. Rev. of Poems for All the Annettes (1962). Tish, No. 17 (14 Jan 1963), p. 11. Even at this early stage of Purdy's work, Bowering sees him as the "leading poet of his generation in Canada." Although Purdy sometimes writes dead lines and bad phrases, his poetry is never boring, always interesting, and often exciting.
D20 Mandel, E.W. "Turning New Leaves." Rev. of Poems for All the Annettes (1962); Twelve Letters to a Small Town, by James Reaney; The Sun Is Axeman, by D.G. Jones, and The Things which Are, by Alden Nowlan. The Canadian Forum, March 1963, pp. 278-80. He discusses Purdy's syntax, which "threatens at any moment to tear itself to pieces simply out of spite at its own difficulties." Purdy lusts for something permanent, while sensing the elusiveness of experience, the patterns that never succeed. This book Is Purdy's "big bang" and Mandel hopes that he writes a dozen more.
D21 Rev. of Poems for All the Annettes (1962). Teangadoir, 2nd Ser., 1, No. 5 (15 May 1963), n. pag. The reviewer feels that Purdy's "polysyllabic, polygot, polygamous, polygonal vocabulary" sometimes bogs you down. Purdy is very "Canadian" but unconsciously so; he believes that people of all times and places are coeval. The main criticism of the book itself is that it was cheaply printed by an American printer.
D22 Nowlan, Alden. Rev. of Poems for All the Annettes (1962), and A Friction of Lights, by Eldon Grier. The Fiddlehead, No. 57 (Summer 1963), pp. 67-68. Purdy is praised for his gusto and insight, for being a whole and a real man. Nowlan feels that this is more important than his occasional weaknesses as a poet." Alfred Purdy never bores me. Sometimes I think he stands on his head and rides his bicycle without using his hands a bit oftener than is good for him and occasionally I get a bit impatient with some of his smart aleckisms. But those are the kind of mistakes we all make."
D23 Wilson, Milton. "Letters in Canada: 1962." University of Toronto Quarterly, 32, No. 4 (July 1963), 279-81. In these direct, intimate poems, Purdy makes poetry out of his quarrels with form, language, and selection, and finds humanity in his doubts of human identity and continuity. Wilson especially likes the poem "Archaeology of Snow," but writes that it works a bit too hard at its own undoing.
D24 Lochhead, Douglas. Rev. of Poems for All the Annettes (1962); The Things which Are, by Alden Nowlan; Jawbreakers, by Milton Acorn; A Friction of Lights, by Eldon Grier; A Shifting Pattern, by Peter Miller; and A Local Pride, by Raymond Souster. Dalhousie Review, 44, No. 2 (Summer 1964), 241-47. Although this reviewer praises Souster for publishing all of the above books with his Contact Press, he does not like or appreciate Purdy's poetry, even though this is probably Purdy's first good book. Lochhead finds the urbanity and the journalistic mockery or opportunism of Purdy's poems annoying, and calls Purdy's student bravado "perhaps. . . a kind of sickness." Mr. Purdy is just not my kind of poet, clever, adroit, and prolific though he is."
D25 Blostein, David. Rev. of Poems for All the Annettes and The Blur in Between. Alphabet, No. 8 (June 1964), pp. 77-79. This is not so much a review of the books as a statement of the general characteristics of Purdy's poetry. Purdy's poems express "the difficulty of grasping the blurred interval between birth and death." and the difficulty in expressing things. Purdy distrusts the fully articulated, possessing a kind of "negative capability", he writes best when he is satisfied with hints rather than with sharp definitions. Too often, however, Purdy is self-conscious and embarrassed by his lack of answers.
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D39 Barbour, Douglas. Rev. of Wild Grape Wine and Poem, for All the Annettes, (1968); Selected Poems 1956-1968, by Leonard Cohen; The Animals in That Country, by Margaret Atwood, and The Collected Poems of Anne Wilkinson, ed. A.J.M. Smith. The Dalhousaie Review, 48 (Winter 1968-69), 566-71. Purdy is called the "dean of Canadian poets," but he is honest and humorous, never close to self-adulation. Both of these books contain many exciting poems, in which Purdy's imagination careens all over the universe. Although Purdy is undisciplined and wild, he has genuine talent; his imagination, honesty of vision, gusto, and bravura raise him "high above many minor craftsmen."
D40 Cogswell, Fred. Rev. of Poems for All the Annettes (1968), and Winter of the Luna Moth, by Joe Rosenblatt. Canadian Literature, No. 40 (Spring 1969), pp 311-72. This book is called as good as The Cariboo Horses, and better than North of Summer and Wild Grape Wine. Purdy's ability depends on (1) the lively oral personality that he stamps on all his poems; (2) his "intellectuality," the curiosity and imagination by which he fuses elements that seem unfusable. Cogswell states that Purdy has perfected his voice, but that his intellectuality hasn't kept up with the development of his style and voice.
D41 Helwig, David. "The Winemaker." Rev. of Poems for All the Annettes and Wild Grape Wine. Queen's Quarterly, 76, No. 2 (Summer 1969), 340-44. Helwig feels that Purdy is now the major Canadian poet, having taken over from Layton. The fact that Purdy is non-academic and self-educated is a virtue, as he has never debased his wide learning by using it to pass an exam. Both books are good, especially the Annettes, but some poems are better than others. A Purdy poem often starts out as autobiography, moves toward the comic, then down toward some final, often ironic, insight. Purdy's loose forms can be compared to those of Whitman, Rexroth, and Ginsberg, yet Purdy has a precision of language and emotional depth that those poets lack.
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D69 Rev. of Poems for All the Annettes (1973), and Hymn to Isis, by Edmund Fancott. The Canadian Reader, 14, No. 6 (Dec 1973), 13-14. Purdy now writes "with a mature power undistorted by the popularity and praise that have properly come his way." Like other poets, his subjects are love, life, death, etc. but "he speaks Canadian." This is the third version of Annettes. The reviewer quotes from some poems, but does not evaluate the book.
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D2 Pacey, Desmond. Rev. of Pressed on Sand. The Fiddlehead, No. 25 (May 1955), p. 13. This brief review calls the book competent but colourless, as it has suffered from overcautious editing, and therefore the more audacious and exciting poems by Purdy have been excluded.
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D59 Duffy, Dennis. Rev. of Selected Poems. The Globe and Mail, 1 April 1972, Sec. Entertainment-Travel, p. 23. Purdy writes of "the stuff of one man's experience taking on a shape resembling those larger forces shaping us all." Duffy sees Purdy as a Loyalist, who from the tragic vision of Canada receives the inspiration to seek the truth and the sources of life. The danger to Purdy is that he could become institutionalized as the Canadian Nationalist. Although he describes the inner life that is timeless and cyclical, as opposed to the outer life that is historical and linear, Purdy's talents have not been "stretched to the fullest" in this book. Purdy needs to combine the anguish of some of his poems with the humour of the others and Duffy believes he can do it.
D60 Sherman, Joseph. Rev. of Selected Poems; Intense Pleasure, by David McFadden; and The Armies of the Moon, by Gwendolyn MacEwen. The Fiddlehead, No. 94 (Summer 1972), pp. 120-22. The book is praised as a literary milestone in Purdy's career, but Purdy is criticized for the unnecessary revising which defeats the purpose of this sort of book. The reviewer emphasizes Purdy's Canadianism and calls him a "surface man."
D61 Keyes, Mary. Rev. of Selected Poems. The Canadian Forum, June 1972, pp. 42-43. Keyes concentrates on praising Purdy for the honesty of his communication and his closeness to the reader.
D62 Helwig, David. "Four Poets." Rev. of Selected Poems; Intense Pleasure, by David McFadden; Skydeck, by Stuart MacKinnon; and Our Man in Utopia, by Doug Fetherling. Queen's Quarterly, 79, No. 3 (Autumn 1972), 404-07. This review is a flattering one to Purdy, but very general. Helwig writes that Purdy's poems are "better medicine than booze," and that the central theme of the book is "the sense of the mystery of time by which things happen and are lost, happen and endure."
D63 Mundwiler, Leslie. Rev. of Selected Poems. Open Letter, 2nd Ser., No. 3 (Fall 1972), 75-78. Mundwiler points out that Purdy, in his poems, is not stagnantly seeking Canadian identity, a metaphysical communion with landscape, or an idealized national character, but instead seeks a dynamic awareness, remaining filled with doubt and uncertainty in the process. Purdy makes no final conclusion or statement, but is concerned with the process and with the question itself. People who are aware of Purdy's purpose and of the identifications he makes can accept his grotesque juxtapositions and his intentional stylelessness.
D64 Weaver, Robert. "A Radical Romantic." Books in Canada, Oct 1972, pp. 16-17. Weaver describes Purdy well, as "a romantic disguised (thinly) as the anti-romantic plain man. "He discusses Purdy's irony, and his open form, with special praise for "Lament for the Dorsets."
D65 Shucard, Alan R. Rev. of Selected Poems. World Literature Written in English, 11, No. 2 (Nov 1972), 106-08. Shucard calls Purdy "the most Canadian living poet," possibly "the best Canadian poet living," and one of the first-rate poets writing in English anywhere. The reviewer praises Purdy's ability to "yoke deep and disparate insights to basic and sometimes base things." This book is called "a rugged, beautiful, and important book," which is both Canadian and universal. Although the praise seems lavish, the reviewer shows deep insight into Purdy's poetry and backs up his praise with solid reasons.
D66 Aide, William. Rev. of Selected Poems. Quarry, 22, No. 1 (Winter 1973), 66-70. Purdy's poems are "wine-bright," and this book "solid" and "subtle." Purdy's major themes, which blend together, are place, ancestral time, and historic change. However, Purdy, in his self-mockery, does not tell the whole truth and covers up something in him that he should express.
D67 Stevens, Peter. "The Beowulf Poet Is Alive and Well." Canadian Literature, No. 55 (Winter 1973), pp. 99-102. Rpt. (abridged) in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Carolyn Riley. Vol. III Detroit: Gale 1975, p.408. Like the Beowulf poet, Purdy is the poet of an emerging nation, he welds together sharply contrasting states of mind and emotional moods, and he displays an ambivalent attitude towards his experiences in various places. The central polarity of Purdy's poetry is "the transcience yet persistence of man, the vitality of life in the face of inevitable death." Unlike the Beowulf poet, Purdy is self-conscious, focussing on men and on himself. The poet defines himself in relation to this country and the world and tells us something about ourselves. "If Purdy didn't exist, it would have been necessary for Canadians to invent him."
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D70 Barbour, Douglas. Rev. of Sex and Death. Quill & Quire, Aug. 1973, p. 12. In this flattering review, Barbour expresses has gratefulness that we have Purdy, and that he has shared with us his "eccentric but clear vision of the passing world." Barbour thinks this book to be possibly Purdy's best collection, as Purdy is now a whole being, and completely in control of his abilities. Purdy is called a time traveller and a space traveller, who moves through all history, galactic and human.
D71 Geddes, Gary. "A Victim in Darker Reality." The Globe and Mail, 20 Oct. 1973, Sec. Entertainment-Travel, p. 23. This book includes all Purdy's "familiar faces" and adds a new one--that of the troubled modern man viewing twentieth-century politics. But his political poems are too personal and subjective, showing only himself as the victim. Sex and Death is called a transitional book, "a stage in Purdy's descent into a darker, more terrible reality." Although some of the poems are powerful, others show need of a good editor. Geddes criticizes Purdy for his dependence on colloquialisms, throwaway lines, too much chattiness, and formlessness, and thinks that Purdy may be a "narrative poet who has been too long caught in lyrical suspenders." He should not publish everything he writes, in order to publish a book a year, but should take more care, if he wishes his reputation to continue to grow.
D72 Sutherland, Fraser. Rev. of Sex and Death. Books in Canada, Oct. 1973, pp. 4-5. This review finds many joys, but some failures in the book. But Sutherland aptly describes the Purdy persona "groping through windy rhetoric and taut imagery toward some realization."
D73 Lee, Dennis. Rev. of Sex and Death Saturday Night, Dec. 1973, p. 33. Rpt. (abridged)in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Carolyn Riley and Phyllis Carmel Mendelson. Vol. VI. Detroit: Gale, 1976, p. 428. Lee calls Purdy "one of the best poets in the world," and Sex and Death "one of his very fine collections." Although the book has lapses and untidiness, "... finally who cares?"
D74 Stevens, Peter. "The Perils of Majority." The University of Windsor Review, 9, No. 2 (Spring 1974), 100-09. Stevens feels that Purdy's book combines the attributes of Layton and Birney. But he finds some "disastrously bad poems" in this volume, especially the poems he has written about places that he finds uncongenial. Purdy's poems about South Africa, and some of the Hiroshima poems, fail, while his Canadian poems are best.
D75 Bowering, George. "Suitcase Poets." Rev. of Sex and Death, and What's So Big about Green?, by Earle Birney. Canadian Literature, No. 61 (Summer 1974), pp. 95-100. Rpt. (abridged)in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Carolyn Riley and Phyllis Carmel Mendelson. Vol. VI. Detroit: Gale, 1976, pp. 428-29. Bowering is critical of Purdy for using his personality as the main organizing principle in his poetry, for making no innovations in his verse form since The Cariboo Horses, for distancing the reader by his form. His poetry is very prosy, or like diary entries. His poems succeed only when the personality and the story are interesting. The poems in this book are less ribald and exaggerated than in his other books; Purdy tries to get to the bare naked moment. The best poem here is "The Horseman of Agawa."
D76 Levinson, Christopher. Rev. of Sex and Death. Queen's Quarterly, 81, No. 2 (Summer 1974), 318-20. This is an astute review, of Purdy in general, and of this book in particular. Levinson writes that this volume is more urban, social, and political than Purdy's others, and that it deepens and darkens the picture that Purdy has been giving us. Purdy should be respected for the range and solidity of his poems, for the manner in which he juxtaposes thoughts and fantasies, even though he doesn't always seem to take himself seriously. Purdy is only too aware of the multiplicity and complexity of various types of existence and of alternative actions open to him; sometimes his imaginative leaps include too much. His poems appear to have been written as he goes along, and he shows his distrust of neatness and completeness.
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D86 Cogswell, Fred. Rev. of Storm Warning 2. Books in Canada, May 1976, p. 15. Cogswell appreciates Purdy's encouragement to young poets, but finds this book a disappointment after the good quality of poems in Storm Warning 1. The poets in this volume are clever, but not exciting or original, in fact, Purdy tends to pick poets who sound like himself or appeal to his personal taste. The two types of poets in this book, those who respond to life in the urban subculture, and those who ruminate, like Purdy, are all imitative of others and have not found their own voices.
D87 Kishkan, Teresa. Rev. of Storm Warning 2. The Malahat Review, No. 42 (April 1977), pp. 138-39. This book contains a variety of poetry and represents all regions of Canada. However, the good work is hidden amongst much "sloppy uninspired writing." Purdy's method of selection was based on his "personal taste," which is a very questionable method. Except for a few poems, the book doesn't predict much of a storm coming.
D88 Barbour, Douglas. "Poetry Chronicle IV." Rev. of Storm Warning 2, Sundance at Dusk, and The Poems of Al Purdy. The Dalhousie Review, 57, No. 2 (Summer 1977), 355-70. Storm Warning 2 is said to be of a higher quality than the first one. Sundance at Dusk is a good book. The shadow of mortality looms darker than ever before, but Purdy's laughter always heals. The Poems of Al Purdy is "a superb collection," which shows how good Purdy is at his best.
D89 Abbey, Lloyd. Rev. of Storm Warning 2. Canadian Literature, No. 76 (Spring 1978), pp. 123-25. Although this book contains many good poems, Purdy's influence is probably too pervasive. Abbey even wonders if this book is a put-on, and if Purdy is publishing his latest poems under other people's names. However, the book is "a total commitment to excellence."
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D92 Wayman, Tom. "Let's Hear It for the Big P." Books in Canada, Oct. 1976, pp. 22-24. Wayman uses the opportunity to discuss his relationship with Purdy and to thank Purdy for playing the father-figure to him in helping him publish his poetry. Wayman also mentions Purdy's combination of anecdote with history in his poems; Purdy's open form; Purdy's insistence that a poem is not the beginning and end of existence, but that, even though a poem cannot change things, that is no reason not to write one. Wayman finds this book successful, and picks his favourite poems.
D93 Jewinski, Ed. Rev. of Sundance at Dusk. Quill & Quire, Dec. 1976, p. 30. This is a perceptive review, which looks at the book as a whole, and at individual poems. Jewinski praises the book, but finds weak, uncontrolled poems along with the powerful ones. The book is filled with a mood of lamentation and loss at man's fate, but also with energy, endurance despite everything, and "a kind of jubilation," as Purdy writes.
D94 Weaver, Robert. Rev. of Sundance at Dusk. The Canadian Reader, Feb. 1977, pp. 5-6. Weaver feels that Purdy's readers have overlooked his more recent books, such as In Search of Owen Roblin, because they think they have heard it all before, but this is far from true. Purdy has been walking in the shadow of his own reputation in recent years, but Weaver hopes that Sundance at Dusk won't be ignored, as Purdy is "more complex and various than he is now sometimes given credit for being."
D95 Barbour, Douglas. See D88.
D96 Scobie, Stephen. Rev. of Sundance at Dusk; Octomi, by Andrew Suknaski; and Tecumseh, by Don Gutteridge. The Fiddlehead, No. 114 (Summer 1977), pp. 139-40. This review shows excellent understanding of the Purdy persona and style. Purdy's style is ironic, yet affectionate, earthy yet educated; colloquial and controlled; localized yet widely travelled; rambling and discursive. The inevitable unevenness is part of his poetic verse and could not be removed without destroying the virtues as well. The poems in this book, however, are sometimes too strained and often flawed, when Purdy stretches things too far beyond their limits.
D97 McKay, Don. Rev. of Sundance at Dusk, and The Catch and Poems and Other Baseballs, by George Bowering. The University of Windsor Review, 13, No. 1 (Fall-Winter 1977), 99-104. Purdy has established an original voice and created his own kind of speech, which is rooted in experience rather than art. His voice, and poems, seem discovered rather than invented; he often revises his own views part way through a poem. In this book, there are many travel poems, but "Ameliasburg is still the navel of the world."
D98 McFadden, David. Rev. of Sundance at Dusk. Queen's Quarterly, 84, No. 4 (Winter 1977), 687-88. Purdy writes at random, letting his thoughts flow onto the page, until something makes him stop. His "best poems, though rare, are on a par with the best of any poet at any time"; his worst are of interest because of his sincerity. McFadden praises the poem "At the Hot Gates," which he feels refutes those who say Purdy writes nothing but chopped-up prose, as Purdy completely effaces himself in this poem.
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D12 Pearson, Alan. Rev. of The Blur in Between. The Canadian Forum, April 1964, p. 21. Pearson appreciates the book. He divides Purdy's poems among personal problems, social questions, and evocations of Canadian landscape. He calls Purdy "one of Canada's top three contemporary poets," a label that will stick to him in the near future.
D13 Percy, H.R. Rev. of The Blur in Between. Canadian Author & Bookman, 39, No. 4 (Summer 1964), 19. These poems are not as mature as the poems of Poems for All the Annettes (1962), but they are still good. Percy fears that Purdy's self-consciousness about being self-conscious, his attempts at objectivity, may cause him to lose much of his warmth and compassion.
D14 Blostein, David. Rev. of The Blur in Between and Poems for All the Annettes. Alphabet, No. 8 (June 1964), pp. 77-79. See D25.
D15 Wilson, Milton. "Letters in Canada: 1963." University of Toronto Quarterly, 33, No. 4 (July 1964), 377-78. Although this collection is not as "striking or substantial" as Poems for All the Annettes, it is worth owning.
D16 O Broin, Padraig. Rev. of The Blur in Between. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 27, No. 4 (Aug 1964), 87-88. O Broin sees Purdy as outwardly tough and uncompromising, but inwardly shy and sensitive. Purdy is not yet a major poet, but one in a major key, and, if he could control his forced, macabre humour, would be an even more significant poet. However, "when he is good, he is almost unbeatable."
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D26 Colombo, John Robert. Rev. of The Cariboo Horses. Canadian Literature, No. 25 (Summer 1965), pp. 62-64. Colombo realizes that Purdy has reached a higher plateau with this book, and has developed a personal and characteristic way of writing. Poetry is a process and a search. No pat answers can be found, and the connections between place and purpose are made only in the mind of the poet.
D27 McCarthy, Brian. "Poetry Chronicle." The Tamarack Review, No. 36 (Summer 1965), pp. 67-70. This book is Purdy's first public success. McCarthy says that the poems are not social or psycho-analytical and should not be analyzed that way; Purdy deals with social and psychological problems but goes beyond them. Purdy's poems are sometimes too rambling or too prosy, but are very much alive. He "packs a poetical wallop that puts him among the first half-dozen heavyweight poetical talents in North America."
D28 Percy, H.R. Rev. of The Cariboo Horses. Canadian Author & Bookman, 40, No. 4 (Summer 1965), 10. This is a general review, concentrating more on the impression of Purdy one gets from the book than on specific poems. Percy calls Purdy "a poet of considerable stature who has the virtue, all too rare in our day, of an independent mind, and who carries his erudition with a grace that his academic contemporaries would do well to emulate."
D29 O Broin, Padraig. Rev. of The Cariboo Horses. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 28, No. 4 (Aug 1965), 77-78. O Broin criticizes Purdy's sloppy writing and lack of discipline, but finds him an important poet, who is "distinctively and uncomplicatedly Canadian."
D30 Weaver, Robert. Rev. of The Cariboo Horses. The Canadian Reader, Aug. 1965, pp. 4-5. This book shows that Al Purdy is now at the height of his powers, as is demonstrated by the fact that he does not need to show off and writes with "superb confidence."
D31 Stevens, Peter. "Two Kinds of Honesty." Rev. of The Cariboo Horses, and Moving in Alone, by John Newlove. The Canadian Forum, Sept. 1965, p. 139. With this book Purdy is firmly in control of his method, and avoids the pitfalls of his earlier poems. Stevens' reservations about the book are minor when placed against the positive merits. Purdy's faults are unnecessary adjectives, needless repetition, sprawling ideas, words for shock effect, and cheap wisecracks. However, Stevens finds Purdy's "an individual and important Canadian voice."
D32 MacCallum, Hugh. "Letters in Canada 1965." University of Toronto Quarterly, 35, No. 4 (July 1966), 358-62. Although MacCallum praises Purdy's new ease and precision of technique, his firmer sense of direction, his blending of myth and reality, and his drama and immediacy, he criticizes the poems for the lack of a finished structure which focusses and holds attention, for a voice that doesn't give us answers or solutions.
D33 Lacey, Edward A. [pseudonym]. Rev. of The Cariboo Horses. Edge, No. 5 (Fall 1966), pp. 105-07. He dislikes the rhetoric, the sentimentality, the exaggerations of Purdy's style, but is aware of Purdy's importance as a poet, and thinks he may become "the most important Canadian poet of this generation."
D34 Hooper, A.G. Rev. of The Cariboo Horses, and Selected Poems 1940-1966, by Earle Birney. Journal of Canadian Studies, 3 (July 1967), 114-17. The reviewer describes Purdy's style as colloquial and non-academic, and finds his poems vital and intelligent. However, he states that "Purdy will probably never be a popular poet."
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D6 Wilson, Milton. Rev. of The Crafte So Longe to Lerne. The Canadian Forum, Feb. 1960, p. 263. Wilson wonders why Purdy uses the style that he does, and finds that style inadequate for telling a story, writing social satire, praising, deploring, or acting too concerned. But Purdy, as a minor poet, has "a special quality that you can't find in his betters."
D7 Bromige, David. Rev. of The Crafte So Longe to Lerne; Moon Lake and Other Poems, by R.E. Rashley; and River and Realm, by Theresa E. and Don W. Thomson. Canadian Literature, No. 4 (Spring 1960), pp. 85-86. Although Bromige appreciates the tone of quiet, ironic understatement of the book, he finds that it is not completely successful, because of the inferior imagery, misuse of punning, wooliness of thought and expression, and a technical standard that is not well-sustained.
D8 Mandel, E.W. "Poetry Chronicle: Grants, Beasts, and Men in Recent Canadian Poetry." Rev. of The Crafte So Long to Lerne and sixteen other books. Queen's Quarterly, 67 (Summer 1960), 285-93. Purdy's method is like that of Browning and Pound--we feel "that we are watching the poem take shape on the page at the moment of writing." Mandel calls Purdy's work "another beginning for Canadian poetry," and his master theme "creation's eternal immediacy." Purdy, like other Canadian poets, raises the question of whether man should admit to being no more than beast or accept theories that he is more.
D9 Collie, Michael. Rev. of The Crafte So Longe to Lerne; River and Realm, by Theresa E. and Don W. Thomson; Moon Lake and Other Poems, by R.E. Rashley; Poems, by Florence Wyle; The Varsity Chapbook, ed. J.R. Colombo; The McGill Chapbook, ed. Leslie L. Kay; and Descent from Eden, by Fred Cogswell. Dalhousie Review, 40, No. 3 (Fall 1960), 433-35. Most of the poems lack identity and are cacophonous, and the puns turn out to be "artistically gross."
D10 Nowlan, Alden A. Rev. of The Crafte So Longe to Lerne. The Fiddlehead, No. 49 (Summer 1961), pp. 56-57. Calls Purdy an ambitious writer and an honest experimentalist, but finds that his straining for effect is sometimes too obvious. His poems are praised, however, for dealing with "the real stuff of experience."
D11 Hornyansky, Michael. "Festive Bards." Rev. of The Crafte So Longe to Lerne and five other books. The Tamarack Review, No. 21 (Autumn 1961), pp. 83-84. The reviewer responds playfully to Purdy, recreating Purdy's joyful moods and appreciating his many stances. Hornyansky believes that Purdy has mastered his style, although he has lapses.
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D1 Kirkconnell, Watson. Rev. of The Enchanted Echo. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 8, No. 4 (June 1945), 42. Purdy's work in this volume has zest and exuberance, but lacks discipline. Kirkconnell criticizes the poems for errors in rhyme, grammar, and style, and hopes that Purdy will be less hasty in the future, as he has genuine ability.
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D49 Duffy, Dennis. Rev. of The New Romans. The Canadian Forum, Nov. 1968, p. 181. Duffy concludes that this book contains the same type of criticisms that Americans make of their own society, but that the Americans do a much better job than do outsiders.
D50 Sherman, George. "Purdy's Romans." The Tamarack Review, No. 50 (Winter 1968), pp. 66-70. This very critical but very astute review contends that this book shows that English Canadian intellectuals are the most neurotic on the continent The book lacks organization and depth, bores the reader, and says the same things that American intellectuals have been saying for some time. Canadian intellectuals are "hooked" on the U. S. and cannot define themselves except in American terms; they would do better to deal with the much more important problem of relations with Quebec.
D51 Lane, Lauriat, Jr. Rev. of The New Romans. The Fiddlehead, No. 80 (May-June-July [1969), pp. 97-98. The book is not anti-American or violent, yet is not a useful or original set of analyses, and is already dated. The poetry included does not do the poets justice, and deals indirectly with the topic. The book is interesting, however, in revealing what it is to be a Canadian. The main problem with the criticisms of America is ---are the things criticized really American or did the Americans just happen to do first what has now been accepted everywhere?
D52 Angeles, Peter A. Rev. of The New Romans Alphabet, No. 16 (Sept 1969), pp. 52-57. The reviewer finds the articles in this book all of good quality, displaying feelings from anti-Americanism to sympathetic attachment to the U.S. The main message is to beware. But Angeles believes that Canada is a potential giant that can learn from the U.S. He hopes that Canada will fulfil its potential, and not fall easy prey to bad imitation.
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D90 Harvey, Roderick W. Rev. of The Poems of Al Purdy. Quill &Quire, May 1976, p. 41. The reviewer is pleased to see Purdy's poems collected in an inexpensive paperback, and hopes that the book will be used as a course text. This is a good selection of Purdy's diverse poems. Purdy cannot be categorized; some think him a stylist, others a nationalist. These poems are all "philosophical explorations of identity in Canada."
D91 Barbour, Douglas. See D88.
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D42 Barbour, Douglas. See D39.
D43 Geddes, Gary, "No Brew Like Home-Brew." Canadian Literature, No. 40 (Spring 1969), pp. 87-89. Geddes calls Purdy "the most refreshing poet now writing in Canada," and this book "a superb achievement." Three different voices characterize these poems, the humorous, self-mocking Purdy, the more restrained, meditative Purdy; and Purdy the journalist. Sometimes Purdy is too chatty, which makes his poems at less precise than they should be.
D44 Pacey, Desmond. Rev. of Wild Grape Wine. The Fiddlehead, No. 79 (March-April 1969), pp. 106-07. Pacey praises Purdy for his sense of humour, his hope and affirmation, his appetite for life. With this book, Purdy has mastered his medium and found his own voice, after moving from the rhetoric of his early poetry to the realism of his present poetry.
D45 Keyes, Mary. Rev. of Wild Grape Wine. The Canadian Forum, April 1969, pp. 17-18. Keyes is most concerned with Purdy's effect on his audience, and is impressed that with Purdy, the poet and his audience "touch."
D46 Helwig, David. See D41.
D47 MacCallum, Hugh. "Letters in Canada: 1968." University of Toronto Quarterly, 38, No. 4 (July 1969), 342. Purdy's voice is "ebullient, extroverted, and volatile," but his candid manner sometimes seems only a mask. His mind responds both to the trivia of everyday life and to myth. MacCallum likes Purdy's witty, probing poems about politics.
D48 Fetherling, Doug. "Al Purdy's Recent Poetry." Quarry, 18, No 2 (Winter 1969), 42-43. This is a flattering and laudatory review, rather than a critical one. Fetherling says that "Al Purdy knows more about writing poetry than anyone else I have ever met, heard or read about," and calls Wild Grape Wane "so shit-hot it is impossible to review." He does not review the book, but calls Purdy the most popular poet in Canada and the best.
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C2 Sylvestre, Guy, Brandon Conron, anti Carl F. Klinck, eds. Canadian Writers. Toronto: Ryerson, 1964, p. 125. Biographical data with a few comments. Purdy presents trivial subjects with imaginative insight. His style is occasionally commonplace, but intense and satirical.
C3 Beattie, Munro. "Poetry (1950-1960)." In Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English. Gen. Ed. and introd. Carl F Klinck. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1965. 2nd ed. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1975, III, pp. 10, 13, 24, 29, 288, 291, 292, 296, 297, 306, 311, 313. Purdy is mentioned briefly as a poet of promise for his The Crafte So Long to Lerne.
C4 "The Purdy Pigment." Time, 28 May 1965, p. 11. Rpt. in The Making of Modern Poetry in Canada: Essential Articles on Contemporary Canadian Poetry in English. Ed. Louis Dudek and Michael Gnarowski. Toronto: Ryerson, 1967, pp. 243-44. The author of this article refers to the opinions of critics that Purdy is the most important poet in Canada at present. He calls Purdy a "refreshingly unobtrusive painter of man and his metaphysical landscape" and finds his poetry spare and "maturely reflective." However, Purdy is criticized for his careless work, for "allowing the commonplace to mar his verse with sentimental cliches." Even in "The Country North of Belleville," Purdy's fine image goes "lurching off the page." The critic here does not understand Purdy's purpose of juxtaposing commonplace with great and universal, of using open form and colloquial diction in order to see life as it is without trapping it. A brief discussion of Purdy's life is included, with the comment that his wife has finally finished high school, after dropping out and working for years so that Purdy could write.
C5 Stone, Sheila. "Baffin Island Bid by Bard." Montreal Star, 10 July 1965, Sec. Entertainment, p. 5. This is a journalistic article, concerning Purdy's life and travels, and containing bits of an interview. Purdy has recently been awarded a Canada Council grant and will travel to the Arctic. Purdy says that his chief theme is not Canada, but people: "Life seems so impermanent. One looks for a certain permanence in the qualities of people." He feels that ideas are more important than form, and cites his poetic influences as Yeats, Dylan Thomas, Dudek, Birney, and Layton. However, Purdy states that he is different from all his influences, that he is his own poet with his own slant on life and his own way of saying it.
C6 Stevens, Peter. "In the Raw: The Poetry of A.W. Purdy." Canadian Literature, No. 28 (Spring 1966), pp. 22-30. Stevens compares "cooked" with "raw" poetry and calls Purdy "one of our best raw poets," who gives us a fresh no-nonsense approach. Stevens feels that Cariboo Horses is one of the best collections of Canadian poetry in a long time. Purdy's poetry is traced through three stages, from the beginning and exploratory stage, to the central poetic upheaval, to the truly individual poetry of The Cariboo Horses. The theme that governs Purdy's development as a poet is "romanticism vs. the realism of the modern world," with his early poems romantic, and with The Cariboo Horses finding a balance of realism and romanticism, of open form and control. This is a valuable article for its discussion of Purdy's growth into a mature poet.
C7 Story, Norah. The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature. Ed. Norah Story. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1967, p. 673. This contains a biographical sketch and a review of the books from The Enchanted Echo to The Cariboo Horses. Purdy moves from writing traditional poetry to using varied structures and to the viewing of the universal through the commonplace.
C8 Dudek, Loouis. "Poetry in English." In The Sixties: Writers and Writing of the Decade. Ed. George Woodcock. Vancouver: Univ. of British Columbia Publishing Centre, 1969, pp. 111-20. Rpt. in Readings in Commonwealth Literature. Ed. William Walsh. Oxford: Clarendon, 1973, pp. 254-66. Dudek does not see into Purdy's depth of purpose. He writes that Purdy, along with Cohen and Layton, exploits sex "as an entertainment come on," and Dudek describes the characteristics of Purdy's poetry as "primitivism" and as "vigor and vulgarity." Purdy, however, is a gifted poet, Dudek concedes.
C9 Jones, D.G. Butterfly on Rock: A Study of Themes and Images in Canadian Literature. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1970, pp. 30-31, 168, 169-71, 174-76. Jones briefly discusses Purdy's ambivalence, which suggests the problems of Canadian identity; Purdy's colloquial voice, seeking an answer but never finding one; the meaning of Purdy's poems, which is in the tone of the talk and in the gathering of detail, not in a conclusion; and his use of the vernacular, the spoken word.
C10 Woodcock, George. "Al Purdy." In Contemporary Poets of the English Language. Ed. Rosalie Murphy. London: St James, 1970, pp. 879-81. This contains bio-bibliographical information, statements by Purdy on his work, and critical evaluation by Woodcock.
C11 Bowering, George. "Purdy: Man and Poet." Canadian Literature, No. 43 (Winter 1970), pp. 24-35. Rpt.(abridged) in Al Purdy. Toronto: Copp Clark, 1970. (See C1). Bowering calls Purdy "the world's most Canadian poet," and discusses the man and his popularity as a poet. He describes Purdy's physical appearance, his personality, his life, mentions his editing of Moment magazine with Milton Acorn, his winning of the President's Medal at the University of Western Ontario in 1963, and his travelling.
C12 Duffy, Dennis. "In Defence of North America: The Past in the Poetry of Alfred Purdy." The Journal of Canadian Studies, 6, No. 2 (May 1971), 17-27. Duffy, in this excellent article, discusses the way in which Purdy deals with the two major facts of North American experience, dispossession and discontinuity. Purdy is "an outstanding shaper of the Canadian past," who, through his sense of the past, finds metaphors for capturing the present. Purdy is able to find continuities, connections between man and his past, continuities that even overcome man's dispossession from himself-death. By making a world out of his own time and place, Purdy enables his readers to interpret their own experience.
C13 Fulford, Robert. "Purdy's Search." Saturday Night, Aug. 1971, p. 8. Fulford calls Purdy a "poet-reporter" who "covers" places and then writes about them, as in his Hiroshima cycle.
C14 Jones, D.G. "Adam's Inventory: Aspects of Contemporary Canadian Literature." Social Education, 35, No. 6 (Oct 1971), 595-601. Rpt. in Readings in Commonwealth Literature. Ed. William Walsh. Oxford: Clarendon, 1973, pp. 242-53. Purdy and other Canadian poets try "to articulate the convulsive illegible world in its manifold particularities and peculiarities." Poems by Purdy are listed which contain the theme of isolation.
C15 Atwood, Margaret. Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1972, pp. 77, 95, 112, 123-24. Atwood touches briefly on Purdy's work under some of the categories she sets up. Animal victims--Purdy juxtaposes animal deaths and trivial human activities. Eskimos and Indians--in North of Summer they are neither good nor bad, but in other poems they are victims. Ancestral totems--Purdy seeks through the remains of past cultures for roots or metaphors. Settlers--she mentions "The Country North of Belleville."
C16 Thomas, Clara. Our Nature--Our Voices: A Guidebook to English-Canadian Literature. Vol. 1. Toronto: new press, 1972, pp. 144-49. Thomas focuses on Purdy as a Canadian, as describing this country better than anyone else has done. Purdy's growth as a poet is traced through his books; the mature Purdy has found a genuine locale in Roblin Lake and has learned to contrapose the classical and historical "against the solid realities of the human world." Purdy's form and content are based on the process of "continuous discovery" and come from the natural world and his own experience.
C17 Woodcock, George. "On the Poetry of Al Purdy." In Selected Poems. By Al Purdy. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1972, pp. 8-15. Woodcock views Purdy mainly as a poet of place, and of the history of place. Because of Purdy's grasp of the nature of the land and its history, he knows the extremes of Canada. Woodcock writes that "Al Purdy's writing fits Canada like a glove, you can feel the fingers of the land working through his poems." Fortunately, Woodcock realizes that to call Purdy purely a Canadian poet would be "to do him an immense injustice," as Purdy relates Canada to all places and all times. Purdy deals with the relationship of man to nature and to art, and transfigures ordinary things into myth. This article also discusses Purdy's versatility as a poetic craftsman, his use of the long line, his technique, and his skill as a writer. Purdy is also a comic poet, who shows man as absurd as he tries to reconcile the animal and the human within him. This is a good overview.
C18 Lee, Dennis. "Running and Dwelling: Homage to Al Purdy." Saturday Night, July 1972, pp. 14-16. Lee believes that Purdy is doing for Canada what Walt Whitman did for the United States. Purdy has run around Canada and discovered that Canadians cannot master the space of their country yet are claimed by this land and are at home nowhere else. Purdy, in his poems, tries to place us, to locate our dwelling in time and space. He places Canada and its connections with all times and places, and, in his exploring, defines what it is to be an English Canadian human being. A letter from Robin Mathews in Saturday Night, September 1972, pages 31-32, criticizes Lee for comparing Purdy to an American poet when other Canadian poets could have been used instead, and says that Purdy does not feel alienated, as Lee does. Lee replies (pages 32-33) that Mathews' letter is "silly," that none of Purdy's Canadian predecessors have done for Canada what Purdy has, and only Whitman can compare with Purdy.
C19 Observer. "Al Purdy's Poetry." Canadian Author & Bookman, 48, No. 1 (Fall 1972), 16. This brief article is interesting in that it shows how far Al Purdy has moved from his earlier connections with the Canadian Authors' Association and from the traditional poetry that he wrote at that time. When Purdy, in 1972, read his poetry at a CAA convention, many people found his work "not very tasteful." "Observer" tries to justify Purdy's poetry, by his discussion of "taste" as only a social phenomenon and as applying only to minor works, but Purdy is not a minor poet.
C20 Woodcock, George. "Al Purdy." Supplement to the Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1973, pp. 271-72. Biographical sketch and analysis. Woodcock stresses the importance of Purdy's travels. Although the travels help shape his work, the heart of his world is always Roblin Lake, "the symbolic omphalos of his imaginative world." Purdy is more than a "versifying geographer", he has an historical sense and evokes "the sense of Canada as an old country resonant with echoes." In The Crafte So Longe to Lerne, Purdy first used open forms and began to use the here-and-now to reflect universal values.
C21 Davey, Frank. "Al Purdy." From There to Here: A Guide to English Canadian Literature Since 1960. Our Nature--Our Voices. Vol. II. Erin, Ont.: Porcepic, 1974, pp. 236-39. This is a brief and general analysis, but Davey makes some important observations about Purdy's poetry. It is Purdy's personality and subjective impressions that permeate all the poems, and Purdy often presents himself in humiliating situations; this tendency to self-deprecation, however, is essential to his poetry and attractive to the reader. "In Purdy we are made to see the fate of the romantic in our materialistic society," and we can laugh at the humiliation of the romantic in a mundane world. Yet Purdy shows not despair, but joy in man's "continuing struggle to survive and understand." A very important point made by Davey is his criticism of the transformation of Purdy by Canadian nationalists into a "static caricature of some national Canadian archetype. Purdy does not deserve this, for his sense of history, especially geologic history, and of the impenetrability of cultural and inter-cultural realities, is much more sophisticated than that of most of the nationalist analysts."
C22 Stevens, Peter. "Canada." Literatures of the World in English. Ed. Bruce King. London:Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974, pp. 42-60. Although the surface of Purdy's poetry is "off-hand, colloquial, tough or prosaic by turns," the poetry is personal, Canadian in its joining of disparate elements, and has an epic strain. Characteristics of Purdy's poetry are the deflation of romanticism with realism, descriptions of travelling, which can "transcend even the limits of the human condition"; expressions of the transience yet persistence of man, and comedy and mockery. Stevens is somewhat critical of Purdy's northern poetry, as the poet's response to the Eskimos is that of an outsider. But he praises Purdy for his ability to weld "poet, poetry and country into one whole."
C23 Doyle, Mike. "Proteus at Roblin Lake." Canadian Literature, No. 61 (Summer 1974), pp. 7-23. Rpt. in Poets and Critics: Essays from Canadian Literature 1966-1974. Ed. George Woodcock. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1974, pp. 92-109. Rpt. (abridged) in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Carolyn Riley and Phyllis Carmel Mendelson. Vol. VI. Detroit: Gale, 1976, p. 428. Purdy as a poet is very Protean, multi-faceted, and elusive, but is often able to combine several of these facets in a single poem. Doyle traces Purdy's growth as a poet, calling Poems for All the Annettes a landmark in his development. With Cariboo Horses, Purdy masters the "continuous form" to denote actions that are incomplete and always continuing. Doyle is one of the few critics to note the Platonism in Purdy's poetry in its obsession with the interpenetration of all things into one, yet Doyle recognizes that Purdy's view is also non-Platonic since the flux itself is a sufficient answer. Purdy is a very Canadian poet in his concern with the links between past and present and in his preoccupation with the way in which Canadians dwell in their homeland. Purdy will never stick to one stance, will never forget the existence of either "the shit-house or the sky." Doyle finds that, in spite of Purdy's excellence as a poet, he is often too self-conscious and too much present in his poems. Although many of the poems display too much Purdy but reveal too little Purdy, sometimes participation and self-definition merge. This is an excellent article, combining praise and criticism.
C24 The Canadian Who's Who: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women. Vol. XIII, 1973-1975. Toronto: Who's Who Canadian Publications, 1975, p. 822. Bio-bibliographical information.
C25 Woodcock, George. "Al Purdy." In Contemporary Poets. Ed. James Vinson. 2nd ed. London: St. James, 1975, pp. 1223-26. Revised and updated from the first edition (see C10). Bio-bibliographical information on Purdy and his work, with critical evaluation by Woodcock.
C26 Colombo, John Robert. Colombo's Canadian References. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1976, p. 427. Bio-bibliographical information.
C27 Woodcock, George. "Poetry." In Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English. Gen. ed. and introd. Carl F. Klinck. 2nd ed. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1976, III, pp. 288, 291-92, 296-97, 306, 311, 313. Al Purdy, writing since the 1940s, became one of the most popular poets in the 1960s. Purdy writes of Loyalist Canada, of all Canada, and of Europe, Asia, and Africa as well. He grew from a "timidly traditional poet" to become "one of the most fluent and idiosyncratic of Canadian poets," and has been able "to set into verse the historical and geographical complexities that make Canada."
C28 Cohn-Sfetcu, Ofelia. "The Privilege of Finding an Opening in the Past: Al Purdy and the Tree of Experience." Queen's Quarterly, 83 (Summer 1976), 262-69. Sees Purdy's arctic trees, which "use death to remain alive," as the symbols for his attempts to order his consciousness of human reality and to put himself in harmony with the patterns of the universe. It is through the psychological time of the individual, which is vertical rather than horizontal, that all things become interconnected. By descending to the level of mythical roots, Purdy emerges better able to see the relationships between all of mankind, and between man and nature. By allowing the subjective to swallow the objective, man can merge himself with other beings of all times and all places. According to Cohn-Sfetcu, Purdy, through his search for roots, has been better able to participate emotionally in the world, while transcending his objective existence at the same time.
C29 Lye, John. "The Road to Ameliasburg." The Dalhousie Review, 57, No. 2 (Summer 1977), 242-53. This article discusses the various personae that Purdy uses in his poems, stating that Purdy's essential stance is sentimental and conservative. The sensitive man seeks God and recognizes the possibility of transcendence, while at the same time he is aware of the void and of meaninglessness. The solution is in the continuum of history and the continued existence of individuals, in the presence of the past. Purdy's sensitive persona stresses the individual facing a world that is flawed and full of pain, but finding comfort through history and the continuation of the human individual through mental and spiritual processes.
C30 Cohn-Sfetcu, Ofelia. "To Live in Abundance of Life. Time in Canadian Literature." Canadian Literature, No. 76 (Spring 1978), pp. 25-36. Cohn-Sfetcu discusses time in Grove, Avison, Richler, Aquin, and Purdy. Her comments on Purdy are essentially the same as in her article in Queen's Quarterly (see C28), that Purdy finds a sense of human unity by descending into mythical roots, and thus transcending the limitations of the present.
C31 Reeves, John. "A Reeves Gallery." Books in Canada, May 1978, cover, p. 4.John Reeves, photographer, displays photographs of famous people and comments on them. In explaining the photograph of Al Purdy (cover), Reeves remembers driving to Al Purdy's house and arriving there in November of 1965. However, he has no memory of anything after that, including taking the photograph. The memento he has at home, some of Purdy's homemade wine, is some explanation of what happened.
C32 Adachi, Ken. "Timely Homage for a Unique Poet." Toronto Star, 16 Dec. 1978, p. D8. Biography of Purdy on his sixtieth birthday.
C33 Amiel, Barbara. "Poetry: Capsule Comments on Canada." Maclean's, 15 Jan 1979, pp. 49-50. Portrait of Purdy.
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C39 Canada Council Arts Awards (1959-60).
C40 President's Medal, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario (1961). For the poem "The Country North of Belleville," which appeared in The Tamarack Review.
C41 Canada Council Senior Arts Fellowship (1964-65).
C42 Governor-General's Award for Poetry (1966). For The Cariboo Horses.
C43 Canadian Centennial Medal (1967).
C44 Canada Council Arts Award and Short Term Grant (1967-68).
C45 Visiting Associate Professor, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. (1970).
C46 Canada Council Short Term Grant (1970-71).
C47 Canada Council Arts Award (1971-72).
C48 Poet-in-Residence, Loyola College, Montreal, Quebec (1973-74).
C49 A.J.M. Smith Award for Sex and Death (1974).
C50 Canada Council Short Term Grant (1974-75).
C51 Writer-in-Residence, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba (1976).
C52 Writer-in-Residence, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario (1977).
C53 Canada Council Senior Arts Grant (1977-78).
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C36 Geddes, Gary. "A.W. Purdy: An Interview." Canadian Literature, No. 41 (Summer 1969), pp. 66-72. Rpt. in 20th-Century Poetry and Poetics. 2nd ed. Ed. Gary Geddes. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1973, pp. 563-71. This is an excellent interview, focussing on Purdy the poet rather than on Purdy the man. Purdy discusses his feelings about poetry, and talks about how and why he writes. To Purdy it is important to write out of his own life, and about people. He is "self-conscious about being self-conscious about being self-conscious," uses travelling and landscape only to awaken areas of oneself and to see one's own land in perspective, uses objects only in relation to people. He is against positive stances, believing poetry (and life) to be "a continual becoming and a changing and a moving." He mentions literary influences on him, and tells of the evolution of the poem "Roblin's Mills." Purdy writes poetry only because he likes to.
C37 "Perspective: Selection from an Interview with Al Purdy, Conducted by S.G. Buri and Robert Enright on November 11, 1975, in Winnipeg." CV/II, 2, No. I (Jan 1976), 50-58. This is a very interesting interview for its insight into Purdy's personality. The interviewers do not allow him to back down on any issues, and therefore capture his prejudices, anger, strong opinions, and his evasiveness on certain issues. They discuss his life, his drinking, his reading habits, literary influences on him, his latest books (Purdy feels that Owen Roblin doesn't quite succeed), his agnosticism, his feeling that he is growing old and must wind down his career now.
C38 "Al Purdy's Not Here to Massage Egos." Western News [Univ. of Western Ontario], 1 Dec 1977, p. 5. Purdy stresses his belief that if creative writers remain tied to the "phoney" environment of the academic world, then there is little chance that they will become great. He discusses the importance of constructive criticism for aspiring writers, his life, his recent books, the difference between writing prose and writing poetry.
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C34 Wilson, Jean Lenore. "The Sense of Place and History in the Poetry of A.W. Purdy." M.A. Thesis Saskatchewan 1968. Wilson discusses Purdy's awareness of the relationship between present and past, and traces the growth of his poetic handling of this chronologically through his poetry. She finds three aspects of his sense of place (1) his relationship to Canada; (2) his relationship to cultural history in general, (3) his sense of place as acquired from historical, contemporary, or fictional people. Through his earlier books, Purdy wavers ambiguously, but in The Cariboo Horses, he "knows exactly who he is, where he is, and how he is related to both past and present history." Purdy's sense of place and history is even sharper and clearer in North of Summer, and Wilson shows the growth of Purdy's sense of belonging by comparing different versions of "The Turning Point." (With acknowledgement to the English Department of the University of Saskatchewan for permission to quote and abstract from this thesis.)
C35 Miller, Susan Marliss. "Myth in the Poetry of A.W. Purdy." M.A. Thesis Queen's 1971. This is a well-written and well-researched thesis. Miller finds Purdy's central myth to be that of a "total order in which everything has a life of its own and is yet one life," and finds that Purdy has sought, and often found, the continuity of man through time and beyond the boundaries of place, culture, or race. Yet she recognizes the fact that Purdy believes in ambiguity, and is against fixing anything or pruning oneself down, believing instead in the continual becoming. Some of Purdy's poems do not lead him into myth, instead his sense of realism leads him to anti-myth at times. Miller traces Purdy's evolution through his published books, carefully discussing individual poems, and demonstrating that Purdy has developed his myth of a single order in the universe through people, nature, and the individual. The individual man, within himself, includes past, present, and future. Purdy reflects the "garrison mentality," and, in stepping out of the garrisons of race, nationality, culture, and language, he identifies with man on a universal level, and even goes beyond the boundaries of time and space. (With acknowledgement to the English Department of Queen's University for permission to abstract and quote from this thesis.)
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B199 Vedette. "Round and About." The Atlantic Advocate, Jan. 1968, p. 61.
A brief notice that a work for chorus and narrator entitled Christmas in Canada, by Ernest Buckler and Keith Bissell, was performed by The Confederation Centre Choir in December 1967. The work was commissioned by the P.E.I. Centennial Commission. A short biographical sketch of Buckler is included.
B200 "Buckler vs. Lish, or What Is Fiction." Esquire, Feb. 1973, p. 6.
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A34 Feast of Stephen: An Anthology of Some of the Less Familiar Writings of Stephen Leacock. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1970. 154 pp.
[underbar]Introd. Robertson Davies. New Canadian Library, No. 95. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1974. 154 pp.
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A23 Shakespeare's Boy Actors. London: Dent, 1939. vii, 208 pp.
[underbar]New York: William Salloch, 1941. 208 pp.
[underbar]New York: Russell and Russell, 1964. vii, 208 pp.
A24 Shakespeare for Young Players: A Junior Course. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1942. 255 pp.
Illustrated by Grant Macdonald.
A25 Stephen Leacock. Canadian Writers Series. New Canadian Library, No. W7. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1970. 62 pp.
A26 Michael Booth, Richard Southern, Frederick Marker, and Lise-Lone Marker. The Revels History of Drama in English. Volume VI: 1750-1880. London: Methuen, 1975. 304 pp.
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A7 Overlaid: A Comedy. Canadian Playwright Series. Toronto: French, 1948. 24 pp.
A8 Eros at Breakfast and Other Plays. Introd. Tyrone Guthrie. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1949. xiv, 129 pp.
Illustrated by Grant Macdonald.
A9 Fortune, My Foe. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1949. 100 pp.
A10 At My Heart's Core. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1950. viii, 91 pp.
A11 A Masque of Aesop. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1952. 47 pp.
Illustrated by Grant Macdonald.
[underbar]Clarke, Irwin Educational Paperback. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1955. 47 pp.
With notes by the author.
A12 A Jig for the Gypsy. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1954. 99 pp.
A13 A Masque of Mr. Punch. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1963. xii, 58 pp.
A14 At My Heart's Core and Overlaid. Clarke, Irwin Educational Paperback, No. CIE 6. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1966. 124 pp.
With "Epilogue," notes, and revisions by the author.
A15 Arthur Murphy, Yves Theriault, W. O. Mitchell, and Eric Nicol. Centennial Play. Ottawa: Centennial Commission, 1967. 73 pp.
Davies wrote "Epilogue," "Ontario," and "Prologue."
A16 Four Favourite Plays. Preface Robertson Davies. Clarke, Irwin Canadian Paperback. No. CI 30. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1968. vii, 157 pp.
Includes "At the Gates of the Righteous" (one act), "Eros at Breakfast" (one act), "Fortune, My Foe" (three acts), and "The Voice of the People" (one act).
A17 The Voice of the People. Searchlight, No. 304. Agincourt, Ont.: Book Society of Canada, 1968. 11 pp.
Printed, along with a two-page commentary, for use in schools.
A18 Hunting Stuart and Other Plays. Ed. Brian Parker. New Drama, 3. Toronto: new press, 1972. 274 pp.
Includes "General Confession," "Hunting Stuart," and "King Phoenix."
A19 Question Time. Preface Robertson Davies. Toronto: Macmillan, 1975. 71 pp.
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A27 A Voice from the Attic. New York: Knopf, 1960. 378 pp.
[underbar]Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1960. ix, 360 pp.
The Personal Art: Reading to Good Purpose. London: Secker and Warburg, 1961. 268 pp.
[underbar]Toronto: British Book Service, 1961. 268 pp.
A Voice from the Attic. Introd. Robert Cockburn. New Canadian Library, No. 83. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1972. xii, 370 pp.
[underbar]New York: Viking, 1972. 310 pp.
Includes Prologue, "I. A Call to the Clerisy" ("An Age of the Eye," "Authors as Readers," "An Awakened Clerisy," "The Clerisy as It Was," "The Coherent Audience," "The Cozy Bookman," "Critical Heresy," "A Critical Instrument," "The Decorums of Stupidity," "Defining the Clerisy," "The Doll's House," "Dwindling Leisure," "Ends and Means," "Fiction and Feeling," "The Great Experiment," "Ignoring the Highbrows," "The Inward Voice," "Its Present State," "Reader as Interpreter," "Reading a Private Art," "Reaching and Time," "Reviewers and Critics," "Sciolists and Opinionated Bitches," and "The Shame of Brains" [B234]), "II. Enjoying and Enduring" ("Bennett's Crowded Hours," "For the Hypochondriac," "Freud Misunderstood and Misused," "God Not the Only Listener to Prayer," "The Industrious Apprentice Rejected," "Length of Days," "Lifemanship and Wifemanship," "The Literary Test," "Obesity Is Sin," "The Power of Dr. Peale," "Right Thinking Means Success," "Scientific Weather Control," "Self-Help by Self-Examination," "Smiles on Self-Help," "Thinking for Everybody," "Who Approves Peale?", and "Wishes in Overalls"), "III. Ovid Is Not Their Master" ("After Ellis," "Bliss with a Chemical Engineer," "The Cult of Meaninglessness," "Depth-Psychology and Reason," "Divided Desire," "Dr. Chevasse and Associates," "The Era of the Erotic Novel," "Female Beauty Defined," "Fowler the Phrenologist," "Good Breeding Means Passivity," "A Great Work," "Havelock Ellis a Man of Letters," "How to Control Desire," "In Search of the Angel Child," "A Pioneer in Sex Instruction," "Platonic Love Man's Normal State," "The Problem of the Good Woman," "Queens, Elephants, and Clergymen," "Sex in the Modern Novel," "Victorian Psychologists," and "Which Is Sex?"), "IV. From the Well of the Past" ("The Author in the Middle," "The Comic Valet," "The Cynic the Pink Coat," "A Digression on Henry Mayhew," "The Era of 'Crim. Con,'" "The Greatest Plague of Life," "Gusto for Death," "Henry Cockton," "The Image of Soapey's Soal," "Inconsistency of Julia," "London Low Life," "A New Vision of the Present," "Not the Best, but the Most," "Suppers and Somnambulism," "Unthinkable without Illustration," "Victorian Novel and Theatre," "A Victorian Proposal," and "A Victorian View of Marriage"), "V. Making the Best of Second Best" ("Drama vs. Theater," "Dramatic Imagination," "Drawing-Room Theater," "An Evening at Covent Garden," "Making a Start," "The Next Best Thing," "Plays as Literature," "Puzzle of Published Criticism," "Shakespeare Novels," "Telling Situations," "Truth in Melodrama," and "Victorian Shakespeare"), "VI. The Hue and Cry after a Good Laugh" ("By Love Possessed," "Career of a Popular Humorist," "Failure on the Highest Level," "Good King Charles's Golden Days," "The Greatness of Cary," "Growth in Waugh and Huxley," "Heyday of the Pun," "Hitard's Theme," "Humor a Dangerous Profession," "Humorist's Climacteric," "Hunting the Unicorn," "Laughter Need Not Mean Humor," "The Many Faces of Humor," "A Neglected Masterpiece," "The Original Joe Miller," "Pitfall of Humorous Writing," "The Scholarly Humorist," "Snobbery and Humor," "Tragedy Rises to Balance Comedy," and "True Humor Uncontrollable"), "VII. In Pursuit of Pornography" ("Books Are for Reading," "Books for Prestige," "Collecting Condemned," "Don Quichotte or Dirty Hankey?", "Fanny Hill and Male Vanity," "Hidden Books," "The Inscrutable Portrait," "My Search for Pornography," "A Plea for Private Libraries," "Pornographic Tedium," "Private-Press Books," "Private Presses Crudely Imitated," "Prurient and Pornographic," "Purpose of Pornography," "Thrill of the Forbidden," and "What Is Obscenity?"), and "VIII. Spelunking on Parnassus" ("Amateur Autobiographers," "Another View of Ancient Rome," "A Best-Seller Considered," "Charms of Romantic Despair," "Dangers in the Avant-garde," "Do the Other-Directed Enjoy It?", "The Echo in the Cave," "An Elite Exists," "Experiment and the Antinovel," "Fortunate Time for Writers," "Gushers and Tricklers," "The Handy Method," "An Informal Bibliographical Note," "Is the Gloom Justified?", "The Kingdom of This World," "La Litterature Engagee," "Lust to Be Creative," "A Millenary Parallel," "More Confusion to Come," "Neglected Works of Quality," "Nothing but Masterpieces?", "The Ogre of the Nursery," "Pleasures of Identification," "Puzzle of the Best-Seller," "Rebellion against Mediocrity," "What Writers Think about It," "Where Are You?", "Writers and Money," and "The Yahoo Hero"), Epilogue, Index.
A28 What Do You See in the Mirror?. Searchlight, No. 218. Agincourt, Ont.: Book Society of Canada, 1970. 8 pp.
Printed, along with a two-page commentary, for use in schools.
A29 One Half of Robertson Davies: Provocative Pronouncements on a Wide Range of Topics. Toronto: Macmillan, 1977. 286 pp.
[underbar]New York: Penguin, 1978. 286 pp.
[underbar]New York: Viking, 1978. 286 pp.
Includes Preface, "Ham and Tongue," "Section One: Garlands and Nosegays" ("Edward Johnson," "The Funny Professor," and "Sir Ernest MacMillan" [B371]), "Section Two: Giving Advice" ("The Deadliest of the Sins," "How to Design a Haunted House," "Preaching Selfishness," "What Every Girl Should Know," and "What Will the Age of Aquarius Bring"), "Section Three: Jeux d'esprit" ("Animal U.," "The Cat That Went to Trinity," "Dickens Digested," and "Line Written in Dejection"), "Section Four: Thoughts about Writing" ("The Conscience of the Writer" [B384], "Insanity in Literature," "Jung and the Theatre," and "What May Canada Expect from Her Writers?"), "Section Five: Masks of Satan" ("The Devil's Burning Throne," "Gleams and Glooms," "Phantasmagoria and Dream Grotto," and "Thunder without Rain"), and "The Canada of Myth and Reality."
A30 The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies. Ed. Judith Skelton Grant. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1979. 320 pp.
Includes Introduction, "I. Characters" ("Arthur Sullivan" [B1279], "Baron Corvo" [B297], "Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell" [B1036], "Casanova de Seingalt" [B1255], "Dylan Thomas and Hector Berlioz" [B1164], "Edward Johnston" [B1284], "Emma Calve" [B74], "Father Knox" [B1264], "Francis Bacon" [B262], "George Santayana" [B1045], "Hans Christian Andersen" [B1268], "Havelock Ellis" [B1231], "James Agate" [B195], "John Martin-Harvey" [B169], "King John" [B265], "Lew Fields," "Madame de Pompadour" [B1098], "Mehitabel" [B254], "Nellie Melba" [B1344], "Osbert Sitwell" [B836], "P. G. Wodehouse" [B1082], "Richard Harris Barham" [B760], "Sean O'Casey" [B1127], "Sigmund Freud" [B1085], "Sydney Smith" [B1090], "Theodore Hook" [B291], "Tony Sarg" [B93], "Walt Whitman" [B844], and "William Hazlitt" [B1315]), "I. Books" ("Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" [B461], "A Book of Characters" [B1259], "The Canterbury Tales" [B1188], "Centuries" [B1317], "A Christmas Carol" [B775], "A Christmas Garland" [B1152], "Clean and Decent" [B1275], "Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man" [B1148], "The Consolation of Philosophy / The Imitation of Christ / Religio Medici" [B745], "Corsets and Crinolines" [B1115], "Fairs, Circuses & Music Halls / Esme of Paris" [B824], "Franny and Zooey" [B1319], "Ghost Stories," "The Girl with the Swansdown Seat / The Abode of Love / 1848" [B1163], "The Gormenghast Trilogy" [B1283], "Ivy Compton-Burnett's Novels" [B989], "John Cowper Powys' Novels" [B1330], "Joyce Cary's Novels" [B1143], "King Jesus" [B880], "Lady Chatterley's Lover" [B1238], "Lolita" [B1216], "The Magicians / The Doors of Perception" [B1095], "Mr. Olim / The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" [B1321]," Origins" [B1248], "Ouida's Books" [B182], "The Painter's Eye / The Nude" [B1187], "Seeing and Knowing / The Voices of Silence" [B1089], "Sir Aylmer's Heir" [B1328], "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" [B1191], "The Undiscovered Self" [B1209], and "The Young Visiters" (sic) [B1335]), "III. Robertson Davies" ("An Author's Pleasure" [B255], "Basic Optimism" [B305], "Book Collecting" [B309], "A Chat with a Great Reader" [B215], "Confessions of an Editor" [B318], "A Curmudgeon" [B298], "Dangerous Jewels" [B270], "Elements of Style" [B1241], "Forgotten Dialogues" [B1322], "Gems of Yesteryear" [B253], "Haiku and Englyn" [B240], "I Remember Creatore" [B200], "Love and a Cough" [B1442], "Mimesis at Massey" [B332], "The Palest Ink" [B224], "The Pleasures of Love" [B301], "Scraps and Morsels" [B269], "Shakespeare over the Port" [B276], "The Table Talk of Robertson Davies" [C422], "A Talk with Tom Harpur" [C433], "The Three Warning Circles" [B1394], "Three Worlds, Three Summers--But Not the Summer Just Past" [B201], "Too Much, Too Fast" [B311], and "The Writer's Week [B239]).
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A31 [underbar]and Tyrone Guthrie. Renown at Stratford: A Record of the Shakespearean Festival in Canada 1953. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1954. 128 pp.
Illustrated by Grant Macdonald.
[underbar]Introd. Robertson Davies. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1971. 128 pp.
Special Memorial Edition.
A32 [underbar]and Tyrone Guthrie. Twice Have the Trumpets Sounded: A Record of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival in Canada 1954. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1954. 193 pp.
[underbar]London: Blackie and Sons, 1955. 193 pp.
[underbar]London: J. Garnet Miller, 1955. 193 pp.
Illustrated by Grant Macdonald.
A33 [underbar]Tyrone Guthrie, Boyd Neel, and Tanya Moiseiwitsch. Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd: A Record of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival in Canada 1955. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1955. xii, 179 pp.
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A35 "The King Who Could Not Dream." TS, 1945. 82 pp.
A36 "A Play of Our Lord's Nativity" (adapted). TS, 1946. 38 pp.
Adapted from the Coventry Plays for St. George's Anglican Church in Peterborough, Ontario, in 1946. First performed at this church in December 1946; also performed there in 1947, 1948, and 1953. Also performed by the Upper Canada College Preparatory School in Grace Church on the Hill, Toronto, December 4, 1974.
A37 "Bartholomew Fair. A Comedy by Ben Jonson. Freely adapted by Robertson Davies, for the 1956 Stratford Festival." TS, 1956. 149 pp.
A38 "The Lost Scene from The Merry Wives of Windsor. Restored from the 1599 Duodecimo and edited with notes by the Dark Horse of the Sonnets." TS, 1956. 11 pp.
Used in the Stratford production in 1956. Also used in Bernard Miles' production at the Mermaid Theatre, London, England, in 1975.
A39 "Love and Libel." New York, 1960.
A stage version of Davies' novel Leaven of Malice. Revised as "Leaven of Malice" (A42).
A40 "Centennial Spectacle." Third draft. TS. 1976. 73 pp.
Music by Lou Applebaum. Production by Tyrone Guthrie cancelled before the first performance on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Summer 1967.
A41 "Centennial Play." Third draft. TS. 73 pp.
"Epilogue," "Ontario," and "Prologue" by Davies. ("The Maritimes," by Arthur Murphy; "Quebec," by Yves Theriault; "The Prairies," by W. O. Mitchell; "British Columbia," by Eric Nicol.) First performed in Lindsay, Ontario, Fall 1967. (See A15.)
A42 "Leaven of Malice." MS, 1973. 99 pp.
Produced at Hart House in Toronto from October 11-20, 1973. Also produced at the Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake, June 1975.
A43 "Brothers in the Black Art." TS, 1974. 72 pp.
Television script. Shown on CBC-TV, Toronto, February 14, 1974.
A44 "Pontiac and the Green Man." MS, 1977. 91 pp.
Produced by the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama and the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, Macmillan Theatre, October 26-November 5, 1977.
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A1 Tempest-Tost. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1951. v, 376 pp.
[underbar]London: Chatto and Windus, 1952. 376 pp.
[underbar]New York: Rinehart, 1952. 307 pp.
[underbar]Clarke, Irwin Canadian Paperback, No. CI 11. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1955. 284 pp.
[underbar]Markham, Ont.: Penguin, 1980. 284 pp.
[underbar]New York: Penguin, 1980. 284 pp.
A2 Leaven of Malice. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1954. 312 pp.
Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal, 1954.
[underbar]London: Chatto and Windus, 1955. 312 pp.
[underbar]New York: Scribner, 1955. 312 pp.
[underbar]Clarke, Irwin Canadian Paperback, No. CI 1. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1964. 277 pp.
[underbar]New York: Curtis, 1973. 319 pp.
[underbar]Markham, Ont.: Penguin, 1980. 262 pp.
[underbar]New York: Penguin, 1980. 262 pp.
A3 A Mixture of Frailties. London: Macmillan, 1958. 379 pp.
[underbar]London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1958. 379 pp.
[underbar]New York: Scribners, 1958. 379 pp.
[underbar]Toronto: Macmillan, 1958. 379 pp.
Glanz und Schwache. Trans. M. C. Stok. The Hague: Zuid Hollandsche Utig Mig, 1963. 344 pp.
A Mixture of Frailties. Laurentian Library, No. 7. Toronto: Macmillan, 1969. 379 pp.
[underbar]New York: Curtis, 1972. 351 pp.
[underbar]Foreword Robertson Davies. New York: Everest House, 1979. 361 pp.
[underbar]Markham, Ont.: Penguin, 1980. 379 pp.
[underbar]New York: Penguin, 1980. 379 pp.
A4 Fifth Business. New York: Viking, 1970. 308 pp.
[underbar]Toronto: Macmillan, 1970. 314 pp.
[underbar]London: Macmillan, 1971. 314 pp.
[underbar]New York: New American Library, 1971. 238 pp.
Piat Osoba Dramatu. Warsaw: Instytut Wydawniczy, 1973. 294 pp.
Cinquieme emploi. Trans. Arlette Franciere. Montreal: Cercle du livre de France, 1975. 351 pp.
Fifth Business. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1977. 266 pp.
[underbar]London: Star, 1977. 320 pp.
[underbar]Markham, Ont.: Penguin, 1977. 266 pp.
A5 The Manticore. New York: Viking, 1972. 310 pp.
[underbar]Toronto: Macmillan, 1972. 280 pp.
[underbar]London: Macmillan, 1973. 310 pp.
[underbar]Philadelphia: Curtis, 1974. 320 pp.
[underbar]Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1976. 310 pp.
[underbar]Markham, Ont.: Penguin, 1976. 310 pp.
Le Lion avait un visage d'homme. Trans. Claire Martin. Montreal: Pierre Tisseyre, 1978. 323 pp.
A6 World of Wonders. Toronto: Macmillan, 1975. 358 pp.
[underbar]New York: Viking, 1976. 358 pp.
[underbar]Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1977. 316 pp.
[underbar]London: W. H. Allen, 1977. 358 pp.
[underbar]Markham, Ont.: Penguin, 1977. 358 pp.
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A20 The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1947. 204 pp.
Decorations by Clair Stewart.
[underbar]Preface Robertson Davies. Clarke, Irwin Canadian Paperback, No. CI 18. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1966. 196 pp.
Includes "Autumn," "Spring," "Summer," and "Winter."
A21 The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1949. vi, 248 pp.
Illustrated by Clair Stewart.
[underbar]Foreword Norman Birkett. London: Chatto and Windus, 1951. 248 pp.
[underbar]Clarke, Irwin Canadian Paperback, No. CI 26. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1967. 231 pp.
Includes "Dessert," "Entree," "Fish," "The Remove," "Soup," and "Sweet Savoury."
A22 Marchbanks' Almanack: An Astrological and Inspirational Vade Mecum--Containing Character Analyses, Secrets of Charm, Health Hints, How to Be a Success at Parties, Fortune-Telling by the Disposition of Moles on the Body and Divers Other Arcane Knowledge Here Revealed for the First Time: As Well as Generous Extracts from the Correspondence, Pensees, Musings, Obiter Dicta and Ruminations of Wizard Marchbanks. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1967. xiv, 205 pp.
[underbar]Introd. Gordon Roper. New Canadian Library, No. 61. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1968. xvi, 206 pp.
Includes "Aquarius," "Aries," "Cancer," "Capricorn," "Gemini," "Leo," "Libra," "Pisces," "Sagittarius," "Scorpio," "Taurus," and "Virgo."
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B1376 "Know Yourself!". McMaster Univ., Hamilton, Ont., 18 May 1959. Printed in McMaster News, June 1959, pp. 6-7. Rpt. ("God Forbid I Should Utter Such Foolishness"). In Waterloo Review, 2 (Winter 1960), 15-21.
B1377 "Roberston Davies on Architects and Architecture." Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Journal, 37 (Aug. 1960), 346-49. OHRD ("How to Design a Haunted House").
B1378 "To the Class of '62." Douglas Library Notes [Queen's University at Kingston, Ont.], 11, No. 3 (Summer 1962), 2-5. OHRD ("The Deadliest of Sins").
B1379 "He Wants to Help but Can't Find Vice." Ontario Welfare Council, 19 May 1966. Printed (excerpts) in TDS, 20 May 1966, p. 21.
B1380 "Readers Expect Too Much, Robertson Davies Says." Univ. of Alberta, Royal Society of Canada Symposium. Printed in TDS, 4 June 1965, p. F16. Rpt. ("Reader Expects Too Much, Davies Says"). In G&M, 4 June 1975, p. 14.
B1381 "Preaching Selfishness." Address to the Ontario Welfare Council, 1966. OHRD.
B1382 "'A Good Education': Education of Little Value without Gumption." Thos. A. Stewart Secondary School and Auburn Vocational School, 30 Nov. 1967. Printed (excerpts) in PE, 1 Dec. 1967, p. 4.
B1383 "Read Any Good (Canadian) Books Lately?". Alumni College Lecture, 1967. Printed (excerpts) in Graduate [Univ. of Toronto], 1, No. 1 (Christmas 1967), 18-19. Rpt. ("Read Any Canadian Books?"). In PE, 20 Dec. 1967, p. 4.
B1384 "The Conscience of the Writer." Glendon College, York Univ., 1968. OHRD.
B1385 "Looking into the Mirror of Canadian Writing." Woman's Canadian Club of Ottawa. Printed (excerpts) in The Ottawa Journal, 14 Dec. 1970, p. 6.
B1386 "Dickens Digested." Massey College, Univ. of Toronto, Gaudy Night [Christmas], 1970. OHRD.
B1387 "The Heart of a Merry Christmas." Canadian Club [Toronto], 14 Dec. 1970. Printed ("Christmas/Joy and Mystery That Can't Be Quenched"). In TDS, 23 Dec. 1970, p. 6. (First of a two-part article.) Printed ("Christmas/It Will Survive the Age of Aquarius"). In TDS, 24 Dec. 1970, p. 6. (Second of a two-part article.) Rpt. (condensed--"Christmas in the Age of Aquarius"). In The Vancouver Sun, 24 Dec. 1975, p. 5. Rpt. [in pamphlet form as Macmillan's Christmas and New Year's Greetings], 1970. Rpt. ("Will Christmas Survive?"). In TDS, 23 Dec. 1978, p. E1.
B1388 "The Funny Professor." McGill Univ., 1971. OHRD.
B1389 "Some Thoughts on the Present State of Canadian Literature." Proceedings and Transactions: Royal Society of Canada, 9 (1971), 261-70.
B1390 "Leacock as a Literary Artist." Massey College Symposium. Printed in Graduate [Univ. of Toronto], 3, No. 4 (Jan. 1971), 78-87. Rpt. ("Leacock--A Master of Humor and Still Someplace to Go for a Laugh"). In The Ottawa Journal, 22 Feb. 1971, p. 6.
B1391 "Every Man Needs Three Careers." Univ. of Windsor [Fall], 1971. Printed in G&M, 28 Oct. 1971, p. 7.
B1392 "Public-Fund Pensions Suggested for Authors." TDS, 2 March 1972, p 32.
B1393 "How the Author Reaches His Public." The Empire Club [Toronto], 2 March 1972. Printed (excerpts) in Graduate [Univ. of Toronto], 4, No. 2 (May 1972), 16-20. Rpt. (excerpts--"Robertson Davies on Writer's Cramp"). In The Vancouver Sun, 14 June 1972, p. 5. Printed in The Empire Club Addresses 1971-1972. Toronto: The Empire Club Foundations, 1972, pp. 281-95.
B1394 "'The Three Warning Circles." Univ. of Manitoba [Spring], 1972. Printed in The Alumni Journal [Univ. of Manitoba], 32 (Summer 1972), 7-10. ERD.
B1395 "Nation's Character in Danger: Author." TDS, 16 Oct. 1972, p. 23.
B1396 "Sleeping Through Our Canadian Dreams." The Society of Industrial Accountants of Ontario, 1972. Printed (excerpts) in G&M, 13 Nov. 1972, p. 7. Rpt. (excerpts--"What Does Canada Expect from Writers?"). In The Financial Post, 25 Nov. 1972, p. 20. OHRD.
B1397 "The Cat That Went to Trinity: A College Ghost Story." Massey College, Univ. of Toronto, Gaudy Night [Christmas], 1972. OHRD ("The Cat That Went to Trinity").
B1398 "What Every Girl Should Know." Bishop Strachan School, June 1973. OHRD.
B1399 "The Convocation Address." Mount Allison Univ., 19 Oct. 1973. Printed in The Record [Mount Allison Univ.], (Winter 1974), pp. 9-11.
B1400 "Jung and the Theatre." Analytical Psychology Society of Ontario and Analytical Psychology Club of Chicago, 1973. Reread C. G. Jung Foundation of New York, 1977. OHRD.
B1401 "Art and the Cult of the Amateur." Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, 1973. Printed (excerpts) in G&M, 30 Nov. 1973, p. 7. Rpt. (revised--"Delusions of the Amateur Cult"). In The Vancouver Sun, 14 Dec. 1973, p. 5. Rpt. (condensed) in Norman Smith, "Robertson Davies: A Writer's Craft." The Ottawa Journal, 26 Jan 1974, p. 6.
B1402 "Convocation Address." Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland, 24 May 1974. Printed in MUN Gazette [Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland], 6, No. 39 (July 1974), 23-24.
B1403 "Curiosity, Work, Open the Door to Life's Splendor." Trent Univ., 26 Oct. 1974. Printed (excerpts) in G&M, 9 Nov. 1974, p. 7. Rpt. ("Work and Curiosity Yield Life's Splendor"). In The Vancouver Sun, 22 Jan. 1975, p. 5. Rpt. in Trent Alumnus, 8, No. 1 (Winter 1975), 11-13. Rpt. (condensed) in Reader's Digest, March 1975, pp. 67-69.
B1404 "Canadian Nationalism in the Arts and Sciences." Royal Society of Canada, 1975. Printed in Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, 4th ser., Vol. XIII. Ottawa: Royal Society of Canada, 1975, pp. 15-24.
B1405 "'What Will the Age of Aquarius Bring?". Univ. of Calgary, June 1975. OHRD.
B1406 "How Do You Expect to Get Along without a Festival?", 1976. Printed in Opera Canada, 17, No. 2 (May 1976), 10-11, 47.
B1407 "Critics Cannot Affirm Art's Beauty in Bad Prose." Second Arts and Media Conference, National Arts Centre, Ottawa, 15 July 1976. Printed (excerpts) in The Ottawa Journal, 17 July 1976, p. 6.
B1408 "Insanity in Literature." Clarke Institute, Toronto, 1976. Reread Department of Psychiatry, Univ. of Ottawa, 1977. OHRD.
B1409 "The Devil's Burning Throne." Larkin-Stuart Lectures. Trinity College, Univ. of Toronto, Nov. 1976. OHRD.
B1410 "Gleams and Glooms." Larkin-Stuart Lectures. Trinity College, Univ. of Toronto, Nov. 1976. OHRD.
B1411 "Phantasmagoria and Dream Grotto." Larkin-Stuart Lectures. Trinity College, Univ. of Toronto, Nov. 1976. OHRD.
B1412 "Thunder without Rain." Larkin-Stuart Lectures. Trinity College, Univ. of Toronto, Nov. 1976. OHRD.
B1413 "The Canada of Myth and Reality." Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, 5 April 1977. OHRD.
B1414 Address to the Faculty of Humanities, Univ. of Calgary, 1978. Printed ("Robertson Davies' Address to the Faculty of Humanities"). In CALUM [Univ. of Calgary], 9, No. 4 (April 1978), 4-7.
B1415 Brockington Lecture, Queen's Univ., 11 Feb. 1980. Printed ("On Identifying and Employing the Art of Rhetoric--In Which Master Davies Promotes Use of Words as 'Edged Tools' and Not as 'Lumps of Mashed Potato'"). In The Whig-Standard [Kingston], 12 Feb. 1980, p. 8.
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Note: When an item is reprinted in one of Davies' books, this fact is noted in the entry through one of the following abbreviations:
At My Heart's Core ..........................AMHC
At My Heart's Core and Overlaid ..............A&O
Centennial Play ...............................CP
The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks ...............DSM
The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies ..........ERD
Eros at Breakfast and Other Plays ...........Eros
Fifth Business ................................FB
Fortune, My Foe ..............................FMF
Four Favourite Plays .........................FFP
Hunting Stuart and Other Plays ..............Hunt
A Jig for the Gypsy ..........................Jig
Leaven of Malice ..............................LM
The Manticore ..............................Mant.
A Masque of Aesop ..........................Aesop
A Masque of Mr. Punch ......................Punch
A Mixture of Frailties ........................MF
One Half of Robertson Davies ................OHRD
The Personal Art: Reading to Good Purpose .....PA
Question Time .................................QT
Renown at Stratford: A Record of the
Shakespearean Festival in Canada 1953..........RS
The Revels History of Drama, Vol. VI .......Drama
Marchbanks' Almanack:
An Astrological and Inspirational Vade Mecum --
Containing Character Analyses, Secrets of Charm,
Health Hints, How to Be a Success at Parties,
Fortune-Telling by the Disposition of Moles on
the Body and Divers Other Arcane Knowledge Here
Revealed for the First Time; as Well As Generous
Extracts from the Correspondence, Pensees, Musings,
Obiter Dicta and Ruminations
of Wizard Marchbanks .....................MA
Shakespeare for Young Players ................SYP
Shakespeare's Boy Actors .....................SBA
Stephen Leacock ...............................SL
The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks .........TTSM
Tempest-Tost .................................T-T
Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd:
A Record of the Stratford Shakespearean
Festival in Canada 1955.................Thrice
Twice Have the Trumpets Sounded:
A Record of the Stratford Shakespearean
Festival in Canada 1954..................Twice
A Voice from the Attic .....................Attic
The Voice of the People .......................VP
What Do You See in the Mirror? ..............What
World of Wonders ..............................WW
Abbreviations used in the following sub-sections:
The Globe and Mail ........................G&M
The Peterborough Examiner ..................PE
Saturday Night .............................SN
Toronto Daily Star and Toronto Star .......TDS
B1 "Cap and Bells." PE, 1 Aug. 1940, p. 4.
This date marks the first appearance of a column under the by-line of "by Samuel Marchbanks." The book reviews that appear under this title are all listed separately. The miscellany of other material is not listed separately until August 19, 1941, when each column is individually titled. From that date on, all the columns are listed, since the titles afford some clue as to their content.
The bibliographic history of Marchbanks' and Davies' contributions to columns in the PE is as follows:
"Cap and Bells." August 1, 1940, to August 16, 1941, p. 4, by Samuel Marchbanks. This column appeared three times a week, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.
A column variously titled. August 19, 1941, to November 21, 1942, p. 4. This column appeared on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.
A column variously titled. November 25, 1942, to April 28, 1948, p. 4. This column appeared on Wednesdays and Saturdays. At this point the Wednesday column disappears, though the Saturday column continues. For its last year, September 3, 1947, to April 28, 1948, the Wednesday column had a heading "Weekly Book Review." From November 13, 1943, to May 29, 1949, the Saturday column was a Diary. All these columns were signed by Samuel Marchbanks.
"From the Critic's Notebook." October 7, 1948, to May 26, 1949, p. 4. This review column was by several hands. Davies' contributions were initialled R. D. This column ran on Thursdays.
"From the Critic's Notebook." October 5, 1949, to June 28, 1950. As in the previous year, Davies' contributions were initialled, but now the column ran on Wednesdays.
"The Marchbanks' Correspondence." September 3, 1949, to December 30, 1950, p. 4, by Samuel Marchbanks.
"On the Margin." September 13, 1950, to June 27, 1951, p. 4. Davies' contributions were labelled R. D. in this Wednesday column.
"The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks" (variously titled). January 6, 1951, to June 30, 1951, p. 4. This was a Saturday column signed by Samuel Marchbanks.
"Bibliomania." October 20, 1951, to June 21, 1952. This was a book review column to which Davies contributed pieces signed R. D. It appeared on Saturdays for there were no Marchbanks' columns in this period.
"Bibliomania." September 17, 1952, to December 17, 1952, p. 4. This column had initialled contributions by Davies. It appeared on Wednesdays, and petered out when Davies transferred his book-reviewing energies to Saturday Night.
"The Journal of Samuel Marchbanks." September 20, 1952, to May 30, 1953, p. 4.
The column was also carried by The Whig-Standard [Kingston], The Citizen [Ottawa] (beginning November 2, 1946), and some western newspapers.
B2 "New Year's Resolution." SN, 4 Jan. 1941, p. 14.
B3 "Gallimaufry." SN, 18 Jan. 1941, p. 21.
B4 "At the Theatre: Leaps and Bounds." SN, 15 Feb. 1941, p. 24.
B5 "At the Theatre: Is There a Rabbit in the House?". SN, 8 March 1941, p. 24.
B6 "At the Theatre: Good and Evil Struggle for Little Joe." SN, 29 March 1941, p. 24.
B7 "At the Theatre: A Ballet for Canada?". SN, 3 May 1941, p. 24.
B8 "Renaissance of Professional Theatre in Toronto." SN, 31 May 1941, p. 23.
B9 "At the Theatre: Mr. Shaw and the Tongue of Shakespeare and Milton." SN, 7 June 1941, p. 24.
B10 "At the Theatre: Do You Want to Kill Her?". SN, 14 June 1941, p. 36.
B11 "At the Theatre: Barries in a Bear Market." SN, 2 Aug. 1941, p. 20.
B12 "The Blitz and the Buskin in Britain." SN, 16 Aug. 1941, p. 5.
B13 "Cult of Exercise: Is It a Cure-All or a Passing Fad?". PE, 19 Aug. 1941, p. 4.
B14 "Food Problem in Great Britain Is Exaggerated." PE, 21 Aug. 1941, p. 4.
B15 "Telling Future Contains Lot Mere Guess Work." PE, 26 Aug. 1941, p. 4.
B16 "Nationalism Has Been Foremost German Thought." PE, 28 Aug. 1941, p. 4.
B17 "At the Theatre: Quandary of a Male Intellectual." SN, 30 Aug. 1941, p. 21.
B18 "An Orchestra Which Plays without Leader." PE, 2 Sept. 1941, p. 4.
B19 "London's Second 'Great Fire' Began Year Ago." PE, 4 Sept. 1941, p. 4.
B20 "The C.N.E. in Retrospect." PE, 9 Sept. 1941, p. 4.
B21 "Home and Beauty." PE, 11 Sept. 1941, p. 4.
B22 "Aristocracy of Freaks." PE, 13 Sept. 1941, p. 4.
B23 "The Ballet, Ladies and Gentlemen, Is for You." SN, 13 Sept. 1941, p. 5.
B24 "Education in Modern Germany." PE, 16 Sept. 1941, p. 4.
B25 "Nazis Trust to Their Blood." PE, 18 Sept. 1941, p. 4.
B26 "Every Man His Own Doctor." PE, 23 Sept. 1941, p. 4.
B27 "Colds and the Cure." PE, 25 Sept. 1941, p. 4.
B28 "At the Theatre: Some Reflections on the Ballet." SN, 27 Sept. 1941, p. 32.
B29 "The Ballet Strikes Canada." PE, 27 Sept. 1941, p. 4.
B30 "And Which Kind Are You?". PE, 2 Oct. 1941, p. 4.
B31 "Disappointing Disney." PE, 7 Oct. 1941, p. 4.
B32 "The Futility of 'Fantasia.'" PE, 9 Oct. 1941, p. 4.
B33 "Canada's Film Industry." PE, 11 Oct. 1941, p. 4.
B34 "A Great Pattern of Real Chivalry" PE, 17 Oct. 1941, p. 4.
B35 "Common Sense about Children." PE, 21 Oct. 1941, p. 4.
B36 "At the Theatre: Sonny Boy Defies Time." SN, 25 Oct. 1941, p. 26.
B37 "Genius Takes Over the Movies." PE, 25 Oct. 1941, p. 4.
B38 "Nazis Have Sown the Wind." PE, 30 Oct. 1941, p. 4.
B39 "The Druids Come to Canada." PE, 1 Nov. 1941, p. 4.
B40 "The Symphony Season Begins." PE, 4 Nov. 1941, p. 4.
B41 "Something New in Entertainment." PE, 8 Nov. 1941, p. 4.
B42 �� "Something New in Education." PE, 11 Nov. 1941, p. 4.
B43 "Do We Need Universities?". PE, 13 Nov. 1941, p. 4.
B44 "Englishman's Humour, Like His Courage......Is Given a Boost in a Long, Tough Siege." SN, 15 Nov. 1941, pp. 4-5.
B45 "Hollywood Is Now Facing a New Peril." PE, 15 Nov. 1941, p. 4.
B46 "Fires and Modern Fire-Fighting." PE, 18 Nov. 1941, p. 4.
B47 "Canada in Need of Propaganda of Right Kind." PE, 20 Nov. 1941, p. 4.
B48 "Choosing Books for Children." PE, 22 Nov. 1941, p. 4.
B49 "Revolution in Espionage." PE, 25 Nov. 1941, p. 4.
B50 "Latest Theory about Flight of Rudolph Hess." PE, 27 Nov. 1941, p. 4.
B51 "On Making a Few Remarks." PE, 4 Dec. 1941, p. 4.
B52 "It Would Cost More to Go There." PE, 6 Dec. 1941, p. 4.
B53 "We Don't Want It in Canada." PE, 9 Dec. 1941, p. 4.
B54 "The C.B.C. Wins Our Gratitude." PE, 11 Dec. 1941, p. 4.
B55 "Not Hard to Die When One Has Never Lived." PE, 18 Dec. 1941, p. 4.
B56 "America Sheds Sense of Doom." PE, 20 Dec. 1941, p. 4.
B57 "At the Theatre: The Student Prince Again." SN, 20 Dec. 1941, p. 2-4.
B58 "The High Cost of Carol Singing." PE, 24 Dec. 1941, p. 4.
B59 "The Heel of the Year." PE, 27 Dec. 1941, p. 4.
B60 "Opera Singers Sacrifice Words for Their Voices." PE, 30 Dec. 1941, p. 4.
B61 "Approaching Extinction." PE, 3 Jan. 1942, p. 4.
B62 "New Year's Recollection." SN, 3 Jan. 1942, p. 20.
B63 "Walt Disney Does It Again." PE, 6 Jan. 1942, p. 4.
B64 "Let Your Mind Alone." PE, 10 Jan. 1942, p. 4.
B65 "Dread Associate of War Is Plague." PE, 13 Jan. 1942, p. 4.
B66 "Death Silenced a Fine Voice." PE, 17 Jan. 1942, p. 4.
B67 "Just What Is a Rosicrucian?". PE, 20 Jan. 1942, p. 4.
B68 "Book-Snobs Are Found Most Trying." PE, 22 Jan. 1942, p. 4.
B69 "British Opera on the Radio." SN, 24 Jan. 1942, p. 24.
B70 "Soviet Timurities Are Given Plenty of Scope." PE, 24 Jan. 1942, p. 4.
B71 "The Archbishop of Canterbury Is Retiring." PE, 27 Jan. 1942, p. 4.
B72 "When Women Rule World." PE, 29 Jan. 1942, p. 4.
B73 "Ballet Refreshes Our Spirit In Wartime." SN, 31 Jan. 1942, p. 22.
B74 "Calve Acclaimed Greatest of All Carmens." PE, 31 Jan. 1942, p. 4. ERD ("Emma Calve").
B75 "Hollywood Busy Converting Dumas' Works." PE, 3 Feb 1942, p. 4.
B76 "The Movie Men Finally Discover Canada." PE, 5 Feb. 1942, p. 4.
B77 "At the Theatre: Victim of Circumstance." SN, 7 Feb. 1942, p. 26.
B78 "Ballad Operas of the C.B.C. to Be Real Treat." PE, 7 Feb. 1942, p. 4.
B79 "Sugar Rationing Is Good for Canadians." PE, 10 Feb. 1942, p. 4.
B80 "Sir Arnold Box Is King's Master of Musick." PE, 12 Feb. 1942, p. 4.
B81 "At the Theatre: Ballet as It Ought to Be." SN, 14 Feb. 1942, p. 37.
B82 "Propaganda for Our Side Good and Bad." PE, 14 Feb. 1942, p. 4.
B83 "New Directions for the Ballet?". PE, 17 Feb. 1942, p. 4.
B84 "Does the War Affect Your Stomach?". PE, 19 Feb. 1942, p. 4.
B85 "Theatre: Ballet Again." SN, 21 Feb. 1942, p. 31.
B86 "Sunshine Girls/Bare Legs/And Victory Loan." PE, 28 Feb. 1942, p. 4.
B87 "Great European Takes Own Life in Foreign Land." PE, 3 March 1942, p. 4.
B88 "What Do We Owe to Poland?". PE, 5 March 1942, p. 4.
B89 "Prize Winning Movie of 1941." PE, 14 March 1942, p. 4.
B90 "An Author for St. Patrick's Day." PE, 17 March 1942, p. 4.
B91 "C.B.C. Ballad Operas in Retrospect." PE, 21 March 1942, p. 4.
B92 "Curious Case of Mine. Arsenault." PE, 24 March 1942, p. 4.
B93 "A World of Wooden Men." PE, 26 March 1942, p. 4. ERD ("Tony Sarg").
B94 "New Heroes of Britain, the Commandos." PE, 31 March 1942, p. 4.
B95 "The Fascination of Maps." PE, 2 April 1942, p. 4.
B96 "Drama for Easter as Told in Medieval Play." PE, 4 April, 1942, p. 4.
B97 "Mighty Fortress of Malta." PE, 7 April 1942, p. 4.
B98 "Great Britain's Wartime Amusements," PE, 16 April 1942, p. 4.
B99 "English Plays and American Playgoers." PE, 23 April 1942, p. 4.
B100 "Love of Russia Becomes Respectable." PE, 30 April 1942, p. 4.
B101 "Men's Passion for Murders and Mysteries." PE, 5 May 1942, p. 4.
Bl02 "Comfort for Bad Spellers." PE, 7 May 1942, p. 4.
B103 "Mark Centenary of Birth of Sir Arthur Sullivan." PE, 12 May 1942, p. 4.
B104 "In Defence of Idlers and Idleness." PE, 14 May 1942, p. 4.
B105 "Britain Honors Musical Masterpiece." PE, 19 May 1942, p. 4.
B106 "Death Is Called Great Leveller." PE, 23 May 1942, p. 4.
B107 "A Baedeker of Britain." PE, 28 May 1942, p. 4.
B108 "'A Dam of Truth Against Lies and Rumors'...Why Britain Is Winning the War of Air Waves." SN, 30 May 1942, pp. 4-5.
B109 "John Barrymore/Great Actor Dies." PE, 2 June 1942, p. 4.
B110 "Sir Wm. Mulock Recites Poetry." PE, 4 June 1942, p. 4.
B111 "'What's in a Name?' Cried Juliet." PE, 11 June 1942, p. 4.
B112 "Anniversary of Waterloo." PE, 18 June 1942, p. 4.
B113 "The Baby Who Posed as Adolf Hitler." PE, 20 June 1942, p. 4.
B114 "Language and Slanguage." PE, 25 June 1942, p. 4.
B115 "The Man Who Wrote O Canada." PE, 30 June 1942, p. 4.
B116 "The Use and Abuse of Books." PE, 2 July 1942, p. 4.
B117 "A Great Day in French History." PE, 14 July 1942, p. 4.
B118 "Thanking Your Lucky Stars." PE, 16 July 1942, p. 4.
B119 "A Little Known Author Passes." PE, 18 July 1942, p. 4.
B120 "When Nero Fought the Dogs." PE, 23 July 1942, p. 4.
B121 "'Sir--' Said Doctor Johnson." PE, 4 Aug. 1942, p. 4.
B122 "Symphony for Beleaguered City." PE, 6 Aug. 1942, p. 4.
B123 "Choosing Your Ten Favourites." PE, 8 Aug. 1942, p. 4.
B124 "Tenth of August Musings." PE, 11 Aug. 1942, p. 4.
B125 "Ferrero--Great European Liberal." PE, 18 Aug. 1942, p. 4.
B126 "Advertising as It Used to Be." PE, 20 Aug. 1942, p. 4.
B127 "Journalism--An Ancient Art." PE, 22 Aug. 1942, p. 4.
B128 "Our Journals in the Nineties." PE, 8 Sept. 1942, p. 4.
B129 "Japan's Secret Weapon." PE, 10 Sept. 1942, p. 4.
B130 "Michaelmas Day 1942." PE, 29 Sept. 1942, p. 4.
B131 "The Deathbed at Farringford." PE, 6 Oct. 1942, p. 4.
B132 "The Shortage of Ghost Stories." PE, 8 Oct. 1942, p. 4. ERD ("Ghost Stories").
B133 "A Defense of Fat Men." PE, 17 Oct. 1942, p. 4.
B134 "Where Will Superman Lead?". PE, 22 Oct. 1942, p. 4.
B135 "'Twas in Trafalgar's Bay." PE, 24 Oct. 1942, p. 4.
B136 "Buttermilk Is Not the Secret." PE, 27 Oct. 1942, p. 4.
B137 "The Night of the Witches." PE, 31 Oct. 1942, p. 4.
B138 "The Phoenix City of London." PE, 3 Nov. 1942, p. 4.
B139 "Gunpowder/Treason and Plot." PE, 5 Nov. 1942, p. 4.
B140 "Wavell Chooses Six Generals." PE, 12 Nov. 1942, p. 4.
B141 "A Spanish View of World Peace." PE, 14 Nov. 1942, p. 4.
B142 "Christmas in the Olden Time." PE, 23 Dec. 1942, p. 4.
B143 "Remembering Dickens." PE, 26 Dec. 1942, p. 4.
B144 "The Skirts of Departing Year." PE, 30 Dec. 1942, p. 4.
B145 "New Year's Feast of Fools." PE, 2 Jan. 1943, p. 4.
B146 "A Rosy Dream of the Future." PE, 6 Jan. 1943, p. 4.
B147 "The Decline of the Almanac." PE, 9 Jan. 1943, p. 4.
B148 "More about Psychic Research." PE, 20 Jan. 1943, p. 4.
B149 "British Uphold Lend-Lease." PE, 24 Feb. 1943, p. 4.
B150 "Two Quills Have Fallen." PE, 24 March 1943, p. 4.
B151 "A Notable Musical Find." PE, 27 March 1943, p. 4.
B152 "The House of the Future." PE, 14 April 1943, p. 4.
B153 "The Future of Domesticity." PE, 17 April 1943, p. 4.
B154 "Eating in Wartime." PE, 24 April 1943, p. 4.
B155 "Geo. Washington in the News." PE, 28 April 1943, p. 4.
B156 "Balladry and This War." PE, 1 May 1943, p. 4.
B157 "Death of a Russian Artist." PE, 8 May 1943, p. 4.
B158 "Champion of a Dying People." PE, 2 June 1943, p. 4.
B159 "The Lady and the Cannibals." PE, 5 June 1943, p. 4.
B160 "Hitler's Flying Angel." PE, 9 June 1943, p. 4.
B161 "The Tulipomania of Holland." PE, 19 June 1943, p. 4.
B162 "Journalism at the Risk of Life." PE, 30 June 1943, p. 4.
B163 "The German and the Jew." PE, 4 Aug. 1943, p. 4.
B164 "A Competition in Democracy." PE, 20 Oct. 1943, p. 4.
B165 "The C.B.C. Gives Us Oratorio." PE, 27 Oct. 1943, p. 4.
B166 "Have We Ghosts in Canada?". PE, 30 Oct. 1943, p. 4.
B166a "About Keeping a Diary." PE, 13 Nov. 1943, p. 4.
B167 "Why Not a Canadian Drama?". PE, 15 March 1944, p. 4.
B168 "A Traveller in Italy." PE, 19 April 1944, p. 4.
B169 "The Last Link with Irving." PE, 23 May 1944, p. 4. ERD ("John Martin-Harvey").
B170 "The Case of Dorothy Parker." PE, 31 May 1944, p. 4.
B171 "One Man's Meat." PE, 14 June 1944, p. 4.
B172 "Canada Needs One." PE, 23 Aug. 1944, p. 4.
B173 "The Best Escape Literature." PE, 20 Sept. 1944, p. 4.
B174 "A Night at the Opera." PE, 27 Sept. 1944, p. 4.
B175 "Reflections on Keeping a Diary." PE, 27 Dec. 1944, p. 4.
B176 "How Literate Are Canadians?". PE, 3 Jan. 1945, p. 4.
B177 "A Forgotten Thunderer." PE, 10 Jan. 1945, p. 4.
B178 "The Land of the Strangers." PE, 28 Feb. 1945, p. 4.
B179 "The Death of Klee Wyck." PE, 14 March 1945, p. 4.
B180 "Music for Holy Week." PE, 28 March 1945, p. 4.
B181 "A Visit to Hamlet." PE, 10 May 1945, p. 4.
B182 "A Bundle of Ouida." PE, 16 May 1945, p. 4. ERD ("Ouida's Books").
B183 "Swinging Gilbert and Sullivan." PE, 13 June 1945, p. 4.
B184 "Who Is Santa Claus?". PE, 26 Dec. 1945, p. 4.
B185 "Entertainment of a Nation." PE, 30 Jan. 1946, p. 4.
B186 "'Carmen Jones' an Operatic Experiment." PE, 6 March 1946, p. 4.
B187 "Logan Pearsall Smith: 1866-1946." PE, 1 May 1946, p. 4.
B188 "The Old Vic's New York Season." PE, 3 July 1946, p. 4.
B189 "Bernard Shaw at Ninety." PE, 24 July 1946, p. 4.
B190 "What about Opera in English?". PE, 31 July 1946, p. 4.
B191 "'Peter Grimes'--An English Opera." PE, 7 Aug. 1946, p. 4.
B192 "The Death of a Revolutionary." PE, 21 Aug. 1946, p. 4.
B193 "At Last--A Truly Great Movie." PE, 25 Sept. 1946, p. 4.
B194 "Something New for Canada." PE, 8 Jan. 1947, p. 4.
B195 "The Great Egoist." PE, 25 June 1947, p. 4. ERD ("James Agate").
B196 "Christmas Is a Lusty Fellow." PE, 24 Dec. 1947, p. 4.
B197 "New Year's Gifts and Tips." PE, 31 Dec. 1947, p. 4.
B198 "The Recovery of P. G. Wodehouse." PE, 17 March 1948, p. 4.
B199 "Weekly Book Review: That Message to Garcia." PE, 24 March 1948, p. 4.
B200 "Remember Creatore." Mayfair, 22 (Sept. 1948), 59-60. ERD ("I Remember Creatore").
B201 "Three Worlds, Three Summers--But Not the Summer Just Past." Mayfair, 23 (Sept. 1949), 58, 86, 88, 90-92. ERD.
B202 "Canadian Play Big Hit at Edinburgh Festival." PE, 6 Sept. 1949, p. 5.
B203 "Enthusiastic Edinburgh Applause Given to Canadian Play and Actors." G&M, Final Ed., 6 Sept. 1949, p. 17.
B204 "Canadian Cast Anxious to Impress Edinburgh." G&M, Final Ed., 10 Sept. 1949, p. 10.
B205 "Festival Enthralls Canadian Players." G&M, Final Ed., 13 Sept. 1949, p. 9.
B206 "A Letter from Canada." New York Times Book Review, 19 March 1950, p. 30.
B207 "Director for Canadian Theatres." Theatre Canada, 1, No. 1 (Jan. 1951), 8-10.
B208 "The Theatre: A Dialogue on the State of the Theatre in Canada." In Royal Commission Studies; A Selection of Essays Prepared for the Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters and Sciences. Ottawa: King's Printer, 1951, pp. 369-92. Rpt. ("A Dialogue: The State of Theatre in Canada"). In Canadian Theatre Review, No. 5 (Winter 1975), pp. 16-36.
B209 "A Literary Letter from Canada." New York Times Book Review, 1 Feb. 1953, p. 23.
B210 "Guide to the Victorian Underworld." SN, 11 April 1953, pp. 18b, 19.
B211 "Through Ritual to Romance." SN, 1 Aug. 1953, pp. 7-8.
B212 "Future of the Festival." In Second Annual Festival 1954. Stratford, Ont.: Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada Foundation, 1954, p. 5.
B213 "Stratford: Second Year an Air of Certainty." SN, 17 July 1954, pp. 7-9.
B214 "Simplicity and Artifice Combine at Stratford." SN, 31 July 1954, pp. 9-10.
B215 "A Chat with a Great Reader." SN, 11 Sept. 1954, pp. 24, 26. ERD.
B216 "A Classic at Christmas." SN, 25 Dec. 1954, pp. 10-11.
B217 Introduction. In The Diversions of Duchesstown and Other Essays. By B. K. Sandwell. Toronto: Dent, 1955, pp. ix-xii.
B218 "The Stratford Festival." In The Annual Shakespearean Festival of Drama and Music. Stratford, Ont.: Stratford Shakespearean Festival Foundation of Canada, 1955, n. pag.
Souvenir program, two pages of forty-eight pages.
B219 "Decisions of a Constant Weeder." SN, 12 Feb. 1955, pp. 16, 18.
B220 "The Writer in the Attic." SN, 30 April 1955, pp. 11-12.
B221 "Stratford: Firm and Permanent Growth." SN, 23 July 1955, pp. 7-8.
B222 "The Festival Grows." In The 1956 Stratford Shakespearean Festival. Stratford, Ont.: Stratford Shakespearean Festival Foundation of Canada, 1956, n. pag.
Souvenir Program, two pages of forty pages.
B223 "The Genius of Dr. Guthrie." Theatre Arts, 40, No. 3 (March 1956), 28-30, 90.
B224 "The Palest Ink." PE, 2 April 1956, p. 4. ERD.
B225 "Strafford's Critical Season Opens." SN, 7 July 1956, pp. 7-8.
B226 "Stratford Revisited: Amazing Festival." SN, 1 Sept. 1956, pp. 14-15.
B227 "The Writer in Canada." Publishers Weekly, 15 Oct. 1956, pp. 1864-67.
B228 Introduction. In Literary Lapses. By Stephen Leacock. New Canadian Library, No. 3. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1957, pp. vii-xi.
B229 "The Permanent Theatre." In The 1957 Stratford Festival. Stratford, Ont.: Stratford Shakespearean Festival Foundation of Canada, 1957, n. pag.
Souvenir Program, two pages of forty-six pages.
B230 "Stephen Leacock." In Our Living Tradition: Seven Canadians. Ed. C. T. Bissell. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1957, pp. 138-49. Rpt. "On Stephen Leacock." In Masks of Fiction: Canadian Critics on Canadian Prose. Ed. A. J. M. Smith. New Canadian Library; No. 2. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1961, pp. 93-114.
B231 "The Stratford Season: A Great Poetic Theatre." SN, 19 July 1958, pp. 14-15, 36-37.
B232 "Stratford: 1957: Magnificent, Masterful." SN, 20 July 1957, pp. 8-9, 35.
B233 "The Arts in Canada: Under the Canadian Surface." PE, 31 Dec. 1958, Year End Supplement, p. 3.
B234 "Battle Cry for Book Lovers." In Adventures of the Mind. Ed. Richard Thruelson and John Kobler. New York: Knopf, 1959, pp. 529-41. Rpt. in Saturday Evening Post, 28 May 1960, pp. 25, 46-50. Voice (revised--"A Call to the Clerisy").
B235 "A Writer's Diary: No Illness, No Malice/Journey Begins Anyway." TDS, 3 Jan. 1959, p. 26. Rpt. "Robertson Davies Journal Book Page." In The Ottawa Journal, 9 Jan. 1959, pp. 1, 7.
This is the first and introductory column under the heading "A Writer's Diary." It was published every Saturday from this date until June 9, 1962, and was also included in the following newspapers: Toronto Daily Star, January 3, 1959-May 12, 1962; The Whig-Standard [Kingston], February 7, 1959-June 16, 1962; Peterborough Examiner, January 17, 1959-June 16, 1962.; The Ottawa Journal, January 10, 1959-June 16, 1962; Calgary Herald, March 7, 1959-June 30, 1962; The Leader-Post [Regina], November 21, 1959-June 16, 1962; Saskatoon Star-Phoenix; Vancouver Province; Victoria Daily Times; Philadelphia Bulletin; and Providence Journal [Rhode Island].
In the citations that follow, the title "A Writer's Diary" has been shortened to "WD." Unless otherwise noted, all reprints appear on the same date as the original publication. The book reviews in "WD" appear later in this bibliography.
B236 "WD: Deluded Reader...." PE, 14 Feb. 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Missives Fail to Wound Writers"). In TDS, p. 30.
B237 "WD: We Charitable Critics." PE, 28 Feb. 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Condemnation Can Be Kindness"). In TDS, p. 30.
B238 "WD: Bard of Erin." PE, 14 March 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Bard of Erin Loved England"). In TDS, p. 30.
B239 "WD: The Writer's Week." PE, 28 March 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Hide Papers if Writers Come"). In TDS, p. 32. ERD ("The Writer's Week").
B240 "WD: Haiku & Englyn." PE, 4 April 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Fat-Eating Bard Attacks Englyn"). In TDS, p. 30. ERD ("Haiku and Englyn").
B241 "WD: Budding Ghouls." PE, 11 April 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("From Rebel Tot to Adult Grumbler"). In TDS, p. 31.
B242 "WD: Bathtub Reading." PE, 18 April 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Inspired Lies Can't Be Killed"). In TDS, p. 34.
B243 "Are They Only 'Accomplished Versifiers'?". Canadian Author and Bookman, 35, No. 1 (Spring 1959), 6-7.
B244 "WD: Unfair to Authors." PE, 25 April 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Writers Robbed by Public Libraries"). In TDS, p. 34
B245 "WD: Saucer Psychology." PE, 2 May 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Flying Saucers Foretell Change?"). In TDS, p. 27.
B246 "WD: Innocent in New York." PE, 30 May 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Library Refutes Rental Figure"). In TDS, p. 32.
B247 "WD: No Demand Supplied." PE, 20 June 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Little Food for Romantic Appetite"). In TDS, p. 32.
B248 "WD: Keen Anticipation." PE, 27 June 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("First Actress Seen in Othello"). In TDS, p. 32.
B249 "WD: Reluctant Traveller." PE, 25 July 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Spirit Groans as Scribe Travels"). In TDS, p. 28.
B250 "WD: Traveller's Return." PE, 15 Aug. 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Ireland's Wits Mostly Foreign"). In TDS, p. 28.
B251 "WD: The Tools of Time." PE, 5 Sept. 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("McCay's Advice Illumines the Week"). In TDS, p. 29.
B252 "WD: Tickling the Ear." PE, 3 Oct. 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("No New Shaw Visible on Horizon"). In TDS, p. 31.
B253 "WD: Gems of Yesteryear." PE, 7 Nov. 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("A Nostalgic Musical Memory"). In TDS, p. 31. ERD (revised--"Gems of Yesteryear").
B254 "WD: 'Gentlemen, the Cat.'" PE, 21 Nov. 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Cheerio Deario It's Week for Cats"). In TDS, p. 32. ERD ("Mehitabel").
B255 "WD: An Author's Pleasure." PE, 19 Dec. 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Figgy Pudding Charms Author"). In TDS, p. 28. ERD ("An Author's Pleasure").
B256 "Canada and the Arts: Bold Approach in Literature, Music, Theatre." PE, 31 Dec. 1959, p. 7.
B257 "WD: Letter Writers." PE, 30 Jan. 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("Still Some Great Letter-Writers Around"). In TDS, p. 28.
B258 "WD: Translator's Task." PE, 5 March 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("Laud Woman's Russian Translations"). In TDS, p. 30.
B259 "WD: Armchair Browsing." PE, 26 March 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("Book Catalogs Restful, Entertaining"). In TDS, p. 30.
B260 "WD: The Play's the Thing." PE, 23 April 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("It's Always Better to See Than Read Shakespeare"). In TDS, p. 34.
B261 "WD: Believing in Fairies." PE, 7 May 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("J. M. Barrie's Genius Really Authentic"). In TDS, p. 34.
B262 "WD: Bacon's Foibles." PE, 21 May 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("No Man Can Be Wholly Wise"). In TDS, p. 36. ERD ("Francis Bacon").
B263 "Stratford 1960." PE, 2 July 1960, p. 4.
Includes three articles: "The Dream's Low Comedy and Fantasy," "King John as a Play of Character," and "A Triumph for Romeo's Director."
B264 "WD: By His Hand...." PE, 9 July 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("Bad Handwriting Is a Form of Vanity"). In TDS, p. 28.
B265 "WD: Bad King John." PE, 30 July 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("Godless King John Not Too Bad"). In TDS, p. 28. ERD ("King John").
B266 "WD: The Urge to Write." PE, 13 Aug. 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("How to Be a Writer: Just Write, Write, Write"). In TDS, p. 26.
B267 "WD: Women Are People." PE, 20 Aug. 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("Women Not People to Pornographers--Or to Dickens"). In TDS, p. 26.
B268 "WD: Elmer Gantry." PE, 3 Sept. 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("Lewis and Lancaster: Different Gantrys"). In TDS, p. 30.
B269 "WD: Scraps and Morsels." PE, 10 Sept. 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("Scrapbooks Make Good Reading"). In TDS, p. 30. ERD ("Scraps and Morsels").
B270 "WD: Dangerous Jewels." PE, 1 Oct. 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("Quotations Splendid, Dangerous Gift"). In TDS, p. 30. ERD ("Dangerous Jewels").
B271 "WD: Rehearsing a Play." PE, 22 Oct. 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("Trimming, Nipping, Tucking Playwright Tells of Art"). In TDS, p. 30.
B272 "WD: The Play's the Thing." PE, 19 Nov. 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("The First Night Curtain Signals Time for Tinkering"). In TDS, p. 30.
B273 "WD: Travelling Books." PE, 3 Dec. 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("Heavy Book Load Jettisoned"). In TDS, p. 33.
B274 "WD: Hoarding Life." PE, 10 Dec. 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("I Hoard Experiences"). In TDS, p. 23.
B275 "The Arts in Canada: Progress Is Like a Glacier's--No Kangaroo Jumps for Canadians." PE, 31 Dec. 1960, p. 10.
B276 "Shakespeare over the Port." In Stratford Papers on Shakespeare 1960. Ed. B. A. W. Jackson. Toronto: Gage, 1961, pp. 95-107. ERD.
B277 "WD: Sayings of Kai Lung." PE, 28 Jan. 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("Kai Lung a Joy to Discover"). In TDS, p. 28.
B278 "WD: The Best Books." PE, 4 Feb. 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("Tough Grind in Great Books"). In TDS, p. 28.
B279 "WD: The Great Bores." PE, 11 Feb. 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("How Many Writers Bore You?"). In TDS, p. 30.
B280 "WD: Disagree on What to Read." TDS, 4 March 1961, p. 28. Rpt. ("A Line of Taste"). In PE, 11 March 1961, p. 5.
B281 "WD: Popular Writer." PE, 4 March 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("The Great Gifts of Angela Thirkell"). In TDS, 11 March 1961, p. 28.
B282 "WD: Pauline's Choice." PE, 8 April 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("Why Pauline Didn't Make It"). In TDS, p. 28.
B283 "WD: Rapid Reading." PE, 15 April 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("What's All the Hurry?"). In TDS, p. 30.
B284 "WD: Portugal in Spring." PE, 13 May 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("Portuguese Notebook"). In TDS, p. 29.
B285 "WD: Diet, Art and Drama." PE, 20 May 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("They Can't Forget Moors"). In TDS, p. 35.
B286 "London Today: A City Buoyed by Elegance." PE, 27 May 1961, p. 4.
B287 "The Grand Design for Massey College." Graduate [Univ. of Toronto], 9 (Summer 1961), 15-18.
B288 "Stratford 1961." PE, 24 June 1961, p. 4.
Includes three articles: "A Comedy of Noble Lunacy" (Love's Labours Lost), "A Play of Heroism" (Coriolanus), and "The Tudor Spectacle" (Henry VIII).
B289 "WD: The Great Linguist." PE, 24 June 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("The Scoffer Stayed to Preach"). In TDS, p. 29.
B290 "WD: The Hymnal Arts." PE, 30 June 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("Rarely Read as Poetry"). In TDS, p. 37.
B291 "WD: Hook the Hoaxer." PE, 8 July 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("In Which Hook Is Rediscovered"). In TDS, p. 27. ERD ("Theodore Hook").
B292 "WD: Whodunits Dull?". PE, 15 July 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("Temperamentally Unsuited to Enjoying Whodunits"). In TDS, p. 24.
B293 "WD: Answering Mail." PE, 12 Aug. 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("Sinister Fellow, Watson"). In TDS, p. 24.
B294 "WD: Writers and Critics." PE, 16 Sept. 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("Writers, Beware of Critics"). In TDS, p. 45.
B295 "Letter to a Young Opera-Goer." In Canadian Opera Company Souvenir Program, Autumn 1961. Toronto: Canadian Opera Company, 1961, pp. 25-26.
B296 "Gilbert and Sullivan." Performing Arts in Canada, 1 (Oct. 1961), 4-6.
B297 "WD: Who Was Corvo?". PE, 7 Oct. 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("That Odd Fish Baron Corvo"). In TDS, p. 33. ERD ("Baron Corvo").
B298 "WD: A Curmudgeon." PE, 25 Nov. 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("My Own Public Image"). In TDS, p. 30. ERD ("A Curmudgeon").
B299 "WD: Christmas Grouch." PE, 16 Dec. 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("Reading for 'Scrooges'"). In TDS, p. 49.
B300 "WD: A Trip to New York." PE, 23 Dec. 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("'Groan Along with Joan'"). In TDS, p. 24.
B301 "The Pleasures of Love." SN, 23 Dec. 1961, pp. 11-12. ERD.
B302 "WD: The Year of the Pig." PE, 30 Dec. 1961, p. 13.
B303 "Ten Years at Stratford." In Stratford Festival Canada 1962. Stratford, Ont.: Stratford Shakespearean Festival Foundation of Canada, 1962, n. pag.
Souvenir Program, five pages of sixty pages.
B304 "The Theatre." In The Arts as Communication. Ed. D. C. Williams. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1962, pp. 17-31.
B305 "WD: Basic Optimism." PE, 3 Feb. 1962, p. 5. Rpt. ("Solemn Books Not All Serious"). In TDS, p. 30. ERD ("Basic Optimism").
B306 "WD: Seven Deadly Sins." PE, 3 March 1962, p. 5. Rpt. ("Fiction and Seven Deadly Sins"). In TDS, p. 27.
B307 "WD: Impervious to Science Fiction." PE, 31 March 1962, p. 4. Rpt. ("Science Fiction's Elusive Line"). In TDS, p. 29.
B308 "WD: Exemplifying the Seven Virtues." PE, 14 April 1962, p. 4. Rpt. ("Seven Lively Virtues"). In TDS, p. 32.
B309 "Book Collecting." Holiday, 31 (May 1962), 13-17. Rpt. in Party of Twenty. Ed. Clifton Fadiman. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963, pp. 97-107. ERD.
B310 "WD: Fictional Lovers Fast Workers." PE, 12 May 1962, p. 4. Rpt. ("Notion of Love Old-Fashioned"). In TDS, p. 32.
B311 "WD: Too Much, Too Fast." PE, 16 June 1962, p. 4. ERD ("Too Much, Too Fast").
B312 "The R.O.M. Revisited: Teaching and Research Are Paramount." Graduate [Univ. of Toronto], 9 (Summer 1962), 64-67, 92, 94, 96.
B313 "Stratford 1962." PE, 23 June 1962, p. 4.
B314 "Walking." The Rotarian, 101 (July 1962), 14-16, 60.
B315 "The Stratford Festival: Cyrano de Bergerac." PE, 4 Aug. 1962, p. 4.
B316 "Literature and Medicine." Canadian Medical Association Journal, 29 Sept. 1962, pp. 701-06.
B317 "Changing Fashions in Shakespearean Production." In Stratford Papers on Shakespeare 1961. Ed. B. W. Jackson. Toronto: Gage, 1963, pp. 66-116.
B318 "Confessions of an Editor." In Dateline Canada, 1962. Ottawa: National Press Club of Canada, 1963, p. 17. ERD.
B319 "Dr. Thomas Guthrie and Tyrone Power in Canada." Drama Survey, 3 (Spring-Summer 1963), 91-96.
This article appears under a section entitled "A Symposium to Mark the Opening of the Tyrone Guthrie Repertory Theatre, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 7 May 1963."
B320 "[Stratford Festival 1963:] The Comedy of Errors." PE, 22 June 1963, p. 4.
B321 "Stratford Festival 1963: Troilus and Cressida." PE, 22 June 1963, p. 4.
B322 "Graduate College for Canada." Times Educational Supplement, 13 Sept. 1963, p. 292. Rpt. ("Massey College"). In Canadian Architect, 8, No. 10 (Oct. 1963), 48.
B323 "Massey College, a New Foundation and the First Graduate College in Canada." Illustrated London News, 26 Oct. 1963, pp. 687-89.
B324 "Stephen Leacock." Encyclopedia Americana. Canadian 1964 ed.
B325 "Murmurs from an Ivory Tower." Graduate [Univ. of Toronto], 11 (March 1964), 18-23.
B326 "The Northern Muse." Holiday, 35 (April 1964), 10-21.
B327 "William Shakespeare 400 Years Old Today--and Still Living!". PE, 23 April 1964, p. 4.
Text of a CBC talk.
B328 "Shakespeare: All Things to All Men." PE, 24 April 1964, p. 4.
Text of a CBC talk.
B329 "Stratford Festival of Man." SN, Aug. 1964, pp. 21-23.
B330 "Educating for the Future." Atlantic Monthly, Nov. 1964, pp. 140-44.
B331 "The Implacable Educator [George Grant]." In Great Canadians, a Century of Achievement. Canadian Centennial Library. Selected Vincent Massey et al. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1965, pp. 72-74.
B332 "Mimesis at Massey." Graduate [Univ. of Toronto], 11 (April 1965), 98-99, 110, 112, 114, 116. ERD.
B333 "Stratford--1965: Shakespeare's Mighty Genius in a Show for Connoisseurs/A Passion of Kingship Unequalled in 25 Years." PE, 19 June 1965, p. 4.
B334 "Opera at Stratford: Pungent Flavour of Brecht and Weill." PE, 6 July 1965, p. 4.
B335 "The Cherry Orchard at Stratford: For Chekov: 87 Per Cent." PE, 31 July 1965, p. 4.
B336 "A Letter from Salzburg: Vitality, Beauty and Paradox Mark Medieval Theatre." PE, 21 Aug. 1965, p. 4.
B337 "A Letter from Salzburg: The Marionettes Bring Mozart to Mystic Life." PE, 28 Aug. 1965, p. 4.
B338 "A Letter from Salzburg: Unbroken Action Makes Faust Masterly Drama." PE, 8 Sept. 1965, p. 4.
B339 "The Double Life of Robertson Davies." In Canadian Anthology. Ed. Carl F. Klinck and R. E. Watters. Rev. ed. Toronto: Gage, 1966, pp. 393-400.
Published under the pseudonym "Samuel Marchbanks."
B340 Foreword. In Peterborough: Land of Shining Waters. An Anthology. Ed. Ronald Borg. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press for the City and County of Peterborough, 1966, pp. vii-viii.
B341 Introduction. In A Theatrical Trip for a Wager! Through Canada and the United States.... By Horton Rhys. Vancouver: Alcuin Society, 1966, pp. 9-12.
B342 "Ibsen's New Woman." Toronto Telegram, 9 April 1966, Sec. Showcase, p. 7.
B343 "Henry V at Stratford: A Sombre View of Success." PE, 9 June 1966, p. 4.
B344 "Henry VI at Stratford: An Audience Electrified by Up-Roaring Theatre." PE, 10 June 1966, p. 4.
B345 "Twelfth Night: A Shakespeare Fantasy with a Gentle Touch." PE, 11 June 1966, p. 4.
B346 "A Letter from London: Return to the London of the Dickensian Dandies." PE, 30 July 1966, p. 4.
B347 "A Letter from London: Keeping Pace with Old and New in London's West End Theatres." PE, 6 Aug. 1966, p. 4.
B348 "Letter from Vienna: Freud, Forgotten Man in Vienna." PE, 13 Aug. 1966, p. 4.
B349 "A Letter from Vienna: Viennese Gaiety and Offenbach's Genius." PE, 20 Aug. 1966, p. 4.
B350 "Letter from Salzburg: The Finest Festival Fails with Fantasy." PE, 27 Aug. 1966, p. 4.
B351 "The Salzburg Festival: Opera at Its Best." PE, 3 Sept. 1966, p. 4.
B352 "Letters: The Unfashionable Canadians." In Century, 1867-1967, The Canadian Saga. Ed. John D. Harbron. Rpt. in TDS, Supplement, 14 Feb. 1967, pp. 54-55.
B353 "Newspapers Must Now Explain to Readers Happenings behind the News: The Publisher's Message." PE, 27 May 1967, Sec. Special, p. 2a.
B354 "Study of the Drama (II): There Will Be No 'Soft' Degrees." Graduate [Univ. of Toronto], 13, No. 4 (June 1967), 90-96.
The title in the table of contents is "No Soft Degrees in Drama."
B355 "Langham's Gogol Buried Under Extraneous Matter." PE, 17 June 1967, p. 4.
B356 "Merry Wives Draws Free Performances." PE, 17 June 1967, p. 4.
B357 "Stratford--1967: Richard--The Rich Colours of a Cathedral Window." PE, 17 June 1967, p. 4.
B358 "Stratford-1967: A Difficult Play Well Performed." PE, 5 Aug. 1967, p. 4.
B359 Introduction. In Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy. By Stephen Leacock. New Canadian Library, No. 43. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1968, pp. vii-x.
B360 "Note on A Midsummer Night's Dream." In The Stratford Scene, 1958-1968. Ed. Peter Raby. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1968, pp. 180-82.
B361 "Massey College Head Remembers Vincent Massey." PE, 5 Jan. 1968, p. 4. Rpt. ("A Tough-Minded, Imaginative Canadian with a Vision of Excellence"). In Graduate [Univ. of Toronto], 1, No. 2 (March 1968), 33-35, 37-38. Rpt. as a folio. [Toronto?]: n.p., 1968.
B362 "What Do You See in the Mirror?". Graduate [Univ. of Toronto], 1, No. 2 (March 1968), 61-64. Rpt. ("Psychedelia: Acid Heads Are Nothing New"). In PE, 17 April 1968, p. 4. What.
B363 "The Poetry of a People." In Notes for a Native Land: A New Encounter with Canada. Ed. Andy Wainwright. Ottawa: Oberon, 1969, pp. 96-99. Rpt. ("Canada, the Elusive Lover's Repressed Feelings"). In PE, 11 Aug. 1969, p. 4.
B364 "Leacock the Humorist: Leacock the Teacher." Monday Morning, 4 (Nov. 1969), 24-25.
B365 "'How Can You Make Sure You Suffer Enough?'". Graduate [Univ. of Toronto], 3, No. 2 (April 1970), 25-29.
Davies talks with Margaret Laurence.
B366 "Loud Laughter." G&M, Metro Ed., 9 July 1970, p. 7.
In a letter to the Globe, Davies in humorous fashion apologizes to Herbert Whittaker for laughing so loudly during Patrick Crean's opening performance of "The Sun Never Sets" on July 2: "I simply can't help it." See Herbert Whittaker's "Laughter, Silence Greet One-Man Rediscovery of Kipling." G&M, Metro Ed., July 3, 1970, p. 13.
B367 "Ben Jonson and Alchemy." In Stratford Papers 1968-69. Ed. B. A. W. Jackson. Hamilton, Ont.: McMaster Univ. Library Press, 1972, pp. 40-60.
B368 "Behind the Libretto and the Music." Opera Canada,13, No. 3 (Fall 1972), 50-51.
B369 Foreword. In Love and Whiskey: The Story of the Dominion Drama Festival. By Betty Lee. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973, pp. ix-xi.
B370 "Flatus." Times Literary Supplement, 27 April 1973, p. 473.
B371 "A Leader to Those of Us Who Faced the Music." Canadian Composer, 82 (July 1973), 16-17. OHRD ("Sir Ernest MacMillan").
B372 "Appreciation of the Late Edwin C. Guillet...Died June 26, 1975." Ontario History, 67 (June 1975), 119.
B373 "'Do You Use Real People in Your Fiction?'". SN, Nov. 1975, p. 41.
Davies is quoted by Margaret Drury Gane.
B374 "Christmas in the Age of Aquarius." The Vancouver Sun, 24 Dec. 1975, p. 5.
B375 "Kings and Cabbages." Graduate [Univ. of Toronto], 4, No. 3 (1976), 10-11.
B376 "Massey College." In The Toronto Book: An Anthology of Writings Past and Present. Ed. William Kilborn. Toronto: Macmillan, 1976, pp. 239-41.
B377 "Robertson Davies." SN, May 1976, p. 32. One of twenty short responses collected in Sandra Martin's article entitled "The Book That Changed My Life," pages 31-39.
B378 "Massey's Not WASP country." SN, July-Aug. 1976, pp. 4-5.
B379 "We Celebrate Both the Son and the Sun." TDS, 24 Dec. 1976, p. F1.
B380 "The Goose Says Grace." Journal of Canadian Studies, 12, No. 1 (Feb. 1977), 3.
A prefatory note on the special issue devoted entirely to Davies.
B381 "Lawyer as Protagonist: A Star of a Particular Kind." The Advocate [Magazine of the Students' Law Society at the University of Toronto], 12, No. 1 (Sept.-Oct. 1977), 3-5.
B382 "Robertson Davies." In Stage Voices: 12 Canadian Playwrights Talk About Their Lives and Work. Ed. Geraldine Anthony. Toronto: Doubleday, 1978, pp. 61-79.
B383 "'Westmount Women Have the Ugliest Voices.'" The Gazette [Montreal], Final Ed., 11 March 1978, pp. 1-2.
B384 "The Writer's Conscience." Saturday Review, 18 March 1978, pp. 42-46. OHRD ("The Conscience of the Writer").
B385 "Mr. Davies Replies." New Republic, 27 May 1978, p. 3.
B386 "A Few Kind Words of Superstition." Newsweek, 20 Nov. 1978, p. 23. Rpt. ["I'm Not Superstitious (Touch Wood)]." In Reader's Digest (Canadian ed.), Aug. 1979, pp. 35-36.
B387 "The Joy of Christmas: A Historical Ramble by Robertson Davies." Chatelaine, Dec. 1978, pp. 23-25, 54, 56, 58, 60.
B388 "Opinion Platform." The Financial Post, 5 May 1979 (Supplement: Campaign '79), p. 7.
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B1445 Festival. CBC-TV, 15 April 1963.
In a segment of this show, Davies interviews Mme Ludmilla Chiriaeff, founder and director of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens.
B1446 Shakespeare. University of the Air, CBC Radio, 15 April 1964.
Davies discusses Shakespeare's biography.
B1447 [underbar]et al. Patterns in Hamlet. School Broadcast, CBC Radio, 27 Oct. 1967.
Davies, Eleanor Stewart, Frances Hyland, and host Mavor Moore discuss excerpts from Hamlet.
B1448 [Excerpts]. "Newspaper Wit." Writ. and ed. Robert Fulford. Narr. Harry Mannis. The Fourth Estate. CBC Radio, 23 Dec. 1967.
This programme includes excerpts of Davies' writing as examples of wit in Canada's newspapers.
B1449 "The Stratford Festival." CBC Tuesday Night. CBCFM Radio, 11 June 1968.
This document on the Stratford Festival includes Davies as editor of the Peterborough Examiner, in an excerpt from an interview which took place on the first opening night of the festival in 1953.
B1450 Introduction. [Title unknown.] Purple Playhouse. CBC Radio, 23 Feb. 1973.
B1451 Introduction. In The Bells. Purple Playhouse. CBC Radio, 4 March 1973.
B1452 Introduction. In Used Up. Purple Playhouse. CBC Radio, 11 March 1973.
B1453 Introduction. In The Lyons Mail. Purple Playhouse. CBC Radio, 18 March 1973.
B1454 Introduction. In Dracula. Purple Playhouse. CBC Radio, 25 March 1973.
B1455 Introduction. In The Corsican Brothers. Purple Playhouse. CBC Radio, 1 April 1973.
B1456 Introduction. In Ticket-of-Leave Man. Purple Playhouse. CBC Radio, 22 April 1973.
B1457 Introduction. In Mrs. Dane's Defence. Purple Playhouse. CBC Radio, 29 April 1973.
B1458 "The Charm of Kingston." CBC Tuesday Night. CBC-FM Radio, 11 Dec. 1973.
Davies is one of a number of writers, artists, historians, and M.P.'s who comment on the city.
B1459 Tribute to Andrew Allan. Narr. Fletcher Markle. Prod. Bill Bolt. CBC-TV, 18 Jan. 1974.
Davies takes a brief part in the half-hour tribute by commenting on his association with Mr. Allan.
B1460 "Thomas Aquinas." Concern. CBC Radio, 6 March 1974.
During a two-hour programme, Marie Louise von Franz and Davies comment for six minutes about the psychological possibilities and implications of attributing the alchemical treatise Aurora Consurgens to St. Thomas Aquinas.
B1461 "World of Wonders." Gzowski on FM. CBC-FM Radio, 5-8 Jan. 1976.
Davies reads four portions of World of Wonders. The other parts include "Mrs. Constaninescu" (January 6), the "Death of Rango" (January 7), and "The Magic World View and Chivalry" (January 8), for a total of forty-six minutes. In the last program, on January 9, Peter Gzowski interviews Davies.
B1462 Rev. of Stratford Festival. Stereo Morning. Prod. Terry Campbell. CBC-FM, 5 June 1979.
B1463 Rev. of Love's Labor's Lost and Ned and Jack. Stereo Morning. Prod. Terry Campbell. CBC-FM, 6 June 1979.
B1464 Rev. of Henry IV--Part 1. Stereo Morning. Prod. Terry Campbell. CBC-FM, 7 June 1979.
B1465 Rev. of The Importance of Being Ernest and Henry IV--Part II. Stereo Morning. Prod. Terry Campbell. CBC-FM, 8 June 1979.
B1466 Rev. of Happy New Year and Richard II. Stereo Morning. Prod. Terry Campbell. CBC-FM, 11 June 1979.
B1467 Rev. of Richard II and the Shakespearean Festival. Stereo Morning. Prod. Terry Campbell. CBC-FM, 11 June 1979.
B1468 Rev. of The Taming of the Shrew. Stereo Morning. Prod. Terry Campbell. CBC-FM, 3 July 1979.
B1469 Rev. of King Lear. Stereo Morning. Prod. Terry Camp-bell. CBC-FM, 10 July 1979.
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B1426 "A Masque of Aesop." In Five New One Act Plays. Ed. James A. Stone. London: Harrup, 1954, pp. 53-90.
B1427 "Overlaid." In Curtain Rising. Ed. W. S. Milne. Toronto: Longmans, Green, 1958, pp. 135-59. Over.
B1428 "Overlaid." In Canada on Stage. Ed. Stanley Richard. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1960, pp. 35-57.
B1429 "The Voice of the People." In Upstage and Down. Ed. D. P. McGarity. Toronto: Macmillan, 1968, pp. 68-91.
B1430 "Fortune, My Foe." In 4 Canadian Playwrights. Ed. Mavor Moore. Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973, pp. 17-31. FMF (excerpt); FFP (excerpt).
B1431 "Hunting Stuart." In Stage One: A Canadian Scenebook. Ed. Andrew Parkin and J. Stevens. Toronto: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1973, pp. 145-51. Hunt. (excerpt).
B1432 "Overlaid." In Encounter: Canadian Drama in Four Media. Ed. Eugene Benson. Toronto: Methuen, 1973, pp. 10-29.
B1433 "Overlaid." In Stage One: A Canadian Scenebook. Ed. Andrew Parkin and J. Stevens. Toronto: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1973. pp. 111-20. Over (excerpt); A&O (excerpt).
B1434 "Overlaid." In Ten Canadian Short Plays. Ed. John Stevens. New York: Dell, 1975, pp. 85-104.
B1435 "Overlaid." In The Artist in Canadian Literature. Ed. Lionel Wilson. Toronto: Macmillan, 1976, pp. 47-67.
B1436 "The Voice of the People." In Cues and Entrances. Ed. Henry Beissel. Toronto: Gage, 1977, pp. 1-14.
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B1437 "World of Wonders." Saturday Night, Oct. 1975, pp. 49-56. WW (excerpt).
B1438 "An Eerie Tale of a Little Table That Spoke." G&M, 24 Dec. 1976. p. 7.
B1439 "The All Hallows Horrors." The City [TDS], 30 Oct. 1977, pp. 10-13, 22.
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B1440 "Christmas Pantomine." SN, 27 Dec. 1941, p. 25.
A playlet.
B1441 "The Double Life of Robertson Davies." Liberty, April 1954, pp. 18-19, 53-58.
Published under the pseudonym "Samuel Marchbanks."
B1442 "A Writer's Diary: Love and a Cough." PE, 23 May 1959, p. 5. Rpt. "WD: New Playscript Highly Quotable." TDS, p. 34. ERD ("Love and a Cough").
A Playlet involving "Lover," "Wife," and "Husband," and composed entirely of proverbs.
B1443 "Prologue for the Royal Variety Performance on the Occasion of the Official Opening of the Fathers of Confederation Memorial Building, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, October 6, 1964."
B1444 "The Deptford Trilogy in Retrospect." Introduction. In Studies in Robertson Robertson Davies' Deptford Trilogy. Ed. Robert G. Lawrence and Samuel L. Macey. ELS, No. 20. Univ. of Victoria, B.C.: English Literary Studies, 1980, pp. 7-12.
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B1416 "Ten Days from 'Samuel Marchbanks.'" In Northern Lights. Ed. George E. Nelson. Garden City: Doubleday, 1960, pp. 537-41. DSM.
B1417 "Robertson Davies." in Great Canadian Writing: A Century of Imagination. Ed. Claude Bissell. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1966, pp. 66-68.
B1418 "A Millenary Parallel." In A Century of Canadian Literature/Un Siecle de Literature Canadienne. Ed. H. Gordon Green and Guy Sylvestre. Toronto: Ryerson, 1967, pp. 574-75. Voice (excerpt).
B1419 "It Does No Good to Be Afraid." In The Oxford Anthology of Canadian Literature. Ed. Robert Weaver and William Toye. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1973, pp. 91-98. FB (excerpt).
B1420 "Louisa's Last at Home." In Canadian Literature: Two Centuries in Prose. Ed. Brita Mickleburgh. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973, pp. 215-26. MF (excerpt).
B1421 "A Mixture of Frailties." in The Canadian Century: English-Canadian Writing Since Confederation. Ed. A. J. M. Smith. Toronto: Gage, 1973, pp. 443-52. MF (excerpt).
B1422 "Leaven of Malice." In Canadian Anthology. Ed. C. F. Klinck and R. E. Watters. 3rd ed. Toronto: Gage, 1974, pp. 401-09. LM (excerpt).
B1423 "Tempest-Tost." In The Treasury of Great Canadian Humour. Ed. Alan Walker. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp.160-65. T-T (excerpt).
B1424 "Leaven of Malice." In The Leacock Medal Treasury: 3 Decades of the Best Canadian Humor. Ed. Ralph L. Curry. Toronto: Lester and Orpen, 1976, pp. 275-302. LM (excerpt).
B1425 "A Letter from Samuel Marchbanks " In Canadian Humour and Satire. Ed. Theresa Ford. Toronto: Macmillan, 1976, p. 58. MA (excerpt).
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B389 "Cap and Bells." Rev. of The Rise of the House of Rothschild, by Count Corti. PE, 17 Aug. 1940, p. 4.
B390 "Cap and Bells." Rev. of Civilization and Liberty, by Ramsay Muir. PE, 21 Sept. 1940, p. 4.
B391 "Cap and Bells." Rev. of Brebeuf and His Brethren, by E.J. Pratt, and And So to Bath, by Cecil Roberts. PE, 5 Oct. 1940, p. 4.
B392 "Cap and Bells." Rev. of A Song of the Tide, by Ernest Raymond; Troubled Waters, by Roger Vercel, trans. Warre Bradley Wells; and Master-at-Arms, by Rafael Sabatini. PE, 12 Oct. 1940, p. 4.
B393 "Cap and Bells." Rev. of No Steeper Wall, by Percy Marks, and Hill-Billy Doctor, by Elizabeth Seifert. PE, 19 Oct. 1940, p. 4.
B394 "Cap and Bells." Rev. of You Can't Go Home Again, by Thomas Wolfe. PE, 2 Nov. 1940, p. 4.
B395 "Cap and Bells." Rev. of Trelawny, by Margaret Armstrong. PE, 9 Nov. 1940, p. 4.
B396 "Cap and Bells." Rev. of The Story of Our Language, by Henry Alexander, and Stephen Leacock's Laugh Parade. PE, 16 Nov. 1940, p. 4.
B397 Rev. of For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway. SN, 16 Nov. 1940, p. 23.
B398 "The Canadian Peasant." Rev. of Thirty Acres, by Ringuet [Philippe Panneton]. SN, 23 Nov. 1940, p. 19.
B399 "Cap and Bells." Rev. of The Voyage, by Charles Morgan; Thirty Acres, by Ringuet [Philippe Panneton]; The Man Who Went Back, by Warwick Deeping; and Susannah Rides Again, by Muriel Denison. PE, 23 Nov. 1940, p. 4.
B400 "Golden Treasury of Ogden Nashery." Rev. of The Face Is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash. SN, 23 Nov. 1940, p. 18.
B400a "Gallimaufry." Rev. of Days of Our Years, by Pierre van Paassen; Life of William Osler, by Harvey Cushing; American Songbirds, by Maitland A. Edey; American Wildflowers, by Cecile Hulse Matschat; and Wonders of Heavens, by Arthur Draper. SN, 23 Nov. 1940, p. 19.
B401 "Homespun Humor." Rev. of Jacoby's Corners, by Herman Fetzer; The Misses Elliot of Geneva, by Warren Hunting Smith; and One Foot in Heaven, by Hartzell Spence. SN, 23 Nov. 1940, p. 19.
B402 "Cap and Bells." Rev. of The Bright Pavilions, by Hugh Walpole; and Whiteoak Heritage, by Mazo de la Roche. PE, 30 Nov. 1940, p. 4.
B403 "Elizabethan Herries." Rev. of The Bright Pavilions, by Hugh Walpole. SN, 30 Nov. 1940, p. 18.
B404 "Fiddle-Dee-Dee." Rev. of The Magic Bow, by Manuel Komroff. SN, 30 Nov. 1940, p. 21.
B405 "Four Professionals." Rev. of A Surgeon's Life, by J. M. T. Finney; My Life with George, by I. A. R. Wylie; What Happened Next, by Ethyl Smyth; and Neither Pest Nor Puritan, by E. Berry Wall. SN, 30 Nov. 1940, p. 18.
B406 "Funny Book." Rev. of Mr. and Mrs. Cugat, by Isabel Scott Rorick. SN, 30 Nov. 1940, p. 21.
B407 "Funny Fellows." Rev. of Fellow Citizens, by Gluyas Williams; Good Humor Man, by George Price; and The Pick of Punch. SN, 30 Nov. 1940, p. 21.
B408 "Blood Jeffreys." Rev. of Judge Jeffreys, by H. Montgomery Hyde. SN, 7 Dec. 1940, p. 29.
B409 "Cap and Bells." Rev. of Oliver Wiswell, by Kenneth Roberts; and With Love and Irony, by Lin Yutang. PE, 7 Dec. 1940, p. 4.
B410 "For the Young in Heart." SN, 7 Dec. 1940, p. 28.
Published under the pseudonym "Amyas Pilgarlic."
B411 "How Dead Are You?". Rev. of Witchcraft, by William Seabrook; and Oracles of Nostradamus, ed. Chas. A. Ward. SN, 7 Dec. 1940, p. 29.
B412 "Inglorious Fourth." Rev. of Oliver Wiswell, by Ken-neth Roberts. SN, 7 Dec. 1940, p. 19.
B413 "Rich Repast for Ribald Readers." Rev. of Two Generations, by Osbert Sitwell. SN, 7 Dec. 1940, p. 20.
B414 "British Carryings-On." Rev. of The British Carry On, by Pont of Punch. SN, 14 Dec. 1940, p. 18.
B415 "Cape Cod Mystery." Rev. of Out of the Fog, by Joseph C. Lincoln. SN, 14 Dec. 1940, p. 20b.
B416 "Inclement Clemens." Rev. of Mark Twain In Eruption, ed. Bernard De Voto. SN, 14 Dec. 1940, p. 18.
B417 "Myth and Martyr." Rev. of The Great American Myth, by George S. Bryan. SN, 14 Dec. 1940, p. 18.
B418 "Salvation Is Not Free." Rev. of Embezzled Heaven, by Franz Werfel. SN, 14 Dec. 1940, p. 20a.
B419 "Cap and Bells." Rev. of a series of Christmas books. PE, 21 Dec. 1940, p. 4.
B420 "For Children." Rev. of Capitan, by Lucy Herndon Crockett; and Land of the Good Shadows, by H. C. Washburne. SN, 21 Dec. 1940, p. 17.
B421 "Gold Star for Miss Cather." Rev. of Sapphira and the Slave Girl, by Willa Cather. SN, 21 Dec. 1940, p. 17.
B422 "Hormones for the Muse." Rev. of The Flying Bull, by Watson Kirkconnell. SN, 21 Dec. 1940, p. 18.
B423 "Great Hoax from Little Acorns." Rev. of Hoaxes, by Curtis D. Macdougall. SN, 28 Dec. 1940, p. 14.
B424 "Songster in the Grove." Rev. of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Supplementary Vol. SN, 28 Dec. 1940, p. 14.
B425 "Traveler's Tales." Rev. of Land of the Eye, by Hassoldt Davis. SN, 28 Dec. 1940, p. 14.
B426 "Hapsburg Waxworks." Rev. of The Raven's Wing, by Elizabeth Sprigge. SN, 4 Jan. 1941, p. 15.
B427 "How to Make Ten Grand." Rev. of Hildreth, by Harlow Estes. SN, 4 Jan. 1941, p. 14.
B428 "A Modern Frankenstein." Rev. of Miss Hargreaves, by Frank Baker. SN, 4 Jan. 1941, p. 15.
B429 "Cap and Bells." Rev. of Delightes for Ladies, by Hugh Plat. PE, 11 Jan. 1941, p. 4.
B430 "For the Young." Rev. of Fur Trade Apprentice, by Charles Clay; and The Genesis of Plato's Thought, by A. D. Winspear. SN, 11 Jan. 1941, pp. 14-15.
B431 "Perils of Pseudo-History." Rev. of Winged Citadel, by Kristmann Gudmundsson. SN, 11 Jan. 1941, p. 14.
B432 "The Sorcerer's Apprentice Speaks." Rev. of From Thirty Years with Freud, by Theodor Reik. SN, 11 Jan. 1941, p. 14.
B433 "Speak Sternly to Your Little Boy." Rev. of Children in the Family, by Florence Powdermaker and Louise I. Grimes. SN, 11 Jan. 1941, p. 14.
B434 "Cap and Bells." Rev. of Delightes for Ladies, by Hugh Plat. PE, 14 Jan. 1941, p. 4.
Continuation of the January 11, 1941, review.
B435 "Plato Jane, Please." Rev. of Jane Fairfax, by Naomi Royde-Smith. SN, 18 Jan. 1941, p. 20.
B436 "Quick Watson, the Spasm-Root!". Rev. of The Giant Joshua, by Maurine Whipple. SN, 18 Jan. 1941, p. 20.
B437 "Testament for Poets from W. B. Yeats." Rev. of Letters on Poetry, from W. B Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley. SN, 18 Jan. 1941, p. 20.
B438 "Cap and Bells." Rev. of Ulysses, by James Joyce. PE, 23 Jan. 1941, p. 4.
B439 "Cap and Bells." Rev. of Ulysses, by James Joyce. PE, 25 Jan. 1941, p.4.
Continuation of the January 23, 1941, review.
B440 "A Model for Biographer." Rev. of Roger Fry, by Virginia Woolf. SN, 25 Jan. 1941, p. 28.
B441 "Cap and Bells." Rev. of The Man Who Came to Dinner, by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart; and The Time of Your Life, by William Saroyan. PE, 30 Jan. 1941, p. 4.
B442 "Excellent Entertainment." Rev. of The Million, by Robert Hichens Cassell. SN, 1 Feb. 1941, p. 17.
B443 "Simple Annals." Rev. of He Looked for a City, by A. S. M. Hutchinson. SN, 1 Feb. 1941, p. 17.
B444 "Theatre of the Mind." Rev. of Old Master, by Alexander Know; and Purple Dust, by Sean O'Casey. SN, 1 Feb. 1941, p. 16.
B445 "To Bed at Noon, Mr. Aldington?". Rev. of Life for Life's Sake, by Richard Aldington. SN, 1 Feb. 1941, p. 16.
B446 "Cap and Bells." Rev. of Report on England, by Ralph Ingersoll. PE, 4 Feb. 1941, p. 4.
B447 "Cap and Bells." Rev. of Report on England, by Ralph Ingersoll. PE, 6 Feb. 1941, p. 4.
Continuation of the February 4, 1941, review.
B448 "Air of Yester-Year." Rev. of The Best Broadcasts of 1939-40, ed. Max Wylie. SN, 8 Feb. 1941, p. 17.
B449 "Anti-Left Levity." Rev. of Cheerfulness Breaks In, by Angela Thirkell. SN, 8 Feb. 1941, p. 16.
B450 "Cap and Bells." Rev. of Out of the Night, by Jan Valtin; and The Milan Grill Room, by E. Phillips Oppenheim. PE, 8 Feb. 1941, p. 4.
B451 "Clio and Caduceus." Rev. of A History of Medicine, by Arturo Castiglioni. SN, 8 Feb. 1941, p. 16.
B452 "For the Young." Rev. of The Critter Book, by Ellen Simon. SN, 15 Feb. 1941, p. 18.
B453 "Irregular and Wild." Rev. of Owen Glendower, by John Cowper Powys. SN, 15 Feb. 1941, p. 19.
B454 "Hardy Centenary Edition." Rev. of Under the Greenwood Tree, by Thomas Hardy. SN, 22 Feb. 1941, p. 18.
B455 "The Prescription as Usual." Rev. of Quick Service, by P. G. Wodehouse. SN, 22 Feb. 1941, p. 18.
B456 "Short Stories." Rev. of Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm, and Other Stories, by Stella Gibbons. SN, 22 Feb 1941, p. 19.
B457 "Scottish Anthology." Rev. of Golden Treasury of Scottish Poetry, ed. Hugh MacDiarmid. SN, 1 March 1941, p. 18.
B458 "Threnody for a Dead Art." Rev. of American Vaudeville, by Douglas Gilbert. SN, 1 March 1941, p. 18.
B459 "Tut Tut, Mr. Chips." Rev. of Random Harvest, by James Hilton. SN, 1 March 1941, p. 18.
B460 "Young Love and Guardian Angels." Rev. of The Heritage of Hatcher Ide, by Booth Tarkington; and Remember Today, by Elswyth Thane. SN, 1 March 1941, p. 19.
B461 "Cap and Bells." Rev. of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. PE, 4 March 1941, p. 4. ERD ("Bartlett's Familiar Quotations").
B462 "A Birching for Teachers." Rev. of Feast of Reason, by Dorothy Walworth. SN, 8 March 1941, p. 18.
B463 "For Soldiers." Rev. of Soldier in Battle, by D. Mitchell. SN, 8 March 1941, p. 18.
B464 "For the Young." SN, 8 March 1941, p. 18.
Published under the pseudonym "Amyas Pilgarlic."
B465 "Life of a Ninny." Rev. of H. M. Pulham, Esquire, by John P. Marquand. SN, 8 March 1941, p. 18.
B466 "Turn Down an Empty Stein." Rev. of Ida, by Gertrude Stein. SN, 8 March 1941, p. 18.
B467 "Cap and Bells." Rev. of Under the Iron Heel, by Lars Moen. PE, 13 March 1941, p. 4.
B467a "Cap and Bells." Rev. of Under the Iron Heel, by Lars Moen. PE, 13 March 1941. p. 4.
Continuation of March 11, 1941, review.
B468 "Cap and Bells." Rev. of Under the Iron Heel, by Lars Moen. PE, 15 March 1941, p. 4.
Continuation of the March 11 and 13, 1941, review.
B469 "Loud and Bold." Rev. of Blood, Sweat and Team, by Winston Churchill. SN, 15 March 1941, p. 22.
B470 "Poems of the Super Tramp." Rev. of The Poems of W. H. Davies, 1940. SN, 15 March 1941, p. 24.
B471 "This Is Eire." Rev. of An Irish Journey, by Sean O'Faolain. SN, 15 March 1941, p. 24.
B472 "Cap and Bells." Rev. of They'll Never Quit, by Harvey Klemmer. PE, 20 March 1941, p. 4.
B473 "Canadian Author." Rev. of Arthur Stringer, by Victor Lauriston; and The King Who Loved Old Clothes, by Arthur Stringer. SN, 22 March 1941, p. 18.
B474 "Cap and Bells." Rev. of They'll Never Quit, by Harvey Klemmer. PE, 22 March 1941, p. 4.
Continuation of the March 20, 1941, review.
B475 "A Great Sea Story." Rev. of Delilah, by Marcus Goodrich. SN, 22 March 1941, p. 18.
B476 "Not Nice to Macneice." Rev. of Poems 1925-40, by Louis Macneice. SN, 22 March 1941, p. 19.
B477 "Unsentimental Journey." Rev. of The Donkey Inside, by Ludwig Bemelmans. SN, 22 March 1941, p. 18.
B478 "Cap and Bells." Rev. of How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day, by Arnold Bennett. PE, 27 March 1941, p. 4.
B479 "Look under the Bed." Rev. of How America Lives, by J. C. Furnas and the staff of The Ladies' Home Journal. SN, 29 March 1941, p. 18.
B480 "Much in Little." Rev. of Stevie, by Benedict Thielen; Pack My Bag, by Henry Green; And What's More, by David McCord; One Thing in Common, by Elizabeth [Mary Annette Russell]; and America Is O.K. by Me, by Carlota [Carlota Oppenheimer]. SN, 29 March 1941, p. 18.
B481 "Cap and Bells." Rev. of The Beggar's Opera, by John Gay. PE, 5 April 1941, p. 4.
B482 "For Play Readers." Rev. of Flight to the West, by Elmer Rice; and Nine Plays by Eugene O'Neill. SN, 5 April 1941, p. 18.
B483 "Harriet the Liberator." Rev. of Crusader in Crinoline, by Forrest Wilson. SN, 5 April 1941, p. 18.
B484 "In Search of Self-Knowledge." Rev. of Kabloona, by Gontran de Poncins. SN, 5 April 194l, p. 19.
B485 "Life of a Genius." Rev. of Finlandia, the Story of Sibelius, by Elliott Arnold. SN, 5 April 1941, p. 18.
B486 "Revolution in England." Rev. of English Saga, by Arthur Bryant. SN, 5 April 1941, p. 19.
B487 "Easter Meditation on Sholem Asch." Rev. of What I Believe, by Sholem Asch. SN, 12 April 1941, p. 19.
B488 "For the Heart." Rev. of Mansion House of Liberty, by Phyllis Bottome. SN, 12 April 1941, p. 20.
B489 "Last Stories." Rev. of Not by Strange Gods, by Elizabeth Madox Roberts. SN, 12 April 1941, p. 19.
B490 "Patriotism." Rev. of The American Primer, by Dorsha Hayes. SN, 12 April 1941, p. 20.
B491 "'All Gaul Is Divided....'" Rev. of All Gaul Is Divided..., ed. Elizabeth Morrow. SN, 19 April 1941, p. 5.
B492 "Noisome Domesticity." Rev. of Claudia and David, by Rose Franken. SN, 19 April 1941, p. 19.
B493 "Cap and Bells." Rev. of As for Me and My House, by Sinclair Ross. PE, 26 April 1941, p. 4.
B494 "Evaluation of Modern Music." Rev. of Our Contemporary Composers, by John Tasker Howard. SN, 26 April 1941, p. 21.
B495 "Heard Melodies Are Sweet." Rev. of Poems 1930-1940, by Edmund Blunden. SN, 26 April 1941, p. 20.
B496 "New Gods for Old." Rev. of Biography of the Gods, by A. Eustace Haydon. SN, 26 April 1941, p. 20.
B497 "Shakespeare Can Take It." Rev. of This Sceptered Isle, by G. Wilson Knight. SN, 26 April 1941, p. 21.
B498 "South American Epic." Rev. of The Gaucho Martin Fierro, by Jose Hernandez. SN, 26 April 1941, p. 20.
B499 "Cap and Bells." Rev. of Kabloona, by Gontran de Poncins; and H. M. Pulham, Esquire, by John P. Marquand. PE, 3 May 1941, p. 4.
B500 "A Final Adventure for Edward Leithen." Rev. of Sick Heart River, by John Buchan. SN, 3 May 1941, p. 17.
B501 "For Musicians." Rev. of Musical Questions and Quizzes, by Marion Bauer. SN, 3 May 1941, p. 17.
B502 "The Amazement of Vera Brittain." Rev. of England's Hour, by Vera Brittain, SN, 10 May 1941, p. 19.
B503 "Cap and Bells." Rev. of Sick Heart River, by John Buchan; Delilah, by Marcus Goodrich; and In This Our Life, by Ellen Glasgow. PE, 10 May 1941, p. 4.
B504 "Echo of Dead Laughter." Rev. of John Kendrick Bangs, by Francis Hyde Bangs. SN, 10 May 1941, p. 18.
B505 "Great, but Uncomfortable." Rev. of Summer 1914, by Roger Martin du Gard. SN, 10 May 1941, p. 18.
B506 "Joys of the Jungle." Rev. of Living Treasure, by Ivan T. Sanderson. SN, 17 May 1941, p. 20.
B507 "Spring Lamb." Rev. of Proceed, Sergeant Lamb, by Robert Graves. SN, 17 May 1941, p. 21.
B508 "Sumer Is Icumen In." Rev. of Science in the Garden, by H. B. Logan and J.-M. C. Putnam; and The Care and Feeding of a Place in the Country, by Dale Warren. SN, 17 May 1941, p. 20.
B509 "Cap and Bells." Rev. of The Time Is Now, by Pierre Van Passen. PE, 22 May 1941, p. 4.
B510 "Aristotle for Board-Meetings." Rev. of The Art of Practical Thinking, by Richard Well, Jr. SN, 24 May 1941, p. 18.
B511 "A Novel of Genuine Importance." Rev. of This above All, by Eric Knight. SN, 24 May 1941, p. 18.
B512 "The Scholar and the Bible." Rev. of The Bible and Archaeology, by Frederic Kenyon. SN, 24 May 1941, p. 19.
B513 "Yes, Too Low." Rev. of Low Man on a Totem Pole, by H. Allen Smith. SN, 24 May 1941, p. 19.
B514 "Chronicle Small Beer." Rev. of Trousers Will Be Worn, by C. V. R. Thompson. SN, 31 May 1941, p. 19.
B515 "Highbrows of the World, Unite!". Rev. of Invitation to Learning, by H. Cairns, Allen Tate, and Mark Van Doren. SN, 31 May 1941, p. 19.
B516 "Meet the Unspeakable Veeches." Rev. of Whistle Stop, by Maritta M. Wolff. SN, 31 May 1941, p. 18.
B517 "Our History in Miniature." Rev. of The Canadian Peoples, by B. K. Sandwell. SN, 31 May 1941, p. 18.
B518 "Are We Really Fascinating?". Rev. of Here's to Canada, by Dorothy Duncan. SN, 7 June 1941, p. 18.
B519 "For the Young." Rev. of books for children. SN, 7 June 1941, p. 19.
Published under the pseudonym "Amyas Pilgarlic."
B520 "Physician to Head-Hunters." Rev. of A Yankee Doctor in Paradise, by S. M. Lambert. SN, 7 June 1941, p. 18.
B521 "Survey of Italian Letters." Rev. of A Literary History of the Italian People, by Joseph S. Kennard. SN, 7 June 1941, p. 19.
B522 "Both Sides of a Genius." Rev. of The Story of J. M. B., by Denis Mackail. SN, 14 June 1941, p. 28.
B523 "Cap and Bells." Rev. of Tobacco Road, by Erskine Caldwell. PE, 14 June 1941, p. 4.
B524 "Freeze Your Marrow, Sir?". Rev. of The Crime of Laura Sarelle, by Joseph Shearing. SN, 14 June 1941, p. 26.
B525 "Is by You a Leffing-Medder, Nur?". Rev. of My Dear Bella, by Arthur Kober. SN, 14 June 1941, p. 26.
B526 "Cap and Bells." Rev. of Letters in Canada: 1940, ed. A. S. P. Woodhouse. (A pamphlet reprinted from University of Toronto Quarterly.) PE, 17 June 1941, p. 4.
B527 "Funny but Not Too Funny." Rev. of Junior Miss, by Sally Benson. SN, 21 June 1941, p. 26.
B528 "Let Well Enough Alone." Rev. of The Transposed Heads, by Thomas Mann. SN, 21 June 1941, p. 26.
B529 "New Books from Britain." SN, 21 June 1941, p. 27.
B530 "A Victorian Adventuress." Rev. of Sir Richard Burton's Wife, by Jean Burton. SN, 21 June 1941, p. 26.
B531 "Cap and Bells." Rev. of several books by Emily Post, and especially one of her articles entitled "One Road to a Happy Marriage." PE, 24 June 1941, p. 4.
B532 "A Century of Struggle." Rev. of Queen's University at Kingston By D. D. Calvin. SN, 28 June 1941, p. 20. Rpt. ("Another Book about Queen's"). In PE, 2 May 1942, p. 4.
B533 "A Paradise of Dainty Devines." Rev. of A Pageant of the Theatre, by Edmund Fuller; The Little Foxes, by Lillian Hellman; Lavender and Old Lace, by Joseph Kesselring; My Dear Children, by Catherine Turney and Jerry Horwin; Kiss the Boys Good-Bye, by Clare Booth; and Lady in the Dark, by Moss Hart. SN, 28 June 1941, p. 21.
B534 "Stern, but Not Stern Enough." Rev. of Another Part of the Forest, by G. B. Stern. SN, 5 July 1941, p. 17.
B535 "Wild and Woolly and Full of Flaws." Rev. of Belle Starr, the Bandit Queen, by Burton Rascoe. SN, 5 July 1941, p. 16.
B536 "Advice on Vacation Reading." Rev. of What Makes Sammy Run, by Budd Schulberg; The Ill-Made Knight, by T. H. White; No Return from Bali, by Johan Fabriclus; The Best Short Stories of 1941, ed. Edward J. O'Brien; Spurs on the Roof, by Thomas B. Morgan; Berlin Diary, by William Shirer; Transposed Heads, by Thomas Mann; and Sir Richard Burton's Wife, by Jean Burton. SN, 12 July 1941, p. 16.
B537 "Picture Books for Adults." Rev. of The Forgotten Village, by John Steinbeck; and I Have Loved England..., by Alice Duer Miller. SN, 12 July 1941, p. 17.
B538 "Fare for the Bugaboo-Lover." Rev. of English Folklore and Haunted England, by Christina Hole. SN, 19 July 1941, p. 22.
B539 "About Insects." Rev. of Insects, by Harry Hoogstraal. SN, 26 July 1941, p. 17.
B540 "Good Company at Any Time." Rev. of Durham Company, by Una Pope-Hennessy. SN, 26 July 1941, p. 17.
B541 "Great Revelation of Spirit." Rev. of Eric Gill, Autobiography. SN, 26 July 1941, p. 16.
B542 "Adultery under Difficulties." Rev. of Shelter, by Jane Nicholson. SN, 2 Aug. 1941, p. 17.
B543 "Aristocrat in Bad Taste." Rev. of Mr. England, by Paul Manning and Milton Bronner. SN, 2 Aug. 1941, p. 16.
B544 "Cap and Bells." Rev. of The Keys of the Kingdom, by A. J. Cronin; The Transposed Heads, by Thomas Mann; What Makes Sammy Run, by Budd Schulberg; My Dear Bella, by Arthur Kober; and Shelter, by Jane Nicholson. PE, 2 Aug. 1941, p. 4.
B545 "He's for a Jig, or...." Rev. of The Passionate Witch, by Thorne Smith. SN, 2 Aug. 1941, p. 17.
B546 "How We Look to Our War-Guests." Rev. of Thank You Twice, or How We Like America, by Caroline Bell and Eddie Bell. SN, 2. Aug. 1941, p. 16. Rpt. ("Tempest in a Teapot"). In PE, 20 Sept. 1941, p. 4.
B547 "A Tale of Good Life." Rev. of The Keys of the Kingdom, by A. J. Cronin. SN, 2 Aug. 1941, p. 16.
B548 "Cap and Bells." Rev. of I Was a Nazi Flier, by Gottfried Leske. PE, 5 Aug. 1941, p. 4.
B549 "Cap and Bells." Rev. of I Was a Nazi Flier, by Gottfried Leske. PE, 7 Aug. 1941, p. 4.
Continuation of the April 5, 1941, review.
B550 "Document from a Ruined Race." Rev. of I Was a Nazi Flier, by Gottfried Leske. SN, 9 Aug. 1941, p. 16.
B551 "Feminists Will Be Furious." Rev. of No Measure Danced, by Harry Lee. SN, 9 Aug. 1941, p. 17.
B552 "God Loves to See Us Happy." Rev. of American Wines, by Frank Schoomaker and Tom Marvel. SN, 9 Aug. 1941, p. 16.
B553 "Cap and Bells." Rev. of The Bible, Designed to Be Read as Literature, ed. Ernest Sutherland Bates. PE, 12 Aug. 1941, p. 4.
B554 "Cap and Bells." Rev. of The Airmen Speak, ed. Bentley Beauman. PE, 16 Aug. 1941, p. 4.
B555 "Sentiment and British Novels." Rev. of The Blind Man's House, by Hugh Walpole; Chaffinch's, by H. W. Freeman; and Peomes and Pomes, by Harold Acton. SN, 16 Aug. 1941, p. 15.
B556 "Sketch of a Poet." Rev. of Keats, by Betty Askwith. SN, 16 Aug. 1941,p. 16.
B557 "Adventures in Slave-Trade a Best-Seller." Rev. of The Sun Is My Undoing, by Marguerite Steen. PE, 23 Aug. 1941, p. 4. Rpt. ("Tale of the Slave-Trade"). In SN, 23 Aug. 1941, p. 24.
B558 Rev. of The Airmen Speak, ed. Bentley Beauman. SN, 23 Aug. 1941.
B559 "A Queen Who Failed." Rev. of Catherine of Aragon, by Garrett Mattingly. SN, 23 Aug. 1941, p. 24.
B560 "Britons Looking Forward to Theatre Season." Rev. of Blithe Spirit, by Noel Coward. PE, 30 Aug. 1941, p. 4.
B561 "A Frenchman Speaks of England." Rev. of Old England, a French View, by Henri de Vibraye. SN, 30 Aug. 1941, p. 16.
B562 "The Fun of the Fair." Rev. of Sodom by the Sea, by Oliver Pilar and Jo Ranson. SN, 30 Aug. 1941, p. 17.
B563 "Private, and Often Disappointing." Rev. of Marriage Is a Private Affair, by Judith Kelly. SN, 30 Aug. 1941, p. 16.
B564 "Masefield in the Mill." Rev. of In the Mill, by John Masefield. PE, 6 Sept. 1941, p. 4. Rpt. ("The Poet in the Factory"). In SN, 6 Sept. 1941, p. 14.
B565 "To Correct a Wrong Impression." Rev. of Lady Bessborough and Her Family Circle, ed. Earl of Bessborough and Arthur Aspinall. SN, 6 Sept. 1941, p. 14.
B566 "Bouquet and Brick-Bat." Rev. of France on Berlin Time, by Thomas Kernan; and The Men around Churchill, by Rene Kraus. SN, 13 Sept. 1941, p. 19.
B567 "Brilliant History." Rev. of Reveille in Washington, by Margaret Leech. SN, 13 Sept. 1941, p. 18.
B568 "Distinguished American Novels." Rev. of The Skies of Europe, by Frederick Prokosch; and The Wilsons, by Christopher La Farge. SN, 13 Sept. 1941, p. 18.
B569 "America and Political Syphilis." Rev. of No Other Road to Freedom, by Leland Stowe. SN, 20 Sept. 1941, p. 14.
B570 "Espionage and Investigation." Rev. of Strictly Personal and Ashenden, by Somerset Maugham. SN, 20 Sept. 1941,p. 14.
B571 "The Fat in the Fire." Rev. of '...And New Earth,' by A. H. Tyrer; and Have You a Religion?, by Henry James Forman. SN, 20 Sept. 1941, p. 15.
B571a "Tempest in a Teapot." Rev. of Thank You Twice, by Caroline Bell and Eddie Bell. PE, 20 Sept. 1941, p. 4.
B572 "Autobiography--Good and Bad." Rev. of The Man on My Back, by Eric Linklater; and Last Man around the World, by Stephen Longstreet. SN, 27 Sept. 1941, p. 23.
B573 "For True Book-Lovers." Rev. of The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne, The Complete Poetry of William Blake, and The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature. SN, 27 Sept. 1941, p. 25.
B574 "Tales about Time." Rev. of No One Will Know, by E. M. Delafield; and Penny to Spend, by Dorothy Cowlin. SN, 27 Sept. 1941, p. 24.
B575 "Who Really Is Who in Who's Who?". Rev. of Who's Who. PE, 30 Sept. 1941, p. 4.
B576 "All Skilful in Wars." Rev. of Where Stands a Winged Sentry, by Margaret Kennedy. SN, 4 Oct. 1941, p. 20.
B577 "Good and Bad Psychology." Rev. of Your Personality, Introvert or Extravert?, by Virginia Case; and The Return to Religion, by Henry C. Link. SN, 4 Oct. 1941, p. 21.
B578 "Men Are Earth's Parasites." Rev. of Berlin Diary, by William Shirer; Men of Europe and The Brown Book of Hitler Terror, by Andre Simone; and Where Stands a Winged Sentry, by Margaret Kennedy. PE, 4 Oct. 1941, p. 4.
B579 "Something Different." Rev. of The Incomplete Enchanter, by Fletcher Pratt and L. Sprague de Camp. SN, 4 Oct. 1941, p. 21.
B580 "Disaster and a Canadian Family." Rev. of Barometer Rising, by Hugh MacLennan. SN, 11 Oct. 1941, p. 20.
B581 "Domestic Scene." Rev. of Big Family, by Bellamy Partridge. SN, 11 Oct. 1941, p. 20.
B582 "New Translation of the Bible." Rev. of The New Testament in Basic English. PE, 15 Oct. 1941, p. 4. Rpt. ("Basic English and the Bible"). In SN, 18 Oct. 1941, p. 19.
B583 "For Theatre Lovers." Rev. of Lord Broadway, by Dayton Stodart; and Fundamentals of Play Directing, by Alexander Dean. SN, 18 Oct. 1941, p. 18.
B584 "Pint Pot and Puncheon." Rev. of The Wound and the Bow, by Edmund Wilson, and American Fiction 1920-1940, by Joseph W. Beach. SN, 18 Oct. 1941, p. 18.
B585 "Some New Books." Rev. of Hitler Cannot Conquer Russia, by Maurice Hindus; The Oxford Companion to American Literature, ed. J. D. Hart; Between the Acts, by Virginia Woolf; and Bird of the Wilderness, by Vincent Sheehan. PE, 18 Oct. 1941, p. 4.
B586 "The Fraudulent Nazi Flier." Rev. of I Was a Nazi Flier, by Gottfried Leske. PE, 23 Oct. 1941, p. 4.
See B548, B549, and B550.
B587 "The American Companion Is Here." Rev. of The Oxford Companion to American Literature. SN, 25 Oct. 1941, p. 18.
B588 "A Brilliant Study in Murder." Rev. of Dark Legend, a Study in Murder, by Frederic Wertham. SN, 25 Oct. 1941, p. 19.
B589 "Holding Up the Mirror." Rev. of Between the Acts, by Virginia Woolf. SN, 25 Oct. 1941, p. 18.
B590 "Maker of Canadian Education." Rev. of Daniel M. Gordon, His Life, by Wilhelmina Gordon. SN, 25 Oct. 1941, p. 18.
B591 "The Nazi Nights Entertainment." Rev. of Munich Playground, by Ernest R. Pope. PE, 28 Oct. 1941, p. 4. Rpt. ("Nazis after Dark"). In SN, 1 Nov. 1941, p. 19.
B592 "Clifton Fadiman Chooses." Rev. of Reading I've Liked, by Clifton Fadiman. SN, 1 Nov. 1941, p. 19.
B593 "Nine for Nine Bright Shiners." Rev. of The Timeless Land, by Eleanor Dark; Wakefield's Course, by Mazo de la Roche; Fishermen at War, by Leo Walmsley; Jacob, by Irving Freeman; Women and Peter, by Elissa Landi; The Fort, by Storm Jameson; Consider the Daisies, by Gertrude Carrick; Murder at Liberty Hall, by Alan Clutton-Brock; and Folio of New Writing, ed. John Lehmann. SN, 1 Nov. 1941, p. 18.
B594 "Two Important Canadian Books." Rev. of Klee Wyck, by Emily Carr; and Dunkirk, by E. J. Pratt. PE, 6 Nov. 1941, p. 4. Rpt. ("E. J. Pratt's New Poem" and "The Revelation of Emily Carr"). In SN, 8 Nov. 1941, p. 18.
B595 "Good Sense about Music." Rev. of Be Your Own Music Critic, ed. Robert E. Simon, Jr. SN, 15 Nov. 1941, p. 20.
B596 "Two Poets and a Puzzler." Rev. of Be Angry at the Sun, by Robinson Jeffers; Selected Poems, by George Barker; and What Are Years, by Marianne Moore. SN, 15 Nov. 1941, p. 20.
B597 "Uproarious, Wise and Sceptical." Rev. of Newspaper Days, by H. L. Mencken. SN, 15 Nov. 1941, p. 21.
B598 "Canadian Point of View." Rev. of Into the Blitz, by William Strange. SN, 22 Nov. 1941, p. 24.
B599 "Much Too Modest." Rev. of Peggy Wood, How Young You Look, by Peggy Wood. SN, 22 Nov. 1941, p. 24.
B600 "To Be Read for Pleasure." Rev. of Conquer, by John Masefield; The Hills Beyond, by Thomas Wolfe; Broad and Alien Is the World, by Ciro Alegria; Phoenix in East Hadley, by Maurice B. Cramer; Spenlove in Arcady, by William McFee; and Saratoga Trunk, by Edna Ferber. SN, 22 Nov. 1941, p. 25.
B601 "The Trumpets Falter in Their Sound." Rev. of Voices of Victory: Representative Poetry of Canada in Wartime, ed. Canadian Authors Association. SN, 22 Nov. 1941, p. 24.
B602 "A Broader Concept of Masochism." Rev. of Masochism in Modern Man, by Theodor Reik. SN, 29 Nov. 1941, p. 24.
B603 "Journalist as Artificer." Rev. of 1001 Afternoons in New York, by Ben Hecht. SN, 29 Nov. 1941, p. 25.
B604 "Some Recent Canadian Poetry." Rev. of "Commemoration Ode," by George Herbert Clarke; Personal Note, by Charles Bruce; and Voices of Victory: Representative Poetry of Canada in Wartime, ed. Canadian Authors Association. PE, 29 Nov. 1941, p. 4.
B605 "Wit and Good Cheer." Rev. of A Subtreasury of American Humor, ed. E. B. White and Katherine White; Soap behind the Ears, by Cornelia Otis Skinner; and The Pocket Milne, by A. A. Milne. SN, 29 Nov. 1941, p. 25.
B606 "Adolph Hitler Is Germany's Witch Doctor." Rev. of The Black Record, a pamphlet by Robert Vansittart; and History of the German People, by Emil Ludwig. PE, 2 Dec. 1941, p. 4.
B607 "'...As the Fellow Says....'" Rev. of The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. SN, 6 Dec. 1941, p. 28.
B608 "The Bible in Modern Dress." Rev. of The Bible for Today, ed. John Stirling. SN, 6 Dec. 1941, p. 27.
B609 "The Choice of Life or Death." Rev. of Black Lamb and Grey, Falcon, by Rebecca West. SN, 6 Dec. 1941, p. 27.
B610 "For the Christmas Stocking." SN, 6 Dec. 1941, p. 27.
B611 "We Are Happy to Recommend." SN, 6 Dec. 1941, p. 26.
B612 "Books Make Admirable Christmas Gifts." Rev. of The Keys of the Kingdom, by A. J. Cronin; Sophia, by St. John Ervine; The Timeless Land, by Eleanor Dark; and Botany Bay, by Nordhoff and Hall. PE, 13 Dec. 1941, p. 4.
B613 "Christmas Books for the Young in Heart." SN, 13 Dec. 1941,p. 32.
Published under the pseudonym "Amyas Pilgarlic."
B614 "Five Notable Novels." Rev. of Sophia, by St. John Ervine; Mr. Bunting, by Robert Greenwood; Botany Bay, by Nordhoff and Hall; Shocking Bad Hat, by Dorothy Hewlett; Mrs. Doratt, by John Erskine; and Wild Is the River, by Louis Bromfield. SN, 13 Dec. 1941, p. 34.
B615 "Good Sense about Modern Art." Rev. of The Story of Modern Art, by Sheldon Cheney. SN, 13 Dec. 1941, p. 33.
B616 "New World of Words." Rev. of Language in Action, by S. I. Hayakawa. SN, 13 Dec. 1941, p. 33.
B617 "Christmas Books Now Available." Rev. of 101 Years' Entertainment, ed. Ellery Queen; Hotel Splendide, by Ludwig Bemelmans; A Subtreasury of American Humor, by E. B. White and Katherine White; Reading I've Liked, by Clifton Fadiman. PE, 16 Dec. 1941, p. 4.
B618 "Four Distinguished Novels." Rev. of A Leaf in the Storm, by Lin Yutang; Storm, by George Stewart; Mad Grandeur, by Oliver St. John Gogarty; and The Century Was Young, by Louis Aragon. SN, 20 Dec. 1941, p. 16.
B619 "Damned from His Own Mouth." Rev. of Napolean Speaks, by Albert Carr. SN, 27 Dec. 1941, p. 16.
B620 "Literary Detective." Rev. of The Lone Shieling, by G. H. Needler. SN, 27 Dec. 1941, p. 16.
B621 "Dogs, Talking and Otherwise." Rev. of That Dog of Yours, by Anne Elizabeth Blockin. SN, 3 Jan. 1942, p. 20.
B622 "Was Britain Really Asleep?". Rev. of This Age of Fable, by Gustav Stolper. PE, 8 Jan. 1942, p. 4.
B623 "Books about Britain." Rev. of Forever England, by W. O. Stevens; Village at War, by Anthony Armstrong; Britons under Fire, by John Sutherland Bonnel; 101 Years' Entertainment, ed. Ellery Queen; Here's Blood in Your Eye, by Manning Long; She Got What She Asked For, by James Ronald; and The Women in Black, by Helen Reilly. SN, 10 Jan. 1942, p. 17.
B624 "Breaths from a Gallery Catalogue." Rev. of Sight and Insight, by J. W. L. Forster. SN, 10 Jan. 1942, p. 16.
B625 "Universities at War." Rev. of The Universities Are Dangerous, a pamphlet by W. E. C. Harrison. PE, 15 Jan. 1942, p. 4.
B626 "Elephants in Paradise." Rev. of Four Years in Paradise, by Oas Johanson. SN, 17 Jan. 1942, p. 17.
B627 "Fact and Fiction Mingled." Rev. of The Ivory Mischief, by Arthur Meeker. SN, 24 Jan. 1942, p. 19.
B628 "Shame on You, Mr. Sitwell!". Rev. of Open the Door, by Osbert Sitwell. SN, 24 Jan. 1942, p. 19.
B629 "Will This Do, Mr. Sinclair?". Rev. of Dragon's Teeth, by Upton Sinclair. SN, 24 Jan. 1942, p. 18.
B630 "About the Island Continent." Rev. of Introducing Australia, by C. Hartley Grattan. SN, 31 Jan. 1942, p. 17.
B631 "Historical Novel." Rev. of Three Came to Ville Marie, by Man Sullivan. SN, 31 Jan. 1942, p. 17.
B632 "New Reference Works." Rev. of Chamber's Technical Dictionary and Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. SN, 31 Jan. 1942, p. 17.
B633 "Fie, Morley." Rev. of The Trojan Horse, by Christopher Morley. SN, 7 Feb. 1942, p. 16.
B634 "Minor Masefield." Rev. of Gautama the Enlightened, by John Masefield. SN, 7 Feb. 1942, p. 16.
B635 "Novel of China at War." Rev. of Dragon Seed, by Pearl S. Buck. SN, 7 Feb. 1942, p. 16.
B636 "Changing Loyalties." Rev. of First Papers, by Martin Gumpert. SN, 14 Feb. 1942, p. 29.
B637 "Don Juan in Venice." Rev. of Byron in Italy, by Peter Quennell. SN, 14 Feb. 1942, p. 28.
B638 "Liebling with Tomahawk." Rev. of The Telephone Booth Indian, by A. J. Liebling. SN, 14 Feb. 1942, p. 28.
B639 "Up the Brownies!". Rev. of The Photographer's Rule Book, by Larry June. SN, 14 Feb. 1942, p. 29.
B640 "Democrat's Anthology" Rev. of A Treasury of Democracy, by Norman Cousins. SN, 21 Feb. 1942, p. 27.
B641 "Eye Witness Tells of Agony Greece Suffers." Rev. of From the Land of the Silent People, by Robert St. John. PE, 21 Feb. 1942, p. 4. Rpt. ("Supp'd Full with Horrors"). In SN, 21 Feb. 1942, p. 27.
B642 "Old Ale in a Fine New Bottle." Rev. of Bride of Glory, by Bradda Field. SN, 21 Feb. 1942, p. 26.
B643 "Something Fishy." Rev. of Mr. Limpet, by Theodore Pratt. SN, 21 Feb. 1942, p. 26.
B644 "Wise and Witty." Rev. of The First Gentleman of America, by Branch Cabell. SN, 21 Feb. 1942, p. 26.
B645 "New Biography Published on Churchill." Rev. of Mr. Churchill, by Philip Guedalla. PE, 24 Feb. 1942, p. 4.
B646 "Suggestion Made for Solving Post War Times." Rev. of Peace by Power, by Lionel Gelber. PE, 26 Feb. 1942, p. 4. Rpt. ("Good Sense about Peace and War"). In SN, 28 Feb. 1942, p. 24.
B647 "Chinese Art." Rev. of Chinese Frescoes, by William Charles White. SN, 28 Feb. 1942, p. 25.
B648 "Grey Friar and Red Cardinal." Rev. of Grey Eminence, by Aldous Huxley. SN, 28 Feb. 1942, p. 24. Rpt. ("A Master of Power Politics"). In PE, 25 April 1942, p. 4.
B649 "Human Interest." Rev. of Pageant of Life, by Lowell Thomas. SN, 28 Feb. 1942, p. 25.
B650 "Love of Poetry." Rev. of The Art of Reading Poetry, by Earl Daniels. SN, 28 Feb. 1942, p 25.
B651 "'Mr. Churchill Is Not Far from Chatham ...... An Historian Evaluates a Prime Minister." Rev. of Mr. Churchill, by Philip Guedalla. SN, 28 Feb. 1942, pp. 4-5.
B652 "Something about Ourselves." Rev. of The Unknown Country, by Bruce Hutchison. SN, 28 Feb. 1942, p. 24. Rpt. ("Canada Is Seen through Canadian Eyes"). In PE, 28 March 1942, p. 4.
B653 "A Mighty Novel of Today and Yesterday." Rev. of War and Peace, by Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy. PE, 7 March 1942, p. 4
B654 "No Philosophy for the War." Rev. of The Last Best Hope of Earth, by Harry Scherman. PE, 10 March 1942, p. 4.
B655 "Mental Hygiene, Army Morale." Rev. of A Platoon Commander's Responsibility for the Morale of His Men, by G. Brock Chisholm. PE, 12 March 1942, p. 4.
B656 "New Venture in Canadian Verse." Rev. of Contemporary Verse, A Canadian Quarterly, Nos. 1-2. PE, 19 March 1942, p. 4.
B657 "Why Not Make Your Own?". Rev. of Playing the Piano for Pleasure, by Charles Cooke. PE, 9 April 1942, p. 4.
B658 "Extraordinary Miss Thompson." Rev. of Dorothy Thompson's English Journey, by J. W. Drawbell. PE, 14 April 1942, p. 4.
B659 "Have You Seen Any of These." Rev. of Sixteen Famous American Plays, ed. Bennett A. Cerf and Van H. Cartmell. PE, 18 April 1942, p. 4.
B660 "John MacCormac Sums It Up." Rev. of America and World Mastery, by John MacCormac. PE, 21 April 1942, p. 4.
B661 "The Guerilla in Modern Warfare." Rev. of Guerilla Warfare, by Yank Levy. PE, 28 April 1942, p. 4.
B661a "Another Book about Queen's." Rev. of Queen's University Centenary Volume. PE, 2 May 1942, p. 4.
B662 "The Disease and Death of City of Paris." Rev. of The Last Time I Saw Paris, by Elliott Paul. PE, 9 May 1942, p. 4.
B663 "The Mind of H. L. Mencken." Rev. of A New Dictionary of Quotations on Historical Principles from Ancient and Modern Sources, by H. L. Mencken. PE, 16 May 1942, p. 4.
B664 "A Notable Canadian Achievement." Rev. of Canada's War in the Air, by Leslie Roberts. PE, 21 May 1942, p. 4.
B665 "A Hollywood History of Moses." Rev. of All the Trumpets Sounded, by W. G. Hardy. PE, 26 May 1942, p. 4.
B666 "Franz Werfel Fulfils an Early Vow." Rev. of The Song of Bernadette, by Franz Werfel. PE, 30 May 1942, p. 4.
B667 "New Anthology of Poetry by Canadians." Rev. of Anthology of Canadian Poetry, ed. Ralph Gustafson. PE, 6 June 1942, p. 4.
B668 "Four Novels of Light Entertainment." Rev. of Until the Day Break, by Louis Bromfield; The Commandos, by Elliott Arnold; Haunted Lady, by Mary Roberts Rinehart; and Novelty on Earth, by Margaret Duley. PE, 9 June 1942, p. 4.
B669 "American Looks at Life Today." Rev. of The Opinions of Oliver Allston, by Van Wyck Brooks. PE, 13 June 1942, p. 4.
B670 "Plan for Victory in the Air." Rev. of Victory through Air Power, by Alexander P. de Seversky. PE, 16 June 1942, p. 4.
B671 "Three Novels by Women." Rev. of And Now Tomorrow, by Rachel Field; House in the Dust, by Doris Leslie; and Arise from Sleep, by Elizabeth Delehanty. PE, 23 June 1942, p. 4.
B672 "Have You Ever Visited Islandia?". Rev. of Islandia, by Austin Tappan Wright. PE, 27 June 1942, p. 4.
B673 "Further Notes on Holiday Reading." Rev. of Only One Storm, by Granville Hicks; Drivin' Woman, by Elizabeth Pickett Chevalier; Convoy and Only the Stars Are Neutral, by Quentin Reynolds; and War and Peace, by Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy. PE, 4 July 1942, p. 4.
B674 "Appraisal Made of the War." Rev. of Dawn of Victory, by Louis Fischer. PE, 7 July 1942, p. 4.
B675 "The Path of the Conqueror." Rev. of Europe in Revolt, by Rene Kraus. PE, 9 July 1942, p. 4.
B676 "Odyssey of Sigrid Undset." Rev. of Return to the Future, by Sigrid Undset, trans. Henriette C. K. Naeseth. PE, 11 July 1942, p. 4.
B677 "Thoughts on Wartime Verse." Rev. of For Freedom, by G. L. Creed. PE, 21 July 1942, p. 4.
B678 "Two Unusual War Books." Rev. of I, James Blunt, by H. V. Morton; and.... The Common People, Illustrations by Edward Carrick and commentary by Gerry Bradley. PE, 25 July 1942, p. 4.
B679 "Two Tales of Adventure." Rev. of Brothers in Arms, by Frederick Niven; and Immortal Sergeant, by John Brophy. PE, 28 July 1942, p. 4.
B680 "Canadian Historical Plays." Rev. of One Act Plays from Canadian History, by Hilda Mary Brooke. PE, 30 July 1942, p. 4.
B681 "Bringing It Up to Date." Rev. of Encyclopaedia Britannica: Annual Supplement. PE, 1 Aug. 1942, p. 4.
B682 "Be on the Safe Side." Rev. of A. R. P. for Canada, by Vera Knight. PE, 13 Aug. 1942, p. 4.
B683 "Lord Elton--Modern Jeremiah." Rev. of Saint George or the Dragon, by Lord Elton. PE, 15 Aug. 1942, p. 4.
B684 "Frivolity about Farming." Rev. of Cross Creek, by Marjorie Kinnon Rawlings; and One Man's Meat, by E. B. White. PE, 12 Sept. 1942, p. 4.
B685 "Rural Ontario 60 Years Ago." Rev. of An Illustrated Historical Atlas of the Counties of Northumberland and Durham (1878). PE, 15 Sept. 1942, p. 4.
B686 "More about Belden's Atlas." Rev. of An Illustrated Atlas of the Counties of Northumberland and Durham (1878). PE, 17 Sept. 1942, p. 4.
Continuation of the September 15, 1942, review.
B687 "Melodrama in the Old South." Rev. of Tap Roots, by James Street. PE, 19 Sept. 1942, p. 4.
B688 "T. S. Eliot Looks at Kipling." Rev. of Choice of Kipling's Verse, introd. T. S. Eliot. PE, 22 Sept. 1942, p. 4.
B689 "B.C. Looks toward Ottawa." Rev. of 1,000,000 Miles from Ottawa, by Gwen Cash; The Case of Kinnear, by Robert A. Hood; and Town and Forest, by Lyon Sharman. PE, 24 Sept. 1942, p. 4.
B690 "H. G. Wells Views Common Man." Rev. of You Can't Be Too Careful, by H. G. Wells. PE, 26 Sept. 1942, p. 4.
B691 "Six Commands of the R. A. F." Rev. of R. A. F. Second Year. PE, 1 Oct. 1942, p. 4.
B692 "The Other Bavarian." Rev. of I Love You, I Love You, I Love You, by Ludwig Bemelmans. PE, 3 Oct. 1942, p. 4.
B693 "A Bundle of Mixed Classics." Rev. of The Collected Short Stories of Dorothy Parker; The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway; and Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Milton. PE, 10 Oct. 1942, p. 4.
B694 "Heroism, Hokum and Prophecy" Rev. of the first issues of Canadian Heroes and Predictions of Things to Come. PE, 13 Oct. 1942, p. 4.
B695 "What Women Do in the War." Rev. of Canadian Women in the War Effort, by Charlotte Whitton. PE, 15 Oct. 1942, p. 4.
B696 "Those Humorous Americans." Rev. of A Subtreasury of American Humor, ed. E. B. White and Katherine White. PE, 20 Oct. 1942, p. 4.
B697 "Fadiman Makes a Choice." Rev. of Reading I've Liked, by Clifton Fadiman. PE, 29 Oct. 1942, p. 4.
B698 "Reading for Autumn Nights." Rev. of No Brighter Glory, by Armstrong Perry; Plume Rouge, by John Upton Terrell; Toper's End, by G. D. H. Cole and Margaret Cole; and Then We Shall Hear Singing, by Storm Jameson. PE, 7 Nov. 1942, p. 4.
B699 "Childhood on Victoria Island." Rev. of The Book of Small, by Emily Carr. PE, 10 Nov. 1942, p. 4.
B700 "Psychic Research in Winnipeg." Rev. of Intention and Survival, ed. J. D. Hamilton. PE, 17 Nov. 1942, p. 4.
B701 "Authors as They See Themselves." Rev. of This Is My Best, ed. Whit Burnett. PE, 19 Nov. 1942, p. 4.
B702 "Canada's River of Romance." Rev. of The St. Lawrence, by Henry Beston, illustrated by A. Y. Jackson. PE, 21 Nov. 1942, p. 4.
B703 "All Sorts of Warfare." Rev. of Submarme: The Story of Undersea Fighters, by K. Banning. PE, 25 Nov. 1942, p. 4.
B704 "The Glory That Was Greece." Rev. of The Challenge of the Greek, by T. R. Glover. PE, 28 Nov. 1942, p. 4.
B705 "Christmas Books for Children." Rev. of The Three Little Pigs; The Three Bears, by Robert Southey; Babar and His Children and Babar and Zephir, by Jean de Brunhoff; and A Child's Book of Christmas Carols, ed. Inez Bertall. PE, 2 Dec. 1942, p. 4.
B706 "Destiny and Cecil Brown." Rev. of Suez to Singapore, by Cecil Brown. PE, 5 Dec. 1942, p. 4.
B707 "A Miscellany of New Books." Rev. of Disraeli, by Andre Maurois; Messer Marco Polo, by Donn Byrne; and The Australian Guerilla, 3 vols., by Ion L. Idriess. PE, 9 Dec. 1942, p. 4.
B708 "The Last of Virginia Woolf." Rev. of The Death of the Moth, by Virginia Woolf. PE, 12 Dec. 1942, p. 4.
B709 "Last Words about Christmas Novels." Brief reviews of seven novels. PE, 16 Dec. 1942, p. 4.
B710 "In Defence of British Humour." Rev. of A Treasury of British Humor, ed. Morris Bishop. PE, 19 Dec. 1942, p. 4.
B711 "The Beveridge Report Reviewed." Rev. of The Beveridge Report, by William Beveridge. PE, 13 Jan. 1943, p. 4.
B712 "Frau Bella Speaks Her Mind." Rev. of Blood and Banquets, by Bella Fromm. PE, 16 Jan. 1943, p. 4.
B713 "Mixed Salad of Books." Rev. of Report from Tokyo, by Joseph C. Grew; Mrs. Parkington, by Louis Bromfield; and Epitaph for Europe, by Paul Tabori. PE, 23 Jan. 1943, p. 4.
B714 "Headhunting--With a Brush." Rev. of Headhunting in the Solomon Islands, by Caroline Mytinger. PE, 27 Jan. 1942, p. 4.
B715 "Upton Sinclair Does It Again." Rev. of Wide Is the Gate, by Upton Sinclair. PE, 30 Jan. 1943, p. 4.
B716 "New Life of Bernard Shaw." Rev. of G. B. S.: A Full-Length Portrait, by Hesketh Pearson. PE, 3 Feb. 1943, p. 4.
B717 "More about Bernard Shaw." Rev. of G. B. S.: A Full Length Portrait, by Kesketh Pearson. PE, 6 Feb. 1943, p. 4.
Continuation of the February 3, 1943, review.
B718 "The Fine Art of Enquiry." Rev. of The Raft, and Socrates Asks Why, by Eric Linklater; and Physics and Philosophy, by James Jeans. PE, 10 Feb. 1943, p. 4.
B719 "Siberia--Cousin to Canada." Rev. of Siberia, by Emil Langyel. PE, 13 Feb. 1943, p. 4.
B720 "The Classics in Capsules." Rev. of The Dickens Digest, ed. Mary Louise Aswell. PE, 17 Feb. 1943, p. 3.
B721 "Ancient Wisdom." Rev. of The Wisdom of China and India, by Lin Yutang. PE, 20 Feb. 1943, p. 4.
B722 "We All Hang Together." Rev. of Let the People Know, by Norman Angell. PE, 17 March 1943, p. 4.
B723 "We All Hang Together (Part 2)." Rev. of Let the People Know, by Norman Angell. PE, 20 March 1943, p. 4.
Continuation of the March 17, 1943, review.
B724 "Our Intentions Are Honourable." Rev. of Discharged, by Robert England; Guadalcanal Diary, by Richard Tregaskis; Post-Mortem on Malaya, by Virginia Thompson; and Behind Both Lines, by Harold Denny. PE, 31 March 1943, p. 4.
B725 "How Real Are You?". Rev. of On Being a Real Person, by Harry Emerson Fosdick. PE, 3 April 1943, p. 4.
B726 "A Reporter at Dieppe." Rev. of Dress Rehearsal, by Quentin Reynolds. PE, 7 April 1943, p. 4.
B727 "In Praise of England." Rev. of Portrait of England, ed. Christian Mawson. PE, 10 April 1943, p. 4.
B728 "Behind the Speaker's Chair." Rev. of The People's Mouths, by Austin F. Cross. PE, 21 April 1943, p. 4.
B729 "The Racket of Philanthropy." Rev. of Gideon Planish, by Sinclair Lewis. PE, 5 May 1943, p. 4.
B730 "The Flower of Cities All." Rev. of a volume of drawings of London done by Joseph Pennell. PE, 12 May 1943, p. 4.
B731 "Vincent Sheean Sees It Through." Rev. of Between the Thunder and the Sun, by Vincent Sheean; and Who Dare to Live, by Frederick B. Watt. PE, 15 May 1943, p. 4.
B732 "Wendell Willkie, Circumnavigator." Rev. of One World, by Wendell Willkie. PE, 19 May 1943, p. 4.
B733 "Rediscovering a Victorian Giant." Rev. of Thomas Hardy, by Edmund Blunden. PE, 22 May 1943, p. 4.
B734 "Inside Europe Once Again." Rev. of We Cannot Escape History, by John T. Whitaker. PE, 26 May 1943, p. 4.
B735 "Great Tales from Denmark." Rev. of Winter's Tales, by Isak Dinesen. PE, 29 May 1943, p. 4.
B736 "Blackened Faces/Crowded Hours." Rev. of Combined Operations, by Hilary St. George Saunders. PE, 12 June 1943, p. 4.
B737 "Magic in Hitler's Regime." Rev. of Double, Double, Toil and Trouble, by Lion Feuchtwanger. PE, 16 June 1943, p. 4.
B738 "Summer Salad of Books." Rev. of The Story of Dr. Wassell, by James Hilton; Benchley beside Himself, by Robert Benchley; and Yesterday's Children, by LaMar Warrick. PE, 23 June 1943, p. 4.
B739 "A Musical Buccaneer." Rev. of A Mingled Chime, by Thomas Beecham. PE, 26 June 1943, p. 4.
B740 "A Tale of Two Marshals." Rev. of The Two Marshals, by Philip Guedalla. PE, 3 July 1943, p. 4.
B741 "The First of Many Romances." Rev. of The Forest and the Fort, by Hervey Allen. PE, 7 July 1943, p. 4.
B742 "A History in Pictures." Rev. of Currier and Ives, Printmakers to the American People, ed. Harry Peters. PE, 10 July 1943, p. 4.
B743 "The Consort of Honest Abe." Rev. of Mr. Lincoln's Wife, by Anne Colver; and The Humboldt, by Dale L. Morgan. PE, 14 July 1943, p. 4.
B744 "What Happened Last Year?". Rev. of the 1942 Britannica Book of the Year. PE, 17 July 1943, p. 4.
B745 "The Consolation of Philosophy." Rev. of The Consolation of Philosophy, by Boethius; The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas a Kempis; and Religio Medici, by Thomas Browne. PE, 21 July 1943, p. 4. ERD ("The Consolation of Philosophy / The Imitation of Christ / Religio Medici").
B746 "A Word about Frankenstein." Rev. of Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft. PE, 24 July 1943, p. 4.
B747 "What Britain Is Doing?". Rev. of Britain at War, by J. B. Priestley. PE, 28 July 1943, p. 4.
B748 "A New Book about Australia." Rev. of The Australians, by Arnold L. Haskell; Malta Invicta, by Bartimeus [L. A. Ritchie]; and Petain-Laval, the Conspiracy, trans. Michael Sadleir. PE, 31 July 1943, p. 4.
B749 "A Problem in Translation." Rev. of Ride This Night, by Vilhelm Moberg, trans. Henry Alexander. PE, 7 Aug. 1943, p. 4.
B750 "An Arraignment of America." Rev. of Generation of Vipers, by Philip Wylie. PE, 11 Aug. 1943, p. 4.
B751 "An Epistle to the Philistines." Rev. of Generation of Vipers, by Philip Wylie. PE, 14 Aug. 1943, p. 4.
Continuation of the August 11, 1943, review.
B752 "The Future of Taxation." Rev. of The Beveridge Report, by William Beveridge. PE, 18 Aug. 1943, p. 4.
B753 "The Future of Taxation." Rev. of The Beveridge Report, by William Beveridge. PE, 21 Aug. 1943, p. 4. Continuation of the August 18, 1943, review.
B754 "Some Books about the War." Rev. of Malta Spitfire, the Story of a Fighter Pilot, by George Beurling and Leslie Roberts; Glorious Chapter, the Canadians at Dieppe, by Wallace Reyburn; Enemy in Sight, by Stanley Rogers; The War: Third Year, by Edgar McInnis; and Atlantic Meeting, by H. V. Morton. PE, 25 Aug. 1943, p. 4.
B755 "Further Books about the War." Rev. of Wings of Destiny, by the Marquess of Londonderry; Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, by Ted W. Lawson; The Fight for New Guinea, by Pat Robinson; Japan's Military Masters, by Hillis Lory; and American Unity and Asia, by Pearl Buck. PE, 28 Aug. 1943, p. 4.
B756 "The Sickness of Our World." Rev. of Our Age of Unreason, by Franz Alexander. PE, 1 Sept. 1943, p. 4.
B757 "What a Poet Thinks About." Rev. of A Poet's Notebook, by Edith Sitwell. PE, 4 Sept. 1943, p. 4.
B758 "Debunking John Milton." Rev. of Wife to Mr. Milton, by Robert Graves. PE, 22 Sept. 1943, p. 4.
B759 "Testament of a Great European." Rev. of The World of Yesterday, by Stefan Zweig. PE, 25 Sept. 1943, p. 4.
B760 "A Comic Writer's Anniversary" Rev. of The Ingoldsby Legends, by Richard Harris Barham. PE, 29 Sept. 1943, p. 4. ERD ("Richard Harris Barham").
B761 "Recent Works of Bernard Shaw." Rev. of Geneva and In Good King Charles's Golden Days, by George Bernard Shaw. PE, 2. Oct. 1943, p. 4.
B762 "A Brooklyn Childhood." Rev. of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith. PE, 6 Oct. 1943, p. 4.
B763 "Madness in Manhattan." Rev. of I Am Thinking of My Darling, by Vincent McHugh; and The Conspirators, by Frederick Prokosch. PE, 9 Oct. 1943, p. 4.
B764 "Two Views of the People's War." Rev. of Daylight on Saturday, by J. B. Priestley; and Caught, by Henry Green. PE, 13 Oct. 1943, p. 4.
B765 "The Art of Seeing." Rev. of The Art of Seeing, by Aldous Huxley. PE, 16 Oct. 1943, p. 4.
B766 "Marquand's Lives of Desperation." Rev. of So Little Time, by John P. Marquand. PE, 23 Oct. 1943, p. 4.
B767 "The Rationed Reviewer." Rev. of Heaven Is a Sunswept Hill, by Earl Guy; The Choice, by Charles Mills; The Viking Portable Steinbeck; Arctic Trader, by Philip H. Godsell; and South of the Congo, by Selwyn James. PE, 3 Nov. 1943, p. 4.
B768 "A Gallery of Fighting Men." Rev. of Our Canadian Armed Services, sketches by Grant Macdonald. PE, 6 Nov. 1943, p. 4.
B769 "Three Faces of Fascism." Rev. of See What I Mean?, by Lewis Browne; Kathrine, by Hans Habe; and Free Trip to Berlin, by Isabel R. Guernsey. PE, 10 Nov. 1943, p. 4.
B770 "How Grey Was My Outlook." Rev. of None but the Lonely Heart, by Richard Llewellyn. PE, 17 Nov. 1943, p. 4.
B771 "New Books for Canadians." Rev. of Boughs Bend Over, by Maida Parlow French; West to the Setting Sun, by Harvey Chalmers and Ethel B. Monture; and Stand on a Rainbow, by Mary Q. Innis. PE, 24 Nov. 1943, p. 4.
B772 "Anthology of War Poetry." Rev. of The New Treasury of War Poetry, ed. George H. Clarke. PE, 1 Dec. 1943, p. 4.
B773 "Review of Christmas Books." Brief reviews of a dozen books. PE, 8 Dec. 1943, p. 4.
B774 "The Peterborough of the Past." Rev. of Our Old Home Town, by F. H. Dobbin. PE, 10 Dec. 1943, p. 4.
B775 "Centenary of A Christmas Carol." Rev. of A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens. PE, 15 Dec. 1943, p. 4. ERD ("A Christmas Carol").
B776 "A Harp That Once." Rev. of The Canadian Lyre, by John R. Ramsay. Queen's Quarterly, 50 (Winter 1943-44), 374-81.
B777 "Anthologies and Collections." Rev. of The Triumph of Life, ed. Horace Gregory; Women and Children First, by Sally Benson; and The Modern Library Complete Shakespeare, ed. A. S. Barnes, 3 vols. PE, 5 Jan. 1944, p. 4.
B778 "A Genius Inaugurates a Ministry." Rev. of The Sky's the Limit, by David Farrer. PE, 12 Jan. 1944, p. 4.
B779 "A Fellow of Infinite Jest." Rev. of Gilbert Keith Chesterton, by Maisie Ward. PE, 19 Jan. 1944, p. 4.
B780 "A King of Infinite Space." Rev. of Good Night, Sweet Prince, by Gene Fowler. PE, 26 Jan. 1944, p. 4.
B781 "Books--Mainly about the War." Rev. of Behind the Steel Wall, by Arvid Fredborg; A Garland of Straw, by Sylvia T. Warner; and several very brief notices. PE, 2 Feb. 1944, p. 4.
B782 "Education--But for What?". Rev. of Liberal Education, by Mark Van Doren. PE, 9 Feb. 1944, p. 4.
B783 "Epic of the Australian Bush." Rev. of Capricornia, by Xavier Herbert. PE, 16 Feb. 1944, p. 4.
B784 "A Problem without a Solution." Rev. of The Lost Weekend, by Charles Jackson. PE, 23 Feb. 1944, p. 4.
B785 "A Publisher's Centenary." Rev. of Man and Literature, by Norman Nicholson; and The House of Macmillan (1843-1943), by Charles Morgan. PE, 1 March 1944, p. 4.
B786 "Survey of Russian History." Rev. of A Short History of Russia, by Bernard Humphrey Sumner. PE, 8 March 1944, p. 4.
B787 "The Story of Canadian Art." Rev. of Canadian Art: 1820-1940, by William Colgate. PE, 22 March 1944, p. 4.
B788 "Outbreaks of Comic Spirit." Rev. of Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep, by Ludwig Bemelmans; and Growing Up, by Angela Thirkell. PE, 29 March 1944, p. 4.
B789 "Spring Books of Verse." Rev. of Still Life and Other Poems, by E. J. Pratt; Greater Poems of the Bible, by Wilson MacDonald; and Songs of Liberty, verses by Robert Burns, ed. Patrick Dollan. PE, 5 April 1944, p. 4.
B790 "Cookery--The Slighted Art." Rev. of The Gastronomical Me, by M. F. K. Fisher; Clementina in the Kitchen, by Phineas Beck; and Casserole Cookery, by Marian Tracy and Nino Tracy. PE, 12 April 1944, p. 4.
B791 "False Memories and Soft Watches." Rev. of The Secret Life of Salvador Dali, by Salvador Dali. PE, 26 April 1944, p. 4.
B792 "The Battle and the Breeze." Rev. of Pioneers! 0 Pioneers!, by Hilary St. George Saunders; The Fire Was Bright, by Leslie Kark; and One Eye on the Clock, by Geoffrey Willans. PE, 3 May 1944, p. 4.
B793 "Belles Lettres in Springtime." Rev. of The Royal Game, by Stefan Zweig; South Lodge, by Douglas Goldring; and Where Love and Friendship Dwelt, by Mrs. Belloc Lowndes. PE, 10 May 1944, p. 4.
B794 "The Problem of Germany." Rev. of What to Do with Germany, by Louis Nizer; and Lessons of My Life, by Lord Vansittart. PE, 17 May 1944, p. 4.
B795 "A Frenchman Writes about Love." Rev. of Seven Faces of Love, by Andre Maurois. PE, 7 June 1944, p. 4.
B796 "Good Words for the Clerisy." Rev. of Just Another Word, by Ivor Brown. PE, 21 June 1944, p. 4.
B797 "Lanny Budd Rides Again." Rev. of Presidential Agent, by Upton Sinclair. PE, 28 June 1944, p. 4.
B798 "A Great Man Writes a Novel." Rev. of The Heart of Jade, by Salvador de Madariaga. PE, 5 July 1944, p. 4.
B799 "How to Be a Bore." Rev. of How Never to Be Tired, or Two Lifetimes in One, by Marie B. Ray. PE, 12 July 1944, p. 4.
B800 "The Book Banned in Boston." Rev. of Strange Fruit, by Lillian Smith. PE, 19 July 1944, p. 4.
B801 "For Particular Tastes." Rev. of Planet and Glow-Worm, a Book for the Sleepless, by Edith Sitwell; and Sing High! Sang Low, by Osbert Sitwell. PE, 26 July 1944, p. 4.
B802 "What Happened Last Year." Rev. of the Britannica Book of the Year 1944. PE, 2 Aug. 1944, p. 4.
B803 "Canada's Chief of State." Rev. of Mackenzie King, by Emil Ludwig. PE, 9 Aug. 1944, p. 4.
B804 "Three Good Things." Rev. of Haunted House, by Virginia Woolf; The Great Ship and Rabelais Replies, by Eric Linklater; and Artists at War, by George Biddle. PE, 16 Aug. 1944, p. 4.
B805 "What Is Funny, and When?". Rev. of I Never Left Home, by Bob Hope; and Choice Humorous Works of Theodore Hook. PE, 13 Sept. 1944, p. 4.
B806 "Current Fiction in Brief." Rev. of The Rebellion of Leo McGuire, by Clyde Davis; Mountain Cloud, by Marius Barbeau; Grandmother and the Comet, by Victoria Lincoln; The Red Cock Crows, by Frances Gaither; and The Bonfire, by Cecilio J. Carneiro. PE, 4 Oct. 1944, p. 4.
B807 "Laski's New Religion." Rev. of Faith, Reason and Civilization, by Harold J. Laski. PE, 11 Oct. 1944, p. 4.
B808 "Poetry and History." Rev. of A Book of Russian Verse, ed. C. M. Bowra; Onwards to Victory, by Winston S. Churchill; From the Greek, ed. T. F. Higham and C. M. Bowra; The Rising Crescent, by Ernest Jackh; and Between Two Furious Oceans, by Dick Diespecker. PE, 18 Oct. 1944, p. 4.
B809 "You Can Live to Be l00." Rev. of You Are Younger Than You Think, by Martin Gumpert. PE, 1 Nov. 1944, p. 4.
B810 "Expert Opinion on the Enigma." Rev. of Russia and the Peace, by Bernard Pares. PE, 8 Nov. 1944, p. 4.
B811 "Books for Your Christmas List." PE, 15 Nov. 1944, p. 4.
B812 "Mixed Bag for Christmas Gifts." Rev. of Collected Poems, by E. J. Pratt, On Living in a Revolution, by Julian Huxley; None but a Mule, by Barbara Woollcott; The Road to Serfdom, by Friedrich A. Hayek; and The Church Looks Forward, by William Temple. PE, 22 Nov. 1944, p. 4.
B813 "A Very Mixed Christmas Bag." Rev. of a dozen books. PE, 29 Nov. 1944, p. 4.
B814 "Huxley's Latest and Best." Rev. of Time Must Have a Stop, by Aldous Huxley PE, 6 Dec. 1944, p. 4.
B815 "Books for Your Friends." Rev. of Samuel Johnson, by Joseph Wood Krutch; The Letters of Alexander Woollcott; Everybody's Political What's What, by G. B. Shaw; and Time Must Have a Stop, by Aldous Huxley. PE, 13 Dec. 1944, p. 4.
B816 "Dickens' Rowdy Benediction." Rev. of The Chimes, by Charles Dickens. PE, 20 Dec. 1944, p. 4.
B817 "An Aid to Bible Reading." Rev. of The Bible and the Common Reader, by Mary Ellen Chase. PE, 17 Jan. 1945, p. 4.
B818 "New Books Briefly Noted." Rev. of Poems from the Desert, foreword Bernard Law Montgomery; An Interlude in Spain, by Charles d'Ydewalle; The Master of the Mill, by Frederick Philip Grove; and Checkmate in the North, by W. G. Carl. PE, 24 Jan. 1945, p. 4.
B819 "Steinbeck the Sentimentalist." Rev. of Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck. PE, 31 Jan. 1945, p. 4.
B820 "For Children and Their Parents." Rev. of Baby Bears, by E. Charushin; Orlando, the Marmelade Cat, by Kathleen Hale; The Story of England, by Beatrice Curtis Brown and Helen Arbuthnot; and The Wind on the Moon, by Eric Linklater. PE, 7 Feb. 1945, p. 4.
B821 "Languages and the Postwar World." Rev. of The Loom of Language, by Lancelot Hogben and Frederick Bodmer. PE, 14 Feb. 1945, p. 4.
B822 "Newly Illustrated Classics." Rev. of volumes in the Modern Library which contain illustrations. PE, 21 Feb. 1945, p. 4.
B823 "The Great Conversationalist." Rev. of Samuel Johnson, by Joseph Wood Krutch. PE, 7 March 1945, p. 4.
B824 "Eternal Spring and the Circus." Rev. of Fairs, Circuses & Music Halls, by M. Willson Disher; and Esme of Paris, by Esme Davis. PE, 21 March 1945, p. 4. ERD ("Fairs, Circuses & Music Halls / Esme of Paris").
B825 "Review of Spring Fiction." Rev. of Banshee Harvest, by Jim Phelan; Young Bess, by Margaret Irwin; Three Who Loved, by Edita Morris; and Behold Trouble, by Granville Hicks. PE, 4 April 1945, p. 4.
B826 "A Notable Canadian Novel." Rev. of Earth and High Heaven, by Gwethalyn Graham. PE, 11 April 1945, p. 4.
B827 "A Wise Child in Shanghai." Rev. of Minor Heresies, by John J. Espey. PE, 18 April 1945, p. 4.
B828 "Canadian Unity and German Dissolution." Rev. of Canada and the Fight for Freedom, by W. L. Mackenzie King; A Canadian People, by Lorne Pierce; New World of Machines, by Harland Manchester; Dale Carnegie's Biographical Roundup; and The Pan-Germanic Web, by Vladimir Grossman. PE, 25 April 1945, p. 4.
B829 "Two Exotic Novels." Rev. of Blue Danube, by Ludwig Bemelmans; and Inocencia, by Alfredo d'Escragnolle Taunay, trans. H. Chamberlain. PE, 2 May 1945, p. 4.
B830 "Minority Report on a Best-Seller." Rev. of The Ballad and the Source, by Rosamond Lehmann. PE, 23 May 1945, p. 4.
B831 "The New and the Proven." Rev. of Reader's Companion, ed. Louis Kronenberger; Coming Home, by Lester Cohen; The Pear Tree, by Elissa Landi; The Power House, by Alex Comfort; and The Portable Carl Van Doren, by Carl Van Doren. PE, 30 May 1945, p. 4.
B832 "What Children Used to Read." Rev. of The Herald of Mercy. PE, 6 June 1945, p. 4.
B833 "The Arts in Canada." Rev. of The Arts and Crafts of Canada, by D. G. W. McRae. PE, 20 June 1945, p. 4.
B834 "Pope, Politician and Globe-Trotter." Rev. of The Life of Pope Pius XII, by C. H. Doyle; Hitch-Hiking the Alaska Highway, by Gertrude Baskine; Franklin, the Life of an Optimist, by Andre Maurois; Hunting, Fishing, and Camping, by L. A. Anderson; and The Case of Mrs. Wingate, by Oscar Micheaux. PE, 27 June 1945, p. 4.
B835 "What Happened in 1944?". Rev. of the Britannica Book of the Year for 1944. PE, 4 July 1945, p. 4.
B836 "The Aristocrat Explains Himself." Rev. of Left Hand, Right Hand, by Osbert Sitwell. PE, 18 July 1945, p. 4. ERD ("Osbert Sitwell").
B837 "Brief Books for Summer." Rev. of Interim, by R. C. Hutchison; Scotland, by Ian Finlay; On a Note of Triumph, by Norman Corwin; and The Abolition of Man, by C. S. Lewis. PE, 25 July 1945, p. 4.
B838 "Review of Summer Fiction." Rev. of The Happy Time, by Robert Fontaine; A Durable Fire, by Dorothy James Roberts; Put Off Thy Shoes, by E. L. Voynich; Pride's Way, by Robert Molloy; and Green Hazard, by Manning Coles. PE, 1 Aug. 1945, p. 4.
B839 "Chills for Hot Weather." Rev. of Six Novels of the Supernatural and The Supernatural Omnibus, ed. Montague Summers; and Carmilla, by Joseph Le Fanu. PE, 8 Aug. 1945, p. 4.
B840 "The Disease of Diarizing." Rev. of Ego, by James Agate. PE, 15 Aug. 1945, p. 4.
B841 "The Profane Virtues." Rev. of The Profane Virtues, by Peter Quennel. PE, 5 Sept. 1945, p. 4
B842 "The Old, Old Story Once Again." Rev. of Kitty, by Rosamond Marshall; and Moll Flanders and Roxana, the Fortunate Mistress, by Daniel Defoe PE, 12 Sept. 1945, p. 4.
B843 "Distinguished Autumn Books." Rev. of New Chum, by John Masefield; Sergeant Nelson of the Guards, by Gerald Kersh; So Well Remembered, by James Hilton; Home Fires Burning, by Robert Henriques; and The Wine of San Lorenzo, by Herbert Gorman. PE, 19 Sept. 1945, p. 4.
B844 "Extraordinary Wit and Wisdom." Rev. of The Portable Whitman, ed. Carl Van Doren. PE, 26 Sept. 1945, p. 4. ERD ("Walt Whitman").
B845 "A Return to Greatness." Rev. of The Screwtape Letters and The Abolition of Man, by C. S. Lewis. PE, 3 Oct. 1945, p. 4.
B846 "Books for October Days." Rev. of Three O'Clock, by Josephine Pinckney; Not in Our Stars, by Josiah E. Greene; The Cherokee Strip, by Marquis James; and Lower Deck, by John Davies. PE, 17 Oct. 1945, p. 4.
B846a "Most Foul Strange and Unnatural." Rev. of The Viking Portable Murder Book, ed. J. H. Jackson; and Novels of Science. PE, 24 Oct. 1945, p. 4.
B847 "Familiar Spirits and Wizards That Peep." Rev. of Witch-Craft in England, by Christina Hole. PE, 31 Oct. 1945, p. 4.
B848 "Romantic Agony in Two Styles." Rev. of The Portable Edgar Allen Poe, ed. Philip Van Doren Stern; and The Portable F. Scott Fitzgerald, ed. Dorothy Parker. PE, 7 Nov 1945, p. 4.
B849 "Five Books about Canada." Rev. of Brave Harvest, by Kenneth M. Haig; Up the Stream of Time, by Viscountess Byng of Vimy; The Discovery of Canada, by Lawrence J. Burpee; History of the Jews in Canada, by B. G. Sack; and Emily Carr, Her Paintings and Sketches [a catalogue prepared by the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Toronto]. PE, 14 Nov. 1945, p. 4.
B850 "Balm for Bruised Minds." Rev. of Reflections in a Mirror, by Charles Morgan; and The Unquiet Grave, by Palinurus [Cyril Connolly]. PE, 21 Nov. 1945, p. 4.
B851 "Everything That's Excellent." Rev. of Confessions of an Un-Common Attorney, by Reginald L. Hine. PE, 28 Nov. 1945, p. 4.
B852 "Novels for Christmas." Brief reviews of seven novels. PE, 5 Dec. 1945, p. 4.
B853 "The Laughing Animal." Rev. of Meet Your Ancestors, by Roy Chapman Andrews; Modern Man Is Obsolete, by Norman Cousins; and The Shape of Things to Come, by H. G. Wells. PE, 12 Dec. 1945, p. 4.
B854 "With Thackeray at Christmas." Rev. of The Rose and the Ring, by W. M. Thackeray. PE, 19 Dec. 1945, p. 4.
B855 "The House That Mencken Built." Rev. of The American Language: Supplement. Vols. I-II, by H. L. Mencken. PE, 2 Jan. 1946, p. 4.
B856 "Anthology for Canada." Rev. of Twentieth Century Verse, ed. Ira Dilworth. PE, 16 Jan. 1946, p. 4.
B857 "Books about the Orient." Rev. of Lookin' Eastward, by Thomas H. Clare; My Twenty-Five Years in China, by John B. Powell; Flight from China, by Edna Booker; Shinto, the Unconquered Enemy, by Robert O. Ballou; and The Vicarious Life, by Geo. C. Pidgeon. PE, 23 Jan. 1946, p. 4.
B858 "Not for Conservative Readers." Rev. of Hercules, My Shipmate, by Robert Graves; and Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh. PE, 6 Feb. 1946, p. 4.
B859 "How Stupid Is Canada?". Rev. of Scholarship for Canada, by John B. Brebner. PE, 13 Feb. 1946, p. 4.
B860 "Comfortable Books for Comfortable People." Rev. of Unforgettable, Unforgotten, by O. Douglas; and West-Country Stories, by A. L. Rowse. PE, 20 Feb. 1946, p. 4.
B861 "Movies of the Past." Rev. of A Pictorial History of the Movies, by Deems Taylor. PE, 27 Feb. 1946, p. 4.
B862 "Books Inspired by the War." Rev. of Sailors, by Grant Macdonald; My Three Years with Eisenhower, by Harry Butcher; Red Rain, by Leslie Kirk; and Desert Episode, by George Greenfield. PE, 8 May 1946, p. 4.
B863 "Reviews of Spring Fiction." Rev. of Star of the Unborn, by Franz Werfel; Blue Boy, by Jean Giono; The Stars Incline, by Clyde Brion Davis; and The Black Venus, by Rhys Davies. PE, 15 May 1946, p. 4.
B864 "Words, Words, Words." Rev. of I Give You My Word, by Ivor Brown. PE, 22 May 1946, p. 4.
B865 "Reconsidering Oscar Wilde." Rev. of The Portable Oscar Wilde, ed. Richard Aldington. PE, 29 May 1946, p. 4.
B866 "A Reader's Miscellany." Rev. of A Solo in Tom-Toms, by Gene Fowler; Ego 7, by James Agate; Friday Mornings 1941-1944, by Harold Nicholson; Straw in the South Wind, by Donald Joseph; and One World or None, ed. D. Masters and K. Way. PE, 5 June 1946, p. 4.
B867 "Finding of Magic in Atomic Age." Rev. of Voodoo in New Orleans, by Robert Tallant. PE, 12 June 1946, p. 4.
B868 "A Miscellany of Summer Reading." Rev. of Wasteland, by Jo Sinclair; History and the Reader, by G. M. Trevelyan; Prater Violet, by Christopher Isherwood; Plato and Modern Education, by Richard Livingston; and Cleanliness and Godliness, by Reginald Reynolds. PE, 10 July 1946, p. 4.
B869 "The Irish Literary Genius." Rev. of The Portable Irish Reader, ed. Diarmuid Russell. PE, 17 July 1946, p. 4.
B870 "Late Summer Reading." Rev. of Presently Tomorrow, by Joyce Marshall; Love from London, by Gilbert W. Gabriel; Horizon, by Helen MacInnes; and The Other Side, by Storm Jameson. PE, 14 Aug. 1946, p. 4.
B871 "Reviewer's Holiday." Rev. of Reflections in a Mirror: Second Series, by Charles Morgan; Clochermerle, by Gabriel Chevalier; The Perennial Philosophy, by Aldous Huxley; Theatre Royal Drury Lane, by W. Macqueen Pope; and Courts and Cabinets, by G. P. Gooch. PE, 4 Sept. 1946, p. 4.
B872 "Love among the Soap Salesmen." Rev. of The Hucksters, by Frederic Wakeman. PE, 11 Sept. 1946, p. 4.
B873 "Connolly--A Low Swung Basset." Rev. of The Condemned Playground, by Cyril Connolly. PE, 18 Sept. 1946, p. 4.
B874 "The Moralism of George Orwell." Rev. of Critical Essays and Animal Farm, by George Orwell. PE, 2 Oct. 1946, p. 4.
B875 "Writers of the Counter Revolution." Rev. of That Hideous Strength, by C. S. Lewis; Aston Kings, by H. Pakington; Hotel Bemelmans, by Ludwig Bemelmans; and An Almanac, by Norman Douglas. PE, 9 Oct. 1946, p. 4.
B876 "Two Compressed Americans." Rev. of The Portable Faulkner, ed. Malcolm Cowley; and The Portable Thomas Wolfe, ed. Maxwell Geismar. PE, 16 Oct. 1946, p. 4.
B877 "Pocket Pantagruelists." Rev. of The Portable Mark Twain, ed. Bernard De Voto; and The Portable Rabelais, trans, and ed. Samuel Putnam. PE, 23 Oct. 1946, p. 4.
B878 "An Artist's Autobiography." Rev. of The Scarlet Tree, by Osbert Sitwell. PE, 30 Oct. 1946, p. 4.
B879 "Lives Heroic and Unheroic." Rev. of In Search of Myself, by Frederick Philip Grove; A Shorter Ego, by James Agate; and The Merry Wives of Westminster, by Belloc Lowndes. PE, 6 Nov. 1946, p. 4.
B880 "Christ as Heir of Herod." Rev. of King Jesus, by Robert Graves. PE, 13 Nov. 1946, p. 4. ERD ("King Jesus").
B881 "The Critic on the Hearth." Rev. of Theatre Book of the Year, by George J. Nathan. PE, 20 Nov. 1946, p. 4.
B882 "Books of Canadian Authorship." Rev. of Growing Pains, by Emily Carr; Welcome Wilderness, by Grace Tomkinson; Return to Jalna, by Mazo de la Roche; and Herbie, by Bing Coughlin. PE, 27 Nov. 1946, p. 4.
B883 "Highlights of Recent Fiction." Rev. of Thieves in the Night, by Arthur Koestler; B. F.'s Daughter, by John P. Marquand; Chloe Marr, by A. A. Milne; Singing Waters, by Ann Bridge; and The Gascon, by J. B. Morton. PE, 4 Dec. 1946, p. 4.
B884 �� "Paintings, Poetry and Passion." Rev. of Recording Britain; Poems, by Robert Finch; Paschal Lamb, by Doris Ferne; Landfall, by Frederick B. Watt; Brief for Beauty, by Reba Hudson; and I Run with the Fox, by Mona Gould. PE, 11 Dec. 1946, p. 4.
B885 "A Reviewer's Christmas List." A series of very brief reviews. PE, 18 Dec. 1946, p. 4.
B886 "The Incomparable Max." Rev. of Mainly on the Air, by Max Beerbohm. PE, 24 Dec. 1946, p. 4.
B887 "Not for the Credulous." Rev. of The Natural History of Nonsense, by Bergen Evans; and Your Literary I.Q., by H. N. Collins. PE, 15 Jan. 1947, p. 4.
B888 "Review of Winter Fiction." Brief reviews of six books. PE, 22 Jan. 1947, p. 4.
B889 "Volumes of Inspiration and Vision." Rev. of The Portable Blake, ed. Alfred Kazin; The Portable Emerson, ed. Mark Van Doren; and Elizabethan Reader. PE, 29 Jan. 1947, p. 4.
B890 "Portraits and Politicians." Rev. of Faces of Destiny, photographs by Yousuf Karsh; The Life of Neville Chamberlain, by Keith Feiling; Where Are We Heading?, by Sumner Welles; and Secret Session Speeches, by Winston Churchill. PE, 5 Feb. 1947, p. 4.
B891 "Reviewer's Mixed Bag." Rev. of Mountain Time, by Bernard de Voto; New Guinea Headhunt, by Caroline Mytinger; Yes and No Stories, by George Papashvily and Helen Papashvily; Defeat in Victory, by Jan Ciechanowski; and In the Hands of the Senecas, by Walter D. Edmonds. PE, 12 Feb. 1947, p. 4.
B892 "Name This Child." Rev. of The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, by E. G. Withycombe. PE, 19 Feb. 1947, p. 4.
B893 "One Bad, One Good." Rev. of The Wayward Bus, by John Steinbeck; and Consider Her Ways, by Frederick Philip Grove. PE, 26 Feb. 1947, p. 4.
B894 "Drama and Some Dramatists." Rev. of The Playwright as Thinker, by Eric Bentley; The Iceman Cometh, by Eugene O'Neill; Oak Leaves and Lavender, by Sean O'Casey; Four Plays by Holderg, trans. Henry Alexander; Byron in Piccadilly, by Anthony Ireland; and The Banbury Nose, by Peter Ustinov. PE, 5 March 1947, p. 4.
B895 "Review of Spring Novels." Rev. of Who Has Seen the Wind, by W. O. Mitchell; The Two Worlds of Johnny Truro, by George Sklar; The Show Piece, by Booth Tarkington; and There Were No Windows, by Norah Hoult. PE, 12 March 1947, p. 4.
B896 "The Proof of the Pudding." Rev. of Pressure Cookery, by Leone Rutledge Carroll. PE, 19 March 1947, p. 4.
B897 "Some Books by Doctors." Rev. of 22 Cells in Nuremberg, by Douglas M. Kelley; Banting's Miracle, by Seale Harris; Aging Successfully, by George Lawton; and Know Yourself, by David A. Stewart. PE, 26 March 1947, p. 4.
B898 "Three More Portables." Rev. of The Portable Maupassant, ed. Lewis Galantiere; The Portable D. H. Lawrence, ed. Diana Trilling; and The Portable James Joyce, ed. Harry Levin. PE, 2 April 1947, p. 4.
B899 "A Novel of Good and Evil." Rev. of The Angelic Avenger, by Pierre Andrezel; Stranger in Town, by Howard Hunt; How to Be Rich Like Me, by William Hazlett Upson; and The Case of Erle Stanley Gardner, by Alva Johnston. PE, 9 April 1947, p. 4.
B900 "Something to Laugh At." Rev. of Native American Humor, ed. James R. Aswell. PE, 16 April 1947, p. 4.
B901 "A Victorian Diarist." Rev. of Kilvert's Diary 1870-1879, ed. William Plomer. PE, 23 April 1947, p. 4.
B902 "Five Spring Novels." Rev. of The Tin Flute, by Gabrielle Roy; Banner by the Wayside, by Samuel H. Adams; Crow Field, by Margaret C. Boylen; Experiment in Springtime, by Margaret Millar; and Suzanne & Joseph Pasquier, by Georges Duhamel. PE, 30 April 1947, p. 4.
B903 "Two Skeptics and a Philosopher." Rev. of Philosopher's Quest, by Irwin Edman; Treatise on the Gods, by H. L. Mencken; and The Vulgar Heart, by Doris Langley Moore. PE, 7 May 1947, p. 4.
B904 "Latest Report from Barsetshire." Rev. of Peace Breaks Out, by Angela Thirkell; Why They Behave Like Russians, by John Fischer; The Wind Cannot Read, by Richard Mason; and This Is My Story, by Louis F. Budenz. PE, 14 May 1947, p. 4.
B905 "Reviewer's Gallimaufry." Brief reviews. PE, 21 May 1947, p. 4.
B906 "Funny Book and Funny Man." Rev. of Adrift in a Boneyard, by Robert Lewis Taylor; George Ade, a Warm-Hearted Satirist, by Fred C. Kelley; and The Good Soldier Schweik, by Jaroslav Hasek. PE, 28 May 1947, p. 4.
B907 "The Great Detective." Rev. of Died in the Wool and Final Curtain, by Ngaio Marsh. PE, 4 June 1947, p. 4.
B908 "Vision of Heaven and Hell." Rev. of The Portable Dante, ed. Paolo Milano. PE, 11 June 1947, p. 4.
B909 "Summer Reading." Rev. of Montgomery, by Alan Moorehead; The Works of Smith Minor, by J. Jefferson Farjeon [Anthony Swift]; Sirocco, by Joseph Kessel, trans. Katherine Woods; Pressure Cooking, by Ida Bailey Allen; and Science Year Book of 1947, ed. J. D. Ratcliff. PE, 18 June 1947, p. 4.
B910 "Weekly Book Review: Recollected in Tranquility." Rev. of Linden on the Saugus Branch, by Elliot Paul. PE, 3 Sept. 1947, p. 4.
B911 "Weekly Book Review: Romance and the Renaissance." Rev. of Prince of Foxes, by Samuel Shellabarger; and The Moneyman, by Thomas Costain. PE, 10 Sept. 1947, p. 4.
B912 "Weekly Book Review: Diversions and Escapes." Rev. of The Hunters and the Hunted, by Sacheverell Sitwell; Slick but Not Streamlined, by John Betjeman; Acres and Pains, by S. J. Perelman; and The Lonely Carrot, by Mannix Walker. PE, 17 Sept. 1947, p. 4.
B913 "Weekly Book Review: Good and Not Too Good." Rev. of Dirty Eddie, by Ludwig Bemelmans; The Last Days of Hitler, by H. R. Trevor-Roper; Proud Destiny, by Lion Feuchtwanger; and Presidential Mission, by Upton Sinclair. PE, 24 Sept. 1947, p. 4.
B914 "Weekly Book Review: The Submerged Three-Quarters." Rev. of The English People, by George Orwell. PE, 1 Oct. 1947, p. 4.
B915 "Weekly Book Review: The Stepfather of Don Quixote" Rev. of The Life and Achievements of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha, by Cervantes. PE, 8 Oct. 1947, p. 4
B916 "Weekly Book Review: Autumn Mixture." Rev. of Tales Out of School, by John J. Espey; The Other Theatre, by Norman Marshall; Neither Man Nor Dog, by Gerald Kersh; The Innocent Eye, by Herbert Read; Adversary in the House, by Irving Stone; and Specimens of English Dramatic Criticism, ed. A. C. Ward. PE, 15 Oct. 1947, p. 4.
B917 "Weekly Book Review: A Painter on His Art." Rev. of A Free House, by Walter R. Sickert. PE, 22 Oct. 1947, p. 4.
B918 "Weekly Book Review: Not for Ninnies." Rev. of Seven Essays, by George Sampson. PE, 29 Oct. 1947, p. 4.
B919 "Weekly Book Review: Four for Your Library." Rev. of The Days of H. L. Mencken; The Rock Pool, by Cyril Connolly; Songs and Lyrics from the English Playbooks, ed. F. S. Boas; and Verses and a Comedy, by Aldous Huxley. PE, 19 Nov. 1947, p. 4.
B920 "Weekly Book Review: Books for Autumn Firesides." Rev. of The Theatre Book of the Year 1946-47, by George J. Nathan; Say the Word, by Ivor Brown; Europe without Baedeker, by Edmund Wilson; The Judge's Story, by Charles Morgan; and Pan Books. PE, 26 Nov. 1947, p. 4.
B921 "Weekly Book Review: Delicate and Dangerous Diarists." Rev. of The Provincial Lady, by E. M. Delafield; and The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, by Robertson Davies. PE, 3 Dec. 1947, p. 4.
B922 "Weekly Book Review: Books for Christmas Stockings." Rev. of Titus Groan, by Mervyn Peake, and fifteen others. PE, 10 Dec. 1947, p. 4.
B923 "Christmas Books: Three Fine and One Phony." Rev. of The Meaning of Treason, by Rebecca West; Roughing It in the Bush, by Susanna Moodie; The Art of Adventure, by Eric Linklater; and The Pearl, by John Steinbeck. PE, 17 Dec. 1947, p. 4.
B924 "Weekly Book Review: The Plight of the Exiled Scot." Rev. of The Heart Is Highland and The Scot in Canada, by James A. Roy; and Edinburgh, by G. Scott-Moncrieff. PE, 7 Jan. 1948, p. 4.
B925 "Weekly Book Review: Four Companions for the Pocket." Rev. of The Portable Johnson & Boswell, ed. Louis Kronenberger; The Portable Joseph Conrad, ed. Morton Dauwen Zabel; The Portable Chekhov, ed. Avrahm Yarmolinsky; and The Portable Russian Reader, ed. B. G. Guerney. PE, 14 Jan. 1948, p. 4.
B926 "Weekly Book Review: Illumination from the Amateur Theatre." Rev. of The Amateur and the Theatre, by Bonamy Dobree; and Amateur Dramatics, by Norman Lee. PE, 21 Jan. 1948, p. 4.
B927 "Weekly Book Review: A Fresh Outlook on the Novel." Rev. of The Living Novel, by V. S. Pritchett. PE, 28 Jan. 1948, p. 4.
B928 "Weekly Book Review: Three from England." Rev. of Jenny Villiers, by J. B. Priestley; The Museum of Cheats, by Sylvia Townsend Warner; and The Man Who Made Music, by Froom Tyler. PE, 4 Feb. 1948, p. 4.
B929 "Weekly Book Review: A New Attitude toward Illness." Rev. of Mind and Body, by Flanders Dunbar. PE, 11 Feb. 1948, p. 4.
B930 "Weekly Book Review: Current and Choice." Rev. of Scott-King's Modern Europe, by Evelyn Waugh; The Dark Philosophers, by Gwyn Thomas; Square Pegs, by Constance Butler; The Strange Life of Ivan Osokin, by P. D. Ouspensky; Agents and Witnesses, by P.H. Newby; Scenes of London Life, by Charles Dickens, illustrations by George Cruikshank; and The Diary of a Nobody, by George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith. PE, 18 Feb. 1948, p. 4.
B931 "Weekly Book Review: The Undying Passion." Rev. of Book Collecting as a Hobby, by P. H. Muir. PE, 25 Feb. 1948, p. 4.
B932 "Weekly Book Review: A New Study of Sexual Behaviour." Rev. of Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male, by A. C. Kinsey et al. PE, 3 March 1948, p. 4.
B933 "Weekly Book Review: Further Implications of the Kinsey Report." Rev. of Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male, by A. C. Kinsey et al. PE, 10 March 1948, p. 4.
Continuation of the March 3, 1948, review.
B934 "Weekly Book Review: Waugh, Love and Death." Rev. of The Loved One, by Evelyn Waugh. PE, 31 March 1948, p. 4.
B935 "Weekly Book Review: Recent Fiction from Britain." Rev. of Prelude to a Certain Midnight, by Gerald Kersh; The Cellar, by J. D. Scott; The Snob, by Jack Overhill; Nothing So Strange, by James Hilton; and The Black Laurel, by Storm Jameson. PE, 7 April 1948, p. 4.
B936 "Weekly Book Review: Everyman's Handicraft." Rev. of The Saturday Book, ed. Leonard Russell; and "Graphology in Industry" [an article in the British magazine Future]. PE, 14 April 1948, p. 4.
B937 "Weekly Book Review: Novels for Spring Reading." Rev. of Pilgrim's Inn, by Elizabeth Goudge; The Bishop's Mantle, by Agnes Sligh Turnbull; Great Mischief, by Josephine Pinckney; Fire, by George R. Stewart; and Friends and Lovers, by Helen MacInnes. PE, 21 April 1948, p. 4.
B938 "Weekly Book Review: Workers in Words." Rev. of The Wounded Prince, by Douglas Le Pan; and Supplement Two of H. L. Mencken's The American Language. PE, 28 April 1948, p. 4.
Note: From October 7, 1948 to June 28, 1950, the book reviews come under the column title of "From the Critic's Notebook." In the following entries, this title has been shortened to "FTCN."
B939 "FTCN." Rev. of A Russian Journal, by John Steinbeck. PE, 7 Oct. 1948, p. 4.
B940 "FTCN." Rev. of Ape and Essence and The Giocanda Smile, by Aldous Huxley. PE, 14 Oct. 1948, p. 4.
B941 "FTCN." Rev. of One Clear Call, by Upton Sinclair; and It Took Nine Tailors, by Adolphe Menjou and M. M. Musselman. PE, 21 Oct. 1948, p. 4.
B942 "FTCN." Rev. of The Plague, by Albert Camus; Sainte Colline, by Gabriel Chevalier; and Carrots, by Jules Renard, trans. G. W. Stonier. PE, 4 Nov. 1948, p. 4.
B943 "FTCN." Rev. of No Son of Mine, by G. B. Stern. PE, 11 Nov. 1948, p. 4.
B944 "FTCN." Rev. of The British Empire, ed. Hector Bolitho. PE, 18 Nov. 1948, p. 4.
B945 "FTCN." Rev. of The Myth of the Magus, by E. M. Butler; Anything but Love, by Elizabeth Hawes; and The Portable Swift, ed. Carl Van Doren. PE, 25 Nov. 1948, p. 4.
B946 "A Christmas Book Review." A series of brief reviews. PE, 14 Dec. 1948, p. 4.
Published under the pseudonym "Samuel Marchbanks."
B947 "FTCN." Rev. of cheap reprint series. PE, 20 Jan. 1949, p. 4.
B948 "FTCN." Rev. of The Portable Veblen, ed. Max Lerner; and The Portable Plato, ed. Scott Buchanan. PE, 10 Feb. 1949, p. 4.
B949 "FTCN." Rev. of The Story of the Canadian Press, by M. E. Nichols; and The Walled City, by Elspeth Huxley. PE, 24 Feb. 1949, p. 4.
B950 "FTCN." Rev. of The Corner That Held Them, by Sylvia T. Warner; and The Portable Sherwood Anderson, ed. Horace Gregory. PE, 10 March 1949, p. 4.
B951 "FTCN." Rev. of Shakespeare, 23 Plays and the Sonnets, ed. G. B. Harrison; and A Notebook on William Shakespeare, by Edith Sitwell. PE, 17 March 1949, p. 4.
B952 "FTCN." Rev. of When the Going Was Good, by Evelyn Waugh; and The Song of the Flea, by Gerald Kersh. PE, 24 March 1949, p. 4.
B953 "FTCN." Rev. of The Heat of the Day, by Elizabeth Bowen; and The God-Seeker, by Sinclair Lewis. PE, 31 March 1949, p. 4.
B954 "FTCN." Rev. of The Good Housekeeping Cook Book. PE, 14 April 1949, p. 4.
B955 "FTCN." Rev. of Sixteen Self Sketches, by Bernard Shaw; and The Portable Charles Lamb, ed. John Mason Brown. PE, 21 April 1949, p. 4.
B956 "FTCN." Rev. of The White Goddess, by Robert Graves; and The Scenic Art, by Henry James, ed. Allan Wade. PE, 28 April 1949, p. 4.
B957 "FTCN." Rev. of Herself Surprised, by Joyce Cary. PE, 5 May 1949, p. 4.
B958 "FTCN." Rev. of Watch the Northwind Rise, by Robert Graves; The Oblong Blur, by Philip Hamburger; and The Portable Voltaire, ed. Ben Ray Redman. PE, 19 May 1949, p. 4.
B959 "FTCN." Rev. of The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship, by Stephen Potter. PE, 26 May 1949, p. 4.
B960 "FTCN." Rev. of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, by Helen Angeli. PE, 5 Oct. 1949, p. 4.
B961 "FTCN." Rev. of Bernard Shaw through the Camera, gen. ed. F. E. Loewenstein; and Rex Whistler, His Life and His Drawings, by Lawrence Whistler. PE, 12 Oct. 1949, p. 4.
B962 "FTCN." Rev. of The Plant in My Window, by Ross Parmenter; and The Portable Milton, ed. Douglas Bush. PE, 19 Oct. 1949, p. 4.
B963 "FTCN." Rev. of No Idle Words, by Ivor Brown. PE, 26 Oct. 1949, p. 4.
B964 "FTCN." Rev. of Turvey: A Military Picaresque, by Earle Birney; and The Portable Matthew Arnold, ed. Lionel Trilling. PE, 2 Nov. 1949, p. 4.
B965 "FTCN." Rev. of A Writer's Notebook, by Somerset Maugham; and Clock without Hands, by Gerald Kersh. PE, 9 Nov. 1949, p. 4.
B966 "FTCN." Rev. of Ego 9 and A Shorter Ego, by James Agate; and Dandy the Donkey, by Walter Trier. PE, 23 Nov. 1949, p. 4.
B967 "FTCN." Rev. of The Theatre Book of the Year, by George J. Nathan; and Modern English Drama, by Ernest Reynolds. PE, 30 Nov. 1949, p. 4.
B968 "FTCN." Rev. of Mackenzie King of Canada, by H. Reginald Hardy; and The Universe of G. B. S., by William Irvine. PE, 7 Dec. 1949, p. 4.
B969 "FTCN." Rev. of The Origin of Medical Terms, by H. Alan Skinner; Etiquette in Canada, by Gertrude Pringle; The Pirates in the Deep Green Sea, by Eric Linklater; The Otterbury Incident, by Cecil Day; and Matinee Tomorrow, by Ward Morehouse. PE, 14 Dec. 1949, p. 4.
B970 "FTCN." Rev. of The Lady's Not for Burning, by Christopher Fry; and Stay Me with Flagons, by Maurice Healy. PE, 21 Dec. 1949, p. 4.
B971 "FTCN." Rev. of The Novels of Thomas Love Peacock, ed. David Garnett. PE, 4 Jan. 1950, p. 4.
B972 "FTCN." Rev. of Lydia Pinkham Is Her Name, by Jean Burton: and The Drawings of Henry Fuseli, by Paul Ganz. PE, 18 Jan. 1950, p. 4.
B973 "FTCN." Rev. of The Common Asphodel, by Robert Graves. PE, 1 Feb. 1950, p. 4.
B974 "FTCN." Rev. of A Mencken Crestomathy, by Henry Louis Mencken. PE, 8 Feb. 1959, p. 4.
B975 "FTCN." Rev. of The Other City, by John J. Espey. PE, 8 March 1950, p. 4.
B976 "FTCN." Rev. of The Real Charlotte, by E. O. Somerville and Martin Ross. PE, 15 March 1950, p. 4.
B977 "FTCN." Rev. of A Fearful Joy, by Joyce Cary. PE, 22 March 1950, p. 4.
B978 "FTCN." Rev. of The Cardinal, by Henry M. Robinson. PE, 12 April 1950, p. 4.
B979 "FTCN." Rev. of First Steps inside the Zoo, by John Lodwick; and The Art of Real Happiness, by Norman Vincent Peale. PE, 26 April 1950, p. 4.
B980 "FTCN." Rev. of The Borzoi Turgenev, by I. S. Turgenev, trans. Harry Stevens. PE, 3 May 1950, p. 4.
B981 "FTCN." Rev. of World Drama, by Allardyce Nicoll; and Rip Van Winkel: The Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson. PE, 10 May 1950, p. 4.
B982 "FTCN." Rev. of Humanity and Happiness, by Georg Brochmann. PE, 17 May 1950, p. 4.
B983 "FTCN." Rev. of Abdication, or All Is True, by H. T. Lowe-Porter. PE, 14 June 1950, p. 4.
B984 "FTCN." Rev. of I Leap over the Wall, by Monica Baldwin; and Prince Isidore, by Harold Acton. PE, 21 June 1950, p. 4.
B985 "FTCN." Rev. of Orley Farm, by Anthony Trollope; and The Thomas Mann Reader, ed. Joseph W. Angell. PE, 28 June 1950, p. 4.
B986 "On the Margin: About Criticism." PE, 13 Sept. 1950, p. 4.
B987 "On the Margin: Mixed Bag." Rev. of Uncle Samson, by Beverley Nichols. PE, 20 Sept. 1950, p. 4.
B988 "On the Margin: Obstinacy of a Poet." Rev. of Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. 2nd ed. PE, 4 Oct. 1950, p. 4.
B989 "On the Margin: Wit and Misery." Rev. of Ivy Compton-Burnett's writings. PE, 18 Oct. 1950, p. 4. ERD ("Ivy Compton-Burnett's Novels").
B990 "On the Margin: The Delights of Disproof." Rev. of Popular Fallacies, by A. S. E. Ackermann. PE, 1 Nov. 1950, p. 4.
B991 "On the Margin: Mixed Bag." Rev. of The Long Week-End, by Robert Graves and Alan Hodge; How to Help Your Child in School, by Mary Frank and Lawrence F. Frank; Having the Last Word, by Ivor Brown; and The Loud Literary Lamas of New York, by Jack Woodford. PE, 15 Nov. 1950, p. 4.
B992 "On the Margin: Superior Fiction." Rev. of Helena, by Evelyn Waugh; Officer and Gentleman, by J. Delves-Broughton; and The Writer's Situation, by Storm Jameson. PE, 29 Nov. 1950, p. 4.
B993 "On the Margin: Two Notable Books of Verse." Rev. of A Book of the Winter, by Edith Sitwell; and Poets of the English Language, ed. W. H. Auden and N. H. Pearson. PE, 13 Dec. 1950, p. 4.
B994 "On the Margin: The Young Mr. Boswell." Rev. of Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763, ed. Frederick A. Pottle; The Trapp Family Book of Christmas Songs, ed. Franz Wasner; and The Picture Gallery of Canadian History, Vol. III, by C. W. Jefferys. PE, 20 Dec. 1950, p. 4.
B995 "On the Margin: For Theatre Lovers." Rev. of The Masque, 1-8; and Mr. Punch, by Philip John Stead. PE, 10 Jan. 1951, p. 4.
B996 "On the Margin: Writing in the Forties." Rev. of Classics and Commercials, by Edmund Wilson. PE, 24 Jan. 1951, p. 4.
B997 "On the Margin: Superior Fiction." Rev. of The Parson's Daughter and Other Stories, by Anthony Trollope. PE, 31 Jan. 1951, p. 4.
B998 "On the Margin: Adventures, New and Old." Rev. of Settlers, ed. John Hale. PE, 7 Feb. 1951, p. 4.
B999 "On the Margin: Adventure and Scholarship." Rev. of The Scholar Adventurers, by Richard D. Altick; and The Portable Coleridge, ed. I. A. Richards. PE, 21 Feb. 1951, p. 4.
B1000 "On the Margin: Amusing the Booboisie." Rev. of The Great Audience, by Gilvert Seldes; The Visitors' Book, ed. Harry Ballan and Roy Lewis, and Famous and Infamous Cases, by Patrick Hastings. PE, 28 Feb. 1951, p. 4.
B1001 "On the Margin: Authors Great and Small." Rev. of 30 Years with G. B. S., by Blanche Patch; and Fred Bason's Diary. PE, 14 March 1951, p. 4.
B1002 "On the Margin: A Remarkable Autobiography." Rev. of Autobiography and Second Innings, by Neville Cardus. PE, 16 May 1951, p. 4.
B1003 "On the Margin: The Terror of the Twenties." Rev. of Disturber of the Peace [a life of Mencken], by William Manchester; The Sense and Nonsense of Prophecy, by Bernard F. Farmer; and Traveller's Samples, by Frank O'Connor. PE, 23 May 1951, p. 4.
B1004 "On the Margin: Three Notable Novels." Rev. of Festival at Farbridge, by J. B. Priestley; A Mouse Is Born, by Anita Loos; and This Is the Hour, by Leon Feuchtwanger. PE, 6 June 1951, p. 4.
B1005 "On the Margin: Old Plays and Queer Birds." Rev. of Seven One Act Plays by Holberg, trans. Henry Alexander; and The Preacher's Handbook, by Ian Niall. PE, 20 June 1951, p. 4.
B1006 "On the Margin: Midsummer Miscellany." Rev. of In Search of London, by H. V. Morton, and The Good Food Guide. PE, 27 June 1951, p. 4.
B1007 "Bibliomania." Rev. of The Second Scroll, by A. M. Klein; and The Blessing, by Nancy Mitford. PE, 20 Oct. 1951, p. 4.
B1008 "Bibliomania: Novels, New and Good." Rev. of The End of the Affair, by Graham Greene. PE, 10 Nov. 1951, p. 4.
B1009 "Bibliomania: The Wanderings of Mother Goose." Rev. of The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, ed. Iona Opie and Peter Opie. PE, 17 Nov. 1951, p. 4.
B1010 "Bibliomania: The Old Master." Rev. of The Complete Short Stories of Somerset Maugham, Vol. I. PE, 8 Dec. 1951, p. 4.
B1011 "Bibliomania: Tales of War and Peace." Rev. of The Masters, by C. P. Snow; The Clown, by E. J. Oliver; and The Queen Mother, by Martin Crawford. PE, 15 Dec. 1951, p. 4.
B1012 "Bibliomania: Last before Christmas." Rev. of Barabbas, by Par Lagerkvist; and English Inns Illustrated, by Colville Wemyss. PE, 22 Dec. 1951, p. 4.
B1013 "Bibliomania: The Last for 1951." Rev. of The Portable Henry James, ed. M. D. Zabel; and The Portable Cervantes, ed. Samuel Putnam. PE, 29 Dec. 1951, p. 4.
B1014 "Bibliomania: Coarse Hairs from the Spanish Mane." Rev. of The Great Days of Piracy, by George Woodbury; and Cub Reporter, by Jack Hambleton. PE, 12 Jan. 1952, p. 4.
B1015 "Bibliomania: Calligraphic Revolution." Rev. of Written by Hand, by Aubrey West; and Beds, by Reginald Reynolds. PE, 26 Jan. 1952, p. 4.
B1016 "Bibliomania: Brown's World of Words." Rev. of I Break My Word, by Ivor Brown. PE, 2. Feb. 1952, p. 4.
No initials, but Davies has always reviewed Brown's books.
B1017 "Bibliomania: The Knight from Nowhere." Rev. of Henry Irving, by Laurence Irving. PE, 16 Feb. 1952, p. 4.
B1018 "Bibliomania: A Baptist among the Reds." Rev. of Dance to the Piper, by Agnes de Mille. PE, 23 Feb. 1952, p. 4.
B1019 "Bibliomania: In the Footsteps of James." Rev. of The Portable Melville, ed. Jay Leyda. PE, 1 March 1952., p. 4.
B1020 "Bibliomania: Novels for Pleasure." Rev. of Lady Carmichael, by Margaret Kennedy. PE, 15 March 1952, p. 4.
B1021 "Bibliomania: Unabashed Story-Tellers." Rev. of The Complete Short Stories of Somerset Maugham and The Writer's Point of View, by Somerset Maugham; and Fancies and Goodnights, by John Collier. PE, 22 March 1952, p. 4.
B1022 "Bibliomania: New Fiction, Notable Reprint." Rev. of Catherine Carter, by Pamela Hansford Johnson; and Notes on a Cellar-Book, by George Saintsbury. PE, 29 March 1952, p. 4.
B1023 "Bibliomania: Distinguished Writing." Rev. of Duveen, by S. N. Behrman; and The Son of Adam Wyngate, by Mary O'Hara. PE, 12 April 1952, p. 4.
B1024 "Bibliomania: Good Spring Fiction." Rev. of A Lamb for Nightfall, by Erskine Caldwell; and The Crippled Muse, by Hugh Wheeler. PE, 19 April 1952, p. 4.
B1025 "Bibliomania: Free Tale of Ritual Murder." Rev. of The Deceivers, by John Masters. PE, 17 May 1952, p. 4.
B1026 "Bibliomania: James Thurber Remembers." Rev. of The Thurber Album, by James Thurber. PE, 7 June 1952, p. 4.
B1027 "Bibliomania: Writer, Murderer and Liberal." Rev. of Hugh Walpole, by Robert Hart-Davis; The Memoirs of Lacenaire, ed. John Philip Stead; and Two Cheers for Democracy, by E. M. Forster. PE, 21 June 1952, p. 4.
B1028 "Bibliomania: Are You a Wolf or a Dove?". Rev. of King Solomon's Ring, by Dr. Konrad Lorenz. PE, 17 Sept. 1952, p. 4.
For the rest of the year, "Bibliomania" appears on Wednesdays.
B1029 "Bibliomania: The Growth of Boswell." Rev. of Boswell in Holland 1763-1764, ed. Frederick A. Pottle; and Rose and Crown, by Sean O'Casey. PE, 24 Sept. 1952, p. 4.
B1030 "Bibliomania: Novel about Hockey." Rev. of Crazy-White-Man, by Richard Morenus. PE, 15 Oct. 1952, p. 4.
B1031 "Bibliomania: The Industrious Apprentice." Rev. of A Sense of Urgency, by C. L. Burton. PE, 5 Nov. 1952, p. 4.
B1032 "Bibliomania: Bitter Fruit from Europe." Rev. of The Skin, by Curzio Malaparte. PE, 19 Nov. 1952, p. 4.
B1033 "Bibliomania: Christmas Grab-Bag." Rev. of What People Wore, by Douglas Gorsline; Stabs in the Back, by Vicky [Victor Weisz]; and Fables for Our Times, by James Thurber. PE, 17 Dec. 1952, p. 4.
B1034 "The Critic Is Warned." Rev. of Londoner's Post, by Frank Swinnerton; The Shores of Light, by Edmund Wilson; and An Experience of Critics, by Christopher Fry. SN, 10 Jan. 1953,p. 26.
B1035 "The Photographer's Eyes." Rev. of Secret Tibet, by Fosco Maraini; and U. S. Camera 1953, ed. Tom Maloney. SN, 17 Jan. 1953, p. 30.
B1036 "Love Letters Boiled in Brandy." Rev. of Bernard Shaw & Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Their Correspondence, ed. Alan Dent. SN, 24 Jan. 1953, p. 30. ERD ("Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell").
B1037 "Observations on Yeats' Plays." Rev. of The Collected Plays of W. B. Yeats. SN, 31 Jan. 1953, p. 22.
B1038 "Do You Eat, or Basely Feed?". Rev. of The Ambitious Cook, by Frances Dale; and Chef's Holiday, by Idwal Jones. SN, 7 Feb. 1953, p. 22.
B1039 "Graphy: Bio- and Autobio-." Rev. of The Man Whistler, by Hesketh Pearson; Always the Young Strangers, by Carl Sandburg; The Years with Mother, by Augustus Hare; and Stanley Baldwin, by G. M. Young. SN, 14 Feb. 1953, pp. 30-31.
B1040 "Toward a Long Perspective." Rev. of Introduction to English Folklore, by Violet Alford; English Myths and Traditions, by Henry Bett; and The God of the Witches, by Margaret Murray. SN, 21 Feb. 1953, p. 30.
B1041 "Some Pills for the Press." Rev. of The Bedside Guardian, ed. Ivor Brown; The Singular Preference, by Peter Quennel; and The Shocking History of Advertising, by E. S. Turner. SN, 28 Feb. 1953, p. 22.
B1042 "Boadicea's Great-Granddaughter." Rev. of The History of the Coronation, by Lawrence E. Tanner; The Young Queen, by Godfrey Winn; Lady Louis, by Dennis Holman; The Royal Story, by Richard J. Doyle; and The Music of Britain, ed. Will Reed. SN, 7 March 1953, p. 16.
B1043 "Of the Human Predicament." Rev. of The Sign of Jonas, by Thomas Merton; The Well-Adjusted Personality, by Phillip Polatin; and The Best Years of Your Life, by Marie Beynon Ray. SN, 14 March 1953, pp. 20-21.
B1044 "The Full-Armed Theatre-Critic." Rev. of A Play Tonight, by J. C. Trewin; The Fugitive Art, by T. C. Worsley; As They Appear, by John Mason Brown; Drama from Ibsen to Eliot, by Raymond Williams; and Plays and Players, by Bernard Shaw. SN, 21 March 1953, pp. 24-25.
B1045 "The Last of Santayana." Rev. of My Host, The World, Vol. III, and Of Persons and Places, by George Santayana. SN, 28 March 1953, pp. 22-23. ERD ("George Santayana").
B1046 "The Master of Absolute Comedy." Rev. of Charles Dickens, His Tragedy and Triumph, 2 vols., by Edgar Johnson. SN, 4 April 1953, pp. 17-18.
B1047 "What Is Wrong with Fiction?". Rev. of Prince Bart, by J, Richard Kennedy. SN, 25 April 1953, pp. 20-21.
B1048 "These for the Critics." Rev. of Willa Cather, by E. K. Brown; Willa Cather Living, by Edith Lewis; Ernest Hemingway, by Philip Young; People, Places and Books, by Gilbert Highet; Books in General, by V. S. Pritchett; and Memories, by Desmond MacCarthy. SN, 2 May 1953, p. 11.
B1049 "Fair, Good and Rare." Rev. of The Apple Tree, by Daphne du Maurier; Noughts and Crosses, by Jacobine Hichens; and Jabadao, by Anne de Tourville. SN, 9 May 1953, pp. 20-21.
B1050 "First Steps in Fiction." Rev. of Satan in the Suburbs, by Bertrand Russell; and Battle Cry, by Leon Uris. SN, 23 May 1953, pp. 21-22.
B1051 "A Potent Brew." Rev. of Strasbourg Geese, by Sagittarius [O. Katzin]. SN, 30 May 1953, pp. 17-18.
B1052 "Let's Hang an Architect!". Rev. of The Heart of the City, by the Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne; and First and Last Loves, by John Betjeman. SN, 6 June 1953, pp. 11-12.
B1053 "Nor Hell a Fury." Rev. of Dumbbells and Carrot Strips, the Story of Bernarr Macfadden, by March Macfadden and Emille Gauvreau. SN, 13 June 1953, pp. 24-25.
B1054 "Why Not Be a Collector?". Rev. of ABC for Book Collectors, by John Carter. SN, 20 June 1953, pp. 22, 24.
B1055 "The Prisoner of Immanence." Rev. of The Second Sex, by Simone de Beauvoir. SN, 27 June 1953, pp. 20-21.
B1056 "But Are They All Horrid?". Rev. of Worlds of Tomorrow, ed. August Derleth; Year's Best Science Fiction Novels, ed. Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty; and The Supernatural Reader, ed. Groff Conklin and Lucy Conklin. SN, 4 July 1953, p. 15.
B1057 "Nonesuch Gloriously Revived." SN, 11 July 1953, pp. 16-17.
B1058 "The American World of Words." Rev. of Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language, 2 vols.; and Uncle Pogo's So-So Stories, by Walt Kelly. SN, 18 July 1953, pp. 15-16.
B1059 "For the Light of Heart." Rev. of Beds, Beards, and Cleanliness and Godliness, by Reginald Reynolds. SN, 25 July 1953, p. 15.
B1060 "What, No Novelists?". Rev. of The Return of Lanny Budd, by Upton Sinclair; Ring for Jeeves, by P. G. Wodehouse; The Weather in Middenshot, by Edgar Mittelholzer; and The Present and the Past, by Ivy Compton-Burnett. SN, 1 Aug. 1953, p. 15.
B1061 "Shroud or Levee Dress?". Rev. of The Oxford Trollope, Crown Edition; and The New Oxford Illustrated Dickens. SN, 8 Aug. 1953, pp. 15-16.
B1062 "The Dandy in the Stalls." Rev. of Around Theatres, by Max Beerbohm. SN, 15 Aug. 1953, pp. 15-16.
B1063 "Seen Through a Temperament." Rev. of Restless House, by Emile Zola; and Emile Zola, by F. W. J. Hemmings. SN, 22 Aug. 1953, pp. 13-14.
B1064 Rev. of Elizabethan Woman, by Carrol Camden. SN, 5 Sept. 1953, p. 18.
B1065 "Adventures in Indecency." Rev. of Marquis de Sade, with an Essay by Simone de Beauvoir and Selections from His Writings, trans. Paul Dinnage; and The Monk, by Matthew G. Lewis. SN, 10 Oct. 1953, pp. 17-18.
B1066 "Two Thomases and One Cain." Rev. of The Doctor and the Devils, by Dylan Thomas; A Frost on My Frolic, by Gwyn Thomas; and Galatea, by James M. Cain. SN, 17 Oct. 1953, pp. 26-27.
B1067 "Anthology of Talk." Rev. of The Oxford Book of English Talk, ed. James Sutherland. SN, 24 Oct. 1953, pp. 22-23.
B1068 "Can Carlyle Be Resurrected?". Rev. of Carlyle, an Anthology, by G. M. Trevelyan; and Thomas Carlyle, Letters to His Wife, ed. Trudy Bliss. SN, 31 Oct. 1953, pp. 16-17.
B1069 "What Is in the Magazines?". Rev. of Ideas and Places, by Cyril Connolly; Best Articles 1953, ed. Rudolf Flesch; and The Scribner Treasury. SN, 7 Nov. 1953, pp. 17-18.
B1070 "Dr. Neatby Punches the Pedagogues." Rev. of So Little for the Mind, by Hilda Neatby. SN, 14 Nov. 1953, pp. 22-23.
B1071 "Brethren in Sincerity." Rev. of The Pre-Raphaelites in Literature and Art, by D. S. R. Welland. SN, 21 Nov. 1953, pp. 26-27.
B1072 "The Muses' Fairest Light." Rev. of Ben Jonson of Westminster, by Marchette Chute; and Five Plays by Ben Jonson, World's Classics, 2 vols. SN, 28 Nov. 1953, pp. 19-20.
B1073 "Small at Sunhill." Rev. of Pause, a Sketch Book, by Emily Carr. SN, 28 Nov. 1953, p. 26.
B1074 "Two Happy Travellers." Rev. of A Country of Memorable Honour, by Thomas Firbank; and Coming Down the Seine, by Robert Gibbings. SN, 5 Dec. 1953, pp. 26-27.
B1075 "You, Too, May Punctuate." Rev. of You Have a Point There: A New and Complete Guide to Punctuation, by Eric Partridge. SN, 12 Dec. 1953, p. 22.
B1076 "Milton Cross Stubs His Toe." Rev. of Milton Cross' Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music, 2 vols. SN, 19 Dec. 1953, pp. 18, 20.
B1077 "Our Own 100 Years' War." Rev. of The Best Humour from Punch, ed. William Cole; and The Pick of Punch; and Thurber Country, by James Thurber. SN, 26 Dec. 1953, p. 14.
B1078 "Better Worlds Than This." Rev. of Clubland Heroes, by Richard Usborne; and Holmes and Watson, by S. C. Roberts. SN, 2 Jan. 1954, p. 14.
B1079 "The Urge to Confession." Rev. of A Writer's Diary, by Virginia Woolf; A Blessed Girl, by Emily Lutyens; and Boswell on the Grand Tour, by James Boswell, SN, 9 Jan. 1954, p. 13.
B1080 "Manners Makyth Man." Rev. of Esquire Etiquette, Mind Your Manners, by Clair Wallace; and Don't! A Manual of Mistakes, by "Censor." SN, 16 Jan. 1954, pp. 13-14.
B1081 "The Children of Tchekov." Rev. of Selected Stories by Katherine Mansfield [Katherine Beauchamp Murray], ed. Elizabeth Bowen; The Stories of Frank O'Connor [Michael O'Donnovan]; The Complete Stories of Erskine Caldwell; and The Brighton Monster, by Gerald Kersch. SN, 23 Jan. 1954, pp. 14-15.
B1082 "Festivum Caput and Master Craftsman." Rev. of Performing Flea by P. G. Wodehouse, ed. W. Townend. SN 30 Jan. 1954, pp. 13-14. ERD ("P. G. Wodehouse").
B1083 "From the Actor's Theatre." Rev. of Nineteenth Century Plays, ed. George Rowell. SN, 6 Feb. 1954, p. 18.
B1084 "Advice to the Players." Rev. of The Actor's Ways and Means, by Michael Redgrave; Shakespearian Players and Performances, by Arthur Colby Sprague; Directing the Play, ed. T. Cole and H. K. Shinoy; Conscience and the King, by Bertram Joseph; Shakespeare, His World and His Work, by M. M. Reese; and Three Medieval Plays, ed. John Allen. SN, 13 Feb. 1954, pp. 20-21.
B1085 "The Explorer of the Unconscious." Rev. of The Young Freud, Vol. 1 of Sigmund Freud, Life and Work, by Ernest Jones. SN, 20 Feb. 1954, pp. 19-20. ERD ("Sigmund Freud").
B1086 "What Shall I Read Next?". Rev. of What Shall I Read Next?, by F. Seymour Smith; The Personal Library, by Lionel McColvin; and Illustrated History of English Literature: Chaucer to Shakespeare, by A. C. Ward. SN, 27 Feb. 1954, pp. 16-17.
B1087 "A Kingdom of This World." Rev. of The Selected Novels of Somerset Maugham. SN, 6 March 1954, pp. 15-16.
B1088 "Swan of Liffey." Rev. of It Isn't This Time of Year at All!, by Oliver St. John Gogarty; A Layman's Love of Letters, by G. M. Trevelyan; and Great English Short Novels, ed. Cyril Connolly. SN, 13 March 1954, pp. 17-18.
B1089 "It's Not Art and It Isn't Pretty." Rev. of Seeing and Knowing, by Bernard Berenson; and The Voices of Silence, by Andre Malraux, trans. Stuart Gilbert. SN, 20 March 1954, pp. 17-19. ERD ("Seeing and Knowing / The Voices of Silence").
B1090 "A Scoffer and a Jester." Rev. of The Letters of Sydney Smith, ed. Nowell C. Smith, 2 vols. SN, 27 March 1954, pp. 15-16. ERD ("Sydney Smith").
B1091 "Congenial Horrors, Hail!". Rev. of Vidocq, Picaroon of Crime, by Philip John Stead; Trial of John George Haigh, ed. Lord Dunboyne; Hatred, Ridicule or Contempt, by Joseph Dean; and Eight Studies in Justice, by Jack Smith-Hughes. SN, 3 April 1954, pp. 20-21.
B1092 "A Good Word for Folly's Child." Rev. of The Child and Fashion, by Doris Langley; Muffs and Morals, by Pearl Binder; and Pierced Hearts and True Love, by Hanns Ebensten. SN, 10 April 1954, pp. 17, 20.
B1093 "Terry's Aunt." Rev. of Collected Plays of Terence Rattigan, 2 vols.; Ladies of the Corridor, by Dorothy Parker and Arnaut d'Usseau; and Wonderful Town, by Jerome Chodorov et al. SN, 17 April 1954, pp. 18-19.
B1094 "How To, How To, How To." Rev. of Help Your Husband Get Ahead, by Mrs. Dale Carnegie; A Guide to Seduction, by John Chandos; and The Mind Alive, by Harry Overstreet and Bonaro Overstreet. SN, 24 April 1954, pp. 20-21.
B1095 "The Questers." Rev. of The Magicians, by J. B. Priestley; and Doors of Perception, by Aldous Huxley SN, 1 May 1954, pp. 31-33. ERD ("The Magicians/ The Doors of Perception").
B1096 "Patrist and Matrist Created He Them." Rev. of Sex and History, by G. Rattray Taylor. SN, 8 May 1954, pp. 13-14.
B1097 "Not Folly or Incapacity." Rev. of The Faber Book of Children's Verse, ed. Janet Adam Smith; and A Bowl of Bishop, by Morris Bishop. SN, 15 May 1954, pp. 26-28.
B1098 "Sincere and Tender Pompadour." Rev. of Madame de Pompadour, by Nancy Mitford. SN, 22 May 1954, pp. 16-18. ERD ("Madame de Pompadour").
B1099 "Greetings Humanoids! Drag Over a Cyclotron." Rev. of Seduction of the Innocent, by Frederic Wertham. SN, 5 June 1954, pp. 16-17.
B1100 "From the World of the Manichees." Rev. of Christ Reconciled, by Nikos Kazantzakis; and Pope Joan, by Emmanuel Royidis, trans. Lawrence Durrell. SN, 12 June 1954, pp. 16-18.
B1101 "Control Your Nostalgia." Rev. of The Old Country Store, by Gerald Carson; and Stories on Stone, by Charles L. Wallis. SN, 19 June 1954, pp. 15-16.
B1102 "Not for Mrs. Jones the Gas." Rev. of Under Milk Wood, by Dylan Thomas. SN, 26 June 1954, pp. 24-25.
B1103 "Canadian Satire, Symposium and Song." Rev. of The Chartered Libertine, by Ralph Allen; Canada's Tomorrow, ed. G. P. Gilmour; and Folk Songs of Canada, by E. F. Fowke and Richard Johnston. SN, 3 July 1954, pp. 13-14.
B1104 "Bouillion Cubes for the Curious." Rev. of Everyman's Dictionary of Dates, ed. A. Arnold Baker and A. Dent; Everyman's Dictionary of Shakespeare Quotations; A Concise History of Music, by William Lovelock; and Music for the Piano, by James Friskin and Irwin Freundlich. SN, 10 July 1954, pp. 13-14.
B1105 "Studies in Frustration." Rev. of Two Studies in Integrity, by Ethel Mannin; and Future Indefinite, by Noel Coward. SN, 17 July 1954, pp. 13-14.
B1106 "For Hammock and Deck Chair." Rev. of Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck; Lost Island, by Graham McInnes; Spinsters in Jeopardy, by Ngaio Marsh; Faintly Speaking, by Gladys Mitchell; A Time to Love and a Time to Die, by E. M. Remarque; A Flame for Doubting Thomas, by Richard Llewellyn; and Mary Anne, by Daphne du Maurier. SN, 24 July 1954, pp. 13-14.
B1107 "Rosemond and Meddlesome Mattie." Rev. of English Children's Books, by Percy Muir. SN, 31 July 1954, pp. 13-14.
B1108 "Winter and Rough Weather." Rev. of The Dark Is Light Enough, by Christopher Fry; and Five Plays by Edmund Wilson. SN, 7 Aug. 1954, pp. 13-14.
B1109 "Was Lewis Carroll an Enigma?". Rev. of The Diaries of Lewis Carroll, ed. Roger Lancelyn Green, 2 vols. SN, 14 Aug. 1954, pp. 11-12.
B1110 "Some Light on Leacock." Rev. of Eight Humorists, by George Mikes. SN, 21 Aug. 1954, pp. 11-12.
B1111 "The Old Master and the Young One." Rev. of The Black Swan, by Thomas Mann; and Rama Retold, by Aubrey Menen. SN, 28 Aug. 1954, pp. 13-14.
B1112 "The Fiction Habit." Rev. of The Fall of a Titan, by Igor Gouzenko; The Tunnel of Love, by Peter de Vries; Footman in Powder, by Helen Ashton; Roman Wall, by Winifred Bryher; Stories and Cream, by Edward Hymans; Doctor Dear, by Mary Bethune; Invitation from Minerva, by March Cost; An Impossible Marriage, by Pamela Hansford Johnson; and The Royal Box, by Frances Parkinson Keyes. SN, 4 Sept. 1954, pp. 11-12.
B1113 "The Age of the Amateur Writer." Rev. of Kate Terry Gielgud, by Kate Terry Gielgud; and Julia Marlow's Story, by E. H. Sothern. SN, 18 Sept. 1954, pp. 15-16.
B1114 "Letters of a Cheerful Adventurer." Rev. of Sigmund Freud's Letters, Letters to Wilhelm Fliess, Drafts and Notes, 1887-1902, ed. Marie Bonaparte, Anna Freud, and Ernest Kris. SN, 25 Sept. 1954, pp. 15-16.
B1115 "The Mould of Form." Rev. of Corsets and Crinolines, by Norah Waugh. SN, 2 Oct. 1954, pp. 13-14. ERD ("Corsets and Crinolines").
B1116 "The Pleasures of Architecture." Rev. of The Pleasures of Architecture, by C. Williams-Ellis and A. Williams-Ellis; Pleasure of Ruins, by Rose Macaulay; Follies and Grottoes, by Barbara Jones; Churches, by Edmund Vale; and Castles, by R. Allen Brown. SN, 9 Oct. 1954, pp. 23-24.
B1117 "My, My, Said the Earl of Oxford." Rev. of The Dark Lady, by Cothburn O'Neal. SN, 16 Oct. 1954, pp. 19-20.
B1118 "Humor Explained and Demonstrated." Rev. of Sense of Humour, by Stephen Potter; Patrick Campbell's Omnibus, with drawings by Ronald Searle; Lonely Pleasures, by Daniel George; and The Pick of Punch. SN, 27 Nov. 1954, pp. 11-12.
B1119 "In Compliment to the Young." Rev. of Oxford Junior Encyclopedia, ed. Laura E. Salt and Robert Sinclair; and Oxford Junior Companion to Music, by Percy A. Scholes. SN, 4 Dec. 1954, pp. 19-20.
B1120 "Scandal Recollected in Tranquillity." Rev. of Son of Oscar Wilde, by Vyvyan Holland; and Free Love and Heavenly Sinners, by Robert Shaplen. SN, 11 Dec. 1954, pp. 17-18.
B1121 "'Twas the Night Before....'" SN, 18 Dec. 1954, pp. 23-25.
B1122 "Truthful Jane in a Handsome Dress." Rev. of Minor Works, ed. R. W. Chapman, Vol. VI of The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen. SN, 1 Jan. 1955, pp. 14-15.
B1123 "Love Is Not a Potato." Rev. of The History of Courting, by E. S. Turner; The Evolution of Love, by Donald Day; and Sex, Sin and Sanctity, by John Langdon-Davies. SN, 8 Jan. 1955, pp. 12-13.
B1124 "The Pitfalls of Scepticism." Rev. of The Spoor of Spooks and Other Nonsense, by Bergen Evans. SN, 15 Jan. 1955, pp. 14-15.
B1125 "A Chat about Some Plays." Rev. of Kean, by Jean-Paul Sartre; Don Juan, by Ronald Duncan; Plays by Gordon Daviot; Home is the Hero, by Walter Macken; and The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, by Herman Wouk. SN, 22 Jan. 1955, pp. 11-12.
B1126 "Pertinent and Impertinent Critics." Rev. of The Literary Situation, by Malcolm Cowley; Ten Novels and Their Authors, by Somerset Maugham; Novels of the Eighteen-Forties, by Kathleen Tillotson; Thackeray the Novelist, by Geoffrey Tillotson; and The English Novel, by Walter Allen. SN, 29 Jan. 1955, pp. 11-12.
B1127 "Portrait of the Artist at Extreme Length." Rev. of Sunset and Evening Star, by Sean O'Casey; Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, by Dylan Thomas; and Quite Early One Morning, by Dylan Thomas. SN, 5 Feb. 1955, pp. 12-13. ERD ("Sean O'Casey").
B1128 "Catching Your Great Man." Rev. of Grand Man, by Nancy Cunard; John Ruskin, by Joan Evans; The Private Diaries of Stendhal, ed. and trans. Robert Sage; and His Very Self and Voice, by Ernest J. Lovell. SN, 19 Feb. 1955, pp. 14-15.
B1129 "Fiction before the Revolution." Rev. of The Nebuly Coat and The Lost Stradivarius, by J. Meade Falkner; The Wrong Box, by Robert Louis Stevenson; and On Learning to Write, by Charles Morgan. SN, 26 Feb. 1955, pp. 12-13.
B1130 "The Delights of Despair." Rev. of All Men Are Mortal, by Simone de Beauvoir; The Cornerstone, by Zole Oldenbourg; The Unhurrying Chase, by H. F. M. Prescott; The Golden Princess, by Alexander Baron; and The Flint Anchor, by Sylvia Townsend. SN, 5 March 1955, pp. 14-15.
B1131 "The Swan Ballynahinch." Rev. of O Rare Amanda!, by Jack Loudan. SN, 12 March 1955, pp. 14-15.
B1132 "The Couch-Ouch!". Rev. of Fragments of an Analysis with Freud, by Joseph Wortis; and The Fifty-Minute Hour, by Robert Lindner. SN, 19 March 1955, pp. 14-15.
B1133 "Spite in the Service of Truth." Rev. of T. E. Lawrence by His Friends, ed. A. W. Lawrence; Lawrence of Arabia, a Biographical Inquiry, by Richard Aldington; and The Mint, by 352087 A/c Ross [T. E. Lawrence]. SN, 26 March 1955, pp. 14-15.
B1134 "For the Musical Amateur." Rev. of Early Mediaeval Music--1300, ed. D. A. Hughes, Vol. II of The New Oxford Dictionary of Music; Everyman's Dictionary of Music, by Eric Blom; and Seventeen Famous Operas, More Stories of Famous Operas, and The Wagner Operas, by Ernest Newman. SN, 2 April 1955, pp. 13-14.
B1135 "The Search for the Historical Jesus." Rev. of The Nazarene Gospel Restored, by Robert Graves and Joshua Podro. SN, 9 April 1955, pp. 14-15.
B1136 "Four Sunny Windows." Rev. of Sincerely, Willis Wayde, by John P. Marquand; To the One I Love Best, by Ludwig Bemelmans; The Smallest Room, by John Pudney; and Bottoms Up!, by Cornelia Otis Skinner. SN, 16 April 1955, pp. 14-15.
B1137 "Youth Loves Strong Meat." Rev. of Bonjour Tristesse, by Francoise Sagan; The Duck Hunt, by Hugo Claus; and Open Arms, by Odette Joyeux. SN, 23 April 1955, pp. 14-15.
B1138 "How to Be Wise without Tears." Rev. of The Oxford Dictionary of English Proverbs. SN, 14 May 1955, pp. 22-23.
B1139 "A Week with Middlemarch." Rev. of Middlemarch, by George Eliot. SN, 28 May 1955, pp. 24-26.
B1140 "Shakespeare Living and Dead." Rev. of William Poel and the Elizabethan Revival, by Robert Speaight; The Merchant of Venice and Julius Caesar (The New Stratford Shakespeare), ed. J. B. Harrison; Spiritual Values in Shakespeare, by Ernest Marshall Howse; Talking of Shakespeare, ed. John Garrett; and Shakespeare Survey 8, ed. Allardyce Nicoll. SN, 11 June 1955, pp. 21-23.
B1141 "Literature's Twin Sister." Rev. of The Parkman Reader, ed. Samuel E. Morison; Clarendon, ed. G. Huehns; The King's Peace, by C. V. Wedgwood; and Myth or Legend, by G. E. Daniel et al. SN, 25 June 1955, pp. 31-32, 34.
B1142 "How Not to Write a Book." Rev. of How Not to Write a Play, by Walter Kerr. SN, 23 July 1955, pp. 25, 27-28.
B1143 "A Contrast in Novelists." Rev. of Not Honour More, by Joyce Cary; A Bunch of Errors, by Salvador de Madariaga; and Something of Value, by Robert Ruark. SN, 6 Aug. 1955, pp. 20-22. ERD (excerpt--"Joyce Cary's Novels").
B1144 "An Approaching Revolution." Rev. of The Verdict of You All, by Rupert Croft-Cooke. SN, 9 Aug. 1955, pp. 19-20.
B1145 "Pastime for Criminals." Rev. of Wainewright in Tasmania, by Robert Crossland; Honours for Sale, by Gerald Macmillan; A Train of Powder, by Rebecca West; United in Crime, by Montgomery Hyde; and Six Ventures in Villainy, by Jack Smith-Hughes. SN, 20 Aug. 1955, pp. 18-20.
B1146 "What the Novelists Are Doing." Rev. of Self Condemned, by Wyndham Lewis; A Tale for Midnight, by Frederic Prokosch; and The Genius and the Goddess, by Aldous Huxley. SN, 1 Oct. 1955, pp. 23, 25-26.
B1147 "Elephantine Novels." Rev. of Officers and Gentlemen, by Evelyn Waugh; Marjorie Morningstar, by Herman Wouk; and The Tontine, by Thomas B. Costain. SN, 15 Oct. 1955, pp. 31-34.
B1148 "The Last of Fortune's Favorite." Rev. of Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man, by Thomas Mann. SN, 29 Oct. 1955, pp. 26-28. ERD ("Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man").
B1149 "Let's See Your Licence." Rev. of Cousin Elva, by Stuart Trueman; Mortgage Manor, by Lex Schrag; and Shall We Join the Ladies, by Eric Nicol. SN, 12 Nov. 1955, pp. 39-42.
B1150 "The Sound of a Voice That Is Still." Rev. of Victorian Song, or from Dive to Drawing Room, by Maurice B. Willson Disher; and The Fabulous Phonograph, by Roland Gelatt. SN, 26 Nov. 1955, pp. 11-12.
B1151 "The Reindeer's Mouth." Rev. of John A. Macdonald, 2 vols., by Donald Creighton; Vincent Van Gogh, ed. Douglas Cooper; Toulouse-Lautrec, ed. Hanspeter Landolt; and The Scrolls from the Dead Sea, by Edmund Wilson. SN, 10 Dec. 1955, pp. 35-36, 39-40.
B1152 "A Ceremony of Chortles." Rev. of A Christmas Garland, by Max Beerbohm. SN, 24 Dec. 1955, pp. 18-20. ERD ("A Christmas Garland").
B1153 "A Backward Glance." SN, 7 Jan. 1956, pp. 13-14.
B1154 "A Foreword Look." Rev. of Years of Maturity, 1901-1919, Vol. II of Sigmund Freud, Life and Work, by Ernest Jones. SN, 21 Jan. 1956, pp. 21-22.
B1155 "Repairing Two Reputations." Rev. of Thackeray: The Uses of Adversary 1811-1846, by Gordon N. Ray; and Anthony Trollope, a Critical Study, by A. O. J. Cockshut. SN, 4 Feb. 1956, pp. 18, 20.
B1156 "An Old Favorite and a New One." Rev. of The Week-End Book, ed. Francis Meynell; and Winter's Tales, 1, by Kingsley Amis et al. SN, 18 Feb. 1956, pp. 24-25.
B1157 "The Vanity of the Living." Rev. of The History of American Funeral Directing, by R. W. Habenstein and W. M. Lamers. SN, 3 March 1956, pp. 16-17.
B1158 "Avant-Garde and Rearguard." Rev. of Molloy, by Samuel Beckett; A View from the Bridge, by Arthur Miller; and The Red Umbrellas, by Kelvin Lindemann SN, 17 March 1956, pp. 22, 25.
Bl159 "The Clouded Target." Rev. of James Bridie and His Theatre, by Winifred Bannister; Kathleen Ferrier, by Charles Rigby; Mr. Macready, by J. C. Trewin; Rudyard Kipling, His Life and Work, by Charles Carrington; and The Moth and the Star, by Aileen Pippett. SN, 31 March 1956, pp. 15-16.
B1160 "Moderate and Middlebrow." Rev. of The New Century Handbook of English Literature, ed. Clarence L. Barnhart; and Illustrated History of English Literature, 3 vols., by A. C. Ward. SN, 14 April 1956, pp. 26-28.
B1161 "A Matter of Morality." Rev. of Lucky Jim and That Uncertain Feeling, by Kingsley Amis; and Point of Order, by Gwyn Thomas. SN, 28 April 1956, pp. 20-21.
B1162 "Invaluable Advice to Young Writers." Rev. of Advice to a Young Critic, by Bernard Shaw. SN, 12 May 1956, pp. 13-14.
B1163 "Skittles and Champagne for Two." Rev. of The Girl with the Swansdown Seat, by Cyril Pearl; The Abode of Love, by Aubrey Menen; and 1848, by Raymond Postgate. SN, 26 May 1956, pp. 22-23. ERD ("The Girl with the Swansdown Seat/The Abode of Love/ 1848").
B1164 "The Romantic Temperament." Rev. of Dylan Thomas in America, by John Malcolm Brinnin, and Evenings with the Orchestra, by Hector Berlioz; trans. Jacques Barzun. SN, 9 June 1956, pp. 22, 25. ERD ("Dylan Thomas and Hector Berlioz").
B1165 "A Dissatisfaction of Critics." Rev. of Theatre for Shakespeare, by Alfred Harbage; Theatre 1954-5, by Ivor Brown et al.; Shakespeare at the Old Vic 1954-5, by Roger Wood and Mary Clarke; The Oxford Shakespeare; The Bishop's Bonfire, by Sean O'Casey; and Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett. SN, 23 June 1956, pp. 16-17.
B1166 "Softenings of Fancy." Rev. of Comfort Me with Apples, by Peter deVries; Mama I Love You, by William Saroyan; The Mandarins, by Simone de Beauvoir; and A Thing of Beauty, by A. J. Cronin. SN, 7 July 1956, pp. 22-23.
B1167 "The Soaring Penguin." Rev. of The Penguin Story, by William Emrys Williams, and mentions nine novels by John Buchan, all published by Penguin. SN, 21 July 1956, pp. 22-23.
B1168 "The Hundred-Yard Dash." Rev. of Collected Stories, by V. S. Pritchett; A Contest of Ladies, by William Sansom; Welsh Short Stories, ed. Gwyn Jones; and The Third Ghost Book, ed. Cynthia Asquith. SN, 14 Aug. 1956, pp. 18-19.
B1169 "English Jokes and Shibboleths." Rev. of The English Sense of Humour, by Harold Nicolson; and Noblesse Oblige, by Nancy Mitford et al. SN, 18 Aug. 1956, pp. 23-24.
B1170 "That Dares Not Speak Its Name." Rev. of Anglo-Saxon Attitudes, by Angus Wilson; Thin Ice, by Compton Mackenzie; and They Stand Apart, ed. Tudor Rees. SN, 1 Sept. 1956, pp. 16-17.
B1171 "The American Critical Mind." Rev. of Minority Report, by H. L. Mencken; Sight and Spectacles, Theatre Chronicles 1937-56, by Mary McCarthy; and Red, Black, Blonde, and Olive, by Edmund Wilson, SN, 15 Sept. 1956, pp. 25-26.
B1172 "How Widely Do You Read?". Rev. of All about Ourselves and Other Essays, by J. B. Priestley, ed. Eric Gillett; All the Books of My Life, by Sheila Kaye-Smith; and The Penguin Book of English Verse, ed. John Hayward. SN, 29 Sept. 1956, pp. 20-21.
B1173 "Five from Autumn Fiction." Rev. of The Sacrifice, by Adele Wiseman; A Certain Smile, by Francoise Sagan; Follow a Shadow, by Wallace Reyburn; The Floating Opera, by John Barth; and The Magician, by Somerset Maugham. SN, 13 Oct. 1956, pp. 29-31.
B1174 "The Age of Opulence." Rev. of Edward VII and His Circle, by Virginia Cowles; and An Edwardian Youth, by L. E. Jones. SN, 27 Oct. 1956, pp. 29-30.
B1175 "A Cranky Life of GBS." Rev. of Bernard Shaw, His Life, Work and Friends, by St. John Ervine. SN, 10 Nov. 1956, pp. 20-21.
B1176 "Enquire Within upon Everything." Rev. of The New Outline of Modern Knowledge, ed. Alan Pryce-Jones. SN, 24 Nov. 1956, pp. 29-30.
B1177 "Dingley Dell and Commercial Hell." SN, 8 Dec. 1956, pp. 27-28.
B1178 "Christmas with Joe Miller." Rev. of Leonardo da Vinci [reprint of 1938 edition by Instituto Geografico de Agostini]; Venice Observed, by Mary McCarthy; and Joe Miller's Jests, ed. Joseph Mottley. SN, 22 Dec. 1956, pp. 19-20.
B1179 "Stress as Angel or Devil." Rev. of The Stress of Life, by Hans Selye. SN, 5 Jan. 1957, pp. 14-15.
B1180 "Posthumous Punching of Father." Rev. of Long Day's Journey into Night, by Eugene O'Neill. SN, 19 Jan. 1957, pp. 15-16.
B1181 "The Oak and the Mistletoe." Rev. of Pincher Martin, by William Golding; The Mirror in the Roadway, by Frank O'Connor; Selected Literary Criticism, by D. H. Lawrence, ed. Anthony Beal; and The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, ed. Aldous Huxley. SN, 2 Feb. 1957, pp. 16-17.
B1182 "Not Really Ribald." Rev. of A Treasury of Ribaldry, ed. Louis Untermeyer; and My Dog Tulip, by J. R. Ackerley. SN, 16 Feb. 1957, pp. 27-28.
B1183 "Edwardian Amateur of Genius." Rev. of Beerbohm Tree, His Life and Laughter, by Hesketh Pearson; and Catacrok!, by Robert Graves. SN, 2 March 1957, pp. 19-20.
B1184 "What about a Show of Courage?". Rev. of The Fall, by Albert Camus, trans. Justin O'Brien; and The Fountain Overflows, by Rebecca West. SN, 16 March 1957, pp. 20-21.
B1185 "Drawing the Line." Rev. of Low's Autobiography; The Goodtempered Pencil, by Fougasse [C. K. Bird]; Chip off My Shoulder, by Sprod [Thomas Lunsford Stokes]; and Merry England, by Ronald Searle. SN, 30 March 1957, pp. 12-13.
B1186 "Chaucer on a Bull Market." Rev. of The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer, trans. Neville Coghill: and From the Third Programme: A Ten Year's Anthology, ed. John Morris. SN, 13 April 1957, pp. 34-35. ERD (revised--"The Canterbury Tales").
B1187 "One of the Necessities." Rev. of The Painter's Eye, by Henry James, ed. John L. Sweeney; The Nude, a Study in Ideal Form, by Kenneth Clark; and The Letters of William Blake, ed. Geoffrey Keynes. SN, 27 April 1957, pp. 29-30. ERD (excerpt--"The Painter's Eye / The Nude").
B1188 "The Great Reader Learns." Rev. of Methods of Book Design, the Practice of an Industrial Craft, by Hugh Williamson. SN, 11 May 1957, pp. 26-27.
B1189 "Gentlemen and Dark Ladies." Rev. of Gallant Gentlemen, by E. S. Turner; and Dark Ladies, by Ivor Brown. SN, 25 May 1957, pp. 25-27.
B1190 "Handyman in the Theatre." Rev. of The Victorian Theatre, by George Rowell; The Shaw-Barker Letters, ed. C. B. Purdom; Freddy Lonsdale, by Frances Donaldson; and Vale of Laughter, by Ben Travers. SN, 8 June 1957, pp. 23-24.
B1191 "Hardy: Twenty Years After." Rev. of Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy; and Left Hand, Right Hand! and The Scarlet Tree, by Osbert Sitwell. SN, 22 June 1957, pp. 23-24. ERD (excerpt--"Tess of the D'Urbervilles").
B1192 "Servant of the White Goddess." Rev. of They Hanged My Saintly Billy and The Crowning Privilege, by Robert Graves; and Robert Graves, by Martin Seymour-Smith. SN, 28 Sept. 1957, pp. 32-33.
B1193 "Back to Maturity?". Rev. of By Love Possessed, by James Gould Cozzens; and The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, by Evelyn Waugh. SN, 12 Oct. 1957, pp. 25-27.
B1194 "The Stream and the Creek." Rev. of A Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage, ed. Bergen Evans and Cornelia Evans; and A Dictionary of American-English Usage, ed. Margaret Nicholson. SN, 26 Oct. 1957, pp. 25-26.
B1195 "The Duty to Enjoy Oneself." Rev. of The Fine Art of Reading, by David Cecil; and Talents and Geniuses, by Gilbert Highet. SN, 9 Nov. 1957, pp. 33-35.
B1196 "Industrious Anthologists." Rev. of Reading for Pleasure, by Bennett Cerf; A Treasury of the World's Great Diaries, ed. P. Dunway and M. Evans; and The Romanic Reader, ed. H. E. Hugo. SN, 23 Nov. 1957, pp. 25-26.
B1197 "Fourteen for the Twenty-Fifth." SN, 17 Dec. 1957, pp. 25-26.
B1198 "Theatre Royal, Drawing-Room." Rev. of Drawing-Room Plays and Parlour Pantomines, ed. Clement Scott. SN, 21 Dec. 1957, pp. 19-21.
B1199 "Tales of Our Wayside Inns." Rev. of Pioneer Inns and Taverns, 4 vols., by Edwin C. Guillet. SN, 4 Jan. 1958, pp. 22-23.
B1200 "Wisdom from an Octogenarian." Rev. of Index to the Story of My Days, by Edward Gordon Craig; The Best One-Act Plays of 1956-57, ed. Hugh Miller; and A Picture History of the British Theatre, by Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson. SN, 18 Jan. 1958, pp. 22-24.
B1201 "The Luxuries of Literature." Rev. of A Book of Anecdotes, by Daniel George; Speaking of Pianists, by Abram Chasins; and Voltaire in Love, by Nancy Mitford. SN, 1 Feb. 1958, pp. 22, 23, 25.
B1202 "The Incorruptible Savant." Rev. of The Last Phase, Vol. III of Sigmund Freud, Life and Work, by Ernest Jones. SN, 15 Feb. 1958, pp. 20-22.
B1203 "Victorian Renunciation." Rev. of A Measure of Love, by Oris Origo; Jowett, by Geoffrey Faber; Georgina Hogarth and the Dickens Circle, by Arthur A. Adrian; and Thackeray: The Age of Wisdom 1847-1863, by Gordon N. Ray. SN, 1 March 1958, pp. 20-22.
B1204 "Where's Me? Front Row." Rev. of Justine, by Lawrence Durrell; The Keys of St. Peter, by Roger Peyrefitte; Peace River Country, by Ralph Allen; and How to Read a Novel, by Caroline Gordon. SN, 15 March 1958, pp. 35-37.
B1205 "Mentor, Not Companion." Rev. of The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, ed. F. L. Cross. SN, 29 March 1958, pp. 24-25.
B1206 "Avant-Garde: Blank File." Rev. of I Like It Here, by Kingsley Amis; and Mackerel Plaza, by Peter deVries. SN, 12 April 1958, pp. 28-30.
B1207 "A Kind of Magic." Rev. of Writers at Work, ed. Malcolm Cowley. SN, 26 April 1958, pp. 25-27.
B1208 "With Nathan In Mind." Rev. of Look Back in Anger, by John Osborne; The Potting Shed, by Graham Greene; Look Homeward, Angel, by Ketti Frings; All That Fall, by Samuel Beckett; and Salome, by Oscar Wilde. SN, 10 May 1958, pp. 25-26, 30.
B1209 "The Individual and the Mass." Rev. of The Undiscovered Self, by Carl Gustav Jung; The Tenth Muse, by Herbert Read; Psyche and Symbol, by Carl Gustav Jung; and Experiment in Depth, by P. W. Martin. SN, 24 May 1958, pp. 26-28. ERD ("The Undiscovered Self").
B1210 "Poictesme to Peyton Place." Rev. of Peyton Place, by Grace Metalious. SN, 7 June 1958, pp. 24-25.
B1211 "The Warm Red Rebel." Rev. of Man in Modern Fiction, by Edmund Fuller; and A Visit to Mrs. Wilcox, by Naomi Lewis. SN, 21 June 1958, pp. 25-27.
B1212 "Poor Mozart! Poor Verdi!". Rev of The Life of Rossini, by Stendhal, trans. Richard N. Coe; and Orpheus at Eighty, by Vincent Sheean. SN, 5 July 1958, pp. 21-23.
B1213 "The Urge to Be Rational." Rev. of The Search for Good Sense, by F. L. Lucas. SN, 19 July 1958, pp. 20-22.
B1214 "Moriarty in Middle Age." Rev. of Memoirs of a Public Baby, by Philip O'Connor. SN, 2 Aug. 1958, pp. 22-23.
B1215 "Lashing Out and Cashing In." Rev. of The Contenders, by John Wain; and The Angry Decade, by Kenneth Allsop. SN, 16 Aug. 1958, pp. 26-28.
B1216 "Mania for Green Fruit." Rev. of Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov. SN, 11 Oct. 1958, pp. 31-33. ERD ("Lolita").
B1217 "The Matter of Britain." Rev. of The Once and Future King, by T. H. White; and The Works of Sir Thomas Malory. SN, 25 Oct. 1958, pp. 32-33.
B1218 "Gusto versus Groucho." Rev. of Around the World with Auntie Mame, by Patrick Dennis; and More in Sorrow, by Wolcott Gibbs. SN, 8 Nov. 1958, pp. 16-17, 33.
B1219 "Science for the Young." SN, 22 Nov. 1958, pp. 37-39.
B1220 "Trial by Translation." Rev. of Dr. Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak; The Law, by Roger Vailland; The Wind in the Olive Grove, by Fortunato Seminara; and Zly, by Leopold Tyrmand. SN, 6 Dec. 1958, pp. 20-22.
B1221 "From a Roman Christmas." Rev. of The Rose and the Ring, by W. M. Thackeray. SN, 20 Dec. 1958, pp. 20-22.
B1222 "Two Ways with a Novel." Rev. of From the Terrace, by John O'Hara; and The Prospects Are Pleasing, by Honor Tracy. SN, 3 Jan. 1959, pp. 22-23.
Note: From January 10, 1959 to June 9, 1962, Davies wrote book reviews quite frequently in his column, "A Writer's Diary." In the citations that follow, the column title has been shortened to "WD," and references supplied for both the Peterborough Examiner and Toronto Daily Star. When the dates differ for a particular review, a full reference for each paper has been given.
B1223 "WD: No Baloney for Johnson." Rev. of Everybody's Boswell, by Hesketh Pearson. TDS, 10 Jan. 1959, p. 30.
B1224 "WD: Merit or Muck?". Rev. of Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov. PE, 17 Jan. 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Lolita's Crime: Sex Made Funny"). In TDS, p. 30.
B1225 "WD: Burns the Bawdy." Rev. of Bawdy Burns, the Christian Rebel, by Cyril Pearl. PE, 24 Jan. 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Burns Enjoyed Bawdy Ballads"). In TDS, p. 30.
B1226 "Looking At Canada." Rev. of Looking At Architecture in Canada, by Alan Gowans; The Face of Early Canada, by F. St. George Spendlove; and The Arts in Canada, ed. Malcolm Ross. SN, 31 Jan. 1959, pp. 21-22.
B1227 "WD: No Shabby Trade." Rev. of Watch Your Language, by Theodore M. Bernstein. PE, 31 Jan. 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Drudge Defends Writers on Blats"). In TDS, p. 28.
B1228 "WD: The Poetic Herd." Rev. of Steps, by Robert Graves. PE, 7 Feb. 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Poets Wander at Large in Canada"). In TDS, p. 30.
B1229 "WD: A Literate Monster." Rev. of Frankenstein, by Mary Woolstonecraft; Dracula, by Bram Stoker; and films inspired by these books. PE, 21 Feb. 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Film Monsters Follow Mary's"). In TDS, p. 32.
B1230 "The Wild Harp." Rev. of Borstal Boy, by Brendan Behan. SN, 28 Feb. 1959, pp. 27-28.
B1231 "WD: Havelock Ellis." Rev. of Studies in the Psychology of Sex, by Havelock Ellis. PE, 7 March 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Shy Sex Expert Changed Attitudes"). In TDS, p. 30. ERD ("Havelock Ellis").
B1232 "WD: Literary Birthright." Rev. of It's Me, O Lord, by Alfred Edgar Coppard. PE, 21 March 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Born Writer Defies Chatter"). In TDS, p. 30.
B1233 "MacLennan's Rising Sun." Rev. of The Watch That Ends the Night, by Hugh MacLennan. SN, 28 March 1959, pp. 29-31. Rpt. in Hugh MacLennan. Ed. Paul Goetsch. Critical Views on Canadian Writing, No. 8. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1973, pp. 119-22.
B1234 "WD: A Modern Pilgrim." Rev. of Journey into Self, by M. Esther Harding. PE, 9 May 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Jung's Theories Recall Bunyan's"). In TDS, p. 31.
B1235 "WD: What Authors Do." Rev. of The Prospects Are Pleasing, The Straight and Narrow Path, and Mind You, I've Said Nothing, by Honor Tracy. PE, 16 May 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("She Mocks Eire with Wit and Fury"). In TDS, p. 36.
B1236 "WD: The Real Grahame." Rev. of Kenneth Grahame, a Biography, by Peter Green. PE, 6 June 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Misery Led Him towards Greatness"). In TDS, p. 32.
B1237 "WD: A Masterful Story." Rev. of The Pledge, by Friedrich Durrenmatt. PE, 13 June 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Well-Told Tale Causes Guilt"). In TDS, p. 32.
B1238 "WD: Language of Love." Rev. of Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D. H. Lawrence. PE, 4 July 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Sexual Truth Terrifies Millions"). In TDS, p. 28. ERD ("Lady Chatterly's Lover").
B1239 "WD: Answer to Job." Rev. of J. B., by Archibald MacLeish; and Answer to Job, by Carl Gustav Jung. PE, 11 July 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Audiences Mad at God Not Play"). In TDS, p. 28.
B1240 "WD: Betjeman the Poet." Rev. of John Betjemen's Collected Poems. PE, 18 July 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Poet Betjeman Piercing Realist"). In TDS, p. 26.
B1241 "WD: Elements of Style." Rev. of The Elements of Style, by William Strunk and E. B. White; Say It with Words, by Charles W. Ferguson; and Style, by F. L. Lucas. PE, 1 Aug. 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Is Plain Style Always Best?"). In TDS, p. 30. ERD ("Elements of Style").
B1242 "WD: Sex and Romance." Rev. of A History of Sexual Customs, by Richard Lewinsohn. PE, 8 Aug. 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("The Busy Life Prevents Adultery"). In TDS, p. 28.
B1243 "WD: New Words for Old." Rev. of A Dictionary of Obsolete English, by Richard C. Trench. PE, 22 Aug. 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Man Could Be Girl, Hag or Harlot"). In TDS, p. 30.
B1244 "WD: Dickens' Dorrit." Rev. of Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens. PE, 29 Aug. 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Dickens Novel Called Stupid"). In TDS, p. 30.
B1245 "WD: Poetry for Attack." Rev. of A Red Carpet for the Sun, by Irving Layton. PE, 12 Sept. 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Layton Poems Not for Puritans"). In TDS, p. 31.
B1246 "WD: Poetry for Pleasure." Rev. of The Atlantic Book of British and American Poetry ed. Edith Sitwell; and Modern Verse in English, ed. David Cecil and Allen Tate. PE, 19 Sept. 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Can Do Worse Than Try New Verse"). In TDS, p. 47.
B1247 "WD: Will's Medicine." Rev. of Shakespeare and Medicine, by R. R. Simpson. PE, 26 Sept. 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Bard's Wisdom Surprises a Doctor"). In TDS, p. 30.
B1248 "WD: A Word in Depth." Rev. of Origins, by Eric Partridge. PE, 10 Oct. 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Memorizing Isn't Enough"). In TDS, p. 32. ERD ("Origins").
B1249 "WD: 'Light Verse.'" Rev. of The Fireside Book of Humorous Poetry, ed. William Cole. PE, 17 Oct. 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Light Verse Is Not Easy"). In TDS, p. 31.
B1250 "WD: Patron of the Arts." Rev. of Edward Marsh, Patron of the Arts, by Christopher Hassall. PE, 24 Oct. 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Biography Not Too Long"). In TDS, p. 31.
B1251 "WD: Watch the Witches." Rev. of The Discouerie of Witchcraft, by Reginald Scot. PE, 31 Oct. 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Believe Science Why Not Witches?"). In TDS, p. 31.
B1252 "WD: Age of Reason." Rev. of The Search for Good Sense and The Art of Living, by F. L. Lucas. PE, 14 Nov. 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Age of Reason Ideally Depicted"). In TDS, p. 32.
B1253 "WD: Man of the Theatre." Rev. of A Life in the Theatre, by Tyrone Guthrie. PE, 28 Nov. 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("'Life in Theatre' Wonderfully Readable"). In TDS, p. 34.
B1254 "WD: Karsh--Man of Faces." Rev. of Portraits of Greatness, by Yousuf Karsh. PE, 5 Dec. 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Could Make Aristotle Change Mind"). In TDS, p. 33.
B1255 "WD: Casanova Seingalt." Rev. of The Memoirs of Casanova, Vols. I-II. PE, 12 Dec. 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Casanova Life Not Sex Alone"). In TDS, p. 28. ERD ("Casanova de Seingalt").
B1256 "WD: His Darling Nelly." Rev. of Dickens Incognito, by Felix Aylmer. PE, 26 Dec. 1959, p. 5. Rpt. ("Dickens' Love Affairs Unlucky"). In TDS, p. 25.
B1257 "WD: Enriching Holmes." Rev. of In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes, by Michael Harrison. PE, 2 Jan. 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("Whodunits Not My Dish of Tea"). In TDS, p. 28.
B1258 "WD: Cutting across Class." Rev. of The Status Seekers, by Vance Packard. PE, 9 Jan. 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("Another Look at 'Status'"). In TDS, p. 32.
B1259 "WD: For Bedside Reading." Rev. of A Book of Characters, by Daniel George. PE, 16 Jan. 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("Characters Worth Knowing"). In TDS, p. 30. ERD ("A Book of Characters").
B1260 "WD: Delius Restored." Rev. of Frederick Delius, by Thomas Beecham. PE, 23 Jan. 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("Beecham's Tribute to Genius"). In TDS, p. 30.
B1261 "WD: Enough Is Enough." Rev. of Bibliography. My Life, by M. Demels and D. Campbell. PE, 30 Jan. 1960, p. 5. In TDS, p. 30.
B1262 "WD: Minding the Belly." Rev. of The Good Fare and Cheer of Old England, by Joan Parry Dutton. PE, 6 Feb. 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("Give Me a Good Cookery Book, Any Day"). In TDS, p. 30.
B1263 "WD: Touched-Up Notions." Rev. of Free Associations, by Ernest Jones. PE, 13 Feb. 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("Autobiographies Demanding Painful"). In TDS, p. 30.
B1264 "WD: Father Knox." Rev. of The Life of the Right Reverend Ronald Knox, by Evelyn Waugh. PE, 20 Feb. 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("Priest Proud of His Mysteries"). In TDS, p. 30. ERD ("Father Knox").
B1265 "WD: Charm of Opera." Rev. of A Picture History of Opera, by Philip Hope-Wallace. PE, 27 Feb. 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("Opera Offers World of Big Emotions"). In TDS, p. 30.
B1266 "WD: Life's Smells." Rev. of The Sense of Smell, by Roy Bedichek. PE, 12 March 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("H. G. Wells' Secret Revealed"). In TDS, p. 30.
B1267 "WD: A Chilly Giant." Rev. of One Year's Reading for Fun, by Bernard Berenson. PE, 19 March 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("Bernard Berenson: Man to Be Envied"). In TDS, p. 30.
B1268 "WD: Hans Andersen." Rev. of The True Story of My Life, by Hans Christian Andersen, and the selection of Andersen's tales in World's Classics, trans. L. W. Kingsland. PE, 2 April 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("Where Reality Beats Legend"). In TDS, p. 30. ERD ("Hans Christian Andersen").
B1269 "WD: Literary Ambition." Rev. of Joseph Vance, by William De Morgan. PE, 9 April 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("The Odds Are Against You"). In TDS, p. 32.
B1270 "WD: Back to Bennett." Rev. of The Old Wives' Tale, by Arnold Bennett. PE, 16 April 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("Always the Mark of a Good Book"). In TDS, p. 33.
B1271 "WD: Choice of Clothes." Rev. of A Dictionary of English Costume 900-1900, ed. C. W. Cunnington and O. E. Cunnington. PE, 30 April 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("History of Dress Tells Its Own Story"). In TDS, p. 28.
B1272 "WD: An American Giant." Rev. of Edwin Forrest, by Richard Moody. PE, 14 May 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("Giant of U. S. Stage Comes to Life"). In TDS, p. 34.
B1273 "WD: Over Life's Hill." Rev. of Man Against Aging, by Robert S. DeRopp. PE, 28 May 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("Rejuvenation Efforts Many and Pitiful"). In TDS, p. 31.
B1274 "WD: Christ and Jung." Rev. of Jung and St. Paul, by David Cox. PE, 4 June 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("'Jung and St. Paul' Fascinating"). In TDS, p. 34.
B1275 "WD: Clean and Decent." Rev. of Clean and Decent, by Lawrence Wright. PE, 11 June 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("Romans Set the Pace"). In TDS, p. 34. ERD ("Clean and Decent").
B1276 "WD: The Shudder Test." Rev. of Kiss Kiss, by Roald Dahl; and Fancies and Goodnights, by John Collier. PE, 18 June 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("John Collier: Tops in Humorous Horror"). In TDS, p. 32.
B1277 "WD: A Fanciful Reporter." Rev. of Robinson Crusoe and Journal of the Plague Year, by Daniel Defoe. PE, 25 June 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("'Crusoe' a Model for Young Reporters"). In TDS, p. 30.
B1278 "WD: Control of Plot." Rev. of Strangers and Brothers, by C. P. Snow. PE, 2 July 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("C. P. Snow True Craftsman in Fiction"). In TDS, p. 28.
B1279 "WD: Tale of a Tassel." Rev. of The Music of Arthur Sullivan, by Gervase Hughes. PE, 16 July 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("Sullivan Dismissed as Trifler"). In TDS, p. 28. ERD ("Arthur Sullivan").
B1280 "WD: The First Collector." Rev. of Collector's Luck, by F. St. George Spendlove. PE, 23 July 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("A Book for Men of Good Taste"). In TDS, p. 26.
B1281 "WD: Taking to Fiction." Rev. of Ritual in the Dark, by Colin Wilson; and Satan in the Suburbs, by Bertrand Russell. PE, 6 Aug. 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("Why Do They Always Turn to Writing Fiction?"). In TDS, p. 26.
B1282 "WD: Ideas of the Past." Rev. of Hermsprong, by Robert Bage. PE, 27 Aug. 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("Can Learn from 18th Century Novel"). In TDS, p. 26.
B1283 "WD: Mervyn Peake." Rev. of Titus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus Alone, by Mervyn Peake. PE, 17 Sept. 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("Gormenghast's Extraordinary World"). In TDS, p. 23. ERD ("The Gormenghast Trilogy").
B1284 "WD: Art of Lettering." Rev. of Edward Johnston, by Priscilla Johnston. PE, 24 Sept. 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("One Man Nurtured Art of Writing"). In TDS, p. 30. ERD ("Edward Johnston").
B1285 "WD: Passionate Prose." Rev. of Mad Shadows, by Marie-Claire Blais, trans. Merloyd Lawrence. PE, 8 Oct. 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("Girl Has Unusual Talent but Should Moderate Prose"). In TDS, p. 35.
B1286 "WD: Shrewd Judgments." Rev. of Literature and Western Man, by J. B. Priestley. PE, 15 Oct. 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("Priestley Writes of What He Knows"). In TDS, p. 30.
B1287 "WD: Wanting Magic." Rev. of The Mystery of Cloomber, by Arthur Conan Doyle, and an article on Yoga by Arthur Koestler in the August issue of Encounter. PE, 29 Oct. 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("Mysticism in Legacy"). In TDS, p. 30.
B1288 "WD: True Aristocracy." Rev. of Speak, Memory, by Vladimir Nabokov; and A Sketch of My Life, by Thomas Mann. PE, 5 Nov. 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("Nabokov, Mann Tell Their Own Stories"). In TDS, p. 30.
B1289 "WD: A Tough Treat." Rev. of The Sot-Weed Factor, by John Barth. PE, 12 Nov. 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("'SotWeed Factor' Is for the Connoisseurs"). In TDS, p. 27.
B1290 "WD: Imitation of Art." Rev. of Antic Hay, by Aldous Huxley. PE, 26 Nov. 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("U. K.'S False Beards Really Old Stuff"). In TDS, p. 36.
B1291 "WD: About Quatermass." Rev. of The Quatermass Experiment, Quatermass II, and Quatermass and the Pit, by Nigel Kneale. PE, 17 Dec. 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("Can't Swallow Scripts"). In TDS, p. 30.
B1292 "WD: Old Christmas." Rev. of Old Christmas, by Washington Irving; Christmas Afternoon, Done in the Manner, If Not the Spirit, of Dickens, by Robert Benchley; and Waiting for Santy, by S. J. Perelman. PE, 24 Dec. 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("Books about Christmas"). In TDS, p. 26.
B1293 "WD: Liquor Lore." Rev. of The Compleat Imbiber, ed. Cyril Ray. PE, 31 Dec. 1960, p. 5. Rpt. ("A Potpourri about Drinking"). In TDS, p. 28.
B1294 "WD: Unyielding Max." Rev. of Conversation with Max, by S. N. Behrman. PE, 7 Jan. 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("Max Had a Fastidious Public"). In TDS, p. 30.
B1295 "WD: Compelling Verse." Rev. of Summoned by Bells, by John Betleman. PE, 14 Jan. 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("Most Misunderstood Book"). In TDS, p. 30.
B1296 "WD: The Talent of Sex." Rev. of The Cat's Cradle Book, by Sylvia Townsend Warner; A Number of Things, by Honor Tracy; and Don't Tell Alfred, by Nancy Mitford. PE, 21 Jan. 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("Women Writers Making Their Mark"). In TDS, p. 30.
B1297 "WD: A Desert Island." Rev. of The Swiss Family Robinson, by Johann David Wyss; and of Walt Disney's film "The Swiss Family Robinson." PE, 18 Feb. 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("Disney True to Spirit of 'Swiss Family'"). In TDS, p. 28.
B1298 "WD: Poet of Experience." Rev. of Come Hither, an anthology of English poetry, ed. Walter de la Mare; and Crossings, by Walter de la Mare. PE, 25 Feb. 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("Larger View for Children"). In TDS, p. 30.
B1299 "WD: A Great Romance." Rev. of Gargantua and Pantagruel, by Rabelais. PE, 18 March 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("Rabelais--A Man of Splendid Spirit"). In TDS, p. 29.
B1300 "WD: The Essayist." Rev. of Essays of Michel de Montaigne; All about Ourselves, by J. B. Priestley; and Collected Essays and On Art and Artists, by Aldous Huxley. PE, 25 March 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("Montaigne's Worthy Successor"). In TDS, p. 29.
B1301 "WD: Nature of Children." Rev. of A High Wind in Jamaica, by Richard Hughes; and Lord of the Flies, by William Golding. PE, 1 April 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("Revolt from Fictionalized Child Too Extreme"). In TDS, p. 30.
B1302 "WD: Aging Best-Sellers." Rev. of Sinister Street, by Compton Mackenzie. PE, 22 April 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("Novel Caused Sensation in 1913: Out Again Has Rare Qualities"). In TDS, p. 29.
B1303 "WD: Waugh's Decline." Rev. of A Tourist in Africa, by Evelyn Waugh. PE, 29 April 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("Waugh's Tourist in Africa Dull"). In TDS, p. 21.
B1304 "WD: History of Words " Rev. of Studies in Words, by C. S. Lewis. PE, 6 May 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("Word Study Dangerous"). In TDS, p. 29.
B1305 "WD: Film Scenarios." Rev. of Smiles of a Summer Night, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, and The Magician, by Ingmar Bergman; and The Virgin Spring, by Ulla Isaksson. PE, 27 May 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("Screenplays Good Reading"). In TDS, p. 29.
B1306 "WD: An Only Child." Rev. of An Only Child, by Frank O'Connor. PE, 3 June 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("'Only Child' Magnificent"). In TDS, p. 29.
B1307 "WD: A Wonderful Pare" Rev. of The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., by James Boswell. PE, 10 June 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("What Book for a Journey?"). In TDS, p. 29.
B1308 "WD: Taste in Readers." Rev. of The Ontario Third Reader (1899). PE, 17 June 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("Do You Remember the Burial of Moses?"). In TDS, p. 29.
B1309 "WD: Victorian Comfort." Rev. of Victorian Comfort, by John Gloag. PE, 22 July 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("While English 'Invented' Comfort Elegance Goes to the Frenchman"). In TDS, p. 24.
B1310 "WD: A Musical Amateur." Rev. of How to Become a Music Critic, by G. B. Shaw, ed. Dan H. Laurence. PE, 29 July 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("G. B. Shaw More Cocksure Than Any Since Aristotle"). In TDS, p. 24.
B1311 "WD: Jeweller in Prose." Rev. of More Trivia and All Trivia, by Logan Pearsall Smith. PE, 5 Aug. 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("A Look at 'Trivia'"). In TDS, p. 28.
B1312 "WD: Brecht and Business." Rev. of The Threepenny Novel, by Bertolt Brecht. PE, 19 Aug. 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("Brecht No Whiz on Capitalism"). In TDS, p. 28.
B1313 "WD: Literary Fashions." Rev. of The Cloister and the Hearth, by Charles Reade, and The Complete Ronald Firbank. PE, 26 Aug. 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("Style Is Aid to Popularity"). In TDS, p. 26.
B1314 "WD: Naming a Child." Rev. of The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, by E. G. Withycombe. PE, 2 Sept. 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("Naming Babies Real Challenge"). In TDS, 9 Sept. 1961, p. 50.
B1315 "WD: The Unhappy Love Stories Turn Out to Be Best Ones." Rev. of Liber Amoris, by William Hazlitt. TDS, 2 Sept. 1961, p. 31. Rpt. ("A Painful Love"). In PE, 9 Sept. 1961, p. 5. ERD ("William Hazlitt").
B1316 "WD: A Demanding Book." Rev. of The Demons, by Heimito von Doderer. PE, 23 Sept. 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("'The Demons' Rates as Extraordinary"). In TDS, p. 17.
B1317 "WD: The Future Foretold." Rev. of xBSCenturies, by Nostradamus [Michel de Notredame]. PE, 30 Sept. 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("Friends of Nostradamus Quiet on Berlin Crisis"). In TDS, p. 29. ERD ("Centuries").
B1318 "WD: Parody off the Rails." Rev. of Parodies, an Anthology from Chaucer to Beerbohm--And Afier, by Dwight Macdonald. PE, 14 Oct. 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("Parody: A Second Rare Gift"). In TDS, p. 30.
B1319 "WD: Prayer and Sacrifice." Rev. of Franny and Zooey, by J. D. Salinger. PE, 21 Oct. 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("A Spiritual Awakening"). In TDS, p. 30. ERD ("Franny and Zooey").
B1320 "WD: Chuzzlewit and 'Flu.'" Rev. of Martin Chuzzlewit, by Charles Dickens. PE, 28 Oct. 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("'Chuzzlewit' Real Cure"). In TDS, p. 31.
B1321 "WD: Memorable Teachers." Rev. of Mr. Olim, by Ernest Raymond; and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark. PE, 4 Nov. 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("Stories of Teachers Show Pupils' Reactions"). In TDS, p. 28. ERD ("Mr. Olim/The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie").
B1322 "WD: Forgotten Dialogues." Rev. of McBride's Temperance Dialogues. PE, 11 Nov. 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("Remember the Dialogue?"). In TDS, p. 29. ERD ("Forgotten Dialogues").
B1323 "WD. A Servant's Lot." Rev. of One Pair of Hands, by Monica Dickens. PE, 18 Nov. 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("Charles' Relative 'Dickens' of a Cook in Turnabout"). In TDS, p. 29.
B1324 "WD: A Christmas List." Brief reviews. PE, 2 Dec. 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("A 'Quality' Christmas List"). In TDS, p. 30.
B1325 "WD: The Hero's Flaw." Rev. of The Love Lives of Charles Dickens, by C. G. L. DuCann. PE, 9 Dec. 1961, p. 5. Rpt. ("Dickens' Love Is Embarrassing"). In TDS, p. 31.
B1326 "WD: Culinary Capers." Rev. of Vogue's French Cookery Book, by Cosette Vogel de Brunhoff; and Physiology of the Digestive Tract, by Horace Davenport. PE, 6 Jan. 1962, p. 5. Rpt. ("Some Discussions about Food"). In TDS, p. 28.
B1327 "WD: Good Lectures." Rev. of White Men Came to the St. Lawrence, by Morris Bishop. PE, 13 Jan. 1962, p. 5. Rpt. ("They Led Primitive Life"). In TDS, p. 28.
B1328 "Speaking of Books." Rev. of Sir Aylmer's Heir, by Evelyn Everett-Green. New York Times Book Review, 14 Jan. 1962, p. 2. ERD ("Sir Aylmer's Heir").
B1329 "WD: Illusion Shattered." Rev. of Every Man His Own Doctor, or The Poor Planter's Physician, Wrote by a Gentleman in Virginia. PE, 20 Jan. 1962, p. 5. Rpt. ("What the 'Vapors' Were"). In TDS, p. 28.
B1330 "WD: Neglected Genius." Rev. of Owen Glendower, A Glastonbury Romance, and In Defense of Sensuality, by John Cowper Powys. PE, 27 Jan. 1962, p. 5. Rpt. ("Powys, a Genius Overlooked"). In TDS, p. 30. ERD ("John Cowper Powys' Novels").
B1331 "WD: Passion Betrayed." Rev. of A Pin to See the Peepshow, by F. Tennyson Jesse. PE, 10 Feb. 1962, p. 5. Rpt. ("Writing Letters Has Hazards"). In TDS, p. 28.
B1332 "WD: Scott of the Iron Age." Rev. of Walter Scott, by Hesketh Pearson. PE, 17 Feb. 1962, p. 5. Rpt. ("Avoid Scott if You Have Cold"). In TDS, p. 27.
B1333 "WD: Writing about War." Rev. of The Relief of Lucknow, by William Forbes-Mitchell. PE, 24 Feb. 1962, p. 5. Rpt. ("Relief of Lucknow's New Look"). In TDS, p. 29.
B1334 "WD: Of Hopelessness and Exhilaration." Rev. of Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, and Unconditional Surrender, by Evelyn Waugh. PE, 10 March 1962, p. 4. Rpt. ("Waugh at the Top of His Form"). In TDS, p. 27.
B1335 "WD: Born Writers Develop Late." Rev. of The Young Visiters [sic], by Daisy Ashford. PE, 17 March 1962, p. 4. Rpt. ("There Was Only One Daisy"). In TDS, p. 29. ERD ("The Young Visiters" [sic]).
B1336 "WD: Robin Hood: The First Socialist." Rev. of A Victorian Poacher, by James Hawker. PE, 24 March 1962, p. 4. Rpt. ("Dubious Defense for Poaching"). In TDS, p. 29.
B1337 "WD: Canada--Between Two Dictionaries." Rev. of Webster's New International Dictionary, 3rd ed.; Comfortable Words, by Bergen Evans; and A Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage, ed. Bergen Evans and Cornelia Evans. PE, 7 April 1962, p. 4. Rpt. ("Yackety-Yak on Linguistics"). In TDS, p. 29.
B1338 "WD: Education Is a Battle-Ground." Rev. of Lucky Jim, by Kingsley Amis; Eating People Is Wrong, by Malcolm Bradbury; Old Hall, New Hall, by Michael Innes; and The Teachers, by G. W. Target. PE, 21 April 1962, p. 4. Rpt. ("Grim Look--At Squalid World"). In TDS, p. 32.
B1339 "WD: Filial Revenge with the Pen." Rev. of Tales My Father Taught Me, by Osbert Sitwell; Father and Son, by Edmund Gosse; Long Day's Journey into Night, by Eugene O'Neill; and Life with Father, by Clarence Day. PE, 28 April 1962, p. 4. Rpt. ("Sitwell Leftovers Sit Well"). In TDS, p. 63.
B1340 "WD: Huxley on an Island Paradise." Rev. of Island, by Aldous Huxley. PE, 5 May 1962, p. 4. Rpt. ("Huxley's Philosophic 'Island'"). In TDS, p. 32.
B1341 "WD: Every Family Deserves a History." Rev. of A Pride of Terrys, by Marguerite Steen. PE, 19 May 1962, p. 4. Rpt. ("Rattle Those Skeletons?"). In TDS, p. 35.
B1342 "WD: Collecting Words a Useful Hobby." Rev. of The Complete Plain Words, by Ernest Gowers; and Chosen Words, by Ivor Brown. PE, 26 May 1962, p. 4. Rpt. ("Think Better if Grammar Good"). In TDS, p. 19.
B1343 "WD: Chilling Story of Moral Perversion." Rev. of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, by Choderlos de Laclos, trans. P. W. K. Stone and Richard Aldington. PE, 2 June 1962, p. 4. Rpt. ("Rebirth of a Classic"). In TDS, p. 31.
B1344 "WD: Nellie Melba--A Truly Great Artist." Rev. of Red Plush and Black Velvet, by Joseph Wechsberg. PE, 9 June 1962, p. 4. Rpt. ("A Prejudice Dies"). In TDS, p. 23. ERD ("Nellie Melba").
B1345 "Self Imprisoned to Keep the World at Bay." Rev. of The Stone Angel and The Tomorrow-Tamer, by Margaret Laurence. New York Times Book Review, 14 June 1964, pp. 4-5, 33.
B1346 "Garrick's Letters." Rev. of The Letters of David Garrick, 3 vols., ed. D. M. Little and D. M. Kahrl. University of Toronto Quarterly, 34 (Oct. 1964), 104-06.
B1347 "More Pieces of a Free Mind." Rev. of O Canada, by Edmund Wilson. New York Times Book Review, 16 May 1965, p. 30.
B1348 Rev. of Tragedy, by Sidney Lamb; Three Restoration Comedies, ed. G. G. Falle; and Eighteenth Century Tragedy, Hiss the Villain, and English Melodrama, by Michael Booth. University of Toronto Quarterly, 35 (July 1966), 414-16.
B1349 "Colf Comfort Farm." Rev. of A Season in the Life of Emmanuel, by Marie-Claire Blais, trans. Derek Coltman. New York Times Book Review, 21 Aug. 1966, pp. 28-29.
B1350 "A Case of Settling Old Scores." Rev. of Place D'Armes, by Scott Symons. PE, 11 Feb. 1967, p. 4.
B1351 "Elegant Egoists." Rev. of The Day Is Dark and Three Travelers, by Marie-Claire Blais, trans. Derek Coltman. New York Times Book Review, 30 April 1967, pp. 4-5.
B1352 "Of Tories and Conservatives." Rev. of Faces of Leacock, by Donald Cameron. SN, Nov. 1967, p. 53.
B1353 "Courage, Criteria and the Best of Papers." Rev. of The Elite Press: Great Newspapers of the World, by John C. Merrill. Globe Magazine, 21 Dec. 1968, p. 20.
B1354 Rev. of A Stage in our Past: English-Language Theatre in Eastern Canada from the 1790's to 1914, by Murray Edwards. University of Toronto Quarterly, 37 (Summer 1969), 402-03. Rpt. in Theatre Research, 11 (Nov. 1971), 183-84.
B1355 Rev. of J. M. Synge's Collected Works, ed. Ann Saddlemyer. University of Toronto Quarterly, 37 (Summer 1969), 376-78.
B1356 Rev. of English Plays of the Nineteenth Century: I, Drama 1800-1850; II, Drama 1850-1900, ed. Michael R. Booth. University of Toronto Quarterly, 39 (Summer 1970), 368-69.
B1357 "'The Books I Enjoyed Most in 1970-2)....'" The Financial Post, 12 Dec. 1970, p. 13.
B1358 "Sure Taste, Well Below Blood Heat." Rev. of Last Theatres, 1904-1910, by Max Beerbohm. G&M, 27 Feb. 1971, p. 13.
B1359 Rev. of Shaw: Seven Critical Essays, ed. Norman Rosenblood. University of Toronto Quarterly, 40 (Summer 1971), 327-29.
B1360 "How Can We Have Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark?". Rev. of John Gielgud, by Ronald Hayman. G&M, 6 Nov. 1971, p. 31.
B1361 "A Mess. It Just Won't Do." Rev. of Plays, Players and Playwrights, by Marion Geisinger. G&M, 1 Jan. 1972, p. 23.
B1362 Rev. of Nineteenth Century British Theatre, ed. Kenneth Richards and Peter Thomson; and Between Actor and Critic: Selected Letters of Edwin Booth and William Winter, ed. Daniel J. Watermeier. Victorian Studies, 15 (June 1972), 488-90.
B1363 "His Style's Naive, but the Truth and Pathos Seep 'Through." Rev. of The Happy Years, by Cecil Beaton. G&M, 23 Sept. 1972, p. 33.
B1364 "Authority without Snobbery." Rev. of Champagne Is for Breakfast, by George Bain. G&M, 2 Dec. 1972, p. 34.
B1365 Rev. of 1906-1950, ed. Gerhard Adlex, Vol. I of C. G. Jung: Letters; and C. G. Jung, by Anthony Storr. New York Times Book Review, 25 Feb. 1973, p. 31.
B1366 "It Ain't Necessarily So." Rev. of Trousered Apes, by Duncan Williams. The Washington Post, 27 May 1973, p. 12.
B1367 "We Long for Music, but His Joyous Appetites Do Satisfy." Rev. of My Young Years, by Artur Rubinstein. G&M, 18 Aug. 1973, p. 28.
B1368 Rev. of The Marrtage of Contraries: Bernard Shaw's Middle Plays, by J. L. Wisenthal. University of Toronto Quarterly, 44 (Summer 1975), 403-04.
B1369 "Jung in Thought and Feeling." Rev. of C. G. Jung: His Myth in Our Time, by Marie-Louise von Franz; and Jung and the Story of Our Time, by Laurens Van Der Post. Parabola, 2 (Spring 1976), 88-91.
B1370 "G. B. S. Why Do We Go On Reading Him, Setting Up Festivals...." Rev. of The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw Collected Plays with Their Prefaces, ed. Don H. Laurence. G&M, 5 June 1976, p. 35. Rpt. "Shaw's Flaws-and His Genius." In The Vancouver Sun, 25 June 1976, pp. 8A-9.
B1371 "What Can Fairy Tales Teach? Plenty!". Rev. of The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales, by Bruno Bettelheim. G&M, 9 Oct. 1976, p. 10.
B1372 "The Canadian Imagination." Rev. of The Canadian Imagination: Dimensions of a Literary Culture, ed. David Staines. G&M, 17 Dec. 1977, p. 37.
B1373 "The Novels of Mavis Gallant." Rev. of Green Water, Green Sky, A Fairly Good Time, and The Pegnitz Junction, by Mavis Gallant. Canadian Fiction Magazine, No. 28 (1978), pp. 69-73.
B1374 "His Own Ulysses." Rev. of C. G. Jung Speaking: Interviews and Encounters, ed. William McGuire and R. F. G. Hull. The Canadian Forum, 8 May 1978, pp. 24-25.
B1375 "An Enchanter Looks at Enchanters--Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, Kafka, Proust, Stevenson and Joyce." Rev. of Lectures on Literature, by Vladimir Nabokov, ed. by Fredson Bowers, introd. John Updike. G&M, 20 Dec. 1980, p. 13.
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C4 Sandwell, B. K. "The Literary Editor." Saturday Night, 23 Nov. 1940, p. 3.
Sandwell concludes his biographical sketch with the following: "When we told Mr. Davies that we hoped he would find it in his heart to be kind to Canadian authors, he assured us that even they were also God's creatures. So we think that will be all right."
C5 Coulter, John. "A Festival Adjudicator Should Wear 2 Masks." Saturday Night, 26 April 1947, pp. 18-19.
In a long discussion of Canadian theatre and the year's regional drama festivals, Coulter mentions that Overlaid, entered in the Eastern Ontario Drama Festival, should prove Davies "a young playwright of quality who should yet make a mark for himself and us."
C6 McInnes, G. C. "An Editor from Skunk's Misery Is Winning Fame for Peterboro." Saturday Night, 26 April 1947, pp. 14-15.
Davies' achievements are impressive. "In 1945, the Examiner, after three years of his editorship, stood fifth out of 98 Canadian dailies in quoted editorial comment." "He believes in both the essential greatness and the essential baseness of mankind, and this makes his writing both acid and urbane." His work "overrides nationalist standards"; whatever he does "will reflect credit upon Canada as well as upon himself." Mostly biographical, this article recounts an early appreciation of the scope of Davies' talents and contributions.
C7 "Ottawa Drama Award to Peterborough Man." The Globe and Mail, 19 May 1947, p. 8.
The article announces that Eros at Breakfast won the $100 Ottawa Drama League Workshop's annual playwriting competition, Davies' second top award in as many years. The judge, Charles Rittenhouse, called it "'the smartest work for the Canadian stage yet written.'" Cites runners-up and other awards.
C8 Norris, L. M. "Scenes from the Life of Samuel Marchbanks, Esq., as Illustrated by L. M. Norris." Mayfair, March 1948, pp. 70-71.
L. M. Norm celebrates the humour of Marchbanks by providing seven illustrations to incidents described in The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks.
C9 "Toronto Author Wins 4th Prize in Play Contest." The Globe and Mail, 27 April 1948, p. 9.
Charles Rittenhouse said that because Davies entered no play in the year's competition, "there was no one play such as...'Overlaid' and 'Eros at Breakfast' to 'outdistance' the field."
C10 "What This Country Needs Is a List of Good Workable Canadian Plays." The Citizen [Ottawa], 1 May 1948, p. 23.
Davies is mentioned as a Canadian playwright who has produced "enough one-act plays of good quality to enable drama groups to give whole evenings" of his works.
C11 "Citizen Writer's Play Wins Honors at Festival." The Citizen [Ottawa], 3 May 1948, p. 13.
This brief article lauds Davies and Eros at Breakfast for winning "high honors" in the drama festival. When awarded the $100 playwright's prize, Davies turned the cheque over to R. H. Cronyn to help out with the festival expenses.
C12 "Editor's Single-Act Fantasy Wins High Honors at Festival." The Globe and Mail, 3 May 1948, p. 3.
The article provides details of the Sir Barry Jackson Challenge Trophy--awarded to Davies for Eros at Breakfast, entered in the Dominion Drama Festival.
C13 "'Eros at Breakfast' Wins Two-Fold Festival Honor." The Ottawa Journal, 3 May 1948, p. 10.
The play was "the only Canadian play to survive the regional festivals" and a rare example of experimental theatre. The article details Mr. Speaight's comments about the production, and includes photographs of the producers--Gwendolyn Blair and Michael Meiklejohn--holding the Sir Barry Jackson Challenge Trophy for the best Canadian play.
C14 Thistle, Lauretta. "London Little Theatre Wins Top Drama Honors." The Citizen [Ottawa], 3 May 1948, p. 13.
Thistle announces that Davies has won $100 for being author of the best Canadian play--Eros at Breakfast. The Ottawa Drama League Workshop won the Sir Barry Jackson Challenge Trophy for the best production of a Canadian play in the final festival. Eros at Breakfast was, in fact, the only Canadian play entered at this final stage.
C15 "Ottawa and Kitchener Groups Stage Robertson Davies Play." The Globe and Mail, 7 Dec. 1948, p. 23.
Fortune, My Foe is opening in Ottawa and Kitchener on simultaneous nights. The Kitchener negotiations for the use of the play began before it was completed.
C16 Guthrie, Tyrone. Introduction. In Eros at Breakfast and Other Plays. By Robertson Davies. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1949, pp. ix-xiv.
"A good one-act play...should have an 'atmosphere' over and above its content." "Of these plays, Overlaid and The Voice of the People seem to me to have excellent 'atmosphere'; they could be occurring nowhere but in Canada." Further, "in each of the five,...there is something that leads the mind onward and outward...to wider and deeper speculations." Each "tilts, not at 'wickedness'--...but at stupidity, dullness, unsophisticated dullness."
C17 Saturday Night, 1 March 1949, p. 4.
This page includes a photo of Davies, and mentions his "triple success during February": productions of Fortune, My Foe, Overlaid, and his own production of a Shakespearean play.
C18 "Ottawa Drama League in Special Contest." The Citizen [Ottawa], 26 April 1949, p. 3.
This brief article highlights the competition between Davies and seventeen-year-old William Digby for the Sir Barry Jackson Trophy. Fortune, My Foe is competing against Digby's play, Over the Boiler Room.
C19 "Men Who Write Plays Theme of Panel Debate." The Citizen [Ottawa], 29 April 1949, p. 13.
Davies, Morley Callaghan, and John Coulter formed a panel at the end of the four-day Canadian theatre conference to discuss "the merits and demerits of Drama festival adjudicators." The article quotes each as he discusses judging, writing, and producing plays.
C20 "Ottawa Play Gets Bid to U.K. Festival." The Citizen [Ottawa], 29 April 1949, p. 16.
The Ottawa Drama League has received the "first invitation ever extended to a Canadian amateur dramatic group to participate" In the Edinburgh Festival. They will perform Eros at Breakfast. The Dominion Drama Festival governors felt that "no better choice could be made than that of a play written by a Canadian."
C21 "Eros to Edinburgh." The Citizen [Ottawa], 30 April 1949, p. 40.
"The Ottawa actors were chosen [in part], because they have in their repertory an outstanding Canadian play, Eros at Breakfast by Robertson Davies." The play "came first among 76 entries in the playwriting contest of the Ottawa Drama League Workshop two years ago."
C22 DeProse, Molly. "Ottawa Drama Festival Wins Award at Festival." The Citizen [Ottawa], 2 May 1949, p. 10.
This article details all the awards given out, and includes remarks by Mr. Hope-Wallace, the adjudicator. Davies, who directed The Taming of the Shrew, was "excellent in his brief appearance as the tailor," as was his wife, Brenda, as Katherine. A photograph shows Gwendolyn Blair, who produced Fortune, My Foe.
C23 DeProse, Molly. "Presentation of Awards at Festival." The Citizen [Ottawa], 2 May 1949, p. 10.
This article indicates who presented the prizes to the Ottawa Drama League members and Davies for their award-winning production of Fortune, My Foe.
C24 "Gives Cheque for Drama League Trip." The Citizen [Ottawa], 2 May 1949, p. 10.
Davies returned his $100 prize for the best Canadian play and asked that the money be put towards the expense of sending the Ottawa Drama League production of Eros at Breakfast to the Edinburgh Festival.
C25 Rex, Kay. "'Taming of the Shrew' Wins Director Festival Trophy: Top Prize to Hamilton Play." Peterborough Examiner, 2 May 1949, p. 9.
This article recounts that Davies was awarded the Louis Jouvet Trophy, for directing The Taming of the Shrew, and $100 for writing the best Canadian entry.
C26 Whittaker, Herbert. "Surprise Finish Puts Broadway Farce First; Present Many Awards." The Globe and Mail, 2 May 1949, p. 21.
Whittaker reports on the Dominion Drama Festival, at which Fortune, My Foe was entered as a play, and Robertson Davies acted in his production of The Taming of the Shrew. "Mr. Davies...did very well indeed at the 1949 festival, establishing himself firmly as one of Canada's top men of theatre."
C27 DeProse, Molly. "Drama League Counts Honors of Festival." The Citizen [Ottawa], 3 May 1949, p. 4.
Fortune, My Foe won the Sir Barry Jackson Trophy for the best Canadian play in the festival. W. D. Atkinson won the Col. Osborne Memorial Trophy for the best actor in his role as Idris Rowlands.
C28 "McClelland & Stewart." Quill & Quire, Aug. 1949, p. 9.
A brief article about Davies that mentions Fortune, My Foe (soon to be published) as the winner of the Gratien Gelinas (Fridolin) Prize at the Dominion Drama Festival. It also mentions "Eros at Breakfast" at the Edinburgh Festival.
C29 Rex, Kay. "Ottawa Group to Stage 'Eros' at Edinburgh." The Globe and Mail, 20 Aug. 1949, p. 9.
Rex notes the upcoming production of "Eros at Breakfast" at the Edinburgh Festival in the Little Theatre. "This is the first time a Canadian play has been performed by a Canadian company at the international gathering."
C29a "Canadian Play Going to Edinburgh." World Affairs, Sept. 1949, p. 18.
C29b "Dominion Drama Festival." World Affairs, Sept. 1949, p. 18.
Announces that Fortune, My Foe won the Sir Barry Jackson Challenge Trophy for the best play written by a Canadian. Davies won the $100 prize offered by Gratien Gelinas for the best play by a Canadian, and the Louis Jouvet Trophy for best director (The Taming of the Shrew).
C30 Thistle, Lauretta. "Drama League Playing at Edinburgh for Play." The Citizen [Ottawa], 3 Sept. 1949, pp. 1, 18.
Thistle provides details of the excited arrival of the Ottawa Drama League players in Edinburgh on September 2.
C31 Johnstone, Ken. "'I Hate Do-Gooders.'" Standard [The Montreal Star], 17 Sept. 1949, pp. 9, 13.
C32 McNaught, Jack. "Robertson Davies and the Summer Theatre Movement." National Home Monthly, Oct. 1949, pp. 34-37.
Noting that Canadian professional and amateur theatre has been dead since 1925, McNaught focuses on two new bright lights: Davies, and the Straw Hat Players of Gravenhurst and Port Carling. Davies, allegedly unprompted by his father or mother, "seems to have got his love of the theatre out of thin air, and to have gravitated toward it by a kind of built-in instinct." The article contains some interesting biographical information.
C33 Galloway, Myron. "Scene: Canada--Time: Present." Northern Review, 3 (Oct.-Nov. 1949), 35-37.
Galloway forcefully addresses the weaknesses of Canadian theatre. In his estimation, we lack the strength of a theatre tradition, native plays, and acclaimed actors. The key problem is amateurish actors and undedicated theatre devotees. Ontario did send Davies' "Eros at Breakfast" to the Edinburgh Festival in 1949, but it was "embarrassing that Canada should be thus represented by a slim, one act theatrical cocktail, contrived, artificial and about as Canadian as the Empire State Building." His other plays and ones by Morley Callaghan are either "rocky and cute beyond endurance," or American imitations.
C34 "Fortune, My Foe." Toronto Daily Star, 5 Nov. 1949, p. 15.
This eleven-line notice announces publication by Clarke Irwin at a price of $1.50, and mentions translations in train for Norway and Spain.
C35 "Theatre: Last but Not Least." Saturday Night, 21 March 1950, p. 23.
Robertson Davies "at least, [has] upheld his end of Canadian playwriting" in the Dominion Drama Festival. He as "competing against himself in a three-way fight." Queen's Faculty Players are presenting Overlaid, Peterborough Little Theatre "The Voice of the People," and North Toronto Community Players "King Phoenix," the last directed by Herbert Whittaker.
C36 "Theatre: To the Fore." Saturday Night, 21 March 1950, p. 23.
The article refers to Davies' three plays competing against one another in the Eastern Ontario Regional Drama Festival.
C37 "Curtain's End." Saturday Night, 25 April 1950, pp. 24-25.
Mentions W. A. Atkinson as last year's winner of the Dominion Drama Festival award for best actor for his role as the disillusioned professor in Fortune, My Foe. Includes Mr. Atkinson's photograph.
C38 Kirkwood, Hilda. "Robertson Davies." The Canadian Forum, June 1950, pp. 59-60.
Kirkwood, in a friendly, homey article, reviews Davies' contribution to drama, fiction, and journalism. As editor of the Peterborough Examiner, "he has brought to an essentially commerce-minded community constant reminders of the more lasting values." In general, his effect upon all has been "salutary" and "creative."
C39 Ness, Margaret. "The Theatre Tips a New Straw Hat." Saturday Night, 4 July 1950, pp. 8-9.
Her article chronicles the startling popularity of summer theatre across Canada. She notes that "seven Albertans are taking Robertson Davies--in three parts [three plays]--to 28 towns, from Barrhead to Banff. That's summer theatre on the prairies." Michael Sadlier, organizer of a Peterborough-Niagara Falls group, has "lined up a new play by Robertson Davies [At My Heart's Core], with the playwright himself directing."
C40 "New Davies Play Part of Centennial at Peterborough." The Globe and Mail, 15 July 1950, p. 8.
The summer theatre production of At My Heart's Core will be a thoroughly Peterborough occasion-written by one of its citizens, performed for them and, indeed, mainly about them.
C41 "That Man's Here Again." The Citizen [Ottawa], 8 Sept. 1950, p. 10.
A portrait of Davies as Samuel Marchbanks sits above this caption, which heralds the return of Marchbanks' weekly column to the Saturday magazine section.
C42 Whittaker, Herbert. "Show Business." The Globe and Mail, 23 Sept. 1950, p. 8.
Whittaker relives the moment in Davies' own production of At My Heart's Core when Donald Glen, a talented young actor, imitated a song sung by Grimaldi, a famous British clown, and made "this moment...one of unusual theatrical delight." The memory surfaced after Whittaker saw George Formby, who evoked the same kind of "bursting delight" from his audience.
C43 "Are the Arts Out of Touch with the People?". CBC Times, 26 Nov.-2 Dec. 1950, p. 3.
Announces a symposium on CBC Wednesday Night, 29 Nov. 1950, 8:30-10:00 p.m. Davies will be one of the panelists discussing the arts.
C44 "About Plays and Places." Saturday Night, 19 Dec. 1950, p. 29.
This page contains a photo and a brief mention of a production of At My Heart's Core.
C45 Tranter, G. J. "Cross-Country Chat." Canadian Author & Bookman, 26, No. 4 (Winter 1950), 16.
Tranter mentions that the newly formed Canadian Theatre, a drama group, intends to produce Fortune, My Foe as its first venture.
C46 Birkett, Norman. Foreword. In The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks. By Robertson Davies. London: Chatto and Windus, 1951, pp. v-vii.
"This book seems to me to be a sheer delight. Its wit, its humour, its wide humanity, its touch of Rabelais, its whimsical asides, its provoking and stimulating effect upon the mind, its diverting interest in all sorts of conditions of men and circumstances--all serve to make it a book deserving the widest recognition."
C47 "Ottawa OKs Davies' Play." Toronto Telegram, 10 Jan. 1951, p. 7.
This article recounts the successful debut of At My Heart's Core in Ottawa.
C48 The Edmonton Journal, 13 Jan. 1951.
Underneath a photo of Davies, the paper notes the Edmonton premiere of At My Heart's Core at the Studio Theatre "coming up next week."
C49 "Davies Urges Support of Professional Theater." The Citizen [Ottawa], 15 Jan. 1951, p. 2.
At the last performance of At My Heart's Core, "which was drawing capacity houses for the Canadian Repertory Theater last week," Mr. Davies gave a curtain speech in which he affirmed Canadian theatre as a present reality. The play "ran fifth in box office appeal of all the 50 plays that CRT has presented," and third of seventeen in the current season.
C50 Whittaker, Herbert. "Our Theatre: A Youthful Bloom." Saturday Night, 30 Jan. 1951, p. 8.
Whittaker mentions Davies' playwriting, and a recent sell-out production of At My Heart's Core by Ottawa's Canadian Repertory Theatre.
C51 "Bird's Eye View on Canadian Theatre." Theatre Canada, 1, No. 1 (Jan.-Feb. 1951), 34-35.
This brief note mentions that the Faculty Players of Queen's University have produced "The Voice of the People," "Hope Deferred," and Overlaid.
C52 Coleman, Francis. "Ottawa Drama League." Theatre Canada, 1, No. 1 (Jan.-Feb. 1951), 24-25.
Coleman mentions the role of the league in sending "Eros at Breakfast" to the Edinburgh Festival.
C53 "Gay Brief on Our Theatre." Peterborough Examiner, 14 July 1951, p. 4.
The article reviews Davies' paper to the Royal Commission on Arts, Letters, and Sciences. In an attempt to capture the wit, humour, and insight, the article reprints key speeches by the two mouthpieces in the report.
C53a Ness, Margaret. "Straw Hat Footlights." SN, 17 July 1951,p. 20.
In documenting this year's many summer theatre companies and their activities, Ness notes that Brae 273A Manor Theatre, Knowlton, Quebec, has opened its sixteenth season and its one hundredth production with Davies' At My Heart's Core.
C54 "Mr. Robertson Davies." News from 103, 1, No. 3 (Fall 1951).
Newsletter from Clarke, Irwin--a special issue devoted to Davies.
C54a Coulter, John. "Theatre and Massey Report: More Than Pat on the Head." SN, 11 Sept. 1951, pp. 12, 18.
Coulter discusses the report by the Royal Commission on Theatre, which suggests that if Canadian theatre grows strong enough it will get financial help-a somewhat backward approach. Davies' special report was "mildly ironic but always amusedly aloof and urbane." Coulter disparages Davies' suggestion to "'lessen the burden [of present theatrical groups] but give them no cash.' Good old hard-headed, puritan-pioneer stuff!" Davies' specific suggestions seem measly and falsely fearful of the government strings likely attached to handouts. "And there's no recommendation for succor of the playwright."
C55 Pacey, Desmond. Creative Writing in Canada: A Short History of English-Canadian Literature. Toronto: Ryerson, 1952, pp. 191-94. (See C109.)
Next to poetry, prose humour has been the most dominant form of literary expression. "In the most recent period, the tradition has been carried on by such writers as John D. Robins, Robertson Davies, Paul Hiebert, Harry Symons and Eric Nicol." The novel "has never flourished in Canada, nor has drama." Yet "in the last few years a number of promising plays have been written and produced," several by Davies. In these, he "has shown a capacity to combine witty dialogue with the presentation of provocative ideas." Little else about Davies is noted in this volume.
C56 Roberts, Leslie. "Our Talk Sells Canada Short." Saturday Night, 16 Feb. 1952, pp. 9, 23.
Roberts disputes that "the Canadian people are a dimwitted lot, lacking a sense of humor, making a fetish of the quality known as 'reserve' and scared stiff of any kind of behavior verging on the relaxed." He cites Davies and others as evidence, and includes their photographs. "Can anybody name fifteen contemporary Americans with Robertson Davies' flair for doing a dozen things superbly?" Regrettably, Roberts does not elaborate on his rhetorical question.
C57 Callwood, June. "The Beard." Maclean's, 15 March 1952, pp. 16-17, 30-33.
"All of [his] achievements seem out of place in any Canadian community, let alone one as easily startled as Peterborough." He seems like a bohemian, but is not--just outwardly extroverted and inwardly shy. From his writings, "there is small doubt that Davies believes himself to be a man among boobs in this country." Yet he has done much to enrich Canadian culture, notably as newspaper editor in Peterborough. Callwood recounts his bad experience with CBC radio producers (traumatic and rude), along with his daily habits (very disciplined), his effect on the political consciousness of Peterborough (unsettling), and his role in the family (paramount). She concludes by stating that "all the characters with warmth [in his works] are various forms of Davies; the dull or horrid ones...are not."
C58 "Attention! Directors at Work." The Globe and Mail, 21 June 1952, p. 8.
This caption underscores two pictures, one of which includes Davies and his Peterborough Summer Theatre cast for "The Silver Whistle."
C59 Knox, R. S. "Canada." In Shakespeare Survey 6. Ed. Allardyce Nicoll. Cambridge: Cambridge at the University Press, 1953, p. 118.
Knox mentions the "exceptionally good" performances of Twelfth Night and The Merry Wives of Windsor as performed by the Peterborough Little Theatre, and directed by Davies.
C60 West, Dorothy H., and Dorothy M. Peake, eds. Play Index 1949-1952. New York: Wilson, 1953, p. 39.
This book very briefly describes Davies' plays, gives necessary staging information, and cites, where appropriate, the books in which the plays are published.
C61 Tranter, G. J. "Cross Country Chat." Canadian Author & Bookman, 29, No. 1 (Spring 1953), 30.
Tranter notes that The Brampton Players put on "The Voice of the People" at the recent Ontario One-Act Play Festival in Toronto. "Brampton audiences have demanded that the play be presented there."
C62 "Around the Studios." CBC Times, 29 Nov.-5 Dec. 1953, p. 11.
The article mentions that Mrs. Burridge of Lindsay, upon seeing the original stage production of At My Heart's Core in Peterborough, and hearing of its television adaptation, offered her collection of antiques to CBC to establish authenticity of the setting.
C63 "A New Challenge to Evening Radio?". CBC Times, 6-12 Dec. 1953, p. 2.
The article previews the December 7th show of Trans-Canada Matinee during which Davies, infrequently heard on radio, will discuss The Second Sex, by Simone de Beauvoir. It types this particular show as closer to "after-dinner entertainment" than day-time fare.
C64 Edinborough, A. "Canada." In Shakespeare Survey 7. Ed. Allardyce Nicoll. Cambridge: Cambridge at the University Press, 1954, pp. 108-09.
Edinborough commends the "spritely performances of The Merry Wives of Windsor by the Peterborough Little Theatre" in February 1953, as directed by Davies.
C65 Deacon, W. A. "The Fly Leaf." The Globe and Mail, 25 Dec. 1954, p. 19.
Davies is coming close to "genius." Deacon pithily assesses his books to date, and concludes that Davies "has become the most versatile of Canadian writers and his talents improve with use."
C66 Brown, John Russell. "The Interpretation of Shakespeare's Comedies: 1900-1953." In Shakespeare Survey 8. Ed. Allardyce Nicoll. Cambridge: Cambridge at the University Press, 1955, pp. 1-13.
Brown remarks that Davies' Shakespeare's Boy Actors "suggests that Beatrice and Rosalind are such simple creations, that they are seldom anything but witty. If Davies had considered some non-Shakespearean roles he would not have presumed... that the use of boy actors forced Shakespeare to avoid voluptuous scenes."
C67 "Praise for Davies Novel." The Citizen [Ottawa], 14 March 1955, p. 25.
Recent warm praise of Leaven of Malice was given by the Literary Times and by Arthur Calder Marshal, a BBC critic.
C68 "For Humor and Popular Biography." Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, 16 April 1955, p. 14.
Concerns Davies winning the Leacock Medal for Leaven of Malice and includes some biographical information.
C69 "Leacock and U.B.C. Medals to Peterborough and Regina." The Globe and Mail, 16 April 1955, p. 12.
Details Davies' winning of the 1954 Leacock Medal for Humour for Leaven of Malice. Details his background as a writer and includes a photograph of Robert Tyre and Davies.
C70 Swanson, Jean. "About Books and Authors." Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, 16 April 1955.
"The best news of the week in the world of books is that Robertson Davies has won the Leacock medal for humor for his novel 'Leaven of Malice.'" "His puckish humor, discerning satire and shrewd wit... have played too long a run on the Canadian literary stage without recognition."
C71 "Davies 'Leaven' Receives Raves in U.S. Printing." Toronto Daily Star, 16 July 1955, p. 10.
This article applauds the printing of Leaven of Malice by Scribner's in New York. It quotes reviews by the New York Times and the New York Herald Tribune.
C72 Whittaker, Herbert. "The Davies Premiere." The Globe and Mail, 18 Nov. 1955, p. 40.
This brief article puts a veil of mystery around the upcoming opening of Hunting Stuart and then notes Davies' many talents.
C73 "Laughter at the Crest." The Globe and Mail, 19 Nov. 1955, p. 10.
The caption sits under a picture of Davies, Donald Davis, and Helene Winston, all involved in the premiere production of Hunting Stuart at the Crest Theatre.
C73a "R. Davies is Winner of Leacock Medal." TDS, 19 Nov. 1955, p. 45.
William Arthur Deacon presented Davies with the Leacock medal for humour for his novel Leaven of Malice. Premiere Frost and Mrs. Leslie M. Frost attended the banquet.
C74 Whittaker, Herbert. "Showbusiness: Please, Mr. Davies!". The Globe and Mail, 1 Dec. 1955, p. 10.
Whittaker notes the remarkable controversy Hunting Stuart is evoking from theatre-goers. The Crest Theatre press agent reports: "'It has roused views so diametrically opposed that it is hard to believe that the people expressing them have sat side by side at the same performance.'"
C75 Whittaker, Herbert. "Showbusiness: Mr. Davies Replies." The Globe and Mail, 5 Dec. 1955, p. 15.
Whittaker reprints Davies' response to criticism that Hunting Stuart, playing at the Crest Theatre, is "indecent." Davies cites the play's four main ideas, not new, and notes that attitudes, not individual words, make up indecency. He challenges viewers to appraise the play's attitudes cited as indecent.
C76 Whittaker, Herbert. "Full Shakespeare Texts Return--With Bonuses." The Globe and Mail, 11 Aug. 1956, p. 22.
Whittaker describes how Davies came to compose the lines needed to incorporate a disguise into the beginning of The Merry Wives of Windsor. The lines are "almost more Shakespearean than anything Shakespeare wrote." "The mss. of Mr. Davies' additions should be one of Stratford's greatest treasures." The article quotes a number of the added lines.
C77 Moore, Mavor. "A Theatre for Canada." University of Toronto Quarterly, 26 (Oct. 1956), 1-16.
Moore assesses the slim tradition of theatre in Canada, and attempts to define its identity. He makes one reference to Davies, in asking whether "a play about Wales by a born Canadian (...A Jig for the Gypsy)" is a Canadian play, or "a play about Canada written by an Irishman (Mr. John Coulter's Riel)?"
C78 "Rough & Tumble Editor." Time [Canada], 1 Oct. 1956, p. 18.
This article narrates stimulating facts about the Peterborough Examiner and Davies' influence in making it "one of Canada's most readable and widely quoted editorial pages."
C79 Speaight, Robert. "The Theatre and Ballet in Canada." Journal of the Royal Society of Arts [London], 26 Oct. 1956, pp. 940-50.
In this Neil Matheson McWharrie Lecture delivered to the Commonwealth Section of the Society on Tuesday, May 29, 1956, Speaight recalls Davies' production of The Taming of the Shrew which "was brilliantly imagined according to a quasi-Elizabethan formula; ingenious and inventive; lively and audacious; sending a new wind of sheer exhilaration through the rather dusty corridors of the play." But no one could act or had been taught to speak--a telling situation in the development of Canadian theatre.
C80 Whittaker, Herbert. "Showbusiness. Davies Play to N.Y." The Globe and Mail, 7 Dec. 1956, p. 20.
Whittaker mentions that Hunting Stuart may have a Broadway production next Autumn. Mr. Richard Charlton is interested in producing it.
C81 Daniells, Roy. "Poetry and the Novel." In Culture of Contemporary Canada. Ed. Julian Park. Toronto: Ryerson, 1957, pp. 1-80.
Roy Daniells comments that, in Leaven of Malice, Davies contributed to the swing from humour to satire in the development and the tradition of the Canadian novel.
C82 "Davies Says Leacock: Master of Fun Failed as Novelist." The Ottawa Journal, 11 March 1957, p. 2.
The article reviews Davies' Canadian Heritage lecture at Carleton University, during which he claimed that "'this is not an age when fun is much understood or valued.'" He then criticizes some of Leacock's writing in history, economics, and literary criticism. The article contains some trenchant and pointed quotations from Davies' speech.
C83 "Canada's Literary Giants Edited UCC Magazine." Toronto Telegram, 27 March 1957, p. 21.
The article traces the development of Upper Canada College's school magazine from its reception one hundred years ago. John Ross Robertson, Stephen Leacock, B. K. Sandwell, and Robertson Davies were among its editors.
C84 Lockhart, Lloyd. "Blasts from the Sage." Weekend Magazine [Toronto Daily Star], 11 May 1957, pp. 2-4.
Lockhart recounts Davies' views of Canadians, and cites quotations from him about children, dogs, democracy, tax collectors, and small talk. The article reviews Davies' lifestyle. The second half consists of an interview, which deals with Canada, and a variety of other topical issues--education, parents, leading personalities, to name a few. Quite lengthy.
C85 "Davies Trying to Influence Examiner's Editorial Policy Absurd to Attempt to Do So." Peterborough Examiner, 19 July 1957, pp. 1-2, 26.
The article recounts Judge John Kennedy's denial of trying to influence Robertson Davies' editorial policy. The article includes a lengthy portion (edited) of the judge's evidence and a portion of Davies' evidence.
C86 "Editor Testifies: Judge Asked Paper to Stop Criticism." The Ottawa Journal, 19 July 1957, p. 2.
"Mr. Davies...testified yesterday that Judge John Kennedy had asked him to change his newspaper's critical policy toward the police department and instead print flattering articles."
C87 Macdonald, Rose. "How to Spot a Socko!". Toronto Telegram, 30 Sept. 1957, p. 16.
Macdonald summarizes the key points of Davies' address to the Crest Theatre Club on the 29th. His topic was "Why People Write Plays and Why People Go to See Them." According to Davies, "to be in the Sock-o class a play must strike its blow for success right at the start" or be a public failure.
C88 Moore, Mavor. "Theatre in English-Speaking Canada." In The Arts in Canada. Ed. Malcolm Ross. Toronto: Macmillan, 1958, pp. 68-76.
Moore makes a brief mention of Davies as a playwright. His focus is mainly on Stratford and Dr. Tyrone Guthrie.
C89 Deacon, W. A. "The Fly Leaf: Robertson Davies Says--." The Globe and Mail, 12 April 1958, p. 9.
Deacon notes that Davies this week addressed the Ontario Educational Association in Toronto, and said that "a good novel is a tale to the simple, a parable to the wise and a direct revelation of reality to the man who makes it part of his being." Deacon also cites a number of other notable remarks Davies made about novelists.
C90 Owen, Ivon. "The Salterton Novels." The Tamarack Review No. 9 (Aug. 1958), pp. 56-63.
Three novels about Salterton give us a "stereoscopic depth" of insight, and what we see are shadows evident amongst the sunshine. Central to all is "the recurrent Freudian theme [of] the possessive parent and the too-compliant child." In Tempest-Tost, the theme makes "for straight comedy." In Leaven of Malice, the theme assumes darker hues, and sublimates genuine anger; yet "the central storyline--who put in the announcement?--is too slight to bear the weight of incident and comment hung on it and yet too stressed to be considered a minor element." In A Mixture of Frailties, two plots gave substance to the story: a Freudian conflict (of nasty origins), and a romantic melodrama in which Davies expounds on the interdependence of "art-and-life." "In brief, it is a muddled, untidy novel," but "irresistible as entertainment." Davies "stands curiously apart from the main stream of contemporary fiction." Owen's article is witty, perceptive, and well-written--one of the best about the Salterton novels.
C91 Dooley, D. J. "The Satiric Novel in Canada Today." Queen's Quarterly, 64 (Winter 1958), 576-90.
Dooley examines Davies, Ralph Allen, John Cornish, and Earle Birney with an eye to determining Leacock's successor as Canada's chief satirist. Ralph Allen's work is imitative and absurd. Cornish makes poor use of his "excellent material for satire." Birney's Turvey is "too undisciplined." Davies' writing "is witty, and full of quotable passages, but he places little value on the economy which most contemporary novelists strive for"--he digresses for twenty-eight pages in Tempest-Tost to give background to Hector. Moreover, he writes of a static community set in the past, not the present. Thus, "none of these four writers seems to possess either a satisfactory standpoint or a satisfactory technique for attacking the 'unbridled acquisitiveness and arrogant commercialism' of our times, as Leacock attacked his." A highly capable and incisive analysis, especially when probing Davies' narrative strengths and weaknesses.
C92 "Canada's Bearded Bard Davies Writes for Star." Toronto Daily Star, 27 Dec. 1958, pp. 1, 3.
This article ushers in Davies' weekly column for the Star, entitled "A Writer's Diary," and then reviews Davies' achievements.
C93 "Well-Known Author Writes for Herald." The Calgary Herald, 6 March 1959, p. 1.
This brief article announces the beginning of "A Writer's Diary," and gives a brief biography.
C94 Ridley, H. M. "A Poetry Writer's Reply." Canadian Author & Bookman, 35, No. 1 (Spring 1959), 7.
In this letter, Ridley, a member of the Canadian Authors Association, vigorously rebukes Davies' recent snubbing of poets in one of his book reviews.
C95 Cohen, Nathan. "Theatre Today: English Canada." The Tamarack Review, No. 13 (Autumn 1959), pp. 24-37.
Cohen's clear-eyed biography of Canadian theatre forcefully argues a pessimistic outlook. The productions of Fortune, My Foe and At My Heart's Core, put on by the International Players of Kingston, generated interest not because of their content, "but [because of] the manner of their doing." The entire article reads as a fascinating chronicle of Canadian history.
C96 "New Column Starts Tuesday." Vancouver Province, 21 Nov. 1959, p. 15.
Announces the beginning of "A Writer's Diary" in the Province next Tuesday.
C97 Whittaker, Herbert. "Theatre Guild Seeking Robertson Davies Play." The Globe and Mail, Final Ed., 23 Nov. 1959, p. 25.
"The Theatre Guild of New York would like to rehearse [Leaven of Malice] in Stratford and open it in Toronto, prior to taking it to Broadway next fall," partly to make use of Stratford actors. The article mentions the failed attempts of others to adapt the novel to a dramatic form.
C98 Maclean's Canada: Portrait of a Country. Ed. Leslie F. Hannon. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1960. 248 pp.
Under "A Gallery of Famous Canadians," the book contains a photograph of Robertson Davies.
C99 Deacon, W. A. "Field of University Presses." The Globe and Mail, Final Ed., 30 Jan. 1960, p. 16.
A brief paragraph states: "The text of [Davies' address at McMaster University] should be cast in bronze and displayed in 100 places throughout Canada."
C100 McPherson, Hugo. "The Mask of Satire: Character and Symbolic Pattern in Robertson Davies' Fiction." Canadian Literature, No. 4 (Spring 1960), pp. 18-30. Rpt. in Masks of Fiction: Canadian Critics on Canadian Prose. Ed. A. J. M. Smith. New Canadian Library, No. 2. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1961, pp. 162-75.
McPherson's very capable essay asserts that "behind the puckered mask of the satirist lives a serious writer of romance." Davies' central theme is "the plight of the imagination in this chilly cultural climate," yet he lacks at first a proper vehicle with which to explore this theme with depth. Marchbanks, "above all,...fights the glum sobriety of Calvinism." Yet "Samuel Marchbanks, for all his energy, never really comes alive as a character. He is essentially a "theatrical creation." In Tempest-Tost, Davies is unable to enter as a trustworthy narrator or absent himself entirely; the result: a disembodied voice and trivial content. "The book must be counted a failure." Leaven of Malice reveals better characters, but "we watch; we do not live in it." In A Mixture of Frailties, he finally assumes a consistent viewpoint and grants us insights into the complexities of Monica Gall's heart and artistic temperament. En route, he suggests the possible liberation of the Canadian imagination from "second-rateness, parochialism and dullness." A convincing essay.
C101 "Shakespeare Seminar at Stratford Festival." Shakespeare Newsletter, April 1960, p. 14.
The article mentions that Davies will lecture on "Shakespeare--What Else?" at the Shakespearean Institute at Stratford-Upon-Avon (Ontario) during a seminar running from July 17-22. Tyrone Guthrie and John Cook will also take part.
C102 Fulford, Robert. "Robert Fulford on Books." Toronto Daily Star, 30 May 1960, p. 20.
Fulford notes that "our very own Robertson Davies" joins prestigious company in The Saturday Evening Post with his piece "Battle Cry for Book Lovers." His vision is nineteenth century, and perhaps "impossible" in a society where everyone tends to "make up his own culture as he goes along."
C103 Whittaker, Herbert. "Guthrie and Davies Comment on Casting." The Globe and Mail, Final Ed., 20 July 1960, p. 22.
Whittaker summarizes developments in the casting and production planning for Love and Libel.
C104 Whittaker, Herbert. "Guthrie Opens Love and Libel Rehearsals." The Globe and Mail, 7 Oct. 1960, p. 28.
This article announces Guthrie's impetus in directing this Canadian play, and lists the actors and actresses cast for its main characters and its costume designer.
C105 Ferry, Antony. "12,000 Words Every Week Robertson Davies Average." Toronto Daily Star, 15 Oct. 1960, p. 21.
Ferry mentions the publication of A Voice from the Attic, and the pre-Broadway try out of Love and Libel at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto. He then describes Davies' working habits and current responsibilities.
C106 Brydon, Arthur. "New York Big Three Scout Canadian Play." The Globe and Mail, 21 Oct. 1960, p. 9.
The article announces the arrival of Billy Rose, Ben Hecht, and Lawrence Lagner from New York to watch a rehearsal of Love and Libel. It quotes their reactions to the play and Canadian actors in New York.
C107 "Canadian Director Applauded." The Calgary Herald, 11 Nov. 1960, p. 2.
This article documents the successful launching of Love and Libel in Detroit, prior to its Boston and New York runs.
C108 Deacon, W. A. "He Praises Davies' Novel." The Globe and Mail, 10 Dec. 1960, p. 17.
Deacon quotes his friend R. D. Hilton Smith, formerly deputy chief librarian of the Toronto Public Libraries, who responds to Deacon's review of A Voice from the Attic: "'To my mind, Robertson Davies, as a novelist, has reached perhaps the nearest point to genius yet achieved by a Canadian writer and I take considerable umbrage at your Puritan addiction to the essay which he throws off from time to time.'"
C109 Pacey, Desmond. Creative Writing in Canada: A Short History of English-Canadian Literature. Rev. ed. Toronto: Ryerson, 1961, pp. 233-35, 256, 258-61, 266, 269, 272. (See C55.)
In the fifties, the gibes at Canadianisms by the likes of Davies "are expressions of a real if reluctant involvement in the Canadian situation." The future of the Canadian novel lies in the hands of five writers, Davies being one of them. His works to date are filled not only with wit and urbanity, but with "gusto," "farce and sheer high spirits." The first two Salterton novels work well because he is very familiar with their settings. A Mixture of Frailties, however, "is a less consistently assured novel" and suffers from "dull passages," some awkward transitions, and a mood vacillating "between light comedy and an almost religious seriousness." Nevertheless, he is a novelist with many virtues, especially the ability to write with "a lively, forceful verve." Convincing remarks about Davies' strengths, shortcomings, and situation in Canadian letters.
C110 "Steinberg, M. W. "Don Quixote and the Puppets: Theme and Structure in Roberston Davies' Drama." Canadian Literature, No. 7 (Winter 1961), pp. 45-53.
Steinberg finds the ending to Fortune, My Foe "somewhat pat and sentimental" for an otherwise unified play. In At My Heart's Core, Davies presents "a very fine historical drama"; its organizing structure follows "the story of Satan's triple temptation of Jesus in the wilderness." In A Jig for the Gypsy, Davies is still preoccupied with ideas; the play "lacks the clear focus the other plays possess." Davies' satiric treatment of love and marriage reveals his contempt for sentimentalism. In general, "the comic spirit" in these three plays is "unexcelled in Canadian writing." More descriptive than analytic, this essay ironically lacks the intensity and depth it finds lacking in Davies' drama.
C111 Scott, F. R. "Lorne Pierce Medal." Royal Society of Canada Proceedings and Transactions, 3rd Ser., No. 55 (1961), 51-52.
During the laudatory presentation speech, Scott recounts Davies' achievements and "unique" contributions as a multifaceted writer. He states "the author's deep-felt love for the Canadian scene and his passionate desire for cultural and imaginative amelioration are evident through even his most biting satire."
C112 "Robertson Davies on National Frailties: Put Your Pennies into Canadian Culture, Students Urged." The Globe and Mail, 10 Feb. 1961, p. 5.
After listening to University of Toronto students facetiously debate the merits of Canadian culture "last night," Davies advised them to support it. The article cites a number of Davies' comments--on music, national foods, architecture, painting, and literature. "He listed Canada's virtues as intelligence, good will and honesty, and her weaknesses as self-doubt and intellectual laziness."
C113 "Davies Gets College Post at Varsity" The Ottawa Journal, 24 Feb. 1961, p. 5.
Announces the designated appointment of Davies as Master of Massey College at the University of Toronto. Briefly describes the college's structure.
C114 "Robertson Davies as Master Designate." Toronto Telegram, 24 Feb. 1961, p. 3.
Includes a photograph. Gives a few details of Davies' appointment, announced by Dr. Claude Bissell and Rt. Hon. Vincent Massey, and briefly reviews Davies' background.
C115 "Master of Massey College Named." Times [London], 25 Feb. 1961, p. 6.
This short article reviews the highlights of Davies' background.
C116 "Robertson Davies Goes to College." The Ottawa Journal, 3 March 1961, p. 6.
This brief article delights in anticipation of Davies' role as Master of Massey College, beginning in the Fall of 1962.
C117 "Unable to Beat Them, Davies Joins the Academics." Maclean's, 20 May 1961, p. 1.
Maclean's announces Davies' appointment as the first Master of Massey College, and quotes Vincent Massey's reactions to the news.
C118 "Need Less Politics--Davies." Toronto Daily Star, 20 July 196l, p. 23.
The article briefly reports on Davies' lecture on "Communications in a Changing Society."
C119 Bell, Inglis. "Canadian Literature--1960: A Checklist Edited by Inglis Bell." Canadian Literature, No. 7 (Winter 1961), pp. 85-102.
The checklist includes citations of Davies' address to the Royal Architecture Institute of Canada, and Hugo McPherson's article, "The Mask of Satire," in Canadian Literature (C100).
C120 "Davies, (William) Robertson." The Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature 1962. (1962).
The book contains a brief account of Davies' life and works.
C121 Solly, William. "Nothing Sacred: Humour in Canadian Drama in English." Canadian Literature, No. 11 (Winter 1962), pp. 14-27.
Solly outlines the feeble state of Canadian drama. He asserts that most of our best and successful playwrights have relied heavily on humour, Davies being the exemplar. The early radio playwrights put Canada's sacred cows under fire, and typically exposed a curious innocence to their reality. "The Canadian temperament" was revealed as "not at all disapproving of satire." The gently humorous dramas too often exhibit elderly protagonists, insipid themes, and dull stock characterizations of the "essential" Canadian type. Overlaid thus typifies the content of Canadian dramatic humour: problems of older people, a rural setting, a sudden windfall, the choice of staying in unfulfilling and backward Canada or leaving one's home for the sake of imagination. Solly puts together a convincing and interesting survey of early Canadian drama, touching briefly on Davies. Unfortunately, the discussion ends in midstream.
C122 Moon, Eric. "WLB Biography: Robertson Davies." Wilson Library Bulletin, 36, No. 6 (Feb. 1962), 443.
Davies' career in journalism "might have been forecast...when, at the age of eight, he reported a lantern-slide lecture for the Renfrew Mercury [Ontario]." Regardless, Moon succinctly summarizes Davies' background, education, literary works, critics, and honours. He quotes him as saying, "'The legends that I am: 1) very old, 2) very cranky, 3) very high brow are only moderately true.'"
C123 "Perspective: Roberston Davies." Toronto Daily Star, 26 May 1962, p. 29.
The article heralds Davies' new role as the Master of Massey College, discusses his personality--"He lives up to his beard"--his writing ability, and his attitudes. Includes a portrait sketch.
C124 "The Master of Massey College." Time [Canada], 1 June 1962, p. 10.
The article notes the recent laying of the foundation of Massey College by Prince Philip, and then dwells on Davies as its Master designate. He "talks as if he intends to make it a kind of academic version of the Algonquin round table."
C125 Whittaker, Herbert. "Showbusiness: Notes on Things." The Globe and Mail, 8 June 1962, p. 37.
Whittaker notes that Davies' lecture on The Taming of the Shrew had to be transferred to Convocation Hall "to accommodate the crowds."
C126 Knowles, A. K. Continuous Learning, 1, No. 4 (July-Aug. 1962), 216-17.
In the review of The Arts as Communication, Knowles states that "Robertson Davies throws piercing glances at Canadian and American contemporary drama." He "has some trenchant comments to make, and some searching questions to ask ourselves."
C127 Whittaker, Herbert. "Davies Charts Many Variations of Macbeth." The Globe and Mail, 7 Aug. 1962, p. 32.
Whittaker reports at some length on the first of Davies' three talks to the Stratford Shakespeare Seminar about the changing fashions in Shakespeare production. Davies discussed early versions of Macbeth; later, he criticized the afternoon performance of the play for being duller than the opening night.
C128 Ball, J. L. "A Bibliography of Theatre History in Canada, 1606-1959." Canadian Literature, No. 14 (Autumn 1962), pp. 85-100.
Ball lists a number of articles written by Davies about the Stratford Festival's first seasons.
C129 West, Paul. "Sluices of Literacy." Canadian Literature, No. 14 (Autumn 1962), pp. 62-64.
West reviews The Arts as Communication. "Davies stands for style; indeed, takes his stand on it, thank God." "He writes in short, upper-cutting paragraphs which reflect a full, darting mind." All the "lectures hang together pointedly well." They "challenge and blame; challenge us to do our own challenging and blame us for not doing it often enough."
C130 "Massey College on Schedule for 1963 Opening." Varsity News, 5, No. 1 (Oct. 1962), 2.
Contains a photograph of Davies in gown and mortar board.
C131 Fidell, Estelle A., and Dorothy M. Peake, eds. Play Index 1953-1960. New York: Wilson, 1963, p. 72.
The sole entry describes "Overlaid" and gives necessary staging information. It cites Canada on Stage as the anthology in which the play is published.
C132 Poulton, Ron. "Massey College Won't Be Rich Man's Club." Toronto Telegram, 19 Jan. 1963, p. 29.
Includes a photograph of Davies surveying partly built Massey College. Poulton notes reaction to Davies' appointment as Master of the college; he is known "for making a spectacle of himself." Davies thinks he will be too busy "to say anything inflammatory...unless someone prods him." Sketches the architecture and layout of the college. In various quotes, Davies discounts the varied, inaccurate rumours that have surfaced, cites the college's intent, and hopes that the college will offer something personal and of excellence for the graduate students.
C133 Riddell, Beatrice. "Massey College to Nurture Society." Financial Post, 19 Jan. 1963, p. 36.
Riddell quotes Davies as he outlines the structure of Massey College. "'The college will have failed if after a time we don't turn out people heading toward something other than university work.'"
C134 "Byzantium Inspires Massive Ballet Dance." CBC Times, 13-19 April 1963, p. 3.
The article mentions that Davies will interview Mme Ludmilla Chiriaeff on April 15th during the intermission of the Miracle Play, "Laudes Evangelii."
C135 The Globe and Mail, Final Ed., 31 May 1963, p. 5.
Includes a photograph of Davies congratulating his daughter Miranda, a graduate in English literature at the University of Toronto.
C136 "Terms Timon in Mode of 1963's Anti-Heroes." The Globe and Mail, 7 June 1963, p. 9.
In the second of a series of lectures, prior to the opening of the Stratford Festival season, Davies compared Timon of Athens to a modern, disillusioned anti-hero.
C137 Kritzwiser, Kay. "Examines Mysteries of Shakespeare's Play." The Globe and Mail, 12 June 1963, p. 9.
Kritzwiser summarizes key points of Davies' third and last lecture, which was on Troilus and Cressida. The play opened on the 17th at the Stratford Festival.
C138 "Massey College Opens Its Doors: Humanists and Scientists Will Live and Work Together in Stimulating Surroundings." Varsity News, 5, No. 5 (Oct. 1963), 7.
Contains a quotation from Davies about the college's purpose.
C139 Canadian Full-Length Plays in English. Ed. W. S. Milne. Ottawa: Dominion Drama Festival, 1964, pp. 15-16.
Using condensed sentences, this text outlines Davies' plays, describes the sets needed, indicates the number of men and women for each, and notes any known royalty fees for performing them. It includes At My Heart's Core, Fortune, My Foe, Hunting Stuart, A Jig for the Gypsy, and Love and Libel.
C140 Sylvestre, Guy, Brandon Conron, and Carl F. Klinck, eds. "Robertson Davies." In Canadian Writers/Ecrivains Canadians. Toronto: Ryerson, 1964, pp. 30-32.
Including dates, these pages note Davies' education, jobs, literary output, and achievements in chronological order.
C141 Cobb, David. "Theatre Lectureship for Robertson Davies." Toronto Daily Star, 20 June 1964, p. 23.
Cobb announces Davies as University of Toronto's first Edgar Stone lecturer in dramatic literature--"the first such lectureship at a Canadian university." He notes the history of the early periodic Edgar Stone lectures. For Davies, "'the focus of the new course will be on theatre in all its forms of popular entertainment.'"
C142 Whittaker, Herbert. "Davies' New Drama Chair No Campus Breakthrough." The Globe and Mail, 17 Oct. 1964, p. 13.
The "newly created post of Edgar Stone Lecturer in Dramatic Literature," which Davies is assuming, does not signify the formation of a theatre or drama department. Davies says, "'In giving a course in dramatic literature, I am expected to make bricks without straw. Happily, I have a few straws of my own.'" He intends to present a history of theatre "from the dramatic, not the literary point of view." The rest of the article quotes his view of the situation of drama at the University of Toronto and his wishes for future development.
C143 Ireland, Norma Olin. Index to Full Length Plays: 1944 to 1964. Boston: Faxon, 1965.
Ireland lists Davies' play A Jig for the Gypsy and includes a few sketchy details.
C144 McPherson, Hugo. "Fiction: 1940-1960." In Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English. Gen. ed. and introd. Carl F. Klinck. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1965, pp. 694-722. Rpt. in 2nd ed. Gen. ed. and introd. Carl F. Klinck. Vol. II, Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1976, 205-33.
McPherson comments that, along with others, Davies' fiction has "mapped out important areas of the Canadian terrain inconnu." Davies has been particularly concerned with "the discovery of the self," achieved by rejecting "the stolid provincial mask." In Tempest-Tost, the imagination is routed, but "it gains a partial victory in Leaven of Malice (1954)." Brief, but insightful.
C145 Rhodenizer, Vernon Blair. "Robertson Davies." In Canadian Literature in English. By Vernon Blair Rhodenizer. Montreal: Quality, 1965, p. 831.
This one-page sketch of Davies' background and works includes summaries of the plays, but only covers his career up to 1955. Fortune, My Foe is judged "brilliant."
C146 Tait, Michael. "Drama and Theatre." In Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English. Gen. ed. and introd. Carl F. Klinck. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1965, pp. 633-57. Rpt. in Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English. Gen. ed. and introd. Carl F. Klinck. Vol. II. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1976, 143-67.
Tait asks why Canada has lacked dramatic literature of any distinction, and outlines several convincing reasons. Davies has written plays that display "a large measure of theatrical inventiveness, satiric flair, and refreshingly literate dialogue." Eros at Breakfast is a "clever fantasy" opening up "the way for satiric thrusts at Canadian manners and a common human predicament." Hope Deferred, as "a bitter little comedy, is heightened by particularly trenchant dialogue." At the Gates of the Righteous is weak, but Overlaid infuses a commonplace plot with "characters intensely alive and a subtly equivocal ending. In Fortune, My Foe, Davies is too angry and rancorous. "The crucial distance between the author and his work seems unstable"; the characters suffer and "lack genuine vitality." At My Heart's Core is stronger and better controlled. In both, Davies is ambiguous about Canada's cultural future. A Masque of Aesop "has both charm and bite" and is his "most successful work for the stage." In A Jig for the Gypsy, Davies concludes with a new mood of optimism, affirming "the essential invulnerability of the life of the imagination." A well-considered and stimulating analysis.
C146a Wilson, Edmund. O Canada. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965, p. 84.
Wilson mentions Davies as a writer he has not read, and apologizes if that, in fact, is an oversight. "My ignorance of the subject [Canadian literature] is still immense."
C146b "Readers Expect Too Much, Robertson Davies Says." Toronto Daily Star, 4 June, 1965, p. F16.
This article notes that, in Edmonton, Davies asserts that because Canadians are always demanding "'greatness'" they "'too often don't see the quality that does exist in Canadian writing.'"
C147 McPherson, Hugo. "Canadian Writing: Present Declarative." English, 15 (Autumn 1965), 212-16.
Canada "has less a tradition than a pioneer past...a legacy of attitudes bequeathed by its relatives in Britain, Europe, and America." Since 1945, however, Canadian writing has begun to "'establish an original relation with the universe.'" "Robertson Davies...has caricatured the Victorian city of Salterton (Kingston, Ontario) in three novels which expose mercilessly the ignorance, pretentiousness, and materialism that pass for 'love of the arts' in old Ontario." A Mixture of Frailties, in its triumph for Monica Gall, "suggests that the community is beginning to find its voice" and establishes some hope for the imagination and the function of the artist. This wide-ranging article points to Davies as one of the many establishing Canada's new self-assured voice in literature.
C148 "Agenda: Centennial Playwrights." CBC Times, 4-10 Dec. 1965, p. 11.
The article notes that Davies, W. O. Mitchell, Dr. Arthur Murphy, Yves Theriault, and Eric Nicol have been commissioned to write a play for Canada's centennial. They will be interviewed on the program Agenda on December 4.
C149 Craw, G. Wilson. "The Fourth Estate." In Peterborough: Land of Shining Waters. An Anthology. Ed. Ronald Borg. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press for the City and County of Peterborough, 1966, pp. 245-52.
Craw provides a comprehensive history of newspapers in Peterborough county, in particular, the Peterborough Examiner. It was bought in 1935 by Senator Rupert Davies and Harry B. Muir and became entirely the Senator's upon the death of Muir in 1939. In March 1946, the paper was sold to the Senator's three sons, Arthur, Robertson, and the late Frederick.
C150 "Davies, Robertson." In The Canadian Who's Who. Vol. X (1964-1966).
This and subsequent volumes outline his life, works, and achievements.
C151 "Robertson Davies (1913- )." In Canadian Anthology. Ed. Carl F. Klinck and R. E. Watters. Rev. ed. Toronto: Gage, 1966, pp. 393, 571.
This anthology contains a half-page summary of Davies' life, plus a bibliography of his works and a list of some criticism.
C152 "He Wants to Help but Can't Find Vice." Toronto Daily Star, 20 May 1966, p. 21.
Humorous excerpts from Davies' address to the Ontario Welfare Council on May 19.
C153 "Life on Campus 'Serene.'" The Montreal Star, 21 May 1966, p. 11.
The article, with well-chosen quotations, summarizes in brief Davies' humorous address in Toronto to the Ontario Welfare Council. "'The government of Ontario must realize that if it wants drunken professors it must stop pricing drunkenness out of the professional market....'"
C154 Whittaker, Herbert. "Theatre: Dr. Davis [sic] Examines Shakespeare's Plays." The Globe and Mail, 1 June 1966, p. 15.
"In the third of his popular annual lectures on the Stratford plays," Davies termed Twelfth Night "the peak of Shakespeare's achievement in the realm of romantic comedy." Whittaker summarizes further ideas from the lecture.
C155 Whittaker, Herbert. "Theatre." The Globe and Mail, 25 July 1966, p. 13.
Under the subheading, Centennial Play, Whittaker announces the play's official opening at the Ottawa Little Theatre as January 11, 1967. The production at Lindsay in October will be "a sneak preview."
C156 Rach, Lynne. "Davies Plays University College." The Calgary Herald, 27 Oct. 1966, p. 17.
This article quotes some of Davies' talk to University of Calgary students on Wednesday; October 25-mainly about gaining a genuine education at university and about his experiences in a small college. "'What is really important in life, apart from thinking, is feeling.'"
C157 Fraser, Blair. The Search for Identity: Canada, 1945-1967. Toronto: Doubleday, 1967, pp. 107-08, 110.
Fraser quotes a section of the dialogue in Davies' paper to the 1949 Royal Commission on the Arts, Letters and Sciences in Canada. His was the "only one of twenty-eight papers to show a gleam of humor of its own."
C158 Story, Norah. "Davies, Robertson (1913- )." In The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1967, pp. 202-03.
"A serious approach to culture as opposed to dilettentism underlies Davies' three serio-comic novels set in Salterton." In Leaven of Malice, "the gentle humour...is counterbalanced by the sardonic treatment of the vindictiveness and tyranny of the older generation, of the brashness of the half-educated 'specialist', and of the spite that is the only weapon of a weak and vain man." In A Mixture of Frailties, "the comic elements are replaced by serious contrapuntal themes: man's tendency to surrender to tyranny and his ability to endure the travail of mind and spirit required to transform the virtuoso into the artist. The work ends with a double affirmation." Story includes a review of his life and work up to these novels, and summarizes some of the writings.
C159 "Davies Says Canada Needs Better Readers." The Citizen [Ottawa], 16 Jan. 1967, p. 38.
This brief article reports some of the discussion during a panel on the arts in Canada, at Bishop's University on January 15, which Davies chaired. Davies contended that more than increased government subsidies, Canadian authors need "'an appreciative public.'" "'In this country, there is an immense amount of criticism and a very small amount of intelligent reading of literature.'"
C160 Snowland, C. P. "A Day in the Life of a University." Maclean's, Nov. 1967, p. 16.
Snowland ekes from the Master a description of his activities during one day at Massey College.
C161 "Davies, Robertson." The Canadian Who's Who. Vol. XI (1967-1969).
C162 Roper, Gordon. Introduction. In Marchbanks' Almanack. By Robertson Davies. New Canadian Library, No. 61. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1968, pp. ix-xii.
In a crisp, informative fashion, Roper sorts out the ties between Samuel Marchbanks and Robertson Davies. He traces their careers and argues that Marchbanks "emerged as a full-blooded character...partly to entertain [Davies' Peterborough] Examiner readers, and partly to blow off steam." "Marchbanks' feelings and opinions are those of Robertson Davies--selected, transmuted, and dramatized as a verbal performance." Yet his personality corresponds "fundamentally [to] a Peterborough Everyman." "Technically, Marchbanks is brother to the 'Y' of Stephen Leacock's 'My Financial Career' and cousin to Samuel Clemens' persona, Mark Twain." His almanack is a miscellany, written by a person whose "wizardry lies in his horse-sense, his humanism, and his wit and candour; his power lies in his language." An excellent mustering of biography, facts, and critical judgement.
C163 Pacey, Desmond. Essays in Canadian Criticism 1938-1968. Toronto: Ryerson, 1969, pp. 129, 208-09, 230, 239, 274, 275, 280.
Davies' Salterton novels "had their roots in the early works of Aldous Huxley and Evelyn Waugh, but the application of their satirical and serio-comic technique to the Canadian scene resulted in something fresh and exciting. None of [these] novels was completely successful...but each marked an advance on its predecessor." Despite Kingston as their setting, "there is no convincing study of small town or rural life in Ontario."
C164 Lawrence, Robert G. "A Survey of the Three Novels of Robertson Davies." British Columbia Library Quarterly, 32 (April 1969), 3-9.
Lawrence reviews the Salterton novels on the occasion of their reissue. "They have worn surprisingly well." He then sketches their plots and themes, and notes the growth of Davies' skills as a novelist. He concludes by writing that Davies "is never a slovenly writer, but is capable of going on too long in situation and dialogue, seeming at times unable really to stand apart from his characters and their principles of goodness and badness. One feels occasionally that the playwright (as writer of dialogue) dominates the novelist (as writer of description and situation)." He "is also at times guilty of implausibility"--Hector Mackilwraith, the plot of Leaven of Malice, and Monica Gall's seduction. Nevertheless, the books "are both interesting and thought-provoking." A model of judicious appreciation.
C165 Jones, Joseph, and Johanna Jones. "Robertson Davies." In Authors and Areas of Canada, People and Places in World-English Literature, No. 1. Austin, Tex.: Steck-Vaughan, 1970, pp. 16-17.
This book contains a two-page sketch and a list of selected readings.
C166 "Author Robertson Davies Won't Disturb the Critics." Calgary Herald, 10 July 1970, p. 43.
This article recounts Davies' apology to Herbert Whittaker printed in The Globe and Mail, in which he promises not to upset any more opening nights by his loud laughter.
C167 "Won't Bug Critics, Davies Promises." The Ottawa Journal, 10 July 1970, p. 9.
This article recounts the incident leading up to Davies' apology to Herbert Whittaker for laughing too loudly at a recent opening night in Toronto. See (B366) and Whittaker's "Laughter, Silence Greet One-Man Rediscovery of Kipling," The Globe and Mail, July 3, 1970, p. 13.
C168 Edinborough, A. "Laughter to Tears: Take a Journey with Robertson Davies." Financial Post, 25 July 1970, p. 11.
"Samuel Marchbanks is a direct descendant of Sam Slick, with a little bit of Calgary Eye Opener Bob Edwards thrown in from the wrong side of the blanket." "Marchbanks flows freshly topical, sane and, thanks to a generous heaven, funny." Edinborough remarks that Leaven of Malice "is an hilarious story." In A Mixture of Frailties, "Monica's progression through apprehension, disillusionment and cynicism to a truly rounded view of life is a symbol of what has been happening in Canada itself since Mackenzie King arranged for Canada's independence without knowing what to do with it when he got it." The books "are not only the mirror of a fascinating, quirky, ribald and inquiring mind; they are also a deeply knowledgeable journey into our society." A headstrong but telling article.
C169 Campau, Dubarry. "There's Magic in Davies' Fifth Business." Toronto Telegram, 28 Oct. 1970, p. 58.
Mr. Campau's article previews the publication of Fifth Business, and includes Davies' personal comments about magicians, the devil, education, Canada, and the book's title. Includes a photograph of Davies.
C170 Stewart, Heather. "Ski Patrollers Hold Their Pre-Season Party." Toronto Telegram, 28 Oct. 1970, p. 43.
The paper prints a photograph of Mrs. Robertson Davies and Mrs. Gerald Levenston as they "look over books at Art Gallery of Ontario Browser's Buffet yesterday."
C171 "Profile." Quill & Quire, 6 Nov. 1970, p. 4.
This article spans his literary career and interjects some of Davies' sprightly comments. Davies "has accomplished the unusual feat of having his latest work [Fifth Business] overwhelmingly recognized before publication."
C172 Foster, Malcolm. "New Davies Book Shoo-In for G-G's Prize." The Gazette [Montreal], 7 Nov. 1970, p. 42.
"There's real depth...to Fifth Business." "Staunton is a beautifully-drawn character...[with] the feeling of authenticity about him." In the book "Davies explores all sorts of weird worlds" and presents "a brilliant panorama always populated by credible characters."
C173 "Canadian Literature: No Prize Here." The Citizen [Ottawa], 4 Dec. 1970, p. 35.
The article summarizes Davies' address to the Ottawa Women's Canadian Club on December 3, entitled "The Mirror of Canada, Some Thoughts on a National Literature," in which he chastises Canadians for not taking stock of their own creators of literature.
C174 Waller, Adrian. "An Honest Exponent of His Art." The Gazette [Montreal], 12 Dec. 1970, p. 37. Rpt. ("A Long Writing Career Began with a Paragraph"). In The Ottawa Journal, 26 Dec. 1970, p. 7.
Using a luncheon conversation as the setting, Waller concentrates on Davies' habits and self-conscious thoughts as a writer and quotes him about choosing his titles, critics, and The Canada Council. At the same time, she tries to evoke his personality.
C175 "Davies, Robertson." Author's and Writer's Who's Who (1971).
Davies' education, jobs, publications, and addresses are listed.
C176 Reference Division, McPherson Library, Univ. of Victoria, B.C., comp. "Davies, Robertson 1913- ." In Creative Canada: A Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Creative and Performing Artists. Vol. 1. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1971, pp. 90-91.
This book lists his background, education, awards, honours, and writings.
C177 "Davies, Robertson (1913- )." In Twentieth Century Writing. Ed. K. R. Richardson. London: Transatlantic Arts, 1971, pp. 157-58.
A brief mention of the Salterton novels, his Marchbanks book, and A Voice from the Attic.
C178 Metcalfe, William. "Canadian Novels for Social Scientists and Historians." ACSUS Newsletter [Association for Canadian Studies in the United States], 1, No. 1 (Spring 1971), 22-25.
Metcalfe lists Leaven of Malice and Tempest-Tost under the heading "Small-Town, Anglophile Ontario," adding to the latter book the comment: "really hilarious if you like the style at all."
C179 Cook, Bruce. "Mr. Davies Makes It on--Get This--Quality." National Observer [Silver Springs, Md.], 29 March 1971, p. 21.
The article reviews the publishing history of Fifth Business. The book was "neither gossipy, terribly sexual, nor shockingly perverse. All it had going for it was quality." As a result of "good press and enthusiastic word-of-mouth,...Davies now has the beginning of a following in this country." Cook then recounts a recent meeting with the author in New York, quoting him about his writing and his marriage "'Fifth Business, you see, was to be much more a novel of revenge than in fact it was finally.... People today like to think they've risen above it...but nothing of the kind.'" "'We pool our resources. Brenda can drive a car, and I can spell.'"
C180 Cunningham, John. "Canadians Aren't Square or Dull, Says Author." Spotlight Magazine [Vancouver Province], 2 April 1971, p. 28.
Cunningham describes Davies as "a scholarly Burl Ives" and "a man of both tolerance and strong principles." He then quotes Davies about abortion, religion, education, sex in entertainment, contemporary young people, and the success of Fifth Business.
C181 Bannon, Barbara A. "Authors and Editors." Publishers Weekly, 5 April 1971, pp. 21-23.
Bannon records the progress of Fifth Business in the United States, and then quotes Davies on American culture, the Americanization of Canadian universities, American students in Canada--many of whom "'don't know much [about literature] and seem to have started their reading with James Joyce'"--Canadian publishing, and government grants for writing. The article is particularly interesting for Bannon's view as an American.
C182 Bradbrook, M. C. Literature in Action. London: Chatto and Windus, 1972, pp. 162-63.
In his chapter on Canada, Bradbrook notes Davies, the parodist, as being in the tradition of Stephen Leacock and then quotes the portion of "The Double Life of Robertson Davies" that satirizes Davies' own boyhood.
C183 Cockburn, Robert. Introduction. In A Voice from the Attic. By Robertson Davies. New Canadian Library, No. 83. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1972, pp. viii-xii.
Cockburn, in an enthusiastic and perceptive essay, reviews Davies' life, in particular his "High Church Tory background," and then comments that A Voice from the Attic "is not an arrogant or polemical book. Rather, it is distinguished by its steady good humour and fair-mindedness." "There is something for everyone," though perhaps "a paucity of poets" and not much attention to Canadian literature. It is the work of "a man who wishes to share his discoveries with a reader whose curiosity is equal to his own."
C184 Cummings, Richard, et al. The Brock Bibliography of Published Canadian Stage Plays in English, 1900-1972. St. Catharines, Ont.: Brock Univ., 1972, pp. 8-9.
This publication lists Davies' plays, indicating the number of scenes, the number of players (of each sex), the sets required, the plots, the publishing rights, the first performances, and facts of publication (including inclusion in anthologies).
C185 "Davies, Robertson." The Canadian Who's Who. (1970-1972), Vol. XII.
C186 Gray, Jack. "Drama." In Read Canadian: A Book about Canadian Books. Ed. Robert Fulford, David Godfrey, and Abraham Rotstein. Toronto: James Lewis and Samuel, 1972, pp. 246-52.
Gray submits brief, but thoughtful, praise of Overlaid, Fortune, My Foe, and At the Gates of the Righteous.
C187 New, William. Introduction. In Dramatists in Canada: Selected Essays. Ed. William H. New. Canadian Literature Series. Vancouver: Univ. of British Columbia Press, 1972, pp. 1-9.
This introduction contains a briefly stated perception of the technical relationship common to Robertson Davies, James Reaney, J. M. Harper, and John Hunter Duvar: "they still work with character." New affords only brief consideration of Davies in this introduction.
C188 Thomas, Clara. "Robertson Davies." In Our Nature-Our Voices: A Guidebook to English-Canadian Literature. Vol. 1. Toronto: new press, 1972, 137-40.
As a critic, Davies has resisted "Canadian tendencies to parochialism, regionalism and to all the components of the 'colonial cringe.'" In the Salterton novels, his town "remains cardboard and two-dimensional--a parody small town and not the town itself." In Fifth Business, he is completely at home with his job, dropping his condescension and sometimes "shrill" criticism and creating "superb" characterizations. Thomas includes a bibliography of his works and lists five pieces of criticism.
C189 Roper, Gordon. "Robertson Davies' Fifth Business and 'That Old Fantastical Duke of Dark Corners, C. G. Jung.'" Journal of Canadian Fiction, 1, No. 1 (Winter 1972), 33-39. Rpt. in The Canadian Novel: Here and Now. Ed. and introd. John Moss. Toronto: NC, 1978, pp. 53-66.
Initially, the essay gives a fine overview of Jung's psychological theory, aptly interspersed with quotations from Davies himself about Jung. After relating Jung's concept of myth, Roper states that "in matter and manner, Fifth Business is a modern myth." Dunstan Ramsay's journey "is at once an inner and outer one," a search for his image, his true character, which he finds only at age seventy-two after reconciling himself to his "shadow" or dark side of the self. Davies' way of thinking, like Jung's, is "intuitive, dramatic and mythological." His combination of "myth and sign" gives the book "a strange power" and "an authority arising from a brilliant performance and from a wisdom that is old and forever new." Roper puts together an excellent introduction to the Jungian texture of Davies' imagination. The parallels derive naturally from the novel itself.
C190 Ross, Alexander. "The Master Who's a Servant of His Fate." Toronto Star, 26 Jan. 1972, p. 45.
Davies, Master of Massey College, embodies "the preservation of civility in an age that has almost forgotten what it means." His novels and his staunch views testify to his eighteenth-century outlook about each person's destiny and fate--his own included. "There is something supremely Canadian about" Davies' "old lessons" on the well-ordered life, for which Ross is very glad.
C190a "Public-Fund Pensions Suggested for Authors." Toronto Daily Star, 2 March 1972, p. 32.
The article notes that in Davies' address to the Empire Club of Canada he suggested pensions as repayments for the "robbery" authors endure from the government and the public. He noted that one of his books had appeared in Japan, was selling well, yet would never pay him a penny as it had been pirated by a foreign publisher.
C191 Kustra, Ron. "Students Told of Magic Circles." Winnipeg Free Press, 26 May 1972, p. 6.
The article, which includes a photograph of Davies with University of Manitoba President Dr. Ernest Sirluck, quotes portions of his address at the university's convocation on May 25, 1972. A replete sampling of the speech.
C192 "Massey College Is a Quiet Spot in Bustling Downtown Toronto." Peterborough Examiner, 1 June 1972, p. 13.
This article raises sexism and opulence as current criticisms of Massey College, and then lets facts or Davies himself argue against these allegations.
C193 Moore, Mavor. "Robertson Davies." English Quarterly, 5, No. 3 (Fall 1972), 15-20. Rpt. in 4 Canadian Playwrights: Robertson Davies; Gratien Gelinas; James Reaney; George Ryga. Ed. Mavor Moore. Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973, pp. 9-17.
Davies' initial one-act plays "show a rare ability to enter into a wide variety of characters, a remarkable ear for the speech of many places and social levels, an ebullient sense of humour, disrespect for sacred cows and a sophisticate's abhorrence of everything and everyone dull." "Like Oscar Wilde, Davies sees life as far too important to be taken seriously." Yet, as his works progress, his theme seems to become "that of temptation. You can only grow up...when you have been tempted by the Devil, faced up to him, and thus know yourself and where you are going." One can also see in his writings a tension "between two celtic traditions, Welsh and Scottish: mysticism versus rationalism." Moore's original approach provides some fresh insights.
C193a "Nations' Character in Danger: Author." Toronto Daily Star, 16 Oct. 1972, p. 23.
The brief article highlights Davies' address to the Society of Industrial Accountants of Ontario at the Royal York Hotel. "'To be a writer in Canada is as innocuous, as laudable without being in the least significant, as a manufacturer of yoghurt.'" Thus, "'Canada expects nothing for her writers even though they could gave the country a sense of national character.'"
C194 Craig, James. "Davies Warns Writers of Despair." The Vancouver Sun, 24 Nov. 1972, p. 32.
Craig uses Davies' trip to Vancouver to promote sales of The Manticore as a means of quoting him about his place in Canadian literature (a current misfit), despair as a dangerous trend in Canadian writing, Irving Layton's libido, growing old, and Canadian nationalism.
C195 "Davies Is Supple and Unerring." The Spectator [Hamilton], 25 Nov. 1972, p. 28.
Announces Davies' visit to the Burlington Central Library to read from his novels and autograph The Manticore "for eager buyers." The article comments on his prolific literary output, the reading, and his writing habits.
C196 Chatelin, Ray. "Failure Cult Developing, Says Davies." Entertainment Guide [Vancouver Province], 1 Dec. 1972, p. 5.
Using quotations from the Master, the article discusses in a general way Davies' views of playwrights, publishers, the novel, socialist governments, and foreign control.
C197 Taylor, Charles. "Are Canadian Authors Losers Writing for Losers?". The Globe and Mail, 15 Dec. 1972, p. 7.
Taylor grants that "...few Canadians have told us so much about ourselves" as Davies, but refutes Davies' recent complaint, in an address to the Society of Industrial Accountants of Ontario. "Davies has every right to speak [on writing in Canada]." "He has labored long and fruitfully in our midst as novelist, playwright and essayist...but...it all sounds very old and tired." Davies "underestimates our own country and...overestimates some others." Drawing on his own travels and knowledge, Taylor remonstrates that other countries are proportionately worse off than Canada. "If there as no ideal nation in which to write, the situation in Canada is hardly as bleak as Mr. Davies maintains." Taylor then gives evidence of the progress in Canadian literature of all kinds. "Our writers are certainly not the worst of us and we can look to them increasingly for passion and intensity, as well as bold and vigorous thinking or even (all bow to Dr. Davies) powerful, witty and well-wrought tales. More to the point, we are looking to them. Even more to the point, they seem to know it." A singularly stirring, knowledgeable, and far-reaching rebuttal.
C198 Bryan, J. Orosz, et al. The First Supplement to the Brock Bibliography of Published Canadian Plays. St. Catharines, Ont.: Brock Univ., 1973, p. 5.
This supplement annotates the following plays by Davies as additions to the 1972 bibliography: General Confession, Hunting Stuart, King Phoenix, and Overlaid.
C199 Fee, Margery, Gall Donald, and Ruth Cawker, eds. Canadian Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography. Regina, Sask.: Bibliographic Services Division, Provincial Library, 1973, p. 7.
This work lists Davies' novels and annotates them.
C200 Fidell, Estelle A., ed. Play Index 1968-1972. New York: Wilson, 1973, p. 68.
This book very briefly describes the plays, giving the necessary staging information, and cites the volume in which the plays are published. It lists General Confession, Hunting Stuart, and King Phoenix.
C201 Gnarowski, Michael. "Davies, William Robertson, 1913- ." In A Concise Bibliography of English-Canadian Literature. By Michael Gnarowski. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973, pp. 27-29. Rev. ed. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978, pp. 32-34.
Gnarowski lists Davies' works under the subheadings "Drama," "Novels," "Essays," "Scholarship Relating to the Theatre," "Literary Study," and "Editor," and includes a section with eleven works on Davies. This last section's subtitle, "Selected Studies and Articles," seems to have been inadvertently omitted for the Davies entry. Some of the entries for Davies' works are followed by a list of selected reviews. The entries (cut-off date 1975) are not complete for any of the sections. For example, Davies' World of Wonders (Toronto: Macmillan, 1975) is not included.
C202 Kinsman, Clare D., and Mary Ann Tennenhouse, eds. Contemporary Authors: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Authors and Their Works. Vols. XXXIII-XXXVI. Detroit: Gale, 1973, 251.
This reference tool divides Davies' life into personal data, his career achievements, his writings, and sidelights. It includes an insightful quotation from Davies about his own intentions in his works.
C203 Leech, Michael T. "Davies, Robertson." In Contemporary Dramatists. Ed. James Vinson. London: St. James, 1973, pp. 187-90.
This book contains a short summary of Davies' biographical information, an extensive list of his plays, and a short discussion of his works. Leech says "none of the plays of [the early] period seems to have hit a major mark, and while on paper they seem well-written, somehow the effect onstage is often bloodless and life-lacking." Leech then concentrates on Davies' Jungian bent, quoting him at length, and concludes that, but for his trend away from plays, "Robertson Davies could be a strong 'shadow opposite' of so many pseudo-intellectual writers for the modern stage."
C204 "Robertson Davies (1913- )." In The Canadian Century: English-Canadian Writing Since Confederation. Ed. A. J. M. Smith. Toronto: Gage, 1973, pp. 441-43.
The two-page summary briefly sketches Davies' books and their dates. Fifth Business explores "imaginative reality...by means of comedy, melodrama, and metaphysical speculation."
C205 S[tory]., N[orah]. "Davies, Robertson." In Supplement to The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature. Ed. William Toye. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1973, pp. 53-54.
The article brings the discussion of Davies up to 1973 by summarizing Fifth Business and The Manticore. The former depicts "a wealthy, snobbish clique in Toronto that stultifies any possibility of moral growth in the successful and aggressive Boy Staunton."
C206 Schoolcraft, Ralph Newman. Performing Arts Books in Print: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Drama Book Specialists, 1973, p. 89.
Contains an annotated reference to the 1964 reprint of Shakespeare's Boy Actors.
C207 Strickland, David. "Quotations" from English Canadian Literature. Toronto: Pagurian, 1973.
This book contains sixty-nine quotations from Davies' works.
C208 Waterston, Elizabeth. Survey: A Short History of Canadian Literature. Methuen Canadian Literature Series. Toronto: Methuen, 1973, pp. 60, 106-07, 155, 169.
In the Salterton novels, Davies "writes with a sociologist's care of a small Ontario town in a regional vein reminiscent of Leacock." "In his later novels... Davies has added scenes in Europe to balance and sharpen the Canadian scenes." The book, though slight in Davies criticism, includes a "Survey Chart" that lists historical events, Canadian literary events, and literary events elsewhere; the overview provides interesting comparisons.
C209 Dyment, Margaret. "Romantic Ore." Journal of Canadian Fiction, 2, No. 1 (Winter 1973), 83-84.
"The archetypal figures of romance have undergone in Davies' work not so much a metamorphosis as a process of accretion, until in his latest novel, The Manticore, the levels of connotation confront one another like mirrors, one enchanted corridor leading back through Davies' works and the other into the reader's self." "The patriarchal myth takes centre stage as the action revolves around the inability of 'Boy' Staunton's son, David, to assimilate his father's death." In general, "the magical and inexplicable in life" evoked in Fifth Business are "forcefully confirmed" in The Manticore, and "given an underpinning of reason, a logical network." Thus, Davies underscores his "more complex visions of what it is to be human." A fine article.
C210 Scott, Patrick. "Public Is Behind Robertson Davies Even if Literary Mafia Is Not." Toronto Star, 3 Feb. 1973, p. 81. Rpt. "Our Greatest Novelist Is Outside 'The Club.'" In Victoria Times, 3 March 1973, p. 17.
Scott disdains Toronto's "incestuous literary Mafia who can neither perceive nor accept that... Davies has established himself not only as the most genuinely gifted novelist this country has ever produced,...but as one of the two or three finest now writing in English." At the time of writing, The Manticore has sold 6,500 hardback copies in Canadian stores, and 15,000 in the Book-of-the-Month Club; in the United States, over 13,000 copies have been sold. The figures for Fifth Business are 5,000 hardcover copies in Canada, 11,000 in the United States, and 15,000 through the Book-of-the-Month Club. Scott lauds Davies for establishing a true Canadian identity within the stories of rural Ontario and Toronto society.
Includes a Dave Glover cartoon of Davies writing a manuscript.
C211 Vineburg, Dusty. "Devil's Advocate." The Montreal Star, 3 Feb. 1973, p. C7.
This full-page article ranges widely, but comfortably, over Davies' recent successes (Fifth Business and The Manticore), his writing habits, his views of life, his consideration of women, and his development from Freudian to Jungian psychology. During an interview, "no query quite plumbed his reserve; his replies did not exhaust his views--which is rare enough in this era of tell-it-all late night television."
C212 Dobbs, Kildare. "Author R. D. Symons Dead." Toronto Daily Star, 6 Feb. 1973, p. 72.
Under a subheading "That cultural clique," Dobbs notes that the Star city editor, Patrick Scott, has become a "fearless defender" of Davies, not "noticeably in need of rescuing." He details the conflict in assessment of Davies rendered by William Sale (The Globe and Mail), Dobbs, and Roger Sale (The New York Times) on the one hand, and Scott on the other.
C213 Base, Ron. "He's a Master...of Many Things." Windsor Star, 17 Feb. 1973, p. 36.
After a colourful description of Massey College, Davies' physiognomy, and his once-extroverted dress, Base discusses the critical response to Fifth Business and The Manticore, and then, in the midst of sketching Davies' history, quotes him about the theme of Fifth Business, the presence of biography in his fiction, women, Canada, newspaper writing, and his relationship with his readers.
C214 Fulford, Robert. "Two Davies Novels Are Interconnected yet They Stand Alone." Toronto Star, 14 April 1973, p. 77. Rpt. ("Davies's New Books Elaborately Connected"). In The Citizen [Ottawa], 14 April 1973, p. 68.
The difference between Fifth Business and The Manticore "is between product and process." Fulford prefers the second because it is "the more adventurous novel, from both the writer's and the reader's standpoint," and "makes the greater demands." Essentially, his novels are underrated. "He manipulates his foreground action so brilliantly that he obscures the real issues at stake"--"that myth is better than history, instinct superior to intellect, mystery a finer thing than knowledge. This is the truth Ramsay knows in his bones and Staunton must, through pain, learn." An intelligent and perceptive analysis.
C215 "Literary Awards Lean Towards Poets." The Calgary Herald, 17 April 1973, p. 83.
The article recounts the winners of the Governor-General's Awards, including Davies for The Manticore.
C216 "Three Poets Win Half of G-G Literary Awards." The Citizen [Ottawa], 17 April 1973, p. 78.
Announces that "veteran novelist Robertson Davies...took the honours for English-language fiction for The Manticore." Includes a photo of Davies.
C217 Kareda, Urjo. "Lennoxville Festival Revives Davies' Play." Toronto Daily Star, 23 April 1973, p. 40.
Kareda notes that A Jig for the Gypsy will be revived for the Lennoxville Festival "with Barbara Chilcott recreating her original role and Donald Davis...directing"--one of three productions for the Lennoxville season.
C218 Whittaker, Herbert. "Actress Repeats Role She Had 20 Years Ago." The Globe and Mail, Metro Ed., 3 May 1973, p. 15.
Whittaker notes that "Barbara Chilcott will repeat her starring role in A fig for the Gypsy when...the play is revived by the Lennoxville Festival on July 16." She played Benoni "when the play was first staged at the Crest Theatre nearly 20 years ago."
C219 Whittaker, Herbert. "Those Theatre Perils Are Tempting Davies Again." The Globe and Mail, 12 May 1973, p. 27.
Whittaker notes that Davies has approved the Lennoxville Festival's request to revive A Jig for the Gypsy. He has also reluctantly agreed to let the University of Toronto's Drama Centre restage Love and Libel. Whittaker underscores Davies' traumatic exit from theatre writing and producing by quoting his reactions to the harsh treatment of Love and Libel in New York in 1960. This article contains some poignant and rare revelations of Davies' inner feelings as a successful writer, but spurned dramatist.
C220 Young, Scott. "A Loafer's Diary." The Globe and Mail, 7 June 1973, p. 7.
Young's rereading of Fifth Business leaves him full of admiration for "the precision with which...[Davies] depicts the character of Ontario." "Every place, incident and person comes across with the sureness of closely observed familiarity." "In my experience no writer had done the job so accurately for Ontario."
C221 Cherry, Zena. "Happy Defininon of Cat-Like Mood." The Globe and Mail, June 1973, p. 14.
This article details Davies' speech to Bishop Strachan School students at the end of the term, one entitled "Happiness Is a Cat-Like Emotion." Cherry quotes substantial portions of the speech.
C221a Lister, Rota. Rev. of Encounter: Canadian Drama in Four Media. Ed. Eugene Benson. English Quarterly, 6, No. 2 (Summer 1973), 209-11.
Lister briefly disputes Benson's choice to include Overlaid from Davies' plays to date.
C222 Reid, Verna. "The Small Town in Canadian Fiction." English Quarterly, 6, No. 2 (Summer 1973), 171-81.
"Even in the most cutting portrayal the town is shown to be important to those who live there." "There is always the strong sense that the intimate quality of life in a small community is worth preserving." In Fifth Business "Deptford is important to...Mrs. Ramsay because it reflects and reinforces home values and so provides a secure environment for the family." It has "more intense significance" for Dunstan "in its moral imperatives and sets of priorities, and in his reactions to these lies the key to self-understanding." Overall, the "fiction of the small town is involved both in a voyage of self-discovery and a nostalgic trip to a lost world," and is important because "it contains our roots and a key to self-understanding. The article documents only the most general patterns of small town use because it examines an unmanageable number of authors.
C223 "Robertson Davies Awarded Governor General's Award." Canadian Author & Bookman, 48, No. 4 (Summer 1973), 16.
This article congratulates Davies on his present (and past) achievements.
C224 "Robertson Davies Knocks Reviewers and Lauds Canadians on Impressions July 8." CBC Network Promotion, No. 328, 29 June 1973, n. pag.
Quotes excerpts from Davies' appearance on the show on July 8th, at 5:30 p.m.
C225 "A Jig for the Gypsy." The Citizen [Ottawa], 21 July 1973, p. 53.
This caption identifies a photo from the current production of the play at the Lennoxville Festival.
C226 Ascroft, Sheila. "History Repeats Itself for Actors and Author." The Citizen [Ottawa], 28 July 1973, p. 49.
This extensive article, that focuses on Barbara Chilcott, notes among other things that the Lennoxville revival of A Jig for the Gypsy marks only its second professional production. The article quotes Chilcott's positive reassessments of the play, then reviews her acting background and her experiences as an actress.
C226a Grosskurth, Phyllis. "Survival Kit." New Statesman, 24 Aug. 1973, pp. 254-55.
In her review of Margaret Atwood's Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature, Grosskurth notes that Atwood's thesis has seemingly led her to omit Davies as a comic writer, while yet including Farley Mowat--not known for his survival theme.
C227 Whittaker, Herbert. "Fresh Foray for Davies Play." The Globe and Mail, 9 Oct. 1973, p. 15.
Whittaker records Davies' satisfaction about the new production of Leaven of Malice (Love and Libel) to be staged at the Hart House Theatre at the University of Toronto. En route, Davies lets slip some candid remarks about his New York experiences with the earlier version.
C228 Kareda, Urjo. "Robertson Davies Enjoying Continuous Rediscovery." Toronto Star, 13 Oct. 1973, p. F3.
This article quotes Davies' memories of the New York production of Love and Libel--"'Guthrie directed a very ingenious but cold production"'--and his views of Canadians, the theatre, and himself as a playwright.
C229 New, W. H. "Canada: Introduction." Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 8, No. 2. (Dec. 1973), 59-64.
New mentions the publication of Hunting Stuart and Other Plays and The Manticore; the latter "is told in such a controlled, urbane witty style that the structural artifice is absorbed into a sympathetic portrait of a culture and personality."
C230 "Davies, Robertson." In Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Carolyn Riley and Barbara Harte. Vol. II. Detroit: Gale, 1974, 113.
This book includes excerpts from three review articles by John Skow, William Kennedy, and Brian Moore.
C231 "Davies, Robertson." In English, Speech and Drama. Vol. II of Directory of American Scholars. Ed. Jacques Cattell. 6th ed. New York: Bowker, 1974, 145.
Lists his honours, jobs, areas of special interest, and his works of criticism.
C232 "Davies, Robertson." In Who's Who in America 1974-1975. 38th ed. (1974).
Lists Davies' basic biographic information, his honours, and his published works.
C233 "Davies, Robertson." In Who's Who in the World 1974-1975. 2nd ed. (1974).
Lists his honours, jobs, and publications.
C234 "Robertson Davies (1913- )." In Canadian Anthology. Ed. Carl F. Klinck and Reginald E. Watters. 3rd ed. Toronto: Gage, 1974, p. 401.
This book contains a one-page description of Davies' education, work experiences, teaching positions, awards, and publishing history. At the back, it prints a bibliography of his works and of some of the seminal critical assessments.
C235 Mitcham, Allison. "The Canadian Matriarch: A Study in Contemporary French and English Canadian Fiction." La Revue de l'Universite de Moncton, 7, No. 1 (Jan. 1974), 37-42.
Mitcham assesses Ma Gall and Mrs. Bridgetower (in A Mixture of Frailties). Like other women in Canadian fiction, they are "holy terrors," and "overshadow everyone around them...by their tremendous sense of self and their physical robustness." The latter "is something of a female general," adept at manipulation; the former, though of a puritanical bent, is, nevertheless, "both earthy and out-spoken." Whether appealing or not, the two (and others discussed) share outstanding enduring qualities of "energy, spirit and vitality." "In an age dominated by the bogey of mass production, they are valuable originals."
C236 Whittaker, Herbert. "A Davies Return to the Stage? No, Just a Voice Off Bit." The Globe and Mail, 15 Jan. 1974, p. 12.
Whittaker uses Davies' participation in a Hart House production (as the voice off-stage of The Great Boyg, in Ibsen's Peer Gynt) as an excuse to trace Davies' acting career. He highlights the history with Davies' own anecdotes and comments.
C237 Poole, Fiona. Rev. of Stage One. A Canadian Scene Book. Ed. Andrew Parkin. Performing Arts in Canada, 11, No. 1 (Spring 1974), 50-51.
"This anthology is only different from its predecessors in being all-Canadian. Otherwise, the formula is predictable." Davies' scenes are appropriately included, as they work easily as segments and rely "for their effect largely on language," not staging or visual effects. The selections "themselves prove that Canadian drama offers both quality and variety."
C238 "MUN to Get School of Fine Arts?". Evening Telegram [St. John's, Nfld.], 25 May 1974, p. 3.
This article includes a photo of Davies delivering the convocation address at Memorial University of Newfoundland on May 24, 1974, and two quotations from his speech.
C239 Murray, Don. "Grads Given Glimpse into Scholar's Gloomy Crystal Ball." The London Free Press, 6 June 1974, p. 8.
Murray cites some of the predictions from Davies' tongue-in-cheek convocation address at the University of Western Ontario on June 5, 1974. The article includes a photo of Davies receiving his honorary degree from U.W.O. Chancellor, John Robarts.
C240 Kroetsch, Robert. "Unhiding the Hidden: Recent Canadian Fiction." Journal of Canadian Fiction, 3, No. 3 (Summer 1974), 43-45.
"David Staunton,...like Atwood's heroine [in Surfacing] must begin by confronting death and the father. For eastern Canadian writers, this matter of literal ancestors is paramount." "Where the larger process of uninventing, in Atwood, becomes a journey into the wilderness, in Davies it is a journey to the old civilization, the sum of our ancestry. And yet, for both these novelists, the condition of prehistory is necessary to valid and authentic birth." "Atwood and Davies, using the established conventions of the novel, act out this process of decomposing the world in terms of individuals. Curiously, it has been left to western Canadian writers to act it out in a larger social context"-namely, Frederick Philip Grove, Rudy Wiebe, and Dave Godfrey. This is a curious, slightly abstract analysis, and likely only entirely clear to those of a like mind.
C241 Scobie, Stephen. "Scenes from the Lives of the Saints: A Hagiography of Canadian Literature." Lakehead University Review, 7, No. 1 (Summer 1974), 3-20.
The people who pioneer the breaking down or loosening of the garrison mentality in Canadian literature Scobie calls "saints." "The drama often centres more on the disciple's reaction to the saint than on the saint's experience itself." Scobie concentrates his analysis on Beautiful Losers, but examines The Double Hook, The Watch That Ends the Night, and Fifth Business. In the last, the question of the authority of the saint is extensively treated. Dunstan Ramsay looks to others to verify his view of Mary Dempster as a saint, but, eventually, can only decide the issue on his own. However, when Boy Staunton and Magnus Eisengrim accept responsibility for Mary Dempster, Dunstan achieves the recognition he has been searching for.
C242 Warwick, Ellen. "The Transformation of Robertson Davies." Journal of Canadian Fiction, 3, No. 3 (Summer 1974), 46-51. Rpt. (revised) in The Canadian Novel: Here and Now. Ed. John Moss. Toronto: NC, 1978, pp. 67-78.
In The Manticore, Davies has produced "a romance." Warwick reviews previous assessments of Davies' growth, and notes the shift from satirical romance (culminating in Fifth Business) to full-fledged romance. In Fifth Business, Dunstan's stance as a loner allows for satire; his narration gives us an intimate view of him. In The Manticore, Staunton's talk under analysis discourages irony and a truly candid type of intimacy. Archetypal guests appear in both, as do romantic themes. Even the structure follows Northrop Frye's guidelines, though not "in any strict, one-to-one fashion."
C243 Webster, David. "Uncanny Correspondences: Synchronicity in Fifth Business and The Manticore." Journal of Canadian Fiction, 3, No. 3 (Summer 1974), 52-56.
Synchronicity, a Jungian term, "occurs when causally related events have an uncanny correspondence." Davies' writings repeatedly allude to this phenomenon and suggest "that human lives may have an order, a structure, a meaning that is similar to the order and meaning of literary works." Examples which Webster discusses include the correspondence of the personalities and names of Davies' characters, the significance of the Christmas season in Fifth Business, The Manticore, and A Mixture of Frailties, and Dunstan Ramsay's life-history. Though occasionally repetitious, this stimulating article assesses Davies' corpus from an original and intriguing perspective.
C244 Kirby, Blaik. "Writer Davies Less Successful as TV Personality." The Globe and Mail, Final Ed., 9 Sept. 1974, p. 15.
Kirby reviews the first program of the series "People of Our Time," which features Davies talking about Toronto. "Davies wanders quite a long way from the implications of his title, 3 1/2 cheers for Toronto, and his manner does not give easy, intimate communication between screen and viewer. He seems stuffily intellectual, and his speech arranged rather than spontaneous." "He is at his best on the page, not on the tube."
C245 Bjerring, Nancy E. "Deep in the Old Man's Puzzle." Canadian Literature, No. 62 (Autumn 1974), pp. 49-60. Rpt. in The Canadian Novel in the Twentieth Century: Essays from Canadian Literature. Ed. George Woodcock. New Canadian Library, No. 115. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975, pp. 161-73.
Davies' first three novels fail to "probe the Canadian psyche with any great depth or clarity of vision." But "in Fifth Business, we get at last a truly realistic depiction of Canadian mores and morality, of psychological orientation and motivation." The Canadian mentality embodied by most of the characters resists notions of spirituality or mysticism. "Davies tantalizes us in this book--he is trying to trick our stubborn Canadian mentality into being psychologically aware." Dunstan Ramsay's search for spiritual truth and significance is a journey of the typical Canadian psyche; the interest in magic, "this craving for the marvellous is really a craving for self-knowledge." Two routes are possible: that of taking externals for reality, or of probing the mind. "We suspect that Davies shows us that total conversion to one side or the other produces the madness of the fool-saint, or the impersonal inhumanity of the magician."
C246 Dahlie, Hallvard. "Self-Conscious Canadians." Canadian Literature, No. 62 (Autumn 1974), pp. 6-16.
Canadian novelists, including Hugh MacLennan, Ethel Wilson, Sinclair Ross, Robertson Davies, have been very Canadian in the content of their books but have "felt compelled to alternate passages of sensitive and perceptive writing with variant choruses of 'O Canada.'" In Davies, "on the whole there is a satisfactory fusion of Canadian experience and artistic vision." "His heart is ultimately in Salterton," yet he cannot help intruding "self-conscious Canadianism" into his fictional drama. In A Mixture of Frailties, this creates an inconsistency in tone; we are unsure whether his fluctuating ironies satirize Canada, or the United States and Britain. If anything, this overriding concern about Canada balloons in Canadian authors in the 1960s and severely affects the quality of recent Canadian fiction. If present writers eliminate this self-consciousness, they will become better writers. A well-considered and carefully worked article.
C247 "Colombo Discovers Canadianisms." Maclean's, Nov. 1974, p. 102.
The article includes this one Canadianism by Davies: "The pint-size writer finds pint-size readers."
C248 Cude, Wilfred. "Miracle and Art in Fifth Business or Who the Devil Is Liselotte Vitzliputzli?". Journal of Canadian Studies, 9, No. 4 (Nov. 1974), 3-16.
Dunstan Ramsay is not who he thinks he is. "Surely he is closer to Hero, Confidant, even Villain, than Fifth Business." "His humility...encumbers him when he attempts to assess the part he played in his own story." On the other hand, "his assertion of the three miracles is hopelessly botched, a classic demonstration of the post hoc ergo propter hoc procedure." "Mary's saintly exploits are well-intentioned moral cosmetics fabricated by Dunny to disguise a sad reality." "The narrative is a miracle of art, transmuting the dullness of Canadian academic life into the wonders of sainthood." Ramsay is a saint because he exhibits "'heroism in God's cause.'" In the story, "he takes... the quaint elements of Southern Ontario, and welds them into a mosaic that glows alive with digression, qualification, and illumination. In this regard, the fictional Dunstan Ramsay and the factual Robertson Davies are one. It goes beyond coincidence that they share the same initial, howbeit in reversed order." The article argues with studious vigour, but manages to remove any sense of awe from the story--despite the title. Overloaded with plot and quotations.
C249 "Robertson Davies." Americas, 26 (Nov.-Dec. 1974), S-9.
"There are many people who think he is the best novelist now writing in English." "His work has a quality that is profound, religious, and humanistic." The article quotes Davies about Christianity, his role as an artist, and his intellect. "'As for this wit business, it's primarily defence, you know. Witty people are concealing something.'"
C250 "Davies, (William) Robertson." In World Authors 1950-1970: A Companion Volume to Twentieth Century, Authors. Ed. John Wakeman. New York: Wilson, 1975, pp. 359-62.
This volume quotes Davies as he retells his life. Of his production of Love and Libel in New York he says, "'I am still delighted to think it had a splendid false dawn in Boston, where the critics and the audiences liked it greatly.'" As a humorist, he makes people laugh "'in the hope that the exercise will air their heads and persuade them to think and, even more, to feel.'" If, as Hugo McPherson stated, Monica Gall in A Mixture of Frailties symbolizes "the growth to maturity of the Canadian imagination,...most foreign critics missed the point" but praised it highly anyway. The article then goes on to discuss Fifth Business, The Manticore, and A Voice from the Attic.
C251 Dawe, Alan. "Untaped Interviews." Event, 4, No. 1 (1975), 33-40.
Dawe recalls interviews with Davies and with four other "important members of the Literary Establishment." Davies came to Vancouver in November 1972 to promote The Manticore. He agreed to talk to students at Vancouver Community College and "proved to be a charmer and not an ogre." He was "witty, wise and tidy" in carrying off an information question and answer period--"fifty minutes of audience spellbindery."
C252 "Robertson Davies." In The Canadian Who's Who. Vol. XIII (1973-75).
C253 "Davies Play at Festival." The Citizen [Ottawa], 18 Jan. 1975, p. 63.
Announces the inclusion of Leaven of Malice in the 1975 season of the Shaw Festival. The article includes details of past and forthcoming performances.
C254 Whittaker, Herbert. "Is the Day of Davies the Dramatist Finally at Hand with Question Time?". The Globe and Mail, 15 Feb. 1975, p. 23.
"Davies regards Question Time as an extension of his earlier Jig for a Gypsy." "Like that Welsh comedy...the new work is a frankly political play." Whittaker then roams through Davies' more recent achievements and popularity, sprinkling his journey with comments from the Master himself.
C255 Blackadar, Bruce. "Robertson Davies: He's Making Canada Fashionable." The Toronto Sun, 16 Feb. 1975, p. M4.
This sprightly article first gushes excitement over Fifth Business, especially as a reflection of Canada's WASP values and spiritual heritage. It then quotes Davies on such topics as Canadian prime ministers, the occult, the youthfulness of his readership, writing as a Canadian, and his wanting to play King Lear. More of a human interest story than a critical assessment, the article ends on an empathetic (and calmer) note.
C256 Rasky, Frank. "The Master Is Jubilant over New Popularity." Toronto Star, 24 Feb. 1975, p. D12.
Rasky reviews Davies' past, and ekes some minor revelations. "Davies says his father gave him an insatiable taste for the theatre and a keen insight into the pent-up passions of Canadian politicians." Actors have self-disciplined egos, "'but politicians are often consumed by their need for adulation and power.'" "'In my old age, I've suddenly become popular.... Am I jubilant about it? You bet I am! No numbed heart for me.'" A well-meshed article.
C257 Cohen, Bob. "Robertson Davies--The Prolific Writer as a Cultural Force." The Gazette [Montreal], 25 Feb. 1974, p. 47. Rpt. ("The Profits and Pleasures of Being Robertson Davies"). In The Citizen [Ottawa], 1 March 1975, p. 65. Rpt. ("Robertson Davies: Master of the Intellect"). In Windsor Star, 1 March 1975, p. 48. Rpt. (condensed--"Robertson Davies: Canada's Most Controversial Man of Letters"). In Edmonton Journal, 7 March 1975, p. 21.
This fairly extensive article reviews Davies' history, and then touches on Question Time, Fifth Business, his recurring exploration of spiritual force, his openness, and his love of practical jokes.
C258 Cohen, Bob. "A Literary Lion Roars Anew." Vancouver Province, 27 Feb. 1975, p. 27.
Cohen reviews with affection the highlights of Davies' life. He asserts that "Davies continues to challenge cherished notions. But today, that challenge comes wrapped in the rich allegory that extrudes from an exceptional mind." Despite his artistic stature and aloof image, Davies is open and far from stuffy.
C259 Fleming, Louis K. "Don't Kill Home-Grown Play; Sharpen It Up, Reader Says." Toronto Star, 4 March 1975, p. B5.
This letter to the editor states that "Question Time has something profound to say about Canadians, Canada, and her body politic." To improve the current production, "let's start with a large pair of scissors on the script, no matter how much the author howls. And then, let's have a clean, ice-capped setting, less gimmickry, and a smaller cast."
C260 Schatzky, David. "Reviving the Magic of Theatre." Quill & Quire, April 1975, p. 20.
The production of Question Time at the St. Lawrence Centre provides an occasion for Schatzky to briefly review Davies' career and quote, at length, some of the Master's views of the new play, contemporary theatre, the working relationship between playwright and director, writing, the Writers' Union, and literary prizes.
C261 Adilman, Sid. "Playwright Davies Enjoys a Good Year." Toronto Star, 29 May 1975, p. E12.
Adilman notes that Question Time premiered at the St. Lawrence Arts Centre, Hunting Stuart is to be revived at the Lennoxville Festival, and Leaven of Malice received only its second performance at the Shaw Festival, "starting tonight." Davies comments that people say his novels read like plays, and vice versa. He recalls the ill-fated 1960 New York production of Leaven of Malice, yet notes that the Shaw production--the first Canadian play presented on its major stage--is 50% sold out. Adilman quotes a few more comments from Davies.
C262 Knelman, Martin. "The Masterful Actor Who Plays Robertson Davies." Saturday Night, June 1975, pp. 30-35.
"Although hardly anyone would think of it that way, Fifth Business is a mystery thriller about revenge." It is "a tale about magic, but the true magic is in the power and skill of the writing. In The Manticore, the mysteries are woven and disentangled according to a different text of witchcraft." What is surprising is that "these profound and dazzlingly perceptive novels" come from a man symbolic of Canadian culture-stuffy, refined, and Victorian. Davies "loves pomp and formality maybe because they provide the distance he needs" to act out the many roles in his life. As an interviewee he seems "at once perfectly straightforward and yet maddeningly elusive." Knelman then weaves together his experience of the Master during an interview with Davies' recollections of his early life. Gracefully done.
C263 "Reader Expects Too Much, Davies Says." The Globe and Mail, 4 June 1975, p. 14.
Davies, in Edmonton, at a symposium of the Royal Society of Canada at the University of Alberta, criticizes Canadians for always expecting "'the great Canadian novel or the great Canadian poem.'"
C264 Warden, Kathy. "Only 800 Pick Up Degrees." The Calgary Herald, 7 June 1975, p. 26.
The article includes a capsule summary of Davies' convocation address at the University of Calgary on June 6, 1975. "Solemnly donning the role of prophet, Dr. Davies delivered a witty, mock-serious address urging graduates not to despair for the future." He predicted "that better times are coming--in 50 years."
C265 "The Crest: A Photographic View." Canadian Theatre Review, No. 7 (Summer 1975), pp. 24-33.
Contains a photo of Diana Vandervlis, Helene Winston, and Frances Tobias performing in Hunting Stuart in 1955, and one of Barbara Chilcott as Benoni in A Jig for the Gypsy (1954).
C266 "Crest Chronology." Canadian Theatre Review, No. 7 (Summer 1975), pp. 45-51.
Records the opening date of A Jig for the Gypsy as September 15, 1954, and that of Hunting Stuart as November 22, 1955.
C267 Whittaker, Herbert. "Recollections of Achievement." Canadian Theatre Review, No. 7 (Summer 1975), pp. 12-16.
In tracing the history of the Crest Theatre, Whittaker notes that Davies' A Jig for the Gypsy was the one original work performed during the first season. Hunting Stuart was staged the second season, in 1955.
C268 Winters, Robert. "Lennoxville Fest Lures Davies." The Citizen [Ottawa], 23 July 1975, p. 89.
Winters provides details surrounding the opening of Hunting Stuart at the Festival Lennoxville and quotes favourable remarks by two critics.
C269 MacSkimming, Roy. "A Rich Publishing Season Dominated by Politics." Toronto Star, 14 Aug. 1975, p. E13.
"Among new novels, the most glittering prospect is...World of Wonders."
C270 Lister, Rota. "Recent Canadian Drama: Passion in the Garrison." English Studies in Canada, 1, No. 3 (Fall 1975), 353-62.
Lister makes a brief mention of Davies' Hunting Stuart. Its "mixture of Scottish, Hungarian or Polish, and Yankee individuals" implies a greater recognition by Canadian playwrights of "the diversity of our cultural mosaic."
C271 Bickerstaff, Isaac. "A Caricature Gallery of Literary Masters: 'Robertson Davies--The Manticore.'" The Tamarack Review, No. 67 (Oct. 1975), p. 41.
Bickerstaff sketches a wonderfully impish yet telling caricature of Davies.
C272 MacSkimming, Roy. "In Defence of Davies against Unkind Cuts." Toronto Star, 9 Oct. 1975, p. E18.
MacSkimming responds vigorously to a letter from John Herbert, who finds Davies' vision of life "oddly pompous and masturbatory"--a "fourth-rate Herman Hesse quality." MacSkimming particularly disdains Herbert's lumping together of all Davies' novels. Fifth Business "marked an extraordinary dividing line in Davies' career"; "the satirist became metamorphosed into the fabulist." He quotes and refutes several other comments by Herbert.
C273 "Trilogy Seen as Career Capper." Peterborough Examiner, 23 Oct. 1975, p. 3.
Davies comments on his trilogy and the situation of Canadian literature after reading from World of Wonders at Trent University on October 22, 1975.
C274 Montagnes, Anne. "Metaphor and Myth: The Deptford Trilogy of Robertson Davies." Saturday Night, Nov. 1975, pp. 73-75.
Montagnes finds World of Wonders "absorbing," yet "one does become irritated by Davies' style,...an extension of Samuel Marchbanks." "Each novel is sound entertainment" yet the mixture of magic and religion just does not quite mix--a confusing pattern. Canada, as in Davies' early works, is again implicitly downgraded; all that is exciting and profound originates in France, England, Switzerland, or South America. "The trilogy deals only in old-fashioned cliches." "I am puzzled by the apparent patterns in the trilogy...which don't seem to lead anywhere." In the end, Montagnes affirms the imaginative power of the books as probably their key value. A light, personal reflection.
C275 "The Myth and the Master." Time [Canada], 3 Nov 1975, cover, pp. 8-12.
The text and photos of this cover story imbue a discussion of Davies' Deptford trilogy with an apt, laudatory richness and a sense of his striking individuality. "The habit of stern judgment is missing from most modern discourse,...but it is abundantly of the style of a Victorian eccentric let loose in the wrong century." The article reviews his life and times and works. It includes some hitherto obscure facts and unpublished quotations--such as his miss at the Governor-General's Award in 1954 for Leaven of Malice, an explanation for his English accent, and the comment that "'poetry is like syphilis. It crops up in the strangest places.'" This is one of the most personal of many overviews of Davies' life, one not terribly concerned with critically assessing his books.
C276 de Villiers, Marq. "The Master's World." Weekend Magazine [Toronto Star], 15 Nov. 1975, cover, pp. 8-10, 12.
Robertson Davies is "a man who astonishes, but his way with the wounding word is legendary among his students." He "has created for himself an environment which is a pathetic parody of an Oxford that no longer exists." "He loathes parties" but holds monthly soirees which he dominates. He "came close to panic" as a newspaperman, when he could not find time to retreat--indicative of his need for solitude as a balance to his highly public profile. In the Deptford trilogy, "Davies uses the linked novels to slowly strip the mysteries from his creatures, exposing their real selves and their real motivations, which magically, are yet more mysterious and complex with the mystery removed. Not unlike, it must be said, Davies himself." For the most part, de Villiers tries to evoke some of the shadows of the man, to underscore the mixture of frailties that lie behind the mask of "Master," as well as acknowledge his achievements. He succeeds, but in a disparaging sort of way.
C277 de March, Alek. "Happy Robertson Davies Grows Better with Years." Victoria Daily Colonist, 18 Nov. 1975, p. 30.
The article takes the occasion of Davies' presence in Victoria (promoting World of Wonders) to review his past and record some of his comments about writing in Canada, his books, and his wife.
C278 French, William. "It's Newman Versus Dief Again. Guess Who's Winning?". The Globe and Mail, 18 Nov. 1975, p. 21.
In this article about Fall book sales, French notes that, in fiction, World of Wonders seems to be outselling Richard Rohmer's Exodus UK. Both are in their second printing. "Hugh Kane is predicting that sales... will exceed the combined sales of both The Manticore and Fifth Business, which is curious, since the trilogy is linked. Obviously a lot of people are reading the third novel who haven't read the first two."
C279 Parton, Lorne. Vancouver Province, 19 Nov. 1975, p. 31.
In his column, Parton provides humorous on-the-spot reflections which occurred to him during his recent interview with Davies. "Charming, chatty, interesting, and not the least formidable." The second half of the column provides noteworthy quotes from Davies about universities, hypocrisy, books, Canadianism, and drama.
C280 Parton, Lorne. Vancouver Province, 22 Nov. 1975, p. 31.
In his column, Parton rallies to Davies' comment to a fellow newspaperman that Parton talked Davies' ear off during a recent interview. "One more scalp to hang from the belt around his rotund tummy." "When his mother dipped him in the River Styx, she must have held him by the tongue. But I still like his books."
C281 Oleson, Tom. "The Master of Massey College." Winnipeg Free Press, 6 Dec. 1975, p. 43.
Oleson discusses the various accounts of Davies' personality, critical acclaim for his books outside of Canada, and the fear and trembling his reputation inspires in a prospective interviewer. As it turns out, Davies "is only life-size" and exudes knowledge, wit, courtesy, and a self-effacing humour. Oleson then renders Davies' perception of Canadians.
C282 Bissell, Claude. "World of the Master." The Canadian Forum, Dec. 1975-Jan. 1976, pp. 30-31.
"Many of the characters in World of Wonders have the lurid intensity of caricature, and some of the scenes have the grotesque quality of nightmare." Sir John and Lady Tresize "are clearly Sir John and Lady Martin-Harvey" and the tour "modelled explicitly on the actual Martin-Harvey tour." The three novels of the trilogy "constitute an engaging commentary on Canadian society from pre-World War I days until the end of the Second World War"--"staunchly anglophile, petrified by convention, seeing England as a land of romance and grace." But they also explore the unseen world "where the human spirit triumphs, if it does not make a god of itself." Short, but very good.
C283 Anthony, Geraldine. Preface. In Stage Voices: 12 Canadian Playwrights Talk About Their Lives and Work. Toronto: Macmillan, 1976, pp. 56-60.
This plain, chronological overview traces Davies' development. He moves from simple but forward satire of Canadianisms and intellectual myopia to complex integrated probings of the inward and outward wrestling of the human spirit. Anthony finds his later, denser plays make character abstractions of ideas.
C284 Cluett, Robert. Prose Style and Critical Reading. Cleveland: New Teachers College, 1976, pp. 232, 234, 239, 259, 291, 304.
Cluett uses a passage from A Voice from the Attic to show how the use of infinitives has declined since the time of Jeremy Taylor. Other passages show Davies' writing style is modern in some ways, but generally quite conservative for a living writer. Of some interest to Davies enthusiasts--even more so to those with a linguistic bent, as Cluett compares the language habits of fifty prominent writers.
C285 "Davies, Robertson." In The Writers Directory 1976-1978. Ed. Nancy E. Duin. London: St. James, 1976, p. 252.
Lists Davies' publishers, jobs, and published writings.
C286 "Davies, Robertson, C. C." In The Blue Book: Leaders of the English-Speaking World 1976. London: St. James, 1976, p. 412.
Lists his jobs, publications, and the names of his wife and children.
C287 "Davies, (William) Robertson." In Current Biography Yearbook 1975. Ed. Charles Moritz. New York: Wilson, 1976, pp. 105-08.
This article quite thoroughly maps out Davies' development as a "playwright, critic, novelist, journalist, and scholar." A very good place to start in grasping the manifold reaches of his work and the ongoing critical reaction to it.
C288 Fee, Margery, and Ruth Cawker. eds. "Davies, Robertson 1913- ." In Canadian Fiction. An Annotated Bibliography. Toronto: Peter Martin, 1976, pp. 37-39.
The volume summarizes his novels, Samuel Marchbank's Almanack, and A Voice from the Attic.
C289 Forsyth, James. Tyrone Guthrie. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1976, pp. 196, 215, 228.
Forsyth refers to a couple of visits Guthrie enjoyed with Davies, and quotes the Master's estimation of Guthrie as a leader.
C290 Conron, Brandon. "Essays and Autobiography: 1. Essays 1920-1960." In Literary History, of Canada. Canadian Literature in English. Gen. ed. and introd. Carl F. Klinck. 2nd ed. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1976. Vol. II, 119-26.
Brandon Conron, a new contributor to the revised edition, feels convinced that the average reader "is completely ignored by Robertson Davies," who instead pursues the "clerisy." "Reading is for Davies the principal pursuit of the intelligent individual"--hence, he writes for a narrow audience.
C291 New, William H. "Fiction." In Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English. Gen. ed. and introd. Carl F. Klinck. 2nd ed. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1976. Vol. III, 233-83.
New perceives that the early Davies, suggestive of "a brilliant but shallow satirist, capable of coruscating caricatures and devastating reduction of Canadian social and literary provincialism" in the early 1970s "shows a much greater depth of psychological understanding." Fifth Business and The Manticore "can be seen as elaborate 'realistic' detective fiction and as theoretical analysis of the intangible in human experience."
C292 Rubin, Don, ed. Canada on Stage 1975 Canadian Theatre Review Yearbook. Toronto: Canadian Theatre Review Publications, 1976, pp. 187, 263, 281.
This book lists the casts, directors, and production staff of Question Time (performed February 25-March 22 at the St. Lawrence Centre), Leaven of Malice (performed May 29-August 1 in repertory at the Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake), and Hunting Stuart (performed July 22-August 30 during the Festival Lennoxville, Lennoxville). The yearbook includes a photograph from the production of each play.
C293 Sowby, Joyce, et al., eds. Canadian Essays and Collections Index 1971-1972. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association, 1976, p. 60.
This volume cites M. W. Steinberg's essay in Canadian Literature (Winter 1961), entitled "Don Quixote and the Puppets: Theme and Structure in Robertson Davies' Drama."
C294 Morley, Patricia. "Davies' Salterton Trilogy: Where the Myth Touches Us." Studies in Canadian Literature, 1 (Winter 1976), 96-104.
The novels "are united by a religious myth of achieved freedom and spiritual growth." "Forgiveness marks the ending of all three novels." The personal growth of Hector, Ridley, Monica, Solly, and Veronica "is an allegory for Canada's growth to spiritual and cultural maturity." "The structure is wittily buttressed by several literary analogues, principally The Tempest and The Golden Ass." Though tied somewhat to plot precis, this article stylishly maps out some new insights into the structure and direction of the Salterton books.
C295 "Looking Ahead from '75." Time [Canada], 5 Jan. 1976, pp. 9-10.
Time asks Davies as a prominent Canadian to forecast events in 1976. Davies predicts "'turbulence, turbulence, turbulence.'" "'The allocations for research in science and the humanities were not increased, but then years ago they would have been cut. It is a sign that Canada is growing up intellectually.'"
C296 Morley, Patricia. "The Comedy Company of the Psyche." Canadian Drama/L'Art dramatique canadien, 2, No. 1 (Spring 1976), 9-19.
This article describes the Jungian complexity present in General Confession, Question Time, and Hunting Stuart. In the first, "the four major archetypes of the collective unconscious serve as the principal actors, and the Jungian goal of personal integration becomes the climax of the play." Question Time also reveals four major archetypes of the collective unconscious which "taken together...represent the personality as Jung sees it." In Hunting Stuart, "the play is pervaded by Jungian ideas of the collective unconscious and of the psychic baggage of ancestry which each of us carries." Regrettably, this rough-hewn article does not penetrate beyond the surface parallels to Jungian psychology.
C297 Kissel, Howard. "Robertson Davies in the Age of Myths." Women's Wear Daily [New York], 12 May 1976, p. 100.
Kissel introduces his readers to Davies as a "distinguished man of letters," summarizes the Deptford trilogy, and then quotes him on psychology ("[Jungian analysis] perks you up. Freudian analysis leaves you ground to powder"), myths (in Canada "we're too stingy to create myths"), and Canada as an emerging nation. Interesting for Davies' comments.
C298 Monk, Patricia. "Confessions of a Sorcerer's Apprentice: World of Wonders and the Deptford Trilogy of Robertson Davies." The Dalhousie Review, 56 (Summer 1976), 366-72.
Psychologically "the trilogy is about four egoisms: Eisengrim, Ramsay, David Staunton, and Boy. But of the four it is Boy Staunton's which is the lever and motive force of the trilogy as a whole." "His Influence is consistently disruptive." Yet the novels "are bound together again finally...by the presence of Liesl." The three heroes flee Boy but seek Liesel. Boy "may...[be] interpreted in terms [of] the Faust myth." He "rejects any search for his soul," and thus, in Spengler's terms, becomes Faustian. The article wades deeply into mythic significance, and dies in midstream. Its ending mysteriously moves from consideration of good and evil to Davies as a writer, who, in World of Wonders, can "dispense with the trappings of his craft, the trappings of wonder, and still create a sense of wonder in the reader."
C299 Barkham, John. "A View of Robertson Davies." The Citizen [Ottawa], 7 July 1976, p. 31.
Barkham, in spelling out Davies' achievements, notes that Fortune, My Foe "has been performed over a thousand times." He then quotes Davies' comments about the Deptford trilogy, his writing habits, and writing in Canada.
C300 Saltzberg, Paul Brook. "Robertson Davies Addresses Conference Critics." The Citizen [Ottawa], 16 July 1976, p. 55.
Saltzberg covers Davies' opening address to the National Arts Centre's Arts and Media Conference on July 15, 1976. "In the scolding vibrato of a 19th century schoolmaster," he admonishes his audience to "try to write better," and, as critics, to express their own superior tastes with courage.
C301 Bowen, Gall. "Guides to the Treasure of Self: The Function of Women in the Fiction of Robertson Davies." Waves, 5, No. 1 (Fall 1976), 64-77.
Davies' veneration of the feminine principle aside, his women characters are, for the most part, unassailably "wooden." Their common and constant role is that of "spiritual guide": messenger and redeemer for Davies' heroes. Some act unwittingly as anima figures; others instinctively know "how life should be most fully lived," communicate this knowledge directly, and bring the hero to self-acceptance. "In the Salterton novels, because the emphasis is less on salvation than on suffering, the role of the Wise Woman is limited" to that of "dea ex machina." These women prove less than credible because they transform the heroes too mysteriously by a kind of supramaternal osmosis. In the Deptford novels, "we leave 'womanliness' as a universal panacea"; the salvation "comes out of harsh analysts and personal courage." Overall, through the female characters, we come to understand, not "sublime woman," but "the hash men make of their lives when they neither understand nor accept what they are." A stimulating article about a little-discussed dimension of Davies' novels.
C302 Brown, Russell M., and Donna A. Bennett. "Magnus Eisengrim: The Shadow of the Trickster in the Novels of Robertson Davies." Modern Fiction Studies, 22 (Autumn 1976), 347-63.
Canadian literature has turned to a comic vision from its earlier tragic view of man as a victim to both inner and outer forces. The trickster, newly apparent in the literature, signals an opposition to the old social order. He signifies an escape from "the problem of Job"--that of reconciling oneself to the universe. Magnus Eisengrim is the most fully developed trickster yet in Canadian fiction. "Davies' whole trilogy is ultimately concerned with man's needs for this trickster, along with his need to come to terms with the shadows which the trickster represents." The emergence of the trickster signifies "a new emphasis on individual freedom." "The ideal of selfless sacrifice seems less desirable than the goal of personal survival." "Law is being replaced by magic." Only a small portion of the article deals directly or significantly with the trickster figure, despite incorporating writings by C. G. Jung and Joseph Campbell.
C303 Reimer, Margaret Loewen. "Regionalism as a Definite Characteristic in Four Canadian Dramas." Canadian Drama, 2, No. 2 (Fall 1976), 144-53.
Reimer examines Tit-Coq, Fortune, My Foe, Stiker Schneiderman, and Still Stands the House from the viewpoint that "the settings, both in terms of location and history, contain the utmost significance...for the meaning of the plays as a whole." In the Davies play, the conflict "is between different levels of society, with different values. The concerns are social and intellectual for in this part of Canada society is past its struggle with the natural elements." Argued in a slightly general and, hence, somewhat unconvincing manner.
C304 Schepens, Kathy. "The Presentation of Native People in The Blood Is Strong, At My Heart's Core and The Great Hunger." Canadian Drama, 2, No. 2 (Fall 1976), 166-71.
Sally, in At My Heart's Core, "becomes the personification of the wild and the savage but, at the same time, one of the focal points of humour in the play." "She is presented as quite benign and brainless." Mrs. Stewart "treats Sally reasonably well but she is still a servant to be used." As a "noble savage," she assumes innocence, a kind of "ignorant bliss." "As a part of the natural wild there is no temptation for her," nor guilt. By contrast, the intelligent and sophisticated Anglo-Saxon women suffer temptation and guilt.
C305 Stainton, Joan. "The Canadian Immigrant in Drama." Canadian Drama, 2, No. 2 (Fall 1976), 172-75.
Beginning with Margaret Atwood's comment that Canadian immigrants "'as a rule...come to get away from bad conditions somewhere else, but they are not travelling towards something,'" this short article examines characters in The Blood Is Strong and At My Heart's Core. Mrs. Moodie fails to fit this perception, as she does have "at least one clear aim, that being always to support her husband in making a new home in Canada.... Mrs. Traill and Mrs. Stewart more obviously show their positive attitudes towards Canada" in establishing a new home. Only Cantwell and Morrison (in the other play) actually "fall under Atwood's description."
C306 Staton, Eleanor. "Discussing Robertson Davies: A Promising Land." Canadian Review, Oct. 1976, pp. 45-46.
"Davies has at last outgrown the comparisons to other authors which used to greet the appearances of his every work" and reached independent stature. Station then recounts part of her interview with him. He has lived an orderly life to accomplish his goals, "'But,' he adds,... 'I don't live like a jackasss [sic] sucking up to the rich.'" "We've known for years that we need Robertson Davies. What is surprising, and peculiarly comforting, is that he may also need us."
C307 Monaghan, David M. "Metaphor and Confusion." Canadian Literature, No. 76 (Winter 1976), pp. 64-73.
Monaghan rereads the book in his own way, separating a public theme (the book's action) from a private theme (Dunstan's growth). The title Fifth Business allegedly conveys a false emphasis about the theme. Davies has, "at times, misused the concept of Fifth Business. Its role in the novel is essentially a metaphorical one" for the public theme; it serves "no useful function in relation to the main personal theme." The article's author seems to be trying to rise above Davies' own heights of imagination and ingenuity--but does not succeed.
C308 New, W. H. "Canada: Introduction." Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 11, No. 2 (Dec. 1976), 30-37.
New mentions Question Time as a political play with a commitment to a social vision--"allegorical, witty, talky, shamanistic commentary on a prime minister's need to rediscover his people's soul."
C309 Atwood, Margaret. "Canadian Monsters." In The Canadian Imagination: Dimensions of a Literary Culture. Ed. David Staines. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1977, pp. 97-122.
Atwood devotes three pages of this essay to a discussion of Magnus Eisengrim, whose "public personality is a deliberate creation; he is, in a way, his own monster, with his own ego incarnate in the brazen head." Brief, but pithy.
C310 Dickson, Barry, et al. "Robertson Davies. 'At My Heart's Core.'" In Actions/Adventure: A Resource Guide for the Teaching of Canadian Literature. Toronto: Writers' Development Trust, 1977, p. 14.
Printed for the Ontario Ministry of Education, this book briefly discusses Davies' play as it relates to the theme of action and adventure.
C311 Dickson, Barry, et al. "Robertson Davies. Fifth Business." In Family Relationships: A Resource Guide for the Teaching of Canadian Literature. Toronto: Writers' Development Trust, 1977, p. 7.
Printed for the Ontario Ministry of Education, this book briefly discusses Fifth Business as it pertains to a discussion of family relationships.
C312 Dickson, Barry, et al. "Robertson Davies. A Mixture of Frailties." In Social Realism: A Resource Guide for the Teaching of Canadian Literature. Toronto: Writers' Development Trust, 1977, p. 50.
Printed for the Ontario Ministry of Education, this book briefly suggests how this novel might be studied as a reflection of early times in Ontario society.
C313 Moss, John. "The Double Vision of Robertson Davies or, The Deptford Rapes." In Sex and Violence in the Canadian Novel: The Ancestral Present. By John Moss. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, pp. 107-22.
The themes of sex and violence surface only sporadically, and with little to tie them to each other. Moss points to some interesting trends and parallels--e.g., that sexual experiences mark turning points for the major characters of the novels--but does not explain how these figure in Davies' development as an author, in his psychic make-up, or in determining the value of the three books.
C314 Edinborough, Arnold. "Davies Speaks on Problem of Evil." Canadian Churchman, 103, No. 1 (Jan. 1977), 25.
Edinborough reviews Davies' Larkin-Stuart Lectures (given at Trinity College, Toronto) on the nature of evil in literature. Davies ignores the twentieth-century heavyweights and instead explores the sensibilities of authors such as Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, Sheridan Lefann, Mervyn Peake, Richard Barham, Arthur Machen, Mary Webb, John Cowper Powys, and Evelyn Waugh. As Edinborough states, "such books are part of the collective consciousness of our civilization." "If those who attended only heard one paragraph in the whole four evenings, the evenings would have been richly worth it."
C315 Monk, Patricia. "Psychology and Myth in The Manticore." Studies in Canadian Literature, 2 (Winter 1977), 69-81.
Three areas of Jung's psychological theory are addressed: the role of the analyst, dream interpretation, and the theory of functions. David Staunton during his anamnesis encounters his shadow, Anima, and Magus: a fourth archetype, the Great Mother, is absent from his sub-conscious. Throughout his analysis, anomalies surface which seemingly contradict or undercut traditional Jungian psychology. The Manticore figures ironically as a monster to be killed by a hero, as well as an apt symbol for David's subconscious predicament. In Dr. von Haller's treatment, "Davies offers us... analysis as a symbolic analogue of the hero-journey, ironically revealing that analytical psychology is not a truly heroin mode." Liesl figures as a counter to the Jungian view embodied by Dr. von Haller, and provides a crucial, direct experience that allows David to be reborn. Thus psychology is put forth "as a formula for meeting life." The final irony, however, is that Davies' overall ambivalence about Jungian psychology is ultimately "unexceptionably Jungian." Monk thus skilfully draws on the book and Jung's own words to put forward a persuasive and easily read thesis.
C316 Murray, Glenn. "Who Killed Boy Staunton: An Astrological Witness Reports." Studies in Canadian Literature, 2 (Winter 1977), 117-23.
Using Thamesville, Ontario (Davies' birthplace), as the location for Deptford, and the date and the time of the snowball throw in Fifth Business as an historical "fix," Murray analyzes the planetary positions at this moment and demonstrates how the events in the novel correspond to astrological interpretation. He uses the moment of discovery of Boy Staunton's body to do the same.
C317 Bonnycastle, Stephen. "Robertson Davies and the Ethics of Monologue." Journal of Canadian Studies, 12, No. 1 (Feb. 1977), 20-40.
Bonnycastle writes that the trilogy "deals with succeeding in life"; its "doctrine...promotes a fierce aristocracy of the spirit." "These books are about culture and education as private--and jealously guarded--property." A character such as Dunstan Ramsay is dubiously virtuous, "being pathologically sensitive to launch into prophetic denunciation of Packer." In general, awe as "absolute and unconditional" is not a tenable philosophical attitude to life. Feeling and thinking are not mutually exclusive. The relativity and interdependence of human identity, illuminated and emphasized in the books' discussions, disguise a stronger implicit belief in the mastery of others by psychological domination. Bonnycastle's moral objections "are all related to the distinction between monologue and dialogue,...which permeates the ethos of the novels most deeply.... Monologue is a sign that a character has triumphed," but the attempt to glorify it denigrates interpersonal and social relations. The dense diction in the article corresponds to the weighty tone; Bonnycastle takes the ethical and moral content of the Deptford novels very, very seriously.
C318 Cluett, Robert. "Robertson Davies: The Tory Mode." Journal of Canadian Studies, 12, No. 1 (Feb. 1977), 41-46.
Cluett has used the York Computer Inventory of Prose Style to analyze Davies' language in a portion of A Voice from the Attic. He finds that Davies' style is "archaic, Romanesque, and formal," and consequently more in line with the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries than with our own. The article details fifteen linguistic distractions. A convincing and interesting study.
C319 Cude, Wilfred. "Historiography and Those Damned Saints: Shadow and Light in Fifth Business." Journal of Canadian Studies, 12, No. 1 (Feb. 1977), 47-67.
"The unanimous discomfiture of Davies' characters...cannot conceal his frolicsome delight in the spiritual forces that persist within the secularism of the West's most cumbersome materialistic concepts." He skilfully and gradually introduces us to his study of saints in Fifth Business, especially through Padre Blazon. In fact, in Dunstan Ramsay's letter, his story, we find "the image of a modern saint." He is "guilty of the seven deadly sins," yet this "stands to reason, that the devil of a saint must necessarily be formidable, otherwise the saint's dominance over the devil would be a development of no significance." "In the judgment of his contemporaries, taken on balance, Dunstan Ramsay's good side would seem vastly to outweight his bad side." His "hard" credentials are irrefutable--V.C., M.S. (six languages), ten books. And his role in the three miracles is the crucial one. In short, in Ramsay, "Davies sees with wonderful clarity the beauty of a human striving heroically for the good." Finely argued, this article convincingly interprets Ramsay's talk of searching for significance as his own claim to sainthood. One only wishes Cude's background in hagiography and Christian theology prevented him from begging a few points, and allowed him to expand the critical framework.
C320 Heintzman, Ralph H. "The Virtues of Reverence." Journal of Canadian Studies, 12, No. 1 (Feb. 1977), 1-2, 92-95.
"An issue devoted to the work of Robertson Davies explores and celebrates one of the noblest achievements of the Canadian imagination and, in so doing, gives us at least a partial account of ourselves." The articles revel in celebration of his works. One reason for this is "the sheer delight which...[his works] afford." "The language alone is sufficient to make them compulsively readable." Another is his concern "with questions of goodness and truth." "He seems to be interested above all in...[the] initial experiences of discovery, commitment, and growth," especially "the kind of powerful revelation of truth which provides the emotional charge necessary to fuel further intellectual (or other) activity." These transcendent revelations have been cherished by earlier civilizations, but displaced by the West's concept of rational autonomous selfhood. Though "a world of wonder unchecked by reason degenerates into superstition and terror," it is equally true that a rational world from which reverence and wonder have been banished has lost contact with the source of its own being and must suffer the consequences, one of which is the withering of reason itself." Thus the value of the Deptford trilogy is that it addresses "one of the central problems of modern culture." A rich, cohesive article.
C321 Neufeld, James. "Structural Unity in 'The Deptford Trilogy': Robertson Davies as Egoist." Journal of Canadian Studies, 12, No. 1 (Feb. 1977), 68-74.
"David Staunton...provides the key to the trilogy's thematic unity." As well, "all three share a common set of geographical limits"; Deptford (the painful past) and Sorgenfrie (romance and mystery) act as important points of reference for each of the central characters. By presenting Deptford characters from three varied viewpoints (a superficial unity), Davies underlines the recurring "theme of the relativity of the objective world." Since each novel is framed in such a way that we "question the trustworthiness of each narrator," we are led "to a more complex apprehension of the 'truth' than the one any single narrator presents." In The Manticore, "the manner of telling the story becomes more" important than the story itself." Psychologically, egoism holds the works together. "In them,...[Davies] has asserted the importance of humble self-understanding in a world that threatens to crumble into hopeless relativity, without the unifying, all-encompassing vision of the egoist." A scholarly and appreciative article.
C322 Roper, Gordon. "A Davies Log." Journal of Canadian Studies, 12, No. 1 (Feb. 1977), 4-19.
Roper includes biographical history as he lays out Robertson Davies bibliography, year by year.
C323 Sutherland, Ronald. "The Relevance of Robertson Davies." Journal of Canadian Studies, 12, No. 1 (Feb. 1977), 75-81. Rpt. (revised) in The New Hero: Essays in Comparative Quebec/Canadian Literature. By Ronald Sutherland. Toronto: Macmillan, 1977, pp. 73-83.
In Leaven of Malice, or as Marchbanks, Davies in his humour "is much closer to Shaw and [Kingsley] Amis than to Twain and [W. O.] Mitchell," since he relies largely "on urbanity, irony, and especially on straight-faced, often elaborate presentation of the absurd as commonplace." In Fifth Business, Davies "begins to write from own feelings and experience of life," and in the process develops "an accounting for the Canadian nation." "What Dunstan eventually realizes...[is that] to allow life the extra dimensions of mystery and magic is to liberate the spirit and imagination." His growth "parallels changes taking place in Canadian society and reflected in the work of a number of prominent novelists." His searches "accentuate the felt absence of positive myths in Canada." His perception of his weaker side likewise follows the "new spirit of inquiry" into "the darker aspects of the Canadian totality." A highly readable, lucid, and resounding article.
C324 Thomas, Clara. "The Two Voices of A Mixture of Frailties." Journal of Canadian Studies, 12, No. 1 (Feb. 1977), 82-91.
The novel foreshadows Fifth Business. Its "deepest themes are moral. They are the same concerns about problems of evil, guilt and responsibility that permeate the [Deptford] trilogy." Importantly, "Monica Gall stands alone in all of Davies' works," so richly and complexly drawn that any one of his other woman characters "seems a cardboard-flat figure from a morality play." "Her story is essentially a quest romance and its patterns of escape, transcendence and growth fit the process" of what Northrop Frye calls a "genuine social mythology." In the end, "the truth is...that everyone in Monica's orbit, and Monica herself, have been relentlessly manipulative of others." "What Davies is finally saying, however, is that guilt inhibits and restricts life." To some extent, the reiteration of the story squeezes out the article's focus: the split voice in the novel.
C325 Hopper, Doris. "Their Innermost Secrets They Divulge Only to You." Toronto Star, 14 Feb. 1977, p. D1.
This article deals with those public figures who keep diaries. "Author Robertson Davies, who's been keeping a diary since the age of 14, swears he's going to consign it to flame and ashes before he goes."
C326 Fraser, John. "Davies and His Revenge Theory." The Globe and Mail, 5 March 1977, p. 37.
Fraser announces the production of "Pontiac and the Green Man," planned for Hart House Theatre in the Fall. He then quotes Davies' comments about critics--"'People in this country do tend to prefer criticism to creation, and it makes a writer hateful, it really does'"--the upcoming play, and the inane cancellation of The Centennial Play.
C327 Gerson, Carole. "Dunstan Ramsay's Personal Mythology." Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 6 (Spring 1977), pp. 100-08.
"...an examination of the subtextual framework of Fifth Business...reveals that Christian, Jungian and Freudian elements all converge in a complex pattern of anality, diabolism, misogyny, sexual repression, and guilt which constitutes a subtext for Dunstan Ramsay's autobiography." "Implicit in Ramsay's description of his small-town Ontario childhood is the alignment between anality and Protestantism...." Moreover, he "responds to his mother's obsessive cleanliness by developing some of the classic traits of the anally retentive personality." In a similar fashion, Gerson convincingly and ably disentangles the Christian and Jungian elements that form the subtext of Dunstan's psyche.
C328 Heward, Burr. "Canada's Search: Culture without Cabbages." The Citizen [Ottawa], 5 April 1977, p. 85.
Heward reports on Davies' address at a U.S.Canada seminar in Washington, D.C., mainly by quoting brief excerpts from the speech. In essence, he asserted "that Canadians can be coureurs de bois of the human spirit" in delving into the dark interior of the psyche--"'the heroic voyage of our time.'"
C329 "How Much Do These People Make?" Weekend Magazine [Toronto Star], 23 April 1977, cover, p. 4.
Davies is one of fifty-odd Canadians asked to disclose their earnings. It includes a photo of the Master.
C330 Wood, Barry. "Magic, Myth and Metaphor in Robertson Davies' Fifth Business." Critique, 19, No. 2 (1977), 23-32.
Davies, like other Canadian writers, has turned to mythology for new themes and images. Thus, Fifth Business is "a compilation of twentieth-century Canadiana at its most mundane." "In his use of distant settings...Davies conveys the universality of the realms of imagination as against the parochial mediocrity of an ordinary world." Yet the book ultimately focuses on "the quality of his interior world." In Ramsay's quests, "the book gradually moves toward a redefinition for a secular age by recasting the miraculous power of the saint into the stage metaphor of 'fifth business.'" "Like magic, sainthood is a beautiful illusion." And "like fiction, sainthood is a marvelous story." A direct treatment of the three elements in Fifth Business.
C331 Carson, Neil. "Canadian Historical Drama: Playwrights in Search of Myth." Studies in Canadian Literature, 2 (Summer 1977), 213-25.
"Part of the fascination of Canadian historical drama...is the evidence it provides of a continuing search on the part of our playwrights for a distinctively Canadian myth." Carson examines Tecumseh (1886), At My Heart's Core (1950), Riel (1962), The Trial of Louis Riel (1967), and Sticks and Stones (1973). In At My Heart's Core, the temptation of discontent connotes "clear and familiar" theological import. "What is new is the altogether extraordinary concept of sin"; in that regard, artistic aspirations and the wish to be a naturalist "are all regarded as evil." The pursuits are clearly noble (even divinely inspired), but "the discontent which drives the artist and scientist...[is], in fact, diabolical." However, because Cantwell's arguments are never properly answered, the play tends to ambivalence. Generally, all the plays tend to espouse "the more passive virtues of instinct, imagination, and self-sacrifice" in a curious "elegaic, even devotional, mood," Interestingly, too, "strife is frequently resolved not by direct confrontation, but by strategic retreat." Pervasively, the visions tend toward a "search for a workable synthesis of authority and liberty, intellect and intuition, self-assertion and sacrifice." A finely reasoned piece of criticism.
C332 Cude, Wilfred. "'False as Harlots' Oaths': Dunny Ramsay Looks at Huck Finn." Studies in Canadian Literature, 2 (Summer 1977), 164-87.
William Blake's poems "The Lamb" and "The Tiger" "comprise a two-fold contemplation of divine artistry setting out innocent and experienced views of the mystery of creation. So it is with Huckleberry Finn and Fifth Business. Each novel delineates an emerging North American society, a society struggling to realize its genuine individuality while unencumbered with the trappings of another time and place." Huck narrates through the eyes of innocence; Dunstan, through the eyes of experience. Thus, the former is "blind to incongruity," the latter unable to see joy. Each is a fugitive running from spiritual captivity, but without a sense of direction. Both recount the brutalities of rustic societies tied to old outmoded moralities and myths, and do so while making Homeric voyages of self-discovery. Notwithstanding, they maintain ambivalence towards what they perceive. At the end of their journeys, they have acquired purposeful destinations--the American West and European East respectively. The "sensitive humanity of the narrators" ultimately affirms life in the New World. But, for an unfocused fifth section, this extensive, detailed study draws many clear and singular parallels between the two figures and books, and illuminates the social implications of the respective narratives.
C333 Hosek, Chaviva. "Romance and Realism in Canadian Fiction of the 1960's." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 20 (Autumn 1977), pp. 125-39.
Hosek, in a descriptive fashion, examines well-known Canadian novels by Richler, Laurence, Wiebe, L. Cohen, Davies, and Atwood, and assesses their rendering of realism and romance, both in terms of the protagonist's vision and the story's overall mode. In Fifth Business, "the distinction between Ramsay's private myth and the larger structure of the book is blurred by the retrospective first-person narrator." Ramsay "has undergone a metamorphosis from the passive role of Fifth Business to being a kind of magician, while Boy Staunton, through his death, has turned out to be the Fifth Business for Ramsay's transformation." In The Manticore, the Jungian explanation is "a symbol for the movement from a restrictive mythology to a liberating one," not an ultimate theory. Both these books are clearly mythical in shape and concern, and closely parallel the narrative structures in Surfacing and Beautiful Losers. Unlike American romances, in which the quests turn out to be wild goose chases, these Canadian works affirm an elusive but fulfilling experience that grants the protagonist a sense of identity, the ability to re-enter society, and hope in a "promised land." These romances, however, are likely more an index "to the way in which we wish to imagine [our life]" than our lives themselves.
C334 Ott, Gunter. "Peterborough Summer Festival: A Force for Change in Canadian Theatre." Performing Arts in Canada, 14, No. 3 (Fall 1977), 40-41.
Davies merits a brief mention as a founding influence who in the 1950s directed "such luminaries as Lorne Green, Kate Reid, and Christopher Plummer." His At My Heart's Core was revived and performed during the Festival's 1974 season.
C335 "She's Mistress of Massey [College]." Sunday Star [Toronto Star], 20 Nov. 1977, p. D6.
Being married to Robertson, says Brenda Davies, is "'like a marriage between bread-and-butter and caviar, and it works great.'" The private man she admires "'has a kind heart, hides his shyness behind his seeming reserve, and constantly makes me laugh. Like Bernard Shaw, he believes in stating the most serious things with the utmost levity.... Perhaps that's why some people don't understand him.'" A rare portrait of "The Mistress."
C336 Baltensperger, Peter. "Battle with the Trolls." Canadian Literature, No. 71 (Winter 1977), pp. 59-67.
Psychological growth towards wholeness, marked by inner struggle, makes up the theme of Davies' novels from Tempest-Tost to The Manticore. The books increasingly become complex and allegorical. We, as readers, are able to actively participate in this process towards fulfillment and insight (a process also going on in the author). The key struggle is to be free of parents. The mother-son conflicts and the father-son conflicts prove almost impossible to resolve. Limited success does not mark failure, as "self-realization is a dynamic process which forever reaches beyond itself in often painful struggles with the confines of existence." Thus, the heroes and heroines do not achieve it, while their foils (such as Boy Staunton) think they do. This article uncovers clear patterns of structure and growth within the five books.
C337 Davy, Paul. "The Structure of Davies' Deptford Trilogy." Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 9 (Winter 1977-78), pp. 123-33.
The novels are connected "through common and overlapping characters, through a common autobiographical-confessional form, and through the common theme of the Heldenleben." "By exaggerating the importance of each novel's time-frame Davies implies that we should see beyond it." In each book, the hero gradually dissociates himself from Boy Staunton (materialism and egoism) and apprehends the counter-qualities that Liesl embodies (spiritual self-acceptance and oneness). As well, each hero extricates himself from his stifling "natural parents" and concomitantly incorporates his "cultural parents." He thus matures and is able to rise above his "'time-ridden' state and become a subject" of life rather than its object. Davy pulls out many parallels from the novels, and in this compressed article stamps them into a coherent overall design.
C338 Freeman, Adele. "A Bluffer's Guide to Canadian Literature." Homemakers, 12, No. 9 (Dec. 1977-Jan. 1978), 24-26, 28, 30, 32.
A very brief introduction to Davies as one of Canada's "Top Ten Writers Today."
C339 Dombrowski, Theo, and Eileen Dombrowski. "'Every Man's Judgment': Robertson Davies' Courtroom." Studies in Canadian Literature, 3 (Winter 1978), 47-61.
Davies "frequently stresses the act of evaluation" and increasingly emphasizes "'every man's judgment upon himself.'" Ultimately, he is "dealing with the profound problem of the self in contact with the transcendent forces of good and evil." Repeatedly he stresses in his writings that "'in every court the wisdom and honour of the judge are upon trial and if the accused receives less than justice the judge is guilty.'" In Leaven of Malice, "as in Davies' later works, litigation is inadequate to the most important kinds of guilt." Pervasively, opinion and gossip act "as [the] vehicle for people's verdicts on each other," especially in the Salterton novels. In the Deptford books, "the emphasis shifts from the forms of external judgment toward the internal courtroom," or "self-indictment." Davies' exploration of judgement "culminates with a stress on the inherent limitations of any form of personal appraisal"; he transfers any final decision of guilt to the realm of metaphysics and theology. The Dombrowski article confidently penetrates a rich thematic vein.
C340 Karsh, Yousuf. "Robertson Davies." In Karsh Canadians. By Yousuf Karsh. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1978, pp. 48-49.
Beside a photo of Davies laughing in his Master's Lodge at Massey College, Karsh asserts that Davies "is a civilized man, a scintillating conversationalist." He discounts Davies' belief that Canada's pioneers tried to keep the wilderness out. "Nowadays most of them live in cities, yet the wilderness constantly pulls them back to its solitude and mystery."
C341 Keith, W. J. "The Manticore: Psychology and Fictional Technique." Studies in Canadian Literature, 3 (Winter 1978), 133-36.
Keith probes the heart of Patricia Monk's essay on psychology and myth in The Manticore. He attempts to refine the "profound ambivalence" to Jung she finds in the novel, and attributes it to "structural balance," "intellectual adjustments," and "artistic requirements." Thus Liesl is not a counter to Jungian theory but the "practical 'shadow' to the psychoanalyst's theory," and a complement to Dr. Haller in David's journey to wholeness.
C342 "The Writing Scene." Canadian Author & Bookman, 53, No. 2 (Jan. 1978), 28-29.
Davies is scheduled to appear at a Canadian Authors Association Literary Luncheon on February 22, but "WHICH HALF OF HIM he'll be talking about hasn't yet been disclosed."
C343 Margoshes, Dave. "Humanities Faculty Inaugurated with Plea for 'Revival of Honor.'" The Calgary Herald, 10 Feb. 1978, p. C5.
The article summarizes the punch in Davies' address at the inauguration of the University of Calgary's new faculty of humanities. He, Marie-Claire Blais, and four others were made honorary professors of humanities.
C344 "A Dollop of Davies...." The Montreal Star, 11 Feb. 1978, Montreal Scene, p. 26.
This brief article reviews Davies' life and its many facets, and then notes that he will deliver Concordia University's Lahey lecture on February 13, 1978, at F. C. Smith Auditorium.
C345 "Author Complains of Rough Treatment." The Gazette [Montreal], Final Ed., 25 Feb. 1978, p. 52.
Davies "says Canadian writers are subjected to the most rigorous standards in the world because this country is uncertain of its literature." No indication of the capsule report's source.
C346 "Backstage: Let's Think Right." The Globe and Mail, Metro Ed., 25 Feb. 1978, p. 37.
A brief report notes that Davies won "his capacity audience at the Sheraton Centre with a display of wit, erudition and, unexpectedly, practical advice." He advocated intellectual exercise as a partner to physical fitness. The article outlines his six-point prescription.
C347 Lewis, Gertrud Jaron. "Vitzliputzli Revisited." Canadian Literature, No. 76 (Spring 1978), pp. 132-34.
Lewis builds on an earlier study of the name, Vizliputzli, examines its use in literature and drama, and briefly explores the significance of the character under this name in Davies' novels. Davies' "allusions comprise the mythological, philosophical and colloquial aspects of" the name.
C348 St. Pierre, Paul M. "Rounding the Ovoid." Mosaic, 11, No. 3 (Spring 1978), 127-35.
In Fifth Business, "the recurrence of a kind of voyeurism is indicative of the sterility of human contact." Efforts by Dunstan and Paul to "flee disintegrating society, the crumbling family, only contribute to the destruction by subjecting the individual to the whims of capricious identity." To confront and transcend his breaking world, Dunstan mythologizes his life so that he appears to play Fifth Business. In the process, he deludes himself by creating illusions about his past. As narrator, he attempts to mask the rancor and ill-will between Boy and him over the snowball incident. "In short, Dunstan is a liar." His quest is essentially a search for a Mother, one who will complement his fatherly influence over his students, Paul Dempster, and David Staunton. Ultimately, he is "the god of a private universe." "Dunstan wishes to transform his past, into a kind of mythical harmony in which he is not overshadowed by Boy Staunton." In his memoir, he "separates the real and mythical worlds," while Davies at the same time reintegrates them through symbols in the novel. The stone symbolizes an "incubating egg" that ties together the destructive and restorative patterns in the story. Throughout the novel, the various "nests" and their "eggs" provide revelations. But for some strained numerical analysis and a dense conclusion, a compact and germane article.
C349 Dean, John. "Magic and Mystery in Robertson Davies' Deptford Trilogy." Waves, 7, No. 1 (Fall 1978), 63-68.
In Davies' trilogy, "Magic is associated with the process of self-discovery" of a true identity. "Mystery is associated with the nature of...[the] essential self." His pinpointing of moment of time in the stories "is actually a firm narrative frame ironically used to bind the internal illogicalities. The Deptford trilogy works against rational disentanglement." Dean also highlights the grotesque and sexual love as they develop magic and mystery. The article passes quickly over many different ideas.
C350 Lennox, John Watt. "Manawaka and Deptford: Place and Voice." Journal of Canadian Studies, 13, No. 3 (Fall 1978), 23-30.
Laurence and Davies delve into "characterization and intrigue." Manawaka and Deptford as small Scots' towns share "a material and moral commonwealth," which lacks spiritual depth. Davies' characters need to get away from small towns to probe the mystical and fantastic. Laurence "discovers the extraordinary within the pedestrian." In voice, Laurence's novels are confessions, yet her colloquial protagonists "quickly reveal themselves as unwittingly self-deceptive." Davies' novels seem to be documents, which though couched in the first person, contain irony and remain omniscient. Both voices suggest that, "ultimately, life is to be trusted." Lennox concludes that the Manawaka voices "articulate the accents and places of the Canadian imagination with the most authentic resonance."
C351 "Davies Wins Book Award." Fanfare [The Globe and Mail], 1 Nov. 1978, p. 4.
The article describes Davies winning the Periodical Distributors of Canada second annual author's award for fiction--for the paperback edition of Fifth Business put out by Penguin. Davies was not present for the awards ceremony.
C351a Colombo, John Robert. "Colombo's Canadian Quotations." Toronto Daily Star, 4 Nov. 1978, p. 24A.
Cites a quotation from One Half of Robertson Davies.
C352 "People." Maclean's, 6 Nov. 1978, pp. 42-43.
A photograph and a short account document the meeting of director Roderick Cook with Davies at the University of Toronto; the former is a long-time admirer of the latter.
C353 Q & Q update [Quill & Quire], 10 Nov. 1978, p. 9.
This issue of Quill & Quire includes Yousuf Karsh's portrait of Davies along with a review of Karsh's new book, Karsh Canadians.
C354 "Awards." Quill & Quire, Dec. 1978, p. 21.
The article announces that Davies, Barbara Amiel, and George Jonas "took top honours at the Periodical Distributors of Canada second annual honours award." First prize for fiction went to Davies for Fifth Business (Penguin).
C355 Gzowski, Peter. "Rhonda's Big Day: Tears of Happiness." Toronto Star, 18 Dec. 1978, p. A3.
Gzowski describes setting up an interview with Davies for Rhonda Tepper, who won his contest for describing how she would spend a day if it were the last day of her life. The article includes a photograph of Davies giving "'an audience'" to Miss Tepper.
C356 Martin, Sandra, and Roger Hall. "The Quiz." The Canadian, 23 Dec. 1978, p. 4.
Davies' photo, his name, and the title Fifth Business appear along with fourteen other pictures, authors, and book titles as part of a match-up quiz.
C357 Woodcock, George. The Canadians. Don Mills, Ont.: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1979, pp. 174, 271.
Woodcock includes Davies in a list of "excellent contemporary Canadian novelists," dominates a page with his photo portrait, and quotes him as noting that for an artist, "'Canada demands a great deal from people and is not, as some countries are, quick to offer a pleasant atmosphere or easy kind of life.'"
C358 Paschall, Douglas. "Robertson Davies as a Modern Instance." Sewanee Review, 87, No. 1 (Winter 1979), 180-86.
In One Half of Robertson Davies, Davies shows that "his preoccupations as a novelist coincide with those as a reader and a raconteur." His essays show charm in both manner of speech and thought, and "manifest wisdom" in rejecting the "'reductive, vainglorious, scientific outlook'" and in employing the rare articulation of "things which are too seldom found in talk about literature." Davies is also attractive in his "determination to reassert and make convincing the palpable fact of evil in the world." But it is here Paschall begins to worry about there being "too much glib and knowing palaver." The theology tends to smugness. As well, the preponderance of engineered coincidence in the Deptford trilogy doesn't seem to render life quite convincingly. Thus, all of Davies' concern for evil seems to lack the more appropriate depth and seriousness found in the writings of William Faulkner or Flannery O'Connor. A finely tempered article.
C359 Chapman, Marilyn. "Female Archetypes in Fifth Business." Canadian Literature, No. 80 (Spring 1979), pp. 131-36, 138.
Chapman begins by questioning the Jungian significance of Mary Dempster in Ramsay's unconscious. The essay's focus then shifts rapidly to a discussion of the Jungian "anima," "Ego," and "shadow"; David Staunton's repressed anima; "'the woman [Boy] did not know'"; and the rock as a symbol of Boy's self-before returning to the original question. Mrs. Dempster is a projection of that aspect of Ramsay's anima he is unable to understand or assimilate. Dunstan demonstrates Jung's four stages of anima development, but not in the conventional order. Chapman then proceeds to prove the correspondence of Diana Marfleet to a mothering "Eve," Faustina to a romantic, sexual "Helen," Mary Dempster to a spiritual "Virgin Mary," and Liesl to a wise, illuminating "Sapientia." Despite asserting that it does "not wish to reduce Davies' female characters to psychological types," the essay does seem to do precisely that.
C360 Slopen, Beverley. "Reintroducing Robertson Davies... Engaging in Closet Bidding...Songs from World War II." Quill & Quire, June 1979, p. 29.
Slopen's article announces the hardback reissue of A Mixture of Frailties by Everest House in the U.S. (7,500 copies). Bill Thompson, the editor responsible, considers Davies not "a Canadian novelist, just a distinguished writer."
C361 Black, Catherine. "Grand Theatre Lounge Honors Memory of Rupert Davies." The Whig-Standard [Kingston], 2 June 1979, p. 23.
Robertson Davies makes a few remarks after his mother, Mrs. Rupert Davies, unveils a plaque honouring his father, William Rupert Davies, the founder of The Whig-Standard. The occasion marks the christening of the renovated Grand Theatre. The article includes a photograph of Robertson and the plaque.
C362 MacNiven, Elina. "Davies Tackles Stratford." Broadcast Week Magazine [The Globe and Mail], 2-8 June 1979, p. 29.
Below a pen and ink sketch portrait of Davies by Mallette, the article notes that Davies "will give his impressions of the 27th Stratford Festival on CBC Stereo Morning beginning Tues. June 5th." Mentions other programmes dealing with Stratford.
C363 Hoy, Helen. "Poetry in the Dunghill: The Romance of the Ordinary in Robertson Davies' Fiction." Ariel, 10, No. 3 (July 1979), 69-98.
Davies "deliberately dismisses traditionally attractive female figures while revealing new value and romantic possibilities through ironically unlikely women characters"--Liesl, Mrs. Dempster, and Nan Tresize. As early as Pearl Vambrace in Tempest-Tost, Davies creates women who suggest "an unrealized but potential world of the spirit." Again, in Leaven of Malice, Pearl surfaces as a princess in disguise; the genuine but unattractive love of other minor women emphasizes this theme. In A Mixture of Frailties, Monica parallels Eliza's emancipation in Pygmalion and, in so doing, discovers her own spiritual and musical depth in the midst of everyday realities and the "'trash' of her repertoire." In Fifth Business, the central women characters "represent the ideal harmonizing of the glorious and the commonplace." The Manticore depicts Johanna yon Haller and Liesl as "David Staunton's major guides to psychological and spiritual marvels." Denyse and nurse Nettie "satirize rationalism"; Myrrha Martindale and Judy Wolff "embody an illustory romanticism." World of Wonders predominates with male characters, but Magnus, its centre and focus, states bluntly that "'almost everything of great value I have learned in life has been taught to me by women.'" Nan Tresize grants to Eisengrim "new richness of feeling, integrity..., and chivalry"--despite her old, pathetic, and eccentric personality. Women characters in Davies' novels thus "have a significance greater than their position as secondary characters." "From introverts and unimpressive naifs, Davies moves to madwomen, grotesques, and eccentrics as ironic embodiments of an inner beauty and wonder hidden in unprepossessing externals." Convincing.
C364 "Who's Who in City Theatre Crowd." Toronto Star, 14 July 1979, p. H1.
Davies, along with fifty others, is listed and briefly portrayed. As a "novelist, playwright, misogynist and theatre critic," he is "an avuncular figure out of print of upper Canada."
C365 Bennett, Donna A., and Russell M. Brown. "In Place of Job: The Emergence of the Trickster in Canadian Fiction." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 [No. 13] (1979), pp. 28-38.
The trickster has surfaced "everywhere" as a liberating new character--the protagonist in Kroetsch's Out West trilogy, Duncan in Atwood's The Edible Woman, Hagar Shipley in Laurence's The Stone Angel, and Magnus Eisengrim in Davies' trilogy. Ostenso's trickster in 1925 (Wild Geese) was sadistic; Davies' in 1954 (Leaven of Malice) was "contemptible and petty." Recent tricksters in Who Has Seen the Wind, Swamp Angel, and The Double Hook bring "comic vitality." These teach Northerners to "laugh at the jokes of God and nature"; they reflect the passing away of Canada's puritan sense of a "natural world unalterably opposed to man." In The Manticore, David Staunton learns this lesson when he is introduced to a new game by a trio of tricksters. Little on Davies, but instructive and provocative as a base for comparing Eisengrim.
C366 "Leaven of Malice." CBC Press Release, No. 127, 4 Sept. 1979, n. pag.
The release notes that the book will be read in fifteen episodes on CBC radio's Booktime, September 10-28, by Earl Pennington. The readings will act as a prelude to the dramatization of the Deptford trilogy.
C367 Canadian Theatre Review, No. 24 (Fall 1979), p. 8.
A brief note mentions that Davies lectured in August at the University of Toronto. He and others spoke about Theatrical Touring and Founding in North America. Includes a photograph.
C368 Monk, Patricia. "Beating the Bush: The Mandala and National Psychic Unity in Riders in the Chariot and Fifth Business." English Studies in Canada, 5 (Fall 1979), 344-54.
Both Davies in Canada and Patrick White in Australia manifest "a vision of the collective self of these two nations respectively," ones that show psychic unity in the form of literary mandalas. They depict their countries as grappling with colonial confusion, wrestling with the pervasive schizophrenia indigenous in pioneers living from their old heritage in a new culture. In Fifth Business, Dunstan's psychic confusion surfaces in several ways. Throughout, the "pattern is clearly a mandala of the completed Self, not only for Dunstan..., but also for the Canadian collective psyche." Boy, Paul Dempster, Mrs. Dempster, and Leola "are shown in relationship to each other and to the first-person narrator, who acts as the centre." The narrative depicts these four as archetypes of Dunstan's unconscious psyche, "each of which must be integrated with his conscious ego" to produce a complete Self and inform Dunstan of Who he is. The four also act out their roles as Heroine, Hero, Sorceress, and Villain, thus showing Dunstan What he is. Finally, they provide Dunstan with the Eros qualities of imagination and spiritual vision which he, as a person and a typical Canadian, lacks. They help Dunstan to balance his deprived Deptford heritage and supply the Canadian collective psyche with the components it needs for wholeness. Most likely Davies' vision and White's are proleptic--a palpable future glimpse of a forthcoming national integrity. The essay is impressive in its large perspective.
C369 "Robertson Davies' Deptford Trilogy Dramatized for Festival Theatre." CBC Stereo Press Release, No. 180, 18 Dec. 1979, n. pag.
The release cites the three novels as "a landmark in Canadian Literature"--"universally praised for their originality and depth." The members of the cast and the broadcast dates are also cited.
C370 Blackadar, Bruce. "How CBC Scooped the Airwaves with a Canadian Epic." Toronto Star, 22 Dec. 1979, p. E2.
Blackadar announces a CBC "massive 10-hourlong dramatization of Davies' trilogy." Ron Hartmann, director and producer, is responsible for snaring the project and lining up a cast including Zoe Caldwell, Tom Kneebone, Mavor Moore, and Barbara Frum. The Deptford Trilogy will air February 25, March 3, 10, and 17.
C371 Whittaker, Herbert. "A Triumph of Aloes and 7 Greek Plays." The Globe and Mail, 10 Jan. 1980, p. 26.
Whittaker notes the transposition of World of Wonders onto radio, and its upcoming debut during National Radio Week. He mentions numerous actors involved and notes that Ron Hartmann, the producer, boiled the novels down to 563 pages of typescript "in preparation for the 100 hours of tape-recording which he must then edit down to 10 hours."
C372 "Note Book." The Whig-Standard Magazine [Kingston], 9 Feb. 1980, p. 29.
The article mentions the Penguin republication of Tempest-Tost, Leaven of Malice, and A Mixture of Frailties, Davies' upcoming Brockington Lecture at Queen's University, and the CBC-FM broadcast of the Deptford trilogy.
C373 "'Don't Talk About Draft Talk About Ending War'-Brockington Speaker Tells Women to Fight to End All War." The Whig-Standard [Kingston], 12 Feb. 1980, p. 1.
For an hour, Davies responded to questions from Queen's University students on topics such as U.S. draft dodgers, war, the women's movement, the up-coming federal election, Canadian politics, Canada's international identity, Canadian journalism, Western culture, and writing. The article quotes a number of his comments, such as "Joe Clark is a Boy Scout Canadian." "I wish Ed Broadbent were a Liberal." "Brooding about yourself as a writer is bad. I don't wake up every morning and say, 'Ah, a writer awakes.'"
C374 "TV Ads and Politicians Get 'Rhetorical' Lesson." The Whig-Standard [Kingston], 12 Feb. 1980, pp. 1, 8.
Davies' Brockington Lecture at Queen's University rebuked "the language of television advertising and Canada's political leaders for their debasement of rhetoric before making a persuasive appeal for its restoration." "Without a knowledge of language, he warned, Canadians are hard-pressed to distinguish between sincerity and...'feigned simplicity.'" Davies stressed that plain speaking and a knowledge of grammar skills are avenues to understanding the world, one's self, and one's imagination.
C375 Reid, Bill. "Davies Remembers Odd Characters of His Second-Favorite City." The Whig-Standard [Kingston], 15 Feb. 1980, p. 18.
Next to London, England, Davies likes Kingston best. In sharing his past with local Rotarians, Davies recalls that Kingston in 1925 "'stunk intolerably'" (from storm-strewn fish) and possessed "'more Anglican clergymen...than...any other city of that size,'" a local librarian "'of much severity'" who tried (unsuccessfully) to steer him clear of "indecent" books, such as G. B. Shaw's, and many eccentric university professors.
C376 Blackadar, Bruce. "Ten Great Hours of Deptford Tales." Toronto Star, 23 Feb, 1980, p. F10.
Blackadar finds CBC Radio's first episode of Davies' trilogy "haunting, heart-catching," and ultimately "heroic." But he wonders what it's doing on radio. It would make a "marvelous movie that might reach millions more than will hear the CBC's version." Moreover, the story's universal themes tell "us more about being Canadian and our small-town heritage... than the whole lot of A Gift to Last episodes." Particularly notable performances come from Eric House as Dunstan Ramsay and Murray Westgate as the tramp Mary Dempster "saves."
C377 Groen, Rick. "Radio Takes Heart Out of Trilogy." Fanfare [The Globe and Mail], 23 Feb 1980, p. E1.
Judging from the broadcast of Fifth Business, "success has not been achieved." There are some "very good moments," but "the whole is much less than the sum of its parts." Since the voice of Dunstan Ramsay in the novel acts as Davies' interpreter and is necessarily omitted in this role from the radio play, the radio performance fails to develop fully Dunstan's character --"we end up with a work excised of its brain and its heart." Fortunately, the remaining skeleton is quite interesting, though lacking "the impact of the original." Groen's article includes photographs of Zoe Caldwell and Barry Morse, who play Liesl and Magnus Eisengrim respectively.
C378 MacNiven, Elina. "Uncovering Canada's Secrets." Broadcast Week Magazine [The Globe and Mail], 23 Feb. 1980, p. 11.
MacNiven notes the upcoming radio productions of the Deptford trilogy novels in February and March, some of the actors, and recounts a few comments by Davies about his work: "My Deptford novels deal with the lives of three men: one interested in wealth, one in illusion, the third in the spiritual and intellectual. I attempt to describe some of the romance of Canada in my novels."
C379 Weinberger, David. "Ghostly Whispers in the Ear." Maclean's, 25 Feb, 1980, p. 52.
CBC "has unearthed a grand yarn" in presenting the Deptford trilogy as "its most ambitious radio drama ever"--"a fabulous tall tale." Ron Hartmann deserves tremendous credit for securing rights to the book, adapting the narrative, and producing and directing the series. Beginning with the first episode on February 25, his efforts elicit "the elusive eeriness of a good ghost story." "The program evokes its environments so well they seem both palpable and weirdly interior."
C380 "The Poetry of Hokum." Alumni Review [Queen's Univ.], May-June 1980, p. 11.
Beside a photograph, the review quotes a tiny, crisp portion of Davies' Brockington Lecture at Queen's University in Grant Hall, February 11, 1980.
C381 Macfarlane, David. "The Accidental Tycoon." Saturday Night, Oct. 1980, pp. 23-28, 30, 32, 34-35.
The article examines the history of Ken Thomson's career as a newspaper magnate. It cites the Peterborough Examiner as an example of Thomson "nurturing profits at the expense of journalistic quality." Davies "established it as an articulate, acerbic, and mildly eccentric daily with a reputation that far exceeded its circulation of 26,000." Hugh Faulkner summarizes its demise: "'The Thomsons transformed the Examiner from a newspaper into an advertising broadsheet.'" Davies "for his part, wished the new proprietors well and bade Peterborough goodbye." Macfarlane concludes that the death of the Peterborough Examiner as a truly community newspaper "was merely a clear instance in a much larger process" of big business taking over small business during the sixties.
C382 Whittaker, Herbert. "Farewell Ghost Story Has a Vinegary Touch." The Globe and Mail, 24 Dec. 1980, p. 12.
Whittaker briefly reviews Davies' accomplishments and then notes his new role--as lyricist for Louis Applebaum's carol commisssioned for the occasion--and then recounts the gist of his last wry ghost story about Massey College.
C383 Adachi, Ken. "A Testimony to the Variety of CanLit." Toronto Star, 28 Feb. 1981, p. F10.
In his review of For Openers: Conversations with 24 Canadian Writers, by Alan Twigg, Adachi indicates the Interviews "provide a fascinating...supplement to the authors' books." Davies is mentioned as one of those interviewed.
C384 Bullock, Helen. "The Master Leaves Massey." Toronto Star, 22 March 1981, p. D1.
Davies in June will leave Massey College after eighteen years as its Master, and move to a country retreat in Caledon Hills "to pursue a writer's life." Davies is sad to relinquish a post that has "been one of the best things I've done in my life." A detailed description ensues of the bi-weekly High Table dinners, Davies' daily routine, and some of his experiences in the college. Davies enumerates his multiple plans for "retirement"--novels, lecturing, a history of Canadian theatre, and a reduction in his public speaking engagements (not necessarily for money or fame). "'I shall have to fight to get enough quiet to do the work I want to do.'"
C385 "Notes: 1930-39.'' Queen's Alumni Review, March-April 1981, p. 25.
Notes that Dr. Davies, Arts '36, "has been made an Honourable Member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in New York. He is the first Canadian member of the academy."
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C448 Sinclair, Lister. "Fortune, My Foe." Prod. and dir. Andrew Allan. In Stage 49. CBC Radio, 17 Oct. 1948.
Music by Lucio Agostini.
C449 Ljungh, Esse. "Overlaid." In Open-Air Theatre. CBC Radio, 19 Sept. 1948.
C450 "Fortune, My Foe." Prod. Sylvio Narizzano. CBC-TV, 7 May 1953.
C451 Christie, Wallace. "Overlaid." In First Person. CBCTV, 14 Dec. 1960.
C452 "Overlaid." Prod. and dir. Esse Ljungh. CBC Stage. CBC Radio, 6 March 1964.
Music composed and conducted by Morris Surdin.
C453 "Brothers in the Black Art." Prod. and dir. Fletcher Markle and George Jonas. CBC-TV, 17 Jan. 1974.
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C454 Overlaid wins Ottawa Drama League prize (1946).
C455 Eros at Breakfast wins Ottawa Drama League prize (1947).
C456 Eros at Breakfast wins the Sir Barry Jackson Trophy at the Dominion Drama Festival for the best production of a Canadian play (1948).
C457 Gratien Gelinas prize--Best Canadian Play at the Dominion Drama Festival is awarded to Davies as author of Eros at Breakfast (1948).
C458 Fortune, My Foe wins the Sir Barry Jackson Trophy at the Dominion Drama Festival for the best production of a Canadian play (1949).
C459 Gratien Gelinas prize--Best Canadian Play at the Dominion Drama Festival, is awarded to Davies as author of Fortune, My Foe (1949).
C460 Louis Jouvet prize is awarded to Davies at the Dominion Drama Festival for his direction of The Taming of the Shrew (1949).
C461 Elected Governor to the Board of Directors for the Stratford Shakespearean Festival (1953).
C462 King Phoenix wins the Kingston Cup at the Eastern Ontario Drama Festival as the best Canadian play (1953).
C463 1954 Stephen Leacock Medal for humour for Leaven of Malice (1955).
C464 LL.D., University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta (1957).
C465 D. Litt., McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario (1959).
C466 Awarded Lorne Pierce Medal by the Royal Society of Canada for his contribution to Canadian literature (1961).
C467 LL.D., Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario (1962).
A copy of the convocation address is retained by the Alumni Affairs Office of the university.
C468 Appointed first Edgar Stone Lecturer in Dramatic Literature, University of Toronto (1964).
C469 D.C.L., Bishop's University, Lennoxville, Quebec (1967).
C470 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1967).
C471 D. Litt., University of Windsor (1971).
A copy of the convocation address is retained by the Alumni Affairs Office of the university.
C472 Companion of the Order of Canada (1972).
C473 LL.D., University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba (1972).
C474 D. Litt., Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick (1973).
C475 D. Litt., York University, Downsview, Ontario (1973).
C476 Governor-General's Award for Fiction for The Manticore (1973).
C477 D. Litt., McGill University, Montreal, Quebec (1974).
A copy of the convocation address is retained by the university.
C478 D. Litt., Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland (1974).
C479 D. Litt., Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario (1974).
C480 D. Litt., University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario (1974).
A copy of the convocation address is retained by the Office of the President of the university.
C481 D.U.C., University of Calgary (1975).
C482 Commissioned to write a play for the University of Toronto's Sesquicentennial in 1977 (1976).
Resulted in "Pontiac and the Green Man."
C483 1976 Larkin-Stuart Lectures, Trinity College, University of Toronto, 15-18 Nov. 1976.
Davies' title was "Masks of Satan: Some Concepts of Evil in Literature."
C484 First Canadian Honourable Member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York (1981).
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C1 Buitenhuis, Elspeth. Robertson Davies. Canadian Writers and Their Works. Toronto: Forum House, 1972. 80 pp.
Buitenhuis' book begins with great promise and considerable acumen. Her analysis of the Marchbanks' voice convincingly lays out the strengths and weaknesses of the mouthpiece as "a parody of Davies himself." She points to its literary precedents, and then insightfully follows its development through the three books. The books "are palpably a sort of dry-run for Davies" in the art of characterization, humour, and plot, and "this accounts for the wide variety of comic techniques." The section on Davies' drama also contains some fresh judgements. It highlights his favourite and most pressing themes, points to the allegorical nature of the later plays, indicates how the masques suit Davies' imagination, and explains his occasional weakness of juxtaposing content and technique. But, overall, this section, in its play-by-play treatment, lacks depth. The chapters on the Salterton novels reveal the book's most erring weakness--that of repeating plot. Ultimately, what holds the chapters together is the analysis of the growth of Davies' "voice" and the development of recurring themes. Overall, the book is not as impressive as one might hope.
C2 Morley, Patricia. Robertson Davies. Profiles in Canadian Drama. Toronto: Gage, 1977. 74 pp.
In this volume, the plays are described, summarized, and explained--carefully, simply, and thoroughly. One particularly good section discerns the reasons for a feeling of ambiguity in "At My Heart's Core." Another describes "Love and Libel" in considerable detail, and allows one to visualize it without the benefit of the script or a performance. Unfortunately, the summaries leave little room for illuminating analysis. The result conforms more to a series of informative book reviews than to a scholarly study.
C3 Grant, Judith Skelton. Robertson Davies. New Canadian Library. Canadian Writers Series, No. 17. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978. 58 pp.
Grant's fifty-eight pages cover a lot of ground. After citing Davies' two books on Shakespeare as touchstones of his instructive worldly manner and analyzing the two masques, she briefly types and summarizes the published plays, highlighting in them his love of information. In a subsequent section, her analysts uncovers Davies' sturdy grasp of Freud as it surfaces in the three books on Stratford. Under "Miscellany," her study briefly touches on Marchbanks as a persona, the merits of revisions in his Diary (1966) and to Table Talk (1967), some of the sources for the discussions in A Voice from the Attic, and the weaknesses of Stephen Leacock. She asserts that, structurally, the first two Salterton novels prove mechanical and restrictive; the third "fails only in the matter of equilibrium." Of the Deptford novels, only Fifth Business achieves an "organic whole." In The Manticore, "some material exerts an energy of its own, pulling away from the central concern of the story," so that "the Jungian ideas remain largely separate from the confession right to the end." As a group, all three books contain currents of vigorous natural philosophy and tentative moral philosophy. Overall, Grant's book is highly focused, well-organized, scholarly, and original. Regrettably, her brevity precludes substantial discussions of each topic.
C3a Lawrence, Robert G., and Samuel L. Macey, eds. Studies in Robertson Davies' Deptford Trilogy. ELS, No. 20. Univ. of Victoria, B.C.: English Literary Studies, 1980. 123 pp.
Includes Peter Brigg's "The Manticore and the Law," pp. 82-99; Robertson Davies' "The Deptford Trilogy in Retrospect," pp. 7-12 (B1444); Terry Goldie's "The Folkloric Background of Robertson Davies' Deptford Trilogy," pp. 22-31; Robert G. Lawrence's "Canadian Theatre in Robertson Davies' World of Wonders," pp. 114-23; Robert G. Lawrence's and Samuel L. Macey's Preface, p. 5; Samuel L. Macey's "Time, Clockwork, and the Devil in Robertson Davies' Deptford Trilogy," pp. 32-44; Patricia Merivale's "The (Auto)-Biographical Compulsions of Dunstan Ramsay," pp. 57-65; David Monaghan's "'People in Prominent Positions': A Study of the Public Figure in the Deptford Trilogy," pp. 45-56; Patricia Monk's "Davies and the Drachenlock: A Study of the Archaeological Background of The Manticore," pp. 100-13; and F. L. Radford's "The Apprentice Sorcerer: Davies' Salterton Trilogy," pp. 13-21, and "The Great Mother and the Boy: Jung, Davies, and Fifth Business," pp. 66-81.
Brigg attempts "to answer a series of questions in order to investigate The Manticore and the law." He considers "why David followed the law and who influenced him in his understanding of it"; "...how the law actually affects David in the novel, including its effects on the narrative voice." Brigg also considers "the forces which act to modify David's view of the world."
Goldie argues that, in the Deptford trilogy, "... Davies follows an explanatory route which seems very much in a Jungian pattern. The path leads through legends of saints and magi as Ramsay tries to reconcile the dark and the light sides of the human personality." However, "this 'Jungian pattern' is only an effort to explain through contemporary educated processes what the 'folk' have long 'understood.'"
Lawrence notes that "Davies condensed elements of Martin-Harvey's last four tours...to create the fictitious Tresize tour of 1932-33." "By condensing and transmuting the real into the fictitious, Robertson Davies has created, via a theatre tour of Canada, an admirable vehicle for realizing his intentions. For more reasons than are first evident, the adventures of the Tresize Company in Canada provide an exceptionally lively and authentic section of World of Wonders."
Macey's thesis is based on the examination of evil which has "involved more and more the enslavement of modern man to Western technological progress. The clock is to a great extent both the symbol and the cause of that enslavement. In combining clockwork with romance Eisengrim had come to terms with the diabolism of Time--that was his magic." "Timekeeping is in the warp and woof of Deptford." "Both Eisengrim and his mother Mary are untypical of Deptford in their relationship with time." "If David is ever to live at Sorgenfrei he must--like Dunstan, Liesl, and Eisengrim--come to terms with the Devil that is Time."
Merivale investigates the connection between Dunstan's "'lives'" of "'saints'" and a group of texts: "Hugh MacLennan's The Watch That Ends the Night, and Thomas Mann's Dr. Faustus--both especially relevant examples of the fictional genre, the 'elegaic romance,' to which I see Fifth Business as belonging-and Thomas Mann's ironic Saint's Life, The Holy Sinner, all help to elucidate the parodic complex of theme and structure in Fifth Business, and to support my general contention that the Deptford Trilogy is built upon a dialectic of intertextuality, which swings not only between Deptford and Zurich..., or between 'realism' and 'romance,' but more specifically between MacLennan's sort of book and Mann's."
Monaghan argues that, in the Deptford trilogy, neither Dunstan Ramsay nor Magnus Eisengrim are "entirely convincing in that Davies is unable to integrate all the complex elements [of the public and private selves] at work in their personalities. Thus, rich ambiguity is replaced by a degree of confusion.... Davies' analysis of the ways in which the Personal can overwhelm the rest of the personality is masterly, and through his sometimes certain and sometimes faltering analysis of the development of Dunstan Ramsay, David Staunton and Magnus Eisengrim he increases the reader's awareness of the proper relationship that should exist between public and private selves."
Monk notes that Davies introduces into The Manticore "a great deal of substantial archaeological material pertaining to a prehistoric European cave-bear cult, but does so only after he has, by careful manipulation, developed the material into something which, like stage props or settings, is designed to look as plausible as possible, without being 'true' or 'real' in the most common sense of the words. This process of manipulation transmutes, as it were, fact into 'pseudo-fact'...." Davies "factitious archaeology" includes "Maringer's The Gods of Prehistoric Man and the work of Emil Bachler of St. Gall."
In "The Apprentice Sorcerer: Davies' Salterton Trilogy," Radford examines Davies' development. "If one returns to Robertson Davies' first three novels after reading the Deptford trilogy it is easy to see them as preliminary exercises in the development of certain themes and motifs that are brought to mature expression in the later works.... In the two earliest novels the shared elements appear in retrospect as the fragmented announcement of themes before they are fully developed in a symphony. A fuller development is attempted with imperfect success in A Mixture of Frailites and its sequels, after a maturing pause of twelve years."
In "The Great Mother and the Boy: Jung, Davies, and Fifth Business," Radford argues that "...the novel can be seen as educating the reader for the Jungian bias of the Deptford trilogy as a whole. In large measure, the Jungian pattern is centred on the theme of individuation typified in the myth of the Hero and the Mother, in which every obstacle on the ascendant path of the hero 'wears the shadowy features of the Terrible Mother, who saps his strength with the poison of secret doubt' while every victory 'wins back again the smiling, loving and life-giving mother.'"
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C414 Lillicoe, Dick. [Unidentified Program.] CBC-FM Radio [22 Oct. 1960.].
Only two of three segments survive of an interview with Davies and Tyrone Guthrie. The first lost segment discussed how Love and Libel was being staged. An unidentified host introduces listeners to the surviving two portions, in which Lillicoe discusses with Davies and Guthrie other aspects of the play. Topics include why the play is not going to Montreal, how the title came about, its key theme of embarrassment, its lack of realism, and Guthrie's upcoming projects. The segments were broadcast over three different nights, and taped some time during the week Love and Libel opened in Toronto.
C415 Hancox, Ralph. "An Editor, His Newspaper, Its Community." Peterborough Examiner, 8 June 1963, p. 4.
On the occasion of his leave-taking to go to Massey College, Hancox and Davies discuss the development and growth of Peterborough, both physically and culturally, since Davies joined the city's paper on March 1, 1942.
C416 McLean, Jim. Agenda. CBC Radio, 4 Dec. 1965.
McLean interviewed Davies as one of five writers commissioned to compose The Centennial Play; Nicholas Goldschmidt, chief of the performing arts division of the Centennial Commission, also took part in the discussion.
C417 "Prof. Robertson Davies: Courteous Conservative." Toronto Telegram, 26 Sept. 1970, p. 23.
Davies indicates his work suits his "observant, reflective" and emotional temperament. He worries about the dehumanizing mechanics of modern life, and rebels against "virtually all accepted ideas." He also comments on his pastimes, spending money, his children, do-goodism, and his idea of a perfect holiday. Sporadic in content, but moderately interesting.
C418 Sypnowich, Peter. "Toronto Author: Writers Shouldn't Write for Money." Toronto Daily Star, 23 Jan. 1971, p. 59.
The interview covers social change, Davies' popularity, poetry, newspapers, sex, guilt, evil, and magic.
C419 Cunningham, John. "Author Davies Finds Youth Little Changed." The Gazette [Montreal], 23 March 1971, p. 7.
Davies comments on women's liberation, abortion, religion, education, sex in entertainment, youth, and working at Massey College. Cunningham provides quite extensive quotations on some of these issues.
C420 Marshall, Douglas. "The Merlin of Massey College." Books in Canada, May 1971, pp. 4, 28.
Marshall blends his own brief, sprightly commentary with forceful remarks from the Master. The article documents quotations from Davies on critics, writing in Canada, reading habits of the public, libraries, and copyright laws.
C421 "Profile of Robertson Davies." Take Thirty. CBC-TV, 3 Jan. 1972. (30 min.)
Davies talks for half an hour about "character and fate"; Canada, he says, is dull, but knows it, and furthers some people's interests well, now that our pioneer days are past; newspaper work compared with academic work; and retirement. He comments that some people suffer as they age because they failed to look about early enough. He also defines virtues, his religion, and his happiness.
C422 Newman, Peter C. "The Master's Voice: The Table Talk of Robertson Davies." Maclean's, Sept. 1972, pp. 42-43. ERD ("The Table Talk of Robertson Davies").
Newman notes that when Fifth Business was published, "Saul Bellow claimed it had taught him much, John Fowles looked on it with admiration and the Toronto Star said it was bored." Newman then goes on to quote Davies' spirited and erudite comments during a recent interview. The topics range from pornography and sainthood to Canadian identity and women.
C423 Cameron, Donald. "Conversations with Canadian Novelists." Prod. John Douglas. CBC Radio, 14 Oct. 1972. (3 min.)
Cameron talks for about three minutes with Davies about his religious sentiments.
C424 Gzowski, Peter. "This Country in the Morning." CBC Radio, 23 Oct. 1972. (12 min.)
Gzowski interviews Davies for about sixteen minutes, discussing his life and writing, his early life as an actor, and the change in his writing style over the years. Later, Dr. Vivian Rakoff joins both of them to discuss The Manticore for twelve minutes in the context of mental crisis in middle age.
C425 Anderson, Allan. "Aspects of the Canadian Novel." In Anthology. CBC Radio, 4 Nov. 1972. (2 min.)
Anderson interviews Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, and Margaret Atwood for four minutes about their approaches to writing and their work habits. First of a seven-part series.
C426 The Scene. CBC Radio, 4 Nov. 1972. (2 min.)
Allan Anderson plays a prepared tape of Davies talking for two minutes about himself, other writers, and his own work, while discussing Anderson's own new seven-part series, Aspects of the Canadian Novel, prepared for the CBC programme Anthology.
C427 Anderson, Allan. Aspects of the Canadian Novel. In Anthology. CBC Radio, 18 Nov. 1972. (2 min.)
In a two-minute segment, Davies criticizes critics for being apologetic about Canadian writers, talks about Massey College's collection of Canadiana, and notes ruefully that the finest collection of Canadian literature in the world is in Texas.
C428 Anderson, Allan. Aspects of the Canadian Novel. In Anthology. CBC Radio, 2 Dec. 1972.
Anderson discusses regionalism with Davies, who comments that, whereas British writers possess and know their country, this "possession" is virtually impossible in Canada.
C429 Cameron, Donald. "Robertson Davies: Bizarre and Passionate Life of the Canadian People." In Conversations with Canadian Novelists--1. Toronto: Macmillan, 1973, 30-48. Rpt. (condensed--"Speaking of Identity..."). In The Search for Identity. Ed. James Foley. Toronto: Macmillan, 1976, pp. 95-96. Rpt. ("Robertson Davies: Bizarre and Passionate Life of the Canadian People"). In Active Voice. Ed. W. H. New and W. E. Messenger. Scarborough, Ont.: Prentice-Hall, 1980, pp. 91-103.
Davies talks about his novels, Freud, religion, illusion in life, his identity as a Canadian, and his self-conscious role as an artist.
C430 Hetherington, Renee, and Gabriel Kampf. "Acta Interviews Robertson Davies." Acta Victoriana, 97, No. 2 (April 1973), 69-87.
This article includes a reprint of manuscript pages from Fifth Business (pages 226-27 of the hardcover edition). The interview ranges from magic through writing, education, characters, drama, music (as a literary influence), and, of course, Freud and Jung. Davies at his conversational best.
C431 Cook, Ramsay. Impressions. CBC-TV, 8 Aug. 1973. (30 min.)
Ramsay Cook interviews Davies for half an hour, discussing his life and works.
C432 Gzowski, Peter. This Country in the Morning. CBC Radio, 27 Sept. 1973. (12 min.)
For about twelve minutes, Davies discusses the dramatic adaptation of the 1954 novel, Leaven of Malice.
C433 Harpur, Tom. "Author Says the Messiah Could Be a Woman." Toronto Star, 16 Feb. 1974, p. F5. ERD ("A Talk with Tom Harpur").
Davies confesses to believing in Christianity, but admits he would "be in a pickle" to pinpoint his beliefs and defend them. Yet he finds that "in too many modern churches there is no emphasis on theology at all." He goes on to discuss evil and the devil in terms of "unknowing" and "the unexamined side of life." Sex "is just like blowing your nose" if "it's not a celebration of a splendid relationship." Other topics include human perfection, Eastern mysticism, male dominance in Western religions, and the modern role of the clergy. A rich pot-pourri of assessments.
C434 "3 1/2 Cheers for Toronto." In People of Our Time. CBC-TV, 9 Sept. 1974. (30 min.)
For half an hour, Davies talks about his feelings for Toronto, which he calls a remarkable city. He discusses the intellectual life; the Toronto White Anglo-Saxon Protestant; the city's consciousness of sin; the great experiment of general education in contemporary society; and dealing with a society which is often despairing.
C435 "Tribute to Andrew Allan." In CBC Stage. CBC Radio, 19 Nov. 1974.
Includes a conversation by Robertson Davies and Andrew Allan as part of Allan's autobiography.
C436 "A Tribute to Andrew Allan." In Anthology. CBC Radio. Prod. John Reeves, 1 Feb. 1975.
Includes a brief exchange between Allan and Davies at a microphone they assumed had been switched off.
C437 Bonisteel, Roy. "Saints in Our Time." In Man Alive. CBC-TV, 10 Feb. 1975.
In his investigation of saintliness in modern times, Bonisteel briefly interviews Davies, who defines saints as heroes of virtue.
C438 Schatzky, David. Sunday Supplement. CBC Radio, 2 March 1975.
A tax specialist, a playwright, a poet, and a filmmaker speak of their work. Davies talks for about ten minutes with Schatzky about his play Question Time, playing at the St. Lawrence Centre. Its theme, he says, is that power is very expensive, consuming a man and cutting him off from his fruitful self; its style is derived from nineteenth-century theatre, with lots of illusion, spectacle, fantasy, and music.
C439 Penmann, Margaret. Interview with Davies. CBC Sunday Supplement, 19 Oct. 1975.
The interview, though stemming from the release of World of Wonders, and focused on its place in the Deptford trilogy, ranges over a wide number of topics: Dunstan, David Staunton, and Magnus as representative Canadian types; Canada as a place of interest, culture, and history; Davies' escape to Oxford; his source of knowledge about circuses; his likeness to G. B. Shaw; writing as self-analysis and self-revelation; Dunstan, Liesl, and Magnus as Jungian types; the impetus behind The Manticore; death as a reflection of people's lifestyles, experiences, and attitudes; evil; and his characters as extensions of himself. Davies responds to Margaret Penmann's questions with relaxed candor.
C440 LaMarsh, Judy. Judy. CBC Radio, 28 Oct. 1975.
Includes Davies talking to his host about growing up in small-town Ontario.
C441 "Conversations with Robertson Davies." Time [Canada], 3 Nov. 1975, p. 10.
This page contains a selection of quotations from a series of three interviews with Time. Davies comments on politics, youth, education, human growth, religion, magic, the pioneer spirit, Canadian writers, and nationalism.
C442 Harpur, Tom. "You Should Face Up to Your Death, Says Author." Toronto Star, 15 Nov. 1975, p. B8.
Davies notes how our society, avoids death, especially our doctors. Most are not men of science but "men of technique." "They are not at all ready to consider...[death] as a psychological or spiritual happening." Davies cites Jung's semi-death experiences as part of the evidence suggesting some sort of after-life. Yet many of us shirk looking at life as a whole, and imaging our own death. In "preparing yourself to die well," "you have to come to terms with yourself and your place in the scheme of life--something a good many people don't want to do."
C443 Gzowski, Peter. Gzowski on FM. CBC-FM Radio, 9 Jan. 1976. (29 min.)
In this fifth of five shows (the earlier four on which Davies read from World of Wonders), Gzowski elicits twenty-nine minutes of comments from Davies about his life, work, and interests. Davies discusses the music of Richard Strauss, the Christian ethic of helping the weak, his public image, chivalric virtues, and writers he believes have been under- or over-rated by history.
C444 "Making Most of Myth, Mysticism." Vancouver Province, 29 June 1976, p. 11.
This interview by a Washington Star staff writer uncovers Davies' views of the miraculous, modern forms of superstition, religious trends, heroes, and modern myths.
C445 "Canadian Writer Says Links with Great Britain 'Now Rags.'" Edmonton Journal, 12 Oct. 1977, p. 81.
The article's questions and answers were culled from an interview that occurred while Davies was in New York to lecture to the Jung Foundation. The main focus is the changing status of Quebec within Canada's Confederation: "I am in favour of doing all that we can to preserve their language and their culture, but it's always a delaying action. It's not a thing which is going to work forever, and they know it."
C446 Twigg, Alan. "World of Wonders." In For Openers: Conversations with 24 Canadian Writers. Madeira Park, B.C.: Harbour, 1981, pp. 31-44.
In a wide-ranging interview, Davies talks about humour, Puritanism, Canadian nationalism, his own education, psychiatry, mind-altering drugs, good and evil, education of the masses, artists' temperaments, Canadian theatre, and the relation of psychology and religion.
C447 Spectrum. CBC Television, 11 Feb. 1981. (60 min.)
The show features Iris Murdoch and Davies as "inventor[s] of theatre on the page,...artist philosopher[s], who conjure up worlds via the imagination to help us understand reality. The program dramatizes crucial, memorable scenes from Fifth Business, and allows Davies to comment on them. He thus talks about the inception of personal responsibility, the foolishness of not believing in the devil or God, coming to terms with the instinctual side of the personality, and growing old as a moving from Christ to "a much older God," or perhaps goddess, one that better symbolizes aging.
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C386 Turner, J. Ogden. "Robertson Davies: Critic and Author." M.A. Thesis Manitoba 1958.
In his thesis, Turner summarizes from Shakespeare's Boy Actors, Shakespeare for Young Players, Davies' book reviews for Saturday Night, the first two Marchbanks books, and some of the plays. He quotes at length from all of them. "Throughout all...there is the evident concern of Robertson Davies for the standards and problems of writing, his distaste for the false and shoddy, his awareness of the problem of the writer in Canada, and has insistence that art and literature are important to the life of any civilized community." In the end, "Davies is neither popular enough for the average taste, nor meaty enough for the more exacting." The thesis clearly indicates that Turner has read the works with considerable attention to detail. What is lacking are larger frameworks from which to assess each of the works. Without these, the plot summaries overpower the analysis.
C387 Asher, Stanley A. "Playwriting in Canada: An Historical Survey." M.A. Thesis Montreal 1962.
In his introduction, Asher reviews in general terms the history of Canadian theatre, which "remained a regional art form throughout the 1930's, as contrasted to the fresh and imaginative work of the Clifford Odets-William Saroyan group in the U.S." World War II revived theatre, partially through CBC radio dramas, in particular its Stage series. The thesis reviews the output of nine dramatists and mentions others along the way. It devotes five pages to Davies as "perhaps the sole exception...that no professional writers for the theatre exist today in Canada." Fortune, My, Foe, despite "some insufferable female characters, a talkiness too reminiscent of Shaw, an inconclusive final scene, [and] an unresolved major conflict...is successful theatrically due to its well-drawn male characters, its overflowing wit, and its profoundly symbolic main action"--"the eternal clash between the unselfish pursuit of art or learning and the constant demands of the ego for nourishment." Asher briefly describes Eros at Breakfast and At My Heart's Core and mentions A Jig for the Gypsy and Overlaid. He remarks that A Masque of Aesop "is light and frivolous, but often exceedingly clever." Well organized, lucid, and straight-forward, the thesis is of considerable interest as one of the earliest assessments of Davies' place in Canadian drama.
C388 Tait, Michael S. "Studies in the Theatre and Drama of English Canada." M.A. Thesis Toronto 1963.
Not intended to be exhaustive, the thesis organizes its analysis into five areas: theatre in English Canada prior to 1900; theatre in Canada from 1900 to 1960; the works of Charles Heavysege, Charles Mair, and Wilfred Campbell; drama in Canada from 1920-1960; three plays by James Reaney and two by Wilfred Watson. Tait devotes five pages to Davies' output of drama, and provides a pithy assessment of each play. "These pieces display a large measure of theatrical inventiveness, satiric flair and refreshingly literate dialogue." They are singularly insightful, forceful, and varied. Overlaid, At My Heart's Core, and A Masque of Aesop in particular merit his praise, the first "perhaps the most entertaining short play ever written in this country"--"intensely alive."
C389 Rogers, Amos Robert. "American Recognition of Canadian Authors Writing in English 1890-1960." 2 vols. Diss. Michigan 1964.
This thesis discusses, among other things, the teaching of Canadian literature in American universities, Canadian literature in American libraries, American publication of books by Canadian writers, and inclusion of Canadian poetry in American anthologies. It does not attempt to discuss the literary merits of the 278 Canadian writers selected for the study. It does include a list of American editions and reprints of Davies' works, as well as a list of book reviews in American periodicals from 1890-1960. In the second list, Rogers mistakenly cites Marriane (by Rhys Davies) as one of Davies' works.
C390 Theobald, Alice. "Regionalism in the Imaginative Writings of Robertson Davies." M.A. Thesis Montreal 1964.
Theobald takes Davies to task on a number of grounds. In the novels, he enlivens the speech of his characters at the expense of reality, in contradiction to how Canadians actually speak. The antics of some "are too exaggerated to be compatible even with eccentricity." "The unusual names add to the sense of unreality. The act in Leaven of Malice, "prompted by malice, provokes reactions out of all proportion to its seriousness. Here [too] Davies loses his grip on reality." In A Mixture of Frailties, "Davies intimates that it is Monica's provincialism that makes her naive, but there is nothing particularly Canadian about it." And in Fortune, My Foe, his characters "do not reveal any great depth of thought in their endless conversations." Yet, despite restricting his fictional world to Ontario, Davies "does succeed in showing the general temper of the Canadian people." But his satire lacks the bite to become general and permanent. In the novels, especially, this results in "an overlay of sentimentality." The thesis belies its title. Only a small portion deals with regionalism per se because Davies is assessed in isolation from other regional (or non-regional) Canadian writers. As a result, most of the thesis summarizes and evaluates individual works and characters from various angles.
C391 Fisher, Elspeth. "Robertson Davies: Canadian Moralist." M.A. Thesis New Brunswick 1965.
Fisher reviews two Marchbanks books, A Voice from the Attic, the Salterton novels, and the plays up to 1963. "His critical works, particularly A Voice from the Attic, reveal him to be a humorist believing in curiosity, the free mind, good taste, and the betterment of the human race." "It is the kinetic art forms, ballet, puppetry, opera, and especially theatre, which most appeal to Davies." Unlike Richler, MacLennan, and Callaghan, Davies "does not waver between two worlds, but takes for granted such traditional values as chivalry, good taste, pursuit of the arts, and a broad education." His flaw in the early plays "is that his opinions tend to overbalance dramatic credulity, leaving the characters bereft of vitality." In the novels, Davies' fondness for digression "bedevils him continually," yet he is "at his best in his energetic digressions." But for a few trite remarks and an occasional lack of evidence, Fisher ably and cohesively evaluates Davies as an individual of singular passions--for art, intellect, culture, and moral enlightenment and as a creative mind grappling with the problems of moulding his ideas into suitable forms. His "highest value...is the imaginative awakening of the individual and his growth through a series of 'releasing' experiences which render him a more valuable person to himself and to society." The arts are crucial to this maturation process, as they "are distillations, Davies believes, of man's deepest and most significant experience."
C392 Spettigue, Douglas Odell. "The English-Canadian Novel: Some Attitudes and Themes in Relation to Form." Diss. Toronto 1966.
The thesis examines "the attitudes to the terrain represented in English-Canadian fiction." "The terrain as haven occurs in the early period as an illusion which experience soon dispels." After Confederation, "where the attitude to the terrain as threat persists, the threat is to society as opposed to the individual." "The threat offered directly by the terrain, or indirectly by a society maintaining garrison values, is a threat to the potential of art." The release for frustrated creative artist-protagonists in English Canadian fiction must come from recognizing the possibilities for significant form in an apparently "unintelligible" terrain. In developing the characteristic theme of aesthetics beleaguered by frontier attitudes, Davies' "central device is to hold up against Canadian culture the international and timeless standards of art and intellect"--the results are hilarious. Ironically, the standards of those protecting culture are "ludicrously low." Thus, "Tempest-Tost is as much a cause for tears as for laughter. The representative Davies protagonist is therefore...a garrison of one"--Humphrey Cobbler, or Samuel Marchbanks.
C393 Ursell, Geoffrey Barry. "A Triple Mirror: The Plays of Merrill Denison, Gwen Pharis Ringwood, and Robertson Davies." M.A. Thesis Manitoba 1966.
Ursell holds critics of Canadian theatre in low esteem, mainly because they have diagnosed "the poor health of Canadian theatre [yet] allowed Canadian drama to live in neglect." Beginning with this bold assertion, Ursell elaborates on the themes of Davies' plays in chronological order and includes solid textual analysis. He argues that Davies' "desire to have art which both justifies itself and instructs mankind how to be 'civilized' is self-contradictory." In At My Heart's Core, Davies explores the struggle of the individual with his intellectual environment. His "concern for this problem outruns his dramatic consideration of it and the play satisfies us only as a character study, if that, for its idea prohibits complex character development." In Fortune, My Foe, he caustically satirizes Ursula Simmond's theory of art, but his desire to teach an aesthetic lesson makes him guilty of perverting his own art in the same way." Pervasively, Davies' plays display a dislike of Canadian shortcomings "often poisoned with scorn, the concern tinged with conceit." His characterizations especially suffer. Because he never considers the themes of his plays to be unequivocally serious, the plays lack the verve and excellence to stimulate Canadians into caring fervently as a people. Surprisingly, the thesis ends on a tame rhetorial note in hoping for "a good, if not great, Canadian dramatist."
C394 Murphy, Sharon Mary. "Self-Discovery: The Search for Values in the Work of Robertson Davies." M.A. Thesis Carleton 1968.
Murphy's convincing and cohesive thesis "holds that Davies' prime interest is the introspective search for personal identity and it purports to examine the theme of 'the discovery of self' as it is treated in [his] works." Using Rollo May's perceptions in Existential Psychology, she analyzes the Salterton novels, A Voice from the Attic, and three of the plays. "In Tempest-Tost the individual sees himself as beaten about by fate. This is a complete lack of knowledge. Leaven of Malice demonstrates the horror of man's destructive impulses, but in A Mixture of Frailties Davies presents the emergence of the humanist, the most complete, existentially realized Eros figure, Monica Gall." "In Monica, Davies has described the full existential process by which an individual becomes self-aware." Generally, "Davies is primarily concerned with using art to explain the fantasy and unrealities of life so as to bring them under the pale of reason, thus enabling the individual to better understand both his total life and society." In Fortune, My Foe, he examines "the social demands which impinge on the individual." In At My Heart's Core, he "examines the motives and secret wishes which often lie concealed in an individual's mind." In A Masque of Aesop, he suggests "the quest for self-discovery could have a Lilliputian aspect to it." In all three, "the onus for change falls on the individual."
C395 Sharman, Vincent Douglas. "The Satiric Tradition in the Work of Seven English-Canadian Satirists." Diss. Alberta 1968.
Sharman looks at all of Davies' satires and satiric works up to 1963. He begins with a general, abstract, brief, and weak summary of the theory of satire: "Because satire is art, its significance lies in what it has to say about man." Ostensibly, the thesis proceeds by means of close textual analysis. In fact, it argues via debatable value judgements. Davies' main theme is "cultural stagnation" "The number and range of satiric victims suggest that Canada is a vast sinking hole of stupidity and dullness." Often, "however, Davies' targets are petty or inappropriate to satire...an aspect of his writing that is particularly distasteful in its lack of discrimination." Samuel Marchbanks "is a failure as a satirist because he is merely a superficial, rather silly snob." "His own pettiness frequently makes him as much a provincial as those he satirizes." For the most part, the thesis categorizes and reproduces detail--vigorously, but at the expense of critical assessments.
C396 Wing, Theodore Matthew. "Puritan Ethic and Social Response in Novels of Sinclair Ross, Robertson Davies and Hugh MacLennan." M.A. Thesis Alberta 1969.
Wing presents a concise, well-documented summary of the chief tenets and attitudes of Calvinistic puritanism and admits at the same time that its religious outlook was and is complex. For all three authors, the religious ethic is primarily a negative force on society. Davies' middle-class morality, rooted in Presbyterianism, Fundamentalism, and Anglicanism, appears in the guise of social taboo, small-town morality, narrow-mindedness, and bigotry. As in Ross, there lurks in Davies (despite his humour) a negative religious ethic in the community: sanctimony, a suspicion of intellectuality, the arts, and pleasurable things, and a sense of guilt and divine retribution. Wing concludes that what originally emanated from organized religion has softened into conventions of social respectability. Each author "sees, to a larger or lesser degree, the small town as a perpetrator of the inhibitions of the ethic." MacLennan's handling of love as a counteractant "is the most tenable"; Davies' lacks seriousness. Regrettably, this provoking thesis to some extent assumes the relationship it sets out to prove.
C397 Budds, Valerie. "Experiment in Imagination: Canadian Novels as Source Books for Sociology." M.A. Thesis Carleton 1970.
After ranging over four major sociological theories of literature, Budds examines Sara J. Duncan's The Imperialist and Davies' Salterton novels. Relying on Frances Merrill's theory, whereby "'novels are living sourcebooks to which we go for valid insights'" about sociological concerns, Budds proceeds to analyze the two areas of social class and power. The Imperialist is "a horizontal novel, whereas Davies' trilogy is a vertical set of novels," concerned with people "entrapped in twentieth-century societal prisons." In Salterton, "the mood is oppressive." Some of its inhabitants play several unfulfilling roles: Professor Vambrace and Davies' main characters (Hector Mackilwraith and Monica Gall) are involved in "the process and problems associated with social mobility." The thesis somewhat superficially compares Salterton with census figures, a modern sociological study of Canada, Merrill's theory, and the Brantford of Miss Duncan.
C398 Cloutier, Pierre. "The Function of the Artist in Five Canadian Novels." M.A. Thesis Montreal 1971.
Cloutier attempts to analyze two works of Davies and three other Canadian novels as they depict and reflect the role of the artist. En route, the thesis tends to obscure rather than clarify its own content. In Tempest-Tost, the Salterton theatricals "are achievements of mock-value through the annihilation of the ordinary bounds and limits of existence, the provincial's swing at Dionysiac zest, bearing witness to the belief that the path of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." The book "is almost an experimental counterpart to the Canadian artist's search for meaning in exile." Of A Mixture of Frailties, Cloutier writes that "it is not as a performer that the artist cannot be satisfactorily involved in a community of men, but as a 'political animal.' Though art is an intensely personal, individualistic development of the self, this does not mean that the artist's condition is a necessarily domestic one separated from human groups. And here, of course, we are asking Davies' novel something which it has never attempted to give us but the point is worth mentioning." The thesis suffers from a highly dense and abstract style of writing.
C399 Dyment, Margaret Slavin. "Satire and Modern Canadian Fiction: An Analytic Survey." M.A. Thesis Waterloo 1972.
Dyment defines and categorizes the satire of Davies and Mordecai Richler. Central to any of the analytic content is a desire to find within Davies' fiction some evidence of a "mythic depth" and "mythic overtones." Thus, "Davies' novels may all be seen as a series of attempts to wrest the wide-angle of mythic vision into the realistic conventions of the novel." In the Salterton novels, "it seems highly likely that the earlier curiously flat characterization and highly structured plot stem...from the tendency towards a mythic point of view." Perhaps the most interesting remark is that "Robertson Davies' current abandonment of satire evidently signifies in part some...process of increased personal maturity." Unfortunately, the thesis does not fully integrate Northrop Frye's theory and ends up talking about "the displacement of myth in Canadian satire...in the direction of a pastoral paradise, or some other form of the ideal." The conclusion consists of a pastiche of Dyment's own views and the opinions of others.
C400 Mitcham, Elizabeth Allison. "The Influence of the Canadian Environment on Themes of Isolation in the French and English Canadian Novel During the Period 1940 to 1971." Diss. New Brunswick 1972.
"The Canadian physical and social environments have provided a setting most conducive to themes of violence, alienation, and isolation." The writers between 1940 and 1971 "focussed their attention on the idea of alienation and loneliness of the individual in his conflict with his environment." "The wilderness...embodies the distinctive Canadian myth, since in Canadian fiction it appears superficially idealized and linked with salvation and purity; with individual rebirth. But behind the ideal lurks so often the nightmare of the predominantly winter landscapes of a northern climate where human vulnerability and fears are inevitably awakened and exposed." The scholars and intellectuals who leave tend to trade one brand of isolation for another. Mitcham examines Monica Gallis' position as an expatriate in A Mixture of Frailties (7 1/2 pages), and Humphrey Cobbler's position as a British immigrant in Leaven of Malice (2 pages). Cobbler and Swithin Shillito "make no attempt to reconcile their eccentric attitudes and behaviour to Canadian small town life." Somewhat coventional and descriptive in content.
C401 Reid, Verna M. "Perceptions of the Small Town in Canadian Fiction." M.A. Thesis Calgary 1972.
Reid examines the works of Sara J. Duncan, Stephen Leacock, Sinclair Ross, W. O. Mitchell, Ethel Wilson, Margaret Laurence, Robertson Davies, and Alice Munro. "The small town within this fiction is perceived imaginatively to be a colonial outpost--a product of the frontier experience, and to be a garrison-prison--which both protects and confines. Socially, the small town is seen to be a female domain in which the woman has a special interest and over which she exerts a pervasive influence. Much of this fiction is retrospective, and the small town is perceived through memory. Consequently, these perceptions are tinged with a nostalgic mood, and the small town is seen as a symbol of home and, therefore, an ideal environment. These paradoxical perceptions make the small town both loved and hated, and the point of view of the narrator is often ambivalent." "Del Jordan, Dunstan Ramsay and Hagar Shipley as characters formed by the small town, all stand in the present time in the fiction they narrate, but their eyes are on the past, and on the events that brought them to where they are." "The portrayal of the small town as a garrison-prison should thus be viewed as an attempt to come to terms with our past rather than an escape into it." This thesis holds together well, while ranging with control over all the authors examined.
C402 Monk, Patricia. "The Smaller Infinity: The Jungian Self in the Novels of Robertson Davies." Diss. Queen's 1974.
Monk assesses Davies' attitude to psychology, examines Shakespeare's Boy Actors, the Marchbanks material, the Salterton trilogy, Fifth Business and The Manticore. Shakespeare's Boy Actors is "an encounter with the idea of the Persona"--the separating of player from role. The persona of Marchbanks moves between fantasy and reality, between a fictional character and Davies himself. In Tempest-Tost, the transcendent and the mundane appear as two worlds. In Leaven of Malice, true and false identity as experienced in the mundane world are explored and resolved. In A Mixture of Frailties, Davies explores transcendent reality as a tension between darkness and light. Monica ultimately comes to live with both elements in her psyche. "Ambivalence pervades the whole of Fifth Business." Davies "presents the paradoxical conclusion that illusion both conceals and reveals." The Manticore is even more ambivalent, even about its Jungian content. Yet, ironically, that ambiguity is itself unexceptionally Jungian. In the end, Davies has "divined...[human identity], because it is, in its true form of the Self, or the imago Dei, divine." This dissertation surveys Davies from a very lofty plane. Few will argue with its breadth of vision, or its pioneering contribution to Davies scholarship.
C403 Smiley, Calvin. "Theme and Technique in Robertson Davies' Fiction." M.A. Thesis Carleton 1974.
Smiley argues that Davies creates a structure "more suited to the thematic content in changing his form from social prose romance to psychological prose romance (from Tempest-Tost through to The Manticore). Common to all five novels is "a quest for heroic stature." Each protagonist, originally smug and naive, "encounters situations which teach him the ambiguities and uncertainties in life and the consequent difficulty of forming moral judgments." His struggle is "heroic" in escaping "from the secure mediocrity of the masses to the reflective state of wisdom." In Fifth Business and The Manticore, "Davies uses the prose romance form to establish the primacy of psychological development over social realism; he abandons strict realism...to increase the mythic potential of his material." Smiley examines with tremendous precision and acumen the shift in narrative focus from third to first person, the shift in characterization from simple to complex, the shift in the comedy from satire to shared humour, and the shift in imagery from the restricting focus on the theatre, newspaper running, and music, to the more embracing scope of archetypal myths. This thesis steadily achieves all it sets out to do in a highly readable and scholarly fashion.
C404 English, Zoe Collins. "Internal Worlds: A Thematic Study of the Later Novels of Robertson Davies." M.A. Thesis McGill 1975.
The appeal of Marchbanks "lies chiefly in the distance he places between himself and his fellow men; an exaggerated distance, too enormous to be taken seriously, too obvious to be anything but humorous." The Salterton novels, less satiric, nurture complexity and ambiguity. "Monica Gall's predicaments are credible, realistic, and wholly human." Davies introduces a recurring theme, "the idea of self-knowledge as being a prerequisite to a feeling of inner peace." In Fifth Business and The Manticore, the main characters admit their own failures and accept the undesirable elements in their human make-up, thereby achieving psychological wholeness. Projection, the "shadow," the irrational, psychic suffering, and the supernatural cause either "psychic dissolution or psychic integration." "In the later novels,...the fantastic in life effectively acts, not as a replacement of, but as an adjunct to, reality." Crucial to lasting growth is constructive response to the unconscious. The resulting wholeness leads to discovering "the meaning and significance of [one's] position with relation to the rest of humanity," a perspective lacking in most twentieth-century individuals. Drawing extensively on critics, Jung, and Davies' own remarks, the thesis traces the development of psychological depth and complexity in Davies' writings.
C405 Kutney, Laura Mae. "Robertson Davies: The Development of a Canadian Novelist." M.A. Thesis Calgary 1975.
In the Salterton novels, Fifth Business, and The Manticore, Davies satirizes the "cruelty performed in the name of Christianity which is part of our puritan heritage"; he satirizes "materialism," Canadian law, and those of inherited wealth. In the first two Deptford novels, he eliminates "all which is effusive, episodic and extraneous." His depiction of human deprivation in small towns can be compared to Sinclair Ross's depiction of Prairie towns and Gabrielle Roy's rendering of life in Montreal. "In the Salterton trilogy, man tries to understand himself through the media of drama, music, teaching and writing. In the later novels he looks for understanding of himself and his environment through history, mythology and faith, and ultimately through psychiatry." The early novels provide answers; the later ones put forward largely "rhetorical" and "unanswerable" questions. The thesis, like an informative travelogue, analyzes and describes the novels in terms of themes, satire, and style. In its summary of plot, the thesis suffers a common plight of Davies criticism: the assumption that readers are unfamiliar with the works.
C406 Ramraj, Victor J. "Mordecai Richler and the Canadian Satirical Tradition." Diss. New Brunswick 1975.
In general, Canadian satirists are "very much aware of the absurdities, follies, and vices of their society, but they are reluctant to commit themselves to a trenchant, sustained satirical vision." Their ambivalence between censure and sympathy "renders virtually nugatory any malice, mockery, or ridicule." "Robertson Davies appears to be a committed satirist in the Marchbanks sketches, but his early novels tend to become weary of the satirical tone, often ending in romances." In a fifteen-page chapter, Ramraj first praises Davies' style as sparkling, rich in allusion, and conversationally polished. Satircally, he "seldom lifts his voice in uncontrolled anger or in direct denunciation." The shortcomings he satirizes understandably "tend to be more petty and vapid than gross or vicious," since he feels "that some follies and foibles are what give savour to life." Davies' empathy in Leaven of Malice precludes a serious examination of malice, though he attacks colonial affectation and scholastic barrenness. In Tempest-Tost, the "philistine mediocrity" in Salterton is assaulted. A Mixture of Frailties is a romance, a bridge to the new kind of writing in Fifth Business. Davies, though English in style, shows he is Canadian in his ambivalent satirical tone. Ramraj then shows how Richler stands within the tradition that Davies and others have established. The thesis' generously academic voice--"disapprobation," "denigration of colonial mimicking"--does not really add to the basic insights.
C407 Stearns, Linda Jade Fong. "The Saint Figure in Leonard Cohen and Robertson Davies." M.A. Thesis Calgary 1975.
Figures such as Davies' Mary Dempster and Cohen's sexual connoisseurs, F. and Edith, "seek and attain...[grace] through unorthodox ways." Their disciples, I of Beautiful Losers and Dunstan Ramsay of Fifth Business, are graded "into intellectual and emotional emptiness so that they can be filled with the grace of spiritual rebirth." "By manifesting...divine love and engendering it in the disciples, the redefined saints affirm their roles as intermediaries for God, a role finally acknowledged by the disciples in their new understanding of their own roles in life." Ramsay "finally decides that he is Fifth Business, and I...carries his saints with him into a greater sainthood than theirs alone." Overall, the saints introduce themes of "holiness, heroism, sacrifice, and salvation." Both books offer "microscopic examples of the inadequacy or irrelevance of orthodox creed and trappings." Ramsay becomes convinced "that the figures of myth and history are immersed in the same kind of sacred aura as religion"; "ultimately, the whole world and...God are unified by this one mystery." Although somewhat dry and occasionally repetitive, the thesis nevertheless wrestles much more than adequately with the major patterns of sainthood and provides numerous insights into both works.
C408 Urquhart, William Barry. "Jungian Psychology in Robertson Davies' Fifth Business and The Manticore: The Hero and His Quest." M.A. Thesis New Brunswick 1975.
In the two novels, "Davies employs symbolic patterns of death and rebirth, as well as the hero and the quest." In the exploration of Jungian archetypes, "Davies finds a reasonable guide for self examination." Fifth Business, as a modern myth, "traces Dunstan's journey from the outer to the inner world." In the process, Dunstan becomes the "hero" of his "quest." The Manticore comments on the role of analysis in modern society. Through analyzing his actions, David Staunton learns to accept responsibility. Beginning with a recapitulation of Jungian theory, an analysis of symbols, and a thematic review of the Salterton novels, Urquhart moves to an examination of the personal relationships in the Deptford novels as manifestations of archetypes. Thus, "it took more than half a lifetime before...[Dunstan's] anima projection [onto Mary Dempster] dissipated sufficiently to allow him to carry on a fulfilling relationship with another anima figure, Liesl." Urquhart continues through the stories, balancing Jungian analysis of the plot with corresponding references to authorities on myth. One thus discerns a remarkable consistency between Jung's theory and Davies' writing. The thesis single-mindedly describes the underlying symbolism. Whether one must understand Jung to perceive the process of Dunstan's maturation remains a moot point.
C409 Bowen, Gail Bartholomew. "The Unexamined Life In Robertson Davies' Fiction." M.A. Thesis Waterloo 1976.
Davies' "fiction is dominated by a single thought: the belief that self-knowledge and self-acceptance are imperative prerequisites to the fully-lived life." "Because Davies' concern is less with the fictional life of his characters than with the real lives of his readers, his character creations often appear thin and elusive. But it is because Davies' characters are figures in a didactic work that their role must be limited." "From the [male] hero's experience we learn how to avoid...'the stupider kinds of illusion.'" "The man of reason is devastated when his 'irrational' self asserts its claim upon him. He must rather come to terms with the primitive side or be destroyed by it." His female counterpart acts typically as a redeemer, and carries the message of the need for self-knowledge to him. In the early novels, "the women who redeem the heroes are simply too good to be true...too wise, too accommodating, too ready to assume the hero's burden." Thus, the hero does nothing "but deliver his life over to the Wise Woman"--a kind of "salvation by osmosis." This thesis incorporates only three critical articles and one interview, but, in depth, interest, and sturdiness, it brings forth abundantly.
C410 McCann, Paul A. "Eros and Thanatos in the Novels of Robertson Davies." M.A. Thesis Dalhousie 1976.
"Robertson Davies consistently envisions society as a battlefield on which two antithetical forces continually strive"--Eros (life) and Thanatos (death). For Davies, Canadian society lacks a balance of the Dionysian and Apollonian values. Art is of crucial importance to Davies because it "integrates the unconscious mind with consciousness," and is a means "by which civilized man is able to recover his unconscious self." "Canadian society, however, is an extremely rational one." Hence, it needs Dionysian vitality, but according to Davies, always within the framework of some kind of order. Overlaid lucidly articulates the need for balance, yet confirms that "Eros...[is] overlaid by Thanatos in Canadian society." In Tempest-Tost, the characters are reduced to being life-loving or life-inhibiting, having "Taste" or lacking it. In the end, "Mackilwraith and his like overlay Canadian society; Thanatos hangs like a gloomy cloud over Salterton." Leaven of Malice begins "to blur the edges" of some of its characters. Thus, Ridley dislikes Cobbler's "genuine raffishness" but enjoys Elspeth Fielding, an Eros-figure. In A Mixture of Frailties, Monica's growth towards Eros, "is a multi-dimensional process," tied to artistic growth. In Fifth Business, "Dunstan Ramsay must search for himself," finding Eros values in the probing of his unconscious. In The Manticore, psycho-analysis provides the medium for David Staunton as he takes his first tentative steps towards Eros and psychic wholeness. The thesis designates Eros and Thanatos characters and conflicts within their Freudian and Jungian contexts, but does not conclude with a final, substantive point.
C411 Schmieder, Peter Sebastian. "A Conflict between Mask and Shadow: A Study of Robertson Davies' Fifth Business." M.A. Thesis Concordia 1976.
Schmieder's thesis summarizes Jungian theory in a crisp, lucid fashion, but the consequent analysis lacks a consistent focus. Most of it rewrites the plot of Fifth Business in Jungian terms, rebounding between Dunstan and Davies as authors of the story. Ramsay's autobiography "becomes a poetic confession of faith. From the psychological standpoint it is a gesture toward body and spirit." It is also "a symbolic expression for the 'wise' Dunstan Ramsay who had seen the concept of the absolute concreteness of matter undermined by the experience of the soul." In this manner, the thesis discusses mythic elements, society, the heroic quest, romance, satire, and Jungian psychology.
C412 Silcox, Nancy. "Humour and Robertson Davies." M.A. Thesis Waterloo 1976.
Silcox's introductory review of humour serves as a ledge from which to climb into the wealth of Davies' comic expertise in the Marchbanks material and in the Salterton novels. "Humour is to Davies a superior, inborn, uncontrollable, civilizing, demonic, cruel, and elusive notion." "The humourist performs a corrective function in society, and he is a man who is deeply concerned about life." In the Marchbanks letters, humour "seems to overtake him." "The result is an uneven tone throughout." In the Salterton novels, distractions between stereotypes (Thanatos personalities) and three-dimensional figures (Eros personalities) help to create the satire and also to suggest Davies' ultimate optimistic outlook. Unfortunately, the thesis ends with many unresolved perceptions, especially about Davies' use of satire.
C413 Wallbridge, Allan Edward. "The Climacteric of the Comic Novelist: A Study of the Novels of Robertson Davies.'" M.A. Thesis Windsor 1976.
Davies' own theory of humour proposes that the mature comic writer, in middle age, alters the early comedy so as to include "a sense of tragedy, a wider vision and a recognition of the darker side of life." His own books attest to this transition. The thesis outlines the theory as outlined in A Voice from the Attic, and then lays out a Jungian view of the psyche and of human growth. "The Marchbanks persona...represents the extreme in Davies' own personality." It shows up in the early novels, but gradually diminishes in single-minded obstreperousness. In the subsequent novels, Davies gradually centres on the process of individuation as a central concern and delves into complex questions of good and evil. "World of Wonders marks a reaffirmation of Davis' recurring theme of the free, open to the wonders of life." The good-evil ambiguity of life itself reinforces Davies' theory that humour, like tragedy, knows no limits." In routine fashion, the thesis deals with A Mixture of Frailties and the Deptford novels in separate chapters.
C413a Connor, Herbert William. "A Consideration of Robertson Davies' Narrative Technique, Concentrating on His Use of First-Person Narration in 'The Deptford Trilogy.'" M.A. New Brunswick 1977.
Connor examines narrative devices in several novels, including Davies' Salterton trilogy, before directing his main attention to the Deptford trilogy. A competent study.
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D159 "Politics and Gypsy in Davies' Drama." Toronto Daily Star, 5 Feb. 1955, p. 17.
"This entertainment, a mixture of satire, fantasy and whimsy, looks with amused detachment at the hill-folk of North Wales." "Light-heartred and witty rather than message-solemn."
D160 Desbarats, Peter. "A Brew of Magic." The Gazette [Montreal], 12 Feb. 1955, p. 23.
"Mr. Davies has poured Welsh politics and sorcery into his play and the fiery mixture bubbles merrily." "The only thing that worries is the [moralizing involved in the] climax."
D161 Graham, Kathleen. "This Week I Read." Regina Leader-Post, 12 Feb. 1955, p. 14.
"The ribald humor and trenchant wit of Robertson Davies were never better." The play offers "an intriguing gallery of characters," "sharp, illuminating" dialogue, and a "gentle, romantic sub-plot."
D162 O'Hearn, Walter. "The Bookshelf: Robertson Davies' 'Gypsy' in Book Form." The Montreal Star, 12 Feb. 1955, p. 13.
"I suspect Mr. Davies...is...working his way to the heart of national consciousness and the centre of dramaturgy by his cultivated instincts." Structurally, this play "has moments of excitement, but they are not carefully constructed or sustained. The incidental, juvenile romance and subsequent disillusionment are valid but...tossed in casually." Benoni's rescue also "comes somewhat fortuitously." The writing is good--appealing and pawky--and shows that "an EnglishCanadian can really write for the theatre."
D163 "Robertson Davies' 'Gypsy' in Book Form." Peterborough Examiner, 12 Feb. 1955, p. 4.
The play "is rich in character and the humor grows naturally out of character." "The writing is good, full of odd appealing touches, and the special pawkiness which has become a trade-mark of this author."
D164 T., M. "Bait for the Floating Voter." Winnipeg Free Press, 26 Feb. 1955, p. 26.
Davies draws "the most extraordinary characters." The comic situations "sparkle with the wit and repartee of an artist of the theatre. Read it. It's fun."
D165 Walker, Joan. "Davies' Play." The Globe and Mail, 26 Feb. 1955, p. 25.
The play "deals with magic, politics and human frailties." "What a pity it is that Mr. Davies did not write this plot as a novel." "The third act is weak and contrived." The ending is "ready-made" and unbelievably "fortuitous," "dropped in" by a new character. The play is "too weak for professional production, and too male-dominated for amateur staging." Finally, "there is the added disadvantage of mastering the singsong Welsh intonation without which the dialogue would never come to life." A "mediocre play."
D166 "Wizards in Wales." Winnipeg Tribune, 5 March 1955, p. 13.
"A hilarious comedy."
D167 N., C. C. T. "Davies Play Reflects Welsh Blood." Toronto Telegram, 19 March 1955, p. 7.
This Canadian play proves a truism, that there is still "no such thing as a Canadian culture." As readable as it is actable, the play is "unselfconsciously Welsh." "The real charm of the play is in the procession of Welsh characters" and in "the delightful Welsh cadence."
D168 Smith, I. Norman. "Literature and Life/A Booklover's Corner: Shakespeare and Robertson Davies, with Tyrone Guthrie in Wings." The Ottawa Journal, 26 March 1955, p. 44.
The play is "a gay lark on politicians and on people as a whole, and on witchcraft and fortune telling in particular." "We can only wish that Robertson Davies would write his next sally in a Canadian setting. There is not enough of [that]...going on in this country; hardly any with [his] penetration and gaiety."
D169 Thistle, Lauretta. "A Jig for the Gypsy." The Citizen [Ottawa], 26 March 1955, p. 17.
"The play is written with obvious affection for the Welsh people of the earthier sort." Structurally, the arrival of Conjuror Jones and his proposal are "startling." As well, "Benoni [is] more of an instrument than an impressive character of real 'gypsiness.' But...it may be that on stage a clever actress can conceal what seems to be a weakness."
D170 "A Comedy in Rural Wales." The Vancouver Sun Magazine, 9 April 1955, p. 6.
"A most engaging comedy."
D171 Nicol, Eric. "A Jig for the Gypsy." The Vancouver Province, 7 May 1955.
A "storm in a teacup brings politicians, lovers and a rival soothsayer named Conjuror Jones into a gay commotion in the best Shavian tradition."
D172 "A Jig for a Gypsy." The Vancouver Herald, 24 May 1955.
"The play is a wonderful medium for Davies' brilliant character portraits and memorable for its truly witty lines."
D173 Laverie, Louise. "Herald Book Reviews." The Calgary Herald, 4 June 1955, p. 4.
"The delightful intermingling of politicians and gypsy fortune tellers...is not so paradoxical...[for] one never quite knows what secret forces are behind them." Only the play's resolution is uncertain, for the alliance of Benoni and Conjuror Jones is dramatically "weak and anti-climactic."
D174 Rev. of A fig for the Gypsy. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 18, No. 4 (Summer 1955), 28.
Quoting British Book News, No. 178, this periodical notes that "our Welsh-descended star humorist has written a readable, actable play dealing with gypsies, magic and politics." "The characters are strongly drawn and many of the lines sing with the Welsh rhythm."
D175 Kirkwood, Hilda. "A Jig for the Gypsy." The Canadian Forum, Aug. 1955, pp. 117-18.
"This is a complex and interesting play." "It sparkles with epigrammatic wit" and "is full of good characters." "Yet this play is vaguely unsatisfying," likely because of its resolution. "The schism between the real world and the world of magic is not easily budged." Quite favourable.
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D145 F., T. "Robertson Davies Boisterous Satire." Winnipeg Tribune, 29 Nov. 1952, p. 12.
"The three fables...are spiced with wit, relevance and sagacity."
D146 "'Masque of Aesop' by Robertson Davies." Toronto Daily Star, 29 Nov. 1952, p. 4.
"Weds words and music with sprightly effects" and "happily supported by the deftly classical drawings of Grant Macdonald."
D147 Wood, Christopher. "A New Davies' Play." The Gazette [Montreal], 29 Nov. 1952, p. 25.
In the play, "Mr. Davies' wit is driving at the top of its bent." "Presented with the music written for it, it should be a sheer delight."
D148 H., V. "One-Act Play:" The Globe and Mail, Final Ed., 6 Dec. 1952, p. 10.
In the play we find Aesop-Davies "lecturing his fellow Canadians on their provincial phobias and their sad philistinism." On this occasion, he wields "a tendentious bludgeon rather than a wit-inspired wand." Handicapped by "pedagogic obviousness."
D149 Leander, Martin. "Davies and Aesop Combine in Masque." Toronto Telegram, 6 Dec. 1952, p. 12.
"Remarkably wise and satisfying" and full of "delicious wit."
D150 Ryan, John V. "Old Aesop in the Dock," Windsor Daily Star, 13 Dec. 1952, p. 24.
"In spite of its rather wonderous humor [the play] deserves a wide audience." "Delightful illustrations by Grant Macdonald."
D151 Swanson, Jean. "A Delightful Piece." Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, 13 Dec. 1952, p. 17.
The play "makes one wish that Robertson Davies would write more." Its author "is certainly the Ben Jonson of the 20th century Canada"--"the most refreshing writer in Canada today."
D152 Van Gogh, Lucy [B. K. Sandwell]. "Light Satire." Saturday Night, 20 Dec. 1952, p. 31.
The play "is a little masterpiece of light satire, written with an acute sense of the special skills and charms which may be assumed in a cast of small boys." "Perhaps some school for young ladies will now commission him to do the same thing on the distaff side."
D153 Kirkwood, H. T. "A Masque of Aesop." The Canadian Forum, Jan. 1953, p. 237.
"A light, slight and charming comedy." "Such items as this are exceedingly rare in this country, and 'Aesop' should be a very great blessing to high school drama directors."
D154 Rev. of A Masque of Aesop. Canadian Library Association Bulletin, 9, No. 4 (Jan. 1953), 110.
"Mr. Davies has injected such sharp satire and so many wise saws and topical allusions that the thing is entra[n]cing." "A delight to read."
D155 Nicol, Eric. "A Masque of Aesop." Magazine [Vancouver Province], 3 Jan. 1953, p. 16.
Because the play was written for young boys, "we older students may find the didactic bun inside the sugar icing a bit stale, but the ingredients are good." Davies "has nothing particularly new to say, but he says it with good humor."
D156 Pavill, S. "Robertson Davies' New Play a Witty Satirical Masque." The Montreal Star, 10 Jan. 1953, p. 17.
"This is delightful entertainment suitable for any school's dramatic society, or any little theatre, for that matter." The play "is Mr. Robertson Davies in his most diverting mood, and that mood is always provocative of mirth."
D157 Graham, Kathleen. "This Week I Read." Regina Leader-Post, 17 Jan. 1953, p. 15.
"A wonderful bit of wit and humor, though all too short."
D158 Tovell, Vincent. Rev. of A Masque of Aesop. University of Toronto Quarterly, 22 (April 1953), 292-93.
"Mr. Davies argues--once again--that the greatest teacher is he who passes through scorn of mankind to love of mankind." The play "is perhaps his happiest invention to date."
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D176 G., D. "The Book Shelf." Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 16 Nov. 1963, p. 6.
"A lot of schoolboyish chaff, but also some very funny lines." "The whole thing is (ahem) child's play."
D177 Swanson, Jean. "And Like Punch, He Wins the Day." Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, 16 Nov. 1963, p. 22.
The framework is "unusual" and the play "an exceptionally entertaining entertainment." Davies "has had a magnificent time lampooning the contemporary worlds of the theatre and of the media of mass communications. And like Punch, he wins the day."
D178 Handon, Michael. "Punch Views the Theatre." Globe Magazine [The Globe and Mail], 30 Nov. 1963, p. 18.
"It is a charming and witty concoction of views...with no trace of pomposity, which alone makes it worth reading."
D179 "Wonderful Array of Children's Books on Shelves for Christmas." Winnipeg Tribune, 30 Nov. 1963, p. 5.
"An entertaining short play" that is "witty and lively."
D180 Robson, John. "Book Parade." Toronto Telegram, 6 Dec. 1963, p. 44.
"Davies has mastered his craft and naturalized it."
D181 Gavin, Ann. Rev. of A Masque of Mr. Punch. Canadian Author & Bookman, 39, No. 3 (Spring 1964), 16.
"Mr. Davies shatters our self-idealization. Every time a prediction is made on stage a drastic contradiction of it occurs immediately. Moreover each truth, enhanced by his expressive language, comes with a shock of revelation to both the real audience and to that on stage."
D182 Lugsdin, Nanci. "Critics, Huh!". Windsor Daily Star, 18 April 1964, p. 26.
"Davies' caricaturing...is deft and merciless." "Good entertainment...even on a Saturday night."
D183 Endicott, N. J. Rev. of A Masque of Mr. Punch. University of Toronto Quarterly, 33 (July 1964), 428-29.
"The masque has something of the 'demonic' quality Mr. Davies ascribes to Mr. Punch...[and] is very ingeniously and neatly inventive."
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D35 O'H[earn]., W[alter]. "New Davies Novel--Cinderella in London." The Montreal Star, 16 Aug. 1958, p. 24.
"In the Salterton chapters, the author displays the easy mastery of his material which reminds me of Trollope. This is no slight compliment." Yet, in contrast to Trollope, one senses "pity and concern behind the malicious wit." Regrettably, "most of the London narrative, which is so much of the book, is tinged uncomfortably by awe. Quite favourable.
D36 Dunnett, Mary. "Human Foibles and Frailties." The Globe and Mail, 23 Aug. 1958, p. 9.
This novel "has the Shavian wit and rapier thrust of his earlier works," but "little humor." The characters this time "are real red-blooded people. One can really believe that they live and breathe, and love and hate, and make all kinds of foolish mistakes."
D37 H., T. "Learning Things among the Heathen." Toronto Daily Star, 23 Aug. 1958, p. 26.
Davies "is a master of the quietly ludicrous overstatement and a knowledgeable satirist." In some instances in this novel, he has not avoided "a collision of moods fatal to both reader and author." But, "for enlightened ebullience...[the story] is unlikely to find competitors."
D38 Fuller, Edmund. "Money for Monica." New York Times Book Review, 31 Aug. 1958, p. 6.
"Davies is a polished stylist, sparklingly epigrammatic." "He is lavish with character and laughter, wise and perceptive about life and art, capable of touching the sorrowful as well." "A thoroughly rewarding writer with a fine new book."
D39 Hughes, Riley. Rev. of A Mixture of Frailties. Catholic World, 187 (Sept. 1958), 466.
"In a word, his style is grand, but his people are petty. Nonetheless this second novel by a Canadian writer is a considerable achievement." "He has a rare comic touch which suffers when mixed with melodrama and tragedy."
D40 Rev. of A Mixture of Frailties. New Yorker, 6 Sept. 1958, p. 119.
"The book belongs to the school of fiction that derives from Trollope by way of Angela Thirkell." It contains a straight forward plot firmly carried out in a conservative fashion. "In an odd way, it manages to be readable and amusing without being very interesting."
D41 Edinborough, Arnold. "Enriched with Humanity." Saturday Night, 13 Sept. 1958, pp. 29-31.
The book "is an adult novel," rooted in Victorian traditions of Dickens and Eliot, but clearly Canadian. In contrast to earlier works, "Davies no longer dissects his creatures," but "merely diagnoses them, sometimes by wickedly revealing spiritual X-rays." Also new is his fine description, especially the scenes in Wales. "But above all there is a humanity and wisdom which shines throughout the book." He has matured to produce "a first-rate comic novel."
D42 Hambleton, Ronald. Critically Speaking. CBC, 14 Sept. 1958. (30 min.)
A review of A Mixture of Frailties and Sinclair Ross's The Well.
A Mixture of Frailties contains "the charming fairy-tale of Pygmalion and Galatea." Yet, in contrast to Ross's book, A Mixture of Frailties does not have the "human pulse" running through it. "It is the progress of the soul, rather than of the person." Yet the book is "quite alive, indeed lively." An ambivalent final regard for the book.
D43 Du Bois, William. "Books of the Times." New York Times, 20 Sept. 1958, p. 17.
"Mr. Davies' book is a better spoof than a novel. It is impudent, amused and amusing, and sterling entertainment for most of the distance." However, "the Pygmalion story...must develop from within--and Mr. Davies seldom gets to the bottom of his characters." Recommended with reservations.
D44 Thistle, Lauretta. "A Mixture of Frailties." The Citizen [Ottawa], 27 Sept. 1958, p. 20.
"His plot...is worked out skilfully." "But it is Marchbanks the sly commentator...whom most of us will seek out in these pages." "We really don't know where Marchbanks leaves off and Mr. Davies begins. But if our diarist had to be swallowed up, it was in the cause of a very entertaining novel."
D45 Nicholson, Geoffrey. "Goodbye to New York." Spectator, 28 Nov. 1958, p. 787.
"The book makes a dummy run in the direction of [a] contrived farce...which sets its characters the task of fulfilling...an outrageous will." Then it settles down to the making of a singer. "The real trouble with the book is that after two false starts and frequent changes in tone, you are never sure how seriously Monica is to be regarded."
D46 Dooley, D. J. "A Mixture of Frailties." Dalhousie Review, 38 (Winter 1959), 531, 533.
"The novel's theme is...the metamorphosis of physical man into spiritual man." "Monica succeeds where...[Giles fails]. So does Solly Bridgetower." The change in tone in the novel from comic to almost tragic causes difficulties, as does the too radical difference between Monica and her mother, the "dull spots," and the "places where he has to convey a sense of mystery by the use of question marks." "A very good book...though it does not succeed in everything it attempts."
D47 Kirkwood, Hilda. "A Mixture of Frailties." The Canadian Forum, Jan. 1959, pp. 237-38.
The powerful personality of Revelstoke "makes his tragedy too real for the rest of the story to bear. The comic spirit is never regained after his debacle." "This is Mr. Davies' best novel to date, though not without a certain unaccountable stiffness and its occasional dull patches."
D48 Shrapnel, Norman. Rev. of A Mixture of Frailties. The Guardian [Manchester], 9 Jan. 1959, p. 6.
"A sincere comedy about the training of a singer and her discovery...out of bed as well as in it, of a personal integrity. This writer is a shade naive and works in an overworn convention, but he knows his background and has given us a most entertaining and by no means trivial book."
D49 Bissell, Claude T. Rev. of A Mixture of Frailties. University of Toronto Quarterly, 28 (July 1959), 370-71.
This book "is really his first serious novel." Monica's transformation is a bit weak and unconvincing; "fundamentally...she remains a commonplace little girl." Nevertheless, the book "is alive with phrases of delightful aptness," and is "a source of pleasure."
D49a Park, Clara Claiborne. "Fiction Chronicle." Hudson Review, 32, No. 4 (Winter 1979-80), 578-80.
This book "belongs to that attractive archetype, the Cinderella tale." Davies is a lively writer who knows so much about vocal literature and performance that Monica's musical education turns out more entertaining than the way she gets to her happy ending." The book "deserves a better production than Everest House has given it"--at least fifty typographical errors, including "words omitted and even added."
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D132 "Comedy by Davies on Rebellion Days." Toronto Daily Star, 25 Nov. 1950, p. 18.
"Quite the smoothest and most skillfully handled drama to come from Peterborough's already practised playwright."
D133 Taylor, Beatrice. "'Heart's Core.'" London Free Press, 29 Nov. 1950, p. 4.
"Mr. Davies wisely selects, or concocts, only one premise for this play. He touches the thing that lay, or must have lain, at the heart's core of every pioneer, homesickness and disappointment." "At a glance [the play] looks produceable, though it has conflict and no climax. As a character study it is close-knit and intelligent. It is talkative, but the talk is witty, vigorous and natural."
D134 "Local Ladies in the Bush." Toronto Telegram, 2 Dec. 1950, p. 33.
"The play reads very well, indeed; in fact one suspects it may read better than it acts, for...the element of dramatic suspense is shoved aside in favor of dramatic argument." Nevertheless, "there is no doubt that Robertson Davies knows better than most other Canadian dramatists how to put a play together."
D135 Pavill, S. "Robertson Davies' New Play Set in Canadian Backwoods." The Montreal Star, 2 Dec. 1950, p. 25.
A tame but positive review. The dialogue "ought to provide many stimulating and highly diverting moments on stage."
D136 "The Arts and Humanities." The Edmonton Journal, 9 Dec. 1950, p. 4.
A brief, favourable review. Davies "fully upholds his reputation."
D137 Wood, Christopher. "Davies' New Play." The Gazette [Montreal], 16 Dec. 1950, p. 27.
"It is becoming increasingly evident that Robertson Davies is by far the most competent literary craftsman currently operating in Canada." In At My Heart's Core, he displays "deftness" of plot and "beautiful proportion and balance" in the speeches. Not a great play, but a delicate theme handled with masterful "wit and stage clarity."
D138 Whittaker, Herbert. "At My Heart's Core." Theatre Canada, 1, No. 1 (Jan.-Feb. 1951), 16-17.
The play "is both wise and witty." "Although he has given this story to hold us dramatically Mr. Davies has also given us plenty of the observations of wisdom on the state of cultural life here in Canada, which...just conceivably might apply to the present day."
D139 Bonenfant, Jean-Charles. "Au Plus Profond de Mon Coeur." La Revue de l'Universite Laval, 5 (Feb. 1951), 559-61.
After a discussion of Davies' multi-faceted background, Bonenfant turns to the play. The temptations are well enough expressed, even if they seem a little too systematic, and the devil a bit overly persistent about his own diabolical character. The crowd of amusing incidents sometimes slows the action. However, they do not muss the picturesque and the creative atmosphere. Despite its flaws--too long and a bit disjointed --the play is interesting and lucky. It points out that one can successfully develop universal themes in a Canadian historical context.
D140 D., D. J. "At My Heart's Core." Magazine [Vancouver Province], 17 Feb. 1951, p. 6.
The play, his "finest," is witty, "funny, satirical and original," and contains "a plot both universal and timeless." "A strong play, well plotted."
D141 Kirkwood, H. T. "At My Heart's Core." The Canadian Forum, March 1951, pp. 285-86.
"As far as we know" the play "constitutes our entire out-put of dramatic literature for 1950." It "reads very smoothly," but displays some weakness in the roles and dialogue of Mrs. Traill and Mrs. Moodie --they are "repetitious" and too similar. "Its comedy is of a high order, its serious theme perhaps a little overworked, its conclusion both graceful and charming."
D142 Graham, Kathleen. "This Week I Read." Regina Leader-Post, 31 March 1951, p. 6.
"A skillful combination of competent writing and good theatre. Mr. Davies has the rare quality of being subtle without sounding abstruse," especially in his humour and satire, yet balances this with some "rude humour...in the boisterous subplot."
D143 Tovell, Vincent. Rev. of At My Heart's Core. University of Toronto Quarterly, 20 (April 1951), 274-75.
The "main plot is frankly contrived to make... [the] point" that "our ancestors experienced intense emotional and spiritual torments in the loneliness of the new land." Nevertheless, the subplots are "uproarious." The main charm lies in the dialogue, "which is literate and very polished."
D144 Stobie, Margaret. "A Canadian Frontier Play:" Winnipeg Free Press, 12 May 1951, p. 22.
Excellent fare for any dramatic group in Canada. "The pace is quick, the action well-developed, and the mood varied." "Each of the eight characters is a joy to an actor's heart." Only the denouement shows dramatic weakness, in that "Mrs. Moodie's release is too pat...and Cantwell's motive for his piercing unkindness is too contrived. Yet the lack of a "triumphant conclusion" is inherent in the problem the play poses, since there is no solution to Mrs. Traill's "'frustration of the mind.'"
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D118 "Ontario Playwright Offers One-Acters." Toronto Daily Star, 9 April 1949, p. 12.
"Of these comedies, all with satiric or ironic implications, 'Overlaid' seems the one likely to have the widest appeal."
D119 W., B. "Five Canadian Plays Tilt at Cultural Deficiencies." Ottawa Journal, 9 April 1949, p. 9.
Quite favourable. The "five plays are all good, all written by a Canadian, each with an unmistakably Canadian flavour." In each, Davies "gets across his idea of Canada's cultural aridity."
D120 Deacon, William Arthur. "Bright, Brief Comedies." The Globe and Mail, 23 April 1949, p. 12.
"Mr. Davies has originality and the light touch and variety; he is clever." The plays have "sterling quality." Both Overlaid and The Voice of the People "are slight and tend to the commonplace." Eros at Breakfast, an "ingenious contrivance,...is brilliantly conceived and appears capable of expansion." "Equally fascinating is 'Hope Deferred,'...a fine bit of atmosphere, a genuine conflict between church and state"--"a first rate play, the pity it isn't longer."
D121 Sandwell, B.K. "Bibliography of Play and Ballet Grows with Upswing of Interest." Saturday Night, 24 May 1949, pp. 24, 37.
"'At the Gates of the Righteous'...owes much to Bernard Shaw,...and its events are a little too preposterous for easy acceptance." "The title play and 'Overlaid'...are the product of a richly fertile fancy linked with a very able technique. 'The Voice of the People' is a very slight bit of funning about rural characters 'writing to the papers.'" "The most important play of the lot... is 'Hope Deferred.'"
D122 Tovell, Vincent. Rev. of Eros at Breakfast and Other Plays. University of Toronto Quarterly, 19 (April 1950), 279-80.
Eros at Breakfast "is a hilarious and fanciful diversion,...colourful, gay, and quite indescribable." "'Overlaid' is perhaps better. Beneath its surface comedy there is a deeper humour that is sad."
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D50 Rev. of Fifth Business. Kirkus Reviews, 15 Sept. 1970, p. 1061.
"Mr. Davies' first novel in some years again attests to certain virtues: a quiet humor; a scrupulousness of observation; a civilized overview; but regretfully the unlived life, however well-examined, is not very interesting and all this 'moral bookeeping' leaves a faint net figure."
D51 French, William. "Magical Tweaks in an Uncumber World." The Globe Magazine [The Globe and Mail], 7 Nov. 1970, p. 19.
"Davies' subject is nothing less than Good and Evil, guilt, atonement and redemption, obligation and moral responsibility, the need for some belief in mysticism--whether religious or pagan--all set against the background of Calvinism in a small southwestern Ontario town." "Davies seems to be saying that in this hard-eyed world of materialism we could all benefit from some exposure to saints, mystery, compassion, outside the rigorous dogma of organized religion."
D52 "Two Home-Grown Novels Come Highly Recommended." The Montreal Star, 21 Nov. 1970, p. 21.
Fifth Business "is a profound, erudite, vigorous confession--a storehouse of brilliance and unpretentious sagacity," conveyed "with prodigious cunning, and nobility of style."
D53 Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher. "A Magical Mystery Fiction." New York Times, 23 Nov. 1970, p. 35.
"Mr. Davies' novel replays itself as a Freudian dream, or a Jungian myth." Yet, "if 'Fifth Business' freezes the primal drama of father, mother and son, it also re-enacts the myths of Man, Christ and Devil, and Father, Son and Holy Ghost." "Everything that happens twists on hinges of irony." "A marvellously enigmatic novel, then, elegantly written and driven by irresistible narrative force."
D54 Owen, I. M. "Guilt and Sainthood." Saturday Night, 6 Dec. 1970, pp. 35-36.
The author "stands curiously apart from the main stream of contemporary fiction. This precludes his receiving much serious critical attention. But it needn't, and shouldn't keep serious readers away from a lively, quirky, original, intelligent novel."
D55 Davis, L. J. "From Canada Comes a Master of the Novel." Book World, 13 Dec. 1970, p. 1.
"It is a mature, accomplished and altogether remarkable book, one of the best of this or any other season, and it simply cannot be ignored." "Beginning with a superb, nostalgic evocation of life in a small Ontario village just after the turn of the century, the book evolves by almost imperceptible degrees into a profound fictional exploration of myth, illusion and the nature of sainthood." "At its deepest, it is a work of theological fiction that approaches Graham Greene at the top of his form."
D56 Oleson, Tom. "Clever Artifice." Winnipeg Free Press, 19 Dec. 1970, Sec. New Leisure, p. 11.
"Mr. Davies snaffles and curbs with the best of them but...the horse is hard to find." "The book is rather pedestrian...[for it] has nothing to say." His characterizations are all "plastic stereotypes" and have "not a breath of life in them." "When this saga of a snowball winds up, we are left with not much more than a puddle of water."
D57 Levin, Martin. Rev. of Fifth Business. New York Times Book Review, 20 Dec. 1970, p. 17.
"Robertson Davies's characters have too sparse an identity beyond their obsessive quirks and allusions. And a novel, covering 60 years in the form of a 300-page letter, suffers for want of dramatic tension."
D58 O'Hara, J. D. Rev. of Fifth Business. Saturday Review, 26 Dec. 1970, pp. 25-26.
The book is "free from gimmicks and tricks;...full of the art that conceals itself." The plot "seems rather loosely basted together by improbabilities and coincidence--until you realize that the story itself, no mere realism, is blending history and myth." The narrator, Dunstan Ramsay, is "a pleasure to listen to. He has a gentle sarcastic sense of humor." "He knows a lot about life, including his own, and says what he knows...tersely, quietly and unostentatiously." "You should read Fifth Business, even if you have to buy it."
D59 Rev. of Fifth Business. New Yorker, 26 Dec. 1970, p. 63.
Davies shuffles his stories like "a very unusual card-sharp, with pity in his eyes and irony in his hands." The many characters make up "a Dickensian stream of natural, surprising people who have their few moments on Mr. Davies' moving style. This is elegant entertainment: soundly original, a really good novel.
D60 Maddocks, Melvin. "Pure Unrelatedness." Christian Science Monitor, Eastern Ed., 31 Dec. 1970, p. 5.
The novel "manages at the same time to be witty and mystical." "Fifth Business is a new variation on antihero."
D61 Dobbs, Kildare. "Fifth Business." The Tamarack Review, No. 57 (1971), pp. 76-80.
"At its core,...the novel is a brilliant staging of the WASP imperial myth,...looking back to a time when empire was the fount of authenticity." But "the question of authenticity becomes existential and private. The issue of public certification is evaded, and one is left with the uncomfortable feeling that it is, after all, snobbery that decides these matters." "In the end it is...[Ramsay] himself who is the victim of his own illusion."
D62 Skow, John. "Solitary Voyage." Time, 11 Jan. 1971, p. 72; Time [Canada], 11 Jan. 1971, p. 64.
The story "is wholly absorbing, and leads Ramsay to comprehensions of his own nature--which is not saintly." The author's "perceptions are wry and tough." His "minor characters...are excellent. His work...deserves to be known better."
D63 S., A. S. "Snowball of Destiny." Newsweek, 18 Jan. 1971, pp. 74-75.
Davies, as a Canadian from a small town, "knows his subject,...and he has the additional advantage of knowing how to turn out impeccable sentences and a cracking good yarn." "What raises the book from the level of conventional competence...is Davies' fascination with the exotic and the occult."
D64 Maddocks, Melvin. "Reviewer's Choice." Life, 12 Feb. 1971, p. 6.
"The Canadian novelist Robertson Davies brilliantly indulges his sardonic taste for ambivalent crime and equally ambivalent punishment."
D65 Senter, James. "Fifth Business Is Fine Reading." Winnipeg Tribune, 27 Feb. 1971, p. 18.
"It is a great book." "Canadians need never look to the rest of the world for good fiction. We have the best right here." A somewhat glibly keen review.
D66 Gordon, Michael. "Rave Review." Industrial Canada, 71, No. 11 (March 1971), 8, 10. Rpt. (revised) in The Atlantic Advocate, 61, No. 8 (April 1971), 59-60.
Davies "has produced the finest novel in the history of Canadian letters." The book "is beautifully structured, and so skillfuly told that the reader is held in a state of enchanted suspense up to the last page."
D67 Montagnes, Anne. Rev. of Fifth Business. The Canadian Forum, March 1971, pp. 443-44.
"The necessity of its episodic structure is not immediately apparent, the suspense is occasionally a trifle dry and some of the internal parallels remain quiddities." "And why oh why, dear schoolmaster,...must you still locate the simian androgyny and the big spiritual adventure outside Canada?"
D68 Cameron, Elspeth. Rev. of Fifth Business. Queen's Quarterly, 78 (Spring 1971), 139-40.
In Fifth Business, Dunstan Ramsay's "antics allow Davies a freedom of plot manipulation that would be worthy of a good detective story." "However, the chief flaw of the novel...lies in its point of view." Deeper and more complex irony could have underscored the futility of heroism. Instead, Davies asks us to look up to the too smug Ramsay and admire "the speculative over the active man."
D69 Sullivan, Mary. "At the Lyle." Listener, 15 April 1971, p. 490.
"Fifth Business is a curious novel by a distinguished Canadian author." "The novel gives the impression of spanning a real lifetime, full of dry note-takings--a very interesting oddity."
D70 Hall, W. F. "The Real and the Marvellous." Canadian Literature, No. 49 (Summer 1971), pp. 80-81.
"The strength of the novel lies in its projection of Ramsay's self and in that of a number of other characters...all of whom inhabit psychically...the border areas between the real and the marvellous." Another strength consists of the isolated comic scenes. The major weakness lies in "the patterns of incident and action"; they "appear arbitrary and unconvincing" as "real" events. In the end, Davies "does not succeed completely in projecting 'the marvellous [as]...indeed an aspect of the real'" because of the "fascinating difficulty" of doing this.
D71 Roper, Gordon. Rev. of Fifth Business. University of Toronto Quarterly, 40 (Summer 1971), 387.
"Of all the fictions published in 1970, Robertson Davies' Fifth Business...and Dave Godfrey's The New Ancestors...are the books which reveal, each in its own unique way, the highest power of sustained imagination and the surest exercise of a complex art to express that imagination."
D72 MacSween, R. J. Rev. of Fifth Business. Antigonish Review, No. 7 (Autumn 1971), pp. 114-15.
The book "is a solid piece of work with a devilish streak running through it." It "deals primarily with the subject of holiness," first in the person of Mary Dempster and later in the intellect of Padre Blazon, who "is a fine creation and in a way...redeems the book from the ordinary, the curse of many Canadian novels."
D73 Cockburn, Robert. "Northern Wizardry." The Fiddlehead, No. 88 (Winter 1971), pp. 109-10.
The novel is "one of the very best ever written in this country." Thematically, the novel "is a work of Illusion and Reality. Hardly anything--at the end, not even the magic itself--is what it seems." It is also a book of ideas "about war, politics and economics as well as about the nature of Calvinism and sainthood and thaumaturgy." Perhaps most important, "it is movingly compassionate."
D74 Marcus, Greil. "The Stone in the Snowball." Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 1977, p. 85.
"Fast moving, sparkled by wicked humor, at times saddening and bitter, the novel is based in the idea that whole lives are founded in small, seemingly trivial childhood incidents--such as the toss of a snowball."
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D123 Tovell, Vincent. Rev. of Fortune, My Foe. University of Toronto Quarterly, 18 (April 1949), 276.
Davies' thesis "may have local support; but an this play he has not presented it through credible characters in genuinely dramatic situations." His "bright talk" is mainly confined to "questionable and unilluminating generalities."
D124 "A Davies Play." The Globe and Mail, 5 Nov. 1949, p. 8.
"It is a rare pleasure to read a full-length Canadian play that is clever and well put together." G. B. Shaw's influence surfaces in Davies' dependence on dialogue, his emphasis on current ideas, and his wit. The play satirizes without falling into farce, and neatly "sums up a whole flock of truths including the morose earnestness of the Canadian soul." "Not a dramatic masterpiece; but...first-rate entertainment."
D125 T., F. B. "Davies Play Needs Cast; 'Less Compact' as Book." London Free Press, 19 Nov. 1949, p. 5.
"It has moments of wit and brilliance, but Mr. Davies' satire is not always of the rapier quality." "He tilts at his windmills with weighty if logical rhetoric, and he tilts at too many at a time. Some of the characterizations, especially of the women, are forced."
D126 Dewar, John A. "Fortune, My Foe." The Canadian Forum, Dec. 1949, p. 214.
The play is "unusual and interesting," but contains "definite defects," among them three stereotyped characters who become "wooden" and "irritating caricature" as Davies chastizes the loss of talented young Canadians to the United States.
D127 Swanson, Jean. "A Satirist's Searchlight on Cultural Canada." Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, 3 Dec. 1949, p. 7.
This article reviews the successes of the play and then comments that Davies as a writer is more Canadian than most because "the quality of Canadianism today is better revealed through satire than through serious interpretation, and Mr. Davies is a clever satirist." The play "is as provocative when it is read as when it is acted, although not nearly so much fun."
D128 G., W. "Book Review: Fortune My Foe." The Varsity [Univ. of Toronto], 8 Dec. 1949.
It "is a good play, but it is not soul-shaking." The theme is not original, and Davies offers no solution to the southward migration of Canadian talent.
D129 "Leaving Canada?". Canadian Author & Bookman, 25, No. 4 (Christmas 1949), 34.
This is "one of the few printed full-length plays to give the actors of the multiplying Canadian theatres something Canadian to act. It is a good play in theme, dialogue and character, faintly reminiscent of Shaw both in its talky nature and in its wit."
D130 "Herald Book Reviews." The Calgary Herald, 21 Jan. 1950, p. 4.
"Mr. Davies tackles a timely Canadian problem and the result is a combination of sound and original thinking, good writing and exciting theatre." By not giving a solution to Canada's "brain-drain," Davies "leaves the reader...to do some constructive thinking for himself." Authentic Canadian characters throughout.
D131 O'Hearn, Walter. "Toasted Ontario." The Montreal Star, 13 Feb. 1958, p. 18.
O'Hearn comments on the Trinity production of the play. "Robertson Davies has taken a university town...and toasted it, lightly on one side, crisply on the other." "Some of this is very shrewd, and a little of it is very funny, and one scene...has a sort of mad beauty." But "Mr. Davies was so busy with his toasting fork that he didn't really pause to build a sound play."
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D184 Dafoe, Christopher. "Three Plays Suffer Undeserved Neglect." The Vancouver Sun, 20 Oct. 1972, p. 35A.
"One is chagrined to learn that...only one of these plays has been given a proper professional production"--in 1955. "Here are three crisply written, elegant and intelligent comedies." "All have interesting and arresting themes and display the playwright's impressive dramatic capacities"--"full of magic, imagination and bounding wit."
D185 Scott, Chris. "The Merlin of Massey College." Books in Canada, Nov.-Dec. 1972, pp. 1-2.
The plays "are by degrees amusing, profound, and eminently performable." This collection and The Manticore "can only enhance Davies' reputation as the foremost man of letters in English Canada."
D186 Morgan, William. "Novelist as Playwright." Winnipeg Free Press, 30 Dec. 1972, Sec. New Leisure, p. 21.
"All three plays are oldies...and there's no sign of any special relevance to today that might justify their disinterment from that gone and best forgotten postwar period of workmanlike but less than inspired English drama." They "take the form of teachy [sic] fantasy" and are generally "undistinguished." "Save [your money] to buy his next novel."
D187 Gordon, Jocelyn. Rev. of Hunting Stuart and Other Plays. The Canadian Forum, Feb. 1973, pp. 44-45.
The plays "reward some study--not much, but some. And they make faintly diverting bedside reading." In the end, Davies' "truisms are much more impressively and entertainingly said in his novels than in these plays."
D188 Elliott, John K. "With Magic Mix." London Free Press, 3 March 1973, p. 25.
"All are historical in theme and mix in magic, with which the author is obviously enthralled," and "all the plays have some good lines and interesting, if not credible development."
D189 Mullaly, Edward. "Robertson Davies' 'Other' Plays." The Fiddlehead, No. 97 (Spring 1973), pp. 111-12.
The three plays "taken collectively, tend to stand as three examples of why Canadian theatre hasn't been even mildly exciting until much more recently."
D190 Whitehead, Graham. Rev. of Hunting Stuart and Other Plays. The Dalhousie Review, 53 (Spring 1973), 165-67.
In Hunting Stuart, "the plot is generally silly, without being particularly entertaining." King Phoenix, "more than a mixture of myth and history," is "uneven." In General Confession, "the language of the play matches and compliments the flamboyance of the character and situation"; Whitehead hopes to see it "given the professional production it deserves."
D191 Rudzik, O. H. T. Rev. of Hunting Stuart and Other Plays. University of Toronto Quarterly, 42 (Summer 1973), 344.
In each of the plays there are "central figures who cross the thin lines that supposedly keep history from encroachment upon by legend." Unimpressed.
D192 Noonan, James. Rev. of Hunting Stuart and Other Plays. Queen's Quarterly, 80 (Autumn 1973), 466-68. "Their wit, satire, farce, scintillating dialogue and good sense remind us that Davies is the Bernard Shaw of the Canadian theatre, though he does not share Shaw's passion for social reform." In Hunting Stuart, "Davies makes an ironic statement about contentment with one's lot in life." General Confession displays an "overly neat structure and...[a] preponderance of discussion over action...[which] make it the least successful of the three plays."
D193 Atherton, Stanley S. "Magic Is Alive." Lakehead University Review, 6, No. 2 (Fall-Winter 1973), 265-68.
The underlying thesis in Hunting Stuart, "that dabbling in magic can offer illuminating perspectives on ordinary reality, is deliberately understated; the fun is paramount." In the plays, generally, the magic "is merely sophisticated gimmickery, a means to an end." "They remain simply curiosa on the printed page, interesting experiments with the literary possibilities of magic."
D194 New, William H. "Lives of Ghosts and Lovers." Canadian Literature, No. 59 (Winter 1974), pp. 104-06.
"The European settings...serve not as escapes from the present into a romantic, ordered, noble past..., but as frameworks in which to explore the interpenetration between a world bounded by time and a world fed by vision." Critically, Hunting Stuart is the "wittiest," and "sparkles." King Phoenix sports one-liners that "detract from the play's tonal integrity," and the women in General Confession are "so preoccupied with being Anima that they seem too abstract to give substance to the wit or real psychological tension to the play."
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D18 Kervin, Roy. "Tempest in Salterton." The Gazette [Montreal], 25 Sept. 1954, p. 30.
"Its quiet humor occasionally bursts into loud hilarity. It is dotted with candid, yet sympathetic observations." "The novel is well-constructed and leads up entertainingly to a well-knit trial scene full of sharp legal fencing and vindication." "A lightweight novel, but amusing all the way."
D19 McGeary, W. L. "'Leaven of Malice' Hits Editor and College Don." Toronto Daily Star, 25 Sept. 1954, p. 4.
The book is "a witty and urbane production." It will appeal to a "far wider audience [than Tempest-Tost], offering as it does an ingenious, plausible and suspenseful story, crowded with sharply etched characters and reflecting the wide education and observation of the author"--"engrossing from opening prank to final curtain."
D20 Walker, Joan. "Robertson Davies' Novel Is Delicately Malicious." The Globe and Mail, 2 Oct. 1954, p. 23.
"Leaven of Malice is leaven of sheer delight." "This reviewer could cheerfully have tackled a further 312 pages...and felt no pain whatsoever."
D21 Edinborough, Arnold. "Two Private Visions of a Crazy World." Saturday Night, 23 Oct. 1954, pp. 18-19.
The book's chief asset is its range of characters, who are "larger than life"--especially Cobbler and Dean Knapp. Apart from the Dean, Davies conveys a Samuel Marchbanks vision in which he "strips away pretence and humbug with all the gusto that one could wish for." Yet "there needs to be something human left, something a little warmer than the happy ending." "It is this something that is missing In Leaven of Malice." Nevertheless, "a first-rate farce."
D22 Lunn, Janet. Rev. of Leaven of Malice. Peterborough Examiner, 23 Oct. 1954, p. 4.
"The book is an expertly written satire on life in a Canadian university city." Cobbler "is the most delightful [character]," and provides some hilarious scenes. At the end, "one is left with the same feeling that comes from a fine comic opera. The story was nothing but the music was wonderful."
D23 Ross, Malcolm. Critically Speaking. CBW [Winnipeg], 14 Nov. 1954. (30 min.)
Ross reviews Leaven of Malice and Ethel Wilson's Swamp Angel.
"Mr. Davies aims lower than Mrs. Wilson, but his aim is true." Leaven of Malice "is a beautifully plotted piece." The trivial motive "is precisely the author's point--the ironic distance between the pettiness of the motive and the incredible, unpredictable consequences once the leaven of malice is mixed in the lump." The dominant note, admirably controlled, is "the iron and enduring compassion of the Anglican Prayer Book from which Mr. Davies has derived not only his title but also, I think, his temper."
D24 Nicol, Eric. "Leaven of Malice." Vancouver Province, 27 Nov. 1954, p. 15.
The new novel "contains a good number of funny moments, yet somehow the author never quite gets the chill off his humor. The result is a comedy of manners rather than of life, though deftly written for all that.... When so much...is sharp and entertaining, one cannot help feeling that the dull bits would not have been there if he had gotten to know his people a little better."
D25 Kirkwood, Hilda. "Leaven of Malice." The Canadian Forum, Jan. 1955, pp. 238-39.
"A comedy of manners rich in wit and character, if perhaps a little thin in atmosphere" and lacking cohesion. Though the novel is set in an Ontario town, "Davies more than other Canadian writers manages to ignore the Great Outdoors" while mining "rich veins of satire."
D26 "Ducks and Drakes." Times [London], 17 Feb. 1955, p. 11.
"It is remarkable how much Salterton...resembles an English provincial city, and how far it is from Main Street. This makes for easy and sympathetic reading." Davies "is an unsparing satirist, and has a deeper understanding of human behaviour and suffering than appears on the surface of this amusing book."
D27 Metcalf, John. Rev. of Leaven of Malice. Spectator, 4 March 1955, p. 266.
"The parts of it dovetail with professional smoothness; the characters are neatly and carefully carved; the construction is all common sense" and "there is a curiously nineteenth-century feel to Mr. Davies' writing, as though Leaven of Malice was a poor Canadian's Middlemarch.... It is to Mr. Davies' credit that he should...[hint at] the feeling of that straddling, three-dimensional solidity."
D28 "News and Views." Times Literary Supplement, 11 March 1955, p. 145.
"The early part is little more than a humorist essay on the running of a provincial newspaper." Hence, "Mr. Davies would have done well to prune his book more carefully, yet little harm is done." His "work always carries an attractive heart-warming quality." "A delightful gift of dry humour...[and] a sharp eye for oddity of character."
D29 Bissell, Claude T. Rev. of Leaven of Malice. University of Toronto Quarterly, 24 (April 1955), 264-67.
Ever present as narrator, Davies "is in the tradition of E. M. Forster and most of the Victorians." In his satire, "he is not overwhelmingly exercised about any big central issue." Consequently, he "has no real protagonist; the hero of the book is the gay, disinterested mind." "The characters are certainly far too articulate to be recognizable as good Canadians. And yet it is clear that this novel could not have been written outside of Canada." The result is "delightful."
D30 Keate, Stuart. "The Date Was Nov. 31." New York Times Book Review, 10 July 1955, p. 6.
"Robertson Davies has introduced his readers to as choice a dossier of cranks as ever harassed a small-town editor." "It may be that he has built his classified ad into a summer headline, and filled his columns with too many lower-case eccentrics, but his writing is full of zest, wit, and urbanity. The leaven of malice grows, and swells and sooner or later touches all of us."
D31 Prescott, Orville. "Book of The Times." New York Times, 13 July 1955, p. 23.
"This immensely amusing novel is comic only in the sense that it is light, clever, entertaining, satirical and not a bit serious." In fact, "Salterton is much too amusing a place to be disposed of in only one book."
D32 Fuller, Edmund. "The Stirring and the Swelling." Saturday Review, 30 July 1955, p. 15.
"One of the funniest, shrewdest, wittiest, and withal wisest novels to come along in recent seasons." "Mr. Davies establishes himself as a first-class satirist. His story entertains highly, touches the unmistakably grim at moments, and illuminates the human heart."
D33 Rev. of Leaven of Malice. New Yorker, 3 Sept. 1955, p. 70.
"Salterton is a diverting place, and Mr. Davies is a clever writer, but his characters don't seem to be sunk quite deeply enough in hypocrisy or any other evil to deserve the sharpness of attack he launches against them."
D34 Cooperman, Stanley. Rev. of Leaven of Malice. The Nation, 10 Sept. 1955, p. 230.
"Some very funny moments and effective caricature."
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D117a Tovell, Vincent. Rev. of Overlaid. University of Toronto Quarterly, 18 (April 1949), 275.
Tovell notes "a slight comedy by Robertson Davies,...a romantic tale."
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D1 "Robertson Davies' First Novel Satirizes Little Theatre Folk." Toronto Daily Star, 6 Oct. 1951, p. 27.
"The novel's keynote of airy artificiality is struck on the first page." The book "is an exercise in puckish persiflage studded with shrewd apercus and witty aphorisms and tricked out in esoteric and sometimes epicene dialogue."
D2 Swanson, Jean. "Davies' Debut as a Novelist." Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, 13 Oct. 1951, p. 17.
"The novel suffers because it can't be pure Davies, and yet there is too much of Davies in it for the structure of the novel." "More madcap scenes" and "less comment" would have "improved the novel considerably."
D3 Rodriguez, J. S. "Ariel Frolics in Canada." The Gazette [Montreal], 13 Oct. 1951, p. 26.
"Over it all, in the very spirit of Shakespeare's comedies, is a love story, light and fantastic, but with a touch of pathos." A "gay new novel" of high comedy, "with just a spice of satire to give it savor."
D4 Keefer, Claire. "Novel of the Week." The Ottawa Journal, 20 Oct. 1951, p. 17.
"It is an hilariously funny book," but also more. In the "gallery of portraits" in Tempest-Tost, the characters "are fully realized, completely authentic human beings though often rescued just in the nick of time from absurdity and caricature."
D5 Sandwell, B. K. "Civilized View of Canada." Saturday Night, 27 Oct. 1951, pp. 4-5.
Sandwell types Davies as "the Canadian Smollett" in that he tends towards caricature, breeziness of style, and frank recognition of the animal aspects of human nature. "The suicide attempt is a severe strain upon the reader's credulity," but allowable from a "picaresque novelist." Perhaps most important, the novel "shows very rich people, medium people and rather poor people rubbing shoulders together with scarcely any consciousness of their economic status--a state of things which actually happens quite often in Canada but which novelists have hitherto been afraid to recognize."
D6 Paynter, Simon. "Tempest-Tost." The Canadian Forum, Nov. 1951, pp. 187-88.
"Mr. Davies has...[created characters] with a versatility we had no particular reason to expect from him." Furthermore, "there is no page without laughter in this ridiculously good first novel." The conclusion is unsatisfactory, but this flaw "is of little importance"--"a remarkable achievement."
D7 Deacon, William Arthur. "Little Theatre Produces Play." The Globe and Mail, 24 Nov. 1951, p. 11.
Somewhat unfavourable. "Mr. Davies has solved all difficulties of plot and character development by failing to have any solid core to his amusing but uncoordinated story." The relationship of his characters is as accidental as the relationship of Thornton Wilder's characters in The Bridge of San Louis Rey." "A little inconsequential fun over common human failings."
D8 "Stage-Struck." Canadian Business, Dec. 1951, pp. 54-55.
"The novel's main weakness is that it is a collection of episodes, not a well-motivated story. But the characters are amusing, the setting authentic, and the wit pervasive. It makes entertaining reading."
D9 Bonenfant, Jean-Charles. "Ballotes par la Tempete." La Revue de l'Universite Laval, 6 (jan. 1952), 400-01.
After a preamble dealing with Davies' life, Bonenfant concentrates on the novel, which he finds humorous and underscored by a profound psychology. Davies' description of Salterton echoes Sinclair Lewis. The novel as a whole can be compared to the best works of its kind in the United States and England.
D10 Grant, Donald. "Robertson Davies' Conversation Piece." Mayfair, Jan. 1952, pp. 9, 12.
The conversations in the dialogue are "excellent" though at times "loquacious"; the plot is fragmented and hence disconnected. "The chief delight of the book is the author himself"--"urbane and lucid" in his commentary on character and event. Quite a lengthy review.
D11 Clarke, G. H. "The Little Theatre in Salterton." Queen's Quarterly, 59 (Spring 1952), 138-40.
A very favourable review. "Mr. Davies' humour is now arch and now sage, but always genial." The characters "are credible people with identifiable faces, voices and even fingerprints who are true to their own patterns."
D12 Bissell, Claude T. Rev. of Tempest-Tost. University of Toronto Quarterly, 21 (April 1952), 265-66.
"Hector and his desperate love are a little out of place in a novel that aims at an effect of light, satirical comedy." They lack comic spirit. However, "the novel is a refreshing departure from the studied realism that so far has characterized our best fiction."
D13 McLaughlin, Richard. Rev. of Tempest-Tost. Theatre Arts, 36 (May 1952), 6-7.
"In Robertson Davies' extremely funny novel,... the small urbane Canadian town of Salterton is all but put on its ear." Davies points out the people's "idiosyncracies, their crotchety humors and individual prejudices so that we never forget them."
D14 Bloomfield, Paul. "New Novels." The Guardian [Manchester], 4 July 1952, p. 4.
A mediocre review. The book is "Robertson Davies' story about a performance of 'The Tempest' by an amateur dramatic society. Such performances, like committee meetings, are convenient pegs for characterization.
D15 Lenkeith, Nancy. "School-Play." New York Times Book Review, 13 July 1952, p. 17.
Davies "manages to include in his first novel all the possible ingredients of a dull amateur theatrical." "One wishes that a few of the characters could be recast in a mold firmly set by Mrs. Angela Thirkell." Unfavourable.
D16 "Beneath the Surface." Times Literary Supplement, 18 July 1952, p. 465.
Davies' "pleasant little farce...would not be out of place in the setting of an English village." He "has a good deal of wit; he writes easily and makes his tale last to the end of the book without spinning it out too noticeably."
D17 Havighurst, Walter. Rev. of Tempest-Tost. Saturday Review, 23 Aug. 1952, p. 36.
Moderately favourable. "Mackilwraith is something of a stereotype" as the story's "central and not very substantial figure." Other characters "are authentic people, each with a past, present, and an uncertain future."
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D75 French, William. "Magical Davies." The Globe and Mail, 19 Oct. 1972, p. 15.
"If Fifth Business was about guilt and redemption, and told us more about saints than we'll ever need to know, The Manticore is about absolonism, hero worship, and Jungian analysis, among other things." The psycho-analytic structure has drawbacks--some long stretches of tedious questions and answers, and the lecturesome explanations by Dr. von Haller. But "part of the fun of a Davies novel, of course, is brushing against his erudition." For some, Davies "is an acquired taste, like ripe olives." Nevertheless, he carries off both Fifth Business and The Manticore "with easy grace and refreshing insouciance." A sprightly review.
D76 Dawe, Alan. "Still More to Be Said." The Vancouver Sun, 20 Oct. 1972, p. 35A.
"David Staunton is in himself an interesting and sympathetic creation." He "comes to understand the archetypal nature of the experiences he had endured in the uneasy bosom of his family." This process takes us through a novel just as satisfying as its predecessor, Fifth Business.
D77 Morgan, William. "Fascinating Novel." Winnipeg Free Press, 28 Oct. 1972, Sec. New Leisure, p. 20.
Fifth Business was clumsy and dull. The Manticore, however, is "compelling, exciting, moving, the kind of book you drink in at a single sitting." It "is the better novel" of the two. There isn't "the hollow cashregister ring of a Peyton Place Revisited." Instead, in the analysis, "there is great poetry and power attached to the myths and archetypes of Jung's method." "A fascinating novel."
D78 Taylor, Noel "Son Let Father Down: Now Would Learn Why." The Citizen [Ottawa], 28 Oct. 1972, p. 37.
"Mr. Davies has never been more entertaining to read. The breadth and richness of his knowledge...permeates every page."
D79 Warkentin, Germaine. Rev. of The Manticore. Quill & Quire, Nov. 1972, p. 12.
"The early pages...are fatally lacking in drive." "The brilliant symbolic meshing of the last pages...is arrived at with painful slowness." The book "has a parenthetical quality uncharacteristic of Davies' customary vigorous fictional manner."
D80 Kennedy, William. "A King of Jungian Primer." New York Times Book Review, 19 Nov. 1972, pp. 4, 26.
"Most of the new novel is devoted to...actual analysis." "There are some recollected moments of high drama but David's life, however screwed up, lacks fascination and dimension." "Realists will probably be put off, but then they never even liked Jung."
D81 Moore, Brian. "There's Life in the Old Novel House." Book World [The Washington Post], 26 Nov. 1972, p. 8.
"His fans will cheer. Others may experience astonishment. For Davies, like a living, breathing Victorian, chooses to show us his world,...through the melodramatic conventions, Dickensian coincidences and the conscious striving for 'instruction' and 'significance' which we associate with Disraeli or Mrs. Humphrey Ward." "So the old Novel House stands. It has a custodian. Perhaps Robertson Davies can bring the customers pouring back into the lending libraries and eventually fill the House with his emulators."
D82 Ayre, John. "Psychic Jailbreaks for Davies' Characters." Saturday Night, Dec. 1972, pp. 50, 52.
"One major problem of the narration is the protagonist's habit of patching together unrelated anecdotes and personalities from his memory that are only occasionally bound together in symbolic terms by his psychiatrist." "As a result, little of the magic and mystery found in Fifth Business comes through," though "there are many effective, harshly-drawn portraits of a rather silly Ontario upper class. And the last, small ending...is utterly stunning."
D83 Rev. of The Manticore. New Yorker, 9 Dec. 1972, pp. 176-77.
"Mr. Davies is a charming writer, but this book is barely interesting unless one has had the pleasure of reading his fine earlier novel 'Fifth Business.'"
D84 Skow, John. "Beasts of the Jungle." Time, 11 Dec. 1972, pp. E4, 117; Time [Canada], 11 Dec. 1972, p. 90.
The book "is a satellite dependent on Fifth Business for its orbit. Yet it is a good novel for all that-subtle, solid and funny." "The colloquies between patient and healer are of a high order; now and then they veer unexpectedly into a mad kind of comedy."
D85 Wimsatt, Margaret. Rev. of The Manticore. America, 16 Dec. 1972, pp. 536-37.
The book "is a funny, engaging literate novel by a Canadian author who deserves to be better known in this country." "It is easy to read and hard to put down" and "almost unique in being a sequel-book that stands on its own." Regrettably, "Mr. Davies does not know how to end a book." "As it is, one feels like the child presented with two clenched fists behind the back--which is not sufficiently dignified for a reader of a masterly man of letters."
D86 Mitchener, Charles. "Devil's Dolls." Newsweek, 18 Dec. 1972, pp. 100, 105.
"Unlike most magicians...Davies is a conjuror who takes the most familiar tricks in the business and makes them look brand-new."
D87 Gordon, Jocelyn. Rev. of The Manticore. The Canadian Forum, Feb. 1973, pp. 44-45.
In the book, Davies "moves from narrative to analyst's couch to diary and commentary with enviable skill." "Yet somehow...I never really feel I have left Ramsay's world and entered David's." The two differing views of identical events also serve to confuse one's response. Yet the author ushers in "a delightful new succession of characters."
D88 Sale, Roger. "A Dirty Dozen and a Brazen Head." New York Review of Books, 8 Feb. 1973, pp. 21-23.
Both Fifth Business and The Manticore "are good books, better indeed than American Mischief [by Alan Lelchuk], but the voices that will rise to praise them lavishly...will be in danger of badly overrating them. Robertson's patterns may be better and more suggestive than Lelchuck's, but they can only seem cleverer, not richer, upon rereading." "His style is useful, no more. Some of his minor characters are fine...but they are all portraits, and their major mode of address is the monologue. Indeed, Davies is never very good at dialogue." "Primarily [Davies] deserves praise as a craftsman." An ambivalent assessment.
D89 Barclay, Pat. "Noble and Confused." Canadian Literature, No. 56 (Spring 1973), pp. 113-14.
In The Manticore and in Fifth Business, the amount of detail can at times be confusing. But "the blend of masterly characterization, cunning plot, shifting point of view, and uncommon detail, all fixed in the clearest, most literate prose, is superbly achieved."
D90 Bryden, Ronald. "Kinship." Listener, 12 April 1973, p. 489.
"'Distinction' is the word" for The Manticore. "It's a distinction of conversation, adult, literate and superbly informed, rather than imagination." The interest in the book lies less in its plot "than in the intellectual discussions of Canada, Jungian theory, literature and law. But his interest is so high, and the mind discussing them of such exhilarating quality, that I tore through the book in a sitting, unable to put it down."
D91 "Beastly Dreams." Times Literary Supplement, 13 April 1973, p. 409.
"Mr. Davies is persuasive in establishing completely what 'poor little rich boy' can mean, especially in Toronto. He is a witty and shrewd observer and his detached view of upper class Toronto families...is absorbing." "That Mr. Davies resolves [gross details and Jungian universalities] is largely due to his grave, open style, which accommodates physical brutalities and subtle metaphysical speculations without strain."
D92 Baker, Robert. Rev. of The Manticore. The Times [London], 19 April 1973, p. 14.
"Robertson Davies has produced a novel that is thrilling, moving and stacked with insights. In a secondary sense, a brilliant layman's guide to the power and meaning of analysis."
D93 Spurling, John. Rev. of The Manticore. New Statesman, 20 April 1973, p. 591.
"The story runs swiftly...[but] is less impressive than the tone in which it is told." "It is sad that in the last short section the author seems to lose himself, myths and symbols tumble over one another, the characters start living in a Gothic castle and everything that might go wrong...does go wrong. All the same, five-sixths of the book goes right; it's a reasonable percentage."
D94 Dyment, Margaret S. "Naming the Problems." Canadian Dimension, 9 (May 1973), 43-45.
It has been difficult not to interpret Davies' characters and themes as disguised Canadian figures and issues, but lately it is clearer that his foremost concern is "a highly personal exploration of the human soul." Yet, even in The Manticore, Davies' self-analysis "is inextricably involved with his sense of himself as a writer in Canada and his sense" of Canada's elusive identity.
D95 Rudzik, O. H. T. Rev. of The Manticore. University of Toronto Quarterly, 42 (Summer 1973), 343-44.
Freed of his personally obsessed past, David Staunton approaches the nakedness of a myth larger than his own narrow Canadian landscape, "to a point where his self-inflicted sense of Justice reveals its backside to him."
D96 Spettigue. D. O. Rev. of The Manticore. Queen's Quarterly, 80 (Summer 1973), 304-05.
"The book starts out as a whodunit, and in a sense it is one." It picks up a minor puzzle from Fifth Business and takes "a new perspective of its events." "Curiously, David is not himself all that interesting; to this extent, The Manticore reads like a commentary" rather than a confession. It "is the book of a man with a great deal to say. This is Davies' habit of mind."
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D97 French, William. "Maybe There's Less Than Meets the Eye." The Globe and Mail, 4 Oct. 1975, p. 34.
"Some of the parts don't fit, and the mechanism sometimes seems out of whack." Davies "can't resist overloading the novel with theatre lore. The long central section...is only marginally relevant and frequently boring." "And there seems to be a running down of the fetile imagination that refused Fifth Business and The Manticore." "Still, Davies in second gear is something to behold...idiosyncratic, unconventional, arcane."
D98 MacSkimming, Roy. "Authentic Masterpiece from Davies: Trilogy's Conclusion Is Richly Satisfying." Toronto Star, 4 Oct. 1975, p. H7.
Outlined in brief, "the story is fantastical and preposterous. But not in Magnus' telling: the tragicomic figures of Wanless' World of Wonders, the young boy's initiation into evil, the London stage in the '30's all are made radiantly and absorbingly real." "Once again Davies demonstrates the superiority of a life lived with an openness to mystery."
D99 Amiel, Barbara. "From the Quill of Master Davies, the Great Canadian Novel." Maclean's, 6 Oct. 1975, p. 92.
The article reviews the trilogy. The Manticore "sagged visibly under the weight of its unpromising structure," but World of Wonders "is a spectacular, soaring work, an astounding tour de force,...a rambling, sometimes picaresque plot with luminous sequences of circus and theatre life." "In the best tradition of conjurors, Robertson Davies achieves at least the illusion of a miracle."
D100 Robinson, John. "Davies' World: Mesmerizing Intrigue." The Gazette [Montreal], 18 Oct. 1975, p. 50.
World of Wonders "is vintage Davies. It again combines well-wrought prose and a crucial message with irresistible warmth and vitality." It displays his "keen dramatic sense of dialogue and plot" and provides "a stunning denouement of his ambitious trilogy," advocating as it does "an openness to the awe, splendour, and terror of the universe as the alternative to a self-regarding humanism." A work "of undeniable relevance."
D101 Saunders, Tom. "Enigmatic Novel." Winnipeg Free Press, 25 Oct. 1975, Sec. New Leisure, p. 16.
"His descriptions of life in the theatre are alone worth the price of the book." It is "an excellent novel, urbanely written--and just enough bite to it to make us realize that more than urbanity is involved." Particularly impressed by the juxtaposition and mix of illusion and reality.
D102 Vintcent, Brian. "Posing and Disposing." Books in Canada, Dec. 1975, pp. 7-9.
The book "is not a masterpiece...but it is certainly a more gratifying read than anything he has written before." Sir John Tresize is an excellent character, but the lower class people come off as too systematically unflattering. The trouble is, "it is Davies' own voice we hear talking through all these characters." In the end, behind all the show, "it is easy to forget that the trilogy spans a full 60 years of Canadian life and gives a fascinating picture of those times."
D103 MacCulloch, Clare. Rev. of World of Wonders. The Antigonish Review, No. 24 (Winter 1975), pp. 102-08.
Liesl "is the greatest creation of Canadian literature from Davies." All the characters are "basically deeprooted in Victorianism," but Davies "brings a great deal of twentieth century didactic insight to bear on [their] behaviour and psychology." The book "completes a tour de force, unequalled in Canadian literature."
D104 Morley, Patricia. Rev. of World of Wonders. Canadian Review, 2, No. 4 (Christmas 1975), 51.
The book "is rarely dull, but its final effect is that of a descriptive document rather than an imaginative world in which we are invited to share." It is "strange, that someone devoted to wonder and mystery should be determined to remove every shred of it from the ending of both this and an earlier novel." Despite the tour de force in depicting Eisengrim's apprenticeship, "the novel [though fascinating] falls as a dramatic whole."
D105 Keith, W. J. Rev. of World of Wonders. In Canadian Book Review Annual 1975. Ed. Dean Tudor, Nancy Tudor, and Linda Biesenthal. Toronto: Peter Martin, 1976, p. 97.
The book "brings his Deptford trilogy to a triumphant and controversial conclusion." It "examines the complex relationship between art and illusion." "In this polished, witty, extremely wise book Davies shows that our own world also deserves this title."
D106 Rev. of World of Wonders. Kirkus, 15 Jan. 1976, pp. 87-88.
The books in the trilogy "are interlocked by ideas rather than events (which hardly exist for Davies) and reappearing characters--Dunstan Ramsay in particular." "An elaborate, elegant if you will, mummery, not only of the real world but those older other ones."
D107 Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher. "The Take of Magnus Eisengrim." New York Times, 4 March 1976, p. 29.
"Now the plot-machinery that Mr. Davies employs to tell Eisengrim's story may be a trifle on the gratuitous side." "And what we learn about Eisengrim's early career seems tawdrily exotic in summary." But "his young hero's stint with the acting company provides Mr. Davies with the opportunity to draw an evocative picture of cultural life in the Canadian provinces." As well, "he knows every trick in the carny trade and has filled the show with fascinating grotesqueries."
D108 Davis, L. J. Rev. of World of Wonders. New Republic, 13 March 1976, pp. 31-32.
"Brimstone or air pollution?" World of Wonders "isn't so much a novel as it is a brilliant act whose strength lies in the complexity of its symbolism and the perfection of its artifice. A situation is shamelessly contrived, and the language fairly reeks of the footlights." "If there is a single dominating theme, it is that we can never escape the consequences of our actions, and to ignore them is to be destroyed." "Among contemporary novelists, only Graham Greene has trod this ground and gleaned it so successfully."
D109 Fuller, Edmund. "Illusion and the Theatrical Arts." Wall Street Journal, 18 March 1976, p. 16.
In this novel we follow Eisengrim, "enthralled," as we listen to his narrative. "What a yarn for what a weave." "Richly baroque in style and plot, 'World of Wonders' and its two preceding books are a brilliant literary accomplishment and a treat to readers."
D110 Heffron, Dorris. Rev. of World of Wonders. Queen's Quarterly, 83 (Spring 1976), 157-58.
World of Wonders "is not a great work, but it is impressively grand." The question of who killed Boy Staunton is sophisticatedly rendered as possibly "vengeance, divine retribution, nemesis, or as an arbitrary act of evil." What is lacking is psychological analysis of the relationships between characters. Nevertheless, from the intellectual discussions throughout emerge "amusing and often wise...views" of a wide range of topics. Together, the three novels in trilogy "form a work of suprising variety, style and grandeur."
D111 Taylor, Michael. Rev. of World of Wonders. The Fiddlehead, No. 113 (Spring 1977), pp. 123-26.
"Davies' trilogy--fascinating though it frequently is--often strikes me as promising more than it delivers. World of Wonders, in particular,...displays itself with a rather unseemly self-satisfaction, convinced of its cleverness as a work of art." Yet the observations of the circus freaks have "a malevolent exuberance worthy of Jonson." The story splashes "flashy rhetoric" onto a bare and ordinary event. "In the final analysis, World of Wonders has a closer kinship with the gaffed wonders of Wanless's side-shows than with the metaphysical wonders of the Magian World View of the trilogy."
D112 Prescott, Peter S. "White Magic." Newsweek, 22 March 1976, pp. 80-81.
Davies' trilogy "is one of the splendid literary enterprises of this decade." Fifth Business "is the most haunting"; the second novel is "remarkable." World of Wonders is "the most richly textured of the three" and deeper than it seems. Having lost Spengler's "'Magian World View'" and its sense of unfathomable wonder, "we must be grateful" for "Robertson Davies educating us right back into it again."
D113 Maurer, Robert. Rev. of World of Wonders. Saturday Night, 3 April 1976, p. 28.
Davies, like John Fowles and Laurence Durrell, is "elegantly delicious, but is not for everybody." "Reading World of Wonders is like watching some escape-proof cage imprison its Houdini, so much is Davies at the mercy of his own complexities. Admirers will gobble up his twists." "Others will wish for less deliberate stress on what one Davies character calls 'a weight of implication,' and for more emphasis on the plain stew of good storytelling."
D114 Clark, Stephen. "Escape Route." Times Literary Supplement, 14 May 1976, p. 588.
"It is a mark of Mr. Davies's skill that the life of Dempster-Eisengrim, however episodic in epitome, does attain a heroic wholeness in recitation." In the entire trilogy, "it is the figure of Boy Staunton that least satisfies." "He seems too slight and tedious a character to warrant the concern" of Ramsay and David Staunton. Nevertheless, the novel is "well-written, entertaining, absorbing" and "even the unprofessional [critic] can relish his wonders and maybe profit from the underlying theme, that the world is not our idea but is, after all, Someone's."
D115 Wimsatt, Margaret. Rev. of World of Wonders. America, 5 June 1976, pp. 503-04.
"World of Wonders has a dimension the others lack, the cinematographic." "Many scenes are funny; the details sound real; the cameos convince. But the improbabilities are not accounted for." And "there is certainly no sense of freedom, for writer or reader, as Davies' trilogy grinds its way, gears meshing creakily, to its unconvincing end."
D116 Finlayson, Iain. "Magician's Mystery Tour." Sunday Times [London], 5 June 1977, p. 41.
The sub-text--"the drama played underneath the apparent facts of [the] lives" of Eisengrim's friends and associates--"is the real novel--Robertson Davies gives us about a quarter sinew and bone, and three-quarters fat. His best characters are always male," the female ones being usually deformed. "The trilogy is a wide and sweeping achievement, most interesting to read and to ponder, but there is a neatness, a glibness, that rings false."
D117 Baxter, Marilyn. "Decisive Interventions." Canadian Literature, No. 73 (Summer 1977), pp. 112-14.
The Manticore was a letdown. World of Wonders is a comeback. "It is concerned, as is Fifth Business, with God and the Devil, man's place in the universe, and the consequences that can follow on a single action." "The book is rich in ambiguity," but is "still less successful than Fifth Business," for two reasons. Its writing style seldom rises to the first book's "compressed, witty, elegance"; Eisengrim, its narrator, is barely distinguishable in mind or diction from the earlier voices of Ramsay and David Staunton.
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C3 Bentley, Theodore. "The Buckler Club." Esquire, Dec. 1937, p. 8.
In a letter Bentley praises letters sent to Esquire from Buckler and urges the editor to print some of the writer's works. He praises Buckler's style particularly.
C4 Gingrich, Arnold. "Promoting Mr. Ernest Redmond Buckler." Esquire, Jan. 1939, pp. 5, 10.
Gingrich indicates that the magazine has solicited fiction from Buckler, but it has not published any because Buckler's fiction does not seem "to travel well." But the "Sound and Fury" column will be given over to him for his letters.
C5 "Buckler, Ernest." Maclean's, 1 Jan. 1949, pp. 2-3.
Biographical notes.
C6 Pacey, Desmond. Creative Writing in Canada: A Short History of English-Canadian Literature. Toronto: Ryerson, 1952, pp. 252, 256, 266-67.
Brief passing reference is made to Buckler as a new, refreshing short-story writer and novelist.
C7 "Buckler, Ernest." Library Journal, 15 Oct. 1952, p. 1802.
Biographical note.
C8 Watters, R. E. "Unknown Literature." Saturday Night, 17 Sept. 1955, pp. 31-33, 35-36. EB.
Watters observes that Canadians often complain that we have no authors who delineate our "character," yet we do not read our own authors and, at the same time, we expect "nothing-but-genius" from those who attempt it. The reception of Buckler's The Mountain and the Valley is cited as an example of our colonial attitude toward our own authors. It was not promoted widely in Canada even though, in Watters' opinion, it is "the most distinguished and promising first novel ever published by any Canadian anywhere," and also superior to most first books by American and British novelists whose works are widely distributed an Canada.
C9 Gingrich, Arnold. "Publisher's Page." Esquire, Oct. 1958, p. 6.
People have written in asking that Buckler, whose letters they enjoy, be given space in the magazine's fiction section.
C10 "Buckler, Ernest." Financial Post, 17 Jan. 1959, p. 6.
Biographical note.
C11 Tallman Warren. "Wolf in the Snow. Part One: Four Windows onto Landscapes." Canadian Literature, No. 5 (Sept. 1960), pp. 7-20, and No. 6 (Autumn 1960), pp. 41-48. Rpt. in A Choice of Critics: Selections from Canadian Literature 1964-74. Ed. George Woodcock. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1966, pp. 53-76. Rpt. in Contexts of Canadian Criticism: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Eli Mandel. Patterns of Literary Criticism, No. 9. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1971, pp. 232-53. Rpt. in Ernest Buckler. Ed. Gregory M. Cook. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No 7. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1972, pp. 55-79. Rpt. in Open Letter, 3rd Ser., No. 6 (Fall 1977), 131-49.
Tallman's article was one of the first to draw attention to The Mountain and the Valley as a significant work of Canadian fiction. He discusses the isolation and gradual alienation of five protagonists in five Canadian novels. When children are isolated and family life is disrupted, the children can respond by struggling "to create a self strong enough to endure the added stress [though] the disturbances which create a need for such strength frequently conspire to take away the opportunity." The child often stands back from the conflict and the self attempts to "make the island upon which it finds itself habitable" or, alternatively, it begins a new journey of self-discovery. David Canaan is one of those who is incapable of actions which might aid him in either direction once he is isolated and alienated from his family and his community. He attempts to compensate psychologically by investing all around him with a deceptive glamour or mythical quality or a seeming numinousness. His attempts to sustain his illusions are heroic and also a record of his suffering
Tallman feels that the lyrical prose describes David's unreleased intensity, and, though this lyrical intensity becomes an advantage for the novelist, it makes too many demands on the reader.
C12 Bissell, Claude. Introduction. In The Mountain and the Valley. By Ernest Buckler. New Canadian Library, No. 23. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1961, pp. vii-xii.
Bissell describes his delight when he first read the novel and he compares it to other novels about rural life. Buckler's work is "unsentimental but affectionate, ready to see the bathetic and the poetic dwelling side by side." He juxtaposes city and country differences without moralizing and his rural scene is relatively unsophisticated, insulated economically, and survives "on the close association of parents and children." The novel also demonstrates Buckler's belief that characters in a novel must be given psychological depth, and that events and emotions should be explored in detail. The novel is divided into a "series of illuminations" unified by time. There are apocalyptic moments which swallow up time, and Ellen, a still point in the novel, is a correlative of these moments of vision.
A brief analysis of style and themes follows. Buckler's complex style "might be described as the high metaphysical style...[where] the writer must be constantly in search of a whole cluster of meanings." The novel is written "in praise of the family" and it also gives us a portrait of the artist as a young man. We see the subtle conflicts of a young potential artist separated from his family "by deep personal differences and yet united by love and affection." It is a study of how separate people "are yet made one with each other."
C13 Sylvestre, Guy, Brandon Conron, and Carl F. Klinck, eds. "Ernest Buckler." In Canadian Writers/Ecrivains Canadiens: A Biographical Dictionary. Toronto: Ryerson, 1964, p. 14.
A biographical note.
C14 McPherson, Hugo. "Fiction 1940-1960." In Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English. Gen. ed. and introd. Carl F. Klinck. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1965, 711-12. Rpt. 2nd ed. Gen. ed. and introd. Carl F. Klinck. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1976. Vol. II, 224.
Contains a brief synopsis of David's plight, his retreat, his "inability to risk the travail of either art or life." There is only one note sounded in the novel, but it is "the cruelest picture of 'the buried life' in Canadian fiction."
C15 Story, Norah. "Buckler, Ernest (1908- ). "In The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1967, p. l14.
A biographical note.
C16 Spettigue, D. O. "The Way It Was." Canadian Literature, No. 32 (Spring 1967), pp. 40-56. Rpt. in The Canadian Novel in the Twentieth Century: Essays from Canadian Literature. Ed. George Woodcock. New Canadian Library, No. 115. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975, pp. 145-60. EB.
This Important article was the first extended study of Buckler's fiction and it contains very useful insights into the symbolic designs of The Mountain and the Valley and The Cruelest Month. Spettigue also glances at the short stories in passing and divides them into four groups: the Saturday Night group (sentimental, but concerned with guilt and the consequent feelings of separation which are resolved in a moment of transfiguring unity); the Maclean's group (exercises toward The Mountain and the Valley); the Atlantic Advocate group (which explore the writer's search for a unifying vision); and another group of stories for popular consumption.
The article discusses Buckler's themes of childhood innocence giving way to knowledge and experience, his treatment of time, and the need for completion in unity as they occur in the two novels. These themes are related to structure and style: "A balance in tension is created by comparing the present situation with a past or hypothetical situation which, if it obtained now, would reverse the present. But the perversities of human nature wilfully distort emotion, preventing communication, until just the right combination of sense, impressions, and circumstance bursts the floodgates of remorse and longing, restores unity and duplicates in the present the desirable emotion of the past." Consequently, Buckler's language is one of simile, and similes find "analogies in two contrasting kinds of scenes, those of unity and those of discord." The basis of this division is "the divided personality which has its counterpart in the divisions of the book."
Spettigue then analyzes The Mountain and the Valley by following various structuring elements. David's perceptions of time, nature, and family relationships alter halfway through the novel, signifying the Fall. Another structuring element is the use of contrasting or complementary symbols: mountain and valley, letter and train, the play and the scar, the rug and the mountain. The significance of each pair is analyzed in some detail.
Buckler's concern with, and his distrust of, words is discussed in a structural and thematic analysis of The Cruelest Month. Characters from various places withdraw to a green secluded place where old conventions and past guilts lapse and new relationships form. "The controlling symbols of this novel are the fire, the gun, and the wounding of the 'king,' the exile and quest of the characters, Endlaw itself, the opposition between the Word and the Flesh,...and Paul, whose heart condition is the tangible mark of time and whose self in retreat is the human condition." The ending of the novel is not dealt with at any length though there is some indication that Spettigue finds it ambiguous.
C17 Cameron, Donald. "Letter from Halifax." Canadian Literature, No. 40 (Spring 1969), pp. 55-60.
Cameron argues that there is no literary community in Halifax and that "the most successful and prominent authors live in small towns far away." Chief among these are Thomas Raddall and Ernest Buckler, who write very different kinds of books. But for both writers isolation, the CBC, and the unchanging countryside afford a balance and perspective which they might not have experienced if they lived among the distractions of the city. Cameron quotes Buckler on living alone in the country, on writers, and on the CBC.
C18 "Buckler, Ernest." The Fiddlehead, No. 81 (Aug.-Sept.-Oct. 1969), p. 85.
A biographical note.
C19 Jones, D. G. Butterfly on Rock: A Study of Themes and Images in Canadian Literature. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1970, pp. 11, 23-25, 26, 27, 37.
David Canaan's isolation "reflects the disintegration of the old rural ways of life and the final failure of the cultural community of the previous generations." Cities have not developed a new cultural community. David's impulse to write is an attempt to understand his experience and give it meaning, and it allows him to escape his isolation. Ultimately he tries to "remake the world in his own image--in his own words." Out of this impulse he seeks to find a central myth--complete cultural identity for his community that would connect him with all the others, with the land, and with past time. The strain of climbing the "mountain" of this ambition kills him and he is like the faithful shepherd buried on top of the mountain.
Jones compares David to other characters in Canadian fiction and poetry who suffer the same fate: Pierre in Gabrielle Roy's The Hidden Mountain, the speaker in A. M. Klein's "Portrait of the Poet as Landscape," Margaret Avison's Adam, and Jay Macpherson's Noah.
C20 Gingrich, Arnold. Nothing but People: The Early Days at Esquire, a Personal History, 1928-1958. New York: Crown, 1971, pp. 252-53, 255.
In his memoir Gingrich recalls how Buckler was a consistent contributor to "Sound and Fury," the "Letters" pages of Esquire, and how people began to demand that he publish more of Buckler's work. He asked Buckler to submit "feature" articles but the writing was "stiff and terribly self-conscious, as if he were aware for the first time of speaking prose...," so only the letters (critiques of the magazine) were published. Finally, in 1940, he published "One Quiet Afternoon," his first short story, in Esquire. Gingrich and Buckler have remained friends ever since.
C21 Atwood, Margaret. Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1972, pp. 34, 65, 132, 186-87, 189, 191-92, 193.
In brief glances at The Mountain and the Valley, Atwood focuses on David's feelings of being trapped in his region and in his family. David is a potential redeemer of his unredeemed people in exile who are without "vision" or "language equal to the full expression of life and emotion." David, the potential artist who could "articulate" the community for itself, fails and is only allowed to dream of self-realization. Such failed artist figures in Canadian literature are doomed to gaze only into the past and to feel alienation from present and future. Consequently, they die premature deaths.
Yet Buckler himself managed to create a work out of the "proposition that such a creation, in their environment, is possible."
C21a Reference Division, McPherson Library; Univ. of Victoria, B.C., comp. "Buckler, Ernest 1908- ." In Creative Canada: A Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Creative and Performing Artists. Vol. II. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1972, pp. 45-46.
C22 Thomas, Clara. "Ernest Buckler." In Our Nature--Our Voices: A Guidebook to English-Canadian Literature. Vol. I. Toronto: new press, 1972, 126-27.
Thomas classifies Buckler as a "regional novelist" but his work explores "conditions which involve all men and women at all times." Buckler is a "poet-novelist" whose works demonstrate his "concern for the words in which the story is told and for the symbols and metaphors which convey the echoes and the many evocations of those words."
C23 French, William. "Ernest Buckler: A Literary Giant Scorned?". The Globe and Mail, 24 June 1972, p. 23.
French visited Buckler and he uses the occasion to review Buckler's career, furnish some details about his background, and record some of their conversations. Buckler comes across as a shy, intensely private person, thoughtful and ill. French points out that Buckler's novels were never promoted aggressively so that after twenty years he is "still largely unknown in Canada" except by a few devoted readers.
Buckler's novels make strong demands on readers, as pointed out by reviewers such as Harry Brown, and Buckler himself acknowledges that he writes very slowly in his attempts to find the exact word he wants. He hints that this may be impossible to do perfectly, and feels that isolation may in fact be helpful to him.
C24 S[tory]., N[orah]. "Buckler, Ernest (1908- )." In Supplement to The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature. Ed. William Toye. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1973, p. 64.
Updates the original notice (see C15) and adds some bibliographical information.
C25 Waterston, Elizabeth. Survey: A Short History of Canadian Literature. Methuen Canadian Literature Series. Toronto: Methuen, 1973, pp. 109-10.
Waterston treats The Mountain and the Valley as a regional novel with "the conviction of a documentary." It is also a novel about regionalism in that it explores how a potential artist runs a risk of becoming too narrow in outlook or trapped by his ties to his community.
C26 Bickerstaff, Isaac. "Friends, S.O.B.'s and Critics." Books in Canada, Jan.-Feb. 1973, pp. 20-21, 23.
A review of Cook's Ernest Buckler (see C1), but also a commentary on how (and why) Buckler's works have received attention in Canada.
C27 Young, Alan R. "The Pastoral Vision of Ernest Buckler in The Mountain and the Valley." The Dalhousie Review, 53 (Summer 1973), 219-26.
Young discusses the novel within the pastoral tradition by dealing with pastoralism in geographic, chronological, and moral terms. Buckler also "invests his persona with the double vision one finds in almost all the more perceptive pastoralists" since David knows he can be spiritually imprisoned in the valley. Yet he chooses to stay, and in this Buckler departs from the conventional formula of the pastoral. As David climbs the mountain, he loses consciousness of his own body, of his community, of time; he experiences an epiphany and completes his destiny in death. His death "represents the paradoxical triumph of 'ripeness is all.'"
C28 Thomas, Clara. "New England Romanticism and Canadian Fiction." Journal of Canadian Fiction, 2, No. 4 (Fall 1973), 80-86.
This essay deals with the influence of "the matter and manner of Bryant, Emerson and Thoreau" on George Elliott and Ernest Buckler. Although much of the essay deals with Elliott's The Kissing Man, David Canaan's epiphany on the mountain top is compared with that of Thoreau on the summit of Mt. Katahdin. "I am demonstrating...an orientation of vision that... at its strongest, and with a continuance of the active, germinal dynamism that was a part of New England thought at its best, has issued in a Mayhew Salkald, or a David Canaan."
C29 Jones, D.G. "Myth, Frye and Canadian Writers." Canadian Literature, No. 55 (Winter 1973), pp. 7-22.
Buckler is one writer mentioned who, in The Mountain and the Valley, anticipated Frye's argument that the creative imagination creates, "through the word, the myth within which men may live in communion with all life, within which all separate lives...may find their identity with the whole of life."
C30 "Buckler, Ernest. In The Canadian Who's Who (1973-75).
C31 Moss, John. Patterns of Isolation in English-Canadian Fiction. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1974, pp. 9, 106, 110, 118, 122, 197, 225-26, 228, 229, 237.
David Canaan and The Mountain and the Valley are used in this study to exemplify Moss's central thesis concerning Canadian artistic treatments of isolation. Moss compares Buckler's novel with Laurence's The Stone Angel and Richler's Son of a Smaller Hero to show how the three authors "used the Canadian milieu in order to portray the conflict for their protagonists between interior and external realities, self-concepts, and the experience of others." Later, Moss asserts that Buckler explores ironically not moral-psychological motivation so much as "the impact of events and the responses they stimulate. The judgements based upon them." In passing, Nature is described in this novel as passive, and David's vision is a burden which his "life cannot sustain."
C32 Young, Alan R. Introduction. In Ox Bells and Fireflies: A Memoir. New Canadian Library, No. 99. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1974, pp. xi-xvi.
Buckler moves away from his concerns with plot and the psychological make-up of character found in the earlier works, and writes, not only a regional idyll, but a "pastoral" which evokes "that universal human desire to return to some lost paradise world, the memory of which [provides] a model against which the spiritual poverty of our present existence may be evaluated." The book contains many indictments of the present and emphasizes the splendour, wonder, fellowship, harmony, and community of a timeless past. Death is present in the work, but its cyclical structure and rich store of memories show that memory can transcend the forces of time, and Buckler provides consolation to time-bound individuals. He uses a multiple point of view so that we see his world from different angles and distances and this "multiplicity in turn corresponds to Buckler's flexible time-scale, which itself is the product of his understanding of the way in which memory functions within the human psyche." His precise and densely textured prose makes demands on his readers, but, ultimately, they are rewarded generously.
C33 Sarkar, Eilen. "The Mountain and the Valley: The Infinite Language of Human Relations." Revue de l'Universite d'Ottawa, 44 (July-Sept. 1974), 354-61.
This study attempts "to prove that the structure of this novel...can be seen as a series of ever narrowing circles which describe the ever narrowing circumference of David's relations with the external world." Sarkar begins by demonstrating that all events, areas, objects, individuals in the novel "take their sole identity from their revelation of, or integration in, human relationships." By examining how, paradoxically, David uses his imagination to illuminate his own relationship to his community, and how he nevertheless succeeds in withdrawing from them further each time, Sarkar argues that David eventually retreats into a world of make-believe away from actual experience. But because "an individual's identity is determined by his inter-action in human relationships, David's...[refusal to leave or to stay] becomes an existential dilemma." Like Ellen's creation of the rug from the largest outside circle to the smallest inside circle, David's life has been an ever constricting pattern of circles that results in his death.
C34 Chambers, Robert D. Sinclair Ross and Ernest Buckler. Studies in Canadian Literature. Toronto: Copp Clark; Montreal: McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, 1975, pp. 1-5, 53-102, 105-07.
In an introductory section, the careers of Buckler and Ross are compared. Their roots are rural; they began writing short stories, produced powerful first novels and then their writing declined somewhat. Recognition has come late for both writers, but they are now classed as two of our best novelists. Their styles are very different, but their themes dealing with youth, love, loneliness, guilt, and alienation are similar. Only Buckler "works his way back to something akin to traditional religious faith" and optimism about the human condition.
Chapters v-viii discuss Buckler's writing in the light of the above statements beginning with the short stories and ending with Ox Bells and Fireflies. A number of short stories are described as "dress rehearsals" for the first novel in that they treat themes which later recur in Buckler's work--youth vs. age, city vs. country, imagination vs. practical life, isolation vs. family solidarity. The chapter on The Mountain and the Valley focuses mainly on David's psychological bifurcation and how it is manifested in the structural design of the novel as well as in the symbolic design of its episodes. The ending is interpreted as a positive and optimistic act of faith on the part of the author.
The section on The Cruelest Month deals with the interweaving of characters and themes in the novel's structure in a general way. The ending is not described as containing levels of irony and Buckler is judged as being "an alien on uncomfortable ground" in the writing of this novel.
The third work is studied as a continuation of earlier themes, and as a study of past time versus present time.
C35 Kertzer, J. M. "The Past Recaptured." Canadian Literature, No. 65 (Summer 1975), pp. 74-85.
This article analyzes two modes of time which condition David's life: "valley time," which is chronological, and "mountain time," which is "a timeless transcendence which surmounts and encompasses linear time." These two kinds of time are "a source of tension in David's life" and the novel is the resolution of that tension.
Kertzer traces the evolution of David's awareness of chronological time as he matures from a "timeless" child to an adolescent aware of time as past and, eventually, aware of death as final. Past time then manifests itself as emotion and memory, and also as feelings of loss, fragmentation, and betrayal. When he turns to the future, it is too late.
On top of the mountain David experiences life as a qualitative thing and he enjoys a moment of timeless vision associated in the novel with the sea, the mountain, literature, and death. The potential artist "achieves a timeless aesthetic vision but the significance of this episode is ambiguous. David soars into another realm of illusion signifying a regression into childhood. This retreat from the world is an escape into memory and "for Buckler, the snare is memory." David "ventures out to sea only to drown."
C36 Savage, David. "Not Survival but Responsibility." The Dalhousie Review, 55 (Summer 1975), 272-79.
In refuting Atwood's survival-victim thesis, Savage points to David Canaan, as well as Philip Bentley in Ross's As for Me and My House, as examples of "something about the hard lot of the artist in Canada, [but] they say a good deal more about the strength of our Puritan-inspired sense of responsibility." David does not leave home, looks after has grandmother, and even worries about her during his epiphany on the mountain.
C37 Nielsen, Robert F. "Maritime Writers Break Out." Axiom, 2, No. 1 (Aug.-Sept. 1975), 6-9, 24.
This article lists a number of writers from the Maritime provinces and includes a brief biography of Buckler and an outline of his literary career.
C38 Barbour, Douglas. "David Canaan: The Failing Heart." Studies in Canadian Literature, 1 (Winter 1976), 64-75.
Barbour argues that David Canaan is isolated from his community because he misused his powers of artistic communication. Because of his tendency to plan "subtle psychological revenges upon anyone he imagines has hurt him," and because of his "tendency to fantasize," David selfishly betrays everyone close to him. The essay cites examples of this thesis by analyzing episodes in the novel: the play scene, the deaths on the mountain episode, the betrayals of Effie and Chris, his father and Bess. Martha is named as the "person from whom he inherited his predilection for selfish and wounding behaviour" and his self-centredness is "a central facet of his character."
David is the one who can unite the community into one happy group, but he usually projects his own guilt, failings, anger, and pain onto those around him, so that he moves away from others and fails to work to realize his own potential. David's final failure on the mountain is the result of his "willful" nature. Ellen's success as a creator of rugs, and Buckler's success as a novelist are two major ironies which in themselves comment on David's inaction and romanticism.
C39 Young, Alan R. "The Genesis of Ernest Buckler's The Mountain and the Valley." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 16 (1976), pp. 89-96.
By examining manuscripts of unpublished short stories and some letters in the Buckler Collection, Young builds a possible reconstruction of the genesis of The Mountain and the Valley. "My intention here is to trace the course of that gestation and to show how Buckler's comments on the novel, taken in consideration with his early short stories that were reworked into its fabric, collectively provide a unique glimpse of the processes of his creative imagination and at the same time suggest that certain aspects of the novel may hither to have been overlooked by its interpreters." The "overlooked" aspects indicate that Buckler's treatment of David is to some extent ironic.
C40 Chambers, Robert D. "Notes on Regionalism in Modern Canadian Fiction." Journal of Canadian Studies, 11, No. 2 (May 1976), 27-34.
In this article, Chambers discusses how a number of regional novelists "fuse a distinctive sense of region with a larger impulse towards the symbolic or, if you like, the universal." David Canaan's life and problems as an artist may be partly autobiographical, and are rooted in rural and regional values, but are also meant to parallel "the forces which were striving to be born in the larger life of the nature." Symbolic interaction between personal history and national history gives the novel its depth.
C41 Seaman, Andrew Thompson. "Fiction in Atlantic Canada" Canadian Literature, Nos. 68-69 (Spring-Summer 1976), pp. 26-39.
In an examination of such Maritime writers as Thomas Raddall, Hugh MacLennan, Ray Smith, and Alden Nowlan, this critic compares Buckler's style and philosophy with those of Charles Bruce. "The chief point of contrast between Bruce and Buckler is that we find in Buckler no such sense of unity and salvation rooted in an on-going process of living. For Buckler salvation is possible only through transcendence by imagination" and memory. So the quality of "felt life" in Buckler's writing is essentially tragic.
Buckler's technique of story telling is to move back and forth from drama to poetry so that "whole sections of Buckler's prose become extended prose poems."
C42 MacDonald, Bruce F. "Word-Shapes, Time and the Theme of Isolation in The Mountain and the Valley." Studies in Canadian Literature, 1 (Summer 1976), 194-209.
Partially in response to Barbour's article (C38), MacDonald examines the "large themes" which go beyond "the conventional superficialities of the psychological analysis of character." The novel gives us insight into the human condition by presenting characters who are separated into their own worlds by "different modes of perceiving themselves and their world and of reacting to it." Some characters are inarticulate but whole (Martha and Joseph); some are inarticulate and instinctive, but limited severely by this (Chris and Charlotte); and some are articulate (David and Effie). MacDonald discusses both the positive and negative aspects of each of these modes of perception, citing examples for each from the novel. "David's tragedy is that he is attracted by the concrete, secure world of the farmer and feels a kinship to it, while living almost entirely in the world of words and abstractions." The irony and ambiguity of the final section is consistent with the tensions set up in all of the characters in the novel.
The theme of human separation is reinforced in the novel by Buckler's treatment of time. Each character perceives time differently. Yet, "Time seems ultimately to lead to a complete negation of all human hopes in destruction, separation, and death."
There are two alternatives to the complete negation this view offers--Ellen and David's visions--but neither is a complete affirmation. Ellen represents resignation to the conditions of her existence. David's vision represents the possibility of transcending time, and Buckler himself has given voice to this vision by writing the novel. This necessitates isolation, however, an isolation which David cannot bear. And, since "he is unable to live in his vision, time closes over him again."
C43 Westwater, Sister A. M. "Teufelsdrock Is Alive and Doing Well in Nova Scotia: Carlylean Strains in The Mountain and the Valley." The Dalhousie Review, 56 (Summer 1976), 291-98.
Sister Westwater compares Diogenes Teufelsdrock of Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and David Canaan on a very broad and open grid: "...both are extraordinary..., solitary, [represent] their ages...," grow from spiritual darkness to inner light, transcend time and space, are sensitive, have idyllic childhoods, and long to leave their limiting surroundings. There is an attempt to draw structural parallels and a somewhat unique interpretation of the ending: "Only in his final acceptance of his inner world, does David shed his dependence on the externals of life--even of life itself. David loses corporality after he has scaled the mountain."
The destiny of Diogenes is very different from that of David, and, since these endings reveal the authors' respective philosophies, Carlyle and Buckler must see life very differently. David "never practises his 'Everlasting Yea.' He is incapable of completing the hero's descent from the Mount of Apotheosis." Buckler believes that "the salvation of modern society lies...deep within."
C44 Young, Alan R. "A Note on Douglas Barbour's 'David Canaan: The Failing Heart' (SCL, Winter 1976)." Studies in Canadian Literature, 1 (Summer 1976), 244-46.
Young supports Barbour's analysis of David Canaan's character and the nature of his failure (C38) by quoting evidence from letters Buckler wrote to Dudley Cloud of the Atlantic Monthly Press in defence of the manuscript of The Mountain and the Valley. In those letters, Buckler makes it clear that he intended David's "final transport of self-deception" to be "the crowning point of the whole dramatic irony," and that his death would be "the most overt piece of symbolism in the book." Buckler also wrote that the Epilogue was written first and was to be the "foundation for the whole thesis."
For an earlier statement of the view expressed in this essay, see John Orange's dissertation (1963, C64).
C45 Bissell, Claude. Introduction. In Whirligig. By Ernest Buckler. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, pp. 7-9.
This book allows glimpses of another side of Buckler only hinted at in the serious fiction. The "serious books" concentrate on the individual. This book presents contemporary society with detachment and a mood of resignation. The verse pieces are satiric and scornful, but, generally, the failures of the world are presented to excite laughter, not tears.
C46 Moss, John. Sex and Violence in the Canadian Novel. The Ancestral Present. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, pp. 36, 48, 55, 84, 87, 90-95, 102, 189, 308.
Moss treats the relationship between David, Toby, and Anna in The Mountain and the Valley in the context of the "Urthona triangle." David and Anna, like Blake's Los and Enitharmon, are twins and their intimacy is "essentially incestuous." Los is the poet, Enitharmon, his female emanation, the embodiment of inspiration. Urthona is progeneration and regeneration usually represented by an aggressive male in a sexual triangle--in this case Toby. Toby seduces Anna on David's behalf, just as Effie is a surrogate for Anna. "The impetus towards union of the three central characters carries the movement of the novel towards the vision of the perfect writer that Buckler has David experience on the mountain at the novel's end. The practical impossibility of their union coincides with the impossibility of his vision."
Outlining the many overlappings of character through the use of symbol and image in the novel, Moss argues that the Urthona triangle pattern "accounts for the mating of perfection and impossibility (forbidden spectres of homosexuality and incest) within the single doomed consciousness of Buckler's protagonist."
C47 Noonan, Gerald. "Egoism and Style in The Mountain and the Valley." The Marco Polo Papers One: Atlantic Provinces Literature Colloquium, Colloque Litteraire Des Provinces Atlantiques. Ed. Kenneth MacKinnon. Saint John: Atlantic Canada Institute, 1977, pp. 68-78.
The argument of this essay is that Buckler's "overly-deliberated diction" which draws attention to itself is congruent with David's overly self-conscious character. The novel's "excesses in style, as well as the awkwardness of structure and blurred theme, are a reflect, on" of David's egotism and his consequent "overwrought preoccupation with words." David is blind to people and things and this accounts for his "separateness, the static nature of the story, and the weakness of the resolution." His over-dependence upon words tragically keeps him from understanding reality, other people, and himself.
By analyzing modulations in style in crucial episodes in the story, Noonan concludes that Buckler discredits David's judgement, reveals his word-bound egotism and his insistent self-delusion. David worships words in themselves apart from the reality they represent. He is not perceptive of "human relations and of things "The style of the novel reflects a double tragedy: David is victimized by his egotism and by his concern for words themselves, and his "revelation at the end of his life...becomes the most comprehensive of his delusions."
Noonan touches on the difficulty that this approach poses in analyzing point of view, and in a somewhat confusing beginning suggests that "the style imprisons and clogs the felt life in the novel," though it is not clear if this refers to David's style or to Buckler's style.
C48 Young, Alan R. Introduction. In The Cruelest Month. By Ernest Buckler. New Canadian Library, No. 139. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, pp. vii-xiii.
Young first outlines the genesis of the novel, compares it with The Mountain and the Valley, and concludes that Buckler is "exploring new possibilities of theme, character and form." There follows an analysis of the form of the novel as analogous to the opening lines of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. Parts One and Two concern "memory" and "desire" and they also reveal the spiritual "dead land" inhabited by the characters--each one a psychological and spiritual "amputee." Part Three shows how the characters painfully shed their respective pasts and move toward renewal and fulfillment. They move from winter to spring, death to life, past to future. Part Four is built around a purging forest fire and a cleansing and healing rain in which the characters gain faith in themselves and restore their lives. However this form, and the characters' development, are continually undercut by a pervasive irony and self-deception which makes the ending of the novel ambiguous. The characters leave the green world of Endlaw with their imperfections intact and Buckler seems to outline "a sad discrepancy between the regenerative processes of the natural cycle and the inability of the human being to imitate it fully." The novel's style, which has received adverse criticism, can be defended on the grounds that many of the characters distort and misuse language to fool themselves and others. "The use of language is an important sub-theme of the novel." These people avoid "more fundamental aspects of experience." Buckler handles character relationships somewhat artificially, but the novel's strengths--its skilfully maintained irony which counterpoints its theme and form, its "subtle delineation of minutiae and [its] variegated shades of emotional response to situation and place"--must not be overlooked.
C49 Barbour, Douglas. "The Critic Criticized: A Reply to Bruce MacDonald." Studies in Canadian Literature, 2 (Winter 1977), 127-28.
Barbour's note argues that MacDonald's article (C42) does not disagree with his own but rather extends his analysis. He asserts that he did not have sufficient space to cover all aspects of the novel and that MacDonald misread parts of his essay.
C50 Dooley, D.J. "Style and Communication in The Mountain and the Valley." The Dalhousie Review, 57 (Winter 1977-78), 671-83. Rpt. (revised--"The Mountain and the Valley: The Uncreated Word"). In Moral Vision in the Canadian Novel. By D. J. Dooley. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1979, pp. 49-59.
This is a very helpful article in assessing the relationship between Buckler's prose style and David Canaan's dilemma. Like Joyce in Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, Buckler is following the development of one central consciousness, and perhaps "the recondite vocabulary and the love of alliteration are there (as in Joyce) because they belong to the imagined character, who lives very much in his own mental world and has not had has mode of thought and composition normalized by contact with people who can correct his excesses." Does this mean that the ornate prose passages are to be taken ironically? With both Joyce and Buckler it is difficult to decide for sure, but in The Mountain and the Valley there are two styles (one for David's thoughts and one for the thoughts of others), that underline David's difference from the others in his community. David attempts to reconcile his inner world with his outer one and he fails as described in the novel's principal episodes: in the play, in his relationships with outsiders (Toby), in his attempts at writing, in his longing to leave the valley.
In the Epilogue, David climbs the mountain and "Buckler slipping away from David's consciousness to speak to us directly, describes the experience as like a transfiguration." But there is clearly some irony in this section too. David's scar reminds us that he is bound to time and that his vision is partly another illusion like those of his boyhood. The theme, style, setting, and character merge in the Epilogue "in a Joycean epiphany--the character suddenly sees how he is going to use his style to describe his community, and in so doing he is going to fulfill his own potentialities." But David has never been able to put his style to use in communicating with anyone, and the fact that Buckler describes his epiphany in the language of David's boyhood imagination enhances a pattern of irony. The moment of epiphany is also the moment of death. Unlike Stephen Dedalus, David could not trust the word he lived by.
In the revised version of this essay, Dooley says that Buckler treats his central character with detached impartiality or with "light and unobtrusive irony." Unlike Virginia Woolf's treatment of Mrs. Ramsay, David's moments of illumination do not allow him contact with a reality outside of himself, so "their function is ultimately ironic." The rug symbolizes the passing away of the family and David's inability to provide a literary memorial for it. His problem is that, when the stable relationships of childhood disappeared, "either his environment [did] not give him anything to replace them with or he [was] incapable of forming new ties." He seems to try to stop the passage of time and to "remain in the relationships of childhood." Eventually, he keeps finding reasons to be the "inarticulate voice of an inarticulate community." In the epilogue, when David decides "to serve as the awakened consciousness of his valley," he has already been a victim of time and circumstance. Self-deception and illusion accompany his vow of self-commitment; the "moment of epiphany is virtually the moment of death."
C51 Ricou, Laurence. "David Canaan and Buckler's Style in The Mountain and the Valley." The Dalhousie Review, 57 (Winter 1977-78), 684-96.
Concentrating on the "exuberant" style in the novel, Ricou closely examines some typical passages and discovers that they seem to contain "the germ of the whole novel within them." Also, the prose is studiously precise and, yet, fluid. The characteristics of style examined here are lists ("the aesthetic of getting-it-all-in"), diction (words chosen to suspend action, for example, and for exactness), similes ("catalogues of infinite correspondences"), metaphors, images, synaesthesia, hyphenated compounds, and paradox. The figurative language is found to be associated with the way children respond psychologically to their environments in that there is a centrated quality to descriptions and a "mesmerizing sensory apprehension of nature," a passivity, and an inwardness all of which emphasize the child-like quality of David's artistic sensibilities. The style has something in common with the only painting mentioned in the novel--Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase."
C52 Cappon, Paul, ed. In Our Own House: Social Perspectives on Canadian Literature. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978, pp. 77, 122, 194.
The Mountain and the Valley is referred to briefly in three essays as an example of rural, anti-technological concerns.
C53 Gnarowski, Michael. "Buckler, Ernest, 1908- ." In A Concise Bibliography of English-Canadian Literature. By Michael Gnarowski. Rev. ed. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978, p. 19.
Gnarowski lists Buckler's works under the subheadings "Novels," "Short Stories," and "Travel," and includes a section called "Selected Studies and Articles," a list of selected works on Buckler. Buckler's works are also followed by a list of selected reviews. With a 1975 cut-off date, the novels, short stories, and travel sections are complete, but Buckler's book of belles-lettres, Whirligig, is omitted.
C54 Dawson, Anthony B. "Coming of Age in Canada." Mosaic, 11, No. 3 (Spring 1978), 47-62.
The author examines the story "One's a Heifer" by Sinclair Ross, two stories from Margaret Laurence's A Bird in the House, W. O. Mitchell's Who Has Seen the Wind, Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women, Marie-Claire Blais's Pauline Archange, and Ernest Buckler's The Mountain and the Valley in order to compare and to evaluate the theme of inheritance as imaged by recent Canadian writers. He concludes that "coming of age in Canada seems often to mean going from definiteness to indefiniteness, from conviction to hesitation, certainty to uncertainty." David Canaan's final isolation is an example of this pattern. The notion of inheritance depends upon continuity or "the passing-on of the wholeness of a society," the response to death, and family life. David learns of death early in the novel, but we do not learn how he responds to the death of his parents. The novel also suffers from a "lack of genuine social awareness" because "there is little sense of community." Since Buckler concentrates on David's isolation, the writing is "over-laden with a kind of mental poetry." The problem is that we are not "shown" enough of David's connections with the community and his family. Consequently, the changes that take place in him and in family members, as well as the ending, "seem to derive more from authorial intrusion than psychological inevitability." Also, David's view of "fixing" reality with words is absolute, so he fails when other characters who do not try to "fix" reality, such as Del Jordan or Vanessa MacLeod, do not. Buckler's treatment of all of these themes is less successful than the other writers mentioned for these reasons.
C55 Dyck, Sarah. "In Search of a Poet: Buckler and Pasternak." Germano-Slavica: A Canadian Journal of Germanic and Slavic Comparative Studies, 2 (Spring 1978), 325-36.
A study of The Mountain and the Valley and Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago provides an opportunity to look into the nature of literature as process, since we are watching four artists (two real and two fictional) at work. There are four stages in the evolution of a work of art as embodied in the development of the artist characters: to dream (to permit the imagination to absorb without conscious interference), to care (a heightened sensitivity to the human condition), to awake (to give form to the chaos of the dream), to have the courage of imperfection (facing the unfamiliar with fortitude).
By tracing how these elements are to be found in the protagonists and in the authors' work, we are given a comparison of David and Yuri. Both are paralyzed writers; each is in love with his sister; both attempt to redeem their time; neither seems to have any will. Both are victims of heart disease inherited from their mothers which symbolizes a creative instinct, but also a destructive capacity. Both begin in idyllic surroundings, struggle with the enigma of death, vindicate life at the end. They possess biblical names, are "unusually impressionable," enter into a mystical communion with nature, and experience a final transfiguration. Both suffer a serious illness, fail to understand experience in ethical terms, yet struggle against meaninglessness. Their respective journeys become, finally, a negation of the absurd, "and, consequently, an ode to joy."
C56 Chapman, Marilyn. "The Progress of David's Imagination." Studies in Canadian Literature, 3 (Summer 1978), 186-98.
This essay contains a number of assertions about the character and function of David's imagination. David's character is split into two selves--one represented by the "world" of family and community, and the other represented by the "imaginative world of the vision." He attempts to bring these two worlds together, but they cannot coexist. He seems to bring them together during the performance of the play, but the community, represented by Jud Spinney's remark, rejects his offering. "David becomes, for the rest of the novel, a scarred, Cain-like wanderer who feels at home neither in the world of the valley nor in the internal world of his own imagination." Yet there is a "reciprocal dependency" between the two. When David's imagination is putting a "shine" on everything and everyone around him, his relations with his family are positive; when his imagination is dormant he quarrels or shuts them out completely. In crucial episodes, when David is fusing the two "worlds," someone from the outside intrudes and exposes the process as mere illusion (Rachel, Toby, Jud, etc.). David is left feeling "exposed, ashamed, denuded. And always these guilt feelings are associated with mirror and scar imagery."
Chapman then presents an analysis of the function of these two images and a detailed analysis of David's progression up the mountain in the Epilogue. The thesis of this final section is that Buckler is exploring "the conflict between the imagination's tendency to overdetermine the external world and the external world's tendency to confound the creative power of the imagination." On top of the mountain, David finally feels that, once more, he is able to fuse the two worlds together, but, at the same time, he soars beyond that vision to the point of excluding the mundane reality below him in order to make everything perfect: his imagination moves "over the far side of the mountain."
C57 Stewart, Robert J. "Buckler's David Canaan and Joyce's Stephen Dedalus." Canadian Notes & Queries, No. 23 (June 1979), pp. 5-6.
This is a short and rather confusing note which attempts to interpret the epilogue of The Mountain and the Valley according to the myth of Daedelus. David is seen to resemble Icarus rather than Daedelus, and also Perdix, Daedelus' nephew, a potential artist who was pushed from a high tower and transformed into a partridge in order to arrest his fate. "Through death, David is saved from the torment of artistic death which faces him in Entremont."
C58 Orange, John. "Ernest Buckler." In Profiles in Canadian Literature. Vol. II. Ed. Jeffrey M. Heath. Toronto: Dundurn, 1980, pp. 17-24.
This profile contains a chronology, a bibliography, excerpts taken from statements by Buckler, and others taken from critical commentaries. The longest section contains an essay which outlines Buckler's life, his literary career, and the development of his prose style. There is also a brief analysis of the themes and structure of each of the major works.
C59 Doerksen, L. M. "The Mountain and The Valley: An Evaluation." World Literature Written in English, 19, No. 1 (Spring 1980), 45-56.
Doerksen argues that The Mountain and the Valley is a novel of more significance than even its admirers have allowed. Buckler's essentially poetic technique expands the significance of the novel's episodes beyond their original references and its complex repeated patterns of symbolism (e.g., Ellen as combination sibyl and Fate) explore a "complex, difficult and universal psychological reality--the development of individual selfhood."
Essentially David fails to develop a separate identity and the result is "paradoxically both a defeat and a triumph." Various episodes in the novel are analyzed to indicate that David retreats from moments of self-definition and remains a divided personality because he cannot sever "The bonds of love that bind him to his home and family." David fails "to move beyond 'a condition for universality within him'...but this condition of universality coupled with his mastery of words and his sensitivity to all that impinges on his consciousness should fit him to be the consummate artist." Yet at the top of the mountain he characteristically demands nothing less than perfection in his rebellion against the limitations imposed on man by his human condition. He does, however, momentarily transcend the boundary between the "I" and the "not I" and "he becomes all that surrounds him." All his divisions are forever reconciled in his death. "The neo-Platonic critic can scarcely ask for a more serious theme."
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C75 "What Is Coronet?" was awarded first prize in a contest sponsored by that magazine (1938). (See B86.)
C76 Winner of Maclean's fiction contest, for "The Quarrel" (1949). (See B15.)
C77 President's Medal, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, for the best short story published during the preceding year, for "Anything Can Happen at Christmas" (1957 [B31]) and "The Dream and the Triumph" (1958 [B25]).
C78 Canada Council Arts Scholarship (1960-61).
C79 Canada Council Senior Arts Fellowship (1964-65).
C80 Canada Council Senior Arts Fellowship (1966-67).
C81 Centennial Medal (1967).
C82 Honorary D.Litt., University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick (1969).
C83 Honorary LL.D., Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia (1971).
C84 Awarded the first honourary membership in the Writers' Union of Canada (1974).
C85 Order of Canada (1974).
C86 Stephen Leacock Award for Humour for Whirligig. Also a cash prize donated by the Hudson's Bay Company (1978).
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C1 Cook, Gregory M., ed. Ernest Buckler. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 7. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1972. 145 pp. (Hereafter abbreviated as EB. Annotations of individual articles and reviews appear with their original publication citation.)
Contributors include Ian A. Atkinson (C62), Liselotte Berliner (D23), Claude Bissell (C12, D8, D12), G. Cook (D19), William Arthur Deacon (D4), Katherine Douglas (D7), Robert Harlow (D16), Stuart Keate (D3), S. Morgan-Powell (D6), John C. Orange (C64), Desmond Pacey (D22), Jack Sheriff (D17), Douglas Spettigue (D25), F.W. Watt (D15), and R.E. Watters (C8).
This first major study of Buckler's work is a collection of essays and reviews together with letters from Buckler dealing with his first three novels. Cook's introduction attempts to trace the development of Buckler's thought and style by pointing out how the three novels are connected. The essays and reviews deal variously with Buckler's central themes (rural life, time and decay, the life of the artist) and the shifts in his prose style.
Previously unpublished items include letters from Buckler which discuss his writing habits, his theories of novel writing learned from writing the novels themselves, and how each novel developed in his own mind and feelings. He suggests that there are layers of irony in The Cruelest Month and he talks about the fictional memoir form of Ox Bells and Fireflies.
A previously published essay by R.E. Watters analyzes the narrative structure of The Mountain and the Valley and traces David's development. There is also a short letter from Harry Brown to Angus Cameron in which Brown outlines why he thinks the book is "a classic."
This volume is almost exclusively devoted to the novels.
C2 Young, Alan R. Ernest Buckler. New Canadian Library, Canadian Writers, No. 15. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1976. 64 pp.
This brief but very useful study of Buckler's writing from the early short stories to Nova Scotia: Window on the Sea sets out to show that Buckler is more than a "one-novel" writer, and to analyze Buckler's development as a writer who began with conventional forms and moved to more open forms such as the fictional memoir and the extended prose-poem which cannot be easily classified.
There is some useful biographical and background information linking Buckler to his narrators and commentators, and a list of his basic recurring themes (two "worlds" juxtaposed). Young consistently points out that Buckler knows that there is no clear or easy choice to be made between the two "worlds" of past and present, youth and adulthood, innocence and experience, rural garden and industrial urbanization. Consequently, the tensions produce intense concerns in his writing with time and death. The figure of the alienated artist is seen as struggling to fix or transcend time and death, and usually Buckler's treatment of him is both sympathetic and ironic.
There are brief sections on Buckler's radio plays, articles, and short stories--the last of which are categorized by theme and subject matter. This is followed by a general discussion of The Mountain and the Valley and The Cruelest Month in the light of the thesis stated above. Young also develops an analysis of Buckler's thematic and structural use of symbolism, and how Buckler achieves emotional intensity and psychological accuracy in his two novels. David Canaan's death is seen as a paradox containing irony, and the ending of The Cruelest Month is seen in the same light. Even the redemptive process contains elements of self-deception.
The discussion of the last two works focuses on the development of Buckler's prose style as it moves closer to poetry.
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C70 Cameron, Donald. "Ernest Buckler: A Conversation with an Irritated Oyster." The Mysterious East, Jan. 1970, pp. 21-24. Rpt. "Don Cameron Interviews Ernest Buckler." In Quill & Quire, July 1972, pp. 5, 8. Rpt. In Conversations with Canadian Novelists--1. Toronto: Macmillan, 1973, pp. 3-11.
The Quill & Quire reprint contains a photograph and biographical and bibliographical note.
Cameron questions Buckler about his writing habits, his expectations from his writing, and his attitudes towards art. Buckler says that he values his isolation, though it is not easy to bear. It tends to help his writing, but writing itself is described with images of sickness and disease. Buckler also briefly describes his work habits, his motivation, and his belief that in his community "you get the universals more than you do almost anywhere else."
In a discussion about the relationship of art to life, Buckler indicates that he believes that art does not imitate life, it embroiders life, but is truer than facts. Writing does not matter at all, but he is compelled to do it. He ends by affirming the positive values of love, humour, and sentiment or "feeling."
C71 Clarkson, Adrienne. Nova Scotia Novelist Ernest Buckler. CBC Take 30, 30 Jan. 1974. (30 min.)
A television audio of an interview which includes dramatizations of part of The Mountain and the Valley (C74) and Window on the Sea (B197).
C72 CBC Supplement. Pt. F, 3 Nov. 1974. (3 min.)
Brief statements about farming and literature by Ernest Buckler to an unidentified interviewer.
C73 CBC Take 30. Pt.G, 17 Dec. 1974. (4 min.)
A television series examining Canadian books for Christmas gifts, with interviews with the author. In relation to Window on the Sea, Buckler talks about psychiatrists as the biggest hoax since Piltdown Man, other people, and God as a versatile bastard.
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C74 Peterson, Len. The Mountain and the Valley. Prod. and dir. Esse W. Ljungh. CBC CBC Stage, 1956. (90 min.) Rebroadcast. CBC-FM Theatre, 9 Jan. 1967. (90 min.) Rebroadcast. CBC-FM Tuesday Night, 10 Oct. 1972. (90 min.) Rebroadcast (excerpts). In Nova Scotia Novelist Ernest Buckler, by Adrienne Clarkson. CBC Take 30, 30 Jan. 1974. (See A1, A7, B197, and C70.)
Clarkson's program is a television audio of an interview program (C71) which includes parts of The Mountain and the Valley and Window on the Sea (B197).
Peterson's adaptation of Buckler's novel recounts the mixture of revulsion and love felt by the son of an Annapolis Valley farmer for his plodding rural life.
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C60 Spettigue, D. O. "The English Canadian Novel: Some Attitudes and Themes in Relation to Form." Diss. Toronto 1966.
Passing references to The Mountain and the Valley.
C61 Cook, Gregory M. "Ernest Buckler: His Creed and Craft." M.A. Thesis Acadia 1967.
This thesis contains letters from Buckler to the author, the first listing of his published short stories, and a summary of his critical reception up to 1967. The thesis is largely biographical. It outlines his family background, community influences, geographical and historical factors, and hints at how these things can be found in his writing. It traces his career, offers reasons for his relative obscurity, and describes his attitudes towards writing and being a writer. There is a chapter devoted to some of his letters in Esquire, selected articles, and his criticism. Two chapters catalogue his short stories, and the final chapter discusses the first three novels as a trilogy, emphasizing shifts in Buckler's prose style. There is an extensive bibliography of reviews on Buckler's early works.
C62 Atkinson, Ian A. "The Mountain and the Valley: A Study in Canadian Fiction." M.A. Thesis Guelph 1969. EB (excerpt--pp. 57-58, 77-81).
This thesis attempts to find the novel's significance in the history of Canadian fiction, and to analyze various patterns in the novel. The purpose of the thesis is summed up in the introduction: "To examine the symbolic technique Buckler uses to create the myth of the sacrificed artist...[and it] will employ a synoptic 'Fryean' approach and therefore myth, symbol and image will be examined from several angles." Chapter i examines the symbolic significance of the novel's structure; Chapter ii analyzes the imagery and symbolism of the novel; Chapter iii examines the relationship of characters and themes; Chapter iv discusses the significance of dreams. In a conclusion, the author locates David's tragedy as a "refinement of the low mimetic" and David as a version of the pharmakos. "For Buckler, life is a recurring cyclic process that denies man a comprehension of death." He captures this theme "through his symbolic technique in structure, imagery, character and dream."
C63 Harris, Bernita H. "A Comparison of the Symbolism and Imagery of Ernest Buckler's The Cruelest Month with T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land.'" M.A. Thesis New Brunswick 1969.
By comparing the function of the symbols and images in Buckler's The Cruelest Month with the use of the same symbols and images in Eliot's The Waste Land, it becomes evident that similarities exist between the two authors' views. They share an appreciation of ironic symbol and image and "a view of existence which result[s] in similar themes--the sterility of contemporary life, the lack of communication between individuals, the isolation of man's condition, a search for rebirth in the fragments of the past." The quest pattern in the novel counterpoints its narrative pessimism by implying a faith in a "pattern of life which allows genuine rebirth or renewal."
C64 Orange, John C. "Ernest Buckler: The Masks of the Artist." Phil. M. Thesis Toronto 1970. EB (excerpt--pp. 137-42).
The thesis traces the development of Buckler's treatment of the artist and the theme of the function of art and the imagination from the early short stories through to Ox Bells and Fireflies. It is the first work to use materials in the manuscript collection, including letters to publishers, as evidence of Buckler's often ironic detachment from his artist characters. This detachment, his sympathy for those characters, the many dialogues on art, and the elements of Buckler's own style, "penetrate into the paradoxical centre" of the human condition. All the tensions exercized in the stories and novels are resolved in Ox Bells and Fireflies and anticipated by such characters as Ellen and Paul.
Woven into the central argument are comments on the relationship between the theme of the artist and themes of time and isolation. The prose style, as a reflection of these themes as well as those of memory and perception, is also traced through the stories and novels. Ox Bells and Fireflies is seen as the work which resolves the tensions set up in the earlier works and which completes Buckler's investigation of their themes.
C65 Reichert, Richard. "The Mountain and the Valley, Reconsidered." M.A. Thesis New Brunswick 1971.
This thesis is a textual analysis of The Mountain and the Valley concentrating on David Canaan's "encounter with...communication and time." David's developing awareness of these two aspects of experience, and his struggle with them are examined in two separate chapters. A final chapter examines the Epilogue to show how the interweaving of the two themes into David's consciousness is consistent with the rest of the novel and with the culmination of the events that lead up to David's death.
C66 Kluge, Einhard F. H. "The Artist in Modern Canadian Fiction." M.A. Thesis Alberta 1972, pp. 52-66.
This thesis traces the development of the artist-hero in some Canadian fiction from 1889 to the present. It places these characters on a wide grid by examining their "relationships to others, to modern society and to nature...[and] their preference for the 'tower' or the 'fount' [as] defined in Ivory Towers and Sacred Founts."
Chapter ii analyzes the artist heroes of The Mountain and the Valley, As for Me and My House, and Music at the Close within the parameters outlined above, showing how they are similar to earlier versions of the character and different in their acceptance of modern society.
C67 Walker, William Ronald. "The Theme of the Artist in the Novels of Ernest Buckler." M.A. Thesis Windsor 1972.
The argument of this thesis is that the first three major works taken together provide a comprehensive discussion of Buckler's theory of art and the role of the artist. The artist must be integrated into, yet apart from, his society. He must bridge the gaps between inner and outer life, city and country. When he cannot do these things, as David cannot, he is isolated from others, and he uses his isolation as a weapon.
In The Mountain and the Valley and, later, in The Cruelest Month, Buckler explores other problems: the inadequacy of words, the rapid passing of time and the changes it brings, the difficulty of finding the essential core of reality, the dry periods of the artist, and the problems of self-delusion. In Ox Bells and Fireflies, Mark combines the artistic aspects of David and Ellen and uses a style to show how the macrocosm is held in the microcosm.
C67a Poff, Douglas. "Threads of Similarity: Buckler's Patterns of Dramatic Congruence: A Reading of The Mountain and the Valley." M.A. Thesis Toronto 1974.
C68 Willmott, Jean Huntley. "A Writer's Crucible: The Short Stories of Ernest Buckler." M.A. Thesis Sir George Williams 1974.
This thesis contains a study of the published short stories and their relationship to the first three longer works. The short stories are seen as testing grounds for themes and stylistic techniques that can be found in the novels. The emphasis in the study is largely thematic. However, here and there in the thesis are discussions of Buckler's maturing style, his failed experiment, and his concern with the difficulty of perfectly capturing experience in a net of words. The thesis quotes from a number of letters written by Buckler to the author, outlining some of his attitudes toward writing stories.
C69 Lyon, John E. "The Challenge of Nihilism: Problems of the Artist in the Works of Ernest Buckler." M.A. Thesis Waterloo 1975.
This thematic study of the artist figure concentrates on how the authors in Buckler's works attempt to arrest "devouring time" by capturing the sensations of a childhood past in a net of words. Their success is only partial, while the artisans such as Ellen in The Mountain and the Valley, Mark's grandmother in Ox Bells and Fireflies, and the grandmother who also hooks rugs and tells stories in Nova Scotia: Window on the Sea are completely successful because their art is a combination of useful work, craft, love, and family ties. Buckler's distrust of changes which have eroded older rural values (machinery, artificial uses of language, etc.) is analyzed, and Lyon asserts that art, work, love, and memories of an idyllic past are what Buckler sees as the forces which can challenge the "nihilism" of time and the "outside" world. There is also some attempt to analyze Buckler's own life and personality in this study and to define which characters gain Buckler's sympathy.
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D45 French, William. "In Buckler Country, Neighbour Is a Holy Word." The Globe and Mail, 2 June 1973, p. 36.
The review emphasizes Buckler's characteristics of style--how he "strains against the inadequate language, forcing it to its limits, as he strives for the essence of things." The best passages outnumber the undisciplined ones, and the photographs are praised as "echoing Buckler's images with uncanny feelings."
D46 Bickerstaff, Isaac. "Running Blue Noses." Books in Canada, July-Sept. 1973, p. 35.
"It is like a patchwork rug, brilliant in some places, ragged in others."
D47 McSweeney, Kerry. Rev. of Nova Scotia: Window on the Sea. Queen's Quarterly, 80 (Autumn 1973), 500.
A brief notice complaining that Buckler often seems "more intoxicated by words than moved by his subject."
D48 Major, Marjorie. Rev. of Nova Scotia: Window on the Sea. Canadian Author & Bookman, 50, No. 1 (Fall 1974), 28.
The review is mixed. The reviewer suggests that the view of the province is too one-sided, that there should be more seascapes, and that there is repetition in the text. But she recommends the book as "a lot more than a coffee table book."
D49 Lochhead, Douglas. Rev. of Nova Scotia: Window on the Sea. University of Toronto Quarterly, 44 (Summer 1975), 396-97.
The reviewer is unreserved in his praise of the book. Buckler is writing prose-poems which "miraculously evoke the land, the people, the sea," and are suited perfectly to the photographs.
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D19 Cook, G. Rev. of Ox Bells and Fireflies. The Dalhousie Review, 48 (Autumn 1968), 413-14. EB.
Using many quotations from the book, Cook attempts to capture the texture of the prose and to outline its structure. He also sees it as a culmination of the first two novels: the first deals with the flesh, the second with the bones of life, and this one with the spirit of the way it was. "So Buckler surpasses himself not only by translating experience, but by finding the mystery and the oracle in all things without yielding to the sentimental and the nostalgic. He purges himself and his work of these pitfalls by objective clarification, judgement, and universal statement."
D20 Bissell, Claude. "A Masterly Return to Innocence and Wonder." The Globe and Mail, 9 Nov. 1968, p. 27. Rpt. in The Canadian Reader, 10, No. 2. (Spring 1969), 5-7. EB.
The book praises innocence and the simple life where "man and nature join in love and understanding." This is part of Buckler's central myth along with his belief that the modern city fragments experience. The other side of his myth is the "existence of an imperishable beauty that despises time." The style is not only intensely regional, but also metaphysical. "I believe this to be one of the important Canadian books of this century. Canadians have few masterpieces; this is surely one."
D21 Braddock, John. Rev. of Ox Bells and Fireflies. The Atlantic Advocate, Dec. 1968, p. 56.
This is a brief, enthusiastic review praising the way Buckler captures his world so that it is "lived and not just observed" by the reader. The world described is unified and timeless.
D22 Pacey, Desmond. "Earthy Idyll." Canadian Literature, No. 40 (Spring 1969), pp. 91-92. EB.
There is a brief review of the history of what Pacey calls the Regional Idyll and Buckler's work is cited as a recent and rare example of that genre. It also avoids the overly optimistic and sentimental quality of many Regional Idylls, because Buckler weaves into his bright fabric a few contrasting threads of ironic grey or sombre black. The landscape description often leads to a kind of writing which calls too much attention to itself. The descriptions of character are much more successfully done.
D23 Berliner, Liselotte. "Deep Pool of Recognition." British Columbia Library Quarterly, 32, No. 4 (April 1969), 19-21. EB.
The review compares stylistic traits of this work with The Mountain and the Valley. The reviewer is impressed by "the complete interplay of the inner and outer landscape, the fusion of good and bad, the flow that is inherent in every organic and inorganic substance." The tension created by the images and symbols is as cathartic as in Greek tragedy. The style is magic.
D24 Morgan, Marjorie Christine. Rev. of Ox Bells and Fireflies. Canadian Author & Bookman, 44, No. 4 (Summer 1969), 16.
This is a glowing review of the book stressing its evocative quality and its vivid, almost mesmeric use of sensuous images.
D25 Spettigue, D. Rev. of Ox Bells and Fireflies. Quarry, 18, No. 4 (Summer 1969), 53-54. EB.
In his thoughtful review, Spettigue stresses how Buckler's vision and style attempt to link the inner and outer worlds. When the two meet, happiness is their correlation. When they cannot meet, time is often the villain and misery is the result. Escape is toward those "inexplicable translations by which the present and past momentarily unite...[celebrating] that mysterious transcending of time."
D26 Roper, Gordon. Rev. of Ox Bells and Fireflies. University of Toronto Quarterly, 38 (July 1969), 355-56.
Buckler recreates his world of the rural past by using unexpected associations. His need to express his acute perceptions "seems almost compulsive" and results in his use of metaphor, synecdoche, imagist prose, and the idiom of local speech. His range is also very wide--"from simple to complex, from comic to tragic, from subtleness to bluntness."
D27 Thibaudeau, Colleen. "Flocks and Crows." Alphabet, No. 16 (Sept. 1969), pp. 66-69.
Coleen Thibaudeau responds to a negative review of the book by Kildare Dobbs (Toronto Daily Star, December 3, 1968) by quoting sections of prose to illustrate the elegaic quality and the accuracy of Buckler's memories. She suggests that the memories are organized to present "a sense of continuity" and that Buckler is closer to the romantic and the mystic than to a pastoral writer.
D28 Cameron, Donald. Rev. of Ox Bells and Fireflies. Queen's Quarterly, 76 (Autumn 1969), 546-47.
Cameron refers to sections of his interview with Buckler (C70) in order to illuminate and justify the book's sentiment and its purpose. Buckler depicts our human situation in a "long philosophical poem in prose." The book is "deeply rooted in fact, but it goes beyond fact to art and philosophy."
D29 Golding, Helen. "Books." Nova Scotia Magazine, 1, No. 2 (March 1970), 19.
The review sums up the purpose of the book, is positive on balance, but complains of the at times sentimental and over-written quality of some passages.
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D12 Bissell, Claude. Rev. of The Cruelest Month. The Dalhousie Review; 43 (Winter 1963-64), 566-69. EB.
After summarizing the cast of characters and the setting, Bissell analyzes the novel as a study of various kinds of love between men and women and as a statement "about love as a stubborn fact of human existence." The people in the novel are, however, bound together by suffering. The more complex design of this novel (as compared with the earlier one) brings with it a more complex prose, microscopic details, and a very slow narrative movement. The novel is stiffly constructed and there are so many shifts there is no strong centre to it.
D13 Montagnes, Anne. "Buckler Encore No Classic." The Globe Magazine [The Globe and Mail], 18 Jan. 1964, p. 15.
The reviewer outlines the love triangles among the characters, but is disappointed that the resulting conflicts are not resolved so much as terminated. The novel is "too talky" and the structure too contrived. Buckler does not pinpoint urban feelings exactly and the symbols "are adornment rather than substance." There should be more action and less talk.
D14 Baldwin, R. G. Rev. of The Cruelest Month. Queen's Quarterly, 71 (Summer 1964), 277. EB.
The novel is described as "brilliant but exhausting" and Buckler has attempted to give more than he has--"at least in his style, which is sometimes grotesquely difficult, almost self-consuming as it turns on itself." The people "get bored of the talk" eventually and Morse Creed expounds Buckler's own creed on writing. If the reader is patient, the novel will reward him many times.
D15 Watt, F. W. Rev. of The Cruelest Month. University of Toronto Quarterly, 33 (July 1964), 396-97. EB.
Buckler represents the best and worst features of Canadian fiction. The second novel contains thoughtfulness, sincerity, awkwardness, and heaviness. The novel suffers because the author tells us about the characters rather than showing them in action. They all speak alike in contrived figures of speech. The story of Paul "is depicted with a genuine moving force" and the forest fire scene is successful.
D16 Harlow, Robert. "Sound and Fury." Canadian Literature, No. 19 (Winter 1964), pp. 58-59. EB.
This very negative review labels the novel "a still-life with sound track" and complains about the long passages of dialogue on subjects which only interest the author. He feels that the author thinks that Letty is "grotesque" and Rex is the most interesting character. He grudgingly accedes that Buckler can, at times, use language well.
D17 Sheriff, Jack. "New Novel Reviewed." Amethyst, No. 3 (Winter 1964), pp. 54-56. EB.
This very enthusiastic review compares Buckler's concern with character and with personal relationships, as well as his "rhythmic rise-fall-rise structure," to the novels of E. M. Forster. They both put a great deal of importance on place as well. Buckler's "brilliant analysis of individual character" lets "the reader see each character's view of himself" as he/she moves through a Hegelian dialectic towards synthesis and baptismal awakening through fire and water. Sheriff does not read the ending as ironic in any way.
D18 Godfrey, D. "Buckler and Alien." The Tamarack Review, No. 36 (Summer 1965), pp. 82-86.
The tone of this review is very positive. Godfrey compares the novel to a tapestry. The depths of each character are sketched in "with such intensity that the motion seems arrested and illuminated, like Colville's dog turning to the scent in its bright meadow." There will be complaints that the style is "too much," but Godfrey admires it for being "defiantly too much." The whole book has "a double-crosticy aloofness to it, and the corollary of disillusionment too, for what if you feel the decipherment reveals more disguise than discernment?"
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D1 Bullock, F. H. Rev. of The Mountain and the Valley. New York Herald Tribune Book Review, 26 Oct. 1952, p. 8.
The reviewer is enthusiastic about the earthy, lusty, tender quality of the novel, but he mentions too that the novel offers "things of the spirit" and a "rare study of the effect of loneliness upon the human personality and the blessed response when the hunger for companionship is satisfied."
D2 Fuller, Edmund. Rev. of The Mountain and the Valley. Chicago Sunday Tribune, 26 Oct. 1952, p. 2.
The review is mixed. The reviewer admires the skill in presenting characters, but he finds the patterns of presentation frustrating in their "aimlessness." The author is also too self-conscious about "bodily and biological details" and he gives way to "painfully fancy writing."
D3 Keate, Stuart. "Good Earth, Good People." New York Times Book Review, 26 Oct. 1952, p. 5. EB.
The book is described as a "paean to the good earth and good people" though the narrative seems uneven and formless and the language "a little overripe." Nevertheless, the work contains "almost aching sensuality," perceptive psychology, and a good ear for dialect. With proper editing, a good book could have been a great one.
D4 Deacon, William Arthur. "Every Little Movement Has a Meaning All Its Own." The Globe and Mail, 29 Nov. 1952, p. 13. EB.
The reviewer is excited by Buckler's "poetic prose," his use of symbolism, and the way he can "wring significance from the most trivial circumstance." He says the novel is an "interpretation of the ill-divined thoughts of the characters and the translation of their feelings," even when they themselves do not understand them. Deacon finds the ending ambiguous.
D5 Charlesworth, J. L. "The Good Life in Nova Scotia." Saturday Night, 13 Dec. 1952, p. 38.
The brief review is positive in balance, though the reviewer has reservations about the plausibility of David's sensitivity and the "old-fashioned" use of omniscient narrative point of view. He stresses the author's landscape descriptions and rural roots.
D6 Morgan-Powell, S. "Fine Farm Life Study." The Montreal Star, 20 Dec. 1952, p. 16. EB.
The reviewer welcomes this novel about life on the farm because there are so few like it produced in this country. He recounts the plot and praises Buckler's ability to describe man's responses to nature. Buckler's detailed analysis of emotional bonds among family members is both a strength and a weakness, though usually his "human touch is unfading and at times very moving." The harsh and bitter side of farm life is included in this novel and the reviewer praises it as one of the most significant novels in many years.
D7 Douglas, Katherine. Rev. of The Mountain and the Valley. The Dalhousie Review, 32 (Winter 1953), iii, v. EB.
The reviewer describes the novel as a study of David's torn loyalties and also as "a powerful study of the human spirit." His eventual isolation is inevitable, his only refuge, and his "supreme torture." She praises Buckler's prose style for its concrete images, his clarity, and his ability to "evoke half-forgotten but instantly recognized" sensations and impressions with startling originality and power.
D8 Bissell, Claude. "Letters in Canada: 1952--Fiction." University of Toronto Quarterly, 22 (April 1953), 290-92. EB.
The review outlines how Buckler's novel both conforms and departs from conventions of the novel of education in its uses of time and of psychological development. It is, moreover, a study of human relations in a family and the complex ways they work themselves out. The Realism is "unrelenting," the style intense and painstaking. Buckler's novel grows naturally and inevitably from his profound realization of the human predicament.
D9 Hebb, Andrew. Rev. of The Mountain and the Valley. The Canadian Forum, July 1953, p. 94.
A brief review quoting examples of Buckler's masterful use of simile and metaphor. The story is about "a decadent Nova Scotia farming community" and the blending of human passion and fields and skies.
D10 Pacey, Desmond. "A Group of Seven." The Fiddlehead, No. 51 (Winter 1962), pp. 63-64.
There is a notice here of the New Canadian Library edition of The Mountain and the Valley along with six other novels.
D11 Stephens, Donald. "Old Canadians Renewed." Canadian Literature, No. 12 (Spring 1962), p. 83.
In this review of the paperback releases by New Canadian Library, Stephens refers to The Mountain and the Valley as having psychological appeal. He also commends the fine introduction by Claude Bissell.
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D30 Spettigue, D. O. Rev. of The Rebellion of Young David and Other Stories. Queen's Quarterly, 82 (Winter 1975), 657-59.
Spettigue welcomes the collection though he feels the thematic organization of the stories does not add very much to our understanding of Buckler's work. Taken together the stories knit together Buckler's central mythology. Buckler, as short-story writer, seems to be working over a few themes, characters, and conflicts "in the hope of achieving their potential for the unity that is the subject of his novels." If some are sentimental, rather than expressive of the transcendent unity Buckler seeks to resolve, it is probably because of the magazines for which they were written.
D31 French, William. "Just Blame Enthusiasm for Flaws." The Globe and Mail, 19 April 1975, p. 36.
Since the stories were written between 1941 and 1959 for the mass audience, one might expect them to be old-fashioned and patronizing, and to some extent that is the case. However, many of them are first-rate and they all contain Bucklers intensity of vision, his dedication to craftsmanship, his central themes, his lyricism. It is useful and convenient to have the stories together because they "add another dimension to our knowledge of one of our most dedicated and accomplished writers."
D32 Young, Alan R. Rev. of The Rebellion of Young David and Other Stories. The Dalhousie Review, 55 (Summer 1975), 385-87.
Chambers has done a service both in his publication and in his selection of these stories. They outline Buckler's main themes and represent has best stylistic traits. There are a number of others which could have been included, especially since they contain some other themes that recur in Buckler's works. The collection confirms that Buckler is not an experimental writer, but that his work contains perceptiveness, emotional power, and control.
D33 Waddington, Miriam. "Ernest's Importance of Being." Books in Canada, July 1975, pp. 6-7.
Canadian critics have not paid enough attention to the development of "psychological realism" in our fiction possibly because they are incapable of understanding it. This retrospective of stories about psychological relationships and the "life of the feelings" indicates how "psychological realism" grew up as a form of fiction in the 1930-60 period. The stories are a testimony to Buckler's strengths and limitations as an artist. His psychological understanding reinforces his "consciousness and articulation of human history."
D34 Gillese, John Patrick. Rev. of The Rebellion of Young David and Other Stories. Canadian Author & Bookman, 51, No. 1 (Fall 1975), 26.
A brief review proclaims Buckler as "one of the top ten Canadian writers of the past hundred years." The reviewer lauds Buckler's insight into human nature, universal themes, richness of mood, and atmosphere.
D35 Mansbridge, Francis. "Simple Stories." Canadian Literature, No. 66 (Autumn 1975), pp. 117-18.
The stories gain in that they are not as self-consciously written as the novels. At the same time they may be too conventional, folksy, and repetitious. There is a "moral strain" in many of them that leads to sentimentality. His rural stories are more successful than those about writers in cities, and his portraits of men are better than those of women. The stories may be at times naive but they display compassion and understanding for his land and his people.
D36 Orange, John. "Buckler Revisited." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 16 (1976), pp. 182-84.
The review outlines Buckler's career as a short-story writer, and argues that, when studied in chronological order the stories reveal developments of themes and styles that recur in Buckler's works. The stories which were chosen are good stories, but there are many others which would also have been rewarding reading. A few of the stories seem old-fashioned, but, generally, there is always a passage that seems to communicate a "shaft of clarity" which is the unmistakable signature of the author.
D37 Sandler, Linda. "Short Fiction." The Tamarack Review, No. 69 (Summer 1976), pp. 80-86.
Buckler's stories have their origins in nineteenth-century English pastoral romance and the collection is "primarily of scholarly and documentary interest." The usual themes are represented, but there is no "social context" in any of the stories. They do cater to a mass audience, but Robert Fulford's remark that "their cautionary message about progress will find more sympathy in 1976 than it did in 1950" is probably accurate.
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D38 French, William. "Buckler in an Unbuttoned Mood Plays a Little Ragtime, But Not Always Well." The Globe and Mail, 15 Oct. 1977, p. 45.
"Whirligig, in sum, is at once a tantalizing book, because it shows that Buckler in top form is a humorist to reckon with, and a frustrating book because he doesn't reach that form often enough. We can only hope that he'll go back to playing his concert grand."
D39 Godard, Barbara. Rev. of Whirligig. Quill & Quire, 14 Nov. 1977, p. 6.
The review is positive. The reviewer especially admires the prose pieces which are "characterized by a style of acerbic penetration mixed with loving complicity." The satire in the poems is more aggressive.
D40 Nowlan, Michael O. "Atlantic Bookcase." The Atlantic Advocate, Dec. 1977, p. 61.
A brief, positive notice outlines the contents of the book and says the poetry is reminiscent "of unpolished Ogden Nash." The humour has "an Atlantic tang" and the essays are the product of a keen perception.
D41 Kertzer, Jon. "Windmills and Turnpikes." The Canadian Forum, Dec.-Jan. 1977-78, p. 39.
Buckler creates a personality for himself which "manages to keep his balance in a frantic world through wit, mockery and the occasional result." He keeps values secure: common sense, friendship, humour, words, the past.
The review is generally favourable, lauds Buckler the stylist, but points how he is often self-conscious, even though he knows his own faults. This work "provides enjoyable glimpses of the writer when he is relaxing...[and] antic and whimsical."
D42 Griffin, Martin. Rev. of Whirligig. The Antigonish Review, No. 32 (Winter 1978), pp. 107-09.
The review quotes some of the witty material and complains that much of the work is flawed. The endless puns become tiresome, some allusions are obscure, and some of the writing is pretentious. Buckler is more at home "when puzzling over the complications of everyday life."
D43 Young, Alan R. Rev. of Whirligig. The Fiddlehead, No. 116 (Winter 1978), pp. 169-71.
The reviewer classifies the pieces in the book under three headings: those that exploit the "lighter side of rural life, [those] that satirize the absurdities of big business, high art and crass commercialism," and those that simply play with words. Each kind of writing is traced back to Buckler's earlier writing and to his "humane values of rural society" as set against the facades of modern urban life. It is "an occasional work," but a welcome one, even though the "humour often seems premeditated if not occasionally predictable."
D44 Weir, Lorraine. "Country Cuteness." Canadian Literature, No. 80 (Spring 1979), pp. 85-86.
The collection "achieves heights of vulgarity and naivete," simple-mindedness, and "chauvinist absurdity." Buckler shows contempt for women and modernist art and literature. Buckler's reputation will suffer from this book, but "perhaps it is time for a review of that as well, for surely Buckler's style has never been his strong point. He has achieved recognition almost in spite of himself."
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The critical assessments of Davies' works focus on his themes and techniques. Some critics argue that Davies' interest in Jungian and Freudian psychology leads to his modification of traditional romance forms. Often his style is described as conservative, his vision nineteenth century; his themes concern entrapment in time. Interestingly, Davies' ability as a satirist is both praised and condemned. His satirical focus on colonialism and the garrison mentality in Canada is seen by some critics to continue the development of this mentality and by others to move Canadian literature beyond such restrictions. Critics have proposed that Davies is one of Canada's more successful playwrights. Because, in his plays, Davies concentrates on mythological and psychological types, some critics perceive depth in his characters, while others perceive stereotypes.
Davies' use of psychology, in terms of Freud and Jung, merges with pagan and Christian mythology. Carole Gerson notes that these elements converge, in Fifth Business, in "a complex pattern of anality, diabolism, misogyny, sexual repression, and guilt" (C327). Many critics comment on Davies' stress on the integration of various parts in the self which leads to a larger integration of the self into the universe. Gordon Roper and Zoe Collins English discuss the integration in terms of the Jungian "shadow" (C189, C404); David Webster discusses Jungian "synchronicity" (C243); Paul A. McCann calls integration the conflict of Eros and Thanatos in a Freudian and Jungian context (C410); Russell Brown and Donna A. Bennett see the "shadow" as the trickster (C302, C365); Patricia Morley calls this union "a religious myth of achieved freedom and spiritual growth" and forgiveness (C294); Wilfred Cude presents Ramsay's search for significance as his claim to sainthood and notes the persistence of spiritualism within the West's most materialistic concepts (C319).
Patricia Monk notes that three areas of Jung's psychological theory are addressed in Davies' novels: the role of the analyst, dream interpretation, and the theory of functions, but, throughout his analysis, anomalies surface which seemingly contradict or undercut traditional Jungian psychology (C3l5). W. J. Keith responds to Monk's article, refining her thesis of "profound ambivalence" to Jung, to Davies' integration of "structural balance," "intellectual adjustments," and "artistic requirements." Thus, Liesl is not a counter to Jungian theory, but the "practical 'shadow' to the psychoanalyst's theory" (C341).
Clara Thomas relates the integration to the form of "a quest romance" with what Northrop Frye calls "a genuine social mythology" (C324). Calvin Smiley expands on Davies' changing quest structures in the development from Tempest-Tost to The Manticore. Davies creates a structure "more suited to the thematic content in changing his form from social prose romance to psychological prose romance." Smiley examines the shift in narrative focus from third to first person, the shift in characterization from simple to complex, the shift in comedy from satire to shared humour, and the shift in imagery from the restricting focus on the theatre, newspaper running, and music, to the more embracing scope of archetypal myth (C403). Paul Davy sees the structure of the Deptford trilogy connecting through common characters, autobiographical-confessional forms, and through the common theme of Heldenleben. The hero is able to rise above his "'time-ridden' state and become a subject" of life, rather than its object (C337). John Dean notes that Davies' pinpointing of a moment of time in the stories "is actually a firm narrative frame ironically used to bind the internal illogicalities" (C349).
Valery Budds, like many other critics, notes that the Salterton novels portray people "entrapped in twentieth-century societal prisons" (C397), but other critics' examination of time reveal different aspects. Robert Kroetsch notes that Davies' search for literal ancestors takes the form of "a journey to the old civilization, the sum of our ancestry.... The condition of prehistory is necessary to valid and authentic birth" (C240). Others note that Davies is "a Victorian eccentric let loose in the wrong century" (C275); his vision is nineteenth-century and, perhaps, "impossible" in a society where everyone tends to "make up his own culture as he goes along" (C102). Robert Cluett's analysis of Davies' writing style reveals that he is modern in some ways, but generally quite conservative for a contemporary writer (C284). Cluett's later analysis of a portion from A Voice from the Attic shows Davies' style is "Archaic, Romanesque, and formal" and consequently more in line with the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries than our own (C318).
Other aspects of Davies' language concern his humour and satire. Vincent Douglas Sharman argues that Davies' targets are often "petty or inappropriate to satire...an aspect of his writing that is particularly distasteful in its lack of discrimination." Samuel Marchbanks "is a failure as a satirist because he is merely a superficial, rather silly snob." "His own pettiness frequently makes him as much a provincial as those he satirizes" (C395). Contrarily, Victor J. Ramraj argues that, in the Marchbanks sketches, Davies is one of the few committed satirists in Canada, "but his early novels tend to become weary of the satirical tone, often ending in romances." Satirically, he "seldom lifts his voice in uncontrolled anger or in direct denunciation." The shortcomings he satirizes understandably "tend to be more petty and vapid than gross or vicious," since Davies feels "that some follies and foibles are what give savour to life" (C406). Desmond Pacey notes that, in the fifties, the gibes at Canadianisms by Davies "are expressions of a real if reluctant involvement in the Canadian situation" (C109).
A. Edinborough argues that "Samuel Marchbanks is a direct descendant of Sam Slick, with a bit of Calgary Eye Opener Bob Edwards thrown in from the wrong side of the blanket" (C168). Gordon Roper, in his Introduction to Marchbanks' Almanack, lists the autobiographical ties of Marchbanks with Davies, notes that "Marchbanks' feelings and opinions are those of Robertson Davies--selected, transmuted, and dramatized as a verbal performance," yet Marchbanks is also "a Peterborough Everyman." "Technically, Marchbanks is brother to the 'Y' of Stephen Leacock's 'My Financial Career' and cousin to Samuel Clemens' persona, Mark Twain" (C163).
Davies' merciless exposure of the "ignorance, pretentiousness, and materialism that pass for 'love of the arts' in old Ontario" (C147) is for some critics an important step in the attempt to move Canadians and Canadian literature beyond the provincial and garrison mentality. By rejecting "the stolid provincial mask," Davies is able to map out "important areas of the Canadian terrain inconnu" (C144). Theodore Wing, in his thesis on the negative effects of the religious ethic, notes that Davies' middle-class morality, rooted in Presbyterianism, Fundamentalism, and Anglicanism, appears in the guise of social taboo, small-town morality, narrow-mindedness, and bigotry (C396). For Patricia Monk, the garrison mentality is transcended because the psychological and mythical elements in Fifth Business manifest a "mandala of the completed self, not only for Dunstan..., but also for the Canadian collective psyche." The four archetypes finally provide Dunstan with the Eros qualities of imagination and spiritual vision which he, as a person and a typical Canadian, lacks (C368). But other critics disagree. Hallvard Dahlie notes that, in A Mixture of Frailties, Davies' "self-conscious Canadianism" creates an inconsistency of tone; we are unsure whether his fluctuating ironies satirize Canada, or the United States and Britain (C246). The view that Davies encourages a colonial mentality is supported by Charles Taylor's statement that Davies "underestimates our own country and...overestimates some others," especially in the field of literature (C197), and by June Callwood's statement that "... Davies believes himself to be a man among boobs in this country" (C57).
Assessing the feeble state of Canadian theatre, William Solly asserts that our most successful playwrights have relied on humour, Davies being the exemplar (C130). Although Davies includes "some insufferable female characters, [and] a talkiness too reminiscent of Shaw," his work is "successful theatrically due to its well-drawn male characters, its overflowing wit" (C387). Mavor Moore notes that Davies' initial one-act plays "show a rare ability to enter into a wide variety of characters, a remarkable ear for the speech of many places and social levels, an ebullient sense of humour, disrespect for sacred cows and a sophisticate's abhorrence of everything and everyone dull" (C193).
Of the characters in Davies' novels, Hugo McPherson states that not until A Mixture of Frailties does Davies assume a consistent viewpoint which allows us insights into the complexities of Monica Gall's heart and artistic temperament (C100). James Neufeld argues that by presenting Deptford characters from three varied viewpoints, Davies underlines the recurring "theme of the relativity of the objective world"; we "question the trustworthiness of each narrator" and are led "to a more complex apprehension of the 'truth'" (C321). Gai1 Bowen argues that the common and constant role of Davies' "wooden" female characters is that of a "spiritual guide," messenger, and redeemer for Davies' heroes. Some act unwittingly as anima figures, others instinctively know "how life should be most fully lived" (C301). In her thesis, Bowen argues that both male and female characters are presented stereotypically because they "are figures in a didactic work" (C409). Helen Hoy, however, sees differences within a common role, arguing that Davies "deliberately dismisses traditionally attractive female figures while revealing new value and romantic possibilities through ironically unlikely women characters." "From introverts and unimpressive naifs, Davies moves to madwomen, grotesques, and eccentrics as ironic embodiments of an inner beauty and wonder" which gives the women "a significance greater than their position as secondary characters" (C363).
Because Davies' works were largely reviewed, there is as much divergent opinion as there are reviewers, though most early reviews praise Davies' wit and humour. Here we will concentrate solely on Davies' novels.
Davies' first novel, Tempest-Tost (1951), was greeted as "inconsequential fun" with no "solid core" of character development or plot (D7, D10). Yet other reviewers saw the characters as "credible people with identifiable faces, voices and even fingerprints who are true to their own patterns" (D11). Davies' influences are identified as those of Shakespeare (D3), Smollet (D5), and Sinclair Lewis (D9).
Leaven of Malice (1954) similarly received much praise for the expert satire, wit, and humour (D30, D32) in the "ironic distance between the pettiness of the motive and the incredible consequences" (D23). However, another reviewer comments that "his characters don't seem to be sunk quite deeply enough in hypocrisy or any other evil to deserve the sharpness of attack" (D33). Davies shows the influences of E. M. Forster (D9) and the Victorians (D29), and demonstrates a Shavian tendency to sermonize (D412).
Response to the dramatic productions of Leaven of Malice, and its alternate title, Love and Libel, was quite different. One reviewer criticizes the characters as being "never more than caricatures" (D413). However, one of the few positive reviewers notes that realistic characters are not Davies' aim. "The purely imaginative elements...are much darker and richer in the stage version." Ultimately, the play "is about words and language, how they can be distorted and jangled by mock knowledge, pomposity and malice" (D409).
In A Mixture of Frailties (1958), the same contradiction as in Leaven of Malice between "pity and concern behind the malicious wit" (D42), "humanity and wisdom" (D41), and the lack of "'human pulse' running through it" (D42) springs up among the reviewers. Most reviewers also agree that this was Davies' best novel to date, but see flaws in the "false starts and frequent changes of tone" (D45). One is never sure "where Marchbanks leaves off and Mr. Davies begins" (D44), "how seriously Monica should be regarded" (D45), or what to do with the change from comic to tragic (D46). Davies demonstrates a Shavian wit (D36), and similarities to Anthony Trollope (D35, D40), Angela Thirkell (D40), Charles Dickens, and T. S. Eliot (D41).
With Fifth Business (1970), contradiction between the reviewers is not so readily apparent. The reviewers note the "gentle sarcastic sense of humour" (D57) that contains "compassion" (D73). Contradiction does, however, begin to build as one reviewer says the novel "suffers for want of dramatic tension" (D59), another that the novel contains "enchanted suspense" (D66), and yet another who holds the middle-ground: "the suspense is occasionally a trifle dry" (D67). Characterization also comes into question as some feel that the "characters have too sparse an identity beyond their obsessive quirks and allusions" which take on Dickensian traits (D58, D59), while others see Ramsay as a "new variation on antihero" (D60) who "arrives at a comprehension of his own nature" (D62). Davies explores "the border areas between the real and the marvellous," but one critic notes that "the patterns of incident and action" "appear arbitrary and unconvincing" as real events (D70). Such exploration also concerns the replay of the novel "as Freudian dream, or Jungian myth" (D53), or the "blending [of] history and myth" (D57).
The Manticore (1972) is not only "about absolonism, hero worship, and Jungian analysis" (D75), but also reaches the "great poetry and power attached to the myths and archetypes of Jung's method" (D77). Much controversy does, however, arise from the structure. For some reviewers, the structure is "tedious" (D75) as the narrative method relies on "the protagonist's habit of patching together unrelated anecdotes and personalities from his memory that are only occasionally bound together in symbolic terms by his psychiatrist" (D82). For others, the book "moves from narrative to analyst's couch to diary and commentary with enviable skill" (D87). Davies demonstrates Victorian and Dickensian coincidences (D81).
The structure of World of Wonders (1975) was also received ambivalently. On the one hand, the novel is "Richly baroque in style and plot" (D109), demonstrates "malevolent exuberance" and "flashy rhetoric" "worthy of Jonson" (D111), contains an impressive juxtaposition and mix of illusion and reality (D101), not unlike Graham Greene's work (D108), and maintains a "keen dramatic sense of dialogue and plot" (D100); while, on the other, "Some of the parts don't fit, and the mechanism sometimes seems out of whack." Although some reviewers feel that World of Wonders brings the trilogy to "a triumphant and controversial conclusion" (D105), there is, nevertheless, a pervading sense that this novel was less successful than Fifth Business (D97, D104, D117).
I owe a great deal to many people, but would like to express special gratitude to the Inter-Library Loan librarians at Queen's University, Kingston, for their extensive and gracious assistance; to the Peterborough Public Library staff, for their active patience in providing microfilm; to Moira Whalon, for kindly finding the time to respond to my inquiries; and last, but foremost, to Margie Adrian Ryrie, for her personal support of all my efforts.
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A6 Canadian Short Stories. Introd. Raymond Knister. Toronto: Macmillan, 1928. xix, 340 pp.
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A7 The Dorothy Livesay Papers
Elizabeth Dafoe Library
St. John's College
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba
In series IV, correspondence by Livesay, there is folder number 81 concerning Raymond Knister (with some letters by him October 1923-March 1967) which reveals the evolution of the Collected Poems of Raymond Knister with letters from Knister's family and friends, and literary associates. Among these are Elizabeth Frankfurth, Leo Kennedy, Walter J. Muilenberg, Marjorie Willan (Knister's sister-in-law), and Lorne Pierce. In transfer case VI, folder number 100, there is a selection of correspondence between Livesay and A. J. M. Smith referring to Knister. Since Queen's University and the University of Alberta have a reciprocal agreement, duplication of "The Livesay Papers" by these institutions facilitates scholarly research.
A8 The Raymond Knister Collection
Division of Archives and Research Collections
Mills Memorial Library
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
The Raymond Knister Collection at McMaster University contains the material which was formerly the Grace Collection, owned by Knister's widow, Myrtle Grace and his daughter Imogen Givens. In the collection there is a wealth of both published and unpublished novels, short stories, poems, essays and book reviews, as well as two versions of Knister's play, "The Loading" [Youth Goes West], and the galleys for Canadian Short Stories.
Of particular interest is the unpublished material: Knister's research notes for stories and articles, family scrapbooks of clippings on Knister and his work (1923-80, some n.d.), a bibliography by Knister of his own work to June 1926; Knister's list of books he had read (Sept. 1914-mid 1924), and family biographical materials (photographs, school certificates, etc.). There is also a tape recording of the CBC Sunday Night Program (July 19, 1964), "The Poet Who Was Farmer Too: A Profile of Raymond Knister."
There are over 700 letters (1919-32) in the collection, by far the largest repository of Knister's correspondence. This includes correspondence between Knister and Morley Callaghan, William Arthur Deacon, Mazo de la Roche, Pelham Edgar, Marion Font, Elizabeth Frankfurth, John T. Frederick, Federick P. Grove, Leo Kennedy, Elizabeth Knister and Robert Knister (his parents), Marjorie Knister (his sister), Myrtle (Gamble) Knister, Dorothy Livesay, Lorne Pierce, A. J. M. Smith, and Vincent Starrett. Among the periodicals he corresponded with were The American Mercury, Border Cities Star, The Canadian Forum, The Canadian Magazine, The Dial, The Household Magazine, Maclean's, The New Republic, Poetry [Chicago], This Quarter, Toronto Star Weekly and Voices. Publishing houses include Jonathan Cape; Curtis Brown; Harcourt, Brace; and Macmillan [Toronto]. There is also correspondence (1927-72) to Mrs. Myrtle (Grace) Knister.
A short list of the contents of the collection follows.
Boxes 1-3:
Correspondence.
Box 4:
White Narcissus, My Star Predominant, "Soil in Smoke" (two copies).
Box 5 :
Canadian Short Stories, "Innocent Man," short stories.
Box 6:
Short stories, "The Loading: A Play in One Act" (16 pp.), "The Loading: A Play in Four Acts" (76 pp.), notebook with holograph drafts of early poems, "Windfalls for Cider," individual poems.
Box 7:
Individual poems, essays, book reviews.
Box 8:
Notes for articles and stories, three pages from Knister's diary (Jan. 7 1921 ff.), a biographical note by Knister (from Canadian Short Stories), Knister's bibliography of work (to June 1926), a list of books read, copies of poems read, notes, articles on Knister, four pages of Myrtle Knister's diary (TS), "At Raymond Knister's Grave" by Len Gasparin, clippings of short stories, clippings of essays, "The Poetry of Archibald Lampman" (four copies), clippings of book reviews, clippings of poems, reviews of Knister's work.
Box 9:
Scrapbook, clippings on Knister (1923-80), clippings and magazines not on Knister, Margaret Ray, "Raymond Knister: A bibliography of His Works," personal and family material, tape recording of CBC Sunday Night: "The Poet Who Was Farmer Too: A Profile of Raymond Knister."
Box 10:
Magazines containing Knister's work: Poetry [Chicago] (May 1925), The Midland (Jan. 1922; April 15, 1925; May 1925), The Buccaneer (Jan.-Feb.-March 1926), The Canadian Forum (Sept. 1932), Maclean's (May 1, 1927; March 15, 1931), The Canadian Magazine (July 1928, March 1931), Chatelaine (Aug. 1928).
A9 The Raymond Knister Papers
The Lorne Pierce Collection
Queen's University Archives
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario
The galleys and TS of My Star Predominant, TS of White Narcissus, and proofs of The Collected Poems of Raymond Knister comprise about one half of the Knister papers at Queen's. There are also TSS and clippings of essays, short stories, and review articles (most of them published), two copies of The Midland (Dec. 1922; Oct. 1923), and a TS of "Youth Goes West: A Play in One Act".
Of particular interest is a TS of "Group Portrait," an unpublished novel; the index of poems Knister intended to include in "Grass Plaitings," a collection never published; "Vis Faust," a plan for a novel made a week before his death; and revisions of the poems "After Exile," "The Ploughman," and "The Colt".
The correspondence 1921-32 contains letters from Mazo de La Roche, Pelham Edgar, John T. Frederick, Walter McFaren Imrie, Florence Randall Livesay, Gilbert Parker, Charles G. D. Roberts, Duncan Campbell Scott, Ruth Suckow, and Ernest Walsh; Knister's letters to Pelham Edgar, Elizabeth Frankfurth, Leo Kennedy, Florence Randall Livesay, Prof. E. C. Mabie, and Duncan Campbell Scott.
The Raymond Knister Papers at Queen's are supplemented by correspondence between Knister and Lorne Pierce, 1925-32, in the Lorne Pierce personal papers under n.d., 1926, 1930, 1931, and 1932, and extensive correspondence concerning Knister in the Dorothy Livesay Papers, Folder 81.
A short list of the contents of the papers follows.
Folder 1:
Correspondence.
Folder 2:
The Collected Poems of Raymond Knister.
Folder 3:
The Midland; "Grass Plaitings."
Folder 4:
"Windfalls For Cider," TS (published in 1949 as The Collected Poems of Raymond Knister).
Folder 5:
Revised poems.
Folder 6:
Essays and short stories.
Folder 7:
Review articles.
Folder 8:
Short stories.
Folders 9-10:
"Group Portrait."
Folder 11:
"Innocent Man."
Folders 12-22:
My Star Predominant.
Folder 23:
Short stories.
Folder 24:
"Via Faust."
Folders 25-27:
White Narcissus.
Folder 28:
"Youth Goes West: A Play in One Act."
Folder 29:
Miscellaneous materials.
A10 The Raymond Knister Collection
Victoria College Library
Victoria College
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
The Raymond Knister Collection at Victoria College is, aside from the Grace Collection, the largest repository of Knister material. It includes the research notes, first draft, and revision of My Star Predominant; a TS and a hand written copy of White Narcissus; short stories, essays, and reviews; copies of The Midland (April 1921; Jan. 1922; Aug.-Sept. 1922; Dec. 1922; Oct. 1923; May 1924; April 1925) and of This Quarter (Nos. 1-2, 1925).
Of particular interest are the unpublished novels "Soil in Smoke" (the same novel is entitled "Group Portrait" at Queen's) and "Turning Loam"; a scrapbook of press clippings, including reviews and many of his short stories and sketches from the Toronto Star Weekly; photographs and drawings of Knister by his wife, Myrtle (Gamble) Knister; and correspondence between Margaret Ray (C8) and Bertram Brooker, Morley Callaghan, Mazo de la Roche and Wilson MacDonald regarding their knowledge of Knister and his work.
The correspondence 1924-31 contains letters from Charles G. D. Roberts, Mazo de la Roche, Duncan Campbell Scott, and Hugh Walpole; Knister's letters to Bernice Baumgarten, William Arthur Deacon, Mazo de la Roche, Pelham Edgar, "My Darling" (possibly Marion Font), Elizabeth Frankfurth, Arthur H. Jenkins, Florence Randall Livesay, and Martha Winston. There are also letters from Mrs. Grace (Myrtle Gamble Knister) to Lorne Pierce. Xerox copies of letters to and about Knister from Frederick Philip Grove are taken from Desmond Pacey's The Letters of Frederick Philip Grove (C28).
A short list of the contents of the collection follows.
Folders 1-13:
My Star Predominant (609 pp.).
Folders 14-22:
My Star Predominant (257 pp.).
Folders 23-26:
Research notes for My Star Predominant.
Folders 27-36:
"Soft in Smoke."
Folders 37-45:
"Turning Loam."
Folders 46-56:
White Narcissus.
Folders 57-69:
Short stories.
Folders 70-83:
Essays and reviews.
Folders 84-86:
Correspondence.
Folder 87:
3 photographs, 3 pencil drawings of Knister.
Folder 88:
Philip Child's Introduction to White Narcissus.
Folder 89:
Book reviews.
Folder 90:
Correspondence about Knister.
Folder 91:
"Speculation in a Flower Market" (pen and ink drawing by Myrtle Gamble [Knister] with a four-line poem by Raymond Knister).
Folder 92:
The Midland.
Folder 93:
This Quarter.
Folder 94:
Essays.
Folder 95:
Scrapbook.
Folder 96:
"March Wind."
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A1 White Narcissus. London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. 250 pp.
[underbar]New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1929. 250 pp.
[underbar]Toronto: Macmillan, 1929. 250 pp.
[underbar]Introd. Philip Child. New Canadian Library, No. 32. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1962. 135 pp.
A2 My Star Predominant. London: Andrew Melrose, 1934. 319 pp.
[underbar]Toronto: Ryerson, 1934. 319 pp.
A3 Collected Poems of Raymond Knister, ed. and with a Memoir by Dorothy Livesay. Toronto: Ryerson, 1949, xli, 45 pp.
Includes "After Exile" (B22), "Ambition," "Autumn Clouds," "Bees," "Changes" (B3), "Child Dreams," "The Colt," "Dog and Cat" (B20), "February's Forgotten Mitts" (B4), "Feed" (B5), "Haunted House," "The Hawk" (B13), "In the Rain, Sowing Oats" (B14), "Lake Harvest" (B6), "Moments When I'm Feeling Poems," "Motor: A Fragment," "Night Walk" (B15), "Night Whistling," "October Stars" (B11), "On a Skyscraper," "Peach Buds" (B7), "The Plowman" (B16), "The Plowman's Song" (B23), "Poisons," "Quiet Snow," "Raymond Knister: A Memoir" by Dorothy Livesay, "Reply to August," "Reverie: The Orchard on the Slope" (B12), "A Road" (includes "Summer," "Autumn," and "Winter"), "A Row of Horse Stalls" (B19), (includes "Lily," "Nell," "Mack," "Princess," "Dinah," "Baron Balderston," "Sam," "Nance," "Lide," and "Cross-Bred Colt"), "Snowfall" (B8), "Stable-Talk" (B9), "White Cat" (B18), and "Wind's Way."
Also includes "Raymond Knister: A Bibliography of His Works," by Margaret Ray.
A4 Selected Stories of Raymond Knister. Ed. and introd. Michael Gnarowski. Canadian Short Stories, No. 2. Ottawa: Univ. of Ottawa Press, 1972. 119 pp.
Includes "Elaine" (B39), "The Fate of Mrs. Lucier" (B40), "The Loading" (B38), "Mist Green Oats" (B36), "The One Thing" (B35), and "The Strawstack" (B37).
A5 The First Day of Spring: Stories and Other Prose. Ed. and introd. Peter Stevens. Literature of Canada: Poetry and Prose in Reprint, No. 17. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1976. xxx, 469 pp.
Includes "Stories": "Elaine" (B39), "The Fate of Mrs. Lucier" (B40), "The First Day of Spring," "Grapes," "Hackman's Night," "Horace the Haymow," "Indian Summer," "Innocent Man," "Lilacs for First Love," "The Loading" (B38), "Mist Green Oats" (B36), "The One Thing" (B35), "Peaches, Peaches," "The Practical Wife" (B62), "The Return of the Nances," and "The Strawstack" (B37). "Sketches: Corncob Corners and Other Places": "A Boy's Girl" (B55), "Christmas at Corncob Corners" (B42), "The Dance at Corncob Corners" (B57), "The Furnace Causes Warmth" (B60), "Harvest Home Supper at Birdseye Centre" (B41), "Heart of Ironwood Tea" (B51), "Hitching Bertha to the Sleigh" (B50), "I Buy a Dog--Almost" (B59), "Laying a Ghost" (B61), "Mrs. Plethwick Was a Citizen" (B58), "No Gumption" (B52), "The Rewards of Blankenhorn" (B54), "A Row of Horse Stalls" (B56), "Some Folks of Our Village" (B53), and "Trying to Please the Ladies." "Criticism": "The Canadian Letter" (B236), "The Canadian Short Story" (B140), "Duncan Campbell Scott" (B201), "Frederick Philip Grove: A Canadian of Canadians" (B221), "A Great Poet of To-Day: Edwin Arlington Robinson" (B187), "Introduction to Canadian Short Stories" (B217), "Katherine Mansfield," "Letter to Miss Frankfurth," "A Poet in Arms for Poetry" (B214), "The Poetic Fruition of Ireland" (B186), "The Poetical Works of Wilfred Campbell" (B176), "The Poetry of Archibald Lampman" (B215), and "A Shropshire Lad."
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B243 Lecture on Duncan Campbell Scott. Poetry Society of Canada. Victoria College. 8 March 1927.
Read by Pelham Edgar.
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B95 "The Growing of Corn." Canadian Countryman [Waterloo], March 1916, n. pag.
B96 "How to Form a Literary Society." Farmer's Advocate, Dec. 1916, p. 2115.
B97 "Co-Operate!". Farmer's Advocate, Jan. 1917, p. 86.
B98 "Every Boy Should Have a Hobby." Farmer's Advocate, 1 Feb. 1917, p. 175.
B99 "Why the Farm Boys Leave Home." Farmer's Advocate, Feb. 1917, n. pag.
B100 "How the High School Boy Can Help." Farmer's Advocate, 31 May 1917, pp. 903-04.
Signed: "One who is trying it."
B101 "Safe for Farming." Weekly Sun, 27 Nov. 1917, n. pag.
B102 "The Intellectual Mutt and Jeff [Don Quixote and Sancho Panza]." Acta Victoriana, 43 (Nov. 1919), 81-83.
B103 "Stevenson Twenty-Five Years After." Acta Victoriana, 43 (Dec. 1919), 123-32. Rpt. (R. L. S. TUSUITALA: Twenty-Five Years After"). In Farmer's Advocate, 27 May 1920, n. pag.
B104 "The Modern Novel." The Rebel [University College, Univ. of Toronto], Feb. 1920, pp. 189-92.
B105 "The Book of the Week." Rev. of The Prairie Child, by Arthur Stringer. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 21 Oct. 1922, Sec. 2, p. 3.
B106 "The Book of the Week." Rev. of Joseph Greer and His Daughter, by Henry Kitchell Webster. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 28 Oct. 1922, p. 3.
B107 "The Book of the Week." Rev. of Legends, by Walter McLaren Imrie. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 4 Nov. 1922, Sec. 2, p. 9.
B108 "The Book of the Week." Rev. of The Forsythe Saga, by John Galsworthy. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 11 Nov. 1922, p. 3.
B109 "The Book of the Week." Rev. of Maria Chapdelaine, by Louis Hemon. Trans. W. H. Blake. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 18 Nov. 1922, Sec. 2, p. 3.
B110 "The Book of the Week." Rev. of Quest, by Helen Hull. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 25 Nov. 1922, p. 3.
B111 "The Book of the Week." Rev. of Some Impressions of My Elders, by St. John G. Ervine. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 2 Dec. 1922, p. 3.
B112 "The Book of the Week." Rev. of Public Opinion, by Walter Lippmann. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 9 Dec. 1922, p. 3.
B113 "The Book of the Week." Rev. of Cape Breton Tales, by Harry James Smith. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 16 Dec. 1922, Sec. 2, p. 3.
B114 "Books of the Week." Rev. of The Way of Revelation, by Wilfred Ewart; and The Love Story of Aliette Brunton, by Gilbert Frankau. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 23 Dec. 1922, p. 3.
Unsigned.
B115 "An Outstanding Novel." Rev. of Soliloquy, by Stephen Mckenna. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 23 Dec. 1922, p. 3.
B116 "The Book of the Week." Rev. of The Growth of the Soil, by Knut Hamsun. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 30 Dec. 1922, p. 3.
B117 "The Book of the Week." Rev. of Birthright, by T. S. Stribling. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 6 Jan. 1923, p. 3.
B118 "The Book of the Week." Rev. of Tales of My Native Town, by Gabriele D'Annunzio. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 13 Jan. 1923, p. 3.
B119 "The Book of the Week." Rev. of Flower O' the Heather, by Robert William Mackenna. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 20 Jan. 1923, p. 3.
Unsigned.
B120 "The Book of the Week." Rev. of Druida, by John T. Frederick. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 10 March 1923, p. 2.
B121 "The Book of the Week." Rev. of Desolate Splendour, by Michael Sadleir. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 31 March 1923, p. 6.
B122 "The Book of the Week." Rev. of Possession, by Mazo de la Roche. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 14 April 1923, Sec. 2, p. 2.
B123 "The Book of the Week." Rev. of The Life of Christ, by Giovanni Papini. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 28 April 1923, p. 5.
B124 "The Book of the Week." Rev. of The Code of the Karstens, by Henry Walsworth Kinny. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 5 May 1923, p. 6.
B125 "The Book of the Week." Rev. of The Bright Shawl--A Romance of the Cuban Insurrection, by G. Hergesheimer. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 12 May 1923, p. 9.
B126 "The Book of the Week. Rev. of Victoria, by Knut Hamsen. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 19 May 1923, p. 6.
B127 "The Book of the Week." Rev. of Phantom, by Gerhart Hauptmann. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 26 May 1923, p. 9.
B128 "The Book of the Week." Rev. of Proud Lady, by Neith Bogue. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 9 May 1923, p. 12.
B129 "Willa Cather's Splendid Work: Her Most Recent Novel Well Worthy of the Pulitzer Prize." Rev. of One of Ours, by Willa Cather. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 9 May 1923, p. 12.
Signed: "R. K."
B130 "Charming Book about Animals: Chas. Roberts, Pioneer Nature Writer, Makes Characters Human." Rev. of Wisdom of the Wilderness, by Charles G. D. Roberts. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 14 June 1923, p. 9.
B131 Rev. of The Best Short Stories of 1922 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story, ed. E. J. O'Brien. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 23 June 1923, Sec. 2, p. 9.
B132 "Group of Poems Reveal a Dream Scarce Fulfilled." Rev. of The Great Dream, by Marguerite Wilkinoon. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 30 June 1923, p. 9.
B133 "The Book of the Week." Rev. of Cables of Cobweb, by Paul Jordan-Smith. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 7 July 1923, p. 9.
B134 "A Pseudo-Epic from Sweden: 'Downstream' Typical of Scandinavian Fiction Pouring off Presses." Rev. of Downstream, by Sigfred Siwerfz. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 7 July 1923, p. 9.
Signed: "R. K."
B135 "Bunin Does Story That Is Regarded by Critics as One of Greatest of Age." Rev. of The Gentleman from San Francisco and Other Stories, by Iyan A. Bunin. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 14 July 1923, p. 9.
B136 "New Brunswick Scene of Novel: John Freeman Infuses Great Deal of Action into Latest Book." Rev. of This My Son, by John Freeman. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 14 July 1923, p. 9.
Signed: "R. K."
B137 "The World's Greatest Religious Poetry." The Christian Guardian, 18 July 1923, pp. 11-17.
B138 "The Book of the Week." Rev. of Poems from 'Life.' Ed. and introd. Oliver Herford. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 21 July 1923, p. 9.
B139 "The Book of the Week." Rev. of Sea-Change, by Muna Lee. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 28 July 1923, p. 4.
B140 "The Canadian Short Story." The Canadian Bookman, 5 (Aug. 1923), 203-04. FD.
B141 "Arnold Bennett on Life." The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 4 Aug. 1923, p. 7.
B142 "The Book of the Week: Dreiser Talks about Himself; Tells of Struggles as Newspaperman in Vivid Style." Rev. of A Book about Myself, by Theodore Dreiser. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 4 Aug. 1923, p. 7.
Unsigned.
B143 "The Book of the Week." Rev. of The Unbidden Guest, by Silvo Villa. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 11 Aug. 1923, p. 9.
B144 "The Book of the Week." Rev. of Men Like Gods, by H. G. Wells; and Danger, by Ernest Poole. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 18 Aug. 1923, p. 9.
B145 "Corkery Tells of Erin's Strife: Romance and Adventure in Lives of Leader Depicted." Rev. of The Hounds of Banba, by Daniel Corkery. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 25 Aug. 1923, p. 9.
B146 "The Book of the Week." Rev. of Many Marriages, by Sherwood Anderson. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 25 Aug. 1923, Sec. 2, p. 9.
B147 "The Book of the Week." Rev. of The Bond Triumphant, by Gordon Hill Grahame. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 1 Sept. 1923, p. 9.
B148 "The Copyright Law in Canada: Anomolous Situation Created by Passage of Bill 24." The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 8 Sept. 1923, p. 7.
B149 "The Book of the Week." Rev. of The Poetical Works of Wilfred Campbell, ed. W. J. Sykes. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 22 Sept. 1923, Sec. 2, p. 9.
B150 "A Sheaf of Canadiana." Rev. of Emily of New Moon, by L. M. Montgomery; The Master Breed, by Francis Dickie; The Rosary of Pan, by A. M. Stephen; and Stories of the Land of Evangeline, by Grace McLeod Rogers. The Canadian Bookman, 5 (Oct. 1923), 264.
B151 "The Book of the Week." Rev. of The Hill of Dreams, by Arthur Machen. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 6 Oct. 1923, p. 7.
B152 "The Book of the Week." Rev. of Angels' Shoes, by Marjorie Pickthall. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 13 Oct. 1923, Sec. 2, p. 6.
B153 "For Why Should Women Marry? Charles Norris Attempts to Give Answer in New Novel." Rev. of Bread, by Charles G. Norris. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 13 Oct. 1923, p. 6.
B154 "Short Stories by Phillpotts: The West Indies Are Background for Interesting Series." Rev. of Black, White and Brindled, by Eden Phillpotts. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 20 Oct. 1923, p. 6.
B155 "The Book of the Week." Rev. of Pens and Pirates, by William Arthur Deacon. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 27 Oct. 1923, Sec. 4, p. 6. Rpt. in The Midland, 10 (Jan. 1924), 63.
B156 "Miss Cather's Brilliant Pen: 'A Lost Lady' Embodies All Best of Prose Writing: Emotions of Highest Poetry Are Present Beneath Fine Story." Rev. of A Lost Lady, by Willa Cather. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 3 Nov. 1923, p. 7.
B157 "A Canadian Poet of Promise." Rev. of Songs of Isafrel, by Marian Osborne. The Canadian Bookman, 5 Nov. 1923, p. 301.
B158 "Canada as She Is Glorified." Rev. of A Book of Canadian Prose and Verse, ed. Edmund Kemper Broadus and Eleanor Hammond Broadus. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 10 Nov. 1923, Sec. 5, p. 7.
B159 "Story of Seas, Ships and Men." Rev. of The Master Breed, by Francis Dickie. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 10 Nov. 1923, p. 7.
Signed: "R. K."
B160 "Modern Poems by a Canadian Contrasted with a Publication from United States: Are There Proper Moods in Which to Read Poetry?". Rev. of The World's Great Religious Poetry, gen. ed. Caroline Miles Hill; and Today's Poetry: An Anthology, ed. Nelson Antrim Crawford and David O'Neil. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 17 Nov. 1923, p. 7.
B161 "Middle West in New Books: Iowa Is Inspiration for First Works of Authors." Rev. of [Arlie Gelston-?] by L. Sergel; and The Able McLaughlins, by Margaret Wilson. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 24 Nov. 1923, p. 7.
B162 "Tabloid Reviews." Rev. of More Portmanteau Plays, by Stuart Walker; China Yesterday and Today, by E. T. Williams; and The Blind Boy, by Carl Van Vetchen. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 1 Dec. 1923, Sec. 4, p. 9.
Signed: "R. K."
B163 "Book of Moods Is 'The Judge.'" Rev. of The Judge, by Rebecca West. Border Cities Star [Windsor], 15 Dec. 1923, Sec. 4, p. 7.
B164 "Book of the Week: Poet Publishes Book of Prose. Duncan Campbell Scott Depicts Life in North, Minus Heroics." Rev. of The Witching of Elspie: A Book of Stories, by Duncan Campbell Scott. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 22 Dec. 1923, Sec. 4, p. 7.
B165 Rev. of The Twist, by Paul A. W. Wallace. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 22 Dec. 1923, Sec. 4, p. 7.
B166 "Aim to Show Child Nature." Rev. of Jeremy and Hamlet, by Hugh Walpole. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 29 Dec. 1923, Sec. 4, p. 7.
B167 "Canadian Books Have Good Year." The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 29 Dec. 1923, Sec. 4, p. 7.
B168 "Tabloid Reviews." Rev. of Rough Trails and Silver Meadows, by Leyland Hackfield. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 29 Dec. 1923, Sec. 4, p. 7.
Signed: "R. K."
B169 "Acadia Shown as Hand of Legendary Heroisms." Rev. of Stories of the Land of Evangeline, by Grace McLeod Rogers. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 5 Jan. 1924, Sec. 4, p. 7.
B170 "'Cattle' Called Movie Thriller, Is Conventional Tale, Merely Mechanical, Live Triumphers." Rev. of Cattle, by Onoto Watanna. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 12 Jan. 1924, Sec. 4, p. 7.
B171 "France Tells Story of Life." Rev. of The Bloom of Life, by Anatole France. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 12 Jan. 1924, Sec. 4, p. 7.
B172 Rev. of The Puppet Master, by Robert Nathan. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 2 Feb. 1924, Sec. 4, p. 7.
B173 Rev. of Love and Other Stories, by Anton Chekov; and The Doves' Nest and Other Stories, by Katherine Mansfield. The Daily Iowan, 6 Feb. 1924, p. 4.
B174 "Tabloid Reviews." Rev. of My Windows of the Street of the World, by James Mavor; Futility, by William Gerhardi; and The Raving Critic, by Carl VanLoren. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 16 Feb. 1924, Sec. 4, p. 7.
B175 Rev. of The Dream and Other Poems, by John Masefield. Dalhousie Review, 4 (April 1924), 136-38.
B176 "The Poetical Works of Wilfred Campbell." Rev. of The Poetical Works of Wilfred Campbell, ed. W. J. Sykes. Queen's Quarterly, 31 (May 1924), 435-39. FD.
B177 "Gusto & Malaise." Rev. of Songs of Unrest, by Bernice Lesbia Kenyon. Poetry [Chicago], 25 (Oct. 1924), 49-52.
B178 "Cannan Books Are Victorian." Rev. of Round the Corner, by Gilbert Cannan. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 8 Dec. 1924, Sec. 4, p. 7.
B179 "Tabloid Reviews." Rev. of The Hopeful Journey, by Beatrice Kean Seymow. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 8 Dec. 1924, Sec. 4, p. 7.
Signed: "R. K."
B180 "Tabloid Reviews." Rev. of Number One Joy Street--A Medley of Prose and Verse for Boys and Girls. The Border Cities Star [Windsor], 8 Dec. 1924, Sec. 4, p. 7.
Signed: "R. K."
B181 "Carmus and Others." Rev. of The Hills Give Promise and Carmus: A Symphonic Poem, by Robert Silliman Hillyer. Poetry [Chicago], 25 (Feb. 1925), 281-83.
B182 "Mellowness." Rev. of Spring Thunder and Other Poems, by Mark Van Doren. Poetry [Chicago], 25 (Feb. 1925), 279-81.
B183 "Even Excellence." Rev. of Many Wings, by Isabel Fiske Conant; and The Gothic Rose, by Wilfred Rowland Childe. Poetry [Chicago], 25 (March 1925), 340-41.
B184 "Hawaiian Flights." Rev. of Hawaiian Hilltop, by Genevieve Taggard. Poetry [Chicago], 26 (May 1925), 108-09.
B185 "Restraint and Mastery." Rev. of Slow Smoke, by Lew Sarett. Voices, 5 (April 1926), 218.
B186 "The Poetic Fruition of Ireland." Rev. of A Golden Treasury of Irish Verse, ed. Lennox Robinson. The New Outlook, 2 June 1926, p. 5. FD.
B187 "A Great Poet of To-Day, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Author of 'The Man Against the Sky'." The New Outlook, 30 June 1926, pp. 6, 27. FD ("A Great Poet of To-Day: Edwin Arlington Robinson").
B188 "The Why of Realism." The New Outlook, 15 Sept. 1926, p. 14.
B189 "Wilson MacDonald." Willison's Monthly, Oct. 1926, pp. 188-91.
B190 "Living with the Other Half." The New Outlook, 6 Oct. 1926, p. 14.
B191 "The Conversion of Little Nell." Rev. of The Lord of Labraz, by Pio Baroja. Saturday Night, 9 Oct. 1926, p. 8.
B192 "Purposes of Fiction." The New Outlook, 13 Oct. 1926, p. 16.
B193 "On Reading Aloud." The New Outlook, 27 Oct. 1926, p. 14.
B194 Rev. of Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, by Carl Sandburg. The New Outlook, 17 Nov. 1926, p. 9.
B195 "Critics." The New Outlook, 1 Dec. 1926, p. 21.
B196 Rev. of Iowa Interiors, by Ruth Suckow. Saturday Night, 4 Dec. 1926, pp. 11-12.
B197 "Is Humour Literature." The New Outlook, 8 Dec. 1926, p. 15.
B198 "The Poetical Works of Francis Thompson." The New Outlook, 15 Dec. 1926, p. 14.
B199 "Demos Maketh All Things Real." The New Outlook, 29 Dec. 1926, p. 17.
B200 "Book Review." The Canadian Magazine, Jan. 1927, pp. 30-31.
B201 "Duncan Campbell Scott." Willison's Monthly, Jan. 1927, pp. 295-96. FD.
B202 "Uses of Poetry." The New Outlook, 5 Jan. 1927, p. 15.
B203 "The Perfect State." The New Outlook, 12 Jan. 1927, p 17.
B204 "Canadian Poems of the Month: The Contribution of Our Poets During February." Rev. of "Ad Ancillam Culinariam Delicias Meas," by Archibald MacMechan (The Canadian Forum); "Adventure," by Gostwich Roberts (Munsey's Magazine); "Hills," by M. E. Mason (Saturday Night); "In a Kitchen," by Edna Jacques (The Globe); "Lilith Laughs," by John Hanlon (Forum [New York]); "The Moment and the Lamp," by A. J. M. Smith (McGill Fortnightly Review); "Names," by T. T. [F. R. Scott] (McGill Fortnightly Review); "Phantom Sheep," by Jan Flynn (San Francisco Review); "Spring Thoughts," by Miriam E. Edmiston (The Globe); and others. The New Outlook, 2 Feb. 1927, pp. 5, 27.
B205 "The Wonders of Man." The New Outlook, 9 Feb. 1927, p. 15.
B206 "Canadian Poems of the Month: Selected from the Various Magazines." The New Outlook, 27 April 1927, pp. 6, 7.
B207 "Can Paintings Be Made Immortal?". Toronto Star Weekly [Toronto Daily Star], 30 April 1927, p. 47.
B208 "Canadian Poems of the Month: A Review of Current Verse by Our Own Poets." Rev of "Against the Years," by Amy Campbell (The Globe); "In a Wood Clearing," by Wilson MacDonald (London Mercury); Letters, by Dorothy Howard Walsh; "Music Brings Griefs," by Edward Sapir (The Nation); "The Philosophy of a Would-Be Poet," by Mary A. Beresford (Dalhousie Review); "Spring Breaks in Foam," by Charles G. D. Roberts (Canadian Bookman); "They Are Not Stars," by Hal Frank (Saturday Night); "Time's Masters," by Joseph Schull (Willison's Monthly); "The Two Sides of a Drum," by A. J. M. Smith (The Dial); and others. The New Outlook, 18 May 1927, p. 6.
B209 "Canadian Poems of the Month: March, and Canadian Poets." The New Outlook, 15 June 1927, pp. 8, 19.
B210 "Book Review." The Canadian Magazine, July 1927, p. 42.
B211 "Canadian Poems of the Month: Of an Unusually High Level of Quality." The New Outlook, 20 July 1927, p. 6.
B212 "Canadian Poems of the Month: A Varied List, with a Few Worth While." Rev. of "April," by John Hanlon (Good Housekeeping); "Birthright," by Francis Beatrice Taylor (Atlantic Monthly); "In Winter," by A. M. Stephen (Vancouver Province); "Le Revenant," by McVicar (Mail and Empire); "The Sea Cathedral," by E. J. Pratt (The Canadian Forum); "Second Concession Types," by Margaret Hilda Wise (Willison's Monthly); "Spring Fever," by Wilhelmina Stitch (The Globe); "Stumps of Apple Trees," by Norman Campbell (The Globe); "Warning to Maidens," by J. E. McDougall (Goblin); "When the Women Go Away," by Barton Rees Poque (Farmer's Advocate); and others. The New Outlook, 31 Aug. 1927, pp. 7, 20.
B213 "Canadian Poems of the Month: Selections from Authors East and West." The New Outlook, 21 Sept. 1927, pp. 14, 21.
B214 "A Poet in Arms for Poetry." The Canadian Magazine, Oct. 1927, pp. 28, 38-39. FD.
B215 "The Poetry of Archibald Lampman." Dalhousie Review, 7 (Oct. 1927), 348-61. FD.
B216 "Canadian Poems of the Month." The New Outlook, 5 Oct. 1927, pp. 8, 10.
B217 Introduction. In Canadian Short Stories. Ed. Raymond Knister. Toronto: Macmillan, 1928, pp. xi-xix. FD.
B218 "An Appreciation of Jalna." Rev. of Jalna, by Mazo de la Roche. The Canadian Bookman, 10 (Feb. 1928), 54.
B219 "A Canadian of Canadians." Ontario Library Review, 13, No. 3 (1928), 60-62. Rpt. in Frederick Philip Grove. Ed. and introd. Desmond Pacey. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 5. Toronto: Ryerson, 1970, pp. 11-17. FD ("Frederick Philip Grove: A Canadian of Canadians").
B220 "The Poetic Muse in Canada." Saturday Night, 6 Oct. 1928, pp. 3, 22.
B221 "Frederick Philip Grove." Rev. of Our Daily Bread, by Frederick Philip Grove. Saturday Night, 13 Oct. 1928, p. 5. Rpt. in Frederick Philip Grove. Ed. and introd. Desmond Pacey. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 5. Toronto: Ryerson, 1970, pp. 132-33.
B222 "Eternal Illusion." Rev. of Jingling in the Wind, by Elizabeth Madox Roberts. Saturday Night, 27 Oct. 1928, p. 8.
B223 "Modes Conservative and Chic." Rev. of Trivial Breath, by Elinor Wylie; Retreat, by Edmund Blunden; The Coming of Christ, by John Masefield; and Green Pitcher, by Dorothy Livesay. Saturday Night, 3 Nov. 1928, p. 12.
B224 "Plutarch Lied." Rev. of A Little Less Than Gods, by Ford Madox Ford. Saturday Night, 17 Nov. 1928, p. 14.
B225 "Heroic Mould." Rev. of Rockbound, by Frank Parker Davey. Saturday Night, 1 Dec. 1928, p. 14.
B226 "The Land Is Full of Voices." Rev. of The American Caravan, ed. Alfred Kreymborg, Lewis Mumford, and Paul Rosenfeld. Saturday Night, 1 Dec. 1928, pp. 6, 15, 21-22.
B227 "Racial Character." Rev. of The Island Within, by L. Lewisohn. Saturday Night, 29 Dec. 1928, p. 10.
B228 "Mine Run." Saturday Night, 9 March 1929, p. 3.
B229 "A Tale of the Veldt." Rev. of The Bull Whip, by Jane England. Saturday Night, 20 July 1929, p. 10.
B230 "Dissecting the 'T.B.M.'" Saturday Night, 6 Sept. 1930, p. 5.
B231 "Long Point, Lake Erie." The Canadian Geographical Journal, 2 (Jan. 1931), 73-82.
B232 "Farthest South in Canada's Domain." Saturday Night, 5 March 1932, p. 2.
B233 "Pelee Island." The Canadian Geographical Journal, 6 (June 1933), 295-302.
B234 Introduction ["Windfalls for Cider"]. In Collected Poems of Raymond Knister. Ed. Dorothy Livesay. Toronto: Ryerson, 1949, pp. vii-viii.
B235 "A Brush with Quebec Law." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), pp. 142-45. Rpt. in Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1975, pp. 142-45.
B236 "The Canadian Letter." In The Search for English-Canadian Literature: An Anthology of Critical Articles from the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Ed. and introd. Carl Ballstadt. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1975, pp. 209-14. FD.
B237 "Canadian Literati." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), pp. 160-68. Rpt. in Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1976, pp. 160-68.
B238 "Canadian Literature: A General Impression. 'O. Frabjous Day.'" Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), pp. 169-74. Rpt. in Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1975, pp. 169-74.
B239 "Democracy and the Short Story." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), pp. 146-48. Rpt. in Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1975, pp. 146-48.
B240 "The Lost Gentleman." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), pp. 149-53. Rpt. in Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1975, pp. 149-53.
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B242 "Youth Goes West." Poet Lore, 39 (Dec. 1928), 582.
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B241 Dent, Walter Redvers. Show Me Death. London: Constable, 1930.
[underbar]New York: Harper, 1930.
[underbar]Toronto: Macmillan, 1930.
In a letter to Lorne Pierce, August 15, 1932, Knister states "One of the best and most popular war novels was rewritten completely by me--on a lump sum basis unfortunately." This was Show Me Death by Walter Redvers Dent (see letter to Knister from F. P. Grove, March 21, 1929, in Pacey [C12]). Evidence indicating the degree of Knister's input is scanty, but a letter written to Knister from Dent on March 15, 1929, shows Knister advocated heavy revisions in preparing the novel for publication by Macmillan.
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Collected Poems of Raymond Knister ................CP
The First Day of Spring: Stories and Other Prose ..FD
Selected Stories of Raymond Knister ...............SS
B1 "A New Year's Reverie." Farmer's Advocate, 10 Jan. 1918, p. 57. Rpt. ("R's Advocate: A New Year's Reverie"). In Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), p. 22. Rpt. in Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1975, p. 22.
B2 "Life (From the French)." The Rebel [University College, Univ. of Toronto], March 1920, p. 236.
B3 "Change." The Midland, 8 (Dec. 1922), 332. Rpt. in The Canadian Forum, Sept. 1932, p. 462. Rpt. (excerpt). In Colombo's Canadian Quotations. Ed. John Robert Colombo. Edmonton: Hurtig. 1974, p. 314. CP.
B4 "February's Forgotten Mitts." The Midland, 8 (Dec. 1922), 330. CP (revised).
B5 "Feed." The Midland, 8 (Dec. 1922), 330. CP.
B6 "Lake Harvest." The Midland, 8 (Dec. 1922), 331. Rpt. (revised) in The Canadian Forum, Sept. 1932, p. 461. CP (revised).
B7 "Peach Buds." The Midland, 8 (Dec. 1922), 331. CP (revised).
B8 "Snowfall." The Midland, 8 (Dec. 1922), 332. CP (revised). Rpt (revised) in Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), p. 14. Rpt. in Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1975, p. 14.
B9 "Stable Talk." The Midland, 8 (Dec. 1922), 329. Rpt. (revised) in The Canadian Forum, Sept. 1932, p. 461. CP.
B10 "Boy Remembers in the Field." Voices, 3 (May-June 1923), 83. Rpt. in The Canadian Forum, Sept. 1932, p. 461. CP (revised).
B11 "October Stars." The Midland, 9 (Oct. 1923), 177. Rpt. (revised) in The Canadian Forum, Sept. 1932, p. 462. CP (revised).
B12 "Reverie: The Orchard on the Slope." The Midland, 9 (Oct. 1923), 177. CP.
B13 "The Hawk." Poetry [Chicago], 24 (April 1924), 25. Rpt. (revised) in The Canadian Forum, Sept. 1932, p. 462. CP.
B14 "In the Rain, Sowing Oats." The Midland, 10 (May 1924), 244 CP (revised).
B15 "The Night Walk." The Midland, 10 (May 1924), 244. CP (revised--"Night Walk").
B16 "The Ploughman." The Midland, 10 (May 1924), 243. Rpt. (revised--"The Plowman"). In The Canadian Forum, Sept. 1932, p. 462. CP (revised).
B17 "The Roller." The Midland, 10 (May 1924), 245. Rpt. in The Canadian Forum, Sept. 1932, p 462. CP.
B18 "The White Cat." The Midland, 10 (May 1924), 242. Rpt. in The Canadian Forum, Sept. 1932, p. 462. CP (revised--"White Cat").
B19 "A Row of Horse Stalls." This Quarter [Paris], l, No. 2 (1925), 30. Rpt.(revised, excerpt--"Cliff," "Maud and Jess"). In Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), pp. 24-25. Rpt. in Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1975, pp. 24-25. CP (revised--"A Row of Stalls").
The following subtitles are included in This Quarter: "Lily," "Lide," "Mack," "Princess," "Dinah," "Nance," "Nellie Bakerfield," "Baron Balderston," "Sam," "Cliff," "Maud and Jess," and "Cross-Bred Colt." The revised version in Collected Poems of Raymond Knister appears with the following subtitles: "Lily," "Nell," "Mack," "Princess," "Dinah," "Baron Balderston," "Sam," "Nance," "Lide," and "Cross-Bred Colt."
B20 "Dog and Cat." The Midland, 11 (April 1925), 168. CP.
B21 "Martyrdom." The Midland, 11 (April 1925), 158. Rpt. (revised) in Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), p. 17. Rpt. in Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1975, p. 17.
B22 "After Exile." Voices, 5, No. 1 (Oct. 1925), 13. CP (revised).
B23 "Plowman's Song." The Buccaneer [Texas], 2 (Jan.-Feb.-March 1926), 3.
B24 "Against the Years." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 4 (1975), p 23. Rpt. in Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1975, p. 23.
B25 "Arab King." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), p. 26. Rpt. in Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1975, p. 26.
B26 "Consummation." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), p 21. Rpt. in Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1975, p. 21.
B27 "Full Moon." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), p. l5. Rpt. in Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. Montreal. Bellrock, 1975, p. 15.
B28 "In the Spring Dusk, Gazing above the Trees." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), p. 16. Rpt. in Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1975, p. 16.
B29 "An Old Wooden Windmill." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), p. 18. Rpt. in Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1975, p. 18.
B30 "So Long Lives This...(To an Unheeding One)." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), p. 19. Rpt. in Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1975, p. 19.
B31 "Spring-Flooded Ditches." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), p. 20. Rpt. In Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1975, p. 20.
B32 "Time." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), p. 11. Rpt. in Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1975, p. 11.
B33 "Whip-Poor-Will in the North Woods." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), p. 13. Rpt. in Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1975, p. 13.
B34 "Woman Reading Poetry." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), p. 12. Rpt. in Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and Introd. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1975, p. 12.
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B82 "Mist-Green Oats." In Stories from the Midland. Ed. John T. Frederick. New York: Knopf, 1924, pp. 109-34.
B83 "Boy Remembers in the Field," "Feed," "Lake Harvest," "The Plowman," "The Roller," and "Stable Talk." In Anthology of Canadian Poetry (English). Ed. Ralph Gustafson. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1942, pp. 62-64.
B84 "The Plowman." In Twentieth Century Canadian Poetry. Ed. Earle Birney. Toronto: Ryerson, 1953, p. 54.
B85 "Change," "Feed," "The Hawk," "The Plowman," and "Stable Talk." In The Book of Canadian Poetry. Ed. A. J. M. Smith. 3rd ed. Toronto: Gage, 1957, pp. 305-07.
B86 "Change," "Feed," "Lake Harvest," and "The Plowman." In The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse. Ed. Ralph Gustafson. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1958, pp. 125-27.
B87 "Change," Feed," "From a Row of Stalls: Nell," "The Hawk," and "The Plowman." In The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. Ed. A. J. M. Smith. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1960, pp. 179-82.
B88 "Mist Green Oats." In Canadian Short Stories. Ed. Robert Weaver Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1960, pp. 111-37.
B89 "The Strawstack." In A Book of Canadian Stories. Ed. Desmond Pacey. Toronto: Ryerson, 1962, pp. 143-54.
B90 "The Hawk," "Nell," and "The Plowman." In A Book of Canadian Poems. Ed. Carlyle King. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1963, pp. 20-21, 82.
B91 "Change," "The Hawk," "Mist Green Oats," "Night Walk," "October Stars," "Ploughman's Song," "The Plowman," "Poisons," and "Quiet Snow." In The Evolution of Canadian Literature in English 1914-1945. Ed. George L. Parker. Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973, pp. 131-50.
B92 "The Loading." In Stories from Ontario. Ed. Germaine Warkentin. Toronto: Macmillan, 1974, pp. 119-29.
B93 "Autumn Clouds," "The Hawk," "Lake Harvest," "The Loading," and "The Plowman." In Literature in Canada. Vol. II. Ed. Douglas Daymond and Leslie Monkman. Toronto: Gage, 1978, pp. 86-97.
B94 "The Plowman." In The Poets of Canada. Ed. John Robert Colombo. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1978, pp. 109-10.
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B35 "The One Thing." The Midland, 8 (Jan. 1922), 1-18. SS; FD.
B36 "Mist Green Oats." The Midland, 8 (Aug.-Sept. 1922), 254-76. SS; FD (revised).
B37 "The Strawstack." The Canadian Forum, Oct. 1923, pp. 18-22. SS; FD.
B38 "The Loading." The Midland, 10 (Jan. 1924), 1-13. Rpt. in The Canadian Magazine, July 1928, pp. 24-25, 36. SS; FD.
B39 "Elaine." This Quarter [Paris], 1, No. 1 (1925), 160-66. SS; FD.
B40 "The Fate of Mrs. Lucier." This Quarter [Paris], 1, No. 2 (1925), 172-81. Rpt. in The Canadian Nation, 12 (May-June 1929), 8-10, 30. SS; FD.
B41 "Harvest Home Chicken Supper at Birdseye Centre." Toronto Star Weekly [Toronto Daily Star], 21 Nov. 1925, p. 21. FD ("Harvest Home Supper at Birdseye Centre").
B42 "Christmas at Corncob Corners." Toronto Star Weekly [Toronto Daily Star], 19 Dec. 1925, p. 18. FD.
B43 "A Little Gift of Earrings." Toronto Star Weekly [Toronto Daily Star], 26 Dec. 1925, p. 41.
B44 "Changed Threshing." Toronto Star Weekly [Toronto Daily Star], 9 Oct. 1926, p. 56.
B45 "The Wreck at the Coke Ovens." Toronto Star Weekly [Toronto Daily Star], 27 Nov. 1926, p. 43.
B46 "I Get Tattooed." Toronto Star Weekly [Toronto Daily Star], 24 Dec. 1926, p. 20.
B47 "I Buy a Gold Watch Set with Diamonds." Toronto Star Weekly [Toronto Daily Star], 25 June 1927, p. 44.
B48 "Trying to Please the Ladies." Toronto Star Weekly [Toronto Daily Star], 27 Feb. 1926, p. 21. FD.
B49 "Hump's Colts Make the Old Town Hump." Toronto Star Weekly [Toronto Daily Star], 17 April 1926, p. 31.
B50 "Hitching Bertha to the Sleigh." Toronto Star Weekly [Toronto Daily Star], 27 March 1926, p. 26. Rpt. ("Well, Well, Bertha"). In Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), pp. 71-74. Rpt. in Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1975, pp. 71-74. FD ("Hitching Bertha to the Sleigh").
B51 "Heart of Ironwood Tea." Toronto Star Weekly [Toronto Daily Star], 1 May 1926, p. 51. FD.
B52 "No Gumption." Toronto Star Weekly [Toronto Daily Star], 8 May 1926, p. 27. FD.
B53 "Some Folks of Our Village." Toronto Star Weekly [Toronto Daily Star], 26 June 1926, p. 24. FD.
B54 "'The Rewards of Blankenhorn." Toronto Star Weekly [Toronto Daily Star], 17 July 1926, p. 37. FD.
B55 "A Boy's Girl." Toronto Star Weekly [Toronto Daily Star], 31 July 1926, p. 27. FD.
B56 "A Row of Horse Stalls." Toronto Star Weekly [Toronto Daily Star], 25 Sept. 1926, p. 45. FD.
B57 "The Dance at Corncob Corners." Toronto Star Weekly [Toronto Daily Star], 2 Oct. 1926, p. 46.
B58 "Mrs. Plethwick Was a Citizen." Toronto Star Weekly [Toronto Daily Star], 29 Jan. 1927, p. 36. FD.
B59 "I Buy a Dog--Almost." Toronto Star Weekly, [Toronto Daily Star], 12 Feb. 1927, p. 20. FD.
B60 "The Furnace Causes Warmth." Toronto Star Weekly [Toronto Daily Star], 2 April 1927, p. 48. FD.
B61 "Laying a Ghost." Toronto Star Weekly [Toronto Daily Star], 16 April 1927, p. 59. FD.
B62 "The Practical Wife." Maclean's, 1 May 1927, pp. 16-17, 94-95, 97. FD.
B63 "Confessions of a Very Popular Young Man." The Business Woman, 3 (June 1928), 8-9.
B64 "Try and Reform the Women." Chatelaine, Aug. 1928, pp. 10-11, 56-57.
B65 "The Return of the Nances." The Canadian Magazine, March 1931, pp. 15-16, 33-36.
B66 "A Plaster on the Rooftree." Maclean's, 15 March 1931, pp. 18-19, 60-61.
B67 "An Airman's Tale-Spinning." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), pp. 66-70. Rpt. in Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1975, pp. 66-70.
B68 "The Black Fox." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), pp. 124-41. Rpt. in Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1975, pp. 124-41.
B69 "Bouquet and Some Buds: A Stable Anthology." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), pp. 107-15. Rpt. in Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1975, pp. 107-15.
B70 "The Canadian Girl." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), pp. 154-59. Rpt. in Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1975, pp. 154-59.
B71 "Cherry Time." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), pp. 43-54. Rpt. in Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1975, pp. 43-54.
B72 "Congratulations." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), pp. 62-65. Rpt. in Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1975, pp. 62-65.
B73 "Corn Cob Corners Folks." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), pp. 116-23. Rpt. in Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1975, pp. 116-23.
B74 "Dance at the Beach." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), pp. 55-61. Rpt. in Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1975, pp. 55-61.
B75 "Dentistry Blues." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), pp. 81-85. Rpt. in Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1975, pp. 81-85.
B76 "Eric Mirth, or the Larger I." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), pp. 97-106. Rpt. in Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1975, pp. 97-106.
B77 "Fishers of Pike." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), pp. 77-80. Rpt. In Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1975, pp. 77-80.
B78 "He's All Right." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), pp. 75-76. Rpt. in Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1975, pp. 75-76.
B79 "Rear Road." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), pp. 86-96. Rpt. in Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1975, pp. 86-96.
B80 "Stuart's Wife: Dedicated to Theodore Dreiser." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), pp. 27-38. Rpt. in Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1975, pp. 27-38.
B81 "The Years of the Cankerworm." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), pp. 39-42. Rpt. in Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1975, pp. 39-42.
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D238 Weaver, Robert. "A Voice from the Attic." The Tamarack Review, No. 17 (Autumn 1960), pp. 78-79.
"The really striking thing...is that...[the book's] construction is positively rickety." Davies "writes with wit and style," but "has no original ideas to put forward and...no interest in textual analysis." Alas, his call to the "clerisy" to be discriminating "evades any real discussion of the major writers of our time." His role as Samuel Marchbanks has gotten out of hand, and become condescending.
D239 Fulford, Robert. "Manifesto from Davies," Toronto Daily Star, 17 Oct. 1960, p. 30.
Fulford praises the book for its "entertaining" and "amiably civilized" essays, but disagrees with Davies' analysis. "He never deals with the ugly possibility that the values that the clerisy would stand for have been rendered obsolete...by a world that is radically different from the one in which they were born." And "...he merely asserts...[his humanism] as if that were enough." As well, the book "seems curiously removed from the subject is sets out to analyze." Fulford is unimpressed.
D240 Johnson, Sydney. "A Call to the Clerisy from an Attic Voice." The Montreal Star, 22 Oct. 1960, p. 30.
"It is difficult to describe in a paragraph the scope of this entertaining and enlightening volume." "Mr. Davies never actually drifts away from his subject, but he is prone to making the most delightful digressions." "Alas, there are sub-basements, but nothing above the attic."
D241 Smith, I. Norman. "The Attic and Robertson Davies." The Ottawa Journal, 27 Oct. 1960, p. 6.
Davies "is inexhaustible on his subject" of books, and exhausting in his extensive review of "bits and pieces of literature." Smith the admirer says "'Come speak to us often, ride us, amuse us, improve us, show us--but come oftener and don't stay so long, then we can appreciate you more.'"
D242 Cosman, Max. Rev. of A Voice from the Attic. Commonweal, 28 Oct. 1960, pp. 133-35.
The book is "a marshaling of views, some original others not." It "may not be vintage Leacock or Hazlitt, but it certainly is itself: literate, the colloquial, the discursive yet patterned table talk of one who is sensible of human nature's ordinariness and of the need to raise it above itself--through desirable reading."
D243 Prescott, Orville. "Books of the Times." New York Times, 28 Oct. 1960, p. 29.
"Robertson Davies is a Canadian with violent opinions and a beard." The book consists of "six long essays 'about reading and writing'--rambling, discursive, contentious essays filled with challenging statements and also with tedious irrelevancies." "The result is a book whose parts are better than its whole."
D244 "Just Out: Fie on Pipe Smokers." Newsweek, 31 Oct. 1960, p. 92.
"In this compendium of literary essays...something for everyone who bothers to read."
D245 Dobbs, Kildare. "The Not Impossible Reader." Saturday Night, 12 Nov. 1960, pp. 40, 42-43.
From inside the attic, "the voice is talking to those people downstairs, and to do this, it has to talk down." On the other hand, Davies "is better at rendering his enthusiasms than his abhorrences," which are too general and in the end too long. "Our attention faints" in "following this agile author." Fairly positive.
D246 Baker, Carlos. "Highways and Byways." New York Times Book Review, 20 Nov. 1960, p. 54.
The book is "an eight-part series of winsomely subtitled excursions into the highways, byways, parks and dumps of literature." "One regrets slightly that his byways are not more often highways."
D247 Deacon, William Arthur. "Davies as Man of Letters." The Globe and Mail, 26 Nov. 1960, p. 14.
It is "a rich, fat book, about a hundred things, each with its separate appeal." It "can be opened anywhere, read with delight and put down, only to be opened another time at another place; but nobody will stop because he finds himself reading the same passage twice. That is the test."
D248 Rev. of A Voice from the Attic. New Yorker, 10 Dec. 1960, p. 246.
"In the course of developing...[his] admirable proposal, Mr. Davies rambles engagingly among such curiosities as self-help books,...marriage manuals...and James Jones and Norman Mailer." "A book to read."
D249 Wilson, H. G. "Print." Food for Thought, 21, No. 4 (Jan. 1961), 171-72.
A tepid evaluation. Wilson is concerned that "over-purposefulness can end in defeating the fundamental purpose" of Davies' book. Taste and discrimination "will never be widespread and they cannot be 'taught.'" But for the striking style, the varied and disorganized material would not hold together.
D250 Beharriell, S. Ross. "Types of Canadian Journalism." Queen's Quarterly, 68 (Spring 1961), 183-84.
Davies "is at his discursive best." He succeeds in addressing the above-average reader. "Such success is probably a first in Canadian letters."
D251 Erskine, J. S. "A Voice from the Attic." The Dalhousie Review, 41 (Spring 1961), 119, 121, 123.
The "hodgepodge of content is unified by the author's interest, which is consistently intelligent, appreciative, well-phrased, and spiced with pungent comment, an excellent individual sampling of the many-sided interest of books." Yet, "the theme...that shallowness is the modern sin, seems to overlook its twin, that narrowness is at least as dangerous."
D252 Robson, John M. Rev. of A Voice from the Attic. University of Toronto Quarterly, 30 (July 1961), 425-26.
"More and more Mr. Davies sounds like Matthew Arnold trying to arouse the aliens, and, like Arnold, he is best when proceeding by indirection."
D253 Evans, J. A. S. "Latest Canadiana." Waterloo Review, No. 6 (Winter 1961), pp. 59, 61, 63, 65, 67.
"Mr. Davies has been [burrowing] through forgotten literature...with all the energy and voracity of a mole." However, his "series of rambles through half-forgotten Victorian books...will [hardly] make the clerisy roll over, much less awaken it."
D254 Read, Stanley E. "A Call to the Clerisy." Canadian Literature, No. 7 (Winter 1961), pp. 65-68.
Davies' real purpose in the book is not so much to awaken the clerisy, but "to entertain the reader on books and on reading." He includes "deeply serious and sharp, razor-edge comments on some of the great and really significant writers of our own age."
D255 Sorfleet, John Robert. "The NCL Series: An Appraisal Past and Present." Journal of Canadian Fiction, 1, No. 2 (Spring 1972), 92-96.
"The humanist has filled an essential role in Western civilization; as an articulate statement of this position, Davies' essays are stimulating, diverting, and sometimes controversial; they should not be ignored."
D256 McSweeney, Kerry. "The Editor's Shelf." Queen's Quarterly, 79 (Summer 1972), 284-87.
Reading the book confirms both Davies' "exceptionally lucid and vigorous prose" and his shallow point of view. There is "no real intellectual depth,...no social vision, and far too much indulgence of his fondness for the second-rate and the trivial."
D257 Bickerstaff, Issac. Rev. of A Voice from the Attic. Books in Canada, July-Sept. 1973, p. 55.
"Davies' book about the world of books is one of the New Canadian Library's best offerings."
D258 Woodcock, George. "Reprints." Canadian Literature, No. 55 (Winter 1973), pp. 127-28.
The book is "the ambivalent kind of writing at which Davies is so adept; the look of the creature is somewhat antique, but its bite is strictly contemporary."
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D310 Mezei, Stephen. "Mini Reviews." Performing Arts in Canada, 7, No. 4 (Winter 1970), 38.
"Probably none of the pieces was meant to be published in book form, but Leacock's prominence... makes this book a welcome addition." "The unusually long introduction...by Robertson Davies is a valuable study and will be useful to both students and teachers."
D311 Dawe, Alan. "Stephen's Feast More of a Snack." The Vancouver Sun, 31 Dec. 1970, p. 27A.
The first fifty pages by Davies make up "an immensely readable and sensible introduction to Leacock." He is "frank" about both the man and his works. "Davies' choice [of stories] is generally excellent."
D312 Cameron, Elspeth. Rev. of Feast of Stephen: An Anthology of Some of the Less Familiar Writings of Stephen Leacock. Queen's Quarterly, 78 (Spring 1971), 139-40.
Davies' biographical approach to Leacock "leads him away from the work into dead-end speculation about the 'disproportion of mind and bias of sensibility' that made a humorist of him." His introduction is most effective when dealing with Leacock's use of language.
D313 Watt, F. W. Rev. of Feast of Stephen: An Anthology of Some of the Less Familiar Writings of Stephen Leacock. University of Toronto Quarterly, 40 (Summer 1971), 318-21.
"Stephen Leacock is the deftest of Robertson Davies' several writings on the subject. It does full justice to [Leacock]...while itself appealing...by its shrewd, sympathetic critical discriminations."
D314 Atherton, S. S. Rev. of Feast of Stephen: An Anthology of Some of the Less Familiar Writings of Stephen Leacock. The Fiddlehead, No. 88 (Winter 1971), pp. 111-12.
Davies, in his introduction, "speaks with a certain condescension of Stephen Leacock's output of 'yearly books, which appeared for the Christmas trade,'" for Feast of Stephen is a Christmas book as well. In fact, it "is very much a non-book." The introduction "has little to say about the selections it purports to introduce," contains "a six page potted biography," "followed by a rambling twenty-six page essay." The selections belie their promotion on the cover, and "reveal...[Leacock] at his most unimaginative." Devotees of Leacock and Davies "are advised to spend their $5.95 elsewhere."
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D220 Beer, E. C. "A Dip in a Spring of Pure Humor." Globe Magazine [The Globe and Mail], 14 Oct. 1967, p. 20.
"The Almanack is a spring of humor, pure and undefiled, into which you may dip and dip again with happy results." "Nowhere outside of the works of Beachcomber are you likely to meet so many splendidly named eccentrics."
D221 Fulford, Robert. "The Special Charm of Peanut Butter." Toronto Daily Star, 17 Oct. 1967, p. 21.
Marchbanks has not changed in eighteen years. "The result is a book with a charm that is, at best, antique." In fact, "his rate of apprehension of the outside world seems even slower." He is at his best in the book when offering advice.
D221a Campau, Dubarry. "The Merriest Horoscope." The Atlantic Advocate, 58 (Nov. 1967), 72.
The book's contents all shine "with fanciful wit and capricious humour." Davies' "prose has the iridescence, irrelevance and weightlessness of bubbles." 1967 is "a far, far better [year] for Marchbank's Almanack."
D222 Edinborough, Arnold. "Marchbanks Rides Again." Saturday Night, Nov. 1967, p. 60.
"It is a theme for celebration at this fag end of Centennial year that Samuel Marchbanks has emerged from retirement." The book "is a tonic for the times, a draft of inventive purgation which could be taken at almost any season for that more persistent Canadian complaint, cultural constipation."
D223 Dudek, Louis. "Almanacks Galore--Who Could Ask for More?". The Gazette [Montreal], 11 Nov. 1967, p. 44.
The book is "really quite extraordinary both as entertainment and humour." "There is no writer in English who can show more skill and sophistication." "His weakness perhaps is that he falls into slapstick and irrelevance; but his wit is inimitable and unsurpassed"--"a literary craftsman of high rank."
D224 Black, Hawley L. "Arcane Knowledge Is Dispensed by an Eminent Man of Letters." The Citizen [Ottawa], 25 Nov. 1967, p. 24.
"The contents,...though uneven in quality, are, at their best, urbane and highly amusing (ludicrous, at times); often relevant, too, in sarcasm and satire, to the current scene."
D225 Smith, I. Norman. "Marchbanks on the Passing Scene." The Ottawa Journal, 2 Dec. 1967, p. 40.
Very favourable. Davies' "sense often makes nonsense; his nonsense is often the best sense hurled at us." The book "is something from which he watches the passing scene, gaily, dourly, unkindly, sympathetically, sometimes ponderously, usually quickly."
D226 Scissorbill, Kedijah. "Marchbanks Almanack." The Canadian Forum, Jan. 1968, p. 235.
In an attempt to mimic Marchbanks' style, the reviewer writes a mock letter of complaint. The result is doubly ironic when she says that "the strain of policing your work is really too much for a humble book reviewer." It certainly is.
D226a Robson, J. M. "Light Prose." University of Toronto Quarterly, 37 (July 1968), 501-02.
"All the off-hand grace and charm are there; all the playful grouchiness. But not quite all the wit and pungency. There is an uncharacteristic hesitancy about the function of the almanac as frame."
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D262 Fallis, Sheila R. Rev. of One Hall of Robertson Davies: Provocative Pronouncements on a Wide Range of Topics. Quill & Quire, Oct. 1977, p. 52.
It is "a deceptive book. It lures you along with light, witty pieces until almost without knowing it you are gobbling up subjects like 'The Conscience of the Writer,' 'Insanity in Literature' and 'Jung and the Theatre.'" "His style renders them eminently readable."
D263 Swayze, Walter. "Improper Fraction." The Canadian Forum, Oct. 1977, pp. 25-26.
"The title of this volume may seem as misleading as it is dull and hence uncharacteristic of its author." In the collection, the lectures on good and evil in literature and on writing "at times...appear to slip into namedropping," only to give rise to sudden, profound insights. All together, "the lectures are bookish in every sense of the term, good and bad," and beckon to a bygone Victoria era which intellectually we can barely touch.
D264 Owen, I. M. Rev. of One Half of Robertson Davies: Provocative Pronouncements on a Wide Range of Topics. The Globe and Mail, 8 Oct. 1977, p. 41.
"It's good to have these pieces collected and preserved. They vary, naturally, in value." The ghost stories should have been dropped and the lectures on evil in literature expanded. "Davies emerges here as himself a literary critic of uncommon stature."
D265 Mallet, Gina. "Doesn't Robertson Davies Ever Stop Speechifying?". Toronto Star, 15 Oct. 1977, p. D7.
"Despite an interest in what he has to say, notably about Stephen Leacock and Jung and the theatre, I am repelled by his tone." He "patronizes his listeners. His style is smug." And his "speeches resound with the cliches of the old world." In vain one searches in the essays for "generosity and broadmindedness" in "this fustian."
D266 Amiel, Barbara. "A Mastery of Subject." Maclean's, 17 Oct. 1977, pp. 82-84.
His "erudition, considered thought and wit...are especially suited for the lecture-cum-after-dinner talk which is featured" in the book. If there is a lack of tension and excitement, it is only because he is telling us what he already knows. Throughout, "Davies explodes the cliches of our time with appropriate contempt."
D267 Collins, Winston. "The Davies Mask Stripped Away." Saturday Night, Nov. 1977, pp. 52, 54-55.
"The collection...is not by any measure one half of Robertson Davies. One tenth is more like it." "Although he reminisces about his childhood and relates personal anecdotes, he's nearly always a persona rather than a person." When he does let his mask down, he reveals advanced Victorianism: rejection of Freud, alarm at the death of Culture, and close fellowship with Jung. The book "is often provocative, occasionally trivial, usually witty, sometimes pompous."
D268 Dawe, Alan. "Provocative Pronouncements." The Vancouver Sun, 4 Nov. 1977, p. 33L.
Davies is "witty, entertaining, assured, concerned with human reality, and filled with the subtle insights of a Wise, Old Man." But the speeches reveal as well "a gracious daring about the things he chooses to say. As a result, he never talks down to his audience."
D269 Morley, Patricia. "Essays from the Master...Once 'Lop-sided Boy.'" The Ottawa Journal, 5 Nov. 1977, p. 40.
"These essays...certainly take their place among the best of Davies' writing." "I can think of only one other essayist in Davies' class, and that is Hugh MacLennan."
D270 McKellar, Iain. "Definitely Not His Better Half." The Citizen [Ottawa], 12 Nov. 1977, p. 36.
"It is irritating that Davies has not bothered to clean up the grammar in his speeches. Sentence fragments abound, reading more like advertising copy than stylish prose." During "Evil in Literature," he "tries to include too much...jumping from one short description to another." His recurring focus on second- and third-rate literature limits the apparent aptness of his moral strictures. Furthermore, his simplified Jungian theory "makes all literature appear to be dominated by the...same stock characters." Most disappointingly, he lacks "true wit" and "shows himself a master of the single entendre." He exhorts us to read the addresses as speeches; "perhaps he should have issued a recording."
D271 Barrie, Brenda. "Promise Over-Fulfilled." Winnipeg Tribune, 3 Dec. 1977, p. 44.
"In this volume...we get all of his wit and sparkle, his sense of an exceptional personality." Regrettably, the last two sections do not measure up, being an assortment of oddities. Nevertheless, "a delightful look at a very special and complex man."
D272 Cluett, Robert. "On Being His Age." Books in Canada, Jan. 1978, pp. 13-14.
Contrary to its title page, the book's 22 addresses lack "things 'provocative'--the sense of things new that challenge or move us to reshape our thoughts and thinking." "The antique resonances are visibly and deliberately out of step with the times"--19th century and English, Christian and hierarchical. Too long and lacking cohesion, the book "will not add to the stature of its author" but will likely be enjoyed by Davies devotees.
D273 Galloway, Priscilla. Rev. of One Half of Robertson Davies. Canadian Book Review Annual 1977. Ed. Dean Tudor, Nacy Tudor, and Linda Biesenthal. Toronto: Peter Martin, 1978, p. 183.
Davies' pronouncements "are not...[wide-ranging], being liberally flavoured with Jung and redolent of melodrama." Few are so witty or perceptive "as to deserve being embalmed in print." Moreover, his speeches inexcusably gloss women and Canadian writers.
D274 Garebian, Keith. "Davies the Ham." The Montreal Star, 11 March 1978, p. D3.
The book includes "serious addresses," "lively parodies of ghost stories, Charles Dickens, and Victorian romances," and an "execrable poem." "He is entertaining even when he is moralizing" though "as a literary critic...[he] is less compelling," and sometimes "superficial." He likes to put on voices. "One of the problems with this book is that the 'ham' sometimes lies heavily on the tongue."
D275 Oates, Joyce Carol. "Books Considered." New Republic, 15 April 1978, pp. 22-25. Rpt. (excerpt--"Canada's Leading Man of Letters"). In The Vancouver Sun, 18 April 1978, p. A5.
The preamble recounts the development of Canadian literature. The next section reviews the Deptford novels. The new volume of speeches "forced me to realize how close, how astonishingly close, colossal vanity is to pristine innocence." Oates then cites his more chauvinistic remarks. Of the twenty-two pieces, "perhaps five are worth preserving." "On Dickens he writes knowledgeably...on Jung he is disappointingly simplistic." Whether out of envy, ignorance, or indifference, he never mentions "the name of any distinguished Canadian contemporary." He is not Canada's "leading man of letters," nor a "great" Canadian writer, but rather "a symbol of all that younger Canadian writers and artists have been struggling to accommodate or repudiate, or transcend, or forget." The review seems more jaundiced than judicious.
D276 Lindborg, Henry J. Rev. of One Half of Robertson Davies. Bookviews, 1, No. 11 (July 1978), 56.
"Throughout, Davies is willing to be dramatic...without being simply clever or sensational." He writes "lucidly" and "intelligently on his craft," and gives us "public speaking exercised with grace."
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D195 Dios, Wolfgang. "...and the 'Brutal Truth' about His Play." The Ottawa Journal, 11 Oct. 1975, p. 39.
Davies "explores the Canadian mystique of nationalism with a single-minded intellectual pomposity that makes Question Time...a distinctly uneven potpourri of lecture and metaphor." Neither subtle nor introspective, the play tends to a melodramatic and banal flavour. The first act is "often repetitious and monotonously self-indulgent, [whereas] the second is bright, spicy and funny enough that one can almost forgive Davies his donnish philosophical superficialities."
D196 Haines, Charles. "Davies Draws a Naw." The Citizen [Ottawa], 1 Nov. 1975, p. 78.
"Few readers will have either the energy or the patience necessary to read on from [Act Two] to the end of Davies's astonishingly uninteresting play." "The preface is more readable than the play."
D197 Street, Claire. "Too Rich?". Winnipeg Free Press, 14 Feb. 1976, Sec. New Leisure, p. 16.
"It is an extremely busy work;...its themes... [are] complex and crowded." "The structure is clever" and the language "fine," but "it does seem an indigestibly large slice of ultra-rich fruit cake. Several, smaller slices in several, smaller plays might have been more satisfying."
D198 Lister, Rota. "Question Time, a Play by Robertson Davies." Canadian Drama/L'Art dramatique canadien, 2, No. 1 (Spring 1976), 118-19.
"It is the necessary quest for self-knowledge, unwillingly undertaken, which forms the substance of Question Time." "As a work of the theatre,...[the play] is unquestionably entertaining. What appears to be missing in the perfect circle of its round is the unpredictable, the surprising"--hence, "a somewhat relentless quality to Act II." Nevertheless, this play is "satisfying" and challenges the belief that Canada has no national mythology.
D199 Andrews, Alan R. Rev. of Question Time. Canadian Theatre Review, No. 11 (Summer 1976), pp. 142-43.
Question Time, and The Dybbuk, by S. Ansky, both "have a spiritual dimension though Question Time evidences an emotional distance that allows audiences to share Davies' "analytic probings into the meaning of life." The process of self-discovery "comes out very clearly with a precision of imagery which marks the lucidity of a fairly simple argument drawn to a pointed conclusion."
D200 Messenger, Ann P. "Words and Images." Canadian Literature, No. 73 (Summer 1977), pp. 110-12.
The weakness of Question Time is its "mixture of verbal and visual," "word and image." "Even the most visual of [Davies'] effects is tied firmly to the word." The incongruity creates "this central illogicality." Moderately favourable.
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D227 "Boys on the Elizabethan Stage: Influence upon the Drama." Times Literary Supplement, 4 Feb. 1939, p. 74.
"This is an able and interesting but very uneven piece of work." Davies is "at his best when considering the heroines of the comedies and illustrating the technical devices used by the playwright to bring these parts well within the scope of the boy actor." The book disappoints "in the treatment of the tragic heroines and in its conclusions."
D228 Sandwell, B. K. "Squeaking Cleopatras." Saturday Night, 18 March 1939, p. 21. Davies "is full of wise sayings about many other aspects of Elizabethan acting besides the boy players."
D229 Rev. of Shakespeare's Boy Actors. Quarterly Review, 272, No. 540 (April 1939), 370.
Davies "is certainly interesting," though sometimes he "appears rather to force his theories too far; as where he says that Shakespeare never trusted a boy actor with a death scene." "We would not, however, leave the suggestion of general wrongness in this book, which is judicious and admirable in its style and suggestions."
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D230 Stedmond, J. Rev. of Stephen Leacock. The Canadian Forum, Sept. 1970, pp. 222-23.
Davies' professional treatment of Leacock "is a slighter book" than George Woodcock's on Mordecai Richler in that "he looms rather larger than his subject." "One cannot quarrel with what he says, but he has not really produced, as he claims, 'a grateful celebration' of his subject."
D231 Barbour, Douglas. "Critical Limitations." Canadian Literature, No. 49 (Summer 1971), pp. 75-77.
In competing with his own earlier sharp and witty and now famous lecture on Leacock, Davies "gives us an interesting examination of Leacock, the man and writer, that does not say enough about individual works, yet does not add anything vital to what he has already told us about Leacock's personality."
D232 Spettigue, Douglas. Rev. of Stephen Leacock. Queen's Quarterly, 78 (Summer 1971), 335-37.
"Davies offers to relate Leacock's writings to the little-known man." It is a "tentative exercise, but the achievement...is positive and exciting."
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D201 MacTaggart, Ken W. "New Canadian Humorist." The Globe and Mail, 29 Nov. 1947, p. 9.
The book contains "some of the brightest humor and most vigorous satire produced by a Canadian." "Davies has done some exceptionally fine writing and revealed a sense of humor that is exhilarating."
D202 Van Gogh, Lucy [B. K. Sandwell]. "Can Davies Be in Mortal Danger from Disembodied Marchbanks?". Saturday Night, 13 Dec. 1947, p. 35.
Reading...[the entries] is like canoeing down an Ontario stream with twenty bends to the mile; it is no trouble, and you always want to see what is around the corner." "People to whom...[this book] is given should regard the gift as a bit of a compliment."
D203 Paynter, Simon. "The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks." The Canadian Forum, March 1948, p. 284.
"Davies, who conforms to nothing, cannot be fitted into the pessimistic school of humorists which under Thurber has long held sway on this continent. The experiences of Marchbanks are comparable to Walter Mitty..., but he is not in the least pathetic." "The enthusiasm of his loathing...forbids us to consider him defeated." "This is great humor." "I am confident...[it] will join Sunshine Sketches on its lonely eminence, and thus double the number of humorous classics in our literature."
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D277 Adachi, Ken. "Witty Wrinkles on World's Ways." Toronto Star, 1 Dec. 1979, p. F9.
"Reading Davies' new collection of opinions, which are mainly on literary matters, is to feel oddly insulated from the world outside the stuffy attic." "But...the compensations are enormous," for "Davies is enthusiastically interested" about his wide-ranging subject--"music, circuses, psychology, Victorian sexuality and toilets." Includes a (poor) photo of Davies.
D278 French, William. "Intellectual Curiosity and Generosity of Vision. But Where Is Canadian Content?". The Globe and Mail, 8 Dec. 1979, p. E15.
In this collection of past articles, "many of the subjects seem dated," but they exhibit the strength of his intellect. "Even more impressive" is the lack of "change in style, outlook or intellectual richness" since Davies' first writings. Grant's introduction "shrewdly notes" the distance Davies maintains, involving "a certain amount of posturing." Davies does not exhibit the "stylish elegance" of E. B. White, but he shines in his erudition. Because Grant has withheld Davies' articles about Canadian literature and theatre for a future volume, in the present one Davies seems snobbishly "preoccupied with things British." Even "a sampling of Canadian content" "would have made for a more balanced and representative" collection.
Renown at Stratford: A Record of the Shakespearean Festival in Canada 1953
D279 B., C. L. Rev. of Renown at Stratford: A Record of the Shakespearean Festival in Canada 1953. Dalhousie Review, 33 (Winter 1953), xxxviii.
"This record and commentary is a worthy memento of the achievement...[of the Canadian Stratford Festival] and should serve to inspire emulation and improvement for the future."
D280 Deacon, William Arthur. "Shakespeare in a Tent Became National Event." The Globe and Mail, 28 Nov. 1953, p. 14.
This book "perfectly enshrines that glorious effort"--the initial season of the Stratford Festival. Davies' "little essays will remain as valuable suggestions to future directors." The book "is important because it commemorates a crucial event in the artistic life of Canada."
D281 "Shakespeare at Stratford." The Spectator [Hamilton], 28 Nov. 1953, p. 12.
Robertson Davies, "with a delightful prose style that is eminently readable, deftly touches on the meaning of the characters [in the plays] and occasionally comments on the way in which the part was played. His remarks are free from criticism, and they are all the better for it."
D282 "Sum Up Canadian Festival in 'Renown at Stratford.'" Toronto Daily Star, 28 Nov. 1953, p. 32.
Favourable, but unexcited. Davies "accompanies each character sketch with a commentary which illumines not only that actor's individual role but also its relation to the wider Elizabethan drama."
D283 Walker, Alastair. Rev. of Renown at Stratford: A Record of the Shakespearean Festival in Canada 1953. Queen's Quarterly, 60 (Winter 1954), 577-78.
"Davies is sufficiently illuminating to be read without a knowledge of the plays." Dr. Guthrie's account "is worth reading as an exciting tale." "The reproductions are...a delight." Clarke, Irwin are to be congratulated for "the first Canadian book to be photo-lithographed."
D284 Reaney, James. Rev. of Renown at Stratford: A Record of the Shakespearean Festival in Canada 1953. The Canadian Forum, Feb. 1954, p. 259.
"Mr. Davies' text, humorous, learned and excited, accompanies more than a score of portraits...drawn by Mr. Grant Macdonald." Tyrone Guthrie "has some very serious and wise things to say about the Festival's future and about its possible effects on Canadian acting."
D285 Know, R. S. Rev. of Renown at Stratford: A Record of the Shakespearean Festival in Canada 1953. University of Toronto Quarterly, 23 (April 1954), 289-90.
Davies' notes "are a sheer delight to read. Here is scholarship carried gracefully, a live theatrical criticism which takes us beyond the immediate figure and scene with shrewd and illuminating comment on Shakespeare's art and the general art of the drama. As a permanent record...this book could not be bettered."
D286 Murphy, Julia. Rev. of Renown at Stratford: A Record of the Shakespearean Festival in Canada 1953. Canadian Art, 11 (Winter 1954), 79-80.
"This is an extremely satisfying account of the theatrical miracle." Davies' scholarly comments provide "a very necessary and useful orientation for those whose reading of Shakespeare and history may be sketchy." "A book to own."
D287 "Current Bibliography." Rev. of Twice Have the Trumpets Sounded: A Record of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival in Canada 1954 and Renown at Stratford: A Record of the Shakespearean Festival in Canada 1953. Shakespeare Newsletter, April 1955, p. 14.
Davies renders "remarkably vivid descriptions of Tyrone Guthrie in action as a director" and thoughtful criticism of the plays.
D288 Crossley, Peter. "Birth of a Theatre." Winnipeg Free Press, 8 April 1972, Sec. New Leisure, p. 21.
"The book is one of the finest documents of Canadian theatrical history ever printed." "It is well written in an interesting style which conveys all the original excitement of the event."
D289 Penfield, Wilder (III). "Reflections from Our Avon." Books in Canada, Oct. 1972, pp. 11-12.
"Davies is not a picker of nits--the occasion stirred him to rethink not only the first season," but round upon round of interesting facets of the theatre. Davies and Guthrie "make of this art book an entertainment with lasting savour."
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D259 Holloway, David. "Learn to Read Slowly." Daily Telegram and Morning Post, 19 May 1961.
"Now from Canada comes a sensible plea for a revaluation of the business of reading." "There is plenty of good fighting stuff here to rouse readers to demand their rights." However, "like most collections of essays," the book is "uneven."
D260 Nott, Kathleen. "Common Readers' Retreat." The Observer, 11 June 1961, p. 61. Rev. of the British edition, published as The Personal Art.
"At first I thought that Mr. Davies had found rather a frail peg on which to hang the account of his own interests and enjoyments." But he "has not only a wide and curious knowledge of nineteenth-century plays and novels, he has made a reasoned and convincing analysis."
D261 Richardson, Joanna. "Reading without Tears." Punch, 28 June 1961, p. 991.
The book "is not an imposition of personal tastes but a conversation with an intolerant, original and provocative mind."
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D233 Redmond, James. "Directed by the Geniuses of Insipidity." Times Educational Supplement, 10 Oct. 1975, p. 5.
Volume VI suffers from the mention of "huge numbers of plays over which no one would enthusiastically spill ink." "Professor Davies, with neither new material...nor new evaluations,...has ordered the same plays and the same judgments [of Allardyce Nicoll in A History of English Drama] in a slightly different way." Regrettably, the few worthy dramatists of the period are given scant and general treatment.
D234 Rev. of The Revels History of Drama in English. Vol. VI. 1750-1880. Choice, 12 (Dec. 1975), p. 1035.
Moderately favourable. "The admirable bibliography and footnotes lead into the scholarship up to 1973, but the book does not supplant in detail A. Nicoll's A History of English Drama, 1660-1900 (1966) or The London Stage, pts. 4 and 5 (7v., 1962-68), although more readable than either."
D235 Nichols, Harold J. Rev. of The Revels History of Drama in English. Vol. VI. 1750-1880. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 62 (Oct. 1976), 319-20.
The book is a welcome addition, for it provides "new information and insights into nineteenth century theatre and society." The writing is "meticulous"; thus, Davies explains the merits of works which other authorities merely treat with plot summaries. Minor weaknesses include "a lack of coordination among the book's four sections" and a too familiar approach to some of the history.
D236 Mayer, David. "Some Recent Writings on Victorian Theatre." Victorian Studies, 20 (Spring 1977), 311-17.
"Booth and his colleagues have contributed studies that are at once original, concise, accurate, readable, and useful to the beginning or advanced student." The section by Davies, "crippled by a reliance on a decade-by-decade chronology, depends upon numerous weak and insufficient precis, and is further limited because the author takes such a narrow view of the repertoire." "He makes nothing of the popular theatre: no equestrian plays, no pantomine, no music hall."
D237 Rowell, George. Rev. of The Revels History of Drama in English. Vol. VI. 1750-1880. Modern Language Review, 72 (Oct. 1977), 909-11.
Davies' section, "which occupies almost half of the entire volume...is characterized by a disarming frankness." His comprehensive chronological approach "precludes an overall judgment on individual playwrights unless their work falls conveniently into decades," and his views are "often contentious." "Nevertheless this substantial survey is stimulating, knowledgeable, and elegantly expressed."
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D204 L., V. D. "From the Critic's Notebook." The Whig-Standard [Kingston], 9 Nov. 1949, p. 4.
Davies writes "as though he expected Canadians to be as intelligent and as well-read as other civilized people." The book "is humour for the New Canada--the Canada which has outgrown colonialism, either toward England or the U.S.A."
D205 "Zestful Table Talk by Robertson Davies." Toronto Daily Star, 12 Nov. 1949, p. 44.
"Canada's own Pepys...has whipped up a second banquet from his diary"--"sassy and bright and yet somehow courtly and 18th century."
D206 Hurlow, W. J. "Under the Reading Lamp." The Citizen [Ottawa], 19 Nov. 1949, Sec. 3, p. 2.
"An exhilarating volume." "Our Canadian Oliver Wendell Holmes." A lengthy, keen review, full of portions of the book.
D207 Needham, Richard J. "One Man's Opinion." The Calgary Herald, 23 Nov. 1949, p. 4.
Needham bemoans Canada's worst fault--"its appalling, its literally stupendous dullness," a fault partly overcome in Davies' book of "good talk; the kind of talk...that a lot of people will be delighted to find in their Christmas stockings." Every home should possess two copies "because if you have just one, somebody will borrow it and never return it. Hurrah for Marchbanks...and down with the dullards."
D208 Kervin, Roy." More from Marchbanks." The Gazette [Montreal], 26 Nov. 1949, p. 26.
"This book is a rich, rollicking collection." "Marchbanks' discussions of himself are seldom his best pieces." Yet "the knowledge that such writing is being done in Canada today is armor against the pedestrians who sigh over the state of Canadian literature."
D209 Scott, James. "Take This Humor with a Grain of Salt." Toronto Telegram, 26 Nov. 1949, p. 12.
The promising Samuel Marchbanks in the Diary "never grew into anything at all." He is not very funny. However, Davies "is a very promising playwright." Because he is so aware that good humour lies between farce and satire, "his humor comes out sounding fidgety and inhibited." The "sharp-tongued asides... rarely go far enough to become really funny and... hardly ever hurt enough to do any real good." "I now hope...Davies will stick to the drama and give Marchbanks a not too decent burial."
D210 Swanson, Jean. "As with Olives, So with Marchbanks." Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, 3 Dec. 1949, p. 6.
"Unfortunately, I can't quote the whole book, and that would be the only way to show all the brilliant wit it contains."
D211 Deacon, W. A. "A New Samuel Marchbanks." The Globe and Mail, 10 Dec. 1949, p. 13.
Davies "is refreshing rather than hilarious. I read him for sheer enjoyment."
D212 Winspear, May. Critically Speaking. CBC, 15 Jan. 1950. (30 min.)
The book "deals with many of the same topics as The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, but not quite so effectively." It "often seems to be straining for its effects, and the casualness of conversation has a forced quality." Davies displays Johnson's "fondness for conversation," his "hatred of pretense and shame," and his interest in death. Winspear ends with Marchbanks' contrast of dying properly in the eighteenth century and dying impersonally in the twentieth.
D213 Graham, Kathleen. "This Week I Read." Regina Leader-Post, 25 Feb. 1950, p. 10.
The book is "sharp, pungent and witty." Nothing escapes Marchbanks' barbed wit--including the "sly digs and pokes" at himself. "No library should be without a copy."
D214 MacGillivray, J. R. Rev. of The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks. University of Toronto Quarterly, 19 (April 1950), 234-25.
Table Talk is not quite up to The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks; notwithstanding, this "lively and humorous comment on our Canadian mores is a rare and valuable commodity."
D215 Bingley, John. "Comment in Canada." John O'London's Weekly, 8 June 1951.
A very favourable review that quotes twelve portions of the book.
D216 Plomer, William. "A Canadian Man of Letters." Listener, 12 June 1951, p. 1005.
Davies "has something of E. S. P. Haynes' curiosity, independence, prejudices, and eccentricity, of Stephen Leacock's good-humoured derisiveness, and of Beachcomber's playfulness; but the work has an original and pleasing flavour of its own." "If Canada can produce and nurture a man of Marchbanks' temper and a writer of Davies' ability, it must be as fine a nation as we know it to be." An extensive, polished, thoughtful review.
D217 Usborne, John. "Humour." Spectator, 15 June 1951, p. 792.
Mr. Davies "is a natural. He is funny--and often very funny--because he cannot quite take himself seriously; because he is crotchety and dyseptic, inconsequent and whimsical and contradictory, anti-puritanic and impish and earthy." His one serious fault is prolonging his efforts, thus spoiling them. "An enquiring, well-stored and allusive mind."
D218 B., H. "Deipnosophism." Punch, 11 July 1951, p. 53.
"Good conversation depends on a wide reading and a store of miscellaneous and not too exact information; Marchbanks has both." The "unexpected impact [of his asides] should draw laughter even from those who do not laugh easily." "Universal experience universally discussed."
D219 "This and That." Times Literary Supplement, 10 Aug. 1951, p. 504.
"Table talk, when published, is a dangerous form of literature." "Mr. Robertson Davies...brings the trick off...marvellously well." This is "warm and witty humanism. It is only a pity that...no one sees fit to index it."
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D307 Davis, Donald. "Stratford Adventure (Vol. III)." Financial Post, 5 Nov. 1955, p. 24.
With the previous two books, Davies has composed a "unique chronicle of the growth and development of a remarkable experiment in theatre."
D308 Deacon, William Arthur. "Third Stratford Festival." The Globe and Mail, 3 Dec. 1955, p. 8.
This volume "shows Robertson Davies as the chief spokesman of the enterprise. His hasty notes in Renown...have now grown to impressive essays in dramatic criticism-analytic, interpretive and judicial."
D309 Reaney, James. "Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mewed." The Canadian Forum, March 1956, pp. 284-85.
"In Mr. Davies' account of The Merchant of Venice and Julius Caesar,...the wit and perception are as rich as ever they were in preceding volumes. He is not afraid to be critical either, nor to give in where the size of Julius Caesar's coffin is concerned." "As a whole Brinded Cat tells you what you should remember of Stratford 1955."
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D290 Dunsmuir, Dave. "Fanfare for Stratford." The Varsity [Univ. of Toronto], 8 Dec. 1954, p. 5.
"Davies is left free to indulge in his own brand of rambling and eclectic scholarship." Deals mainly with Guthrie and Macdonald.
D291 Deacon, William Arthur. "Second Stratford Festival Results in a Better Book." The Globe and Mail, 11 Dec. 1954, p. 13.
"It is...[the] intuitive grasp of the increased significance of the Stratford Theatre that has made Twice Have the Trumpets Sounded so much better than Renown [at Stratford]." Davies' "reviews are lengthy,...keen and well reasoned," and "written with firm grace." "Already humorist, dramatist, novelist, how large will be his contribution within the next 25 years?"
D292 Kervin, Roy. "Stratford's Second Festival." The Gazette [Montreal], 11 Dec. 1954, p. 27.
"A considerable improvement on the first [book] 'Renown at Stratford.'" "Davies has had the time to write carefully-considered appreciations."
D293 O'Hearn, Walter. "Davies and Guthrie Sound the Trumpet." The Montreal Star, 11 Dec. 1954, p. 13.
Some of Davies' analysis about Measure for Measure and Oedipus "is brilliantly right, but there is about it an air of Look-Mama-no-Hands which is at once charming and irritating."
D294 "Stratford Revisited." The Spectator [Hamilton], 11 Dec. 1954, p. 13.
Davies' analyses are "model works" of criticism--"fascinating" and well-considered--and "as such, they should be required reading for actors and critics everywhere." His description of a Guthrie rehearsal is "a gem."
D294a Swanson, Jean. "About Books and Authors--An Excellent Production." Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, 11 Dec. 1954, p. 16.
The book is "sensitive, spirited, appreciative, entertaining"--"imitative of the very essence of the productions." Davies' criticism is "thoughtful, detailed, lively and enthusiastic." Quite a lengthy review that includes one of Grant Macdonald's illustrations.
D295 Edinborough, Arnold. Rev. of Twice Have the Trumpets Sounded: A Record of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival in Canada 1954. Peterborough Examiner, 20 Dec. 1954, p. 4.
Twice is one of "the gift books of the season" and "a much better book than its predecessor." "The three long reviews by Mr. Davies are full of good things." "The fourth is an intriguing account of what happens at a Stratford festival."
D296 Gardiner, John. "Stratford's Festival's Second Season Aired in Double-Edged Post Mortem." Windsor Daily Star, 24 Dec. 1954, p. 26.
"Davies has done an excellent job with his essay and his description of rehearsals and the festival as a whole"--a "scholarly, gifted writer."
D297 Irving, D. O. "Twice Have the Trumpets Sounded." B.C. Magazine [Vancouver Province], 25 Dec. 1954, p. 16.
"Mr. Davies' second record [is] broader, more assured, and slightly more objectified. He is scrupulously fair in his criticisms."
D298 Smith, I. Norman. "Stratford Festival: Robertson Davies Recovers the Thrill of Great Drama." The Ottawa Journal, 28 Dec. 1954, p. 6.
This year's book is better than Renown at Stratford "because Robertson Davies has let himself go a bit" and provided more than sweet praise. "It is not only the most intelligent theatre writing Canada knows today but...it could face the music in the best circles of New York and London criticism." A lengthy review of the book.
D299 Laverie, Louise. "Book of the Week." The Calgary Herald, 22 Jan. 1955, p. 4.
Davies' analyses "were pieces notable for scholarship and wit," yet his enthusiasm suggested "he was sounding his own trumpet too much."
D300 Gillies, Glorya. "Twice Have the Trumpets Sounded." Acta Victoriana, Feb. 1955, pp. 31-f.
"This year's volume...is written with a smooth, self-confident pen." Davies succeeds "admirably" in striving for well-balanced, unbiased assessments of the three plays. "The chief fault with the reviews is that they are too general."
D301 R., F. "'Stratford Festival Was an Achievement But...'" Winnipeg Tribune, 5 March 1955, p. 13.
"Dr. Guthrie's essay is by far the meatiest thing in the book and the treasure of the volume...is the illustrations of Grant Macdonald." Davies' criticism is "enlightened, and quite fair," yet it seems that "enthusiasm sometimes got the better of the surgeon's knife."
D302 Hume, J. A. "Twice Have the Trumpets Sounded." The Citizen [Ottawa], 19 March 1955, p. 15.
"A fascinating, thought-provoking book"--a "sparkling successor to 'Renown at Stratford.'" Davies' "erudite" essays "neglected to dilate upon the important growth in performance and stature achieved by practically all the Canadian players." A lengthy review of Davies' and Guthrie's contributions.
D303 Hall, Amelia. Rev. of Twice Have the Trumpets Sounded: A Record of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival in Canada 1954. Canadian Art, 12, No. 3 (Spring 1955), 134.
"This is more than a sequel." "Both writers demand more effort of their readers than in Renown at Stratford, and in so doing pay a compliment to readers and to the Festival as well."
D304 "Current Bibliography." Rev. of Twice Have the Trumpets Sounded: A Record of the Shakespearean Festival in Canada 1954 and Renown at Stratford: A Record of the Shakespearean Festival in Canada 1953. Shakespeare Newsletter, April 1955, p. 14.
Davies renders "remarkably vivid descriptions of Tyron Guthrie in action as a director" and thoughtful criticism of the plays.
D305 Hewes, Henry. "Astringency in Ontario." Rev. of Twice Have the Trumpets Sounded: A Record of the Shakespearean Festival in Canada 1954 and Shakespeare Survey 8. Saturday Night, 4 June 1955, p. 26.
The review dwells on Guthrie's views in both books; it briefly mentions Davies' contribution as a "distinguished critic."
D306 Walker, E. A. "Stratford Again." Queen's Quarterly, 62 (Summer 1955), 291-92.
"It is difficult to do justice to Mr. Davies' four interesting articles." "The special value of...[them] is that they will get into the hands of people who read little criticism."
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D367 Aitken, Barbara. "Between You and Me." Toronto Telegram, 3 Sept. 1954, p. 10.
Aitken lets Davies describe the plot of the play which is opening at the Crest Theatre.
D368 Whittaker, Herbert. "Showbusiness: Premiere of New Play, A Jig for the Gypsy." The Globe and Mail, 11 Sept. 1954, p. 12.
Whittaker notes that the play is not new, though never before staged. It has been revised, however. He elaborates on its plot and theme in the context of Davies' earlier plays. It is "better stocked...with comic characters." And Davies has "come up with that rarity in Canadian plays--a star role" in the character of Benoni, played by Barbara Chilcott.
D369 "Capital S Society Graces Premiere of Jig for Gypsy." Toronto Telegram, 15 Sept. 1954, p. 5.
"Since Mr. Davies has a plethora of ideas, he takes pleasure in juggling with the setting...to give their presentation an impersonal quality." "Actually the play is one of character rather than plot,...held magnificently together by the performance of Barbara Chilcott." Davies "has contrived a curious ending..., a deliciously mad one" to a play "which could stand and would be better for pruning."
D370 "Crest First Night Is Gala Affair." Toronto Telegram, 15 Sept. 1954, p. 11.
Opening night guests include the Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, Mrs. Louis Breithaupt, and Mrs. John David Eaton. The article includes three photos of some of the guests.
D371 Karr, Jack. "Showplace." Toronto Daily Star, 15 Sept. 1954, p. 19.
"Long before curtain time the racks in the box office were bare. As it turned out, Mr. Davies [had] conjured up a lively yet wistful caper." The play "makes satire lie down side by side with whimsy, and leaves room for a smidgin of healthy vulgarity on the side." It "comes to life as an irreverent nose-tweaking of high power politics at its simplest level." "Strong characters" and "strong caricatures."
D372 Wanger, E. G. "The Gypsy in Barbara Shines in Davies Play." The Globe and Mail, Final Ed., 15 Sept. 1954, p. 13.
"It was a memorable occasion" as Barbara Chilcott returned from Stratford "in a true and unequivocal star role." The play is infused with "an unusual and original theme which fully justifies the efforts and artistry lavished on it." "The Welsh flavor serves the purpose beautifully in establishing the initial mood but...tends to become an exercise in itself and distracts rather than supports the content." The characters "are cleverly conceived," but "distinctly Shavian" without the benefit of a Shaw play. Wanger lauds various actors and actresses.
D373 Whittaker, Herbert. "Actress Repeats Role She Had 20 Years Ago." The Globe and Mail, 3 May 1973, p. 15.
Whittaker notes that "Barbara Chilcott will repeat her starring role in A Jig for the Gypsy when...the play is revived by the Lennoxville Festival on July 16." She played Benoni "when the play was first staged at the Crest Theatre nearly 20 years ago."
D374 "Lennoxville's Gypsy a 1954-Model Vehicle." The Citizen [Ottawa], 18 July 1973, p. 82.
The revival was "a trip down Memory Lane-pot-holes and all." "Unfortunately, even a first-class production couldn't take 19 years off the play." The setting, sound and lighting "were [all] reminiscent of little-theatre productions 20 years ago in everyone's home town," productions we have since outgrown.
D375 Whittaker, Herbert. "A Jig for the Gypsy 18 Years Too Old?". The Globe and Mail, Metro Ed., 18 July 1973, p. 12.
"Some failure to set up the conflicts of the first act and a rather hurried speech...brought the first act to an abrupt curtain." But some things were well-established--Miss Chilcott's "enduring beauty as the gypsy," and the characters of Richard Roberts and his daughter, Bronwen. "The politicians appear more like daguerreotypes than people, and this may be as much Davies' slip as that of Davis and the Lennoxville actors." In the end, "the backbone of the play is supplied by Miss Chilcott." "It is a beautiful performance and only needs a little more dominance to be magnificent."
D376 "A Jig for the Gypsy." The Citizen [Ottawa], 21 July 1973, p. 53.
This caption identifies a photo from the current production of the play at the Lennoxville Festival.
D377 Ascroft, Sheila. "History Repeats Itself for Actress and Author." The Citizen [Ottawa], 28 July 1973, p. 49.
This extensive article, which focuses on actress Barbara Chilcott, notes among other things that the Lennoxville revival of A Jig for the Gypsy marks only its second professional production. The article quotes Chilcott's positive reassessments of the play, then reviews her acting background, and her experiences in the profession.
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D365 "College Boys Produce a Masque." The Globe and Mail, Final Ed., 3 May 1952, p. 8.
"The Upper Canada College Preparatory School presented an unusual fascinating entertainment at the gymnasium last night." "It is without doubt the ideal medium for a school performance--literate without being pompous, witty without being frivolous and suffused with the sort of naive home-spun wisdom that derives the greatest conviction from the interpretation by a very young cast."
D366 Whittaker, Herbert. "Showbusiness." The Globe and Mail, 6 Dec. 1954, p. 26.
"The masque is a singularly successful piece...for the theatre." "The Prep [School of Upper Canada College] actors were charming." Details of the plot and actors ensue. "In all, a notable evening indeed."
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D414 Macdonald, Rose. "Masque for Mr. Punch: A Fine Achievement." Toronto Telegram, 7 Dec. 1962, p. 32.
Includes a photograph of Davies, Mr. W. H. Webb, and four actors "after final curtain at Upper Canada College Prep. School." "Some 80 Prep School boys appeared in the present masque'"--thirty-one of them characters. Macdonald details some of the parts played by some of the boys. The play itself was "achieved excellently."
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D391 Whittaker, Herbert. "Show Business." The Globe and Mail, 23 April 1952, p. 17.
Edward Thompson, adjudicating one-act plays at Hart House, described A Voice of the People as a "'very difficult satire'" with a tendency to be "'funny but frightening.'"
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D344 "Granddaughters of Catherine Parr Traill." Peterborough Examiner, 29 Aug. 1950, p. 9.
A photograph shows Mrs. Catherine Todd, Miss Anne Atwood, Miss Florence Atwood, and Mr. Davies examining a needlepoint sample said to have been made by Catherine Parr Traill. The three ladies "were distinguished guests" at the Monday night opening of At My Heart's Core in Peterborough.
D345 Hale, Katherine. "Three Pioneer Women." [29 Aug. 1950].
The play to some "promised to be just another pioneer play. But experience proved otherwise." The play came to life as the women struggling with their wilderness existence were "suddenly confronted by a realization of their own secret selves." Hale's article--a kind of literary travelogue--roots the theme in the environs of Lakefield. She mentions the houses, farms, and descendants of the early Stricklands, Ontario's most prominent early settlers. She concludes with a tribute to the play: "Everything changes but the secret hopes and fears that lie deep at the heart's core of human beings." Evocative and interesting.
D346 Whittaker, Herbert. "First Night Audience Greets Historic Comedy with Joy." Peterborough Examiner, 29 Aug. 1950, p. 9.
Specially written for the Peterborough Examiner. "Peterborough is indeed a city to be congratulated" for celebrating its centennial with a "wise and witty play especially written by Canada's leading playwright." Its wit and mirth are particularly rare, given the Canadian pioneer's apparent penchant for "dourness of spirit." The "eminent ladies of history" emerge as full personalities, replete with both foibles and grace. The play also gives us "plenty of observations of wisdom on the state of cultural life here in Canada, which...just conceivably might apply to the present day." A delightful plum is the song of the great Grimaldi which makes Whittaker really believe in "the play, the period and Early Peterborough." Davies directed an admirable cast remarkably well.
D347 Whittaker, Herbert. "Show Business." The Globe and Mail, 29 Aug. [sic] (30 Aug.) 1950, p. 17.
Whittaker comments on a production staged at Peterborough's Summer Theatre. "At My Heart's Core is a better play than Fortune, My Foe." "While its first act is overcrowded and mostly devoted to developing a sub-plot, its second and third acts restore a pleasing balance." Davies' "concern with the place of the artist gets a fair hearing, and there is a fine Shavian passage about the intellectual frustrations of women." "Brenda Davies, as the more romantic part of Mrs. Stewart is charming.... Kate Reid fares less well as the lady naturalist."
D348 Thistle, Lauretta. "Uses His Witty Pen on Pioneer Misfits." The Citizen [Ottawa], 9 Sept. 1950, p. 34.
"Far from depicting the conventional, brave, uncomplaining pioneer, Mr. Davies has chosen two groups of misfits"--shiftless Irish and gentlefolk, both out of place in the harsh Canadian environment. Edmund Cantwell, one of Davies' "finest characters," speaks with language "by times rich with Irish imagery, by times scalpel-sharp." John Primm played the role for all it was worth in the Peterborough production. The first act almost suffers from inaction; the second "needs no contrived comic relief"; "the third is utterly delightful," and contains "the first successful, really moving love scene that Mr. Davies has written." Overall, the dialogue exudes "increasing naturalness: and the characters prove much more subtle and challenging in "the most successful Davies play so far."
D349 "Canadian Repertory to Stage New Play by Davies." The Ottawa Journal, 6 Jan. 1951, p. 10.
The play's "bright, sparkling dialogue and good comedy scenes" will be produced "next week" with three members of the original cast. Includes a photograph of Davies.
D350 "Comedy by Robertson Davies." The Citizen [Ottawa], 6 Jan. 1951, Sec. 3, p. 28.
Davies' "unconventional approach" presents "aspects of life in Canada a century ago which are not usually emphasized in history books." The article indicates who will play the leading roles; the production includes three of the original cast: Brenda Davies, John Primm, and Donald Glen.
D351 "Canadian Play Opens in Ottawa." The Globe and Mail, Final Ed., 10 Jan. 1951, p. 8.
Announces the opening of the play in Ottawa "tonight." Apparently, "the tickets are selling like hot cakes." "A big drawing-card is Brenda Davies" as Frances Stewart.
D352 "Comedy, Satire and Serious Thought in New Davies Play." The Ottawa Journal, 10 Jan. 1951, p. 12.
"The fine art of intellectual seduction...becomes a powerful and appealing focus for the argument placed by Canadian playwright Robertson Davies that an intelligent woman should be given an opportunity to use her ability." The first professional production of the play by the Canadian Repertory Theatre was marred only by some "awkwardness in the opening scenes." Almost all the actors gave solid performances.
D353 DeProse, Molley. "Play, Cast Excellent in 'At My Heart's Core.'" The Citizen [Ottawa], 10 Jan. 1951, p. 20.
"Throughout Mr. Davies' brilliant dialogue serves as a constant delight." The cast has been "particularly well-chosen." The setting was excellent. A "rewarding" experience.
D354 "Ottawa OKs Davies' Play." Toronto Telegram, 10 Jan. 1951, p. 7.
The article recounts the successful debut of At My Heart's Core in Ottawa.
D355 "The New Davies' Play." The Citizen [Ottawa], 11 Jan. 1951, p. 32.
The Canadian Repertory Theatre's current production of At My Heart's Core is one of "distinction." The play "lends perspective to Canadian life, which has so often lacked that quality. The play sustains itself by the brilliance of its dialogue at times when the action lags. But the re-creation of frontier life...has the authentic touch." "It is difficult to recall any American play on a frontier theme to rank with Mr. Davies' new work." "Wholly enjoyable."
D356 "Cover Picture." The Citizen Magazine [The Citizen (Ottawa)], 13 Jan. 1951, p. 28.
"Brenda Davies...has been enjoying outstanding success this week as leading lady in the Canadian Repertory Theatre's production of...At My Heart's Core."
D357 "Mrs. Robertson Davies in Husband's Play." The Citizen Magazine [The Citizen (Ottawa)], 13 Jan. 1951, p. 1.
The cover page shows a full-page photograph of Mrs. Davies as Frances Stewart in At My Heart's Core.
D358 "Western Premier of Play by Canada's Leading Playwright Presented Next Week." Edmonton Journal, 13 Jan. 1951, p. 19.
The entire page is taken up by seven photographs of actors rehearsing scenes and in other ways preparing for the January 17-27 run of the play at the University of Alberta's Studio Theatre.
D359 "Canadian Play Pleases Studio First Nighters." Edmonton Journal, 18 Jan. 1951, p. 28.
The play "delighted a first night audience at Studio Theatre." "The whole effect...was most entertaining."
D360 Whittaker, Herbert. "At My Heart's Core." Theatre Canada, 1, No. 1 (Jan.-Feb. 1951), 16-17.
The play is "both wise and witty." "Although he has given this story to hold us dramatically Mr. Davies has also given us plenty of the observations of wisdom on the state of cultural life here in Canada, which...just conceivably might apply to the present day."
D361 "LLT's Next Play: 'At My Heart's Core.'" The London Free Press, 28 April 1951, p. 30.
At My Heart's Core will open at the Grand Theatre on May 3. "Mr. Davies has written with skill and originality." "The manner of the play is Victorian because [the characters]...were Victorians, but the style and dignity" is rough Ontarian. The names of the actors playing lead roles and a photograph of Mrs. Catherine Brickenden, the producer, are included.
D361 Taylor, F. Beatrice. "Drama of Rebellion Days Closing L.L.T. Offering." The London Free Press, 4 May 1951, p. 12.
As the closing major production of the season, At My Heart's Core "has added prestige to the year's bill and...to the playwright himself." "It is Canadiana in a refreshingly effortless fashion." Catherine Brickenden, the producer, has mastered the play's overabundance of speech and paucity of action--a "well-knit production not unduly weighed down by the volume of words." "A pleasurable, a titilating evening of theatre."
D363 "On Television--A Robertson Davies Comedy Premiered on CBC-TV." CBC Times, 8-14 Nov. 1953, p. 3.
Notes that At My Heart's Core is to be aired on CBC-TV Theatre on November 10, 1953, directed by Sylvio Narizzano. Davies himself is to introduce this "new, original comedy."
D364 Glover, Douglas. "Fine Vacation-Time Feast of Drama on the Way?". Peterborough Examiner, 4 July 1974, p. 3.
Glover predicts the play will be repeatedly revived in the area more "for its regional flavor and curiosity value than for any intrinsic dramatic worth." "The play itself is flawed to some extent and the actors have their work cut out for them having to contend with a rather dull second act," for the temptations seem "long, repetitive and contrived." The first act is funny and fast-paced; the third contains dramatic interest in the confrontation of Thomas Stewart with Cantwell. A capable, yet not outstanding, production.
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D317 "Fourteen Plays Next Week." The Citizen [Ottawa], 24 April 1948, p. 23.
Announces that Eros at Breakfast will be performed by the Ottawa Drama League Workshop as a matinee, on May 1.
D318 Thistle, Lauretta. "Final Drama Offerings Rated among the Best." The Citizen [Ottawa], 3 May 1948, p. 12.
Eros at Breakfast "brought perhaps the most hearty applause of any festival entry." "The adjudicator congratulated Mr. Davies...on his 'very amusing piece of theatrical high-jinks.' The comedy was particularly pleasing to him because it was on an 'intellectual' level."
D319 Van Gogh, Lucy [B. K. Sandwell]. "Drama Festival Exhibits Many Fine Offerings." Saturday Night, 15 May 1948, pp. 2-3.
"Within its genre...[Eros at Breakfast] is a brilliant effort, and as entertainment it is most effective, but the genre is too slight to give it much chance in competition. It won the best Canadian play prize."
D320 Thistle, Lauretta. "Ottawa Drama Players Make Edinburgh Debut." The Citizen [Ottawa], 6 Sept. 1949, p. 15.
Thistle provides details of the opening night jitters and preparations. The audience seemed to enjoy the play.
D321 Thistle, Lauretta. "Edinburgh Critics of 'Eros' Differ." The Citizen [Ottawa], 7 Sept. 1949, p. 17.
Edinburgh newspapers were divided in their appraisal of the play. The Scotsman thought it was not a play for there was "no action," and the scenery and props didn't help much to make up for this deficiency. The Evening Dispatch remarked that "the talk [was] often witty and neatly pointed," but the play "rarely challenge[d] sympathy." The Evening News felt the play was original, but did "not quite come off as a stage interlude, the humor being too forced."
D322 The Citizen [Ottawa], 8 Sept. 1949, p. 18.
Shows two photographs of the play: one of the players inspecting the Edinburgh playhouse courtyard, the other a scene from the premiere performance of the play at the Festival.
D323 Hope-Wallace, Philip. "Canadians Merit More Than Edinburgh Gives." The Globe and Mail, 17 Sept. 1949, p. 10.
"It was in every way a pity that this excellently cast and excellently played production of Eros at Breakfast cut so little ice." "The performance...was a good deal more professional than some of the acting seen during the three weeks...but it did not draw the crowds or the notices it deserved."
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D324 "Play's Locale Is Centered in Kingston." The Whig-Standard [Kingston], 31 Aug. 1948, p. 7.
Announces the opening of Fortune, My Foe as the tenth and final presentation of Arthur Sutherland's International Players. It is a comedy with "strong local interest" that promises to bring the season "to a distinguished close."
D325 Johnston, Forrest. "'Fortune, My Foe' Gets Premiere before Enthusiastic Audience." The Whig-Standard [Kingston], 1 Sept. 1948, p. 3.
The play "was a triumph for all concerned." "As directed by the author...it moved along with admirable speed despite much expounding of philosophies of one sort or another." "Bright and significant humor, biting and significant satire, thought-provoking and significant philosophy of an essentially Canadian character." Likely to be sold out for the rest of the week.
D326 Johnston, Forrest. "All Canadian Drama Play Makes Hit in Kingston." Saturday Night, 25 Sept. 1948, p. 19.
Fortune, My Foe "roused the greatest local interest of the three new productions...finished...only two weeks before it went into rehearsal." Johnson dwells on the background of the play's author, Davies, and its director, Mr. Arthur Sutherland, each a "native Kingstonian" and former member of Queen's Drama Guild. A classic, provincial piece of non-criticism.
D327 "Robertson Davies Play Makes Stage 49 Debut." CBC Times, 17-23 Oct. 1948, p. 4.
The article reviews Davies' accomplishments and notes the airing of Fortune, My Foe, on Stage 49, October 17. The play "is a dig at Canadian indifference to people with artistic talent."
D328 McPhee, Janet. "Drama." The Ensign [Kingston], 6 Nov. 1948.
Lister Sinclair's radio adaptation of the play showed more "warmth and greater simplicity" than in Davies' earlier plays. He expresses himself in this play as "a sensitive man and a passionate advocate." "One admires his sincerity and courage." The rest discusses the two major themes in the play.
D329 Donohoe, E. F. "'Fortune, My Foe' Given Capability by Little Theatre." Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 7 Dec. 1948, p. 3.
In the audience, Davies watched the first amateur production of this play, "and received a rousing ovation when called to the stage after the final curtain."
D330 "Playwright Sees Canadian Plays Akin to Russian." Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 7 Dec. 1948, p. 3.
Davies, in town to see the first amateur production of Fortune, My Foe, stated that "the 'great Canadian play' has not been written, and when it is, at will be extremely unpopular with a great many Canadians because it will be critical of the Canadian way of thinking and living."
D331 "'Fortune, My Foe' Difficult Play." Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 8 Dec. 1948, p. 19.
Richard Burbage, adjudicator, found the play "'wordy,'" and in need of cutting, but otherwise performed commendably. "'We've seen at long last a full-length play by a Canadian writer on a Canadian theme played by Canadians who might prove to be the nucleus of a Canadian company.'"
D332 Ness, Margaret. "Two Davies Plays Score Drama Festival Wins." The Globe and Mail, 21 Feb. 1949, p. 12.
Fortune, My Foe wins for the Ottawa Drama League the best full-length play award at the Eastern Ontario Drama Festival. Davies' own production of The Taming of the Shrew finishes a close second. Robert Spreaight judges the latter "a brilliant essay in Elizabethan stagecraft." However, "the players were not yet standing on their own feet, but on the feet of the director." At Hart House, Overlaid is judged the best play in the Inter Varsity Drama Festival.
D333 Tovell, Vincent, "Drama." University of Toronto Quarterly, 18 (April 1949), 275.
Tovell notes "a slight comedy by Robertson Davies,...a romantic tale."
D334 DeProse, Molly. "Ottawa Drama League Entry Sets High Mark." The Citizen [Ottawa], 29 April 1949, p. 16.
The play received "exceptional enthusiasm." Mr. Hope-Wallace, the adjudicator, praised the university of the theme, the acting of W. A. Atkinson as Idris Rowlands, and the production. Minor weaknesses included obscure lighting, the lagging pace, and the character of Edward Weir, the newspaperman, who had no clear role or necessary purpose in the plot.
D335 Van Gogh, Lucy [B. K. Sandwell]. "About Staying in Canada." Saturday Night, 10 May 1949, p. 21.
Sandwell asserts that Davies' Fortune, My Foe, presented at the Dominion Drama Festival, "is certainly by far the most important product that the Canadian theatre has yet exhibited." There is too much "abstract discussion" and "a rather unsatisfying love scene" in the last act, but they are combined with "a series of highly interesting characters" and an "impressive finale." Davies both entertains and stimulates very well, though sometimes in a conflicting fashion.
D336 Van Gogh, Lucy [B. K. Sandwell]. "Writing, Acting, Devotion Marked '49 Festival." Saturday Night, 17 May 1949, pp. 10-11.
In acting, not all the cast of Fortune, My Foe "came near the level of success reached by W. A. Atkinson (trophy winner) as an embittered professor, or Yvonne Beaulne as a Czech refugee, Charles Ogilvie as a new type of drunk, and Fred Bick as an educated bootlegger." Yet "Mr. Davies owes a great deal to his producers...for a performance that must have realized a great deal of his intention." Davies' own production of The Taming of the Shrew was "full of producer's devices, many of them were highly effective, but only four or five of the very large cast" were fully capable of Shakespearean parts. "Brenda Davies...made one long to see her in a more poetic and less rompish comedy." "Just a romp, with high moments."
D337 "Dominion Drama Festival." Saturday Night, 24 May 1949, pp. 1-3.
The photo-story includes a picture of Charles Ogilvie as Buckety Murphy, "a new type of drunk" in Fortune, My Foe.
D338 Karr, Jack. "Showplace." Toronto Daily Star, 28 Nov. 1949, p. 32.
"Anyone looking for a good play by a Canadian...can find it in 'Fortune, My Foe.' The Hart House [production]...opened to a Saturday night sellout house." "In a hangout of a bootlegger...Mr. Davies assembles a group of characters who provide pegs for his witty, yet searching shafts at boulders in the Canadian stream." Donald Davis gives "needed depth" to Iris Rowlands, the disillusioned professor.
D339 Whittaker, Herbert, "Show Business." The Globe and Mail, 28 Nov. 1949, p. 13.
Whittaker calls Fortune, My Foe Canada's first national play--"talky, but wittily so." The play tends "to reduce its characters to types and allow its arguments to control its situations,...[but] it is not lacking in emotion." Robert Gill's production was one of the best to date in featuring strong, balanced acting. "I wish somebody would send...[the play] on a tour right across the country."
D340 N., M. E. "Fortunate Foe." Saturday Night, 13 Dec. 1949, p. 23.
This article discusses the Hart House production (November 26-December 3) of Fortune, My Foe under the direction of Robert Gill, mentions the first production in Kingston (Summer 1948) under Davies' own direction, summarizes its success in the last Dominion Drama Festival, and notes the Kitchener-Waterloo Little Theatre production and that the play may be produced next Spring in Oslo.
D341 Van Gogh, Lucy [B. K. Sandwell]. "Foes to Fortune." Saturday Night, 13 Dec. 1949, p. 23.
Fortune, My Foe "is so much the most important dramatic work yet written in Canada that is difficult to think of any other as being in the same class." "It has plenty of defects," but it "contains at least four brilliantly drawn characters, it is liberally supplied with wit and the main action is profoundly symbolic, reaching far beyond the mere individuals concerned." The Gill production at Hart House exhibited "two very understanding performances by Donald Davies [sic] as the frustrated Welshman and Kenneth Jarvis as the Czech puppeteer." "We would give much to know whether Vanessa...can be made into a human person. So far we have seen no reason to think so...."
D342 "Robertson Davies' 'Fortune, My Foe' for CBC TV Theatre Presentation May 7." Program Notes from CBC Television, 1 May 1953, n. pag.
Gives details of the upcoming production and of Davies' background. The cast includes Kate Reid and Murray Westgate.
D343 O'Hearn, Walter. "Toasted Ontario." The Montreal Star, 13 Feb. 1958, p. 18.
O'Hearn comments on the Trinity production of Fortune, My Foe. "Robertson Davies has taken a Canadian university town...and toasted it, lightly on one side, crisply on the other." "Some of this is very shrewd, and a little of it is very funny, and one scene, a puppet show...has a sort of mad beauty." But "Mr. Davies was so busy with his toasting fork that he didn't really pause to build a sound play."
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D382 Whittaker, Herbert. "Showbusiness: The Davies Premiere." The Globe and Mail, 18 Nov. 1955, p. 10.
Whittaker reports that there is little information about the new play save "that there is something Scottish about it," and it is not an historical drama. Frances Tobias will play opposite Donald Glen. Barbara Chilcott and others "make up the strong cast assembled under the direction of Robert Gill." Whittaker reviews Davies' recent accomplishments--"in short, Mr. Davies is a most remarkable man."
D383 Karr, Jack. "On-Stage." Toronto Daily Star, 19 Nov. 1955, p. 10.
Karr says that it is difficult to guess what the world premiere of Hunting Stuart at the Crest promises, but perhaps comedy "alternately gentle and gusty, sarcastic and faintly ribald" in the tradition of Davies' previous plays. Karr names the lead actors in the production.
D384 "Laughter at the Crest." The Globe and Mail, 19 Nov. 1955, p. 10.
The caption sits under a picture of Davies, Donald Davis, and Helene Winston, all involved in the premiere production of Hunting Stuart at the Crest Theatre.
D385 Karr, Jack. "Showplace." Toronto Daily Star, 23 Nov. 1955, p. 19.
"It's a gusty play that Robertson Davies has let loose to the world." Acts I and II are "loaded with wit and humor"; the third reveals a "pretty serious" theme. Davies draws "a fine fragile line between some superb vulgarities and his own form of social commentary." The play hovers somewhere between "fantasy, farce and the creation of an intellectual essay." "There is, in his writing, a refreshing earthiness" as well as now and then "shock for shock's sake." A very favourable review.
D386 Macdonald, Rose. "Davies' New Play Caustic, Impish." Toronto Telegram, 23 Nov. 1955, p. 8.
"With that amalgam of caustic wit and impish humor to which he has accustomed us he now gives us Hunting Stuart." Macdonald concentrates on the plot and acting. Donald Davis plays the part of the ordinary civil servant and "adds a four-star success to his career." Davies (on hand to respond to audience applause) has devised "a 'different' Canadian comedy!".
D387 Whittaker, Herbert. "Showbusiness." The Globe and Mail, Final Ed., 23 Nov. 1955, p. 26.
Davies clearly sees himself primarily as a playwright. In this area "he has taken a bold step forward in his prowess." The first act is a bit slow, but the rest "zips along at a speed and with a narrative suspense that Mr. Davies has never before matched." He has proved an "expert" at "the creation of good acting parts." "A good evening of theatre, with comedy, satire and magic well mixed."
D388 "New Davies Play Is Satire on Stuart Theme." The Gazette [Montreal], 24 Nov. 1955, p. 10.
This brief article notes that Hunting Stuart sent a first-night audience chuckling homeward yesterday, names some of those involved in the production, and summarizes the plot.
D389 Winters, Robert. "Lennoxville Fest Lures Davies." The Citizen [Ottawa], 23 July 1975, p. 89.
Winters provides details surrounding the opening of Hunting Stuart at the festival, and quotes favourable remarks by two critics.
D390 Ashley, Audrey M. "Effort Wasted Reviving Play." The Citizen [Ottawa], 28 July 1975, p. 52.
The play is "not really worth dusting off." The "comedy has a curiously old-fashioned air that has nothing to do with its 1955 setting. The cause is more Mr. Davies' rather pompous, labored and old-fashioned sense of humor, and the way he labors any point he makes." It "takes nearly three hours to tell the slender story of a dull Ottawa civil servant." The play was "well staged and well acted within the limits imposed by the script."
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D378 "Avoid Artiness Urges Festival Players." The Globe and Mail, 28 March 1950, p. 10.
The production of Davies' King Phoenix, the first of eight plays in the Central Ontario Drama League, "lacked a certain humility." Mr. Maxwell Wray saw "'signs of goodness in this play. A great deal of imagination and quality have gone into it. It is a plausible and possible play. Put [sic] it is unfortunately repetitive.'" In most other aspects, Mr. Wray's comments were favourable.
D379 Milne, W. S. "Drama Festival Afterthoughts." The Canadian Forum, July 1950, pp. 82-83.
King Phoenix, the opening play at the Central Ontario festival, "was a somewhat wordy fantasy with a Druidic setting, excellently presented." "The play itself seemed in need of drastic cutting to clarify the dramatic conflict, which was often obscure." In summary, "a very difficult original play."
D380 "King Phoenix Fascinates Little Theatre Audience." Peterborough Examiner, 9 Jan. 1953, p. 9.
"The play is replete with ideas, imagery and fancy, interlaced with dramatic fibres,...rich in important characterizations and mythical allusions." The dialogue "sparkles." Though "the first act seems unusually long," it is "the most interesting and complex Robertson Davies' play which this viewer has seen." Includes a photo from the production.
D381 "King Phoenix Wins Canadian Drama Award." Peterborough Examiner, 19 Jan. 1953, p. 9.
This article recounts the adjudicating of the play at the Easter Ontario Drama Festival. It wins the Kingston Cup for the best Canadian play.
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D408 Kareda, Urjo. "'Leaven of Malice' an 'Ingeniously Sprung Trick-Box' on Stage." Toronto Star, 13 Oct. 1973, p. F3.
Kareda reviews the revival of Love and Libel at the Hart House Theatre. "The stage version [of the book] does retain a novelistic richness." "The purely imaginative elements of 'Leaven of Malice' are much darker and richer in the stage version." Ultimately, the play "is about words and language, how they can be distorted and jangled by mock knowledge, pomposity and malice."
D409 Adilman, Sid. "Playwright Davies Enjoys a Good Year." Toronto Star, 29 May 1975, p. E12.
Adilman quotes Davies about his resurgent popularity as a playwright. Leaven of Malice is about to open "50 per cent sold out, the highest Shaw Festival advance box office for any of its non-George Bernard Shaw productions." As well, "it's the first Canadian play shown on the festival's main stage." Says Davies, the play "is meant to be a cheerful entertainment, not a deep, symbolic work. I think it's going to make it in New York." What's more important for him now is audience reaction.
D410 Kareda, Urjo. "'Leaven of Malice' Earns Its Place." Toronto Star, 30 May 1975, p. E4.
The play "is the first intelligent, agreeable and valid non-Shavian work to be played in the theatre." With the "devastating watchfulness of its small-town satire," it is very much at home in the community of Niagara-on-the-Lake." "Fortune, fate, the subconscious life--all these are...included in Davies' Gogol-like unmasking of small-town rituals." However, "there is too much in the play...and on stage. 'Leaven of Malice' is often too unwieldly to be seriously seeming to court survival." Nevertheless, "the play's own capricious confidence in itself is at times persuasive."
D411 Whittaker, Herbert. "Play Faithful to Davies' Aims, but It Drags Badly as Drama." The Globe and Mail, 30 May 1975, p. 13.
The play, somewhat Shavian in its sermonizing, is apt at the Shaw Festival. "While many of the [staging] devices are entertaining, they tend to impede the flow of dramatic action and thus reduce the irony." "The designer's contribution is perhaps the biggest individual success" in the play, along with some arresting acting.
D412 Ashley, Audrey M. "Davies Play Trivial, Clumsy" The Citizen [Ottawa], 9 June 1975, p. 52.
"It's a shame to see so much effort...wasted on this exceedingly trivial, clumsy and self-indulgent piece of work." "Director Tony Van Bridge has bent over backwards to make it appear more interesting than it really is." Despite the competent cast, "the characters are never more than caricatures." The play "has been given far more attention than it deserves, and the Shaw Festival has added nothing to its reputation by staging it." Two photos of the production.
D413 Barnes, Clive. "Theatre: Canadian 'Leaven of Malice.'" New York Times, 9 June 1975, p. 43.
Barnes launches his scathing review of the play as follows: "Not even the transfiguring influence of the 42nd Parallel can make this facetiously jocular play acceptable to playgoers of adult appetite. It is jejune nonsense." The play "must have been behind its time [in New York in 1960], and it certainly has not caught up in the interim." The production "had all the vivacity of a school pageant, and made much of the author's cute little jokes." In all, "smug tedium." Moreover, "the cut-out scenery...proved appropriately ugly, and the costumes...hideous," and the acting "every bit as bad as the play deserved."
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D392 Whittaker, Herbert. "Guthrie and Davies Comment on Casting." The Globe and Mail, Final Ed., 20 July 1960, p. 22.
Whittaker summarizes developments in the casting and production plans of Love and Libel.
D393 Whittaker, Herbert. "Guthrie Opens 'Love and Libel' Rehearsals." The Globe and Mail, 7 Oct. 1960, p. 28.
This article announces Guthrie's impetus in directing this Canadian play, and lists the actors and actresses cast for its main characters.
D394 Brydon, Arthur. "New York Big Three Scout Canadian Play." The Globe and Mail, 26 Oct. 1960, p. 9.
The article announces the arrival of Billy Rose, Ben Hecht, and Lawrence Langner in from New York to watch a rehearsal of Love and Libel. It quotes their reactions to the play and to Canadian actors working in New York.
D395 The Globe and Mail, Final Ed., 29 Oct. 1960, p. 13.
This page displays a page-wide drawing of Tyrone Guthrie, Davies, and the cast of Love and Libel.
D396 "Davies' Play Has Premiere." The Ottawa Journal, 3 Nov. 1960, p. 42.
The article announces the world premiere of Love and Libel in Toronto, "accorded five curtain calls." Davies responded by appearing briefly on stage.
D397 Whittaker, Herbert. "Davies Play Dazzling with Familiar Setting but Needs Sorting Out." The Globe and Mail, Final Ed., 3 Nov. 1960, p. 46.
With a photo of Davies and Dennis King. We find Tyrone Guthrie "experimenting along Bertolt Brechtian lines, with Mr. Davies cheerfully turning his best book, Leaven of Malice, upside down to accommodate this animated form of staging." "The second prank obscures the first, and tends to weaken the play structurally." Thus we "tend to forget the issue of libel." The rest of the review assesses the cast. "It's all a dazzlement of good and familiar things that needs sorting out a bit more at the moment." Includes a photograph of Davies and Dennis King.
D398 "Robertson Davies Play Wins 5 Curtain Calls." The Citizen [Ottawa], 4 Nov. 1960, p. 26.
The short article notes the response to the world premiere of Love and Libel. It also quotes from Herbert Whittaker's review in The Globe and Mail.
D399 Guthrie, Tyrone. "The Small City's Ogre." Globe Magazine [The Globe and Mail], 5 Nov. 1960, pp. 15, 18.
Davies "writes dialogue which is pithy and speakable, knows how to plant information deftly and memorably, and has a good feeling for theatrical climax." "This play seems to me to be profoundly true." An interesting, relaxed article that appreciates how apt Love and Libel is to its Canadian context.
D400 "Canadian Director Applauded." The Calgary Herald, 11 Nov. 1960, p. 2.
Documents the successful launching of Love and Libel in Detroit, prior to its Boston or New York runs.
D401 "Canadian's New Play Is Praised." The Citizen [Ottawa], 22 Nov. 1960, p. 35.
The article prints excerpts from the Boston reviews of Love and Libel, which opened there on November 21.
D402 Kerr, Walter. "First Night Report: 'Love and Libel.'" New York Herald Tribune, 8 Dec. 1960, p. 18. Rpt. ("Davies Play Is Seen as Unsolved Jigsaw"). In The Gazette [Montreal], 9 Dec. 1960, p. 16.
Kerr is genuinely impressed with the imaginative and striking scenery: "it is dazzling, and you'd buy it on the spot." Alas, "there is no play to be acted in front of it," but rather "a curious series of oddball musings from the mind of an obviously sophisticated man... which have never been assembled into anything resembling an intelligible narrative structure." "Mr. Davies has a wicked eye. Alas, it is also wayward." "We find characters, we lose them." The result is "a puzzle in which all the pieces are finally put together, [but] there's no picture."
D403 Macseen, Joseph. "Theatre-Goers Warm but N.Y. Critics Chilly to New Davies Play." The Citizen [Ottawa], 8 Dec. 1960, p. 12.
"Theatre-goers welcomed 'Love and Libel'...but there were strained smiles among the critics." The article then quotes excerpts from the reviews by Howard Taubman, Walter Kerr, and William Glover. The last said "half the evening is gone before individual scenes and action snatches of coherent appeal or amusement emerge from the thespic fog."
D404 Taubman, Howard. "Theatre: Literary Humor." New York Times, 8 Dec. 1960, p. 44. Rpt. "Guthrie-Davies 'Love and Libel' Lacks Life and Laughs." In The Globe and Mail, 8 Dec. 1960, p. 36.
Taubman reports on the New York opening: "On paper 'Love and Libel' may have read like an original, literate jeu d'esprit. At the Martin Beck, where it arrived tonight, it played as if it were the dusty comic relief accumulated in the lecture notes of a professor with a complacent opinion of his own wit." "Mr. Davies has a lively mind...but his writing style is arch, and his humour is unimpressively literary." "Nothing is quite in focus. Situations that should be hilarious turn out to be tedious. Characters who should be appealing remain remote." "Mr. Davies has failed to turn his ideas into a play."
D405 "'Love and Libel' Liable to Close Saturday Night." The Globe and Mail, 9 Dec. 1960, p. 12.
"Love and Libel...which opened at the Martin Beck on Wednesday, will end its Broadway run Saturday night after a total of six showings."
D406 McCarten, John. New Yorker, 17 Dec. 1960, p. 96.
McCarten notes that "the young people involved didn't seem worth all the commotion, the girl being quite mousy and the boy even mousier." "The rest of the people charging frantically about in 'Love and Libel' never made any particular sense. But every now and then there was an amusing scene."
D407 Clurman, Harold. "Theatre." The Nation, 24 Dec. 1960, pp. 510-11.
"More than mention must be made of Love and Libel...though it was an instantaneous failure. The play was well written and not without humor and charm. But it should never have been produced in a big New York theatre." It was "provincially quaint and civilized" and contained "a quality of intimate kidding which only a small community possessed of a considerable degree of familiarity and friendship among the inhabitants could properly appreciate." A compassionate and thoughtful view.
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D315 Johnson, Sydney. "Canadiana at MRT Studio: Brilliant One-Act Plays by Robertson Davies." The Montreal Star, 22 March 1948, p. 8.
Three Davies plays are being performed at the Montreal Repertory Theatre. "Curiously, all three plays have the same germ idea--the conflict between the aesthetic and the practical." Yet "'Overlaid' is contemporary, 'Hope Deferred' is historical and 'Eros at Breakfast' is fantasy. Of these, 'Overlaid' is the most significant." On the whole, "they were all extremely well done."
D316 "First Radio Presentation from Canadian Playwright." CBC Times, 12-18 Sept. 1948, p. 5.
Details are given about the airing of Overlaid on September 19. "Heretofore Mr. Davies has never been interested in writing for radio." "Overlaid is a very funny comedy with a Canadian setting." "Drama producer [Esse] Ljungh is hopeful that Overlaid will be only the first of several plays for radio from this talented writer."
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D423 Whittaker, Herbert. "U of T Celebrates with Davies Indian Fighter cum Playwright." The Globe and Mail, 25 Oct. 1977, p. 19.
Whittaker announces the imminent performance of Pontiac and the Green Man at the Hart House Theatre to mark the 150th anniversary of the University of Toronto. He then outlines the actual history of the play's hero, Major Robert Rogers. The play "is not only a play about a play, but...a play about a trial and a play within a trial. Davies enjoys a theatrical device hugely." The historical information helps to set a context for the theme of the play.
D424 Johnson, Bryan. "Pontiac Gets Lost in a Hopeless Muddle." The Globe and Mail, 27 Oct. 1977, p. 15.
"Davies apparently intended the play...to be a sort of comic parody. As it turns out, it is rarely funny. It is, however, a laughable effort throughout"--"scattered, cluttered and slow." Apart from David Gardner as Rogers, there is "hardly a decent performance" from any of the actors and actresses.
D425 Mallet, Gina. "The Letdowns at Hart House Are Hurting." Toronto Star, 7 Nov. 1977, p. D6.
The recent production of Pontiac and the Green Man "makes Toronto, indeed Canada, look like a provincial back-water where there are no professional standards of playwriting, production or acting." "A play that clarified [Rogers'] relations with the Indians might have academic interest, but Davies has laid over it a chuckling, self-congratulatory commentary on colonist and colonials that turns into a sort of pat-on-the-back for British imperialism. The Indians are reduced to savages." "Maybe this was intended just for old grads."
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D415 Cherry, Zena. "Debating, Dining." The Globe and Mail, Metro Edition, 25 Feb. 1975, p. 12.
Cherry notes who will be attending the world premiere of Question Time at the St. Lawrence Centre in Toronto.
D416 Erdelyi, Joseph. "Wit and Brilliance in Davies Play." The Citizen [Ottawa], 26 Feb. 1975, p. 72.
"The celebrated writer's 13th play was written especially for the St. Lawrence Centre." In Question Time, "the author not only elevates his subject to a certain plateau of unequalled excellence but gives it a treatment of unique native flavor that goes far beyond the everyday meaning of the word Canadian." The mix of fantasy and reality "fail[s] in many respects to create the expected dramatic charge...but succeed[s] in creating on stage the special quality of our lives." And the play "lacks an effective finish--when the author runs out of vignettes, the play ends." But Davies' brilliant wit and superior dialogue compensate "for the shortcomings of the whole." "A new and intriguing look at ourselves."
D417 Kareda, Urjo. "Question Time Is a Grand Disaster." Toronto Star, 26 Feb. 1975, p. E20.
The play, presented at the St. Lawrence Centre, is "a very grand, ambitious and idiosyncratic disaster of the order that only Robertson Davies could have created." "In Question Time, nothing holds together." It contains "almost arrogant fragmentation." Especially lacking are a central figure of any depth, and passion. As a result, the "cool and bossily assertive" play makes us onlookers to distant, high rhetoric.
D418 Whittaker, Herbert. "Question Time Complex and Glittering." The Globe and Mail, 26 Feb. 1975, p. 14.
"Robertson Davies' Question Time, a glittering polemic of a play, is certainly the most impressive production of an original work staged by Leon Major in his years as artistic director of St. Lawrence Centre." "At the peak of his literary success...[Davies has produced] a morality drama for our time, thrusting at an awakening public yet another aspect of its nationalism."
D419 Billington, Dave. "New Play about Canada Filled with Tired Cliches." The Gazette [Montreal], 27 Feb. 1975, p. 27.
"To some, this [play] may have been a banquet of brilliance and a dazzling display of intelligence and soul searching, but for me it was an indigestible lump of warmed over cliches and tiresome superficialities." The wit was "leaden" and the nationalism "ponderous." It was a pity, as "he has things to say and the perception to guide his pen and tongue. But he lacks the courage to say them with the bluntness their absurdity falls [sic] for." Includes a photo from the production.
D420 Young, Scott. "Hero Gelding." The Globe and Mail, 28 Feb. 1975, p. 27.
At the performance of Question Time he attended, Young "thoroughly enjoyed it, laughed at it, never felt sad, and yet felt that...[his] mind was fully engaged--in fact, mainly in the gear known as overdrive--from the opening to the end. It is an attractive idea...that the gelding of heroes is a public and political function." "Even the next day, writing this, lines keep coming back that seem to have particular meaning in this country, and to us." Young's only "minor quibble" is that Davies needs "to show some dimension backward into what...[the prime minister] was that was so great that a play should be devoted with great skill, fun and humanity toward his rediscovery of his own true worth."
D421 Fleming, Louis K. "Don't Kill Home-Grown Play; Sharpen It Up, Reader Says." Toronto Star, 4 March 1975, p. B5.
This letter to the editor contends that "Davies has managed to write a highly imaginative piece which for all its obvious failings has something profound to say about Canadians, Canada, and her body politic." It is "a gutsy attempt which is laudable in our current anti-foreign product climate." To improve the current production, "let's start with a large pair of scissors on the script, no matter how much the author howls. And then, let's have a clean ice-capped setting, less gimmickry, and a smaller cast."
D422 James, Geoffrey. "Native Show." Time [Canada], 10 March 1975, pp. 10-11.
His novels "contain much that is purely theatrical. Paradoxically, Question Time...is essentially a literary work." "Davies is a neo-Shavian in his use of the epigram. The result is a work that is brittle, glossy, faintly anachronistic and wholly entertaining." Structurally, his "digressions about national identity tend to weaken seriously the play's central theme, which is the public man's discovery of an inner life."
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C1 The Midland, 10 (Jan. 1924), 63.
A biographical note on Knister.
C2 Carson, Gerald Hewes. "Current Short Stories." Bookman [New York], 60 (April 1924), 138-47.
"The Loading" was among the ten short stories published in America between November 1923 and March 1924 as selected from writers who mirror the best elements in current fiction and are important influences on Americans (with Ruth Suckow, Sherwood Anderson, Katherine Mansfield). It was ranked fourth, before Anderson and Mansfield.
C3 Saturday Night, 5 March 1927, p. 9.
Announcement of Knister's lecture on Duncan Campbell Scott, Poetry Society of Canada, Victoria College, on Tuesday, March 8, 8:15 p.m. (The paper was read by Pelham Edgar.)
C4 Kennedy, Leo. "Raymond Knister." The Canadian Forum, Sept. 1932, pp. 459-61.
In the "Canadian Writers of Today" series of articles. Knister is an experimentalist and a literal realist in his poetry and fiction. White Narcissus is "probably one of the most artistically planned novels, but lacking complete embodiment of significant theme; unquestionably a novel of distinction." My Star Predominant contains no taint of fictional biography. The novel is a dramatic account of the soul and character development of the poet; a soundly proportioned novel, full of clearly drawn characters and telling a coherent story.
Knister draws on himself rather than his reading; he is an able writer, and a skilful, genuinely Canadian novelist. He does not exploit the Canadian landscape, but "interprets it because he is of it." The simplicity of judgement and quality of unsophistication due to the fact that his outlook on life is still that of a country boy behind a plough.
Kennedy predicts the author will return to the recording of native time and place which he is obviously best fitted by his experience and gifts to do.
C5 Smith, A. J. M. Introduction. In The Book of Canadian Poetry. Ed. A. J. M. Smith. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1943, pp. 28, 29.
Smith divided modern Canadian poetry into the native tradition and the cosmopolitan tradition. He placed the farm poems of Knister among the works by native Realist poets "who sought to render with a new faithfulness much that had been passed over as 'unpoetic' by previous generations." Other Realist poetry included lyrics by Dorothy Livesay, cadenced laconics of W. W. E. Ross, Anne Marriott's The Wind Our Enemy (1939), and Charles Bruce's "Words Are Never Enough." This simplification of style and emphasis upon the harsher aspects of reality, in reaction against the diction of Victorians, was in Smith's view not as significant a departure as metaphysical or cosmopolitan poetry.
C6 Wallace, W. S. Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Toronto: Macmillan, 1945, p. 327.
Contains a brief biographical entry about Knister.
C7 Livesay, Dorothy. "Raymond Knister: A Memoir." In Collected Poems of Raymond Knister. Ed. Dorothy Livesay. Toronto: Ryerson, 1949, pp. xi-xii. Rpt. (revised) in Right Hand Left Hand. Ed. David Arnason. Erin, Ont.: Porcepic, 1977, pp. 48-58.
An account of Knister's career and death, linking his sensibility with Keats and Rilke. The portrait is of a desperate man and a neglected, unfulfilled artist, who epitomized a generation. It should be noted that Marcus Waddington (C57) has rejected Livesay's interpretation of "Via Faust," a proposed novel. Imogen Givens (C46) argues very persuasively against the memoir, citing many instances in which the quotations from various sources have been taken out of proper context, thus distorting their meaning.
C8 Ray, Margaret. Raymond Knister: A Bibliography of His Works. N.p.: The Bibliographical Society of Canada. [1949?], pp. 1-8.
A list of Knister's works. Ray's book was reprinted from Collected Poems of Raymond Knister.
C9 Dickinson, C. H. "Raymond Knister." Address, Victoria College. TS, 9 Dec. 1949.
Dickinson's address was given on the occasion of the presentation of the Raymond Knister Collection to Victoria. In it, he recalls Knister's connection with the school and contribution to Canadian letters.
C10 Smith, A. J. M. Introduction. In The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. Ed. A. J. M. Smith. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1960, p. 46.
With W. W. E. Ross, Knister represents the realistic and imagistic aspect of Modernism "more purely and with a narrower but possibly sharper vision." His brief vivid farm poems have an originality and native flavour that is lacking in the work of more ambitious poets.
C11 Wilson, Milton. "Klein's Drowned Poet: Canadian Variations on an Old Theme." Canadian Literature, No. 6 (Autumn 1960), pp. 5-17.
A thematic study of drowning imagery and the pastoral elegy in poems by Dorothy Livesay, James Reaney, Charles G. D. Roberts, Duncan Campbell Scott, E. J. Pratt, A. M. Klein, and Irving Layton. Knister is Canada's ideal portrait of a young Lycidas and our best known poet, waiting for an elegy. According to Wilson, the usual drowned poet in Canadian poetry is "anonymous, international, archetypal, or Shelley." "Maybe for a drowned Canadian poet to be elegized as drowned, he should either not be dead at all, or at least not literally drowned." Knister is referred to as a writer of pastorals.
C12 Pacey, Desmond. Creative Writing in Canada: A Short History of English-Canadian Literature. Rev. ed. Toronto: Ryerson, 1961, pp. 145, 204, 271.
Knister is compared with W. W. E. Ross: both write some finely observant Imagist lyrics. Knister is seen as an early Canadian Realist whose stories are set in rural Ontario. The chief virtue of White Narcissus is its fresh description of life and scenery; the style is marred, but, at its best, is lyrical and fresh. The quality of Knister's fiction is similar to that of Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, and Sinclair Lewis: it demonstrates sombreness, pathos, frustration, and interest in morbid mental processes and their symbolic expression. That his short stories are finer than his work in the novel form, Pacey indicates, is symptomatic of most Canadian writers of fiction since the late nineteenth century.
C13 Child, Philip. Introduction. In White Narcissus. New Canadian Library, No. 32. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1962, pp. 7-16.
White Narcissus is a real achievement though it is not a major one. The critic draws on Livesay's memoir for biographical and bibliographical information, letters, and poems. There is a brief examination of Symbolism in the novel, but the emphasis is on the austere Realism and fine simplicity of style.
C14 Beattie, Munro. "Poetry 1920-1935." In Literary-History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English. Gen. ed. and introd. Carl F. Klinck. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1965, pp. 728-30. Rpt. 2nd ed. Gen. ed. and introd. Carl F. Klink. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1976. Vol. II, 239-41.
His best poems reflect the quality of his fiction: honest reporting of experience and a flair for speech rhythms. The poems are direct, short, uncomplicated, and plain. Some do "no more than round off a succession of details with the intimation of a mood or the hint of an impression;...the places and the activities of the form provide pretexts for bits of bucolic sagacity that, ingratiatingly, avoid an excess of the cracker-barrel or the homespun." He "suggests comparisons" with William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, and Edgar Lee Masters.
C15 Pacey, Desmond. "Fiction 1920-1940." In Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English. Gen. ed. and introd. Carl F. Klinck. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1965, p. 685. Rpt. 2nd ed. Gen. ed. and introd. Carl F. Klink. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1976. Vol. II, 195-96.
Knister is treated as a "minor realist." (Pacey misdates the Graphic prize as being awarded "ironically enough after his death.") Pacey offers a mixed assessment of the novels. My Star Predominant is a successful historical novel, but "cluttered" with events and minor characters. White Narcissus is "also far from perfect," but its treatment of Ontario farm life and landscape makes it "more memorable." As in the stories, Knister was "wrestling with language." The result is either simple and direct or overwritten. "Knister, in short, resembled Keats in his uncertainty of taste, but unlike Keats he never achieved true greatness."
C16 Stevens, Peter. "The Old Futility of Art: Knister's Poetry." Canadian Literature, No. 23 (Winter 1965), pp. 45-52.
Stevens isolates the element in Knister's verse as the "subject within annotated by external circumstance, with a tension, explicit or implied, holding the poem in equilibrium." This tension is suggested by the conflict between man and nature. The theme of the conflict between the poet's vision and the inadequacy of language to express that vision is explored. The poetry/farming analogy is central to his thought and work.
C17 Sylvestre, Guy, Brandon Conron, and Carl F. Klinck, eds. "Raymond Knister." In Canadian Writers/Ecrivains Canadiens: A Biographical Dictionary. 2nd ed. Toronto: Ryerson, 1966, p. 73.
"Although there is some sombreness and morbidity in his work, his attempt to develop an independent style lends a realistic atmosphere to his stories and a sharpness and clarity of presentation to his poetry."
C18 Story, Norah. "Knister, Raymond (1899-1932)." In The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1967, p. 411.
Story praises Knister for his preoccupation with "the stuff of daily existence and scenes of farm life."
C19 Pacey, Desmond. Essays in Canadian Criticism 1938-1968. Toronto: Ryerson, 1969, pp. 84, 127, 142, 273.
Knister as a critic of Archibald Lampman, like D. C. Scott, Carl Y. Connor, Norman G. Guthrie, and E. K. Brown, has agreed that Lampman was one of the most conscientious craftsmen in the history of Canadian poetry. Their criticism is limited to a general appreciation of his skill or the analysis of a few selected lines. Knister was also a promising new novelist. The conventional image of the poet as a delicate person who dies young was true of Lampman and Knister and otherwise has little foundation in Canada.
White Narcissus was an interesting, but admittedly imperfect novel. If it has received a serious and sympathetic review in an influential English weekly, the author might have been decisively encouraged. A basis may have been laid for his English reputation. Like Grove with Our Daily Bread, "it was their bad luck to fall into the hands of that supercilious and bad-tempered old Etonian, Cyril Connoly" (D1). Apparently, the reviewer of White Narcissus and Our Daily Bread was given eleven novels to review on the eve of his holiday. Knister's death was "possible by suicide, certainly in despair."
C20 Dudek, Louis, and Michael Gnarowski, eds. The Making of Modern Poetry in Canada: Essential Articles on Contemporary Canadian Poetry in English. Toronto: Ryerson, 1970, p. 3.
Among "The Precursors" (1910-25), his poems display signs of the modern idiom in practice, and he was featured prominently in This Quarter.
C21 Reference Division, McPherson Library, Univ. of Victoria, B.C., comp. "Knister, Raymond 1899?-1932." In Creative Canada: A Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Creative and Performing Artists. Vol. I. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1971, p. 177.
A substantial biographical entry about Knister's life and career.
C22 Frye, Northrop. The Bush Garden. Essays on the Canadian Imagination. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1971, pp. 88, 247.
Refers to "Raymond" of James Reaney's A Suit of Nettles and suggests the name of this singer provides an oblique commentary on Knister's symbolism.
C23 West, Paul. "Ethos and Epic: Aspects of Contemporary Canadian Poetry." In Contexts of Canadian Criticism: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Eli Mandel. Patterns of Literary Criticism, No. 9. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1971, pp. 210, 213.
West notes that the tone of rural factualness in "The Plowman" is a prerequisite for modern poetry.
C24 Atwood, Margaret. Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1972, p. 132.
The family in Canadian literature is a trap from which the protagonist is somehow unable to break away. The boy in "Mist Green Oats," like David Canaan in Buckler's The Mountain and the Valley, is trapped on the farm, longing for the outside world.
C25 Gnarowski, Michael. Introduction. In Selected Stories of Raymond Knister. Ed. Michael Gnarowski. Ottawa: Univ. of Ottawa Press, 1972, pp. 11-16.
Acknowledging the countervailing forces of literary journalist and literary artist that invested Knister's creativity, Gnarowski makes available a selection of what he calls "farm stories" and psychological or state-of-mind stories. He offers a challenging approach to those published stories which have, indeed, proved to be most fascinating and rewarding. In reaction against the critical trend of interpretation which has viewed Knister as a simple Realist, he comments on the theme of initiation and explores archetypal elements in several stories.
C26 Watters, R. E. A Checklist of Canadian Literature and Background Materials. Rev. ed. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1972, p. 107.
Contains one entry for Knister--Collected Poems of Raymond Knister--and lists three locations for this book (University of British Columbia, University of New Brunswick, and Toronto Public Library).
C27 Gnarowski, Michael. "Knister, Raymond, 1899-1932." In A Concise Bibliography of English-Canadian Literature. By Michael Gnarowski. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973, p. 59. Rev. ed. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978, pp. 67-68.
Gnarowski cites Knister's books, some of the different editions, Canadian Short Stories (edited by Knister), includes a few book reviews, and a section on "Selected Studies and Articles" about Knister. The cut-off date for entries is 1975.
C28 Waterston, Elizabeth. Survey: A Short History of Canadian Literature. Methuen Canadian Literature Series. Toronto: Methuen, 1973, p. 123.
As a writer of stories about shabbiness and restlessness, Knister expressed his view of the often petty tensions of post-war life in Modern forms and Canadian terms.
C29 Moss, John. Patterns of Isolation in English-Canadian Literature. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1974, pp. 110-225.
In White Narcissus, Knister "bends an indifferent landscape too much to his literary purpose for it to remain also a natural world in emotional or moral convergence with humanity; rather, with analytic precision he deploys the southern Ontario farmlands as props in a drama set primarily in the urbanized mind of his protagonist." Moss links the novel with the psychology of "I" in Freud and Jung, as well as the psycho-analytic protagonist evolved in the fiction of D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, Sinclair Ross, and Edward A. McCourt.
C30 McFadden, Dave. "The Ballad of Raymond Knister." The Spectator [Hamilton], 12 Jan. 1974.
A clipping from the Grace Collection. It is a retrospective article from interviews with Verna Gamble (Knister's sister-in-law), Myrtle Grace (Knister's widow), and Imogen Givens (his daughter). It contains personal anecdotes of his good humour and growing self-confidence.
C31 Arnason, David, ed. Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), 200 pp. Rpt. Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1975. 200 pp.
A special issue of the journal on Knister. Arnason is the guest editor. The collection includes works by Raymond Knister (poems, B17-B32; stories, B60-B74), as well as David Arnason's Preface (C32), Bonita O'Halloran's "Chronological History of Raymond Knister" (C35), and Marcus Waddington's "Raymond Knister, A Biographical Note" (C36).
In correspondence with me (May 11, 1979), Imogen Givens notes that there are errors in the selection of Knister's stories and poems. For example, the poem "New Year's Reverie" was inaccurately printed with an extra title: "R's Advocate" (B1). This was a very early poem written in Knister's teens. Knister never prepared it for inclusion in either of his proposed books, "Windfalls for Cider" or "Grass Plaitings." There are also typographical errors; for example, a misprint stating the Graphic prize was $25,000 when it was $2,500. (Livesay states it was $1,000.) Nonetheless, Arnason's special issue is the only poetry supplement to follow Collected Poems of Raymond Knister and remains a valuable sourcebook.
C32 Arnason, David. Preface. Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), pp. 7-10. Rpt. in Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1975, pp. 7-10.
Arnason outlines the social, economic and political history of Canada as a background for Knister's role as "a child of the century." He refers to the Collected Poems of Raymond Knister alternately as a "selection" and a "collection." He announces works in progress by Michael Gnarowski, a collection of correspondence by Marcus Waddington, and The First Day of Spring (selected fiction) by Peter Stevens. Of these, only The First Day of Spring has appeared.
C33 Bissell, C. T. "Knister, Raymond." Encyclopedia Canadiana, 1975.
He was an independent spirit, experimenting to find his own style and method.
C34 Conron, Brandon. Introduction. In Morley Callaghan. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 10. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1975, p. 2.
Regarding Callaghan, "Of his own countrymen, only Raymond Knister was attempting to develop an independent style with a realistic sharpness and clarity of expression that Callaghan found congenial."
C35 O'Halloran, Bonita. "Chronological History of Raymond Knister." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), pp. 194-99. Rpt. in Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1975, pp. 194-99.
In correspondence with me (May 11, 1979), Imogen Givens has indicated that inaccuracies appear in the chronology of O'Halloran's essay. Mrs. Givens had prepared a chronology of the major events in Knister's life and the dates when he lived at various addresses. The addresses taken from the manuscripts seem, then, to have been interpolated, leading to some inaccuracies according to Mrs. Givens. Knister retyped early stories for resubmission to publishers. Only the correspondence reveals what he was working on and when. The poems were nearly all written during his teens; many of them are in a notebook dated 1919 and 1920. "Mist Green Oats," "The One Thing," "The Loading," "The Strawstack," and "The Fate of Mrs. Lucier" were his first stories, and were written from 1921-22.
C36 Waddington, Marcus. "Raymond Knister, A Biographical Note." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), pp. 175-92. Rpt. in Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1975, pp. 175-92.
Waddington's essay presents an abbreviated version of the biographical addendum to his thesis, "Raymond Knister and the Canadian Short Story" (C55). In her correspondence, Mrs. Imogen Givens has indicated Knister may well have been at the University of Toronto for at least three months (stating that she has evidence indicating this), rather than only two months as noted here and in the chronology by O'Halloran.
C37 Fee, Margery, and Ruth Cawker, eds. "Knister, Raymond." Canadian Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography. Toronto: Peter Martin, 1976, p. 63.
Cites White Narcissus, My Star Predominant, and Selected Stories of Raymond Knister, with brief plot summaries of White Narcissus and "The One Thing."
C38 Gaskin, Geraldine, and The Atlantic Work Group. Social Realism. Toronto: The Writers' Development Trust, n.d., pp. 37, 40.
"Mist-Green Oats" uses social realism in its detailed descriptions of the work on the farm and in its suggestion of the powerlessness of the individual to change his circumstances. "The Plowman" is listed in the core unit, "Working the Fields."
C39 Stevens, Peter. Introduction. In The First Day of Spring: Stories and Other Prose. Ed. Peter Stevens. Poetry and Prose in Reprint, No. 17. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1976, pp. xi-xxvi.
Stevens compares Knister with Keats and provides a summary of biographical facts. Knister was "One of the first truly modern writers in Canadian literature." Stevens touches on his criticism, stories, journalistic sketches. Knister is not merely a direct Realist; he had read too much Anderson, James, and Chekhov to rely on simple Realistic detail. Stevens regards as almost cliche the stories which are equivalent to American stories of the Mid-West, with themes of entrapment, the sensitive spirit chained in narrow-minded small town life or fastened to the mindless activity of subsistence farming. The sketches emphasize the irrepressible spirits of these rural people. He explores briefly the theme of innocence, suggests the tone of "The Plowman" is ironic, concludes with a statement of Knister's flexibility, and calls for reassessment of Knister's place in the development of Canadian literature. He is not simply the minor writer of a few poems and stories of promise, but a more significant figure whose writing would surely have developed fully had he lived.
Unfortunately, the value of the selection is undercut by a note on the text which admits no collation has been done due to the long task it would have been to trace the writings. Knister was an inveterate reviser and other versions of his stories exist.
C40 Moss, John. Sex and Violence in the Canadian Novel: The Ancestral Present. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, p. 23.
Knister is compared with Elizabeth Smart, Frederick Niven, and Patricia Blondal, whose individual works of genres are like "islands, diversions which only temporarily altered the flow and have had no lasting influence on the tradition as a continuous whole."
C41 Stevens, Peter. "Knister, Raymond." In Modern English Canadian Poetry: A Guide to Informational Sources. Vol. XV of American Literature, English Literature and World Literatures in English. Detroit: Gale, 1978, p. 71.
A limited list of primary books and secondary material.
C42 Clever, Glenn. "Point of View in White Narcissus." Studies in Canadian Literature, 3 (Winter 1978), 119-23.
In contrast to Paul Denham (C43), this critic objects to complexity. He asserts that Knister has little control over point of view, is random without narrative function, and wonders why the narrator cannot make up his mind which viewpoint he wants to use and "stick to it." In closing, Clever admits that White Narcissus deserves to be admired as a fine novel of mood and poetic description, as a turning point in the course of the Canadian novel from external to internal viewpoint.
C43 Denham, Paul. "Beyond Realism: Raymond Knister's White Narcissus." Studies in Canadian Literature, 3 (Winter 1978), 70-77.
A survey of critical opinion about White Narcissus as a Realistic novel. Denham finds the term inadequate. White Narcissus "is not a great novel, but for all its faults it is a significant one and a more complex one than we have usually thought." Knister employs major motifs from gothic romance and adds a possible mythological dimension associated with darkness, death, and the underworld in the title, including allusions to Eurydice, Persephone, the name Lethen, descriptions of Ada, a reference to The Scarlet Letter. This is a well-supported and an innovative interpretation of the novel as a movement from Romanticism to a more Realistic point of view. Denham compares it as a South-Western Ontario novel to Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women in structure. The eccentric result puzzles us. Yet, in contrast to Glenn Clever's article (C42), Denham finds strength in an author's willingness to use several modes to suggest a complex vision of the world.
C44 Marshall, Tom. Harsh and Lovely Land: The Major Canadian Poets and the Making of a Canadian Tradition. Vancouver: Univ. of British Columbia Press, 1979, pp. 43, 50.
Knister is placed among the Modernists. His attention to his position in time meant, in practice, attention to the new technical directions in British and American poetry. He is more Canadian in the obvious sense of the word and belongs in the Imagist wing of Modernism as his work displays technical sophistication. He avoids the obvious, but risks obscurity or irrelevancy because technique is a garrison, too.
C45 Burke, A. "Raymond Knister: An Annotated Checklist." Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 16 (Fall-Winter 1979-80), pp. 20-61.
A checklist of primary and secondary sources to 1978.
C46 Givens, Imogen. "Raymond Knister--Man or Myth?". Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 16 (Fall-Winter 1979-80), pp. 5-19.
A moving account of Knister's career by his daughter who was two years old at the time of his death. She has inserted entries from her mother's diary about the period immediately prior to the drowning and eyewitness reports about the circumstances surrounding his death. She provides personal details known only to the family which seem to refute much of the biographical material written about Knister.
C47 Birney, Earle. Book I 1904-1949. Spreading Time: Remarks on Canadian Writing and Writers. By Earle Birney. Montreal: Vehicule, 1980, pp. 24-25.
Among these eloquent and perceptive memoirs, Birney provides an account of his first and only meeting with Raymond Knister. Their professor, Pelham Edgar, introduced him as "the most promising young Canadian writer he knew." According to Birney, The Midland published "some remarkable realistic poems of farm life" and "a very mature and craftsmanly short story." Despite their mutual interest in meeting, Birney considered the encounter a failure. He describes Knister as "a rather gnarled little man looking older than his twenty-eight years." Further, "one could only witness in sympathetic anguish his struggle to speak from a mind bursting with desires to communicate." Knister's speech impediment was due to fright at meeting a stranger, since Birney comments on his fluency with Edgar. Knister's "carefully-wrought imagist poems" appeared in The Canadian Forum, but his works had otherwise appeared in British and American journals. White Narcissus was "largely ignored," or "panned" for its "amateurish structure."
C48 Eggleston, Wilfrid. Literary Friends. Ottawa: Borealis, 1980, pp. 28-30, 82-83.
Eggleston recalls his association with the Knisters as neighbours and friends. He was very interested in Raymond Knister because they had similar backgrounds: both grew up on farms and were ambitious writers who wanted to contribute to Canadian regional literature. Eggleston reported their "mutual enthusiasms" in his column for the Lethbridge Herald. He envied Knister's literary successes and prophesied for him "a rosy future as one of Canada's outstanding novelists." Eggleston contrasts his widespread critical acclaim and literary fame with his financial penury. "Of all the literary folk I met in my Toronto days, Raymond Knister made the deepest and most enduring impression." His work appealed to Eggleston due to "some rare qualities of utter honesty, sincerity, simplicity, faithfulness to nature and to rural life."
C49 Precosky, Don. "Ever with Discontent: Some Comments on Raymond Knister and His Poetry." CV/II, 4, No. 4 (Spring 1980), 3-9.
Knister was one of the finest Canadian poets of the inter-war years who was chiefly concerned with Canadian nationalism and the effects of Americanization on Canadian literature. Precosky draws on the Livesay memoir, which he commends (C7), "The Old Futility of Art: Knister's Poetry," by Peter Stevens (C16), and the O'Halloran chronology (C35). He offers some analysis of many poems, My Star Predominant, and White Narcissus. Precosky links Knister with Edwin Arlington Robinson, A. E. Housman, and the English Georgians. Robinson dealt with psychological personalities, whereas Knister was a descriptive poet. (Knister's intensely psychological stories are not discussed.) The small town and rural characters preoccupied his poems. Despite his unfulfilled promise, Knister lacked shrillness and had the ability to vary his style within the free verse mode. He was a rebel, a rural Imagist, who was less coldly objective than Robert Frost. He rejected the sublime and complained that Canadians were cultural colonials and too conservative. He dared to attack established writers in his excessively fierce criticism.
Precosky compares "Change" to "When Smoke Stood up from Ludlow," "October Star" to "To an Athlete Dying Young." Also discussed are Edward Thomas' "As the Team's Head-Brass" and Edwin Muir's "Horses." Precosky disputes Stevens' man-versus-nature theme (C16). Rather, the central theme emerges as man's desire for fulfillment through the accomplishment of perfect action.
Precosky reads My Star Predominant as autobiographical. Keats's ideas about poetry are actually Knister's: "it is plausible to assume that he went through a similar series of changes," like the hero of White Narcissus, from sentimentality to objectivity and hardness. There is a sad consistency between his art and life: hope ends in disillusionment. Knister ought to have fared better because of his descriptive talent, his success with free verse, his astute perception in criticism of the Canadian scene, and his perceptions in "The Canadian Letter" (B236) about the crucial role of the little magazine. He deserves recognition.
C50 McCall, Tom C. "Literary Prize Winner Taken Honours Calmly: Apparently Little Moved by Recent Success." Clipping from the Grace Collection, n.p.: n.d., n.p.
A journalistic account of the Graphic prize awarded to Knister for his novel My Star Predominant in a contest sponsored by Graphic Press. It is the personal opinion of McCall that the author would have preferred to forego the lucrative award if the book could have been published as it was originally written rather than being obliged to edit it in order to conform to the word limit set by the contest.
Although journalism is his "bread and butter," Knister seems to exist principally for his work as a creative writer. Mention is made of his speech impediment which is evident until he discusses his work, when his speech is different, fluent, and fairly rapid. Then his words are considered and carefully chosen: the ideal person to interview. He manifests "no out of the ordinary appearance popularly associated with writers." (Knister was meticulously dressed.) "Who knows to what heights he will rise?" concludes McCall.
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C67 Livesay, Dorothy. "Reminiscences of Raymond Knister." Anthology. CBC, 30 Nov. 1955.
A condensed version of the "Memoir" (C7).
C68 Wood, John, and Allan Anderson. The Poet Who Was Farmer Too: A Profile of Raymond Knister. Prod. John Wood with Allan Anderson. CBC, 19 July 1964. Archives Disc 640719-10.
Doris Everard transcribed this tape in Appendix II of her thesis (C54). Suggests the "desperation" and a "darkening mood" displayed by Knister. Morley Callaghan asserts that the author "drowned in a curious way." The tone of the broadcast reflects that of the memoir by Livesay.
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C69 "The Strawstack" is listed in the Roll of Honor for 1923 and 1924 in The Best Short Stories of 1924.
C70 "Elaine" and "The Fate of Mrs. Lucier" are listed in the Roll of Honor in The Best Short Stories of 1926.
C71 The Graphic Publishers' Prize for My Star Predominant, the best Canadian novel submitted in 1931.
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C56 Grove, Frederick Philip. "Letters to Raymond Knister." 21 March 1929-15 Nov. 1931. In The Letters of Frederick Philip Grove. Ed. Desmond Pacey. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1976, pp. 263-68, 283-90, 294-300.
Contains the letters of Grove to and about Knister, with a photograph and editorial notes. Of particular interest are Grove's responses to Knister's reviews of his novels, the preparation of Show Me Death! which was ghost-written by Knister for Walter R. Dent, and the problems associated with the Graphic Novel Contest. "Rear Road," a short story whose source puzzled Pacey, is now available (see B79).
In a letter to Frank Flemington, Grove wrote about Knister having worked on his farm: "There is perhaps nobody who knew him more intimately during the last two years of his life than did I" (November 22, 1945).
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C57 R[ead]., H[erbert]. "Exiles." Rev. of This Quarter. The New Criterion [London], 4 (April 1926), 403-04.
"In general the atmosphere of the magazine is tiresomely experimental, and we turn with relief to Raymond Knister's poems about horses; these are fresh and objective, and decidedly more masculine than most of the 'masculine protests' of these rebels [Ezra Pound, Carl Sandburg, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, e.e. cummings, etc.]."
C58 "R. W. Knister Passes Away: Prominent Farmer of Essex County Was 56 Years Old, Sink Ten Days, Father of Raymond Knister Canadian Prize-Winning Author, Dead." The Border Cities Star/Windsor Star, 18 May 1931.
Clipping from the Grace Collection. Note on the father of Raymond Knister who founded the Ontario Corn Growers' Association and later became its president. He raised thoroughbred horses and was the first Ontario farmer to produce soy beans on a large scale. He was active in social and political life, organizing Winter Fairs in Western Ontario and supporting the United Farmers' Party.
C59 Canadian Bookman, 14 (Sept. 1932), 95.
A brief obituary notice. Deceased was to have been one of the judges in the short story contest being conducted by Canadian Bookman. Refers to the book based on Keats as My Star Triumphant. Although his poems were of more than ordinary merit, his chief success was with the short story.
C60 Port Dover Maple Leaf, 9 Sept. 1932.
A clipping from the Grace Collection, which describes Knister's funeral and contains "Raymond Knister--A Tribute."
C61 Editorial. The Canadian Magazine, Oct. 1932, p. 48.
Announces that Knister was seized with a heart attack and drowned: "...now he will write no more stories, and a voice that seemed as authentically Canadian as any we can remember is stilled forever."
Contains recollections of Knister a few days before his death, discussing some stories and articles that were slated for publication in The Canadian Magazine. He was known as an authority on literary subjects, gave promise of achieving an important place in Canada's literary Hall of Fame. His death is a tragic loss to his young family.
While "no one can gauge how much a man might have meant to a country through work still unaccomplished, there can be no question that the loss here too is one that will not readily be forgotten."
C62 Milne, W. S. "Raymond Knister." Ontario Library Review, 16 (Nov. 1932), 116.
Obituary. His book reviews were original, brilliant, balanced, and mature. As an author, he was widely read and referred to. (Wilson MacDonald regarded Knister as the coming man of our national literature.) Milne alludes to ill-health and financial problems in the last years and concludes: "Knister's best monument, the one which would surely please him best, would be the development of a national sentiment which would give Canadian writers the fame and emolument they deserve,--among their people."
C63 Reaney, James. A Suit of Nettles. Toronto: Macmillan, 1958. Rpt. ("A Suit of Nettles"). In Poems. Ed. and introd. Germaine Warkentin. Toronto: new press, 1972, pp. 141-82. Rpt. A Suit of Nettles. Introd. Germaine Warkentin. Erin, Ont.: Porcepic, 1975.
"Raymond" appears in the "April," "August," and "October" ecologues.
C64 Livesay, Dorothy. "The Outrider: For R. K." In Collected Poems: The Two Seasons. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1972, pp. 112-20. Rpt. in Right Hand Left Hand. Ed. David Arnason. Erin, Ont.: Porcepic, 1977, pp. 160-66.
C65 Grace [Knister], Myrtle. "Sketch of Raymond Knister by His Wife." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), p. 193. Rpt. in Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. Montreal: Bellrock, 1975, p. 193.
C66 Photograph of Raymond Knister. Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 16 (Fall-Winter 1979-80), p. [1].
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C51 Beattie, Munro. "The Advent of Modernism in Canadian Poetry in English 1912-1940." Diss. Columbia 1957. pp. 162-68.
In this far-ranging work, the chapter entitled "Free Verse" identifies Knister's poetry as the "best free verse written before 1925 by a Canadian poet." The poems are his most impressive accomplishment, although his future, had he lived, lay in fiction. In each genre, he displayed complete devotion to honest reporting of experience and a flair for the elusive rhythms of speech.
Beattie draws on the Livesay memoir (C7) to explore some biographical elements of the poems. He compares Knister's Imagist method to that of William Carlos Williams. Knister achieved honesty with a laconic style, in a direct, specific, and stated manner, without artifice. He bears comparison with Robert Frost and Spoon River Anthology. He was almost alone among Canadian writers of his period and applied the principle requisite of Imagism: cadence and feeling must be thoroughly fused. Beattie refers to "A Row of Horse Stalls," "The Hawk," and "The Colt." Knister wrote with his eye on the object and with a sense of natural speech rhythms.
Beattie compares Knister with other writers on rural Canadian themes. Knister's achievement is unmatched for undistorted clarity of vision and directness of transmission. There is, in his best poems, an additional magic over and above the charm of subject matter and style. "Stable Talk" is rated above "In an Old Barn" or "In the Barn-Yard's Southerly Corner" (both by Charles G. D. Roberts). Knister was not a naive amateur; his intentions were quite modest and he had positive aspirations for the poetry, literature, and culture of his native country.
Beattie asserts that "all the poems worth keeping" appeared in The Midland. By 1932, poetic Modernism came into such force that Leo Kennedy could find acceptance for a selection of Knister's poems with an accompanying essay. Thus Knister's work was recognized and welcomed. They had a particular value in the Modern movement. Unlike the "cosmopolitan" poets, Knister was able to "triumphantly project actual experience in actual places, and those places are rural and Canadian." Beattie's reference to Knister as among those who published collections of poems in free verse is puzzling since only sprinklings of poems appeared during Knister's life-time and the Collected Poems of Raymond Knister was not yet published.
C52 Stevens, Peter. "The Development of Canadian Poetry between the Wars and Its Reflection of Social Awareness." Diss. Saskatchewan 1968.
An elaboration of "The Old Futility of Art" (C14).
A helpful summary of Knister's achievements with some analysis of the poems and critical essays in Chapter iv of this thesis. Stevens uses the texts of Collected Poems of Raymond Knister, rather than the manuscript or periodical versions. He focuses on Knister as an Imagist poet who "found it difficult to be satisfied with his work and wrote fewer and fewer poems as he grew older." Leo Kennedy "exaggerated" when he claimed that Knister dispensed with metaphor and simile. The poet was intensely critical about poetry and this critical attitude links him to the foundation of Modern poetry in Canada.
Stevens offers a thematic approach to many poems. Knister, like Lampman, suggests a lack of kinship between man and nature. He is not a descriptive poet, but one who presents the immediate experience which carries within it a kind of symbolic universality.
Knister was the first Canadian poet to use a specifically local Canadian landscape and to go beyond mere description to an examination of the nature of poetry itself through the details of the landscape. He is our first Modern poet, but he has had little influence. W. W. E. Ross and Raymond Souster suggested to Ralph Gustafson that Knister be included in the first edition of the Pelican Book of Canadian Verse.
Stevens suggests some interesting comparisons between Raymond Knister and Ezra Pound, T. E. Hulme, Emily Dickinson, E. J. Pratt, and Carl Sandburg which should be explored.
C53 Ross, George Arthur. "Three Minor Canadian Poets: Louis Alexander MacKay, Leo Kennedy and Raymond Knister." M.A. Thesis Alberta 1969.
Views Knister as a sort of priest-artist with a tragic sensibility whose ideals led him to self-annihilation. The duality he expressed about art, life, nature, and death paralleled the struggle of a generation. He was a casualty of the depression. Ross draws on ideas of Stevens (C16) for the tensions of Knister's work, and their origins, and reflects the profound influence of the memoir by Dorothy Livesay.
C54 Everard, Doris Edna. "Tragic Dimensions in Selected Short Stories of Raymond Knister." M.A. Thesis Sir George Williams 1972.
This is a tribute to Knister as a neglected spokesman of the twenties since it is the first thesis to be entirely devoted to him as a short story writer. However, there are inherent problems in arguing that a tragic philosophy underlies his fiction when this interpretation is influenced by a few stories and based on dates of publication rather than on an actual chronology of composition. The detailed archetypal approach seems to best serve "Mist Green Oats," "The Loading," and "The Strawstack," rather than "Elaine," "The Fate of Mrs. Lucier," or "The One Thing." Everard has made available important material from the private collection in the appendices to her thesis.
C55 Waddington, Marcus Frushard. "Raymond Knister and the Canadian Short Story." M.A. Thesis Carleton 1977.
The thesis is somewhat of a dichotomy since biography and criticism are never completely fused. However, it is certainly the most extensive study of Knister to date. Waddington provides an overview of selected fiction and critical essays by Knister, incorporating some of Everard's interpretations with modifications. In an appendix, he seeks to clarify ambiguities surrounding the author's death and questions previous critics, including Livesay, about what he claims are merely their personal opinions. His work expresses strong opposition to the Livesay memoir.
For the biographical addendum to the thesis in an abbreviated version see C36.
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D10 Birney, Earle. "About Reaney and Knister." Rev. of The Red Heart, by James Reaney; and Collected Poems of Raymond Knister, ed. Dorothy Livesay. CBC Radio, 14 Dec. 1949. Rpt. in Book I: 1904-1949. Spreading Time: Remarks on Canadian Writing and Writers. Montreal: Vehicule, 1980, pp. 153-55.
Knister was shy, bookish, an only son. His work was of "the things Sarah Binks was to write about too, but they were, and are, genuine poems, not parodies, written with a sombre honesty and in a style as simple, direct and pliant as the leather reins with which he drove his Clydesdales." Birney draws on the Livesay introduction to Collected Poems of Raymond Knister which he considers "understanding, full, and careful." The book will never be a big seller, but it will add a small stone to the foundation of a permanent Canadian literature. Knister's personality was limited, his poetic technique confined to rural understatement and casualness which Frost "used more richly," or to the rather monotonously-etched free verse of the Imagist. According to Birney, Knister lacked the high spirits and the capacity for image-making or thoughtful fantasy which are needed by an important poet. However, he was an honest, objective artist, a pioneer in Canadian Realism, who deserved a better fate. Instead he lived a short, unhappy life.
D11 Bourinot, Arthur. "Book Reviews." The Canadian Poetry Magazine, 13 (Christmas 1949), 31-32.
"At long last justice is being done to his memory and his work." Bourinot attributes the birth of the Canadian Writers' Foundation to the tragic death of Raymond Knister. He quotes at length from the memoir by Dorothy Livesay and points out the omission of Knister from E. K. Brown's On Canadian Poetry.
D12 Clarke, G. H. "Recent Poetry." Queen's Quarterly, 55 (Winter 1949-50), 605-06.
The poems are those which Knister had prepared for publication and are now available in the present volume, with a full and understanding memoir.
D13 Crawley, Alan. "The Red Heart and Raymond Knister." Rev. of Collected Poems of Raymond Knister. Contemporary Verse, No. 31 (Spring 1950), pp. 20-25.
Compares Knister with Isabella Valancy Crawford: "In each of them burned a passionate love of Ontario, its country and country life, of which each was driven to write."
Draws on the Livesay memoir for Knister's weak defeatist attitude toward the difficulties and disappointments of life and for sympathizing with his "extraordinary persecution complex."
Crawley discusses the lovable qualities of Knister's writing and his limitations: the lack of dramatic sensibility and the paucity of language are undamaging. The book required more rigorous editing with inclusion of the short stories. "As it is, I am unable wholly to agree with the Smith-Livesay-Kennedy tributes and estimations." The importance of the book is Livesay's memoir.
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D8 Ayre, Robert. Rev. of My Star Predominant. Saturday Night, 1 Dec. 1934, p. 8.
A clipping from the Grace Collection which appeared in the Christmas Literary Supplement of Saturday Night. Expresses high praise and calls for a collection of his poems.
D9 "Keats and His Ailment." The Globe [Toronto], 29 Dec. 1934, p. 8.
The book is thoroughly readable and instructive, but it is not up to the standard of The Stricken Deer.
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D14 Livesay, Dorothy. "Knister's Stories." Canadian Literature, No. 62 (Autumn 1974), pp. 79-83.
The project is commendable and timely. This review is largely an extension, and in part a reworking, of ideas contained in the earlier memoir. Although Livesay considers the editor's emphasis on the mythopoeic aspect a provocative approach, in her view it runs contrary to Knister's own intention. In portraying the relation of the individual to the community, he sought simple realistic effect and, by intensity, he was able to make the ordinary extraordinary.
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D15 MacKendrick, Louis K. "Prose, Mixed Form Anthologies." In Canadian Book Review Annual: 1975. Ed. Dean Tudor, Nancy Tudor, and Linda Biesenthal. Toronto: Peter Martin, 1976, p. 220.
The First Day of Spring is a valuable and welcome collection with a "happy bonus" of critical essays. The introduction is clear and crisp. MacKendrick praises Knister's superlatively exact eye, his casually arresting phrases, and a fluidity of style. Knister's prose, "so apparently effortless, concealed seamlessly the exacting craftsman and a richly evocative writer."
D16 Darling, Michael E. "Knister Redivivus." Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 6 (Spring 1977), pp. 144-47.
Darling blames Knister for the unauthorized shortcomings of his posthumous editors. Knister had not prepared the manuscripts for press, and the texts had not been collated--or, indeed, properly proofread.
Following from the premise that Knister is "one of the little fellows for whom no amount of bluff can conceal the poverty of his imagination," Darling does not make the basic distinction which Knister as creative writer and professional journalist made, that is, between his art and his occupation.
D17 Northey, Margot. Rev. of The First Day of Spring: Stories and Other Prose. The Canadian Forum, June-July 1977, pp. 44-45.
Northey assesses Knister's versatility, in an attempt to discover his little-recognized talents, in contrast to the sombre tone of his fiction which Dorothy Livesay has discussed, this critic remarks on his refreshing homespun humour in the sketches and gently ironic (if occasionally corny) tone reminiscent of Leacock's treatment of Mariposa. Knister was an astute critic who had a sensitive finger on the literary pulse of his time, with discerning analyses of his contemporaries: F. P. Grove, Archibald Lampman, and D. C. Scott. The stories lack mechanical tricks, and appear plotless with an occasionally exasperating narrative line.
Northey explores similarities with the fiction of Alice Munro: use of locale, exact descriptive details, a Magic Realism, and ambivalent regard for home and routine. The negative depiction of life in "Mist Green Oats" gives way to nostalgia in the sketches. Knister expresses the tension between the need for change and the appreciation of what is changeless, the energy of new times, and the inevitability of the old cycles. Although the central character is usually on the side of change, Knister's attitude is less certain. Not all of the stories are on this theme or about farm life. The urban stories are not altogether successful, since Knister felt most comfortable in rural surroundings.
The First Day of Spring convinces us of the diversity of his talents, but the finest are still his stories about farming life.
D18 Cameron, Barry. "The Rediscovery of Raymond Knister." The Ontario Review, No. 7 (Fall-Winter 1977-78), pp. 106-08.
Cameron calls attention to the as yet uncollated prose texts, limited bibliography, and duplication of reprints. He considers the stories reprinted from the Gnarowski selection (see A4) to be the best. "What indeed was the urgent reason for publishing this edition? Why did the editor and publisher not wait until the proper scholarly groundwork has been completed...?" The reviewer acknowledges the inherent validity of Knister's criticism and praises the author's modern style as representative of the twenties. He is "an important writer and despite my reservations about the dubious auspices under which it is published and my quibbles about Stevens' scholarship, it is good that we have this selection and that we have it now."
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D1 Connolly, Cyril. "New Novels." New Statesman, 23 Feb. 1929, pp. 136-37.
The reviewer looks at contemporary English novels as blight and balderdash, describing Ulysses as a death mask of the novel. He compares White Narcissus to Our Daily Bread: "One is soft-boiled and the other hard." Knister's work is a wistful little love story, mildly sophisticated. Connolly congratulates this colonial fiction, but notes that Canada is behind Jamaica.
D2 "New Books and Reprints: Fiction." Times Literary Supplement, 28 Feb. 1929, p. 164.
"There is something ambitious and earnest about this book, although it does not quite 'come off,' that makes one believe Mr. Knister may write an excellent novel one day."
D3 Robins, J. D. "Essentials and Accidentals." Rev. of White Narcissus; It Needs to Be Said, by Frederick Philip Grove; Low Life and Other Plays, by Mazo de la Roche; and A Native Argosy, by Morley Callaghan. The Canadian Forum, Aug. 1929, pp. 389-90.
Knister has not yet attained the stature of the others; however, his book is a good antidote to Mr. Callaghan's. It displays Knister's competent knowledge of the so-called real world. His best work is the delineation of recognizable Canadian types and the physical features of rural South-West Ontario. He uses effective description, with a lyrical quality. The charming children are not needed in the novel. Knister is Canadian, unmistakably Canadian, although he reveals some influence of Nathaniel Hawthorne. This is "a far cry from most American fiction of today.... I consider it the most individual of the three works of fiction under review." There are weaknesses in the handling of the material: a soliloquizing hero, the forced solution, self-conscious style, deliberate erudition. A fine performance in its objective and descriptive aspects. This is an idyllic, not mawkish portrayal of the countryside, with an inadequate psychology and plot, as if the book had attempted too much. Its value and appeal lie in the quiet atmospheric triumph of its shadowed centre and in the bright realism of its circumference.
D4 Rev. of White Narcissus. New York Times Book Review, 25 Aug. 1929, p. 9.
White Narcissus is "a first novel of very considerable charm. It is a supremely atmospheric story, in which dark and introspective moods are developed and elaborated somewhat at the expense of the poet. Knister's prose is an excellent medium for the expression of his emotional attitudes; it never flags and never becomes clogged or difficult. The result is a novel of memorable color and of regrettably thin substance." Knister keeps the atmosphere of his book intact. "If the symbolism upon which it is based seems, at times, a little awkward and obvious, it has at least the merit of consistency."
D5 Rev. of White Narcissus. Bookman [New York], Oct. 1929, p. 30.
A mixed review. "Whether symbolic or realistic, an atmosphere of gloom such as Mr. Knister has attempted to create through two hundred odd pages is very difficult to achieve. Especially difficult to manipulate, granted that such an atmosphere has been successfully sustained, is the convincing ray of sunshine which shall clear away the clouds. The author's intensions are clear, but he requires more technical skill to realize them."
D6 "Books." New York Herald Tribune, 20 Oct. 1929, p. 21.
A descriptive piece.
D7 Rev. of White Narcissus. Boston Transcript, 2 Nov. 1929, p. 6.
A descriptive piece of moderate length.
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John Raymond Knister was a developing artist and a vocal critic during the 1920s. Although his writing career was tragically curtailed, during an eleven-year period he completed three novels, a fictional biography of John Keats, a hundred short stories, about as many poems, a play, hundreds of book reviews and articles, critical studies of contemporary authors, and the first anthology of Canadian short stories.
His art developed out of the need he felt to express the life around him. He believed this task involved the expression of feelings for which "no words have been invented." He adapted the innovations of free verse and Imagism in his poetry fashioned from "undeniable glimpses of the world." Increasingly, he turned to the short story and the problem of how to impart "a hint of wonder and mystery behind the circumstances." The early stories display unity of treatment and a sombre tone, drawing on farm life for their material. He developed an innovative poetic style to accommodate psychological themes and direct experience. As a critic, he delineated the tradition of the Canadian short story; and, as a writer, he revolutionized this tradition by centring his story in the consciousness of a character through oblique narration.
If "too Canadian" to be published in this country, outside Canada his work appeared in the avant-garde journals. This led to his being selected as a writer who mirrored the best elements in current fiction, and as an important influence on Americans. Influenced by Sherwood Anderson and Katherine Mansfield, he was ranked before them. Herbert Read greeted Knister's poems as "fresh and objective" (C57). Like his prose they were "above all modern" (C57). His stories were consistently listed by Edward J. O'Brien among the Roll of Honor for the best short stories. Belated Canadian recognition came in the form of the Graphic Publishers' Prize for best novel and a post as part-time editor for Ryerson. Although Knister had planned a Canadian renaissance with Revision, a proposed literary journal, and an anthology of Canadian poetry, he was not included in the 1936 anthology, New Provinces: Poems of Several Authors, by A. J. M. Smith, F. R. Scott, Leo Kennedy, A. M. Klein, and Robert Finch. E. K. Brown failed to mention Knister in On Canadian Poetry (1943). A. J. M Smith, to his continued credit, placed Knister in The Book of Canadian Poetry (1943), but in a secondary position, at least in Smith's estimation, as a native Realist poet. What critical opinion there has been of Knister as a fiction writer is limited. He has been seen primarily as a literal Realist, and, more recently, as an anthropological Symbolist.
He was selected as a favourable model by the Modernists in the "Canadian Writers Series" of The Canadian Forum. Leo Kennedy introduced Knister as an experimentalist, and as a rural Realist. As Imogen Givens states, "When he is mentioned he is often referred to as a farmer who did a little writing in his spare time" (C46). He was praised for his honest reporting, for being humble in tone if at times actually bucolic. This view of him as a country boy behind a plough has persisted. By such a definition he was found wanting and his reputation diminished to that of a minor writer.
Compounding the problem of inadequate evaluation, his reputation further suffered from biographical fallacy and error. An editorial in The Canadian Magazine incorrectly attributed his death to a sudden heart attack. An obituary in the Ontario Library Review inaccurately describes his ill health and financial problems in the last years. Leo Kennedy's dedication of The Shrouding (1933) to Knister served to romanticize Knister's death. Dorothy Livesay wrote "The Outrider," a socialist poem, to Knister (himself a lyric poet). Her memoir, while a valuable document in stressing Knister's Modernism, also portrayed the man as a faded artist, a hapless victim of economic circumstances (C7). Givens describes it as "The biography to which everyone else referred because it was the only one" (C46). Knister was chastized by Alan Crawley for a weak, defeatist attitude and possible persecution complex (D13). Milton Wilson's thematic essay discussed his affinities with the drowned poet figure (C11).
Objective reassessment has been slow in coming. In The Making of Modern Poetry in Canada, Knister was cited as a percursor of the Moderns who, with W. W. E. Ross, was writing in the period between the free verse of Arthur Stringer and the advent of the Montreal poets (C20). In his introduction to the Selected Stories of Raymond Knister, Michael Gnarowski drew attention to the stories' symbolic texture (C25). This approach has been adopted by other critics with varying success. If the influence of J. G. Frazer on Knister's work tended to be overemphasized, it has opened the way towards an understanding of the author's autodidactic scholarship. But new directions in criticism have been hampered by uncollated texts and still unpublished works.
Perhaps Knister did not make the distinction between Realism and metaphysical Symbolism which has divided the critics, but he did attempt to see Realism as a symbolic perception of the world: "Everything that happens is a symbol and, by representing itself perfectly, it reveals the significance of all else." While cosmopolitan in learning, his art was rooted in the land. Whether the fictional setting was "Canada or China," he acknowledged:
[Canada] does move people to exalted and justifiable eloquence. I prefer it in the quietness of true feeling, usually transmuted into the impersonality of valid art.
It must be established at the outset that many of Raymond Knister's works remain unpublished or out of print. The existing texts present problems of interpretation since the variant texts have not been collated. No definitive collection of the poetry and prose (including short fiction, novels, articles, and book reviews) exists to date.
The following arrangements of his work which the author prepared have not been reproduced: the early "Grass Plaitings," a selection he had submitted to Ryerson (which was subsequently reduced to chapbook size) under the title "Windfalls for Cider"; a sequel volume entitled "Other Orchards," with a mixed collection of verse and short stories; and the proposed selection, "The Strawstack and Other Stories."
At the request of the editors I have arranged entries within the same issue in alphabetical order. For the same reason any textual change appears in the format as "revised" although these are largely silent emendations by an editor after the author's death.
My thanks to the archivists of Victoria University [Toronto], Queen's University, McGill University, and the University of Alberta. Because of the necessity of extensive inter-library loans I am also grateful to the staff of the Toronto Public Library, the New York Public Library, Brown University Library, and the Robert Frost Library. Dale Darling has done much work on the manuscript collections and has assisted with other primary sources. Imogen Givens generously offered me assistance with the manuscript materials in her possession. My personal gratitude is offered to M. D. Burke.
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A1 As for Me and My House. New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1941. 296 pp.
[underbar]Introd. Roy Daniells. New Canadian Library, No. 4. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1957. x, 165 pp.
[underbar]Introd. David Stouck. Bison Book. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1978. xiii, 165 pp.
A2 The Well. Toronto: Macmillan, 1958. 256 pp.
A3 Whir of Gold. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1970. 195 pp.
A4 Sawbones Memorial. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1974. 140 pp.
[underbar]Introd. Lorraine McMullen. New Canadian Library, No. 145. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978. 144 pp.
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A5 The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories. Introd. Margaret Laurence. New Canadian Library, No. 62. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1968. 134 pp.
Includes "Circus in Town" (B4), "Coronet at Night" (B8), "A Field of Wheat" (B2), "The Lamp at Noon" (B5), "Not by Rain Alone. Part I: Summer Thunder" (B9), "Not by Rain Alone. Part II: September Snow" (B3), "One's a Heifer" (B11), "The Outlaw" (B14), "The Painted Door" (B7), and "The Runaway" (B16).
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B49 "Why My Second Book Came 17 Years Later." Toronto Daily Star, 13 Sept. 1958, p. 32.
B50 "Montreal and French-Canadian Culture: What They Mean to English-Canadian Novelists." The Tamarack Review, No. 40 (Summer 1966), pp. 46-47.
B51 "On Looking Back." Mosaic, 3, No. 3 (Spring 1970), 93-94.
B52 Letter to the Editor. Financial Times, 9 Dec. 1974, p. 9.
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B53 "The Outlaw." Read by John Drainie. Canadian Short Stories, CBC Radio, 21 April 1950. (30 min.) (See B14.)
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B19 "A Field of Wheat." In A Miscellany of Tales and Essays. Ed. N. R. Fallis. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1935, pp. 154-69.
B20 "The Lamp at Noon." In A Book of Canadian Stories. Ed. Desmond Pacey. Toronto: Ryerson, 1947, pp. 262-73.
B21 "The Outlaw." In Canadian Short Stories. Ed. Robert Weaver and Helen James. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1952, pp. 237-48.
B22 "Coronet at Night." In Saskatchewan Harvest. Ed. Carlyle King. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1955, pp. 189-212.
B23 "One's a Heifer." In Canadian Anthology. Ed. Carl F. Klinck and Reginald Watters. Toronto: Gage, 1955, pp. 364-76.
B24 "The Lamp at Noon." In Canadian Short Stories. Ed. Robert Weaver. London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1960, pp. 189-215.
B25 "Parson's Wife." In A Book of Canada. Ed. William Toye. Toronto: Collins, 1962, pp. 399-404. AMMH (excerpt--"Saturday Evening, April 8").
B26 "A Field of Wheat." In Prose Pageant. Ed. C. J. Porter. Toronto: Ryerson, 1963, pp. 145-55.
B27 "One's a Heifer." In Canadian Reflections. Ed. P. Penner and J. McGechaen. Toronto: Macmillan, 1964, pp. 10-26.
B28 "The Lamp at Noon" and "The Painted Door." In Modern Canadian Stories. Ed. Giose Rimanelli and Roberto Ruberto. Toronto: Ryerson, 1966, pp. 106-16.
B29 "Die Lampe am Mittag." Trans. Walter Riedel. In Kandische Erzahler. Ed. Armin Arnold und Walter Riedel. Zurich: Manesse, 1967, pp. 339-58.
B30 "The Painted Door." In Great Canadian Short Stories. Ed. Alec Lucas. New York: Dell, 1971, pp. 96-115.
B31 "A Day with Pegasus." In Stories from Western Canada. Ed. Rudy Wiebe. Toronto: Macmillan, 1972, pp. 106-18.
B32 "One's a Heifer." In Kaleidoscope. Ed. John Metcalf. Toronto: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1972, pp. 42-58.
B33 "The Lamp at Noon." In The Oxford Anthology of Canadian Literature. Ed. Robert Weaver and William Toye. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1973, pp. 440-48.
B34 "The Outlaw." In The Evolution of Canadian Literature in English, 1914-45. Ed. George Parker. Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973, pp. 235-42.
B35 "The Painted Door." In The Canadian Century. Ed. A.J.M. Smith. Toronto: Gage, 1973, pp. 330-49.
B36 "There's an Old Man Dying." In Canadian Literature: Two Centuries in Prose. Ed. Brita Mickleburgh. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973, pp. 191-93. AMMH (excerpt--"Wednesday Evening, October 18").
B37 "The Lamp at Noon." In Selections from Major Canadian Writers. Ed. Desmond Pacey. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 199-206.
B38 "One's a Heifer." In Singing under Ice. Ed. Grace Mersereau. Toronto: Macmillan, 1974, pp. 74-79.
B39 "The Lamp at Noon." In Isolation in Canadian Literature. Ed. David Arnason. Themes in Canadian Literature. Toronto: Macmillan, 1975, pp. 31-43.
B40 "The Lamp at Noon." In Modern Canadian Stories. Ed. John Stevens. New York: Bantam, 1975, pp. 242-53.
B41 "Coronet at Night." In The Artist in Canadian Literature. Ed. Lionel Wilson. Toronto: Macmillan, 1976, pp. 16-35.
B42 "Die Frisch Gestrichene Tur." Trans. Walter Riedel. In Kanada. Moderne Erzhaler der Welt. Ed. Walter Riedel. Tubingen und Basil: Horst Erdmann, 1976, pp. 167-89.
B43 "A Field of Wheat." In Horizon. Ed. Ken Mitchell. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1977, pp. 151-58.
B44 "The Lamp at Noon." In Literature in Canada. Vol. II. Ed. Douglas Daymond and Leslie Monkman. Toronto: Gage, 1978, pp. 177-86.
B45 "One's a Heifer." In The Best Modern Canadian Short Stories. Ed. Ivon Owen and Morris Wolfe. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1978, pp. 78-89.
B46 "Circus in Town." In Voices of Discord: Canadian Short Stories from the 1930s. Ed. Donna Phillips. Toronto: New Hogtown, 1979, pp. 108-12.
B47 "The Outlaw." In Great Canadian Adventure Stories. Ed. Muriel Whitaker. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1979, pp. 16-27.
B48 "The Flowers That Killed Him." In More Stories From Western Canada. Ed. Rudy Wiebe and Aritha Van Herk. Toronto: Macmillan, 1980, pp. 248-66.
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As for Me and My House ................AMMH
The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories ....LNOS
B1 "No Other Way." Nash's Magazine, Oct. 1934, pp. 16-17, 80-84.
B2 "A Field of Wheat." Queen's Quarterly, 42 (Spring 1935), 31-42. LNOS.
B3 "September Snow." Queen's Quarterly, 42 (Winter 1935), 451-60. LNOS ("Not by Rain Alone. Part II: September Snow").
B4 "Circus in Town." Queen's Quarterly, 43 (Winter 1936), 368-72. Rpt. in Country Guide and Nor'west Farmer, June 1942, pp. 12, 57. LNOS.
B5 "The Lamp at Noon." Queen's Quarterly, 45 (Spring 1938), 30-42. LNOS.
B6 "A Day with Pegasus." Queen's Quarterly 45 (Summer 1938), 141-56. Rpt. in Country Guide and Nor'west Farmer, April 1942, pp. 12, 36-38.
B7 "The Painted Door." Queen's Quarterly, 46 (Summer 1939), 145-68. LNOS.
B8 "Coronet at Night." Queen's Quarterly, 46 (Winter 1939), 431-52. Rpt. in Country Guide and Nor'west Farmer, May 1942, pp. 9, 23-27. LNOS.
B9 "Not by Rain Alone." Queen's Quarterly, 48 (Spring 1941), 7-16. LNOS ("Not by Rain Alone. Part 1: Summer Thunder").
B10 "Nell." Manitoba Arts Review, 2, No. 4 (Winter 1941), 32-40.
B11 "One's a Heifer." In Canadian Accent. Ed. Ralph Gustafson. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1944, pp. 114-28. LNOS.
B12 "Barrack Room Fiddle Tune." Manitoba Arts Review, 5, No. 4 (Spring 1947), 12-17.
B13 "Jug and Bottle." Queen's Quarterly, 56 (Winter 1949), 500-21.
B14 "The Outlaw." Queen's Quarterly, 57 (Summer 1950), 198-210. LNOS.
B15 "Saturday Night." Queen's Quarterly, 58 (Autumn 1951), 387-400.
B16 "The Runaway." Queen's Quarterly, 59 (Autumn 1952), 323-42. LNOS.
B17 "Spike." Trans. Pierre Villon. Liberte, 11, No. 2 (mars-avril 1969), 181-97.
B18 "The Flowers That Killed Him." Journal of Canadian Fiction, 1, No. 3 (Summer 1972), 5-10.
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A6 The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon. Frontier Books, No. 10. Calgary: Frontiers Unlimited, 1965. 55 pp.
See A9, B80, B88, and B223.
A7 [underbar]Robertson Davies, Arthur L. Murphy, Eric Nicol, and Yves Theriault, with music by Keith Bissell. Centennial Play. Ottawa: Centennial Commission, 1967. 73 pp.
See A9.
A8 The Devil's Instrument. Toronto: Simon and Pierre, 1973. 31 pp.
See A9, B82, B84, and B224.
A9 W.O. Mitchell Papers
Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
University of Calgary Library
Calgary, Alberta
A short list of the contents of the collection follows:
Box 1:
Awards and honours.
Boxes 2-4:
Correspondence.
Boxes 5-6:
The Alien. (See B93.)
Box 7:
Alien Thunder.
Box 8:
Taped interviews.
Boxes 9-10:
Back to Beulah.
Box 11:
The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon, Centennial Play. (See A6, B80, B88, and B223.)
Box 12:
The Devil's Instrument. (See A8, B82, B84, and B224.)
Boxes 13-26:
Jake and the Kid scripts. (See B123-B222, B227-B238.)
Box 27:
The Day Jake Made Her Rain. (See A5, B18, B125, and B228.)
Box 28:
Scripts and correspondence; Royalty Is Royalty. (See B105 and B159.)
Box 29:
The Kite. (See A2, B120, B241, and B263.)
Box 30:
Roses Are Difficult Here, Sacrament.
Box 31:
A Saddle for a Stony.
Boxes 32-34, 37-39:
The Vanishing Point. (See A3 and B264.)
Boxes 35-36:
The Alien, The Vanishing Point. (See A3, B93, and B264.)
Box 40:
Wild Rose.
Boxes 41-42:
Short stories.
Box 43:
Non-literary articles.
Box 44:
Radio work, rough notes, loose pages, speech material.
Box 45-46:
Personal files.
Boxes 47-48:
Photographs, unsorted material.
Boxes 49-50:
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[underbar]
A1 Who Has Seen the Wind. Boston: Little, Brown, 1947. 300 pp.
[underbar]Toronto: Macmillan, 1947. 344 pp.
[underbar]Toronto: Macmillan, 1960. 317 pp.
School text edition with study material prepared by Ruth Gordon.
[underbar]Laurentian Library, No. 14. Toronto: Macmillan, 1972. 300 pp.
Qui a Vu le Vent. Trans. Arlette Franciere. Montreal: Le Cercle du Livre de France, 1974. 294 pp.
Who Has Seen the Wind. Toronto: Macmillan, 1976. 301 pp.
Illustrated by William Kurelek.
See B17, B89, B121, and B265.
A2 The Kite. Toronto: Macmillan, 1962. 210 pp.
[underbar]Laurentian Library, No. 25. Toronto: Macmillan, 1974. 210 pp.
See A9, B120, B241, and B263.
A3 The Vanishing Point. Toronto: Macmillan, 1973. 393 pp.
[underbar]Laurentian Library, No. 25. Toronto: Macmillan, 1975. 393 pp.
See A9 and B264.
A4 How I Spent My Summer Holidays. Toronto: Macmillan, 1981. 224 pp.
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A5 Jake and the Kid. Toronto: Macmillan, 1961. 184 pp.
[underbar]Laurentian Library, No. 21. Toronto: Macmillan, 1972. 184 pp.
Includes "Auction Fever" (B14; see also B135 and B229), "The Day Jake Made Her Rain" (B18; see also A9, B125, and B228), "A Deal's a Deal" (B15; see also B140), "Frankincents an' Meer" (B9; see also B136), "Golden Jubilee Citizen" (B24), "Liar Hunter" (B13; see also B86 and B235), "Old MacLachlin Had a Farm" (B8; see also B127 and B128), "Princess and the Wild Ones" (B22), "Two Kinds of Sinner" (B16), "A Voice for Christmas" (B5), "Wimmen Is Humans" (B4; see also B126), "Woman Trouble" (B7; see also B143, B144, and B227), and "You Gotta Teeter" (B2; see also B230).
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B53 "Panacea for Panhandlers." 'Toba Manitoba Arts Quarterly, 1, No. 1 (Nov. 1933), 21-23.
B54 "Panacea for Panhandlers." 'Toba. Manitoba Arts Quarterly, 1, No. 2 (Feb. 1934), 24-25, 28.
B55 "Panacea for Panhandlers." 'Toba. Manitoba Arts Quarterly, 1, No. 3 (March 1934), 20-21.
B56 "Cow Heaven." Maclean's, 15 Nov. 1943, pp. 9, 63-65, 67.
B57 "What's Ahead for Billy?". The Canadian Forum, July 1944, pp. 84-86.
B58 "Author Looks at the Problems of Writers in Contemporary Canada." Canadian Library Association Bulletin, 4 (Dec. 1947), 58-59.
B59 "Flying Rancher." Maclean's, 15 Sept. 1948, pp. 17, 34-36.
B60 "It's Your Wagon." Writer, 61 (Oct. 1948), 328-30. Rpt. in Canadian Author & Bookman, March 1949, pp. 13-16.
B61 "He Lured Success." Maclean's, 1 Aug. 1949, pp. 17, 35-36.
B62 "Tragic Trek of the Mennonites." Maclean's, 1 March 1951, pp. 7-9, 54.
B63 "The Riddle of Louis Riel." Pt. 1. Maclean's, 1 Feb. 1952, pp. 7-9, 43, 45.
B64 "The Riddle of Louis Riel." Pt. 11. Maclean's, 15 Feb. 1952, pp. 12-13, 41-42, 44-45.
B65 "Holidays and Wild Life: Banff--July 10." The Times Supplement on the Queen's Visit to Canada, 18 June 1959, p. xi.
B66 "Holiday Weekend in Calgary." Maclean's, 15 Aug. 1959, pp. 20-23, 37-38.
B67 "Those Detestable Middy Suits." Imperial Oil Review, 44, No. 6 (Dec. 1960), 10-13.
B68 "Shocking Truth about the Undefended Border." Maclean's, June 1961, pp. 17, 48.
B69 "Summer Cottages Are Wasted Status Symbols." Maclean's, 21 April 1962, pp. 27, 61-62.
B70 "The Day I Spoke for Mister Lincoln." Imperial Oil Review, 46, No. 3 (June 1962), 19-22. (See B245.)
B71 "My Home Town: High River." Toronto Star Weekly [Toronto Daily Star], 22 Sept. 1962, pp. 1-4.
B72 "Three Random Scenes--Complete with Cast and Plot--from Unfolding Drama of W. O. Mitchell." Maclean's, 2 May 1964, pp. 21-24.
B73 "For the Sake of Argument: All Westerners Are Snobs." Maclean's, 16 May 1964, p. 76.
B74 "Holiday Trails of Canada: The Kananaskis." Maclean's, 19 June 1965, pp. 15-17, 39-40.
B75 "People Who Don't Want Equality." Maclean's, 3 July 1965, pp. 9-12, 33.
B76 "Inside the Rockies." Maclean's, 19 March 1966, pp. 30, 42. Rpt. trans. ("Au Coeur des Rocheuses"). In Le Magazine Maclean, avril 1966, pp. 31, 44.
B77 "In the Shuswap Country...." Maclean's, April 1970, pp. 69-70.
B78 "Debts of Innocence." Saturday Night, March 1976, pp. 36-37.
B79 "Toronto Is: Seductive, Except in April." The City [Toronto Star], 1 Jan. 1978, p. 11.
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B263 The Kite. Toronto: Canadian National Institute for the Blind, 1975. (5 cassettes. 7 1/2 hrs.) (See A2, A9, B120, and B241.)
B264 The Vanishing Point. Toronto: Canadian National Institute for the Blind, 1975. (8 cassettes. 12 hrs.) (See A3 and A9.)
B265 Who Has Seen the Wind. Toronto: Canadian National Institute for the Blind, 1975. (6 cassettes. 9 hrs.) (See A1, B17, B89, and B121.)
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B261 The West in Canadian Fiction--Illusions. Pts. I and II. Edmonton: Alberta Education, 1967. (Audiotape. 55 min.)
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B262 Keynote Speaker. Toronto: Audio Archives of Canada, 1978. (1 cassette. 60 min.)
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B266 Prairie Boy, Prairie Boy. Music by Morris Surdin, words by W. O. Mitchell. London: Boosey and Hawkes, 1965. 7 pp.
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B267 "Beginnings: W. O. Mitchell." Today, 20 Dec. 1980, p. 3.
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B80 "The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon." In Three Worlds of Drama. Ed. Jack Livesley. Toronto: Macmillan, 1966, pp. 107-56. Rpt. (excerpt) in Stage One. Ed. Andrew Parkin and J. Stevens. Toronto: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1973, pp. 39-42. Rpt. (revised) in Canadian Theatre Review, No. 26 (Spring 1980), pp. 59-107. BBWM. (See A9, B88, and B223.)
B81 "Ladybug Ladybug: A Radio Play." Edge, 5 (Fall 1966), 44-51.
B82 "The Devil's Instrument." In A Collection of Canadian Plays. Vol. 11. Ed. Rolf Kalman. Toronto: Simon and Pierre, 1972, pp. C1-31. D1. (See A8, A9, B84, and B224.)
B83 "The White Christmas of Archie Nicotine." In Prairie Performance: A Collection of Short Plays. Ed. Diane Bessai. Edmonton: NeWest, 1980, pp. 91-111.
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B84 The Devil's Instrument. Dir. Andrew Allan. CBC Stage, 27 March 1949. (See A8, A9, B82, and B224.)
B85 Chaperone for Maggi. Dir. Andrew Allan. CBC Stage, 1 May 1949. (See B19 and B115.)
B86 The Liar Hunter. Dir. Andrew Allan. CBC Stage, 21 May 1950. (See A5, B13, and B235.)
B87 Out of the Mouths. Dir. Peter MacDonald. CBC Summer Theatre, 2 July 1950.
B88 The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon. Dir. Andrew Allan. CBC Stage, 25 Feb. 1951. (See A6, A9, B80, and B223.)
B89 Who Has Seen the Wind. CBC, 2 July 1955. (See A1, B17, B121, and B265.)
B90 Time Is My Enemy. CBC, 5 Feb. 1956.
B91 Ingredient "H." CBC, 20 Sept. 1959.
B92 Prairie Chicken Dance. CBC, 29 Aug. 1960.
B93 The Alien. Dir. Gus Kristjanson. CBC Summer Stage, 10 July 1960. (See A9.)
B94 After Mary's Boy. CBC Foothill Fables, 25 Dec. 1961.
B95 Sixty Percent Sire. CBC Foothill Fables, 31 Dec. 1961.
B96 "Take One Giant Step." W. O. Mitchell Readings Series. CBC, 25 July 1962. (See B252.)
B97 "The Time We Expected Grandmother." W. O. Mitchell Readings Series. CBC, 1 Aug. 1962.
B98 "Four Score Years and One Spitoon." W. O. Mitchell Readings Series. CBC, 8 Aug. 1962.
B99 "Hang Your Mink on Hickory Limb." W. O. Mitchell Readings Series. CBC, 15 Aug. 1962.
B100 "Of Tarpaper, Shiplap, and Shingles Made." W. O. Mitchell Readings Series. CBC, 22 Aug. 1962.
B101 "The Human Hater." W. O. Mitchell Readings Series. CBC, 29 Aug. 1962.
B102 "The Grass Tower." W. O. Mitchell Readings Series. CBC, 5 Sept. 1962.
B103 Open the Door and Let Her Come Right In. Dir. Gus Kristjanson. CBC Summer Stage, 16 Sept. 1962.
B104 The White Christmas of Raymond Shotclose. CBC Christmas Special, 24 Dec. 1962.
B105 Royalty Is Royalty. Dir. Gus Kristjanson. CBC Summer Stage, 23 June 1963. (See A9 and B159.)
B106 Old Croaker. CBC Foothill Fables, 27 Oct 1963.
B107 The Stylite. CBC Foothill Fables, 3 Nov. 1963.
B108 The Contenders. CBC Foothill Fables, 10 Nov. 1963.
B109 Sons and Fathers. CBC Foothill Fables, 17 Nov. 1963.
B110 Hurrah for Civilization. CBC Foothill Fables, 24 Nov. 1963.
B111 Armageddon. CBC Foothill Fables, 1 Dec. 1963.
B112 The Soft Trap. CBC Foothill Fables, 3 Dec. 1963.
B113 No Man Is. CBC Foothill Fables, 15 Dec. 1963.
B114 The Wrong Trail. CBC Foothill Fables, 22 Dec. 1963.
B115 Maggie. CBC Foothill Fables, 29 Dec. 1963. (See B19 and B85.)
B116 Lullaby for a Hunter. CBC Foothill Fables, 5 Jan. 1964.
B117 The Hobbyist. CBC Foothill Fables, 12 Jan. 1964.
B118 The Trophy. CBC Foothill Fables, 19 March 1964.
B119 Weather, Weather, Weather. Dir. James Bannerman. CBC Summer Fallow Series, 30 March 1964.
B120 The Kite. Dir. Gus Kristjanson. CBC Summer Stage, 12 June 1964. (See A2, A9, B241, and B263.)
B121 Who Has Seen the Wind. Dir. Leslie Ljungh. CBC Stage, 15 May 1966. (See A1, B17, B89, and B265.)
B122 Back to Beulah. Dir. Ron Hartman. CBC Stage, 26 Oct. 1974. (See B254.)
Note: In an interview with Sid Adilman (Toronto Star, 25 Sept. 1976), Mitchell refers to his 320 Jake and the Kid radio plays. Due to restricted access to tapes stored in the CBC Programme Archives, not all Jake and the Kid plays are listed here.
B123 "The Oldest Old-Timer." Jake and the Kid Series, 1, No. 1. CBC, 27 June 1950.
B124 "Elbow Room." Jake and the Kid Series, 1, No. 2. CBC, 4 July 1950. (See B3.)
B125 "The Day Jake Made Her Rain." Jake and the Kid Series, 1, No. 3. CBC, 11 July 1950. (See A5, A9, B18, and B228.)
B126 "Wimmen Is Humans." Jake and the Kid Series, 1, No. 4. CBC, 18 July 1950. (See A5 and B4.)
B127 "Old McLachlin Had a Farm." Pt. I. Jake and the Kid Series, 1, No. 6. CBC, 1 Aug. 1950. (See A5 and B8.)
B128 "Old McLachlin Had a Farm." Pt. II. Jake and the Kid Series, 1, No. 7. CBC, 8 Aug. 1950. (See A5 and B8.)
B129 "Pups and Babies Don't Count." Jake and the Kid Series, 1, No. 8. CBC, 15 Aug. 1950.
B130 "Well, Well, Well." Jake and the Kid Series, 1, No. 11. CBC, 5 Sept. 1950. Rebroadcast ("Winter Witchery"). In Jake and the Kid Series, 2, No. 26. CBC, 23 March 1952.
B131 "Some Things Got to Go." Jake and the Kid Series, 1, No. 15. CBC, 3 Oct. 1950.
B132 "Indian Summer." Jake and the Kid Series, 1, No. 20. CBC, 7 Nov. 1950.
B133 "I Was a Love Slave." Jake and the Kid Series, 1, No. 23. CBC, 14 Nov. 1950.
B134 "Scots Wha Hae Wi Trumpet Bled." Jake and the Kid Series, 1, No. 25. CBC, 12 Dec. 1950.
B135 "Auction Fever." Jake and the Kid Series, 1, No. 26. CBC, 19 Dec. 1950. (See A5, B14, and B229.)
B136 "Frankincents an' Meer." Jake and the Kid Series, 1, No. 27. CBC, 27 Dec. 1950. (See A5 and B9.)
B137 "Lo, the Noble Redskin." Jake and the Kid Series, 1, No. 29. CBC, 9 Jan. 1951.
B138 "Gents Don't Chaw." Jake and the Kid Series, 1, No. 31. CBC, 23 Jan. 1951.
B139 "Take Her Gentle--Take Her Easy." Jake and the Kid Series, 1, No. 32. CBC, 30 Jan. 1951. Rebroadcast in Jake and the Kid Series, 3, No. 9. CBC, 8 March 1953.
B140 "A Deal's a Deal." Jake and the Kid Series, 1, No. 33. CBC, 4 Feb. 1951. (See A5 and B15.)
B141 "Gettin' Married." Jake and the Kid Series, 1, No. 35. CBC, 18 Feb. 1951.
B142 "Gettin' Born." Jake and the Kid Series, 1, No. 36. CBC, 25 Feb. 1951. (See B6.)
B143 "Woman Trouble (Part 1): Choose Your Partner." Jake and the Kid Series, 1, No. 37. CBC, 4 March 1951. Rebroadcast ("Choose Your Partner"). In Jake and the Kid Series, 5, No. 24. CBC, 6 March 1955. (See A5, B7, and B227.)
B144 "Woman Trouble (Part II): Baby Trouble." Jake and the Kid Series, l, No. 38. CBC, 11 March 1951. (See A5, B7, and B227.)
B145 "The Man Who Came to Rummy." Jake and the Kid Series, 1, No. 39. CBC, 18 March 1951. Rebroadcast in Jake and the Kid Series, 6, No. 15. CBC, 5 Jan. 1956.
B146 "Cabin Fever." Jake and the Kid Series, 1, No. 40. CBC, 25 March 1951. Rebroadcast in Jake and the Kid Series, 6, No. 16. CBC, 12 Jan. 1956.
B147 "The Old Grey Car Ain't What She Ought to Be." Jake and the Kid Series, 1, No. 41. CBC, 1 April 1951.
B148 "A Man's Best Friend Is His Car." Jake and the Kid Series, 1, No. 42. CBC, 8 April 1951.
B149 "Curling Fever." Jake and the Kid Series, 1, No. 43. CBC, 15 April 1951.
B150 "Politics, Politics, Politics." Jake and the Kid Series, 1, No. 44. CBC, 22 April 1951.
B151 "One Hundred Per-Cent Canadian." Jake and the Kid Series, 1, No. 45. CBC, 29 April 1951.
B152 "Invention Fever." Jake and the Kid Series, 2, No. 1. CBC, 30 Sept. 1951.
B153 "Any Old Knives." Jake and the Kid Series, 2, No. 2. CBC, 7 Oct. 1951.
B154 "Honey and Hoppers." Jake and the Kid Series, 2, No. 3. CBC, 14 Oct. 1951. (See B225.)
B155 "Prairie's Scarey." Jake and the Kid Series, 2, No. 4. CBC, 21 Oct. 1951. Rebroadcast in Jake and the Kid Series, 4, No. 6. CBC, 1 Nov. 1953.
B156 "Wheat King Junior." Jake and the Kid Series, 2, No. 5. CBC, 18 Oct. 1951.
B157 "Wheat Is Where You Find It." Jake and the Kid Series, 2, No. 6. CBC, 4 Nov. 1951.
B158 "Watch Them Arteries." Jake and the Kid Series, 2, No. 7. CBC, 11 Nov. 1951.
B159 "Royalty Is Royalty." Jake and the Kid Series, 2, No. 8. CBC, 18 Nov. 1951. Rebroadcast in Jake and the Kid Series, 3, No. 19. CBC, 17 May 1953. (See A8 and B105.)
B160 "Prairie Flower." Jake and the Kid Series, 2, No. 9. CBC, 25 Nov. 1951. Rebroadcast in Jake and the Kid Series, 3, No. 20. CBC, 24 May 1953.
B161 "History Repeats Itself." Jake and the Kid Series, 2, No. 10. CBC, 2 Dec. 1951.
B162 "Brokenshell Flood." Jake and the Kid Series, 2, No. 11. CBC, 9 Dec. 1951.
B163 "Bitter with the Sweet." Jake and the Kid Series, 2, No. 12. CBC, 16 Dec. 1951.
B164 "The Tongue Is Worse Than the Binder Whip." Jake and the Kid Series, 2, No. 13. CBC, 23 Dec. 1951.
B165 "Crocus Christmas." Jake and the Kid Series, Christmas Special. CBC, 25 Dec. 1951.
B166 "Prairie Lawyer." Jake and the Kid Series, 2, No. 14. CBC, 30 Dec. 1951.
B167 "Lead a Horse to Culture." Jake and the Kid Series, 2, No. 15. CBC, 6 Jan. 1952.
B168 "Going to a Fire." Jake and the Kid Series, 2, No. 16. CBC, 13 Jan. 1952.
B169 "Love's Wild Magic." Jake and the Kid Series, 2, No. 17. CBC, 22 Jan. 1952. Rebroadcast (Pt. 1) in Jake and the Kid Series, 3, No. 6. CBC, 15 Feb. 1953. Rebroadcast (Pt. 11) in Jake and the Kid Series, 3, No. 7. CBC, 22 Feb. 1953. (See B237.)
B170 "Enterprise." Jake and the Kid Series, 2, No. 18. CBC, 27 Jan. 1952.
B171 "History's Gotta Be Accurate." Jake and the Kid Series, 2, No. 19. CBC, 3 Feb. 1952.
B172 "The Grim Gash of Death." Jake and the Kid Series, 2, No. 20. CBC, 17 Feb. 1952.
B173 "Crocus under the Microscope." Jake and the Kid Series, 2, No. 21. CBC, 24 Feb. 1952.
B174 "A Man's Age Is His Own Business." Jake and the Kid Series, 2, No. 22. CBC, 2 March 1952.
B175 "A New Broom Sweeps Clean." Jake and the Kid Series, 2, No. 23. CBC, 9 March 1952.
B176 "Political Dynamite." Jake and the Kid Series, 2, No. 25. CBC, 16 March 1952. (See B259.)
B177 "A Man's Best Friend Is His Enemy." Jake and the Kid Series, 2, No. 28. CBC, 6 April 1952.
B178 "The Pipe of Peace." Jake and the Kid Series, 2, No. 29. CBC, 13 April 1952.
B179 "Hoist on Your Own Puhtar." Jake and the Kid Series, 2, No. 30. CBC, 20 April 1952.
B180 "No Time to Go." Jake and the Kid Series, 2, No. 31. CBC, 27 April 1952.
B181 "Expert in Women." Jake and the Kid Series, 2, No. 33. CBC, 18 May 1952.
B182 "It's a Knack." Jake and the Kid Series, 2, No. 34. CBC, 25 May 1952.
B183 "All Is Calm All Is Bright." Jake and the Kid Series, Special Christmas Show. CBC, 25 Dec. 1952.
B184 "An Old Man's Fancy." Jake and the Kid Series, 3, No. 1. CBC, 11 Jan. 1953.
B185 "The Other Side of the Coin." Jake and the Kid Series, 3, No. 2. CBC, 18 Jan. 1953.
B186 "Going to a Fire." Jake and the Kid Series, 3, No. 3. CBC, 25 Jan. 1953.
B187 "Duel at Dawn." Jake and the Kid Series, 3, No. 4. CBC, 1 Feb. 1953.
B188 "Duel at Dawm--Part II." Jake and the Kid Series, 3, No. 5. CBC, 8 Feb. 1953.
B189 "Not with a Bang but a Whimper." Jake and the Kid Series, 3, No. 8. CBC, 1 March 1953.
B190 "Daddy Johnson a Travellin Man." Jake and the Kid Series, 3, No. 10. CBC, 15 March 1953.
B191 "Hometown Laughter." Jake and the Kid Series, 3, No. 11. CBC, 22 March 1953.
B192 "Dirt Independent." Jake and the Kid Series, 3, No. 12. CBC, 29 March 1953.
B193 "Adults Is Human." Jake and the Kid Series, 3, No. 13. CBC, 5 April 1953. (See B233.)
B194 "The Old Gray West She Aint What She Used to Be." Jake and the Kid Series, 3, No. 14. CBC, 12 April 1953.
B195 "Earn Money at Home." Jake and the Kid Series, 3, No. 15. CBC, 19 April 1953. (See B226.)
B196 "Women on Ice." Jake and the Kid Series, 3, No. 16. CBC, 26 April 1953.
B197 "Nature's Got Her Flags A-Flyin." Jake and the Kid Series, 4, No. 1. CBC, 27 Sept. 1953.
B198 "Goin' to London to See the Queen." Jake and the Kid Series, 4, No. 2. CBC, 4 Oct 1953.
B199 "The Finger of Chance." Jake and the Kid Series, 4, No. 3. CBC, 11 Oct. 1953.
B200 "The Old and the Young of It." Jake and the Kid Series, 4, No. 4. CBC, 18 Oct. 1953.
B201 "Mind over Madam." Jake and the Kid Series, 4, No. 7. CBC, 8 Nov. 1953. Rebroadcast in Jake and the Kid Series, 6, No. 19. CBC, 5 Feb. 1956. (See B234.)
B202 "Unfinished Business." Jake and the Kid Series, 4, No. 8. CBC, 15 Nov. 1953.
B203 "Never the Twain." Jake and the Kid Series, 4, No. 9. CBC, 22 Nov. 1953.
B204 "Human Nature Rears Her Ugly Head." Jake and the Kid Series, 4, No. 10. CBC, 29 Nov. 1953.
B205 "Jake and the Medicine Man," Jake and the Kid Series, 4, No. 11. CBC, 6 Dec. 1953.
B206 "A Relative Matter." Jake and the Kid Series, 4, No. 12. CBC, 13 Dec. 1953.
B207 "And So Is the West." Jake and the Kid Series, 4, No. 13. CBC, 20 Dec. 1953.
B208 "Turn the Other Cheek." Jake and the Kid Series, 4, No. 14. CBC, 27 Dec. 1953.
B209 "Settin' Ducks." Jake and the Kid Series, 4, No. 15. CBC, 3 Jan. 1954.
B210 "Mr. A. and Mr. B." Jake and the Kid Series, 4, No. 16. CBC, 10 Jan. 1954.
B211 "Way Too Late." Jake and the Kid Series, 4, No. 17. CBC, 17 Jan. 1954.
B212 "Grand Exalted Mediator." Jake and the Kid Series, 4, No. 18. CBC, 24 Jan. 1954.
B213 "The Case of the Backward Dog." Jake and the Kid Series, 4, No. 19. CBC, 31 Jan. 1954.
B214 "Back with a Vengeance." Jake and the Kid Series, 4, No. 21. CBC, 14 Feb. 1954.
B215 "Struck Rich!". Jake and the Kid Series, 4, No. 22. CBC, 21 Feb. 1954. (See B232.)
B216 "A Man's Best Friend." Jake and the Kid Series, 4, No. 23. CBC, 28 Feb. 1954.
B217 "King of All the Country." Jake and the Kid Series, 5, No. 7. CBC, 7 Nov. 1954. Rebroadcast in Jake and the Kid Series, 6, No. 1. CBC, 29 Sept. 1955. (See B238.)
B218 "Hip, Thigh and Shinbone." Jake and the Kid Series, 5, No. 12. CBC, 12 Dec. 1954.
B219 "Hair Is Here to Stay." Jake and the Kid Series, 5, No. 13. CBC, 19 Dec. 1954.
B220 "Young Peter." Jake and the Kid Series, 5, No. 21. CBC, 13 Feb. 1955.
B221 "Bones, Bones, Bones." Jake and the Kid Series, 5, No. 28. CBC, 3 April 1955.
B222 "Jake and the Medicine Man." Jake and the Kid Series. 6, No. 26. CBC, 22 March 1956.
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B31 "Owl and the Bens." In Best American Short Stories, 1946. Ed. Martha Foley. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1946, pp. 277-91. WHSW (excerpt).
B32 "Saint Sammy." In A Book of Canadian Stories. Ed. Desmond Pacey. Toronto: Ryerson, 1947, pp. 301-10. WHSW (excerpt).
B33 "Two Kinds of Sinner." In A Book of Canadian Humour. Ed. John D. Robins and Margaret V. Ray. Toronto: Ryerson, 1951, pp. 90-99.
B34 "The Day Jake Made Her Rain." In The Alberta Golden Jubilee Anthology. Ed. W. G. Hardy. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1955, pp. 430-42.
B35 "Land and Sky, Sunset, Spring, Prairie." In Saskatchewan Harvest. Ed. Carlyle King. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1955, pp. 14-17. WHSW (excerpt).
B36 "Princess and the Wild Ones." In Cavalcade of the North. Ed. George E. Nelson. New York: Doubleday, 1958, pp. 430-38.
B37 "Owl and the Bens." In Canadian Short Stories. Ed. Robert Weaver. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1960, pp. 299-313. WHSW (excerpt).
B38 "Golden Jubilee Citizen." In Canadian Reflections: An Anthology of Canadian Prose. Ed. Philip Penner and John McGechaen. Toronto: Macmillan, 1964, pp. 200-09.
B39 "Die Eule und die Bens." Trans. Walter Riedel. In Kanadische Erzahler der Gegenwart. Ed. Armin Arnold and Walter Riedel. Zurich: Manesse, 1967, pp. 359-76. WHSW (excerpt).
B40 "Hercules Salvage." In Stories from Western Canada. Ed. Rudy Wiebe. Toronto: Macmillan, 1971, pp. 41-51. VP (excerpt).
B41 "Saint Sammy." In The Canadian Century. Ed. A.J.M. Smith. Toronto: Gage, 1973, pp. 453-62. WHSW (excerpt).
B42 "Two Kinds of Sinner." In The Evolution of Canadian Literature in English: 1945-1970. Ed. Paul Denham. Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973, pp. 82-87.
B43 "The Day Jake Made Her Rain." In The Treasury of Great Canadian Humour. Ed. Alan Walker. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 188-99.
B44 "Melvin Arbuckle's First Course in Shock Therapy." In Singing under Ice. Ed. Grace Mersereau. Toronto: Macmillan, 1974, pp. 46-56.
B45 "Saint Sammy." In The Canadian Experience. Ed. A.J.M. Smith. Toronto: Gage, 1974, pp. 214-23. WHSW (excerpt).
B46 "Two Kinds of Sinner." In The Prairie Experience. Ed. Terry Angus. Toronto: Macmillan, 1975, pp. 99-108.
B47 "A Deal's a Deal." In Canadian Humour and Satire. Ed. Theresa Ford. Toronto: Macmillan, 1976, pp. 80-91.
B48 "In the East Corner of the Pasture." In Earth. Ed. Peter Carver. Toronto: Peter Martin, 1977, p 6. WHSW (excerpt).
B49 "Patterns." In Wild Rose Country: Stories from Alberta. Ed. David Carpenter. Ottawa: Oberon, 1977, pp. 91-103.
B50 "Saint Sammy." In Horizon: Writings of the Canadian Prairie. Ed. Ken Mitchell. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1977, pp. 158-65. WHSW (excerpt).
B51 "Liar Hunter." In Literature in Canada. Vol. II. Ed. Douglas Daymond and Leslie Monkman. Toronto: Gage, 1978, pp. 307-17.
B52 "Two Kinds of Sinner." In The Alberta Diamond Jubilee Anthology. Ed. John Chalmers. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1979, pp. 56-63.
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B257 Crawley, Budge, dir. Face of Saskatchewan. Crawley Films, 1955. (16 mm. 37 min.)
B258 Biggs, Julian, dir. Fires of Envy. NFB, 1957. (16 mm. 30 min.)
B259 Ginsberg, Donald, dir. Political Dynamite. NFB, 1958. (16 mm. 27 min.)(See B176.)
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B260 Fournier, Claude, dir. Alien Thunder. Alien Thunder Productions, 1976. (35 mm. 90 min.)
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B30 "Alien." Maclean's, semi-monthly issues from 15 Sept. 1953 to 15 Jan. 1954.
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The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon .............BBWM
Centennial Play .......................................CP
The Devil's Instrument ................................DI
Jake and the Kid ......................................JK
The Kite ...............................................K
The Vanishing Point ...................................VP
Who Has Seen the Wind ...............................WHSW
B1 "But As Yesterday." Queen's Quarterly, 49 (Summer 1942), 132-38.
B2 "You Gotta Teeter." Maclean's, 15 Aug. 1942, pp. 8-10, 29-30. JK. (See B230.)
B3 "Elbow Room." Maclean's, 15 Sept 1942, pp. 18-20, 39. (See B124.)
B4 "Wimmen Is Humans." Maclean's, 1 Dec. 1942, pp. 8-9, 22-24. JK. (See B126.)
B5 "A Voice for Christmas." Maclean's, 15 Dec. 1942, pp. 5-7, 33-35. JK.
B6 "Gettin' Born." Maclean's, 1 May 1943, pp. 10-11, 39-41. (See B142.)
B7 "Woman Trouble." Maclean's, 1 July 1944, pp. 20-22, 24, 26. JK. (See B143, B144, and B227.)
B8 "Old MacLachlin Had a Farm." Maclean's, 1 Sept. 1944, pp. 16-17, 22, 24. JK. (See B127 and B128.)
B9 "Frankincents an' Meet." Maclean's, 15 Dec. 1944, pp. 14-15, 35. JK. (See B136.)
B10 "Owl and the Bens." Atlantic Monthly, April 1945, pp. 79-83. WHSW (excerpt).
B11 "Something's Gotta Go!". Maclean's, 1 July 1945, pp. 20-22.
B12 "Saint Sammy." Atlantic Monthly, Aug. 1945, pp. 81-84. WHSW (excerpt).
B13 "Liar Hunter." Maclean's, 15 Aug. 1945, pp. 16-17, 22, 24. JK. (See B86 and B235.)
B14 "Auction Fever." Liberty [New York], 20 Oct. 1945, pp. 40-41, 75-77. JK. (See B135 and B229.)
B15 "A Deal's a Deal." Liberty [New York], 15 Dec. 1945, pp. 42-43, 68, 70, 72. JK. (See B140.)
B16 "Two Kinds of Sinner." Maclean's, 1 June 1946, pp. 10-11, 30. JK.
B17 "Who Has Seen the Wind." Ladies Home Journal, Feb. 1947, pp. 17-18. WHSW (excerpt). (See B89, B121, and B265.)
B18 "The Day Jake Made Her Rain." Maclean's, 1 March 1948, pp. 10-11, 46-48. JK. (See A9, B125, and B228.)
B19 "Shoparoon for Maggie." Maclean's, 15 May 1948, pp. 22-23, 66-70. (See B85 and B115.)
B20 "Air-Nest and the Child Harold." Maclean's, 1 Aug. 1948, pp. 20-22, 40.
B21 "Air-Nest and La Belle Dame." Maclean's, 1 Nov. 1948, pp. 20-21, 28-30.
B22 "Princess and the Wild Ones." Maclean's, 15 March 1952, pp. 12-13, 25-26, 29. JK.
B23 "Crocus at Coronation." Maclean's, 1 June 1953, pp. 18-19, 46-48, 50, 52-53.
B24 "Golden Jubilee Citizen." Maclean's, 25 June 1955, pp. 32-34, 36, 38, 40, 44. JK.
B25 "How Crocus Got Its Seaway." Maclean's, 20 June 1959, pp. 16-17, 55-56, 58-60.
B26 "Patterns." In Ten for Wednesday Night. Ed. Robert Weaver. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1961, pp. 59-74.
B27 "Melvin Arbuckle's First Course in Shock Therapy." Maclean's, 5 Oct. 1963, pp. 38, 40-41, 44-46.
B28 "Old Kacky and the Vanishing Point." The Canadian Forum, Oct. 1971, pp. 24-27. VP (excerpt).
B29 "A Tree of Feathers: A Giant Step." The Globe and Mail, 25 Dec. 1975, p. 7.
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B223 "The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon." Dir. Robert Allen. Folio. CBC, 9 Oct. 1955. Reproduced. Dir. Melwyn Breen. Playdate. CBC, 7 March 1962. (See A5, A9, B80, and B88.)
B224 "The Devil's Instrument." Dir. David Greene. Folio. CBC, 21 Nov. 1956. Reproduced. Dir. Eric Till. Festival. CBC, 5 Nov. 1962. (See A7, A8, B82, and B84.)
B225 "Honey and Hoppers." Dir. Robert Allen. Folio. CBC, 7 Nov. 1957. (See B154.)
B226 "Earn Money at Home." Dir. Ted Pope. First Person Series. CBC, 10 Aug. 1960. (See B195.)
B227 "Choose Your Partner." Dir. Ronald Weyman. Jake and the Kid Series. CBC, 11 July 1961. (See A5, B7, B143, B144.)
B228 "The Day Jake Made Her Rain." Dir. Ronald Weyman. Jake and the Kid Series. CBC, 14 July 1961. (See A5, A9, B18, and B125.)
B229 "Auction Fever." Dir. Ronald Weyman. Jake and the Kid Series. CBC, 18 July 1961. (See A5, B14, and B135.)
B230 "You Gotta Teeter." Dir. David Gardner. Jake and the Kid Series. CBC, 25 July 1961. (See A5 and B2.)
B231 "Don't Scratch That Baby." Dir. David Gardner. Jake and the Kid Series. CBC, 1 Aug. 1961.
B232 "Struck Rich!". Dir. Ronald Weyman. Jake and the Kid Series. CBC, 8 Aug. 1961. (See B215.)
B233 "Adults Is Human." Dir. Ray Whitehouse. Jake and the Kid Series. CBC, 15 Aug. 1961. (See B193.)
B234 "Mind over Madam." Dir. Ronald Weyman. Jake and the Kid Series. CBC, 22 Aug. 1961. (See B201.)
B235 "The Liar Hunter." Dir. Ronald Weyman. Jake and the Kid Series. CBC, 29 Aug. 1961. (See A5, B13, and B86.)
B236 "Prairie Lawyer." Dir. David Gardner. Jake and the Kid Series. CBC, 5 Sept. 1961.
B237 "Love's Wild Magic." Dir. David Gardner. Jake and the Kid Series. CBC, 12 Sept. 1961. (See B169.)
B238 "King of All the Country." Dir. David Gardner. Jake and the Kid Series. CBC, 19 Sept. 1961. (See B217.)
B239 "The Goose Hunt." Man in the Landscape. CBC, 8 May 1963.
B240 "A Saddle for a Story." Dir. Peter Kelly 20/20. CBC, 14 July 1963.
B241 "The Kite." Dir. David Gardner. Show of the Week. CBC, 26 April 1965. (See A2, A9, B120, and B263.)
B242 "East End Was Just Beginning." Dir. Peter Kelly. Telescope. CBC, 17 Nov. 1966.
B243 "Beef and Greens." Dir. Robert Smith. 20/20. CBC, 16 March 1967.
B244 "The Day I Sold Lingerie." W. O. Mitchell. ETVO, 1968.
B245 "The Day I Spoke For Mr. Lincoln." W. O. Mitchell. ETVO, 1968. (See B70.)
B246 "The Hired Man." W. O. Mitchell. ETVO, 1968.
B247 "How to Quit and Win." W. O. Mitchell. ETVO, 1968.
B248 "Melvin Arbuckle--Great Canadian." W. O. Mitchell. ETVO, 1968.
B249 "Pebble in a Pond." Magicians, Acrobats and Writers. CBC, 1968.
B250 "Rabbit from a Hat." Magicians, Acrobats and Writers. CBC, 1968.
B251 "She Looks So Easy." Magicians, Acrobats and Writers. CBC, 1968.
B252 "Take a Giant Step" W. O. Mitchell. ETVO, 1968. (See B96.)
B253 "The White Christmas of Archie Nicotine." Dir. Peter Kelly. To See Ourselves. CBC, 16 Dec. 1971.
B254 "Back to Beulah." Dir. Eric Till. The Play's the Thing. CBC, 21 March 1974. (See B122.)
B255 "Joys of Saskatchewan Summer." Dir. Ray McConnell. Variety Special. CBC, 16 Sept. 1977.
B256 Sacrament. Dir. John Davies. CBC, 1 Jan. 1978.
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D19 H[ammond]., M. O. Rev. of Canadian Short Stories. The Globe, 18 Aug. 1928, p. 33.
"[A] compilation of outstanding stories and the result is entertaining...and we may hope with Mr. Knister that the day will soon come when they [Canadian writers] will find publication and worthy rewards at home."
D20 Sandwell, Bernard K. "The Short Story in Canada." Saturday Night, 25 Aug. 1928, p. 7.
Knister was the best possible man to do the selection. Certainly he has done an excellent job.
The reviewer objects to "Remembrance" by Walter McLaren as scarcely a first-class story. He questions the modern style and techniques of stories whose authors are overly preoccupied with the theme of futility. He calls for a new beautification of language comparable to that found in the poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling.
D21 M., M. E. Rev. of Canadian Short Stories. Boston Transcript, 10 Oct. 1928, p. 4.
"If it is true that Canada, like the United States, is now emerging from the imitative stage in literature, then this volume should be of some value. It is evident that it is a careful and comprehensive selection."
D22 "The New Books." Saturday Review of Literature [New York], 13 Oct. 1928, p. 252.
Mr. Knister has done a commendable piece of editing in this volume. Canadian Short Stories has an interesting and pleasing format. He has done his work so well and so intelligently that it is to be hoped he will continue.
D23 Robins, J. D. Rev. of Canadian Short Stories. The Canadian Forum, Nov. 1928, p. 68.
"Mr. Knister has performed adequately a heavy task and a real service. He has brought together in one volume seventeen of the best Canadian stories. Including old favorites which everybody knows, but including also to our great debt some treasures which would be lost to practically all of us if they had not been rescued from the files of periodicals. Mr. Knister's own position as writer and student of the short story gives authority to his excellent introduction, and value to his appended list of stories."
D24 Rev. of Canadian Short Stories. New York Times Book Review, 25 Nov. 1928, p. 8.
A mixed review. It is altogether a readable collection, though with few highlights.
D25 "Books." New York Herald Tribune, 16 Dec. 1928, p. 15.
A descriptive piece.
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D26 Kennedy, Leo. "A Poet's Memoirs." Rev. of Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays. Ed. and introd. David Arnason. CV/II, 2, No. 2 (May 1976), 23-24.
Kennedy's essay focuses more on Knister's life and works, than on the three critical pieces which are also included in this volume. He reminisces about his first meeting with Knister, "a young man, slight, balding, and a little older than I, a stranger," and the shock of his death. "I did the last thing I knew how to do for him. I dedicated The Shrouding to Knister's memory." According to Kennedy he was a dogged, resolute, greatly gifted writer handicapped by the economics and prejudices of the times he worked in. Knister was determined to make Canadians more aware of the Ontario rural scene. He was an original talent who, like Morley Callaghan, first made himself known abroad and has become a monument for graduate students. His is a critical voice of the late twenties and early thirties.
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C41 Barclay, Patricia. "Regionalism and the Writer: A Talk with W. O. Mitchell." Canadian Literature, No. 14 (Autumn 1962), pp. 53-56.
In response to being labelled a "regionalist," Mitchell states, "I can't go to work on a piece unless I have some essentially human truth that I believe very passionately and that I hope shall transcend time and region." Mitchell's works are mentioned, including a completed but unpublished novel "Roses Are Difficult Here." Mitchell explains the theme of The Kite: "The idea of a kite, a lively thing held by a thin thread of life, is comparable to man and his mortality, and the novel is a study in mortality, and awareness of the shortness of man's days upon the earth--it's quite a serious novel with a picaresque surface."
C42 "W. O. Mitchell: The Man Who Made Crocus, Sask." Toronto Daily Star, 19 Feb. 1966, p. 24.
A review of Mitchell's career which mentions briefly his early struggle as a freelance writer, his university days, travels in Europe, family life, literary awards, and publications.
C43 Sinclair, Lister, dir. "W. O. Mitchell." Man at the Centre. CBC, 11 Jan. 1971.
Lister Sinclair interviews W. O. Mitchell at his home outside Calgary. Mitchell is filmed with his family, walking in the woods, and in Calgary's Heritage Park. Mitchell talks about his writing and how he has found inspiration in the Canadian West.
C44 Whittaker, Herbert. "Pioneer Playwrights: A Touch of Envy over Their Young Successors." The Globe and Mail, 29 July 1972, p. 25.
Mitchell reminisces about his youth as an actor and his career as an early Canadian dramatist. Discussing the Ontario Youth Theatre's revival of The Devil's Instrument, he says that it "is not so much a play about Hutterites as about the non-conformist artists in a materialistic society which controls them because it fears them. Just like Russia today!"
C45 Cameron, Donald. "W. O. Mitchell: Sea Caves and Creative Partners." In Conversations with Canadian Novelists--2. Toronto: Macmillan, 1973, pp. 48-63.
Interviewed at the University of Alberta on October 28, 1971, Mitchell explains his philosophy of art with considerable detail and clarity. Writers are consistently "lowering a bucket into themselves and everything that they have been.... To me, the main justification for art is that it grows out of the unique individual human being, and that when the art experience happens between a creative artist and a creative partner, it is probably the closest a human can ever come to truly crossing a bridge to another human." Speaking of regionalism, Mitchell suggests that art can be regional first, but must thematically transcend the region in order to succeed.
C46 French, William. "Sometimes Happiness Is Simply Snails and Orchids." The Globe and Mail, 7 July 1973, p. 30.
An interview in Mitchell's Calgary home which provides an overview of his career and a superficial preview of The Vanishing Point.
C47 Vickers, Reg. "Storing Up 'Life's Lumber.'" Quill & Quire, Oct. 1973, p. 3.
A discussion of The Vanishing Point which reveals the author's purpose as being to study "the human question--man's progress through the centuries.... It's called The Vanishing Point because to individual people and to groups of people and to entire cultures, there comes a time when he or she seems to have reached the point of hopelessness and despair, a time when that person is about to be sucked down into the vanishing point."
C48 Leslie, Susan. "Moments with Mitchell." The Vancouver Sun, 9 Nov. 1973, p. 36A.
Mitchell talks briefly about The Vanishing Point and the future of the Canadian Indian.
C49 Fulford, Robert. "W. O. Mitchell." Speaking of Books. OECA, 1974. (Videotape. 30 min.)
Interviewed by Robert Fulford, W. O. Mitchell refutes William French's interpretation of The Vanishing Point as a novel protesting white society's degradation of the Indian (D26). Mitchell says that The Vanishing Point is "not a novel of social protest, but a novel of the human question." He talks about the importance of the mirror image, which he discovered in a rereading of Alice in Wonderland. Man mirrors the living whole and is in a position to change it. But what happens when a sub-culture sees that the greater whole is more successful and dignified. The Indians see their own reflection as inadequate and undignified? He talks about his own experience as the Indian Agent and school teacher on a reserve near High River.
Mitchell says that William Blake and art class influenced the novel's title. Western man has reached a point of hopelessness at which he is about to be sucked into the vanishing point, or the dark ages. The Indians are very close to the vanishing point. But Mitchell holds an Existentialist view that if man keeps trying and hoping, the vanishing point will not close. The answer lies in flashbacks to childhood and the revival of childhood sensations, particularly the sense of smell. Carlyle breaks the puritanical bonds of his upbringing by relating his pain to the pain of the Indians.
C50 Gzowski, Peter. "One Hour in High River, Alberta." In Peter Gzowski's Book about This Country in the Morning. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1974, pp. 18-25.
This conversation with the Mitchell family and friends was taped for CBC radio in the winter of 1972. Using the premise that Mitchell based his Jake and the Kid characters on actual people from High River, Gzowski gives Mitchell's neighbours the opportunity to tell stories about Mitchell. The result is a most entertaining, anecdotal sketch of the character, W. O. Mitchell.
C51 Cowan, Hugh. "Acta Interviews W. O. Mitchell." Acta Victoriana, 98, No. 2 (April 1974), 15-26.
Mitchell tells us a great deal about his growth as a writer, his work habits, and his influences (Virginia Woolf and John Steinbeck). Most important, he provides what is undoubtedly the best explication of his novel The Vanishing Point, its thematic structure, character development, and existential meaning. "Once with perspective...one realizes that what he is doing is really hopeless and funny--that's really the vanishing point."
C52 Ward, Eleanor. "W. O. Mitchell: The Ideas of an Author on Communicating the Uncommunicable." Graduate [Univ. of Toronto], NS 1, No. 3 (April 1974), 3-9.
Interviewed about his year as Writer-in-Residence at the University of Toronto, Mitchell describes his role as being one of communicating with the struggling artist on his own level. Unlike the critic, scholar, intellectual, or reader, the artist "can describe moments of explosive recognition and how they were created out of his own experience."
Mitchell emphasizes the importance of landscape as being central to his analysis of Canadian literature. "There is no one type of Canadian literature. It is a complex of regional literatures--the Maritimes, Quebec, Ontario, the West, and the West Coast--each with its individual style."
C53 Galloway, Myron. "W. O. Mitchell." The Montreal Star, 11 May 1974, p. E3.
A variety of topics are discussed including Mitchell's writing techniques, the Canadian publishing scene, and The Vanishing Point. Mitchell describes the writer's "special quality of observation" as a "spectator quality." "I see the artist as hero;...he doesn't conform but strangely enough it is he who finds the spiritual and psychic insights that are the salvation of us all."
C54 Frayne, Trent. "Being a Writer-in-Residence, 'Ridiculous'--W. O. Mitchell." Toronto Star, 6 July 1974, p. B5.
Lively dialogue captures the personality while presenting the novelist's views on writers-in-residence, the artist's function in society, and tobacco.
C55 Dawe, Alan. "Untaped Interviews." Event, 4, No. 1 (1975), 36-47.
A brief, uninformative glimpse.
C56 Cameron, Donald. "Merna Mitchell Thinks This Man Is the Most Endearing, Hopeless, Fascinating Dolt She Has Ever Met." Weekend Magazine [Toronto Star], 29 March 1975, pp. 7-9.
Largely a biographical introduction which centres on Mitchell the "orchid fancier" and teacher of creative writing. Mitchell stresses the importance of creating from personal experience and practising one's craftsmanship.
C57 Martell, George. "From the Sea Caves of Memory." This Magazine, 9, No. 3 (July-Aug. 1975), 15-16.
A recap of Donald Cameron's interview with Mitchell (C45).
C58 Kapica, Jack. "Mitchell Puts the Boots to the Prairie Gopher Image." The Globe and Mail, 19 Dec. 1975, p. 17.
Mitchell reveals that he based the characters in Back to Beulah on real people and then recounts his theory that "all Westerners are snobs."
C59 Chadbourne, Eugene. "W. O. Discusses His 'Three Mad Women.'" The Calgary Herald, 26 Dec. 1975, p. 34.
W. O. Mitchell based his Back to Beulah's three lead characters on "three mad women" named Mildred, Agnes, and Betty who were "out-patients from a mental hospital in Weyburn, Saskatchewan." In response to the suggestion that the topic is a departure for Mitchell, the author argues, "It's only a departure if somebody figgers they got me tabbed," and claims that he departed from the "foothill farmer" image earlier with The Vanishing Point and "Lost in the Long, Long Grass" (Sacrament).
Mitchell reveals, "The play is quite terrifying. It's about compassion;...the whole idea of it is, unless you have suffered, then you cannot build that bridge.... The idea of the play is it's wrong to manipulate people. The motif throughout is Amazing Grace...that there is an amazing grace despite everything. It says Yes to life very strongly."
C60 Adilman, Sid. "Prairie Novelist at 62 Works Harder Than Ever." Toronto Star, 25 Sept. 1976, p. H3.
Mitchell expresses his disappointment with the screen-play that was chosen for Alan King's movie production of Who Has Seen the Wind.
C61 Erdelyi, Joseph. "Film Expanded into a Play." The Citizen [Ottawa], 22 Oct. 1977, p. 52.
The autobiographical sources for Back to Beulah are discussed along with some background about the play's origin as a one-hour-long film. Plans for a feature film, a new play for Young People's Theatre, and a novel about a World War I hero are briefly mentioned.
C62 Galloway, Myron. "More about Beulah." The Montreal Star, 25 March 1978, pp. D1, D8.
An informative interview, revealing details about the casting and scripting plans for the feature film version of Back to Beulah. Mitchell provides more autobiographical material relevant to his development of the characters in Back to Beulah. The author expresses his excitement over having the play translated into French by Arlette Franciere for production by Compagnie Jean Duceppe at Place des Arts.
C63 Snelling, Lynn. "A Visit with W. O. Mitchell." Excalibur [York Univ.], 6 April 1978, p. 9.
A portrait of Mitchell the teacher which adds no new information except for a brief reference to work in progress (three feature films and two novels).
C64 Williams, David. "The Indian Our Ancestor: Three Modes of Vision in Recent Canadian Fiction." The Dalhousie Review, 58 (Summer 1978), 309-28.
A discussion of Margaret Laurence's The Diviners, Rudy Wiebe's The Temptations of Big Bear, and W. O. Mitchell's The Vanishing Point. Williams describes the process through which Mitchell's protagonist "redefines his relationship to past and place and parent through an adoption of his aboriginal inheritance." The metaphor of the vanishing point is explained in terms of the shifts in perspective experienced by Carlyle Sinclair as he recognizes the perversity of his forbidding ancestors and adopts an Existential view of man "as an integral part of his 'place'" with a "more definite inheritance in the Now."
C65 Tuckey, Don. "That 'Riot' of a Man, Author Bill Mitchell Plans to Keep Growing." The Calgary Herald, 7 May 1979, p. A7.
A full-page profile of Mitchell including references to the biographical aspects of Who Has Seen the Wind and The Vanishing Point. Discussing work on a new piece, "The Cave," Mitchell describes a man who moves through four societies (those of the child, adult, Dionysian, and the insane). In "The Cave," "... children conspire with one of the town rowdies to hide a hospital escapee from the adults by digging a burrow into the side of a coulee."
C66 Thalenberg, Eileen, and David McCaughna. "Shaping the World: Guy Sprung and Bill Glassco." Canadian Theatre Review, No. 26 (Spring 1980), pp. 31-43.
Asked about his experiences working with playwright W. O. Mitchell, Guy Sprung expresses his respect for Mitchell as a writer, but adds that "...he works in spurts and the play [Back to Beulah] needs a lot of structural changes to make it work." Sprung moved into Mitchell's house for a few days so that they could work together on the third act of The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon. Sprung wishes that Mitchell would finish the plays he has written and write more plays. "You wouldn't get the quality of his writing in that first act [of Black Bonspiel] from any other playwright in the world."
C67 Davidson, Joyce. "W. O. Mitchell." Authors. CBC, 12 June 1980. (30 min.)
Joyce Davidson interviews Mitchell about his life and work. Mitchell believes that landscape has everything to do with the way that we grow and develop. A prairie person learns early in life about human vulnerability and mortality. Senses intensify and inner conversations can be heard. Mitchell agrees with Eric Fromm's philosophy that the feat of a human being is to extend that inner "I" to other humans. He talks about Fromm's The Art of Loving and briefly refers to Berkeley and Descartes. Mitchell used to say he was a Platonist with Presbyterian overtones, but now he says that he is an Existentialist who believes that "we are all going to end up as strawberry jam."
C68 "Some of Today's Developers Have the Sensitivity of Fascist Book Burners." Heritage Canada, Dec. 1980, p. 29.
Mitchell agrees with the choice of title used for a profile of himself appearing in the same issue (C35, "The Bridge Builder"), because bridges are an important image in his writings. He applies to his own work Eric Fromm's idea that "...consciousness of self is the phenomenon which separates man from the living whole." Asked about sense of place in his work, Mitchell replies that "...a work must be, first and foremost, a regional work" and that the justification for art is the articulation of "some truth that transcends region, transcends a given time, and that it shall have meaning and significance in the world of the many." Speaking of architecture, Mitchell supports the preservation of our buildings as "a tangible link to the art of other times."
C69 O'Rourke, David. "An Interview with W. O. Mitchell." Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 20 (Winter 1980-81), pp. 149-59.
As an editor for Maclean's, Mitchell discovered Farley Mowat, Ray Bradbury, and together with Manuel Komroff and Arnold Gingrich of Esquire, Ernest Buckler.
Most of Mitchell's fiction is autobiographical in the sense that "every bit's the truth, but the whole thing's a creative leap/lie." Mitchell draws the parallels to and differences from his life for Who Has Seen the Wind, The Vanishing Point, and The Kite.
The thematic structure of Who Has Seen the Wind "is fraught with a very mediaeval thing...: what is the way to truth? What is the day to reality? Or God?... And again influenced by--and I detest Wordsworth...--but, all the same, by 'Intimations of Immortality.'... Next to Virginia Woolf, Blake marked me in...the cerebral conceptual reading area...." In The Vanishing Point, Mitchell says, "...I can't think of two things that affected me more--gut and cerebral--than Alice in Wonderland and Blake."
C70 Davidson, Arnold E. "Lessons on Perspective: W. O. Mitchell's The Vanishing Point." Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, 12, No. 1 (Jan. 1981), 61-78.
A study of character in The Vanishing Point with particular attention to viewpoint: how each character perceives himself and how he is perceived by others. "One's own concerns are self-evidently valid, important; others who see things differently are clearly missing the point.... The Vanishing Point gives us numerous variations of such ego-centric relativity." Examples include Carlyle Sinclair's aspirations and love for Victoria Rider versus Victoria's guilt over her pregnancy and failure to live up to Carlyle's expectations. "Neither does the Indian's perspective particularly concern those who run the reservation." The Indian Agents are selfishly motivated. Even Carlyle's work is described as an escape from his personal sorrow over the loss of his family. A discussion of the vanishing point theme concludes with the idea that through Carlyle's participation in the joy and suffering of the Indian, he "learns to be a fuller version of himself.... As the Blake references should make clear, the governing polarity in the novel is innocence versus experience."
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D26 French, William. "Minor Flaws Don't Lessen the Power." The Globe and Mail, 13 Oct. 1973, p. 34.
Interprets the novel as a satire on white culture and "an indictment of the way we have degraded and corrupted the Indian."
D27 Fulford, Robert. "W. O. Mitchell's Book on Indians' Plight Will Star Anger." Toronto Star, 30 Oct. 1973, p. F5.
Admires Mitchell's bravery in making such a statement about race. The Indians are portrayed as "a miserable and degraded people...profoundly apathetic and deeply ignorant." Cites the success of some of the characters and episodes, but feels that the structure is shaky.
D28 Scobie, Stephen. "A Wise Indian's Reservations." Maclean's, Nov. 1973, p. 118.
Although the characters lack depth and the ending is unconvincing, "the book works towards a resolution of reconciliation and self knowledge rather than one of despair."
D29 Kilgallin, Tony. "Grande Prairie Illusion." Books in Canada, Dec. 1973. p. 12.
An intentionally flippant, self-conscious review.
D30 Gutteridge, Don. "Surviving Paradise." Journal of Canadian Fiction, 3, No. 1 (Winter 1974), 95-96.
A significant review which holds that "the real power of the novel lies in the Indian characters and their speech." As metaphors of the human spirit, Archie and the Stonys speak deeply to us as humans and as Canadians, not only in terms of mutual cruelties, but also in terms of "the indomitable spirit of mankind to survive." The symbol of the vanishing point is seen from two perspectives: as either "the crisis point at which characters find themselves before 'vanishing'...or the point beyond vanishing where we are only caricatures."
D31 MacLulich, T. D. "Last Year's Indians." Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 1 (Winter 1974), pp. 47-48.
Interpreting the theme as one involving "whites as oppressors and Indians as scapegoats for white frustrations," the reviewer sees The Vanishing Point as an unconvincing portrait of the Indian life-style as an alternative to hollow, white society. The novel's ending provides no solutions to the problems raised when Carlyle joins the Indians on the road to "the vanishing point," defined by MacLulich as "suicide or despairing apathy or defensive cynicism."
D32 Perrott, Beth. "W. O. Mitchell's New Novel Is about Tolerance." Toronto Native Times, Jan. 1974, pp. 11-12.
A favourable reaction from the Indian viewpoint which makes several awkward attacks on other reviewers for misinterpreting the novel as a social commentary on the Indian way of life. Mitchell's message is really "freedom of the individual."
D33 Robertson, Heather. "W. O. Mitchell: Pain beneath the Laughter." Saturday Night, Jan. 1974, pp. 31-32.
"Honesty and compassion make The Vanishing Point a superb book about Indians, and a painful exploration of the desert areas in the white Canadian soul."
D34 "Whiteys and Indians." Chatelaine, March 1974, pp. 2-3.
A brief, unfavourable comment.
D35 Cameron, Barry. Rev. of The Vanishing Point. Queen's Quarterly, 81 (Spring 1974), 144-45.
Cameron says that the novel transcends the "Indian Question" to portray "the fragility of human civilization and...the painful, complex nature of human responsibility." The meaning of the vanishing point is explained in terms of its psychological context, its illusionary or perceptual nature, and its artistic and structural functions. The book is "unquestionably one of the finest Canadian novels in recent years."
D36 New, William H. Rev. of The Vanishing Point. The Canadian Forum, May-June 1974, pp. 26-27.
Compares the novel with Hugh MacLennan's Two Solitudes, but expresses disappointment in Mitchell's development of plot and character.
D37 McLeod, Gordon D. "W. O. Mitchell's Continuing Quest." Lakehead University Review, 7, No. 1 (Summer 1974), 155-56.
Citing the quest themes of Who Has Seen the Wind and The Kite, McLeod views The Vanishing Point in the same context, with Carlyle Sinclair seeking "the essential element in human life." "In The Vanishing Point that essential is the love between two people necessary to save them both from being 'sucked down into the vanishing point.'"
D38 Rosengarten, Herbert. "Preferable Paradise." Canadian Literature, No. 61 (Summer 1974), pp. 109-11.
Largely a summary of plot and character which interprets the message as being that "all men are brothers and thus accountable to each other." The character of Carlyle "never really comes to life" while the portraits of white Indian Affairs Officials are "on surer ground."
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D42a Sanderson, Vicky. "Creley Gets High Comedy from Kite." The Globe and Mail, 27 May 1981, p. 20.
Theatre Calgary's premiere performance of The Kite, directed by Rick McNair at the University of Toronto's Hart House Theatre, receives a favourable review with considerable praise for lead actor Jack Creley, in the role of Daddy Sherry. "Most of the humour in the play comes from Shelley's [sic] colloquial speech and rustic philosophy."
D43 Driver, Deana. "Stoneboat Plays Well Received." The Leader Post [Regina], 28 Feb. 1976, p. 5.
The stage adaption of W. O. Mitchell's radio and television drama of the same name opened at the Stoneboat Theatre, Regina, on February 27, 1976. A favourable review, with plot and character descriptions.
D44 Portman, Jamie. "Only Mitchell Would Pit Curler against Satan." The Citizen [Ottawa], 18 July 1977, p. 32.
The Peterborough Festival's production, directed by Guy Sprung, is described as a genuine Canadian folk fantasy. Wullie, played by Hugh Webster, presents "a rich, and observant portrait of gnarled, Scottish-Canadian tenacity." Mitchell has adapted the play for this particular production, moving the setting from the Prairies during the depression to Peterborough during the depression.
"The play's real strengths lie in its intrinsically Canadian state of mind.... It is fantasy rooted in the reality of Canada's middle-class sensibilities, and the social and religious forces which helped shape its identity."
D45 Freeman, Brian. "The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon." Scene Changes, 5, No. 6 (Aug.-Sept. 1977), 13.
A review of the Peterborough Festival performance, considering the script's "local colour, vaguely-ribald humour and preposterously quaint figures of speech." The reviewer's major complaints are related to the stage production, which was "disastrously under-rehearsed."
D46 Brennan, Brian. "TC'S Comic Fantasy Welcome Example of Indigenous Theatre." The Calgary Herald, 7 March 1979, p. B15.
Theatre Calgary's production, directed by Guy Sprung, is described as "a localized play that is parochial but not provincial." The Prairie setting is interpreted as a unifying environment for English-speaking Canadians. "It's an imaginative treatment of a well-worked theme, filled with one-liners that can only be described as classic Mitchellisms."
D47 Brennan, Brian. "Black Bonspiel Makes Clean Sweep but Some of the Old Magic Is Missing." The Calgary Herald, 5 March 1980, p. C12.
Theatre Calgary's 1980 production at the QR Centre is compared with the company's 1979 production. "This year's production doesn't have quite the same magic, even if a couple of lines about Paul Gowsell have been added." The main complaint is with the casting of actor Paul Jolicoeur as the Devil. Portraying the Devil as "a kind of American gangster," Jolicoeur has accent difficulties that make many of his lines incomprehensible.
D48 Peterson, Maureen. "Hellishly Funny Play: 'Bonspiel' Real Charmer." The Gazette [Montreal], 8 July 1980, p. 34.
The Lennoxville Festival's production is praised as "a whimsical charmer with a script that tickles." Favourable descriptions of the plot, characters, casting, and direction follow, with a brief reference to the script's "choice nonsense" and Mitchell's good writing.
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C1 McCourt, Edward A. "William O. Mitchell." In The Canadian West in Fiction. Toronto: Ryerson, 1949, pp. 99-102.
Who Has Seen the Wind, Jake and the Kid, and The Kite receive superficial consideration. Mitchell is praised for his artistic prose in portraying the environment, and is criticized for his emphasis on anecdote.
C2 "Jake and the Kid." Canadian Broadcasting Times, 25 June 1950, p. 4.
Introduces the radio series, explaining that the plays are adaptations by Mitchell of the series of short stories published in Maclean's. Jake, who also narrates the story is played by John Drainie; the Kid by Billie Richards; Ma by Claire Murray; and Old Man Gatenby by Frank Peddie. The music is written and conducted by Morris Surdin.
C3 Phelps, Arthur L. "W. O. Mitchell." In Canadian Writers. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1951, pp. 94-102.
A biographical sketch of Mitchell which includes a discussion of the author's treatment of wind in Who Has Seen the Wind as it relates to a poem by Anne Marriott, "The Wind Our Enemy."
C4 Pacey, Desmond. Creative Writing in Canada: A Short History of English-Canadian Literature. Toronto: Ryerson, 1952, pp. 96, 175, 190.
Includes passing references to Mitchell.
C5 "The Goings-On at Crocus, Sask." Canadian Broadcasting Times, 16 July 1952, p. 4.
A tongue-in-cheek response to enquiries from the public about how W. O. Mitchell came to create Jake. "The author says it was very simple--Jake, he points out, is entirely autobiographical." Mitchell's friends (Andrew Allan, John Drainie, Miss Henchbaw, Steve Kiziw, and Phoebe Hart) are consulted about the author's background, with humorous results.
C6 "And Now It Can Be Told." Canadian Broadcasting Times, 12 April 1953, p. 4.
Reveals that the Kid, played by Billie Mae Richards, is a proud mother of three. The cast of the radio series is discussed in terms of their relationship with W. O. Mitchell. "At first he wrote most of the scripts without narration, but gradually, as we found our feet in our roles, he broke away from a straight conversational approach, and worked in good hunks of narration.... After three years of the series he's writing right into our mouths."
C7 "Daddy Johnston and His Laugh." Canadian Broadcasting Times, 5 Feb. 1956, p. 2.
A discussion of Mitchell's fictional character Daddy Johnston, as portrayed by Tommy Tweed, including information about the development of Daddy's special laugh.
C8 Porter, MacKenzie. "The Man behind Jake and the Kid." Maclean's, 13 Sept. 1958, pp. 22, 46-50.
An entertaining biography which captures Mitchell's personality through a series of humorous anecdotes.
C9 Tallman, Warren. "Wolf in the Snow: Part One: Four Windows onto Landscapes." Canadian Literature, No. 5 (Summer 1960), pp. 7-20. Rpt. in A Choice of Critics: Selections from Canadian Literature 1964-74. Ed. George Woodcock. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1966, pp. 53-67. Rpt. in Contexts of Canadian Criticism: A Collection of Critical Essays. Patterns of Literary Criticism, No. 9. Ed. Eli Mandel. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1971, pp. 232-45. Rpt. in Open Letter, Ser. 3, No. 6 (Fall 1976), 131-49.
Who Has Seen the Wind is included in a discussion of five Canadian novels. Mitchell's novel portrays Brian O'Connal's growing consciousness of the grim cruelty of the prairie and the community. Entering into an uneasy communication with alienated individuals, Brian learns that "the kinds of suffering which afflict those who are completely alienated from the community are far more damaging than the kinds of suffering which affect those who are only partly alienated." Mitchell attempts to use a screen of humour to soften and humanize the world Brian experiences. For because the "open emptiness of the prairie is humanely more frightening than the huddled pettiness of the town..., the town must be sugar coated" so that its lackluster perversity will seem bearable.
C10 Berton, Pierre. "A Small Tribute to an Authentic Original." Toronto Daily Star, 2 Sept. 1960, p. 17.
An affectionate, anecdotal portrait of Mitchell, the character, which humorously recounts the housefire story, the Mitchell-Bannerman feud, and the incident which made Crocus, Saskatchewan, a CNR town rather than a CPR Town.
C11 Tallman, Warren. "Wolf in the Snow: Part Two: The House Repossessed." Canadian Literature, No. 6 (Autumn 1960), pp. 41-48. Rpt. in A Choice of Critics: Selections from Canadian Literature 1964-74. Ed. George Woodcock. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1966, pp. 67-76. Rpt. in Contexts of Canadian Criticism: A Collection of Critical Essays. Patterns of Literary Criticism, No. 9. Ed. Eli Mandel. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1971, pp. 245-53. Rpt. in Open Letter, Ser. 3, No. 6 (Fall 1976), 131-49.
A brief generalization about Who Has Seen the Wind links the novel to four others which describe the theme of human isolation.
C12 New, W. H. "A Feeling of Completion: Aspects of W. O. Mitchell." Canadian Literature, No. 17 (Summer 1963), pp. 22-33. Rpt. in Articulating West: Essays on Purpose and Form in Modern Canadian Literature. By W. H. New. Toronto: new press, 1972, pp. 45-49. Rpt. in Writers of the Prairies. Ed. Donald Stephens. Vancouver: Univ. of British Columbia Press, 1973, pp. 89-100. Rpt. in The Canadian Novel in the Twentieth Century: Essays from Canadian Literature. Ed. George Woodcock. New Canadian Library, No. 115. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975, pp. 174-85.
In Who Has Seen the Wind and The Kite, Mitchell considers man's awareness of time and reality. Who Has Seen the Wind studies the development of "a boy's increasing conscious awareness of abstraction." Brian undergoes a "transition from the perfection of sensitive childhood, through conflict, to a balance that is achieved in early maturity." As a child, Brian's "world is complete; the truth he knows begins and ends in himself, in sense perception." As Brian grows older, the feeling of completion alters as he vaguely realizes "that beyond the private world is a social world and beyond that another universal world, wherein Absolute Truth and Basic Reality can be known."
In The Kite, "David's contact with Daddy is the central relationship...and the growth that occurs through his relationship is David's not Daddy's." At the end of the novel, "David realizes that it is Daddy's 'awareness of his own mortality' that supplies the completion he needs to live his own life fully."
C13 McPherson, Hugo." Fiction (1940-1960)." In Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English. Gen. ed. and introd. Carl F. Klinck. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1965, p. 711. Rpt. 2nd ed. Gen. ed. and introd. Carl F. Klinck. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1976. Vol. II, 223-24.
Who Has Seen the Wind lacks the satirical bite of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. "There is a cruelty in both, but the humour that intensifies the Mississippi setting sugarcoats the actualities of the Saskatchewan town...so that Brian never encounters those 'realities' in any significant way. He learns less how to face life than to avoid it by making it a fantasy of humour characters."
C14 Sylvestre, Guy, Brandon Conron, and Carl F. Klinck, eds. "W. O. Mitchell." In Canadian Writers/Ecrivains Canadiens: A Biographical Dictionary. 2nd ed. Toronto: Ryerson, 1966, p. 110.
Biographical data.
C15 Story, Norah. "Mitchell, W. O. (1914- ). " In The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1967, p. 530.
Biographical data.
C16 Jones, D. G. Butterfly on Rock: A Study of Themes and Images in Canadian Literature. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1970, pp. 37-38.
Who Has Seen the Wind is viewed as "a struggle between a garrison culture and the land." Brian O'Connal, the Bens, and Mr. Digby represent the land or the authentic lifestyle, while Mrs. Abercrombie and the Rev. Mr. Powelly represent the official culture of the town in all its hypocrisy and sterility of attitude.
C17 "Morris Surdin Says: '...the Main Difficulty in Collaborating with a Writer Is Trying to Get Inside His Mind.'" The Canadian Composer, No. 48 (March 1970), pp. 34-37.
Largely a biographical sketch of Surdin providing the composer's personal view of Mitchell as "one of our most outstanding men of humour--not borrowed humour, but simply, unmistakably Canadian." Surdin wrote the music for nearly every drama by Mitchell, including the Jake and the Kid series.
C18 Sutherland, Ronald. "Children of the Changing Wind." Journal of Canadian Studies, 5, No. 4 (Nov. 1970), 3-11. Rpt. in Second Image: Comparative Studies in Quebec/Canadian Literature. Toronto: new press, 1971, pp. 88-107.
A comparative analysis of Mitchell's Who Has Seen the Wind and Rejean Ducharme's L'Avalee des avalees which discusses the technique of telling a story from a child's viewpoint, the themes of innocence, parental rejection, and revenge. Uses of imagery, "linguistic virtuosity," the treatment of nature, and the concept of God provide additional means for comparison. Like Bernice in L'Avalee des avalees, Brian "develops a cynical attitude, as a result of bitter experiences, including the early sudden death of his father, the death of his grandmother and his realization that the society around him contains a great measure of hypocrisy." Both novels "dramatize the same central theme, that the essential factor in moulding the nature of a child is love--love given and love received. Both books illustrate the fact that an emotional cripple--Bernice, Muriel, and Mrs. Abercrombie--is more pitiful and can be a greater danger to other people than can a mental or physical cripple." Seeking an explanation for why Canada produces novels about relatively non-idealistic or cynical children, Sutherland considers the Puritan, Jansenist, and Calvinist ethos. Although the novels concern two different periods in Canadian history, both "dwell upon the effect that a thoroughly inculcated sense of guilt can have on a young mind."
C19 Mitchell, Ken. "The Universality of W. O. Mitchell's Who Has Seen the Wind." Lakehead University Review, 4, No. 1 (1971), 26-40.
In portraying Brian O'Connal's maturation, Mitchell has attempted "to reconcile the conflict between good and 'evil' in the universe, to discover an equation for life and death, creation and destruction. It is only through finding a balance for these elements, Mitchell implies, that any human being such as Brian O'Connal can 'understand' the dilemma of human existence." The recurring motif of death with its paradoxes, realities, justice, and inevitability shows Brian's developing awareness of life and nature. The wind, as a symbol of God, "unifies the novel and illuminates Brian's search." The wind brings "both rain and drought to the prairies--holding both the power of life and death over the settlers." It is "like nature (or God)--hostile and benign, creative and destructive." A well-developed argument.
C20 Reference Division, McPherson Library, Univ. of Victoria, B.C., comp. "Mitchell, William Ormond 1914- ." In Creative Canada: A Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Creative and Performing Artists. Vol. 1, Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1971, pp. 22.
Biographical and bibliographical information.
C20a Atwood, Margaret. Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1972, p. 142.
Mitchell's vision in Who Has Seen the Wind is compared to that of James Reaney in Colours in the Dark. As in other "'growing up' novels," optimism is possible "only because the 'child' point of view stops short this side of adulthood...."
C21 Thomas, Clara. "W. O. Mitchell." In Our Nature--Our Voices: A Guidebook to English Canadian Literature. Vol. 1. Toronto: new press, 1972, pp. 141-42.
Who Has Seen the Wind is briefly compared with Sinclair Ross's As for Me and My House in terms of "the restricting forces of fear and ignorance at work."
C21a Gnarowski, Michael. "Mitchell, William Ormond, 1914- ." In A Concise Bibliography of EnglishCanadian Literature. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973, p. 83. Rev. ed. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978, pp. 96-97.
Gnarowski cites Mitchell's books (novels and drama), some of the different editions, includes a few book reviews, and a section on "Selected Studies and Articles" about Mitchell.
C22 Ricou, Laurence. "The Eternal Prairie: The Fiction of W. O. Mitchell." In Vertical Man/Horizontal World: Man and Landscape in Canadian Prairie Fiction. Vancouver: Univ. of British Columbia Press, 1973, pp. 95-110.
Mitchell's fiction focuses on "man as question mark." The "upright man in the prairie flatness...is forced by the contours of his environment to ponder his own meaning in the universe." In Who Has Seen the Wind, the primary questions posed by the prairie involve the nature of human existence, the "why" of birth and death and the nature and meaning of God. In seeking the answers, Brian is conscious of the wind, a symbol of time and God. He also experiences "the ever shifting daily and seasonal cycles.... He marks the growth and death of plants and more importantly, he is touched by the ecstasy of birth and death." Gradually, he becomes aware of the possibilities and limitations of his own life. "That Sammy and the Young Ben seem to have all of their needs satisfied by the prairie undoubtedly confirms Brian's instinct that nature...is a key to his search for meaning." Brian learns that "Where there is death and emptiness, there too is new life." The ever changing but permanent wind continues to blow, but it leaves the essentials, the land, unchanged. In The Kite, Daddy Sherry is "the embodiment of the prairies" and a "personification of the eternal landscape." As an extension of vertical man on the horizontal prairie, the upward yearning "kite is suggestive of man's desire to assert himself in the strongest way possible." The novel's themes involve time, immortality, and the meaning of human existence.
C22a Waterston, Elizabeth. Survey: A Short History of Canadian Literature. Methuen Canadian Literature Series. Toronto: Methuen, 1973, pp. 2, 108, 148.
Waterston gives a thematic summary and notes that Who Has Seen the Wind "begins with the barest elements: sky, land, and a child's consciousness." "In Who Has Seen the Wind the shimmering land, the silver willows and the alkaline-white edges of the little stream soften the life of the prairie town." Mitchell's work is one of "the best novels yet produced in Canada."
C23 McLay, Catherine, "W. O. Mitchell's The Kite: A Study in Immortality." Journal of Canadian Fiction, 2, No. 2 (Spring 1973), 43-48.
The novel expresses the need for a permanence that would transcend death and the passing of time. Daddy Sherry is a Methuselah figure--gruff, outspoken, revered, cantankerous, and he despises his mortality in a way that inspires others to come to terms with death.
C24 Gross, Konrad. "Looking Back in Anger?". Journal of Canadian Fiction, 3, No. 2 (1974), 49-54.
An examination of Frederick Niven's The Flying Years and Mitchell's The Kite within their historical contexts. "The Kite extends beyond Niven's exploration of the past and views questions of a general human concern against a given historical background." Daddy Sherry's "personal history is that of an Everyman."
C24a Moss, John. Patterns of Isolation in English-Canadian Fiction. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1974, pp. 242-43.
Who Has Seen the Wind is one of a number of books which illustrate Moss's thesis of a prevailing "fool-saint" in Canadian fiction. "Saint-Sammy, the mad hermit-sage in his piano-box hovel," is a distinct illustration of this type. "The fool-saint...generates consciousness in others."
C25 Green, H. Gordon. "Why There Will Never Be Another Jake and the Kid." The Canadian Author & Bookman, 50, No. 1 (Fall 1974), 24-25.
An affectionate remembrance of Jake, his philosophic wit, Prairie patriotism, and "magnificent stubbornness." Saskatchewan probably won't inspire another Jake and the Kid because it has become too sophisticated and successful.
C26 "Mitchell, William Ormond." In The Canadian Who's Who. Vol. XIII (1973-1975).
Biographical data.
C27 Colombo, John Robert. "Mitchell, W. O." In Colombo's Canadian References. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1976, p. 343.
Biographical data.
C28 Harrison, Dick. Unnamed Country: The Struggle for a Canadian Prairie Fiction. Edmonton: Univ. of Alberta Press, 1977, pp. xi-xii, xv, 13, 35, 124, 155, 156, 165, 169, 170, 172-80, 183, 184, 188, 192, 197-99.
Compared with other writers of comedy, Mitchell "faces seriously the questions of man's relationship to the prairie." And Mitchell "is the only major writer in the period of 'prairie realism' to present a reconciliation of the human spirit with the prairie."
C29 Mandel, Eli. "Images of Prairie Man." In Another Time. Erin, Ont.: Porcepic, 1977, pp. 45-53.
Mandel includes a brief discussion of the Jake and the Kid story "Old MacLachlin Had a Farm," which suggests that the story's features (the landscape, the child, the adult story-teller, the regional dialect, and humour) "appear in conjunction in prairie writing more frequently than we might suspect."
C30 Ricou, Laurence. "Notes on Language and Learning in Who Has Seen the Wind." Canadian Children's Literature, No. 10 (1977-78), pp. 3-17.
"Mitchell carefully marks out the phases of Brian's development in formal and thematic stages.... In using this definite pattern Mitchell shows a kinship to the psychologist who, although be knows that a child's growth is an uninterrupted continuum, invents stages to make comprehension easier." Ricou follows Brian's development through the novel's four parts or stages, relating Brian's language, his attempts to articulate his feelings, questions, and ideas to his moral development.
C31 Mathews, Robin. "W. O. Mitchell: Epic Comedy." In Canadian Literature: Surrender or Revolution. Ed. Gail Dexter. Toronto: Steel Rail, 1978, pp. 109-18.
Who Has Seen the Wind is humorous in the tradition of Thomas Haliburton and Stephen Leacock. "The view of goodness presented in the novel both laughs at and accepts--even embraces--the portion of wholeness that the atavistic forces must contribute in any serious novel of the human condition." Mitchell combines Leacock's view of humour and F. P. Grove's view of tragedy while balancing the Wacousta and the De Haldimar in man's make-up. Considering justice at a number of interlocking and interdependent levels, the novel "puts natural justice, social justice and divine justice into relation, and seeks humorously...'to justify the ways of God to men.'"
C32 Bartlett, Donald R. "Dumplings and Dignity." Canadian Literature, No. 77 (Summer 1978), pp. 73-80.
Bartlett examines the imagery of The Vanishing Point, focusing upon excrement, the vanishing point, and bridges. Excremental imagery is linked to the issues of human dignity, while the vanishing point is interpreted as "a nothingness to which the species seems inexorably drawn because of the greed and callousness and intolerance of its members." Bridges provide the most important image in that they are "the psychological bridges which must be erected among people if we are to escape extinction as human beings."
C33 Marsland, Elizabeth. "La Chaine Tenue: Roads and Railways in the Prairie Novel." Canadian Literature, No. 77 (Summer 1978), pp. 64-72.
Contains a few brief references to Mitchell's "Soo Line of the C.P.R." In Who Has Seen the Wind, the railroad track disappears into "the prairie's flat emptiness." The track augments the feeling of the town's isolation from other communities.
C34 "Mitchell Takes on Book Banners." The Calgary Herald, 8 May 1979, p. A20.
In a speech delivered to 300 teachers at a Canadian literature conference, Mitchell accused Rev. Ken Campbell, of Renaissance Canada, of using the issue of national book banning to raise money for his organization. More than $20,000 was raised in one week to help ban books being taught in high schools. The books under attack include The Diviners, Lives of Girls and Women, and Who Has Seen the Wind.
C35 "The Bridge Builder: W. O. Mitchell and His Creative Partners." Heritage Canada, Dec. 1980, pp. 26-28.
A profile of Mitchell as Writer-in-Residence at the University of Windsor mentions work on two novels in progress. The Vanishing Point and "Back to Beulah" are also discussed in terms of metaphoric bridge building. "If the delicate web we call civilization is to remain intact, Mitchell's works insist, it is necessary for hearts and minds to cross that suspension bridge into other hearts and minds."
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C71 Watson, Patricia. Who Has Seen the Wind. Dir. Alan King. Souris River Films, 1977.
C72 W. O. Mitchell: A Novelist in Hiding. Dir. Robert Duncan. National Film Board, 1980. (16 mm. videotape. 57 min.)
A portrait of the many facets of W. O. Mitchell, including Mitchell as performer, writer, husband, father, teacher, gardener, and neighbour. Mitchell talks about his youth in Weyburn, his father's death, and his discovery of his own mortality at the early age of eight or nine. Peter Gzowski narrates the film which includes readings by William Hutt, interviews with Merna Mitchell, Harry Boyle, Robert Fulford, and Billy May Richards (who played the Kid). Mitchell says he would like to be remembered "as a loving person and as an honourable human being."
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C73 Gold Medal for Philosophy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba (1934).
C74 IODE Echoes Committee Literary Prize for Who Has Seen the Wind (1948).
C75 Maclean's Novel Award for The Alien (1953).
C76 President's Medal for the short story "The Princess and the Wild Ones." University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario (1953).
C77 CCAA Award for the most distinguished creative achievement in Canadian radio, television, and film (1956).
C78 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, for Jake and the Kid (1962).
C79 John Drainie Award (1968).
C80 Writer-in-Residence, University of Calgary (1969-71).
C81 D. Litt., University of Ottawa (1972).
C82 LL.D., University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (1972).
C83 Officer of the Order of Canada (1973).
C84 Writer-in-Residence, University of Toronto (1973-74).
C85 Actra Award for Best Dramatic Writer, for Back to Beulah (1975).
C86 Chalmers Canadian Play Award, for Back to Beulah (1976).
C87 Writer-in-Residence, York University, Downsview, Ontario (1977-78).
C88 Writer-in-Residence, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario (1979-81).
C89 Banff School of Fine Arts Award for a substantial and continuing contribution to the arts in Canada (1980).
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C36 A'Court, Mary: "The Faiths of Four Men: Emerson: The Peaceful One of Concord, Mitchell: The Boy of Crocus, Melville: The Wanderer of Nantucket, and Ross: The Bittern of the Dust Bowl." M.A. Thesis Toronto 1966.
An exploration of Who Has Seen the Wind, The Kite, Jake and the Kid, and The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon in terms of the nature and relationship of God and man. "For Mitchell, God is the creator of an ordered creation, and one who holds no particular attitude toward His creation, not even the attitude of indifference."
C37 Belanger, Reynold. "Canadian Humourists: Leacock, Haliburton, Earle Birney, W. O. Mitchell." M.A. Thesis Laval 1968.
A brief chapter on Mitchell discusses the humour of Who Has Seen the Wind and the Jake and the Kid stories.
C38 Ticehurst, Judith. "The Matter of Perception in the Fiction of W. O. Mitchell." M.A. Thesis Concordia 1974.
Mitchell's novels and stories "appear to carry the burden of a protracted concern with the matter of perception." The fictional characters either struggle to comprehend the world intellectually and emotionally and move imaginatively into an improved understanding of man and his environment, or find themselves in an Arcadian retreat where struggle isn't necessary.
C39 Potter, Bruce. "Through the Bubble: A Study of the Theme of Identity in the Novels of W. O. Mitchell." M.A. Thesis Calgary 1977.
Both primary and secondary characters are dealt with in an analysis of self-identity and social identity in the novels and stories of Mitchell.
C40 Hulet, Tamara Lyn. "The Sense of Place in W. O. Mitchell's Who Has Seen the Wind " M.A. Thesis Brigham Young 1978.
A study of theme, physical setting, character, and symbol in Who Has Seen the Wind reveals the novelist's acute sense of the Saskatchewan environment.
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D39 Robson, John. "An Expert in Naivete." Toronto Telegram, 21 Oct. 1961, p. 27.
"Each of the 13 stories reveals Mitchell's special understanding of prairie life, manners, and speech, and also his remarkable ability to make them live through the naive, eager, and emotional responses of a child."
D40 Walker, Joan. "Jake's Genius: He Put Crocus on the Map." The Globe and Mail, 25 Nov. 1961, p. 18.
Mitchell combines "grass roots humor..., descriptive metaphor," and faultless craftsmanship in stories with characters that are "so real they lean over your shoulder to turn the page." Mitchell's "deceptive simplicity" is actually "extreme sophistication and touches the hem of genius."
D41 Howarth, Dorothy. "Crocus, Sask. Was Our Home Town." Toronto Telegram, 17 Feb. 1962, p. 15.
"Bill has taken a core of truth from all the remembered things of his childhood and youth as a teacher in a one-room rural school, and created Jake and the Kid." The reviewer was brought up in the same town as Mitchell and vouches for the authenticity of Jake and the Kid, linking the characters to the real townspeople of Weyburn, Saskatchewan.
D42 Laurence, Margaret. "A Canadian Classic?". Canadian Literature, No. 11 (Winter 1962), pp. 68-70.
Originally published in Maclean's during the war, these stories provided much appeal and "a certain thrill of recognition" for a great many Canadians. Although the humour is still fresh, the emotions expressed, "especially the wartime ones, now appear to contain a large measure of sentimentality." Additionally, with the tales providing "a clearly indicated moral" the reviewer "can no longer read them" and sees Jake and the Kid "as a book for children, becoming a Canadian classic."
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D17 Edinborough, Arnold. "Go Fly a Kite, Daddy." Toronto Daily Star, 5 Oct. 1962, p. 22.
Edinborough describes the various characters favourably, but ends disappointed: "Apart from occasional episodes 'The Kite' is a dreary cliche-ridden performance."
D18 Stafford, Ellen. "A Novel to Be Read Aloud." The Globe and Mail, 6 Oct. 1962, p. 18.
Stafford evaluates the dramatic quality of the novel and the well-developed character of Daddy Sherry. The author is concerned with "the fragility of human life and inevitability of death, the continuity of life through old Daddy Sherry to young Keith MacLean who is 111 years younger."
D19 Saunders, Tom. "Old Man, New Land." Modern Living [Winnipeg Free Press], 12 Oct. 1962, p. 5.
A mixed review. Saunders favourably weighs the novel's "power and grace," characterization, and excellent passages (the goose hunt) against the "lack of wholeness."
D20 Hornyansky, Michael. "Countries of the Mind." The Tamarack Review, No. 26 (Winter 1963), pp. 58-68.
A comparison of Brian Moore's An Answer from Limbo, Hugh Garner's The Silence on the Shore, and Mitchell's The Kite. The latter is described as the most successful novel in terms of "adequacy of means to end, persuasiveness of invention, coherence and freshness of vision, ability to haunt the mind," and effective use of metaphor.
D21 McCourt, Edward. Rev. of The Kite. The Montrealer, Jan. 1963, p. 33.
"Mitchell presents Daddy on two levels--as a crusty, cantankerous, loveable eccentric and as folk-epic hero who symbolizes the aspirations, virtues and history of an entire people. Unfortunately the character is not entirely convincing."
D22 Baldwin, R. G. Rev. of The Kite. Queen's Quarterly, 70 (Summer 1963), 283-84.
The Kite falls down as a novel because it is largely a series of anecdotes. "The trouble is that Daddy's secret knowledge...manifests itself--to be unsympathetic--in mere eccentricity and whimsicality."
D23 Watt, F. W. "Letters in Canada: 1962: Fiction." University of Toronto Quarterly, 32 (July 1963), 401.
A brief, negative notice.
D24 Marshall, John. "The Kite." The Canadian Reader, 5, No. 1 (Nov. 1963), 9.
"The story is competently told, the flashbacks skillfully interwoven, the western background carefully delineated--but the novel lacks inner conviction."
D25 Laurence, Margaret. "Holy Terror." Canadian Literature, No. 15 (Winter 1963), pp. 76-77.
Journalist David Lang's "attempt to unearth the secret of Daddy Sherry's longevity has become an attempt to rediscover himself." Through young Keith and 111-year-old Daddy, he begins to understand the meaning of life and the importance of living "with an awareness of one's own mortality." Daddy Sherry is "the best and most complete character Mitchell has created."
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D1 Sullivan, Richard. "Canadian Boyhood." The New York Times Book Review, 23 Feb. 1947, p. 5.
A favourable description which suggests that there is no end to the search for fulfillment for Brian at the end of the book. "The small child's often shocking directness has gradually turned into the boy's more penetrant awareness."
D2 Wendt, Lloyd. "Delightful Novel about a Prairie Boy." Chicago Sunday Tribune, 23 Feb. 1947, Sec. 4, p. 14.
Wendt compares the novel's warmth and humour with that of Tom Sawyer, The Yearling, and Penrod. "Beyond that, it has a quiet, discerning insight of its own and stacks up...as one of the best and most enjoyable works of fiction in many months."
D3 Needham, Richard J. "One Man's Opinion." The Calgary Herald, 28 Feb. 1947, p. 4.
Admitting to a certain hesitancy about reviewing a friend's work, Needham quotes from the Chicago Sunday Tribune (23 Feb. 1947) and follows with, "This makes it legal for us to say we liked 'Who Has Seen the Wind' very much even though we found it rather sad in spots." Needham interprets the novel as a portrait of the climatic, social, and economic "harshness" of Prairie life. Brian "sees the hardness of men and women made hard by it." Religious, racial, and social intolerance provide another important theme.
D4 Simpson, R. G. Rev. of Who Has Seen the Wind. Northern Review, 1, No. 5 (Feb.-March 1947), 40.
Mitchell handles his theme well, "with a sensitive understanding of children and their world of image and sensation." He also comments on "the world of adults, a gentle denunciation of sensitivity, and an only slightly disguised call to a greater understanding of and respect for the fundamental liberties of human awareness."
D5 Deacon, William Arthur. "Novel of Distinction Recalls Saskatchewan's Barren Years." The Globe and Mail, 1 March 1947, p. 8.
The universal appeal and well-developed characters exemplify "regionalism at its best." Ben and Brian symbolically encompass the whole problem of Canadian democracy.
D6 "Who Has Seen the Wind Limns Boyhood on Prairie." Toronto Daily Star, 1 March 1947, p. 4.
A descriptive outline which cites Saint Sammy as the most original and eccentric character. The autobiographical qualities of the novel are considered.
D7 Havighurst, Walter. Rev. of Who Has Seen the Wind. New York Herald Tribune Weekly Book Review, 2 March 1947, p. 10.
Havighurst compares Sherwood Anderson's Prairie locale of Winesburg with Mitchell's Prairie in Who Has Seen the Wind.
D7a Davies, Robertson. "Review of Spring Novels." Peterborough Examiner, 12 March 1947, p. 4. Rpt. in his The Well-Tempered Critic: One Man's View of the Theatre and Letters in Canada. Ed. Judith Skelton Grant. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1981, p. 170.
Who Has Seen the Wind is described as "the best novel about life in Canada" that the reviewer has seen in a long time. W. O. Mitchell has "so thoroughly captured the feeling of Canada and the Canadian people that we feel repeated shocks of recognition as we read.... The kindness and stoicism of the Canadian people, as well as the exasperating stupidity, fecklessness, and petty cruelty of which they are capable are rendered here in such a way that we know the characters as our kinsmen."
D8 Bannerman, James. "First Novel of Boyhood in Saskatchewan Village." Mayfair, April 1947, p. 98.
The book features "stereotype characters" that are always familiar. The "author covers all of the facts of life he promises to deal with in his preface," but "they don't add up to a very good novel." On the other hand, "a lot of what he has to say is fine rousing stuff, and apart from anything else, his scene is new and refreshing."
D9 Roddan, Samuel. Rev. of Who Has Seen the Wind. The Canadian Forum, April 1947, p. 22.
"I think W. O. Mitchell will do some good work when he has exhausted his nostalgic interest in the delicious little world of the child."
D10 Martin, J. Burns. Rev. of Who Has Seen the Wind. Dalhousie Review, 27 (July 1947), 249-50.
The development of Brian's awareness of birth, life, and death, his interest in God, and his recurring feelings and yearnings have "certain affiliations with Wordsworth's theory of childhood and immortality, but with Wordsworth we can see the mature man and compare him with the child--as in the Prelude--but we leave Brian before these childish experiences can bear really significant fruit."
D11 Sparks, Dorothy. Rev. of Who Has Seen the Wind. Chicago Sun Book Week, 17 Aug. 1947, p. 6.
"Beautifully written, with unusual insight and sensitivity, this is a first novel of high merit."
D12 Bissell, Claude. "Letters in Canada: 1947: II, Fiction." University of Toronto Quarterly, 17 (April 1948), 265-67.
The novel achieves a "high degree of excellence," not only as an insight into a young boy's inner development, showing "how he gradually and painfully emerges from a highly personal world into the light of common day," but also as a portrait of small-town Prairie life. Its "genuine unity...depends more on theme than on closely knit structure.... All the major incidents grow out of a clash between people who are guided by tolerance and compassion and those who are driven by bigotry and hate." The novel's themes are linked as Brian communicates his deepest experiences to those "leaders in the fight against squalid intolerance."
D13 Deacon, William A. "Prairie Boy." The Globe and Mail, 8 Oct. 1960, p. 9.
Deacon welcomes the new edition and recalls his first reading as "one of the sweetest, most tender of stories."
D14 Ashby, Adele. Rev. of Who Has Seen the Wind. Canadian Book Review Annual: 1976. Ed. Dean Tudor, Nancy Tudor, and Linda Biesenthal. Toronto: Peter Martin, 1977, p. 149.
A short review of the illustrated edition. Ashby praises the visual quality of the story and suggests that "Kurelek and Mitchell share a vision of life on the prairie."
D15 Mills, John. "Recent Fiction." Queen's Quarterly, 84 (Autumn 1977), 437-38.
This "positively good" novel is concerned with death, alienation, and individuality. But the illustrations by Kurelek seem "too crude and primitive to accompany the sophistication of the prose."
D16 Blodgett, E. D. Rev. of Who Has Seen the Wind. Canadian Fiction Magazine, Nos. 30-31 (1979), pp. 210-13.
A review of the illustrated edition. Blodgett claims that the novel is "ambiguous because of its two voices.... One is the voice of life; the other, the voice of death. The former is what the narrator seems to believe in, the latter is what he cannot help resisting upon as fact. The ambiguity is a contradiction between belief and fact." Kurelek's illustrations support the "idyllic belief" except the last picture which "approaches Mitchell's spareness as he speaks of death."
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D60 Hogg, Carol. "Mitchell New Play Finest Entertainment." The Calgary Herald, 10 Jan. 1976, p. 12.
The stage premiere of Back to Beulah (Theatre Calgary, January 9, 1976) is described as "fresh, beguiling, charming and stunningly powerful." The strength of the play lies in its characterization as "three women turn the tables in a gloriously fitting fashion on their patronizing female psychiatrist."
D61 Erdelyi, Joseph. "Free Cast Presents New Play." The Citizen [Ottawa], 2 Feb. 1976, p. 44.
A favourable review of Theatre Calgary's presentation of Back to Beulah at the Tarragon Theatre. "Although every minute of 'Back to Beulah' is a joy to watch, Mitchell's real conflict, the serious side under the smiles, is not unfolded until the third of the play's three acts.... The doctor is examined by her patients and the conflict between pack-leader Harriet and the doctor and between the inmates generates superb entertainment and first-class theatre."
D62 McCaughna, David. "'Back to Beulah' a Mix That Doesn't Blend." Toronto Star, 2 Feb. 1976, p. D6.
A mixed review of Theatre Calgary's production, describing the play as having "the slick superficiality of a TV pot-boiler along with notable redeeming features." The "intermittently fascinating characters" are "casebook studies in easily detectable facets of mental disorder." The weaknesses in Mitchell's script are attributed to his attempt to take up the themes of society's treatment of the mentally ill, and the psychiatric patient's need for self respect.
D63 Billington, David. "No More Mr. Nice Guy." Maclean's, 9 Feb. 1976, p. 59.
"Back to Beulah is a startling departure from Mitchell's earlier work: the play is an intense cameo of the world of the half-mad, his characters people whose rationality hangs by a ragged thread.... In the third act it suddenly becomes apparent that this is not just a morality play about loveable kooks, but a stark, dramatic examination of psychosis." "The play's downfall is its "up-beat" ending.
D64 Anderson, Jon. "Minding the Shop." Time [Canada], 16 Feb. 1976, pp. 7-8.
The play is a great departure from Mitchell's "sunny Jake days." The Theatre Calgary production "is a mixture of quirks and fears, plots and panics, frantic mayhem and some mordant views of psychiatrists, their use of pills and abuse of patients." Discussing the play's theme, Mitchell claimed that his intent "was to show that only the wounded can help the wounded. A psychiatrist who can feel the anguish of patients can then be able to help."
D65 Johnson, Bryan. "Back to Beulah: Lots of Laughs, but Fuzzy Core." The Globe and Mail, 22 Feb. 1976, p. 15.
The play provides humour and entertainment, but lacks any original insight into insanity.
D66 Galloway, Myron. "Back to Beulah Powerful, Entertaining." The Montreal Star, 2 Nov, 1977, p. B8.
The Neptune Theatre production of Back to Beulah opened at Montreal's Studio Theatre on October 31, 1977. "Part thriller, part comedy, Back to Beulah deals with the problem of mental illness in a unique way.... Without preaching, Mitchell forces us to take a serious look at the treatment accorded the mentally disturbed, and never fails to entertain us in the process."
D67 Swimmings, Betty. "Sadness with the Humour." The Citizen [Ottawa], 1 Nov, 1977, p. 54.
A review of the National Arts Centre's production of Back to Beulah comments on the sadness behind the jokes. "Even as you laughed you were left with a sense of loss, as though old friends had been betrayed and you were helpless to come to their aid." The characters of the three women are compared, each is considered interesting, and Harriet is recognized as "the strong one..., the leader, a bullying moralizer who wielded her power over the other two with inflexible authority."
D68 "Back to Beulah." Variety, 9 Nov, 1977, p. 54.
The National Arts Centre's presentation of the Neptune Theatre's production of Back to Beulah, staged by John Wood, is "generally powerful, with well-limned characters. It's frequently funny, but the short second act seems rather silly and repellent, although the exuberantly receptive audience finds it hilarious."
D69 Galloway, Myron. "Back to Beulah a Hit for Centaur Two." The Montreal Star, 17 March 1978, p. B1.
The new production of Back to Beulah is "superior in almost every aspect.... In making his statement about the way mental patients are treated as objects, rather than people, Mitchell has written what amounts to a thriller.... The script has been tightened since its Ottawa production, the loose ends have been joined, and the ending is now much more satisfying."
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D49 Ashley, Audrey M. "Canada's Story on Stage May Take Another Century." The Citizen [Ottawa], 12 Jan. 1967, p. 51.
Centennial Play was performed at the Ottawa Little Theatre on January 11, 1967. The five Canadian writers "have reached an almost unanimous level of dullness." Mitchell wrote the Prairie Scenes, the second of which "provided the only bit of real dramatic tension in the entire evening" as one character "exhorted his rain-making machine to bring relief to the parched prairies."
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D70 Musselwhite, Bill. "Radio and Television." The Calgary Herald, 3 Jan. 1978, p. A18.
The background struggle surrounding the CBC's television production of Sacrament concerned the homosexual character Norman. W. O. Mitchell has described Norman as "one of the most compassionate and understanding characters of loneliness I can think of." The play itself, aired January 1, 1978, has "an interesting and often moving story" despite its uneven pace.
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D50 "Doom Laden Setting in Television Play." The Times [London], 15 June 1959, p. 3.
Speaking of Mitchell's portrait of the Hutterite society, the reviewer claims that "one does not need to be told that a society, of this kind looks fanatical from the outside; what would be interesting would be to see how human beings come to terms with it and what its positive qualities are."
D51 Whittaker, Herbert. "Devil's Instrument: Impressive Try." The Globe and Mail, 11 Aug. 1972, p. 12.
The Ontario Youtheatre's production, staged at the Peterborough Theatre Guild, "smacks of its origins in other media," but still "provides inexorable fascination, defining as it does a highly recognizable conflict in miniature in the story of Jacob's temptation."
D52 Clements, Jim. "Youth Proving Theatre Is Not Dead." The Spectator [Hamilton], 15 Aug. 1972, p. 16.
A brief, descriptive review of the Ontario Youtheatre production at Brock University's Thistle Theatre. "Mitchell's adaptation of his radio and television script is interesting and the Youtheatre's presentation is good enough to hold an audience, though it never quite breaks beyond the bounds of a high school production."
D53 Bale, Doug. "Grand Devilry! Youtheatre Troupe Good as Best." The London Free Press, 23 Aug. 1972, p. 48.
A favourable review of the Ontario Youtheatre production including considerable plot description and praise for the actors.
D54 Ashley, Audrey. "The Devil's Instrument: Free Production by Youtheatre." The Citizen [Ottawa], 30 Aug. 1972, p. 17.
"The play is gentle, wise and compassionate--and not nearly as simple as the plot outline would indicate. It's about faith and doubt, and what someone once called 'the grooves in the soul' etched by a stern and austere religion."
D55 Erdelyi, Joseph. "Kawartha Summer Theatre." Performing Arts in Canada, 9, No. 3 (Fall 1972), 14-15.
The stage version of the radio play "retained the original's gentle humour and fine exposure of religious bigotry." The beauty of the play's many other qualities is "clouded by technical problems caused by the difference between broadcasting and stage production."
D56 Dawson, Eric. "Theatre Project Stages Play." The Calgary Herald, 26 Sept. 1977, p. B4.
Alberta Theatre's production at the Canmore Opera House in Calgary is favourably reviewed. "Mitchell indicates clearly that the boy [Jacob, the lead character] is as afraid of God as he is afraid of the Devil, the figure of temptation that is always on the minds and tongues of his people."
D57 Lennox, John. "Muted Paradox." Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 9 (Winter 1977-78), pp. 120-22.
A review of A Collection of Canadian Plays, Volume II, that considers Mitchell's The Devil's Instrument and Graham Wood's Vicky to be "the most compelling works in the collection." Both plays are "journeys to freedom." Mitchell's play reveals the "principal romantic themes of non-conformity, revolt and liberation."
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D58 Cohen, Nathan. "Wild Rose: A Flower That Died before Blooming." Toronto Daily Star, 25 May 1967, p. 26.
A venomous review of the musical comedy (presented by Calgary's Mac 14 Theatre Society on May 24, 1967). Cohen labels Mitchell as "incompetent" and "inept," and describes Surdin's music as "hackneyed." Considering the musical's story line, it is ironic that Cohen appears so concerned about the "torment" the performance may have caused the Royal Family sitting in the balcony.
D59 Portman, Jamie. "Wild Rose 'Slick' Production, but Play Not without Flaws." The Calgary Herald, 25 May 1967, pp. 29, 33.
The story for the centennial musical is based on W. O. Mitchell's play about Jake and the Kid, Royalty Is Royalty. "Its satire, although never malicious, nevertheless cuts deep when touching on such topics as the snobbish cult of indiscriminate royalty worship, the white man's treatment of the Indian, or the jockeying for social position which one assumes is as prevalent in small towns as in big cities." Mitchell's authentic dialogue, distinctive lyrics, and interesting plot are praised while the development of the relationships between characters is found lacking in depth.
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C2 Stubbs, Roy St. George. "Presenting Sinclair Ross." Saturday Night, 9 Aug. 1941, p. 17.
Besides championing Ross as a dedicated worker writing in the "sober tradition best exemplified for Canadians by Frederick Philip Grove," Stubbs provides pertinent information about Ross's aesthetic development, ascetic lifestyle, manner of composition, and reading preferences. Ross struggled to express himself as a painter and then as a sentimental versifier before receiving at age sixteen his first rejection slip for a short story. His first published story "placed third in a field of 8,000 manuscripts" submitted to a contest conducted by Nash's Magazine. He completed and discarded "two novels and started many others" before publishing As for Me and My House.
Ross's foremost literary influence was his uncle Foster Fraser, an editor of The Guardian [Manchester] and author of an account of his round-the-world journey in the 1890s. Ross's favourite authors are Ernest Hemingway, Richard Hughes, and H. E. Bates, but he reads little because "his critical faculty is too active for him to get any real enjoyment from reading."
"Writing is the pleasantest thing he knows. He has not touched life at many points. He lives largely within himself." He is now half-way through his second novel, "a realistic novel, mirroring the struggle for beauty, in the soul of a young farm boy, who is hard put to get his daily bread."
C3 The Editors [R. D. Colquette and H. S. Fry]. "A Canadian Writer." Country Guide and Nor'west Farmer, April 1942, p. 38.
Ross's novel and ten short stories are about "country life and farm people," a familiar setting "to many thousands of our readers." His depiction of "character and setting in telling phrases and dramatic form" should generate "good healthy discussion on literature and the art of living in this western country."
C4 McCourt, Edward. "Sinclair Ross." In The Canadian West in Fiction. Toronto: Ryerson, 1949, pp. 94-99.
The novel and the short stories written by a young Winnipeg bank clerk "comprise the most significant body of prose fiction so far written about the prairie and its people." As for Me and My House presents its hero, a frustrated clergyman, "through the eyes of his wife." The medium of the diary is compared with Stringer's technique in his prairie trilogy: "Mrs. Bentley is in many ways like Chaddie McKail." But the extent to which Mrs. Bentley submerges "her personality in that of her husband" becomes "something less than human."
McCourt evaluates Ross's work according to its fidelity to life and land. Despite the novel's "almost wholly static" characters and its "artificial resolution," its author "shares with W. O. Mitchell the power to suggest the atmosphere of a prairie region.... A sentence or two illuminates the life of an entire community." The flaws of the novel are not apparent in the short stories. "The Painted Door" is an "admirable study of the effect of environment on character," but its basic plot is "sheer melodrama." The proof of Ross's good story-telling is that only upon reflection can the reader feel that the ending is contrived.
C5 Pacey, Desmond. Creative Writing in Canada. A Short History of English-Canadian Literature. Toronto: Ryerson, 1952, pp. 173-75.
A brief tribute to Ross's accurate but sceptical account "of a minister and his overly possessive wife."
C6 Daniells, Roy. Introduction. In As for Me and My House. By Sinclair Ross. New Canadian Library, No. 4. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1957, pp. v-x.
While Mrs. Bentley "is pure gold and wholly credible," Philip's stiff, mechanical, neurotic reactions make him an unsympathetic character and unconvincing as an artist--however frustrated. But as a couple they "make up a single more complex character." The revelation of their ambition, self-sacrifice, and hypocrisy is an "exposition of the Puritan conscience."
Rather than dwell on examples of monotonous repetition to prove Ross's weakness as a novelist, we should appreciate his ability to maximize the virtues of the long story.
C7 Tallman, Warren. "Wolf in the Snow. Part One: Four Windows onto Landscapes." Canadian Literature, No. 5 (Summer 1960), pp. 7-20. Rpt. in A Choice of Critics: Selections from Canadian Literature 1964-74. Ed. George Woodcock. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1966, pp. 53-67. Rpt. in Contexts of Canadian Criticism: A Collection of Critical Essays. Patterns of Literary Criticism, No. 9. Ed. Eli Mandel. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1971, pp. 232-45.
See C8.
C8 Tallman, Warren. "Wolf in the Snow. Part Two: The House Repossessed." Canadian Literature, No. 6 (Autumn 1960), pp. 41-48. Rpt. in A Choice of Critics: Selections from Canadian Literature 1964-74. Ed. George Woodcock. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1966, pp. 67-76. Rpt. in Contexts of Canadian Criticism: A Collection of Critical Essays. Patterns of Literary Criticism, No. 9. Ed. Eli Mandel. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1977, pp. 245-53. Rpt. in Open Letter, 3rd Ser., No. 6 (Fall 1977), 131-49.
To illustrate the social and cultural alienation from which North American adults suffer, Ross examines the effects of Philip's alienation "from the natural childhood country of ordinary family life." Since the death of his father--"a divinity student, turned atheist, turned artist"--Philip has grown up unable to communicate with his father or himself.
As for Me and My House "is a projection through the medium of Mrs. Bentley's remarkably responsive consciousness of the despair in which her husband is caught," a frustrated non-artist "unable to discover a subject which will release him from his oppressive incapacity to create."
C9 Sylvestre, Guy, Brandon Conron, and Carl F. Klinck, eds. "Sinclair Ross." In Canadian Writers/Ecrivains Canadiens. Toronto: Ryerson, 1964, p. 119.
Biographical data.
C10 McPherson, Hugo. "Fiction 1940-1960." In Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English. Gen. ed. and introd. Carl F. Klinck. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1965, pp. 704-06. Rpt. 2nd ed. Gen. ed. and introd. Carl F. Klinck. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1976. Vol. II, 217-18.
"The rigidly limited point of view and the rhythmic use of repetition in As for Me and My House" admirably support Ross's central theme--"the imagination and its failure in Canada." Mrs. Bentley's hands stiffen at the piano and Philip draws faceless people in false-fronted towns.
C11 Stephens, Donald. "Wind, Sun and Dust." Canadian Literature, No. 23 (Winter 1965), pp. 17-24. Rpt. in Writers of the Prairies. Ed. Donald Stephens. Vancouver: Univ. of British Columbia Press, 1973, pp. 175-82.
This first discussion of Mrs. Bentley's personal short-comings and narrative ambiguities (she "plays her cards too closely to her vest") marks a turning point in the criticism of As for Me and My House. The characters, prose, and sense of place and time make the novel Canada's best. But, after recognizing Ross's interest in paradox (such as claustrophobia amidst the vast prairie), Stephens lapses into cataloguing his own critical contradictions. The environment is "at once uncluttered and cluttered." The characters are "at once types and individuals, yet never really discernable as one or the other." The place and time belong to an essential part of Canadian history, "yet, again, it can be anywhere at any time."
C12 King, Carlyle. "Sinclair Ross: A Neglected Saskatchewan Novelist." Skylark, 3, No. 1 (Nov. 1966), 4-7.
A general introduction to an author who had spent the evenings of several years writing As for Me and My House in obscurity in Winnipeg. While his short stories are about Saskatchewan farm life (the quarrels of married couples, their struggle against a malevolent land, and the imaginations of their children), his novel presents a lively and accurate scene of small-town life rendered primarily through his sketches of petty women. Of his two main characters, Philip remains remote from our sympathy and comprehension "because we know him only from the outside." But Mrs. Bentley is Ross's triumphant illusion. "He gets inside her skin." Despite her constant admission of failure and inadequacy as Philip's wife, she impresses the reader as a heroic woman.
C13 Story, Norah. "Ross, Sinclair (1908- )." In The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1967, p. 727.
After revealing in his short stories and first novel the harsh effects of the prairie environment, Ross turns in The Well to recognize the prairie's beneficent effects.
C14 Laurence, Margaret. Introduction. In The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories. By Sinclair Ross. New Canadian Library, No. 62. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1968, pp. 7-12.
The community in each story is rural--distant from even the small towns of Ross's novels--and usually reduced to one family. Within the family, the women are further isolated, "shut into themselves, shut out of their husband's inner lives." Because men must appear strong and women must endure, they cannot share their despair. Facing the extremmes of summer drought and winter blizzard in such isolation, man seems to take a secondary role to the violent and unpredictable land. Despite such desolation the hope for renewal endures.
C15 Pearson, Alan. "James Sinclair Ross: Major Novelist with a Banking Past." The Montrealer, March 1968, pp. 18-19.
This banker with a modest position in the marketing department is distinguished only by his watchful eyes and by what he calls his "scribbling." He reveals that "most writers have only one or two themes that they constantly develop in their work." The prairies and small towns "have most excited my imagination," but "I'm beginning to get very interested in the criminal mind and how it works."
Ross believes that "the novel is changing. It has to change and try to do something television and films can't do.... I believe novels will get shorter.... I still believe in the novel of character and that action arises out of characters. I couldn't write an impressionistic novel if I tried." Upon retirement he hopes "to read all Proust in the original."
C16 New, W. H. "Sinclair Ross's Ambivalent World." Canadian Literature, No. 40 (Spring 1969), pp. 26-32. Rpt. in Articulating West: Essays on Purpose and Form in Modern Canadian Literature. By W. H. New. Toronto: new press, 1972, pp. 60-67.
The seminal article on As for Me and My House pivots on Mrs. Bentley's final remark: "That's right, Philip. I want it so." Does it indicate an escape from hypocrisy through a "new-found humility," or the stranglehold of a manipulator imposing her decisions on her husband? The first interpretation is supported by the climactic scene in which Horizon's false fronts are blown down and Mrs. Bentley confesses her knowledge of their adopted baby's origin. The second interpretation is supported by the gradual self-revelation of Mrs. Bentley throughout the novel, as each scene is presented through her eyes.
The imagery suggests an ambivalent world that resists either/or classifications. Wondering how drought victims can pray to an apparently indifferent deity, Mrs. Bentley concludes that they must possess "a very great faith, or a very foolish one," but as the equation of rain with sand and of water with dust suggests, such polarities are artificial. The imagery blurs the polarities of Mrs. Bentley's vision in which she seeks to escape the reality of Horizon's aridity, sterility, and hypocrisy for the dream of cleansing refreshment, fruition, and sincerity fulfilled by the bookstore. "Reality for Ross is...not [so] clear cut." Mrs. Bentley may recognize that Horizon is not all bad but the correlative is that the dream she is about to fulfill will not match her expectations.
C17 Jackel, Susan. "The House on the Prairies." Canadian Literature, No. 42 (Autumn 1969), pp. 46-55. Rpt. in Writers of the Prairies. Ed. Donald Stephens. Vancouver: Univ. of British Columbia Press, 1969, pp. 165-74.
As Prairie fiction shifted from social concerns to individual characterization, the house changed from a symbol of social status to a symbol of the dominant power within the household. Mrs. Bentley is the controlling decision-maker in Ross's novel. She constructs personal false fronts to repress the internal tensions of their domestic conflict.
C18 Jones, D. G. Butterfly on Rock: A Study of Themes and Images in Canadian Literature. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1970, pp. 38-42.
The struggle between the inauthentic life of garrison culture and the authentic life of the land is represented by the Bentleys' effort to maintain the ordered propriety of their superficial world against the open prairie which appears more hostile in proportion to their effort to suppress its vitality. By accepting Judith, who is associated with the wind, they are abandoning their internal tensions and suppressions through a reconciliation with the land and their own instincts.
C19 Fraser, Keath. "Futility at the Pump: The Short Stories of Sinclair Ross." Queen's Quarterly, 77 (Spring 1970), 72-80.
An excellent thematic discussion of the "totality of Ross's short fiction." "The futile cycle of eking existence from an indifferent world predominates this collection." "In his stories recounting childhood experience, Ross probes the isolation which awaits off-spring.... Parents are adamant that their youngsters will enjoy better lives than their own," but "alternatives collapse...What the parents can afford for their children is often only an illusion; left for the children to intuit is their inevitable predicament as they come of age."
Ross has sharpened "his craftsmanship with slight revisions." His "restructuring...of two stories... emphasizes the seasonal cycle as part of the human cycle." Faced with "isolation and futility..., 'getting ahead' (the hope of man) becomes a particular obsession" for Ross's characters. "The endurance continues even when that hope proves inescapably an illusion." Such dreams of climbing in the midst of leveling futility make Ross's prairie representative of the universal condition.
C20 Djwa, Sandra. "No Other Way: Sinclair Ross's Stories and Novels." Canadian Literature, No. 47 (Winter 1971), pp. 49-66. Rpt. in The Canadian Novel in the Twentieth Century: Essays from Canadian Literature. Ed. George Woodcock. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975, pp. 127-44.
"Character recedes into the emotional landscape...; human action is presented as the reaction to natural events." When the reaction precipitates a quarrel, the plot "lies in the working out of the emotional tension that has been generated by the conflict." But "Ross is not a naturalist" because his "strong streak of determinism...is most often kept firmly within a Christian context," however ironic the reversal of that context may be.
Ross examines "the struggle of the Puritan soul to find the way." In the short stories there is "no other way than to go on," to "continue along in the same tragic-comic fashion." The Bentleys can find their way only by abandoning their "well-bred Christianity" which they recognize as "form without spirit, the false front of a behaviour without belief."
The religious framework in the Canadian novel prohibits naturalism. The Canadian hero is concerned basically with maintaining his integrity within a chosen community." He "is the one who stays and endures" unless he can discover some alternative "honourable way..., one which is sanctioned by community."
C21 Atwood, Margaret. Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1972, pp. 185-86, 189, 191-92, 207-08, 210.
Ross is one of those "Position Three writers naming the condition of Position Two, making art out of their characters' inability to do so." Ross portrays a bent artist, economically trapped by his marriage, whose "pictures are emblems of himself, his entrapment and sense of failure." Philip's dog, his friend, his mistress, and his wife's determined plans are consistent with Philip's predicament.
C22 Reference Division, McPherson Library, Univ. of Victoria, B.C., comp. "Ross, Sinclair 1908- ." In Creative Canada: A Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Creative and Performing Artists. Vol. II. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1972, pp. 238-39.
Biographical and bibliographical data.
C23 Thomas, Clara. "Sinclair Ross." In Our Nature--Our Voices: A Guidebook to English Canadian Literature. Vol. I. Toronto: new press, 1972, pp. 128-32.
A synopsis of As for Me and My House. Ross's metaphoric use of the prairie setting has influenced Margaret Laurence, Rudy Wiebe, and Robert Kroetsch.
C24 Kostash, Myrna. "Discovering Sinclair Ross: It's Rather Late." Saturday Night, July 1972, pp. 33-37.
Random, but valuable, comments on sex roles and animal imagery. Ross himself says that he meant As for Me and My House to be "the drama of Philip's hypocrisy through the medium of his wife's...diary. The fact that she ran away with the story...was accidental...and Ross thinks...it would be an interesting exercise now to write Philip's diary."
Although women are reduced to a choral role in the mythic confrontation between mankind and nature, "in contrast to the inner inertia and paralyzing moral ambivalence of the man," it is the woman's desperate resistance to a "common shrivelling of purpose" that dominates Ross's three novels. Submission to the feminine plea for practical compromise completes the emasculation of men, whose failures have reduced their commitment to heroic effort from action to dream. Man and mare are more compatible.
C25 Djwa, Sandra. "False Gods and the True Covenant: Thematic Continuity between Margaret Laurence and Sinclalr Ross." Journal of Canadian Fiction, 1, No. 4 (Fall 1972), 43-50.
As well as the "slight echoes of Ross throughout Laurence's work," the two writers "share a central vision--a sense of the ironic discrepancy between the spirit and the letter of the religious dispensation." Both explore this discrepancy by "using Biblical allusion to provide a mythic framework for an essentially psychological study of character." The biblical myth is less integral to Ross's major novel than to those of Laurence. Ross's otherwise realistic novel is thematically connected with biblical myth, but its individual characters have no consistently allegorical relations.
Both writers have a "mode of perception...[that] is essentially puritan and verges on the satiric." Sharing an ironic awareness of the discrepancy between profession and performance, both writers profess a "psychological puritanism in which salvation as redefined in relation to the discovery of the self and true grace is manifested by a new sense of life's direction."
C26 Benson, Eugene, ed. Encounter: Canadian Drama in Four Media. Methuen Canadian Literature Series. Toronto: Methuen, 1973, p. 139.
In his introduction to Rudi Dorn's filmscript of "One's a Heifer," Benson discusses Ross's use of ambiguity in presenting the adult world from the subjective perspective of a child. Reality remains uncertain in "an almost surrealistic atmosphere in which images of broken machinery and dead calves hint at a psychological landscape of terror and madness."
C26a Gnarowski, Michael. "Ross, Sinclair, 1908- ." In A Concise Bibliography of English-Canadian Literature. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973, pp. 104-05. Rev. ed. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978, pp. 122-23.
Bibliographical data.
C27 Ricou, Laurence. "The Prairie Internalized: The Fiction of Sinclair Ross." In Vertical Man/Horizontal World: Man and Landscape in Canadian Prairie Fiction. Vancouver: Univ. of British Columbia Press, 1973, pp. 81-94.
Ross's fiction marks a "new direction in the literary use of the prairie" by internalizing the landscape as a metaphor for man's mind and spirit. Thus, when Mrs. Bentley finds "her garden 'bare, inert, impaled by the rays of sun and left to die,' she identifies with it." Horizon huddles against the wind "on a high, tiny perch" to characterize the Bentleys' vulnerability to the void as they feel they can escape insignificance and assert their presence only through art. False fronts represent the self-deception men practise to satisfy their obsession with self-assertion. Thus Philip sees the false fronts "with a look of self-awareness and futility." The study door Philip retreats behind is also analogous to his religious vocation. The wind symbolizes the passage of time as it topples man from his perch into the void.
In his short stories, the prairie is again an "essential factor in his characters' psychology." The stories demonstrate that the "neglect of human intercourse is a result not of conscious neglect, nor of boredom, but seemingly of gradual necessity" in response to the oppressive land. By internalizing the locale "so that adjectives chosen to describe the natural environment could as well apply to character, and vice-versa," Ross moves away from "self-conscious local colour" to achieve a "much more profound, if unconscious, feeling for place."
The forced use of metaphor is responsible for the failure of The Well. The metaphor which Ross exploits to explain Chris's resolution to seek redemption--the meeting of the thunder cloud and leap into the void--"seems easy and mechanical." His return to a better use of prairie symbols in Whir of Gold "is interesting evidence of the great power which the prairie environment holds over the writer." But, with nothing beyond the metaphor, Whir of Gold is Ross's least successful effort.
C27a S[tory]., N[orah]. "Ross, Sinclair (1908- )." In Supplement to the Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature. Ed. William Toye. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1973, p. 281.
Story notes some biographical and bibliographical data and discusses the themes and settings of As for Me and My House, The Well, and Whir of Gold.
C28 Cude, Wilfred. "Beyond Mrs. Bentley: A Study of As for Me and My House." Journal of Canadian Studies, 8, No. 1 (Feb. 1973), 3-18.
After showing how Ross invites us to go beyond the unreliable Mrs. Bentley, Cude descends to distortions of Philip that stray beyond common sense. Mrs. Bentley misunderstands the events that most concern her as with her husband's adultery with Judith and her own flirtation with Paul: "She is confused and embittered by Philip's indifference and she as amazed and offended by Paul's love." Whether her confidence in her possession of Philip is proof of her ignorance or of her self-deception, either one is sufficient warning to the reader. Thus warned, we recognize her comments as pathetic and tragic, rather than insightful. She is the twin of Mrs. Bird.
Philip is really a "dynamic...man of initiative, imagination, and action,...a good minister" who abandons art because he prefers to work "conscientiously at his ministry." But Mrs. Bentley uses Philip's illegitimate son to force him away from the church.
C29 Moss, John. "As for Me and My House." Patterns of Isolation in English-Canadian Fiction. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1974, pp. 149-65.
Moss purports to examine the "ambiguous presence of the narrating consciousness and the ironic arrangement of objective facts." But, except for some exemplary discussions of subjects from the useful list that he compiled (trains, tracks, sons, dogs), Moss is content to give grand or paradoxical impressions. The fleeting, reflexive, and cumulative nature of this novel's spatial form resembles more the Symphonic Pastorale of Beethoven than of Gide. Mrs. Bentley is mean, self-indulgent, fallible, dowdy, fussy, morose, but "a good woman as well."
C30 French, William. "Too Good Too Soon, Ross Remains the Elusive Canadian." The Globe and Mail, 27 July 1974, p. 25.
Ross recalls the personal incidents that inspired his novels. As a young man he taught Sunday school and played the organ at the United Church without faith in its principles. When a minister encouraged him to enter the ministry, Ross "wasn't tempted in the least. But I began to think, 'Suppose I did, or someone else did who didn't really believe in it, and felt trapped in the ministry.' That was the origin of As for Me and My House."
As for The Well, he would "like to do it again and give it a different ending. I see now how it should be done."
Ross is excited now about Sawbones Memorial, his new novel about prejudice against a Ukrainian boy. Overheard snatches of the conversation of reminiscing visitors to the opening of his bank's new head office in Place Ville Marie inspired Ross to construct a novel out of nothing but dialogue.
Besides more novels, Ross as interested in writing travel books and an autobiography. Having left for the Mediterranean climate on medical advice, Ross believes that "being away makes you more aware of being a Canadian."
C31 Stouck, David. "Mirror and the Lamp in Sinclair Ross's As for Me and My House." Mosaic, 7, No. 2 (Winter 1974), 141-50.
As for Me and My House is consistent with the Canadian imagination's preoccupation with the limitations, rather than the potentials, of experience. Ross appropriately depicts the failing artist's "quest for a self-image," not through the artist's own view (as do Joyce and Mann), but indirectly through the artist's wife. Mrs. Bentley is not the central character. She acts as a mirror to reflect Philip's narcissistic self-absorption. Mirror imagery runs throughout the novel to underscore Philip's frustrated quest for identity. His "actions are always directed by a search for self in the likeness of his father--the search in the mirror" that is continued in his search for a son, for a boy "in his own image."
C32 Chambers, Robert D. Sinclair Ross and Ernest Buckler. Toronto: Copp Clark, 1975, pp. 1-52, 99-105.
Chambers offers close analyses of passages that typify the theme and style of each of Ross's first four books. The discipline with which Ross "employs a lean and spare prose" to achieve a "withholding of emotion" suits his characters who "live in strained and distant relationship to each other,...as though locked into themselves and unable to find a way out."
As for Me and My House reveals the complexity of one of those relationships. Ross's technique recalls the Puritan custom of keeping a diary as a chart of the "soul's progress towards grace." Ross lays the blame for the Bentley's regression on Mrs. Bentley and Philip equally.
After exploring in his short stories the Prairie triad of men, women, and land, Ross explores in The Well the post-war Prairie trinity of mechanization, mobility, and money. In reaction to the post-war transformation of Prairie life by technology and the post-war glamourization of the anti-hero in fiction, Ross depicts a loner whose retrieval from alienation and from "ruthless pursuit of self" is the result of his growing respect for heroic labour. Whir of Gold offers no such solution to the outcast "who cannot feel at home anywhere." But Ross fails here to overcome the Naturalist's difficulty of maintaining our interest in the banalities of the limited lives of middle North Americans.
The ultimate value of Ross's writings is his compassion for the plight of his characters. Despite their entrapment within the severe limitations of their hostile environment, they "continue to hope, to plan, to dream."
C33 Djwa, Sandra. "Biblical Archetypes in Western Canadian Fiction." In Western Canada Past and Present. Ed. A. W. Rasporich. Calgary: Univ. of Calgary and McClelland and Stewart West, 1975, pp. 193-203.
Character and environment join forces to control and maintain one's course of direction no matter how determined one may be to change it. Yet the concept of moral choice releases the Bentleys from Naturalist determinism into a Christian context. While the hero of Stead's Grain chooses the honourable way out, Ross's characters usually choose the Puritan way.
The plethora of biblical archetypes is indicative of the moral strain that permeates Canadian fiction. Djwa considers the phenomenon of novelists working out "contemporary problems in terms of their own ancestral roots of received religion."
C34 Colombo, John Robert. "Ross, Sinclair." In Colombo's Canadian References. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1976, p. 453.
Biographical data.
C35 Pacey, Desmond. "Ross, Sinclair." In Contemporary Novelists. Ed. James Vinson. London: St. James, 1976, pp. 1171-73.
Ross's reputation rests on his early Prairie Realism. His accurate descriptions of the prairie landscape and climate symbolize man's isolation and alienation. Yet the human will prevails as Ross's victims of circumstance endure the indifference and malevolence of the universe. His talent lies in his ability to totally identify himself with his characters--with boys, men, and women.
Ross states that if any theme dominates his work it is "man and nature, perhaps."
C36 Sutherland, Ronald. "Canadian Fiction--Comparatively Speaking." Review of National Literature, 7 (1976), 24-29. Rpt. in The New Hero: Essays in Comparative Quebec/Canadian Literature. Toronto: Macmillan, 1977, pp. 8-13.
While Philip Bentley typifies the internalized struggle of the old Canadian hero--the determined loser who submits to the system--"Sawbones" Hunter typifies the new hero--self-reliant and independent. But, unlike the American hero whose defiance is in keeping with the tradition of his heritage, the new Canadian hero's defiance is an act of submission to his own instincts.
C37 Gaskin, Geraldine, and the Atlantic Work Group. Women in Canadian Literature. Toronto: Writers' Development Trust, n.d., pp. 49-50.
Provides suggestions for a discussion of Mrs. Bentley's confining social role as the dutiful wife.
C38 Harrison, Dick. Unnamed Country: The Struggle for a Canadian Prairie Fiction. Edmonton: Univ. of Alberta Press, 1977, pp. 126-30, 134-36, 148-55, 188-90, 197.
"The failure of any natural father-son relationship" in three of Ross's novels suggests the desperation to impose continuity rather than to establish harmony (although Doc Hunter's choice of a former outcast as his successor is a paradoxical attempt to free Upward of its past). Mrs. Bentley intends to lead Philip not to the expansive ranch and river where Philip had grown "bigger somehow, freer," but to the cloistered bookstore in the city. Thus, Mrs. Bentley exemplifies the spiritual sterility of the alien's garrison mentality.
C38a Endres, Robin. "Marxist Literary Criticism and English Canadian Literature." In In Our Own House: Social Perspectives on Canadian Literature. Ed. Paul Cappon. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978, pp. 123-26.
"As for Me and My House is more a symtomatology of a marriage than a novel." It explores the psychology of oppression and "tension-management" wherein the wife hides her superior attributes to protect the male ego. But the "real model point of despair experienced by both Mr. and Mrs. Bentley is their inability to use their respective work skills." Ross demonstrates "the need for self-fulfilment through labour."
C38b Gutteridge, Don. Mountain and Plain. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978, pp. 71-72, 79-83.
Poses fourteen critical questions and topics for a detailed discussion of "A Field of Wheat" and As for Me and My House.
C39 MacDonald, Bruce. "As for Me and My House and the Aesthetics of Illegitimacy in the Canadian Novel." The Literary Criterion, 13, No. 1 (1978), 34-52.
They Shall Inherit the Earth, Barometer Rising, and The Double Hook exploit bastardy as the regenerative force that overcomes the sterility of a society paralyzed by moralism, materialism, and intellectualism. The bastard child in As for Me and My House provides the pivot on which the inversion of conventional moral judgement turns, making "what appeared initially ironic a statement of fact and what appeared initially reliable grounds of judgement as partaking of the ironies of the weakness of human beings." MacDonald believes that critical disagreement over the Bentleys is resolved by his analysis of bastardy as the literary device by which the Bentleys gain awareness of a world beyond judgement and pretense.
C40 McMullen, Lorraine. Introduction. In Sawbones Memorial. By Sinclair Ross. New Canadian Library, No. 145. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978, pp. 5-11.
"While dinner lasts we are outside time," observes a character from Claude Mauriac's Diner en Ville, the novel that inspired Ross. In the bare setting of the new hospital, time is suspended as past and future are linked by such leitmotifs as Doc's wife's piano and "the old songs played on it." Ross presents the town's four generations through the "multiple points of view and different levels of discourse" (interior and dramatic monologues, dialogue, speeches, and songs) carried on by the party guests. The structure is cyclic and centrifugal--cyclic in that this April party marks the end of a father's career that had begun in April and the beginning of the son's succession; centrifugal in that it circles outward from the central character to encompass the past, present, and future of the community. Times change, yet however much "modern life has materially improved,...human nature remains the same."
C41 Ross, Morton. "The Canonization of As for Me and My House: A Case Study." In Figures in a Ground: Canadian Essays on Modern Literature Collected in Honor of Sheila Watson. Ed. Diane Bessai and David Jackel. Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie, 1978, pp. 189-205.
Morton Ross condemns each influential critic without offering any direction towards a constructive reassessment. He deplores the critics who have reduced the text to a Rorschach test as they exploit the fashionable taste for paradox, tension, irony, and ambiguity to debunk Mrs. Bentley, deregionalize the landscape, and denationalize the fictional artist.
C42 Stouck, David. "Introduction to the Bison Book Edition." In As for Me and My House. By Sinclair Ross. Bison Book. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1978, pp. v-xiii.
As for Me and My House "stands in a class" with the 1930s fiction of John Steinbeck and Nathanael West. But it is also "one of those books, like Huckleberry Finn or The Great Gatsby, by which a country measures its imaginative life." Its diary form is indigenous to the Western experience of pioneer women. The secretive and repetitious entries in a private journal reflect the self-examiner's lonely, frustrated, and repressed nature. While Ross's creation of a woman narrator is a remarkable achievement, his indirect revelation of the husband as a frustrated artist effectively preserves "the mystery that surrounds creative genius."
C43 Kroetsch, Robert. "Fear of Women in Canadian Fiction: Erotics of Space." The Canadian Forum, Oct.-Nov. 1978, pp. 22-27. Rpt. in Crossing Frontiers: Papers in American and Canadian Western Literature. Ed. Dick Harrison. Edmonton: Univ. of Alberta Press, 1979, pp. 73-83.
"How do you establish any sort of close relationship in a landscape--in a physical situation--whose primary characteristic is distance?" Both Willa Cather's My Antonia and Ross's As for Me and My House question the validity of marriage as "the primary metaphor" for an ideal world since marriage cannot resolve the dialectic of prairie grammar--horse/house (masculine/feminine, on/in, motion/stasis, pleasure/duty). While the whores' house offers a temporary profane resolution, the garden promises a sacred resolution. However, the novel begins with Philip already "unhorsed into housedom, already in exile from anything resembling paradise." Philip marries his muse, but is overwhelmed by her. She is vocal, he is silent. Her "house is containing, nurturing, protecting, mothering."
The Bentleys return to nature to find a horse for Steve, but paradise recedes further west: "There are the hills and rivers and horses all right, but the trees turn out to be scraggy little willow brushes that Philip describes contemptuously as brush.... With his artist's eye for character he says the best ones are the driftwood logs, come all the way from the mountains likely, four or five hundred miles west. They he gnarled and blackened on the white sand like writhing, petrified serpents." Laura, the androgenous rodeo star (avoided by her overwhelmed husband), presides over this pre-"or uncoupling" world. She thinks it's a pity that Philip can't dance. "The harmony suggested by dance-implications of sex, of marriage, of art, of a unified world--all are lost because of the male." To dance the male must surrender his identity as orphan, cowboy, and outlaw. Kroetsch's logic implies that such horse-breaking reduces the male to a house-broken pet.
C44 Dooley, D. J. "As for Me and My House: The Hypocrite and the Parasite." In Moral Vision in the Canadian Novel. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1979, pp. 38-47.
Ross tells the story of what happened to Mrs. Bentley's marriage as she comes to recognize the inadequate "basis on which her hopes for emotional fulfilment have rested." She abandons her role as parasite when she adopts Philip's illegitimate child, an act which "brings about the rebirth" of Philip who begins to look like the child: "It's in the eyes, a stillness, a freshness, a vacancy of beginning." We must accept Mrs. Bentley as a credible witness as she is when she predicts that Steve will be able to manipulate Philip.
C45 Dubanski, Richard. "A Look at Philips's 'Journal' in As for Me and My House." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 24 (1979), pp. 89-95.
Philip's series of self-analytic paintings provides the reader with an anti-journal meant to balance Mrs. Bentley's self-justifying diary. The couple's responses to art and music reveal their incompatibility: Mrs. Bentley's aesthetic response is "based on feeling, while Philips's is based on form and design." A reconciliation between empathy and abstraction appears impossible for the Bentleys but not for Ross, as he captures the essence of "'humanity in micrososm' in clear and distinct images."
C46 Bowen, Gail. "The Fiction of Sinclair Ross." Canadian Literature, No. 80 (Spring 1979), pp. 37-48.
The question at the core of Ross's stories and novels is how a species as imperfect as man can "live in a universe which is seemingly without ordering principles or a caring God." Asserting their faith in a better future, his characters must suffer the "tension between a world which is inhospitable to illusion and the need for illusion in an inhospitable world." A further complication occurs when a character betrays his integrity in pursuit of his dream. But with Sawbones Memorial "Ross has stopped fighting life and come to terms with it." For the characters in Sawbones Memorial, "the dividing line between success and failure is not that between those who have been faithful to their dream and those who have compromised with it. The heroes of Sawbones are people who have worked at bringing their existence into line with what they believe life should be, but who have also come to accept the fact that their work will have limited results."
C47 Cude, Wilfred. "'Turn It Upside Down': The Right Perspective on As for Me and My House." English Studies in Canada, 5 (Winter 1979), 469-88.
Mrs. Bentley misunderstands her husband's art because she relates to the self-indulgent emotionalism of Franz Liszt, whereas Philip relates to the austere intellectuality of El Greco. Siding with Philip, who warns his wife to ignore her feelings when appraising art, Cude reduces the emotional tension of As for Me and My House to a puzzle that is easily solved by turning the novel upside down: "Instead of looking at Philip from Mrs. Bentley's point of view, we look at Mrs. Bentley from Philip's point of view." After treating Philip as the blameless victim of his wife, Cude concludes that Mrs. Bentley "must accept half the blame." Cude's attention to each of Philip's paintings adds many interesting insights that support Dubanski's argument (see C45).
C47a Birney, Earle. Spreading Time: Remarks on Canadian Writing. Book I: 1904-1949. Montreal: Vehicule, 1980, p. 66.
Birney arranged a Sunday walk in the park with Ross while the two were in Europe during the Second World War. Appearing intimidated by Birney's major's uniform, Ross continued to call Birney "sir, and remained monosyllabic til we parted."
C47b Hicks, Anne. "Mrs. Bentley: The Good Housewife." Room of One's Own, 5, No. 4 (1980), 60-67.
Male critics have not recognized that Ross has created a character who reflects twentieth-century women. Like Margaret Laurence's Morag Gunn, Mrs. Bentley feels "the ambiguity of life." Despite her recognition of her husband's limitations, she retains romantic illusions about him as a male and as an artist. She idolizes him and wants to share his dreams. Sometimes she "relates to Philip like a girl might to her father." She is less a vampire than Philip, whose treatment of women reveals him as a "cold destructive parasite."
C47c O'Connor, John J. "Saskatchewan Sirens: The Prairie as Sea in Western Canadian Literature." Journal of Canadian Fiction, Nos. 28-29 (1980), pp. 157-71.
"Nearly all prairie literature" describes the prairie, "in whatever season, as some form of sea." Mrs. Bentley compares Horizon to an island engulfed by waves of snow and tides of winds. The "trainvoice" is a siren that calls the Bentleys "to another place, or another possibility." On her solitary walks, she is lured "by the horizons beyond Horizon" where she confronts the prairie's "primeval terrors in order to know herself and her world." "With her patience and indomitability she would be a fitting companion for Ulysses."
C48 Denham, Paul. "Narrative Technique in Sinclair Ross's As for Me and My House." Studies in Canadian Literature, 5 (Spring 1980), 116-26.
Denham's belief that a flawed narrative technique causes a disconcerting mixture of Symbolism with Realism in As for Me and My House arises from his equation of Realism with historical and regional accuracy. An awkward use of the diary form strains credibility. Mrs. Bentley gives no reference to pens or paper, to her talent as a writer, or to why she writes less often during the long winter. Moreover, with no dual perspective wherein the narrator can comment from a mature perspective on her limitations, there is no way to verify truth from bias. She appears to be "domestically and socially irresponsible." Yet having started only two gardens during a twelve-year drought and having paid no attention to the radio, the co-ops, the Wheat Pool, or the CCF, Mrs. Bentley belongs to a novel which is more symbolic than historically and regionally accurate. The convenient impregnation and death of Judith follow the cliched plot of the sentimental genre.
C48a Woodcock, George. "Rural Roots." Books in Canada, Oct. 1980, pp. 7-9.
Reviewing Lorraine McMullen's Sinclair Ross (C1), Woodcock discusses Ross's influence on Canadian novelists and poets, critics' simplistic reductions of As for Me and My House, and the self-renewing return with Sawbones Memorial to a "feeling for region that is at the heart of Ross's best work."
C48b Latham, David. "Literature." The American Review of Canadian Studies, 11, No. 1 (Spring 1981), 127-28.
Reviewing Lorraine McMullen's Sinclair Ross (C1), Latham focuses on the unity of Ross's fiction and the need to consider each work in the context of Ross's canon.
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C59 Waldman, Marian. "As for Me and My House." Dir. Gus Kristjanson. Summer Stage. CBC Radio, 7 Sept. 1958. (30 min.) (See A1.)
C60 "Coronet at Night." Dir. Gus Kristjanson. Wednesday Night. CBC Radio, 17 Sept. 1958. (45 min.) (See A5 and B8.)
C61 Coronet at Night. Dir. Stanley Jackson. National Film Board, 1963. (15 min.) (See A5 and B8.)
C62 Waldman, Marian. "As for Me and My House." Dir. Esse Ljungh. Stage. CBC Radio, 10 April 1964. (30 min.) (See A1.)
C63 Goldman, Alvin. "The Painted Door." Dir. Rudi Dorn. Festival. CBC Television, 17 Jan. 1968. (30 min.) (See A5 and B7.)
C64 Dorn, Rudi. "One's a Heifer." Dir. Laurel Crosby. Programme X. CBC Television, 25 March 1971. (30 min.) (See A5 and B11.)
C65 Nichol, James. "Coronet at Night." Dir. Don Williams. To See Ourselves. CBC Television, 26 Dec. 1973. (30 min.) (See A5 and B8.)
C66 Blizzard. Dir. Rudi Wrench. Simon Fraser Univ. Workshop, 1975. (10 min.) (See A5 and B7.)
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C67 Third prize in Nash's Short Story Competition for "No Other Way," 1934. Editor's note: "Each of the three authors possesses qualities which make for greatness in story-telling." Judged by W. Somerset Maugham, Rebecca West, and Desmond MacCarthy.
C68 Five short stories included in Edward O'Brien's annual list of distinctive stories: "No Other Way" (1935), "A Field of Wheat" and "September Snow" (1935, 1936), "The Lamp at Noon" (1939), and "The Painted Door" (1940).
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C1 McMullen, Lorraine. Sinclair Ross. Twayne's World Authors Series, No. 504. Boston: Twayne, 1979. 159 pp.
McMullen demonstrates the unity of Ross's four novels and eighteen short stories in terms of archetypal image patterns and thematic subject matter. She includes an evaluation of Ross's textual emendations and a brief chapter on his life and literary interests.
The basic themes of man's insignificance in an indifferent universe and of his entrapment and repression in claustrophobic towns and agoraphobic prairies are revealed through conflicts involving the community, the past, communication, marital relations, alienation, and outsiders as artists or criminals. The short stories focus on the psychological effects of the Prairie drought and depression. Landscape is thus internalized as a metaphoric "region of the mind." Ross's treatment of nature's indifference as a reflection of the "cosmic indifference to man's fate" is extended from the short stories to As for Me and My House. Mrs. Bentley's lapses as a credible narrator are well documented. The progression of this possessive, manipulating hypocrite towards self-knowledge suggests that her initiative to adopt Philip's bastard and to move from the town parish to the city store offers hope for her marriage. Conversely, nature is the redemptive force for the protagonist of The Well whose internal transformation is caused by his move from an urban slum to a rural farm. Whir of Gold marks a return to a metaphoric language. It shows how the attempt to trap forever the elusive sense of fulfillment can lead only to self-entrapment.
While much of McMullen's study is an elaboration of Laurence Ricou's argument (C27), the chapter on Sawbones Memorial is an elaboration on McMullen's fine introduction to the New Canadian Library edition (C40).
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C57 Sypnowich, Peter. "A Bachelor on the Run Comes Back to Canada." Toronto Star, 13 Nov. 1970, p 30.
Ross speaks of his problems in Greece with his neighbours' attempts to wed him to their daughters: "I went to dinner at one house and they led her out like a heifer." He refers to his isolation: a lone wolf from a Saskatchewan homestead, his parents' separation, his mother--a minister's daughter--giving him Scott and Dickens. Now disturbed by the harshness of the Greek language and reluctant to even visit Saskatchewan, he intends to move to Spain.
Of the whoring waitress of Whir of Gold: "She's a simple country girl. My problem was not to make her a harlot with a heart of gold.... I do like her very much. I had to cut her and cut her and cut her. I was afraid of idealizing her."
C58 Toppings, Earle. Canadian Writers on Tape: Mordecai Richler/Sinclair Ross. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 1971. (Cassette tape. 30 min.)
Ross's two main themes concern man's struggle with the land and the motivations of the criminal mind. The move from the farm to the city involves a change of enemies from the land to the neighbour. Faith in the basic good of human nature is lost by a wary suspicious society. The progression from Philip to Chris and Sonny is implied. Ashamed of his hypocrisy, Philip is too honest to rationalize it, but not big enough to change. For Chris and Sonny, crime is the self-destructive response to the guilt of the puritan conscience.
Ross compares his creative impulse to our impulsive cry of "Look!" when something captures our attention. It is an urge to share intense impressions. He hopes that his readers will conclude that his stories were well written, that his characters rang true, and that he revealed something about human nature and human conflicts.
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C49 A'Court, Mary. "The Faiths of Four Men: Emerson: The Peaceful One of Concord, Mitchell: The Boy of Crocus, Melville: The Wanderer of Nantucket, and Ross: The Bittern of the Dust Bowl." M.A. Thesis Toronto 1966.
The natural elements of the universe--wind, rain, dust, and sun--express the nature of God and His attitude toward man. Philip's God is malicious, Mrs. Bentley's is indifferent, and Paul's is the fictional creation of men fearing their own insignificance. For Ross, God is malevolent, and men are the victims of circumstance. Society is a force which can encourage better values, but can also encourage self-importance. Philip, Mrs. Bentley, Judith, and Steve are self-centred, but Ross approves of their blind but proud responses as acts of self-preservation.
C50 Lee, Annie Hope. "Some Themes of Community and Exile in Six Canadian Novels." M.A. Thesis Toronto 1966.
With reference to similar concerns in Ross's short stories, Lee examines beast imagery and human alienation in As for Me and My House. That the Bentleys have no kitchen--the central room for families--indicates the sterility of their marriage. The drought--rendered with mirage-like impressionism--is symbolic of the town's sterility. Despite Philip's self-imposed exile behind his study door, there is some hope for Philip's journey from exile to community.
C51 Spettigue, Douglas. "The English-Canadian Novel: Some Attitudes and Themes in Relation to Form." Diss. Toronto 1966.
Spettigue includes Philip Bentley as an example of the artist-protagonist common in modern Canadian fiction whose creative potential is threatened directly by the terrain and indirectly by the garrison mentality of society.
C52 Wing, Ted. "Puritan Ethic and Social Response in the Novels of Ross, Davies, and MacLennan." M.A. Thesis Alberta 1969.
A comparison of how each author considers Calvinist puritanism as a negative force in society. Guilt and sanctimony are among the conventions of social respectability to which religion has descended. Ross demonstrates how the small town perpetuates these "inhibitions of the ethic."
C53 Fowlie, Irene L. "The Significance of Landscape in the Works of Sinclair Ross." M.A. Thesis Calgary 1977.
After surveying the ways that other Canadian writers have used landscape to project their visions of life, Fowlie examines Ross's use of the prairie landscape from his earliest short stories to his latest novel, Sawbones Memorial. Ross's use of landscape develops from simple Realism to internalized landscapes that reveal the "plight of prairie man in his search for significance and meaning in life."
C54 Moores, Wallace Byron. "The Valiant Struggle: A Study of the Short Stories of Sinclair Ross." M.A. Thesis Memorial 1977.
The stories are linked by recurring symbols, characters, narrative patterns, and themes. The weakest stories are gloomy treatments of eccentric and obsessive misfits, while the most poetic and optimistic stories concern the conflict of innocence and experience. The best stories treat life as a cycle of struggle and disappointment. They are dramatic, symbolic, and compassionate statements of human endurance.
C55 Weis, Lyle P. "Dream Fantasy in the Work of Sinclair Ross." M.A. Thesis British Columbia 1977.
Ross is more than a Realistic Prairie writer. Alienated from a bleak world, his characters turn to endow their environment with their visionary hopes for the future. Symbols of enclosure and stagnation are juxtaposed with symbols of life, movement, and action.
C56 Sunega, Thomas George. "The Works of Sinclair Ross." M.A. Thesis Queen's 1979.
Sunega's focus is biographical despite Ross's reticence. The attempt to discover Ross's personal history and literary origins establishes a parallel between the man and his work: "Both move on doggedly as they should."
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D1 Fadiman, Clifton. Rev. of As for Me and My House. New Yorker, 22 Feb. 1941, p. 72.
A brief, superficial response to a "story of an unhappy marriage." A wife endures her husband's hardships and bad temper "because she likes him, though it's hard to see why. Some good things here, but the book is very gloomy."
D2 Feld, Rose. Rev. of As for Me and My House. New York Herald Tribune Book Review, 23 Feb. 1941, p. 14.
"Miss Ross [sic] does a good job of portraying a neurotic woman and a neurotic man--for neither of the Bentleys is mentally healthy. The action on the part of Mrs. Bentley which brings them together at the end is intended to be a generous one but fundamentally, it seems to this reviewer, to smack of the same hypocrisy which made Philip a failure as a minister."
D3 Houser, Marianne. "A Man's Failure." The New York Times, 2 March 1941, p. 25.
"A fine first novel...told intensely, with a hard almost uncanny, feeling for the drab and depressing. And yet without any sentimental twist a bright last scene grows from it organically, interpreting if not justifying all previous desperation." "Though Philip is meant to be the central figure, it is [his wife] who gives the story life and suspense." She feels guilty about the protective care she has given Philip because he might not have compromised himself if she had "forced him to face life alone."
D4 "Fiction." Toronto Daily Star, 22 March 1941, p. 28.
"It is the story of Philip Arnold's [sic] struggle to find himself."
D5 Easton, Stuart C. "Excellent Canadian Novel." Saturday Night, 29 March 1941, p. 18.
After wondering how a man can portray the thoughts of a woman so well, Easton decides that "no woman could have seen herself so clearly, analyzed the pity and the tenderness and the dislike, and yet kept it free from sentimentality, balanced and complete." Easton believes that the minister does not love his wife "and cannot, for she has made him what he is, a hypocrite in a profession that sincerity alone can redeem from happiness."
D6 Davies, Robertson. "Caps and Bells." Peterborough Examiner, 26 April 1941, p. 4. Rpt. in his The Well-Tempered Critic: One Man's View of Theatre and Letters in Canada. Ed. Judith Skelton Grant. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1981, pp. 142-44.
The theme of this first-rate book is "a love affair that went wrong." The husband should be a painter, but is tormented by his hypocrisy. The wife's "love for her husband, and the feeling that he does not love her, robs her of self-expression." Ross treats with remarkable skill and restraint a relationship that, "though complex and perverse, is entirely credible." He "is keenly aware of the subtleties of the human mind but he knows when to let the reader draw his own inferences." Parts of this book suggest that Canadian literature will develop a "close resemblance to that of Russia."
Ross is receiving wide acclaim in the West and it is clear that Canada will be gaining a first-rate professional author and the Royal Bank will be losing a clerk.
D7 Deacon, W. A. "The Story of Prairie Parson's Wife." The Globe and Mail, 26 April 1941, p. 9.
Deacon welcomes this patient and disciplined "attempt at mature character interpretation." Ross explores the "psychological states of a childless woman" striving "to regain the love of her husband" who is estranged by his self-condemnation as a hypocrite. "Hopelessness turned to helplessness" is the husband's lot, but "by huge feminine wisdom and self-control Mrs. Bentley takes destiny in her hands and wins freedom against odds."
Ross's fidelity "to the typical false-fronted stores" and to "the dreary monotony of the once hopeful West almost kills any chances of popularity." In spite of such oppressive circumstances "it is an extremely wholesome book.... In social significance no less than because of uncompromisingly sincere craftsmanship, the novel attains a certain importance to Canada. Mr. Ross has something to say."
D8 MacPhail, Alexander. Rev. of As for Me and My House. Queen's Quarterly, 48 (Summer 1941), 198-99.
A surprisingly unperceptive review in the journal that was championing Ross. The same skill that Ross demonstrated in his faithful depictions of Western farm life is applied to what must be the bleakest town in the West. Ross "deals with elemental things, with misery, hardship, frustration, such as are noted in Grapes of Wrath and Tobacco Road and so much in vogue in these days. One cannot praise Mr. Ross too highly for the skill and beauty of his work."
D9 Brown, E. K. Rev. of As for Me and My House. The Canadian Forum, July 1941, p. 124.
"Facts of weather and passion" are "both local and universal," but the diary form succumbs to the monotonous repetitions that "deaden the reader's sensitiveness to the tragedy and...human reality of the central pair." Reducing Paul to a caricature obsessed with etymology is a minor flaw. Prohibiting the wife to see Philip's reaction to the death of his mistress is a major flaw as Ross thus fails to deliver the climactic scene that "would have given a release to the emotions pent up throughout the book."
D10 MacGillivray, J. R. "Letters in Canada: Fiction." University of Toronto Quarterly, 11 (April 1942), 298, 300-02.
The novel offers a refreshingly critical examination of Canadian society, but its plot structure and characterization are static and unreal. Philip's self-hatred "appears exaggerated to a pathological degree." It is saved by its narrative technique and descriptions: "Mrs. Bentley is an assiduous observer."
D11 Stewart, H. L. Rev. of As for Me and My House. Dalhousie Review, 22 (April 1942), 130.
In his first novel, Ross has done well his exercise in debunking the clergy, but his skill indicates that he may next do "with equal finesse, a job better worth doing."
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D31 Woodcock, George. "Adele Wiseman and Sinclair Ross: Return Engagements." Maclean's, Oct. 1974, p. 110.
Ross has written a "tight little book, almost a novella," yet it is "as near to a play as it is to a novel.... A vast background of the past has been created around the brief evening of the party." Although Ross returns to a past which is similar to that depicted in his more poignant first novel, the point of this return is to show "us how personal relationships reflect the changes in the time" as Ross "lets his characters project themselves externally in their conversations, and then, through alternating passages of reflection, contrasts the images that emerge with their own internal pictures of themselves and with the way others see them privately and in memory."
D32 Stubbs, Roy St. George. "Ross Redivivus." Winnipeg Free Press, 12 Oct. 1974, p. 20.
Recalling his eager visits with Ross in 1941, Stubbs regrets that the sensitive Ross suffered public indifference for a generation. But at last Ross has fulfilled his early promise. "I am not sure...whether [Sawbones Memorial]...should be placed one step ahead, or one step behind, Ross's first novel."
D33 French, William. "This One Can Stand on Its Own." The Globe and Mail, 26 Oct. 1974, p. 32.
As with Mrs. Bentley from Ross's first novel, there is here "a strong central character who sees the town and its flaws with a clear, penetrating eye." But, here, the "viewpoint keeps shifting" as Ross's novel is not only a portrait of a country doctor, but an indictment of the gossip and bickering of a self-righteous but hypocritical townfolk.
D34 Sandler, Linda. "Ross Turns Bigotry into Comedy." Toronto Star, 29 Oct. 1974, p. F7.
In the midst of malicious muckraking and backbiting, the townspeople lament the passing of an era. The old-style medical doctor who stood "midway between priest and man of science" is to be succeeded by one who has had the benefit of a more advanced training, "but will never be the trusted councellor of the townspeople."
D35 McGillivray, Don. "Beyond the Oratory Canadian Tolerance Is Only Skin Deep." Financial Times, 4 Nov. 1974, p. 8.
Immigrants should be warned that Canadians will consider them as second-class citizens and the few Canadians who disagree should continue to press for tolerance. Ross responds (December 9, 1974, p. 9 [B52]) to assert his optimism that we are overcoming racial prejudice, and wishes only that we could "find a way to cut the rubbing time."
D36 Laurence, Margaret. "Sinclair Ross Looks at the Prairies, His Time and Place." The Gazette [Montreal], 9 Nov. 1974, p. 58.
Ross's first novel taught Laurence that "one could write out of the known background of a small prairie town and that everything that happens anywhere also some way happens there."
This new novel depicts narrow-minded, self-righteous people who are "part of their setting--they have formed the prairie town and it has formed them." Theirs is a town called Upward--a typical brave name against the bleakness. Mordecai Richler once said that his task is to get right his time and place in the Montreal of his youth. Ross has got his time and place in the prairies exactly right.
D37 James, Geoffrey. "Too Many Voices." Time [Canada], 11 Nov. 1974, p. 16.
A novel constructed only out of dialogue and monologue is like the shaky structure of a house built of window-panes in which the creator has no place to hide. Although the gossip is uncomfortably close to soap opera, it "has its moments of uncanny verisimilitude."
D38 Hosek, Chaviva. Rev. of Sawbones Memorial. Quill & Quire, Dec. 1974, p. 22.
Ross explores the meaning of a doctor's life in the context of the communal transition of a town. By developing multiple viewpoints and a sense of ironic comedy, Ross avoids the claustrophobic weariness of his earlier depictions of narrow-minded townfolk, but the final revelation and the preachy, sentimental farewell make for only a "marginally successful" conclusion.
D39 Mulhallen, Karen. "Onward and Upward with Sinclair Ross." Books in Canada, Dec. 1974, pp. 9-11.
Sawbones Memorial may have surpassed As for Me and My House as "the greatest Canadian novel." It stands out for its flawless technical accomplishment, its range of human experience, its broad and gentle humour, and genial intelligence." It is a tour de force in which Ross "has gone against convention and created a world in which characters...touch one another in both time and space, through generations and over continents." Presiding over the rituals of birth, life, and death for the community, is its shaman, Doc Hunter. Leaving "behind him the continuing gift of life," Doc Hunter speaks of the smell of April that promises a new beginning "just as it was all beginning that day" when he first arrived.
D40 Atwood, Margaret. Rev. of Sawbones Memorial. Sunday Supplement. CBC Radio, 15 Dec. 1974.
Preferring Sawbones Memorial even to As for Me and My House, Atwood believes it should put an "end to the myth of Ross as a one-book writer." The power and charm of this fine novel lie in the small, beautiful set pieces and the texture of its speech. Ross portrays the surface gentility of a town that persecutes anyone different. His universal theme is "the nature of human evil, the evil of human nature, and the possibility of overcoming both, though in a very limited and imperfect way."
D41 Scott, Kenneth. "Welcomed Guests." Alive, No. 41 (1975), p. 35.
A sophomoric tribute to a great classic: "Words, words, words are what surround this Canadian Hamlet, one Doc Hunter, the book's protagonist."
D42 Davies, Barrie. Rev. of Sawbones Memorial. The Fiddlehead, No. 105 (Spring 1975), pp. 130-31.
After noting Ross's adherence to the unities of classical drama, Davies recounts the basic events of the story and concludes that the book "succeeds chiefly as a vignette of small-town characters and attitudes, in which the more generous and capacious minds are finally dominant."
D43 Stouck, David. "Canadian Classics." West Coast Review, 10 (June 1975), 47-48.
Ross works best within the formal structures of the short story or the limited viewpoint. In Sawbones Memorial, he "has found a unique narrative form that gives point and precision to every word." The narrative structure is that of the retirement party itself, a dramatic form at once "organic and fragmented,...as memories and viewpoints fall together to form a mosaic of the community and its past." The transition from the party to the coda-like ending, a ritualistic scene from the doctor's memory, is especially effective.
D44 Sutton, Michael. "In Reality." Canadian Review, No. 2 (July-Aug. 1975), pp. 42-43.
Sutton attempts to articulate his confusion about a novel in which the protagonist despairs over a world that remains the same while the author discovers the recordable changes.
D45 Munton, Ann. Rev. of Sawbones Memorial. The Dalhousie Review, 55 (Autumn 1975), 573-75.
Ross has more than equalled his previous Canadian classic. Within the limitations of the three classical unities, Ross constructs a technical masterpiece, a living theatre with no authorial descriptions. Upward is a more hopeful town and the doctor is a more agreeable character than any from Ross's earlier works. The rub is that the doctor has seen too many of the townfolk through crises that they would sooner forget in order to gossip more self-righteously.
D46 Lauder, Scott. "Throbbing Life." The Canadian Forum, Nov. 1975, p. 37.
A descriptive review of a novel that earns Ross the respect he deserves. One character explains that the townsmen "didn't come to Saskatchewan,...we came West." The former outcast returns as the new doctor "because he, like the reader, suspects that they may yet get there, in spite of themselves."
D47 Shohet, Linda. Rev. of Sawbones Memorial. Canadian Fiction Magazine, No. 19 (Winter 1975), pp. 95-97.
Every memory, dialogue, and inner revelation directly or indirectly reinforces the central focus of the novel. Although the old doctor's successor is absent, "as the focus of Upward's fears and hopes," he becomes the central character. "The tension arises from the situation as perceived from without and the truth as it is known or construed by the characters themselves."
D48 Williams, David. Rev. of Sawbones Memorial. Queen's Quarterly, 82 (Winter 1975), 641-42.
If this "were an experiment in style, it would be nearly a tour de force success." But, however "well-suited" his style is, Ross's strategy reduces Sawbones to "a collection of unfinished short stories, a sort of tour de force reminiscence."
The only solution for overcoming the dreary "babbitness and vapidness" of the "awkward, rambling, artificial dialogue" of small-town characters would be to shift the focus from speech to body language, from the community to Nick.
D49 Weis, Lyle. "Landscape Criticism Not Valid: Sinclair Ross's New Novel." The Sphinx, 2 (Winter 1976), 45-47.
Sawbones is consistent with the unifying theme for all of Ross's work: "...that human sexuality is in a state of agonized confusion, and that this condition lies at the heart of man's sense of acute personal and social alienation." The main achievement of this novel is the balance Ross sets between tender sympathy and penetrating social criticism. Although Weis complains about Ross's "unabashed taste for the stereotyped character," he looks forward to Ross's treatment of three of the characters' ensuing relationships in the promised sequel, Price Above Rubies.
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D12 Honderich, Theodore. "Farmer, Wife and Hired Man." Toronto Daily Star, 30 Aug. 1958, p. 28.
A suspenseful story that "suffers...from its reliance upon stereotyped and overworked devices.... There is a great deal said of a great and powerful stallion, kept on the farm only for purposes of breeding. This sort of blatant symbolism, intended to increase the effect upon us of the human stallion in the main narrative, is all too familiar." Ross chooses to wear "two hats, that of story-teller and that of wordy psychologist." Failing to describe "Chris Rowe's actions so that they themselves inform us of his growth toward maturity," Ross butts in with diagnosis. His bleak, harnassed, worked-over style "saps most of the impact from an essentially dramatic situation."
D13 Hughes, Isabelle. "Long Awaited Second Novel." The Globe and Mail, 20 Sept. 1958, p. 19.
An expertly written and thoughtful "study of the darker human emotions." The growing conflict in Chris's mind is masterfully revealed "in an atmosphere of such foreboding and tension...that its denouement remains quite unpredictable."
D14 Scott, James. "Sinclair Ross Has Forgotten Prairie Smells." Toronto Telegram, 20 Sept. 1958, p. 37.
Ross writes with the same intensity and deep understanding of the complexities of human nature that marked his first book, but has lost touch with the "prairie sights and sounds and smells" which he had evoked in such a manner that they had "contributed to the building up of the refined human struggle which he was depicting."
D15 Mullins, S. G. Rev. of The Well. Culture, 19 (Dec. 1958), 458.
Ross is "fond of symbolism, some of which he goes to great lengths to explain." Of the railways, wells, horses, and dreams, the latter are employed to "keep the reader abreast of the moral and spiritual regeneration which occurs in Chris."
D16 Weaver, Robert. Rev. of The Well. The Tamarack Review, No. 10 (Winter 1959), p. 106.
Ross combines the suspense of a thriller with the "dark passion" of a "sombre investigation of the relationships" between three misfits. The two elements "rest uneasily together, and the faintly hopeful ending is a mistake," but the "contrast of their tight, barren lives and normal happenings in pasture and barn has some nice ironic implications."
D17 Bissell, Claude. "Letters in Canada: Fiction." University of Toronto Quarterly, 28 (Summer 1959), 369-70.
A "superior novel" with a "clear and specific theme" concerning a criminal's assertion of himself as a moral being, but it lacks "sufficient intensity and power to weld together theme and action."
D18 Weekes, H. V. Rev. of The Well. Dalhousie Review, 38 (Winter 1959), 529-30.
The Well exemplifies the modern obsession with the "sociological predestination" of delinquent anti-heroes. Ross is condemned for subjecting his delinquent to a belated but unconvincing change of heart and for subjecting the reader to "authentic details rigidly selected to produce a false picture.... Any world will have its grubby aspects, but even a pseudo-science ought to consider all the evidence."
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D19 Sypnowich, Peter. "This Author May Be the Man Who Could Rescue Literature." Toronto Daily Star, 21 Nov. 1970, p. 67.
A review of Dave Godfrey's The New Ancestors and Whir of Gold. The saviour is Dave Godfrey. Ross is dismissed in a paragraph. An ambitious musician consumes a woman's "money and love despite his guilty memories of the golden bird...he cruelly caught in a golfer trap as a boy."
D20 Duncan, Chester. "Not All Is Gold" Winnipeg Free Press, 19 Dec. 1970, p. 14NL.
The accuracy of Ross's observations and the lean, probing, imaginative prose are marred by an incredible plot. It is difficult to believe that a gifted village child could turn to popular music, that a demonic power could grasp so firmly a good man, and that an angelic power could surface in a lady of such easy virtue.
D21 Garner, Hugh. "Bamboozled by Time and Lumpen Losers." Globe Magazine, 2 Jan. 1971, p. 17.
The title is an allegorical reference to "the warm-hearted floozie" who is like the whirring wings of the maimed flicker struggling to free itself from Sonny's trap. Fate has steered her to the beer parlors instead of the marriage bed. Ross is a Realist who takes us inside the lives of his characters. But his short story ("revealing the thoughts only of the protagonist") cannot sustain a novel, however short his editors seem to have cut it.
D22 Dawe, Alan. "Moral for a Clarinet Player Down on His Luck." The Vancouver Sun, 22 Jan. 1971, pp. 35A, 39A.
The suspenseful plot "has the unity of action and the sombre mood of a Greek tragedy." Perhaps because he is a banker, Ross "still sees poverty as the most appropriate metaphor for the human condition." Inarticulate isolation is still the barrier between men and women. Although older now and moved to Montreal, the hero is the nameless farm boy narrator of "The Outlaw" and "Coronet at Night."
D23 Chesley, Stephen. "Whir of Gold Builds on Past for Modern Tale." The Varsity [Univ. of Toronto], 27 Jan. 1971, p. 12.
A member of the generation whose whole sensibility is rooted in the personal failure of the thirties, Ross transplants that experience to the slum rooming houses of the modern city. Ross portrays those failures who, having lost all hope, can save only their pride. Between Madelaine--the ever hopeful saint who offers Sonny love, care, and impetus--and Charlie--the criminal who offers quick cash from a robbery--Sonny chooses Charlie's route as a pride-saving effort to escape his reliance on Mad.
Ross's symbolism and prose style are effective, but the character of Mad requires a fuller portrayal to be more believable.
D24 Swan, Susan. Rev. of Whir of Gold. Toronto Telegram, 6 Feb. 1971, p. 31.
A profoundly moving love story. Sonny rejects Mad's choice of him as her "right one" because he is "determined not to abuse something helpless" as he did long ago with the flicker. "But his efforts not to lead Mad on are so self-conscious they are unbearably cruel."
D25 Montagnes, Anne. Rev. of Whir of Gold. The Canadian Forum, March 1971, pp. 443-44.
"A terrible book" that portrays Canadian women (mother, landlady, and whore) as uneducated, but with genteel sensibilities. "The real heroine is the hero's horse, Isobel.... He left her on the prairies of course, but when he remembers her both story and language light up."
D26 Barbour, Doug. "Fine Novel from a Deceptive Author." Edmonton Journal, 5 March 1971, p. 60.
Though the novel gives only Sonny's side of the story, it is a story with depth and suspense. Flashbacks to Sonny's youth supply the background to a "true picture of everyman as a loser.... All his dreams of success, of climbing the mountain (the name MacA1pine has obvious symbolic overtones...) are doomed to failure."
D27 Stephens, Donald. "Fluid Time." Canadian Literature, No. 48 (Spring 1971), pp. 92-94.
A simple, conventional, well-written story of two social misfits "coming together for a short moment in time." The break-up of their relationship is disappointing because after creating the desire for a happy ending, Ross offers nothing but the ordinariness of their lives. That Ross assumes no attitude towards this ordinariness suggests that he is "primarily a short story stylist."
D28 Dafoe, John W. "Another Kind of Depression." The Montreal Star, 17 April 1971, p. 16.
The central weakness of this novel owes to Ross's "complacency towards the role of women as victim." While Sonny's "ethic of Prairie respectability" will help him through the underside of life that desperation had led him into, Mad is a "permanent loser who clearly will never escape to the domestic life she dreams of."
D29 Moss, John G. Rev. of Whir of Gold. The Fiddlehead, No. 90 (Summer 1971), pp. 126-28.
Whir of Gold reflects the literary patterns of Ross's first novel and the narrative dynamics of his second, but lacks the first's prairie setting and the second's third-person objectivity. Still, as a "study of the correlation between human hopes and human isolation" it is "an excellent novel." The "human chaos of the city" as the "most appropriate mirror" for the central character, "a vacuous Ulysses." All the other characters are "literary extensions of Sonny's character.... Their purpose is ultimately determined by their passage through the self-consciousness of his life and mind." "His ambition to be a successful musician is ennobling, but the piteous manner by which he pursues it, demeans him." The point is emphasized by his memory of resorting to a rusted gopher trap to ensnare a golden prairie bird.
D30 Roper, Gordon. "Letters in Canada: Fiction." University of Toronto Quarterly, 40 (Summer 1971), 384.
In this "modern version of an old morality play," a young man "is locked into a moral pattern he has brought with him from his" rural family to an urban slum.
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What the substantial collection of criticism on Sinclair Ross lacks is balance. His first novel, As for Me and My House, is now considered a classic. But, since several reviewers including Margaret Atwood (D40) and Margaret Laurence (D36) have recognized that his fourth novel, Sawbones Memorial, is equal to his first, discussions of Ross's achievement may no longer dwell on the acclaimed classic with references to a few short stories and regrets that his other novels demonstrate an unfulfilled potential. As for Me and My House, The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories, and Sawbones Memorial constitute an impressive canon--a small but well-balanced contribution to Canadian literature.
The critics did rescue As for Me and My House from its initial neglect. First, Roy Daniells focused on Mrs. Bentley as a "candid, selfless, receptive soul" whose "self-sacrifice out of love...shines in all its pristine Puritan beauty" (C6). Next, Warren Tallman (C7, C8) and Hugo McPherson (C10) focused on Philip as representing an identifiably Canadian theme--the failure of the artist whose imagination is oppressed in a cultural wilderness. But, after Donald Stephens (C11) and W. H. New (C16) turned attention to Mrs. Bentley as an unreliable narrator, some critics have threatened to polarize the novel in their swing from praising Mrs. Bentley and condemning Philip to praising Philip and condemning Mrs. Bentley (C47). Shifting attention to a broader range of Ross's fiction should reconcile rather than resolve these differences of opinion. Ambiguities are resolved in none of Ross's work because Ross seeks to explore questions rather than prove hypotheses.
Ross believes that his primary concern is with man and nature (C35). His best work deals with the victims of isolation on farms or of alienation in false-fronted towns scattered across the weather-beaten Prairies during the depression. But, whether Ross is a Naturalist (C49) who considers nature as a malevolent force and man as a victim of compulsion and circumstance, or whether he considers nature as a challenging trial with man as its potential victor whose endurance of an apparently futile existence is worthy of respect (C21), are questions that remain unresolved. The following passage from "The Painted Door" is typical of Ross's balancing act between the two positions. Nature may actually be alien to man or it may only seem that way to a lonely wife:
In the clear, bitter light the long white miles of prairie landscape seemed a region alien to life. Even the distant farmsteads she could see served only to intensify a sense of isolation. Scattered across the face of so vast and bleak a wilderness it was difficult to conceive of them as a testimony of human hardihood and endurance. Rather they seemed futile, lost, to cower before the implacability of snow-swept earth and clear pale sun-chilled sky.
Within the context of the relation between man and nature is Ross's exploration in each novel of the relation between the artist and society. Whether dealing with the artist as a failed preacher, a dreaming wife or whore, a criminal (C58), or a shaman-like doctor (D39), Ross is exploring the artistic sensibilities of those who are more interested in creating the world as they believe it should be than in understanding the world as it is. The conflict emerging from this sensibility is between power and impotence, hope and despair. The first two are conditions, the second two are attitudes. The question that Ross explores is: if impotence is the reality of our condition, must despair be our response?
In As for Me and My House, hope is not clearly a positive alternative to despair. The preacher who has lost his vision of a new world can see the fallen world only as it is in all its pettiness. His wife at last abandons their present facade, but her determined effort to renew their lives is self-defeating (D2, C16, C38). In The Well, Ross gives hope direction. A young criminal, typical of his restless generation's impatience for material progress, considers leaping like Raskolinkov beyond the Hell of guilt. But he instead leaps back to retrieve the traditions of the past when heroic toil earned man a harmonious relationship with the land (C32).
Ross's women epitomize the plight of the artist. If their attempts to change an individual are futile, then what hope has the artist to change the world? Yet the progression from Mrs. Bentley and Sylvia to Mad is from self-defeating domination to sacrificial self-control. In Whir of Gold, Mad abandons her attempt to marry and renew a self-absorbed musician because she loves him too much to continue directing him (C1, C48d). Still, she does not lose hope. She will continue waiting for her right one. Here, only Ross's empathy for Mad relieves us from a vision as bleak as Beckett's. But, in Sawbones Memorial, hope is transferred to the reader. Ross depicts the whole town of Upward looking back at Horizon with apprehension about its progress. Doc Hunter is not as proud of the town's spontaneous cooperative heroism in times of crisis as he is dismayed over its lapses. He asks why "the enormous amount of sympathy and goodwill that springs up the moment someone is in trouble" is afterward so quickly thrown away (D40, C1). Yet the doctor represents the artist as a man of action who has not entirely failed in his attempt to introduce changes to a narrow-minded community. With his son succeeding him in April, there is hope for renewal (D39): "I only hope that he'll look back and say, as I do, 'They were not wasted years.'"
Finally there is Ross's prose, which is always praised, but never analyzed. With the transition from the hard, lean, eloquent prose of the short stories and of Mrs. Bentley's journal entries to the fragmented dialogue between Sonny and Mad, Ross's fidelity to the speech of inarticulate characters becomes too great a strain on his own spare style (C32). But with the multiple viewpoints exchanged throughout Sawbones Memorial, Ross has found a balance between dramatic intercourse and reflective introspection that enables him to exploit the full range of his stylistic techniques. Close analysis of this technical range will provide a better understanding of Ross's art.
The least accessible information complied for this first comprehensive bibliography of the works and criticism of Sinclair Ross are the translations for which his publishers have kept no records, the newspaper reviews and Masters' theses for which there are no indexes, and the radio and television adaptations of his work which are now in the process of being catalogued at the CBC Archives. Studies of Ross's influence must consider the dates of these broadcasts. We need only to consider the impact of the voice of Foster Hewitt to realize the importance of broadcasting the work of a writer so inspirational to a generation of prospective writers in a country whose culture was so dependent on its national radio network.
For their assistance in the preparation of this bibliography, I wish to thank my wife, Sheila Latham, of the Toronto Public Library; Michael Darling of Vanier College, Montreal; Doris Sangster and Gail Donald of the CBC Archives; and Charis Wahl of McClelland and Stewart.
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Since 1942, when he published his first short story, W. O. Mitchell has become one of Canada's most prolific and versatile storytellers. His writings include novels, stories, articles, and numerous plays for stage, radio, and screen. While the variety of form and content in Mitchell's work is often mentioned in biographical sketches of the author, literary critics have ignored the stories and the dramas, placing most of their attention on the published novels--Who Has Seen the Wind, The Kite, and The Vanishing Point. And although for several years Mitchell's fiction has been included in high school and university English courses, we have yet to see a critical monograph on Mitchell.
For the most part, the critics agree that Mitchell is concerned with the broadest, most universal issues. Firmly rooted in well-defined settings of place and region, the Saskatchewan prairie and Paradise Valley, the characters in Mitchell's novels seek the answers to questions about the nature of human existence, the cycle of life and death, the perception of time, and man's inhumanity to man.
The tone of the 1947 and 1948 reviews of Who Has Seen the Wind ranged from unconditional praise, by the Chicago Sunday Tribune (D2), to the awkward hesitancy of the Calgary Herald (D3). Reviews in The Dalhousie Review (D10) and the University of Toronto Quarterly (D12) showed insight into the novel's structure and theme, but it wasn't until 1963, with Canadian Literature's publication of W. H. New's "A Feeling of Completion," that any noteworthy critical theories were developed (C12). New's argument centred on Brian O'Connal's development from the personal sensations of harmonious innocence to the abstract knowledge of complex experience. In Butterfly on Rock, D. G. Jones described the novel in terms of a "struggle between a garrison culture and the land" (C16). Ken Mitchell, in the Lakehead University Review, rejected former regional labels attached to Who Has Seen the Wind, viewing Mitchell's small Prairie town as a microcosm of the universe, with young Brian seeking its meaning (Cl9). Brian's maturation is attributed to his growing awareness of nature, his acceptance of life and death, and his recognition of the forces of good and evil around him. In 1978, Robin Mathews interpreted Who Has Seen the Wind as an epic comedy that combines Stephen Leacock's view of humour and F. P. Grove's view of tragedy (C31).
The publication of Jake and the Kid, in 1961, made available for the first time in book form a selection of the popular stories which Mitchell had originally published in Maclean's and scripted for radio in the 1950s. The newspaper reviewers welcomed the book, while Margaret Laurence, in Canadian Literature, claimed that the stories were too sentimental and moralistic for adult readers (D42).
The Kite followed a year later. The general consensus was that it is a study in immortality. The time-pressed, urban journalist, David Lang, questions his place in life and art and grows through his relationship with 111-year-old Daddy Sherry. Catherine McLay provides the best explication of this theme in the Journal of Canadian Fiction (C23). Critical views of The Vanishing Point focus on Mitchell's use of metaphor, Carlyle Sinclair's journey to self-discovery, and white society's degradation of our native peoples.
The socio-political implications of The Vanishing Point and the subject matter of Sacrament (a television drama about a homosexual) were overlooked when Back to Beulah was performed. Still influenced, perhaps, by the "prairie gopher image" of Mitchell, journalists saw this drama about our treatment of the mentally ill as a major departure from Mitchell's "sunny Jake days." Most literary scholarship to date lacks a broader critical perspective which would place due emphasis on Mitchell as both dramatist and short-story writer--as well as novelist.
The major difficulty encountered in the preparation of this bibliography was the lack of access to W. O. Mitchell's radio plays. Although the CBC Programme Archives stores tapes of the plays, the incomplete cataloguing records made it impossible to retrieve many of the tapes, let alone gather or verify the bibliographical details. Much of the information provided in the bibliography's radio plays section was compiled through primary research which involved listening to the tapes themselves in order to discover their titles and broadcast dates.
I would like to express my thanks and appreciation for the assistance provided by Anne Burke, Nora Clark, Michael Darling of Vanier College, Howard Fink of Concordia University, David Latham of University of Toronto, Mrs. Merna Mitchell, Doris Sangster of the CBC Programme Archives, Jean Tener of the University of Calgary Library, and the staff of the Metropolitan Toronto Public Library.
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A31 introd. 20th Century Canadian Poetry: An Anthology. Toronto: Ryerson, 1953. xwi, 169 pp. With notes.
A32 Record of Service m the Second World War. Vancouver: Univ. of British Columbia, 1955. 46 pp. A supplement to the University of British Columbia War Memorial Manuscript Record.
A33 Ira Dilworth, Desmond Pacey, Jean-Charles Bonenfant, and Roger Duhamel, eds. New Voices: Canadian University Writing of 1956. Foreword Joseph McCulley. Toronto: Dent, 1956. VII, 184 pp.
A34 introd. Selected Poems of Malcolm Lowry. The Pocket Poets Series, No. 17. San Francisco: City Lights, 1962. 81 pp. Edited with the assistance of Margerie Lowry.
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A25 "Drummond of Hawthornden." M.A. Thesis Toronto 192.7.
A26 "Chaucer's Irony." 2. vols. Diss. Toronto 1936.
A27 The Creative Writer. Toronto: CBC, 1966. 85 pp. The texts of seven half-hour talks first broadcast during November and December 1965 in The Best Ideas You'll Hear Tonight series, CBC Radio. The book includes "Creativity through Fiction" (B418), "Experimentation Today" (B417), "Madness and Exorcism of Poetry" (B421), "Reasons and Unreasons for Poetry," "The Writer and His Education," "The Writer-Creator in Today's World" (B422), and "The Writing of a Poem: Compulsion and Suppression" (B423).
A28 The Cow Jumped over the Moon: The Writing and Reading of Poetry. Aspects of English. Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972. 112. pp. Includes Appendices A-D, "Reading Poetry," "Writing and Reading: Some Lyrics and Satirics," and "Writing Poetry." Also includes reprints of the following poems: "canada: case history: 1971" (B164), "David" (B19), "El Greco: Espolio" (B93), "Ellesmereland I" (B79), "Ellesmereland II" (B139), and "first aid" (B213).
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A44 Point Grey Gazette. Editor-in-chief, 2 May 1925-1 Aug. 1925.
A45 The Ubyssey [Univ. of British Columbia], Sept. 1923-March 1926. Twice weekly.
A46 The Canadian Forum. On editorial board, Dec. 1936-April 1937. Literary editor, May 1937-Oct. 1939. Monthly.
A47 Canadian Poetry Magazine. Editor-in-chief, 10, No. 1 (Sept. 1946)-11, No. 4 (June 1948). Joint editor (with A. S. Bourinot), 12, No. 1 (Sept. 1948). Quarterly.
A48 Outposts [Manchester, Eng.], No. 10 (Summer 1948). Special Canadian issue.
A49 Poetry Commonwealth [London, Eng.], No. 8 (Spring 1951). Special Canadian issue.
A50 "Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957): A Bibliography: Part 1. Works by Malcolm Lowry." Canadian Literature, No. 8 (Spring 1961), pp. 81-88. Continued in the Summer 1961 issue.
A51 "Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957): A Bibliography: Part II. Works about Malcolm Lowry." Canadian Literature, No. 9 (Summer 1961), pp. 80-84. Continuation of the bibliography in the Spring 1961 issue.
A52 "First Supplement to Malcolm Lowry Bibliography." Canadian Literature, No. 11 (Summer 1962), pp. 90-95.
A53 Envoi [Cheltenham, Eng.], No. 23 (1964).Special Canadian issue.
A54 Prism International. Editor-in-chief, 4, No. 1 (Summer 1964)-5, No. 2 (Autumn 1965).
A55 "Second Supplement to Malcolm Lowry Bibliography." Canadian Literature, No. 19 (Winter 1964), pp. 83-89.
A56 New: American & Canadian Poetry [Trumansburg, N.Y.]. Advisory editor, No. 1 (Sept. 1966)-No. 14 (Dec. 1970).
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A36 Earle Birney Papers, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
The material is housed in 153 boxes. A short list of the contents of these boxes follows:
Boxes 1-48: Correspondence, including fan mail, family letters, business matters, personal letters, and so on.
Boxes 49-51: Poems by Birney, including drafts.
Boxes 52-53: Prose non-fiction, including drafts.
Boxes 54-61: Notes, drafts, and proofs of radio and TV scripts, stories, essays, Turvey, poetry, The Creative Writer, Down the Long Table, and others.
Box 62: Interview with Trotsky; thesis material on Chaucer.
Box 63: Notebooks on various old languages; biographical and autobiographical material; travel notes and clippings.
Boxes 64-66: Malcolm Lowry material.
Boxes 67-69: Photographs.
Box 70: Office appointment pads, 1951-67.
Boxes 71-72: Diaries; address books; notebooks kept by Ken Johnstone; passport; and savings books.
Boxes 73-75: Manuscripts by other authors.
Box 76: Notes and clippings on authors.
Boxes 77-81: Notes and clippings on various university courses given by Birney.
Boxes 82-84: Miscellaneous administrative papers from various universities.
Boxes 85-86: Card files covering a wide variety of subjects.
Boxes 87-89: Scrapbooks.
Boxes 90-91: Tape recordings: includes Anthology for Music (CBC, 2 tapes; and Universal, 3 films); Crescendo, by Ned Mullah, narr. Earle Birney with Nexus (cassette); "David" (cassette); "The Ebb Begins from Dream"; "Eye Change (for Earle Birney)," by David Harris; "From Hazel Bough" (cassette); "Interview for Ont. Schools" (3 cassettes); "Reflections"; "To a Very Old Woman."
Box 92: Photographs; recordings; sketch made of Turvey.
Boxes 93-108: Restricted correspondence.
Box 109: Academic degrees and diplomas.
Boxes 110-11: Drafts of poems.
Box 112: Score for "Nara."
Box 113: "22 visualities."
Box 114: Drafts, typescripts, and proofs of The Cow Jumped over the Moon.
Boxes 115-16: Drafts, typescripts, and proofs of what's so big about GREEN? and Collected Poems.
Box 117: Tapes and movies.
Box 118: Appointment calendars; address book; and card file of periodicals.
Box 119: Souvenirs and miscellany.
Boxes 120-23: Material sent to Birney from other authors.
Boxes 124-34: Correspondence, 1970-.
Boxes 135-38: Restricted correspondence.
Box 139: Catherine Broustra's thesis, University of Bordeaux, 1970, "Earle Birney: A Canadian Poet." Two copies, one annotated by Birney.
Boxes 140-44: Correspondence, 1974-76.
Box 145: Business correspondence; cards and ephemera.
Boxes 146-47: Restricted correspondence, 1974-76.
Box 148: Drafts of poems, 1974-76, and later radio broadcasts. The Rugging and the Moving Times: typescript. Various drafts of "Conversations with Trotsky."
Box 149: Collected Poems. Photocopy of TS.
Box 150: Critical Views on Canadian Writers: Earle Birney, ed. Bruce Nesbitt. Photocopy of TS.
Box 151: Tss of work sent to Barney by other writers.
Box 152: Tapes (list included in box).
Box 153: "Xmas comes but once ..." Videotape made under the direction of Nancy Smith and Scott Ziegler at the University of Western Ontario, Jan. 1982.
A37 Special Collections, University Library, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
Boxes 1-4: Income tax documents 1940-54, 1956-64.
Box 5: Birney's child moccasins; various papers and notes.
Box 6: Duplicate correspondence; some published writings; the third draft of Down the Long Table.
Box 7: Correspondence; drafts of poems; clippings; posters. In addition, the library contains some four hundred books and issues of periodicals from Birney's own collection, including some presentation copies.
A38 Douglas Library, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
Typescripts of David and Other Poems, 20th Century Canadian Verse; correspondence with Lorne Pierce, Alan Crawley, and George Herbert Clarke.
A39 Peter Whyte Foundation, Archives of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta
Correspondence; an interview (transcribed) with Jon Whyte; nine typescripts of poems about the Canadian Rockies; and an extract from serial reminiscences of Burr R. Campbell from the Revelstoke Review (1945) concerning Birney's parents' marriage.
A40 Manuscript Collection, Main Library, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
Typescripts and proof of Trial of a City and Other Poems; preliminary and fourth drafts of Turvey; and page proofs and galley proof of Turvey.
A41 Manuscript Collection, Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas
Only 3 works and several letters are catalogued. The catalogued works include an autobiographical note, "Earle Birney," and "Hot Springs." The uncatalogued works include composite typescripts; clippings; Xeroxes of Birney's Without the Aid of a Feather, approximately 125 poems; photocopies of some of Birney's poems in translation (French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Malay, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish); printed announcements, reviews, etc.; photoduplicated drafts of approximately 10 poems and prose pieces; typescript draft and duplicate copy of The Cow Jumped over the Moon; master copy of Birney's Bibliographies of Contemporary Poetry prepared for creative writing classes at University of British Columbia (c. 1964). The catalogued letters Include 1 to Edmund Blunden (25 June 1958), 2 to El Corno Emplumado (22 Oct. 1963, 20 Nov. 1963), 6 to John Lehmann (1941-47), 5 to John Lehmann (1959-61), 1 to Alan Ross of London Magazine (27 June 1961), 1 to Barbara Cooper (24 June 1959). The catalogued letters to Birney include 1 from Robert Sward (stapled to a copy of Raspberry), 6 from John Lehmann (1943-48), 4 from John Lehmann (24 June 1959, 25 June 1960, 11 Nov. 1960, and 19 Jan. 1961). The uncatalogued letters by and addressed to Birney include approximately 240 items, mostly to and from publishers and other organizations; Margaret Atwood is numbered among some of the few, personal correspondents; many of these letters are photoduplicates of the originals. Miscellaneous material includes 30 miscellaneous, empty envelopes; 1 folder of clippings, reviews, miscellaneous notes, lists, etc.; approximately 150 items in total.
A42 Poetry Collection, Lockwood Memorial Library, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
Six items, including a letter and some manuscripts.
A43 Manuscripts Department, Alderman Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
Two drafts of The Damnation of Vancouver; and the third draft of Turvey.
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A57 What Is a Plant? Vancouver: Unitarian Church of Vancouver, 1954. 6 pp. A sermon mimeographed by the Unitarian Church of Vancouver, 23 May 1954.
A58 Creative Writing at Univ. of British Columbia. Vancouver: Univ. of British Columbia, 1964. 4 pp. A pamphlet outlining the writing program at the University of British Columbia.
A59 Convocation. Calgary: Univ. of Alberta, 1965. 7 pp. Birney's LL.D. address. %END:
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A29 Canada Calling. Montreal: CBC International Service, 1946. 11 pp.
A30 Spreading Time: Remarks on Canadian Writing and Writers. Book I: 1904-1949. Montreal: Vehicule, 1980. x, 163 pp. Includes "About Reaney and Knister" (B591), "Age Shall Not Wither Thee" (B347), "Advice to Canadian Anthologists: Some Rude Reflections on Canadian Verse" (B532), "As I Remember: 1926-1937" (B430, B433), "As I Remember: 1938-1939" (B430, B433), "As I Remember: 1940" (B430), "As I Remember: 1941" (B433), "As I Remember: 1942-1945" (B433), "As I Remember: 1946: January-September" (B440), "As I Remember: 1946: October-December" (B440), "As I Remember: 1947: April-September" (B440), "As I Remember: 1947: January-March" (B440), "As I Remember: 1947 (November)-1948 (February)" (B440), "As I Remember: 1948: July-September" (B440), "As I Remember: 1948: March-June" (B440), "As I Remember: 1948 (October)-1949 (February)" (B440), "As I Remember: 1949: July-December," "As I Remember: 1949: March-April," "As I Remember: 1949: May-June," "Canadian Poem of the Year" (B516), "Canadian Poetry Magazine 1946-48" (B400), "The Half-Canadian Poet, Charles G. D. Roberts," "Has Poetry a Future in Canada?" (B335), "How Can We Raise Canada's Cultural Standards" (B581), "Moon-wist in Canadian Poesie" (B455), "Mr. Pepys Listens to CBC Radio" (B584), "The New Canadian Poetry Magazine" (B338), "1949: Coda 31 December," "The Poems of Robert Finch" (B554), "Poetry Is an Oral Art: Poets Should Hire a Hall" (B349), "Pratt's Dunkirk" (B530), "Ralph Gustafson: Neglected Canadian Poet" (B514), "The Representative Canadian Poet Today" (B580), "Required Reading for the CAA" (B568), "Spring Plowing 1904-26" (B431, B432, B441), "Three Important Young Poets: Page, Dudek, Anderson" (B545), "Three Little Mags: Northern Review, Contemporary Verse, Here & Now" (B586), "To Arms with Canadian Poetry!" (B325), "The Universality of Abraham Klein" (B519), "Why Is Canada Still Banning Joyce's Ulysses?" (B585), and "Yes, Canadians Can Read, but Do They?" (B346).
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A22 Turvey: A Military Picaresque. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1949. 288 pp.
White Circle Pocket Edition. Toronto: Collins, 1952. 287 pp.
Turvey: A Picaresque Novel. London: AbelardSchuman, 1958. 288 pp.
The Kootenay Highlander. Four-Square Book. London: Landsborough, 1960. 253 pp.
Turvey: A Picaresque Novel. Introd. George Woodcock. New Canadian Library, No. 34. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1963. xv, 286 pp.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1976. 288 pp. This revised edition of 1976 is the original unexpurgated version.
A23 Down the Long Table. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1955. 298 pp.
London: Abelard-Schuman, 1959. 298 pp.
Introd. Bruce Nesbitt. New Canadian Library, No. 117. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975. 298 pp.
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Part 1 Works By Earle Birney; Books; Poetry
Noel-Bentley, Peter (compiler)
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A1 David and Other Poems. Toronto: Ryerson, 1942. 40 pp. Includes "Anglosaxon Street" (A1), "David" (B19), "Dusk on English Bay" (B9), "Eagle Island" (B15), "European Nocturne" (B23), "France, 1941" (B13), "Grey-Rocks" (B7), "Hands" (B17), "In this Verandah," "Kootenay Still-Life" (B22), "Lament" (B138), "Monody on a Century" (B10), "October in Utah" (B131), "On Going to the Wars" (B18), "Reverse on the Coast Range" (B20), "Slug in Woods" (B6), "Smalltown Hotel" (B12), "Vancouver Lights" (B24), "War Winter" (B25), "Waterton Holiday" (B21), and "West Vancouver Ferry" (B11).
A2 Now is Time. Toronto: Ryerson, 1945. 56 pp. Includes " 'And the Earth Grow Young Again' " (B27), "Anglosaxon Street," "Cadet Hospital" (B30), "D-Day" (B29), "Death of a War" (B32), "Dusk on the Bay" (B9), "For Steve" (B28), "Hands" (B17), "Introvert" (B37), "Invasion Spring," "Joe Harris, 1913-1942'' (B26), "Lines for a Peace" (B33), "Man on a Tractor," "On a Diary," "Poem," "Remarks for the Part of Death" (B41), "The Road to Nijmegen" (B31), "Skeleton in the Grass" (B34), "Status Quo" (B142), "This Page My Pigeon," "Time-Bomb" (B38), "Vancouver Lights" (B24), "VE-Night" (B36), "War Winter" (B25), "Within These Caverned Days" (B35), "World Conference" (B39), and "Young Veterans" (B40).
A3 The Strait of Anian: Selected Poems. Toronto: Ryerson, 1948. viii, 84 pp. Includes "'And the Earth Grow Young Again'" (B27), "Anglosaxon Street" (A1), "Atlantic Door" (B43), "Canada: Case History" (B1o7), "David" (B19), "D-Day" (B29), "Death of a War" (B32), "Driftwood" (B150), "Dusk on the Bay" (B9), "The Ebb Begins from Dream," "Flying Fish," "For Steve" (Bz8), "From the Hazel Bough" (B61), "Gulf of Georgia" (B44), "Hands" (BI7), "In This Verandah" (A1), "Introvert" (B37), "Invasion Spring" (A2), "Laurentian Shield" (B49), "Letter to a Possible Great-Grandson" (B42), "Lines for a Peace" (B33), "Man Is a Snow" (B46), "Man on a Tractor" (A2), "Mappemounde," "Montreal" (B50), "New Brunswick" (B47), "... Or a Wind" (B58), "Pacific Door" (B55), "Prairie Counterpoint" (B56), "Quebec May," "Remarks for the Part of Death" (B41), "Reverse on the Coast Range" (B20), "The Road to Nijmegen" (B31), "Slug in Woods" (B6), "Status Quo" (B142), "This Page My Pigeon" (A2), "Time-Bomb" (B38), "Ulysses" (B48), "Vancouver Lights" (Bz4), "VE-Night" (B36), "War Winter" (B25), "Winter Saturday" (B63), "Within These Caverned Days" (B35), "World Conference" (B39), "World War III" (B60), and "Young Veterans" (B40).
A4 Trial of a City and Other Verse. Toronto: Ryerson, 1952. 71 pp. Includes "Ballad of Mr. Chubb" (B73), "Biography" (B69), "Bushed" (B74), "Christmas Comes ..." (B54), "Climbers" (B67), "Images in Place of Logging" (B68), "Maritime Faces" (B51), "The Monarch of the Id" (B52), "North Star West" (B76), "Page of Gaspe" (B70), "Restricted Area" (B59), "St. Valentine is Past" (B75), "Takkakaw Falls" (B72), and "Trial of a City."
A5 Ice Cod Bell or Stone: A Collection of New Poems. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1962. viii, 62 pp. Includes "Ajijic," "Aluroid" (B92), "Answers to a Grade-School Biology Test" (Bxo6), "Appeal to a Lady with a Diaper" (B8 i), "Bangkok Boy" (B87), "The Bear on the Delhi Road" (B91), "Beldams of Tepoztlan," "Can. Lit." (B108), "Captain Cook" (B96), "Conducted Ritual: San Juan de Ulua," "El Greco: Espolio" (B93), "Ellesmereland" (B79), "First Tree for Frost" (B103), "Francisco Tresguerras" (B94), "Haiku for a Young Waitress" (B95), "Honolulu," "Irapuato" (B129), "Late Afternoon in Manzanillo," "Leaving Yellowstone" (B82), "Mammorial Stunzas for Aimee Simple McFarcin" (B89), "Midstream" (B272), "Njarit" (B105), "Oldster" (B83), "Pachucan Miners" (B97), "Sestina for Tehauntepec," "Sinaloa," "Six-Sided Square: Actopan" (B104), "Snowscape from a Plane" (B273), "State of Sonora" (B98), "Tavern by the Hellespont," "The Travelling Workers' Curse" (B274), "Twenty-Third Flight" (B90), "Vitus Bering" (B99), "Wake Island" (B100), "A Walk in Kyoto" (B86), and "Wind-Chimes in a Temple Ruin" (B88).
A6 Near False Creek Mouth: New Poems. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1964. N. pag. Includes "Advice to a Hamilton (Ont.) lady about to travel again" (B102), "Arrivals" (B111), "Barranquilla bridge" (B128), "Billboards Build Freedom Of Choice" (B114), "Buenos Aires: 1962" (B121), "Candidate's prayer before Master's Oral" (B101), "Can. Hist." (B119), "Caracas" (B134), "Caribbean kingdoms," "Cartagena de Indias" (B125), "Curacao" (B118), "Epidaurus" (B115), "Free Arts" (B102), "For George Lamming" (B123), "Guadelupe" (B126), "Hot springs," "Letter to a Cuzco priest" (B109), "Machu Picchu" (B112), "Meeting of strangers" (B124), "Memory no servant" (B130), "Most of a dialogue in Cuzco" (B153), "November walk near False Creek mouth" (B155), "On Cartagena de Indias, his native city, translated from Luis Lopez" (B276), "On the beach" (B110), "On the city's rim, translated from Jozsef Attila" (B277), "Orphiasco" (B132), "Plaza del Inquisicion" (B127), "Poetry Circle pub" (B133), "Professor of Middle English confronts monster," "Prosperity in Poza Rica," "Saltfish and akee" (B116), "Testimony of a Canadian educational leader," "Toronto Board of Trade goes abroad," "Transistor" (B117), and "Turbonave Magnolia" (B113).
A7 Selected Poems 1940-1966. Preface Earle Birney. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1966. XII, 222 pp. Includes "Ajijic" (A5), "Aluroid" (B92), "Anglo-saxon Street" (A1), "Answers to a Grade-school Biology Test" (B106), "Appeal to a Lady with a Diaper" (B81), "Arrivals" (B111), "Atlantic Door" (B43), "Ballad of Mr. Chubb" (B73), "Bangkok Boy" (B87), "Barranquilla Bridge" (B128), "The Bear on the Delhi Road" (B91), "Billboards Build Freedom of Choice" (B114), "Biography" (B69), "Bushed" (B74), "Campus Theatre Steps" (B140), "Canada: Case History" (B107), "Captain Cook" (B96), "Caracas" (B134), "Cartagena de Indias" (B125), "Climbers" (B67), "Conference of Heads" (B39), "Curacao" (B118), "Damnation of Vancouver," "David" (B19), "De-composition" (B12), "Dusk on the Bay" (B9), "Each Lie" (B142), "The Ebb Begins from Dream" (A3), "El Greco: Espolio'" (B93), "Ellesmereland I" (B79), "Ellesmereland II" (B139), "Epidaurus" (B115), "First Tree for Frost" (B103), "Five Poor Men Speak" (B274), "Flying Fish" (A3), "For George Lamming" (B123), "From the Hazel Bough" (B61), "Gulf of Georgia" (B44), "Haiku for a Young Waitress" (B95), "Hands" (B17), "Holiday in the Foothills" (B21), "Honolulu" (A5), "Hot Springs" (A6), "Images in Place of Logging" (B68), "In This Verandah" (A1), "Introvert" (B37), "Irapuato" (B129), "Joe Harris, 19131942" (B26), "Late Afternoon in Manzanillo" (A5), "Leaving the Park" (B82), "Letter to a Conceivable Great-grandson" (B42), "Letter to a Cuzco Priest" (B109), "Lines for a Peace" (B33), "London Poetry Pub" (B133), "Looking from Oregon" (B136), "Machu Picchu" (B112), "Mammorial Stunzas for Aimee Simple McFarcin" (B89), "Man Is a Snow" (B46), "Mappemounde" (A3), "Maritime Faces" (B51), "Meeting of Strangers" (B124), "Memory No Servant" (B130), "Midstream" (B272), "North of Superior" (B49), "North Star West" (B76), "November Walk near False Creek Mouth" (B155), "Oldster" (B83), "On Cartegena His Native City" (B276), "On the City's Rim" (B277), "... Or a Wind?" (B58), "Pachucan Miners" (B97), "Pacific Door" (B55), "Page of Gaspe" (B70), "Plaza de Inquisicion" (B127), "Quebec May" (A3), "Remarks Decoded from Outer Space" (B41), "The Road to Nijmegen" (B31), "Sestina for Tehuantepec" (A5), "Sinaloa" (A5), "Six-sided Square: Actopan" (B104), "Slug in Woods" (B6), "Snowscape from a Plane" (B273), "State of Sonora" (B98), "St. Valentine Is Past" (B75), "Takkakaw Falls" (B72), "Tavern by the Hellespont" (A5), "This Page my Pigeon" (A2), "Time Bomb" (B38), "Transcontinental" (B47), "Transistor" (B117), "Twenty-third Flight" (B90), "Ulysses" (B48), "Vancouver Lights" (B24), "Wake Island" (B100), "A Walk in Kyoto" (B86), "War Winters" (B25), "Way to the West," "Wind-chimes in a Temple Ruin" (B88), "Winter Saturday" (B63), and "Young Veterans" (B40).
A8 Memory No Servant. Introd. William Stafford. Trumansburg, N.Y.: New, 1968. 51 pp. Includes "Aluroid" (B92), "ARRIVALS Wolfville/Locals ..." (B111), "The Bear on the Delhi Road" (B91), "Bushed" (B74), "Cartagena de Indias" (B125), "El Greco: Espolio" (B93), "First Tree for Frost" (B103), "For George Lamming" (B113), "From the Hazel Bough" (B61), "Irapuato" (B129), "Letter to a Cuzco Priest" (B109), "Looking from Oregon" (B136), "Machu Picchu" (B112), "Meeting of Strangers" (B124), "Memory No Servant" (B130), "Pachucan Miners" (B97), "Plaza de Inquisicion" (B127), "Sestina for Tehuantepec" (A5), "Takkakaw Falls" (B72), "Tavern by the Hellespont" (A5), "Twenty-Third Flight" (B90), "A Walk in Kyoto" (B86), "Way to the West" (A7), "Wind-Chimes in a Temple Ruin" (B88), and "Winter Saturday" (B63).
A9 pnomes jukollages & other stunzas. Ed. and introd. bpNichol, grOnk 4th ser., No. 3. Toronto: Ganglia, 1969. N. pag. Includes "alaska passage" (B64), "appeal to a lady with a diaper" (B81), "ARCHITECTURE" (B84, B152, B156, B161), "CAMPUS THEATRE STEPS" (B140), "COUNCIL/COUNSEIL," "FOR MAISTER GEFFREY" (B157), "FOUND BLUES -- jukollage no. 2," "found swahili serenade -- a jukollage" (B165), "imageorge," "THE LAKE" (B199), "letter to a conceivable great-grandson" (B42), "like an eddy [mobile]," "like an eddy [handwritten]" (B154), "mammorial stunzas for aimee simple mcfarcin" (B89), "on the beach" (B110), "orphiasco" (B132), "PNOME 1970" (B163), "six-sided square: actopan" (B104), "SPACE CONQUEST : COMPUTER POEM," and "tea with my shetland grandaunt" (B5).
A10 The Poems of Earle Birney. Preface Earle Birney. New Canadian Library Original, No. O6. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1969. 64 pp. Includes "Anglosaxon Street" (A2), "Arrivals" (B111), "Bangkok Boy" (B87), "The Bear on the Delhi Road" (B91), "Billboards Build Freedom of Choice" (B114), "Bushed" (B74), "Canada: Case History: 1969 Version" (B164), "Cartagena de Indias" (B125), "Curacao" (B118), "David" (B19), "El Greco: Espolio" (B93), "Ellesmereland" (B79), "Epidaurus" (B115), "First Tree for Frost" (B103), "For George Lamming" (B123), "From the Hazel Bough" (B61), "Honolulu" (A5), "Hot Springs" (A6), "Irapuato" (B129), "Leaving the Park" (B82), "Letter to a Cuzco Priest" (B109), "Looking from Oregon" (B136), "Mammorial Stunzas for Aimee Simple McFarcin" (B89), "Meeting of Strangers" (B124), "Plaza de Inquisicion" (B127), "The Road to Nijmegen" (B31), "Sestina for the Ladies of Tehuantepec" (A5), "Sixth Grade Biology Quiz" (B106), "Takkakaw Falls" (B72), "This Page my Pigeon" (A2), "Toronto Board of Trade Goes Abroad" (A6), "Transcontinental" (B47), "Twenty-third Flight" (B90), "A Walk in Kyoto" (B86), "War Winters" (B25), "Way to the West" (A7), and "Wind-Chimes in a Temple Ruin" (B88).
A11 Rag & Bone Shop. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1971. N. pag. Includes "alaska passage" (B64), "BUILDINGS" (B84, B152, B156, B161), "campus theatre steps" (B140), "canada council" (A9), "charite esperance et foi," "children's prayer to santa" (B182), "christchurch, n.z." (B191), "creeley" (B173), "first flight" (B167), "for esther I. ESPECTACULAR 2.0 what can I do" (B174), "for maister geffrey" (B157), "found blues" (A9), "found prose from the leacock centennial," "found swahili serenade" (B165), "four feet between," "giovanni caboto/john cabot" (B147), "halifax" (B159), "hare krishna," "hokkai in the dew lane snow" (B151), "if only someone else would come" (B278), "if you were here" (B214), "in purdy's ameliasburg" (B144), "i thank you are a whole city" (B148), "kiwis," "lake an eddy" (B154), "loggaa dell' orcagna," "the mammoth corridors" (B137), "the marriage" (B181), "museum of man" (B180), "NEWfoundLAND" (B171), "1984 minus 17 & counting at u of waterloo" (B176). "oil refinery" (B135), "once high upon a hall," "on the night jet" (B177), "pei" (B172), "pnome" (B163), "poet-tree i" (B178), "poet-tree 2" (B178), "a small port an the outer fijis" (B194), "song for sunsets" (B158), "still" (B162), "strine authors meet," "sunday nightfall in winnipeg," "them able leave her ever I. can. lit. [B108] 2. our forefathers literary" (B160), "there are delicacies" (B149), "tongareva atoll" (B168), "toronto march" (B196), "UNIVERSITY," "up her can nada," "while i'm drinking a cup of coffee" (B279), and "window seat" (B166).
A12 --, bill bissett, Judith Copithorne, and Andrew Suknaska. Four Parts Sand. New Canadian Poets, No. 3. Ottawa: Oberon, 1972. N. pag. Concrete poems by these four poets. Contains preface to his works by Birney. Includes the following poems by Barney: "ACADEMIC" (B190), "BILINGUAL CATS," "EARMUFF TREE RIPENING," "FIGURE SKATER" (B212), "GO DOG," "LOON ABOUT TO LAUGH" (B210), "MAD MAN" (B201), and "SIREN" (B204).
A13 The Bear on the Delhi Road: Selected Poems. London: Chatto and Windus, 1973. 64 pp. Includes "Answers to a grade-school biology test" (B106), "Atoll" (B168), "Ballad of Mr. Chubb" (B73), "The bear on the Delhi Road" (B91), "Beldams of Tepoztlan" (A5), "Bushed" (B74), "Can. Hast." (B119), "Can. Lit." (B108), "Captain Cook" (B96), "Charite, Esperance et Foi" (A11), "Christchurch, N.Z." (B191), "Curacao" (B118), "El Greco: Espolto" (B93), "Ellesmereland I" (B79), "Ellesmereland II" (B139), "Epidaurus" (B115), "Farst tree for Frost" (B103), "From the hazel bough" (B61), "Hot springs" (A6), "Kiwis" (A11), "Late afternoon in Manzanillo" (A5), "Mammorial stunzas for Aamee Simple McFarcin" (B89), "Meeting of strangers" (B124), "Museum of Man" (B180), "1984 minus 14 & counting at u. of waterloo, ont." (B176), "Our forefathers literary" (B160), "Plaza de la Inquasicion" (B127), "Poet-tree" (B178), "Sestina for the Ladies of Tehuantepec" (A5), "Sinaloa" (A5), "Sax-saded square: Actopan" (B104), "A small faculty stag for the visiting poet" (B193), "A small port an the outer Fijis" (B194), "There are delicacies" (B149), "Toronto March" (B196), "The twenty-first century belongs to the moon" (B205), "Twenty-third flight" (B90), "A walk in Kyoto" (B86), "Wind-chimes in a temple ruin" (B88), "Winter Saturday" (B63), and "Young veterans" (B40).
A14 what's so big about GREEN?. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973. N. pag. Includes "adagio," "CHAT bilingual" (A12), "cucarachas in fiji" (B179), "daybreak on lake opal: high rockies" (B198), "FIGURE SKATER" (B212), "found paean to vancouver by rudyard kipling (1890)" (B206), "from the bridge: firth of forth" (B220), "GOD" (A12), "the gray woods exploding," "i accuse us" (B200), "Loon about to laugh" (B210), "men's sportswear dept" (B145), "mcsimpton's annual boat excursion to nanaimo june 1949" (B80), "messyjests for a kinagemg kitchmess: 1. kitchmess day cure-all 2. twas 8 nights before kitchmess" (B182), "perth, australia, I love you" (B203), "the shapers: vancouver" (B183), "a small faculty stag for the visiting poet" (B193), "tea at my shetland aunt's" (B5), "there are delicacies" (B149), "today's your big pubic reading" (B216), "to swindon from london by britrail aloud / bagatelle" (B217), "the 21st century belongs to the moon" (B205), "underkill" (B188), "villanelle" (B122), and "what's so big about GREEN?" (B199).
A15 The Collected Poems of Earle Birney. Foreword Earle Birney. 2 vols. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975. 188 pp. and 191 pp. Includes "Adagio" (A14), "Ajijic, Lake Chapala" (A5), "Alberni Canal" (B53), "Alphabirney" (B215), "Aluroid" (B92), "Ancient Canabardic lament" (B222), "'And the earth grow young again'" (B27), "Anglosaxon street" (A2), "Appeal to a lady with a diaper" (B81), "ARRIVALS -- Wolfville" (B111), "Atlantic door" (B43), "Atoll" (B168), "Aubade for a fraternity" (B66), "Ballad of Kootenay Brown," "Ballad of Mr. Chubb" (B73), "Bangkok boy" (B87), "Barranquilla bridge" (B128), "The bear on the Delhi Road" (B91), "Beldams of Tepoztlan" (A5), "Bestiary" (B238), "Billboards build freedom of choice" (B114), "Biography" (B69), "Buenos Aires: 1962" (B121), "Buildings" (B84, B156), "Bushed" (B74), "Cadet hospital" (B30), "Campus theatre steps" (B140), "Canada: case history: 1945" (B107), "Canada: case history: 1973" (B164), "Canada Council" (A9), "Candidate's prayer before master's oral" (B101), "Can. Hist." (B119), "Can.Lit." (B108), "Captain Cook" (B96), "Caracas" (B134), "Caribbean kingdoms" (A6), "Cartagena de Indias, 1962" (B125), "Charite, esperance et foi" (A11), "CHAT bilingual" (A12), "Christchurch, N.Z." (B191), "Christmas comes but once a ..." (B54), "Climbers" (B67), "Colander with monkly potes & a pnome" (B163), "Completed history of life on earth," "Conducted ritual: San Juan de Ulua" (A5), "Conference of heads" (B39), "Conrad Kam" (B62), "Creeley" (B173), "Creston Valley fall," "Crow" (B14), "Cucarachas in paradise" (B179), "Curacao" (B118), "David" (B19), "Daybreak on Lake Opal: High Rockies" (B198), "D-Day" (B29), "Death of a war" (B32), "De-composition" (B12), "Driftwood sculptor" (B150), "Driving up the Sacramento, 1928" (B186), "Dusk on English Bay" (B9), "Each he" (B142), "Eagle Island" (B15), "The ebb begins from dream" (A3), "El Greco: Espolio" (B93), "Ellesmereland I" (B79), "Ellesmereland II" (B139), "Epidaurus" (B115), "ESTHER" (A11), "European nocturne" (B23), "Figure skater" (B212), "Fine Arts" (B102), "First flight" (B167), "First tree for frost" (B103), "Flying fish" (A3), "For George Lamming" (B123), "For maister Geffrey" (B157), "For my wife" (B174), "For Steve" (B28), "Found Paean to Vancouver by Rudyard Kipling, 1890" (B206), "Found Swahili serenade/a lukollage" (B165), "Four feet between" (A11), "Francisco Tresguerras" (B94), "From the bridge: Firth of Forth" (B220), "From the hazel bough" (B61), "Giovanni Caboto/John Cabot" (B147), "GoDoG" (A12), "Good year for movie nuns," "The gray woods exploding" (A14), "GreyRocks" (B7), "Guadelupe" (B126), "Gulf of Georgia" (B44), "Haiku for a young waitress" (B95), "Halifax" (B159), "Hands" (B17), "Hokkai in the Dew Line snows" (B151), "Holiday m the foothills" (B21), "Honolulu" (A5), "Hot springs" (A6), "I accuse us" (B200), "Imageorge & Imangela in Calgary" (A9), "Images m place of logging" (B68), "In Purdy's Ameliasburg" (B144), "In this verandah" (A1), "Introvert" (B37), "Invasion spring" (A2), "lrapuato" (B129), "ka pass age alaska passage ALASKA PASSAGE alaska passage alas" (B64), "Kiwis" (A11), "Kootenay still-life" (B22), "Late afternoon in Manzanillo" (A5), "Leaving the park" (B82), "Letter to a conceivable great-grandson" (B42), "Letter to a Cuzco priest" (B109), "Lines for a peace" (B33), "Lines for lotos-eaters" (B8), "Loggia dell' Orcagna" (A11), "London poetry circle pub" (B133), "Looking from Oregon" (B136), "Loon about to laugh" (B210), "Machu Picchu" (B112), "Mammorial stunzas for Aimee Simple McFarcin" (B89), "The mammoth corridors" (B137), "Man is a snow" (B46), "Man on a tractor" (A2), "Mappemounde" (A3), "Maritime faces" (B51), "The McSimpton Marketena's annual staff ferry picnic to Nanaimo" (B80), "Meeting of strangers" (B124), "Memory no servant" (B130), "Men's sportswear dept" (B145), "Messyjests for a kinageing kitchmess: 1. kitchmess day cure-all, 2. wuz eight nights before kitchmess" (B182), "Midstream" (B272), "The Monarch of the Id" (B52), "Monody on a century" (B10), "'Montreal 1945" (B50), Museum of Man" (B180), "Nayarit" (B105), "Newfoundland" (B171), "1984 minus 17 & counting at u of waterloo ont" (B176), "No body" (B223), "North of Superior" (B49), "'North Star west" (B76), "November walk near False Creek mouth" (B155), "October in Utah" (B131), "Off refinery" (B135), "Oldster" (B83), "Old West Vancouver ferry" (B11), "On aldermen, bank managers, preachers, etc.," "On Cartagena de Indias, his native city" (B276), "Once high upon a hill" (A11), "On reading The Malahat Review," "On the beach" (B110), "On the city's rim" (B277), "On the night let" (B177), "... or a wind" (B58), "Orphiasco" (B132), "Our forefathers literary" (B160), "Pachucan miners" (B97), "Pacific door" (B55), "Page of Gaspe" (B70), "PEI" (B172), "Perth, Australia, I love you" (B203), "Plaza de la Inquisicion" (B127), "Poet-tree 1" (B178), "Poettree 2" (B178), "Postprandial thanks to Ned" (B85), "Postscript for Mr. Masefield," "Prairie counterpoint" (B56), "Professor of Middle English confronts monster" (A6), "Prosperity in Poza Rica" (A6), "Quebec May" (A3), "Remarks decoded from outer space" (B41), "Restricted Area" (B59), "Reverse on the Coast Range" (B20), "The Road to Nijmegen" (B31), "Saltfish and akee" (B116), "Sestina for the ladies of Tehuantepec" (A5), "The Shapers: Vancouver" (B183), "She is" (B224), "Sinaloa" (A5), "Six-sided square: Actopan" (B104), "Sixth grade biology quiz" (B106), "Skier's apologies" (B16), "Slug in woods" (B6), "A small faculty stag for the visiting poet" (B193), "Small port in the Outer Fijis" (B194), "Snowscape from a plane" (B273), "Song," "Song for sunsets" (B158), "State of Sonora" (B98), "Strine authors meet" (A11), "St. Valentine is past" (B75), "Sunday nightfall m Winnipeg" (A11), "Takkakaw Falls" (B72), "Tavern by the Hellespont" (As), "Tea at my Shetland aunt's" (B5), "Testimony of a Canadian educational leader" (A6), "These with wind" (B138), "This page my pigeon" (A2), "Time bomb" (B38), "To a Hamilton (Ont.) lady thinking to travel" (B120), "Today's your big pubic reading" (B216), "Toronto march" (B196), "To Swindon from London by Britrail aloud/Bagatelle" (B217), "Transcontinental" (B47), "Transistor" (B117), "The travelling workers' curse" (B274), "Turbonave Magnolia" (B113), "The 21st century belongs to the moon" (B205), "Twenty-third flight" (B90), "Ulysses" (B48), "Underkill" (B188), "UNIVERSITY" (A11), "up her can nada" (A11), "Valentine, after Chaucer," "Vancouver lights" (B24), "VENight" (B36), "Villanelle" (B122), "Vitus Bering" (B99), "Wake Island" (B100), "A walk in Kyoto" (B86), "War winters" (B25), "Way to the west" (A7), "What's so big about GREEN?" (B199), "Wind-chimes in a temple ruin" (B88), "Window seat" (B166), "Winter Saturday" (B63), "Within these caverned days" (B35), "World War III" (B60), and "Young veterans" (B40).
A16 Alphabeings & Other Seasyours. Ed. and foreword Jamie Hamilton. London, Ont.: Pikadilly, 1976. 32 pp. Includes "academic" (B190), "Alphabirney" (B215), "CHAT bilingual" (A12), "earmuff tree ripening" (A12), "Figure Skater" (B212), "First Aid" (B213), "Jukollage #5," "Like an Eddy" (B154), "Loon About to Laugh" (B210), "mad/ mod/odd/ad man" (B201), "Magicwand," "My Little Chickadee" (B185), "Mysterious Cameldrivet" (B202), "Nayarot" (B105), "Runic Lament" (B211), "Siamese K(w)ings," "Siren" (B204), "Skindivers" (B197), "S(t)ing Rays" (B195), and "up her can nada" (A11).
A17 The Rugging and the Moving Times: Poems New and Uncollected 1976. Coatsworth, Ont.: Black Moss, 1976. 42 pp. Includes "father grouse," "fusion" (B225), "Interview with Vancouver" (B141), ["The miracle is the stream ..."] (B237), "Moon down Elphinstone," "ommbus," "On her twenty-sixth birthday" (B226), "Plastic plinkles for Gaudy Nite 11/2 at HMF College, Yule 1966 (complete with head to foot notes): Text A: Ancient Roundelay; Text B: Carol1 God Rust Ye Merry, Gintlemen; Text C: Ballad: 8 Nites B4 Xmus" (B182), "Reading the Diary," "Shotgun marriage without shotguns/the rugging and the moving times" (B218), and "zoos have bars" (B227).
A18 The Damnation of Vancouver. Introd. Wai-lan Low. Preface Earle Birney. New Canadian Library Original, No. O11 Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977. 79 pp. See A7 for "The Damnation of Vancouver."
A19 Ghost in the Wheels: Selected Poems. Preface Earle Birney. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977. 159 pp. Includes "Alaska passage" (B64), "Aluroid" (B92), "Arrivals" (B111), "Atlantic door" (B43), "Bangkok boy" (B87), "The bear on the Delhi road" (B91), "Bestiary" (B238), "Billboards Build Freedom of Choice" (B114), "Bushed" (B74), "Canada: case history: 1945" (B107), "Canada: case history: 1973" (B164), "Can. Lit." (B108), "Caribbean kingdoms" (A6), "Cartagena de Indias, 1962" (B125), "Charite, Esperance et Foi" (A11), "CHAT bilingual" (A12), "Christchurch, N.Z." (B191), "Climbers" (B67), "Curacao" (B118), "David" (B19), "Daybreak on Lake Opal: High Rockies" (B198), "The ebb begins from dream" (A3), "El Greco: Espolio" (B93), "Ellesmereland I" (B79), "Ellesmereland II" (B139), "Epidaurus" (B115), "First tree for Frost" (B103), "For George Lamming" (B123), "Four feet between" (A11), "From the bridge: Firth of Forth" (B220), "From the hazel bough" (B61), "Hokkai in the Dew Line snows" (B151), "Irapuato" (B129), "I think you are a whole city" (B148), "Letter to a Cuzco priest" (B109), "Like an eddy" (B154), "Looking from Oregon" (B136), "Loon about to laugh" (B210), "Mammorial stunzas for Aimee Simple McFarcin" (B89), "The mammoth corridors" (B137), "Man is a snow" (B46), "Man on a tractor" (A2), "Mappemounde" (A3), "Meeting of strangers" (B124), "Memory no servant" (B130), "'Museum of man" (B180), "1984 minus 17 & counting at U of Waterloo Ontario" (B176), "No body" (B223), "November walk near False Creek mouth" (B155), "Oil refinery" (B135), "Once high upon a hill" (A11), "On her twenty-sixth birthday" (B226), "On the night let" (B177), "Pachucan miners" (B97), "Pacific door" (B55), "Plaza de la Inquisicion" (B127), "Poet-tree 2" (B178), "The road to Nijmegen" (B31), "Sestina for the ladies of Tehuantepec" (A5), "The Shapers: Vancouver" (B183), "She is" (B224), "Sinaloa" (A5), "Six-sided square: Actopan" (B104), "Sixth grade biology quiz" (B106), "A small faculty stag for the visiting poet" (B193), "Song for sunsets" (B158), "Takkakaw Falls" (B72), "Tavern by the Hellespont" (As), "There are delicacies" (B149), "This page my pigeon" (A2), "Toronto Board of Trade goes abroad" (A6), "To Swindon from London by Britrail aloud/bagatelle" (B217), "Transcontinental" (B47), "Transistor" (B117), "Twenty-third flight" (B90), "Ulysses" (B48), "Vancouver lights" (B24), "Villanelle" (B122), "A walk in Kyoto" (B86), "War winters" (B25), "Way to the west" (A7), "What's so big about green?" (B199), "Windchimes in a temple rum" (B88), "Window seat" (B166), "Winter Saturday" (B63), and "Young veterans" (B40).
A20 Fall by Fury & Other Makings. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978. 96 pp. Includes "another bullfrog monolog" (B240), "anthropologists from the Black Hole" (B229), "beginning" (B237), "birthday" (B250), "bullfrog monolog" (B241), "coming back from the airport" (B223), "a day with the toronto day-lies" (B192), "dear biographer" (B231), "diving," "dream beyond death" (B239), "earmuff tree ripening" (A12), "Epilog to a Prolog," "excelsior on the prairies" (B255), "fall by Fury" (B259), "fall in spring" (B244), "family picnic in Gran Canaria" (B242), "father grouse" (A17), "fifty years of love goddesses" (B209), "first aid for poets" (B213), "fusion" (B225), "gourmet" (B232), "halfperson's day" (B256), "in the photo" (B247), "I should have begun with your toes" (B175), "January Morning / Downtown Vancouver" (B233), "mad/mod/odd/ad man" (B201), "magic wand" (A16), "moment of eclipse" (B248), "Moon down Elphinstone" (A17), "my little chickadee" (B185), "my love is young" (B245), "never blush to dream" (B253), "omnibus" (A17), "the perfect canadians" (B235), "plastic plinkles for Gaudy Nite" (A17), "prayer" (B246), "Prolog without Tales" (B249), "shotgun marriage without shotguns" (B218), "skin divers (I): whale" (B197), "song for a west coast february" (B236), "s(t)ing rays" (B195), "trawna tuh bellvul by knayjin psifik," "the Wind through St. John's" (B260), and "zoos have bars" (B227).
A21 The Mammoth Corridors. Okemos, Mich.: Stone, 1980. 71 pp. Includes "The Bear On the Delhi Road" (B91), "Birthday" (B250), "Bullfrog Monolog" (B241), "Curacao" (B118), "Daybreak on Lake Opal: High Rockies" (B198), "Ellesmereland I" (B79), "Ellesmereland II" (B139), "Fall by Fury" (B259), "Family Picnic in Gran Canana" (B242), "Four Feet Between" (A11), "Hokkai in the Dew Line Snows" (B151), "The Mammoth Corridors" (B137), "Man is a Snow" (B46), "Moment of Eclipse" (B248), "Museum of Man" (B180), "My Love is Young" (B245), "November Walk Near False Creek Mouth" (B155), "Oil Refinery" (B135), "The Road to Nijmegen" (B31), "The Shapers: Vancouver" (B183), "She Is" (B224), "Sinaloa" (A5), "Sixth Grade Biology Quiz" (B106), "The Way to the West" (A7), "What's So Big About Green?" (B199), and "Window Seat" (B166).
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A24 Big Bird in the Bush: Selected Stories and Sketches. Oakville, Ont.: Mosaic/Valley, 1978. 95 pp. Includes "Big Bird in the Bush" (B300), "Decorated with Anarchisms" (B328), "Duelling," "Gabardine Fireman" (B355), "Joe Harris, 28 June 1913-19 August 1942" (B26), "Leavetaking" (A23 - excerpt), "The Levin Bolt," "Mickey Was a Swell Guy" (B301), "Most of a Dialogue in Cuzco" (B153), and "Waiting for Queen Emma" (B306). %END:
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B307 "Aldous Huxley." In The Art of the Novel. Ed. Pelham Edgar. New York: Macmillan, 1933, pp. 280-90.
B308 "Utah Students See for Themselves." Student Review [New York City], 3, No. 3 (Feb. 1934), 22-24. Signed: "David Brownstone."
B309 "Celine's Journey." The New International, July 1934, p. 28.
B310 "Incident in Berlin." New Leader [England], 13 Dec. 1935, n. pag.
B311 "Interview with Leon Trotsky." New International, Feb. 1936. Rpt. (excerpt) in Leon Trotsky: Oeuvres Octobre 1935-Decembre 1935. Introd. Pierre Broue et Michel Dreyfus. Parts: Edi, 1980, pp. 134-67. Originally published in mimeograph form as "Conversations with Trotsky," signed: E. Robertson. The other interviewer was Kenneth Johstone, under the pseudonym Ken Alexander. Also see Leon Trotsky: Oeuvres Juin 1935-Sept. 1935, p. 243n.
B312 "On Proletarian Literature." The Link [Workers' Educational Association, Univ. of Toronto], 1, No. 3 (1937), 2.
B313 "Another Month." The Canadian Forum, Jan. 1937, p. 15. A column signed: "Rufus."
B314 "Another Month." The Canadian Forum, Feb. 1937, p. 24. A column signed: "Rufus."
B315 "Another Month." The Canadian Forum, March 1937, P. 25. A column signed: "Rufus."
B316 "Another Month." The Canadian Forum, April 1937, p. 22. A column signed: "Rufus."
B317 "Crime Club." The Canadian Forum, April 1937, p. 11. A column signed: "Rufus."
B318 "Short Story Contest -- A Report." The Canadian Forum, June 1937, pp. 96-97.
B319 "English Irony before Chaucer." University of Toronto Quarterly, 6 (July 1937), 538-57.
B320 "New Social Drama." The Link [Workers' Educational Association, Univ. of Toronto], 2, No. 2 [1938], 4.
B321 "Canada and World Politics." New International [N.Y.], Sept. 1938, pp. 261-64. Signed: "E. Robertson."
B322 "Is French-Canada Going Fascist?". New International [N.Y.], Oct. 1938, n. pag.
B323 "The Fiction of James T. Farrell." The Canadian Forum, April 1939, PP. 21-24.
B324 "The Beginnings of Chaucer's Irony." PMLA, 54 (Sept. 1939), 637-55.
B325 "To Arms with Canadian Poetry!" The Canadian Forum, Jan. 1940, pp. 322-24. ST.
B326 "Humour Old and New." Ontario Library Association Journal, 24, No. 2. (May 1940), 133-35.
B327 Letter. The Canadian Forum, July 1940, p. 121.
B328 "Decorated with Anarchisms." Saturday Night, 12 April 1941, p. 33. BBB.
B329 "Sherwood Anderson: A Memory." The Canadian Forum, June 1941, pp. 82-83.
B330 "War and the English Intellectuals." The Canadian Forum, July 1941, pp. 110-14.
B331 "The Two Worlds of Geoffrey Chaucer." Manitoba Arts Review, 2, No. 4 (Winter 1941), 3-16.
B332 "Advice to Anthologists: Some Rude Reflections on Canadian Verse." The Canadian Forum, Feb. 1942., pp. 338-40.
B333 "Is Chaucer's Irony a Modern Discovery?". Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 41 (July 1942), 303-19.
B334 "Hospital Day." B.M.A. Blitz [Brockville Military Academy], 1 (Sept. 1942), 6-7.
B335 "Has Poetry a Future in Canada?". Manitoba Arts Review, 5, No. 1 (Spring 1946), 7-15. ST.
B336 "Canada Calling, Part I." The Canadian Forum, May 1946, pp. 31-32.
B337 "Canada Calling, Part II." The Canadian Forum, June 1946, pp. 59-61.
B338 Editorial. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 10, No. 1 (Sept. 1946), 5-8. ST ("The New Canadian Poetry Magazine").
B339 Editorial. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 10, No. 2 (Dec. 1946), 5-10. Mostly inclusions from earlier editorials of former editors-in-chief.
B340 Column. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 10, No. 3 (March 1947), 5-6.
B341 Editorial. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 10, No. 4 (June 1947), 5-8.
B342 Editorial. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 11, No. 1 (Sept. 1947), 5-6.
B343 Editorial. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 11, No. 2 (Dec. 1947), 5.
B344 "Vale." Editorial. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 11, No. 4 (June 1948), 5-6.
B345 "Contemporary Canadian Poetry." Outposts [London, Eng.], No. 1 (Summer 1948), pp. 1-3. Canadian poetry issue, guest edited by Birney.
B346 "Yes, Canadians Can Read -- But Do They?". Canadian Home Journal, July 1948, pp. 14-15, 43. ST ("Yes, Canadians Can Read, but Do They?").
B347 "Age Shall Not Wither Thee." here and now [Toronto], 1, No. 3 (Jan. 1949), 86-87. ST. Extracts from a letter to Philip Child, Bursar of the Canadian Authors Association, in resigning from the CAA, 15 November 1948.
B348 "The United Nations and Breathing." U.N. Digest [Univ. of British Columbia], March 1949.
B349 "Poetry Is an Oral Art." The Globe and Mail, 22 June 1949, p. 9. ST ("Poetry Is an Oral Art: Poets Should Hire a Hall").
B350 "Fish to Eat." The Vancouver Sun, 11 Aug. 1949, p.2. Guest column for Jack Scott's "Our Town."
B351 "Contemporary Canadian Poetry." Poetry Commonwealth [Eng.], No. 8 (1951), p. 1. As part of a special Canadian issue edited by Birney.
B352 "How and When Did Speech Begin?". Canadian Railway Employees' Monthly [Hull, Que.], 37, No. 3 (March 1951), 61, 94.
B353 "'Canada's Sorry, Amateurish Book Censorship." Letter. Vancouver Province, 3 April 1951, [editorial page].
B354 Letter. Northern Review, 5, No. 5 (June-July 1951), 48.
B355 Guest Column for Eric Nicol. Vancouver Province, 19 Aug. 1952, p. 13. BBB ("Gabardine Fireman").
B356 "On Being a Canadian Author." Canadian Library Association Bulletin, 9, No. 3 (Nov. 1952), 77-79.
B357 "Does Canada Owe Her Authors a Living?". Mayfair, Feb. 19, 1953, pp. 36, 73-75.
B358 "A Canadian Abroad: Gobs and Garcons." Saturday Night, 4 July 1953, pp. 7-8.
B359 "The Lights of Paris: An Undazzled View." Saturday Night, 25 July 1953, pp. 7-8.
B360 "Britanny, In and Out of the Guide-Books." Saturday Night, 8 Aug. 1953, p. 14.
B361 "Horses, Hens and Hairy Apostles." Saturday Night, 29 Aug. 1953, p. 25.
B362 "Castles, Cloisters and a Cat." Saturday Night, 17 Oct. 1953, pp. 24-25.
B363 "Cockles, Menhirs, and Cafe-expres." Saturday Night, 24 Oct. 1953, p. 8.
B364 "Malcolm Lowry Poeta." L'Indicatore [Milan, Italy], 23 Aug. 1954, pp. 58-60. In Italian.
B365 "The Writer and the H-Bomb: Why Create?". Queen's Quarterly, 62 (Spring 1955), 37-44.
B366 "Mexico in One Jump." Saturday Night, 20 Aug. 1955, Pp. 27-28.
B367 "Canada's Art Colony in Mexico." Saturday Night, 15 Oct. 1955, pp. 9-10.
B368 "Mexico without Acapulco." Saturday Night, 12 Nov. 1955, pp. 43-44.
B369 "Summary." In Writing in Canada: Proceedings of the Canadian Writer's Conference, Queen's University, 28-31 July, 1955. Ed. George Whalley. Toronto: Macmillan, 1956, pp. 46-49. Proceedings of the Canadian Writers' Conference, Queen's University, Kingston, 28-31 July 1955. Summary of discussion over three papers on "The Writer": "Poet," by A. J. M. Smith; "Novelist," by Morley Callaghan; and "Critic," by Douglas Grant.
B370 "The Poet and the University." The Bulletin of the Humanities Association of Canada, No. 20 (Jan. 1957), pp. 6-7.
B371 "North American Drama Today: A Popular Art?". Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, Ser. 3, Sec. 2, 51 (June 1957), 31-42.
B372 "Poets and Painters: Rivals or Partners?". Canadian Art [Ottawa], 14, No. 4 (Summer 1957), 148-50.
B373 "CBC Anthology April 29, 1958." The Fiddlehead, No. 36 (Spring 1958), pp. 1-3.
B374 "The B.C. Centennial." The Canadian Forum, April 1958, pp. 6-8.
B375 "Commentary." Journal: Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, 35 (April 1958), 120-47.
B376 "Notes and Free Renderings." Queen's Quarterly, 65 (Summer 1958), 159-62. Notes on translating Chinese poems and the two translations from Mao Tse-Tung ("Midstream" [B272] and "Snowscape from a Plane" [B273]).
B377 "'After His Ymage' -- The Central Ironies of the Friar's Tale." Mediaeval Studies, 21 (1959), 17-35.
B378 "E. J. Pratt and His Critics." In Our Living Tradition. 2nd and 3rd ser. Ed. Robert L. McDougall. Ottawa/Toronto: Carleton Univ./Univ. of Toronto Press, 1959, pp. 123-47. Rpt. in Masks of Poetry: Canadian Critics on Canadian Verse. Ed. and Introd. A. J. M. Smith. New Canadian Library Original, No. O3. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1962, pp. 72-95.
B379 "The Modern Face of Hubris." In Hubris, Man and Education: Papers Delivered at the Inauguration of James Lewis Jarrett, President, Western Washington College of Education, Bellingham, Washington. Ed. J. Alan Ross, Herbert C. Taylor, Jr., and Henry L. Adams. Bellingham, Wash.: Union, [1959?], pp. 46-60.
B380 "Why, You Can't Teach Creative Writing." Inland [Salt Lake City], 3, No. I (Summer 1959), 3-10. Signed: "H. Quincy Bogholder, Ph.D., F.R.S.B.K."
B381 "The Franklin's 'Sop in Wyn.'" Notes and Queries [London, Eng.], NS 6, No. 9 (Oct. 1959), 345-57.
B382 "Chaucer's 'Gentil' Manciple and His 'Gentil' Tale." Neuphtlologische Mitteilungen [Helsinki], 61, No. 3 (1960), 257-67.
B383 "The Inhibited and the Uninhibited: Ironic Structure in the 'Miller's Tale.'" Neophilologus [Amsterdam], 44 (1960), 333-38.
B384 "Structural Irony within the 'Summoner's Tale.' " Anglia [Tubingen, Ger.], 78 (1960), 204-18.
B385 "Down the Long Table." Letter. Time and Tide, 16 Jan. 1960, p. 56.
B386 "Random Remarks on a Random World." Humanities Association Bulletin, No. 29 (Jan. 1960), pp. 10-11, 18-20. Rpt. in Western Humanities Review [Salt Lake City], 15, No. 1 (Winter 1961), 3-10.
B387 "The Squire's Yeoman." A Review of English Literature [London, Eng.], 1, No. 3 (July 1960), 918.
B388 "To Be a Layton or Not to Be a Richler." The Vancouver Sun, 20 Aug. 1960, p. 5. Guest column in "Books and Bookmen" section.
B389 "Canadian Literature." The Americana Annual 1961.
B390 "Malcolm Lowry's Poetry." Contact [Sausalito, Cal.], 2, No. 7 (Feb. 1961), 81-82.
B391 "Glimpses into the Life of Malcolm Lowry." The Tamarack Review, No. 19 (Spring 1961), pp. 3541.
B392 "Poems by Malcolm Lowry." Canadian Literature, No. 8 (Spring 1961), pp. 17-19. Rpt. in Malcolm Lowry: The Man and His Work. Ed. George Woodcock. Vancouver: Univ. of British Columbia Press, 1971, pp. 91-93.
B393 "The Unknown Poetry of Malcolm Lowry." British Columbia Library Quarterly, 24, No. 4 (April 1961), 33-40. Rpt. trans. Bernard Lafourcade ("Malcolm Lowry, Porte Inconnu") in Les Lenres Nouvelles [Paris], No. 29 (Oct. 1962), pp. 71-81
B394 "Earle Birney Remembers Dal Grauer." The U.B.C. Alumni Chronicle [Univ. of British Columbia], 15, No. 4 (Winter 1961), 24.
B395 "Canadian Literature." The Americana Annual 1962.
B396 "Five Signallings in Darkness." Evidence [Toronto], No. 4 (Winter 1962), pp. 76-78.
B397 "Twelve Poems by Malcolm Lowry." Northwest Review [Univ. of Oregon], 5, No. 1 (Winter 1962), 57-59.
B398 "The Writer and the Canadian University." Humanities Association Bulletin, 12, No. 3 (Spring 1962), 85-91.
B399 "A. J. M. S." Canadian Literature, No. 15 (Winter 1963), pp. 4-6.
B400 "CPM." Canadian Author & Bookman, 39, No. 2 (Winter 1963), 4-5. ST ("Canadian Poetry Magazine 1946-48").
B401 "Against the Spell of Death." Prairie Schooner [Univ. of Nebraska], 37, No. 4 (Winter 1963-64), 328-33.
B402 "Class in Canadian Literature." Letter. Canadian Literature, No. 20 (Spring 1964), pp. 77-78.
B403 Editorial. Prism International, 4, No. 1 (Summer 1964), 3-5.
B404 Letter. The Tamarack Review, No. 30 (Winter 1964), p. 96. Rpt. ("Letter to the Editor") in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, P. 131.
B405 Letter. Bastion Annual 1965 [school magazine sponsored by the Corporation of the City of Nanaimo], n. pag.
B406 Foreword. In Modern Canadian Stories. Ed. Giose Rimanelli and Roberto Ruberto. Toronto: Ryerson, 1966, pp. ix-xl.
B407 Preface. In Selected Poems 1940-1966. By Earle Birney. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1966, pp. ix-xfi.
B408 "Books and Bookmen." The Vancouver Sun, 20 Aug. 1966, p. 5. Guest column.
B409 "Turvey and the Critics." Canadian Literature, No. 30 (Autumn 1966), pp. 21-25. Rpt. ("Turvey and the Critics") in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 90-94.
B410 "A Letter from Earle Birney." The Telegram [Toronto], 17 Dec. 1966, p. 23.
B411 "The Canadian Writer vs. the Canadian Education." Evidence [Toronto], No. 10 (1967), pp. 97113. Rpt. trans, and adapted John Stutzer-Lau Hansen and Gerard Bessette ("L'Ecrivain Canadien face au Systeme d'Education") in Livres et Auteurs Canadiens 1967. By John Stutzer-Lau Hansen and Gerard Bessette. Montreal: Jumonville, 1968, pp. 11-15.
B412 "The Many Faces of Vancouver/Vancouver aux multiples facetes." In Century 1867/1967 Un Siecle 1867/1967. Ed. John D. Harbron. Toronto: Southam, 1967, pp. 44-45.
B413 "A Note on the Poems." In A Malcolm Lowry Catalogue. By Perle Epstein and Richard Costa. New York: Woolmer, 1968, p. 11
B414 Preface. In The Poems of Earle Birney. New Canadian Library Original, No. O6. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1969, pp. 7-8.
B415 and Peter C. Noel-Bentley. "Earle Birney: A Bibliography in Progress, 1923-1969." West Coast Review, 5, No. 2 (Oct. 1970), 45-53.
B416 Preface. In Four Parts Sand. By Earle Birney, bill bissett, Judith Copithorne, and Andrew Suknaski. Ottawa: Oberon, 1972, n. pag. Rpt. ("Preface to Four Parts Sand") in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 185-86. Consists of a Preface to his section of the book rather than to the book as a whole.
B417 "Experimentation Today." In The Evolution of Canadian Literature in English: 1945-1970. Ed. Paul Denham. Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973, pp. 40-48. Rpt. ("Experimentation") in Canadian Anthology. Ed. Carl F. Klinck and Reginald E. Wafters. 3rd ed. Toronto: Gage, 1974, pp. 615-19. CW (revised, expanded -"Experimentation Today").
B418 "Creativity through Fiction." in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 80-84. CW (revised, expanded).
B419 Epilogue. In Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, PP. 206-18.
B420 "Letter to the Editor." In Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, p. 58. This previously unpublished letter was addressed to Watson Kirkconnell, April 1946, in response to anonymous review of Now is Time in March 1946 issue of Canadian Poetry Magazine (D9).
B421 "Madness and Exorcism of Poetry." In Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 196-202. CW (revised, expanded).
B422 "The Writer-Creator in Today's World." In Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, PP. 203-06. CW (revised, expanded).
B423 "The Writing of a Poem: Compulsion and Suppression." In Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 115-18. CW (revised, expanded).
B424 "Author's Foreword." In The Collected Poems of Earle Birney. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975. Vol. I, vii.
B425 "Commentary." West Coast Review, 12, No. 2 (1977), 18. Rpt. in New West Coast: 72 Contemporary British Columbia Poets. Ed. Fred Candelarla. Vancouver: West Coast Review Books, 1977, p. 18.
B426 "Evergreen Summer, 1921: Readings from a Biography of Earle Birney and Recorded by Jeni Couzyn." Sound Heritage [Victoria], 6, No. 3 (1977), 37-47.
B427 Preface. In The Damnation of Vancouver. Introd. Wai-lan Low. New Canadian Library Original, No. O11. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, pp. 3-6.
B428 Preface. In Ghost in the Wheels: Selected Poems. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, pp. 9-11.
B429 "Trees and Poet-Tree." Univ. of British Columbia Alumni Chronicle, Summer 1977, p. 30.
B430 "Canlittering with the Forum: 1936-42." The Canadian Forum, April 1980, pp. 6-10. ST (revised, expanded -- "As I Remember, 1916-1937," "As I Remember, 1938-1939," and "As I Remember, 1940").
B431 "Birney Recounts Growing Up with Canlit." Quill & Quire, May 1980, pp. 8-10. ST (expanded -- "Spring Plowing 1904-16").
B432 "Bliss of Solitude." Books in Canada, May 1980, pp. 3-6. ST (expanded -- "Spring Plowing 1904-16").
B433 "Canlit between Wars: Memories 1926-46." West Coast Review, 15, No. 1 (June 1980), 3-11. ST (expanded -- "As I Remember, 1926-1937," "As I Remember, 1938-1939," "As I Remember, 1941," and "As I Remember, 1941-1945").
B434 "On Selling Maple-Leaf Literature." The Globe and Mail, "The Mermaid Inn," 21 June 1980, p. 6.
B435 "Coming of Age in Erickson, B.C." B.C. Outdoors,Sept. 1980, pp. 19-31, 60-61. Continued in B.C. Outdoors, September 1980.
B436 "A Chancy Venture." B.C. Outdoors, Oct. 1980, pp. 31-35. Part II of "Coming of Age in Enckson, B.C."
B437 "Slow Birney." Letter. Saturday Night, Oct. 1980, pp. 5-6.
B438 "Hot and Cold." B.C. Outdoors, Nov. 1980, pp. 33-36.
B439 "A Camping Week." B.C. Outdoors, Dec. 1980, pp. 31-35.
B440 "Struggle Against the Old Guard: Editing The Canadian Poetry Magazine." Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 21 (Spring 1981), pp. 9-31. Rpt. in Perspectives on Earle Birney. Downsview, Ont.: ECW, 1981, pp. 9-31. ST [revised, excerpts -- "As I Remember: 1946: January-September," "As I Remember: 1946: October to December," "As I Remember: 1947: April-September," "As I Remember: 1947: January-March," "As I Remember: 1947 (November)-1948 (February)," "As I Remember: 1948: July-September," "As 1 Remember: 1948: March-June," and "As I Remember: 1948 (October)-1949 (February)"].
B441 "Child Addict in Alberta." Canadian Literature, No. 90 (Autumn 1981), pp. 6-11. ST (revised, expanded -- "Spring Plowing 1904-16").
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B605 "David." Narr. Earle Birney. Creston, B.C., Photofolios, Record #QC-86, 1964. (15 min.)
B606 Canadian Poets 1. CBC Learning Systems, T-55106-55109, 1966. (4S.; 1.p.; 331/3.) Eight Canadian poets read from their works. Includes the following poems by Birney: "AngloSaxon Street," "Appeal to a Lady with a Diaper," "Ellesmereland I," "Ellesmereland II," "Sestina for Tehuantepec," and "Transistor."
B607 Birney/Layton. Toronto: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 1969. (Tape; 30 min.) Poems read by Birney and Layton.
B608 David. Narr. Rene Auberjonois. New York: Scott, Foresman, 1969. (2.s.; 1.p.; 33 1/3.)
B609 Earle Birney. Toronto: High Barnet, 1979. (Cassette; 60 min.) Poems read with commentary by Birney.
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B610 Crossword puzzle. The Ubyssey [Univ. of British Columbia], 8 Jan. 1915, p. 8.
B611 Totem. Univ. of British Columbia Annual, No. 11 (1926). Has photograph and pen portrait of Birney by Thomas Taylor, page 12; photograph of Birney, pages 65-66; "The Publications Board" by Birney, page 67.
B612 "Takkakaw Falls." Modern Dance. Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver. 3 March 1952. Modern Dance, a program for an exhibition of modern dance presented by the Fine Arts Committee of the Univ. of British Columbia, lists a reading of "Takkakaw Falls" by Birney and choreography and solo dance to the poem by Marjorie Miller.
B613 "Trial of a City." CBC Radio [Vancouver Trans-Canada], 8 Oct. 1952. Reproduced (revised) Univ. of British Columbia, 6 Dec. 1952. Reproduced Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver. 6 Dec. 1953. Reproduced (revised -- "Damnation of Vancouver") Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver. 1954. Reproduced Univ. of Washington, D.C. Jan. 1955. Reproduced Univ. Nacional de Mexico. Sept. 1955. TC (revised -- "Trial of a City"); SP (revised -- "Damnation of Vancouver"); DV (Damnation of Vancouver). All but the first citation are stage performances. The two 1952 stage performances are taken from TC; the 1954 and the two 1955 performances are taken from SP.
B614 "Quebec May." Music Jean Coulthard. Canadian League of Composers. Eaton Auditorium, Toronto. 3 April 1954. Canadian League of Composers, a program for the concert, includes Jean Coulthard's prize-winning rendering into music (CBC International Service 1950 song contest) of Birney's "Quebec May."
B615 and Louis Dudek. "Anthologists and Poets." Yes [Lakehead Univ.], 10, No. 4 (Sept. 1965), 16. Birney wrote the second stanza.
B616 Lyric. In "Nara." By Warren Benson. Shaw Festival. St. Mark's Church, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 25 July 1970. Reproduced at Expo 70, Space Theatre, Osaka, Japan. 1970. Birney's lyric was originally entitled "WindChimes in a Temple Ruin" (B88).
B617 "Academic: A Poem Drawing." Poster. Ottawa: Oberon, 1972.
B618 "Carillons ecoliers dans les ruines du temple." Trans. Music Warren Benson. National Arts Centre, 29 July 1972. Music and translation of "Wind-Chimes in a Temple Ruin" mentioned in Prelude, the program for the music concert.
B619 "Buildings." Poster. Okemos, Mich.: Stone, poster #3, 1973. Composed of "BUILDINGS" (B84), "WALLS" (B156), "WAITING ROOM" (B152), and "OUTDOOR ZOO" (B161).
B620 Quebec May for S.A.T.B. Chorus and Two Pianos. Music Jean Coulthard. Lyrics Earle Birney. Waterloo: Waterloo Music, 1976. 54 pp.
B621 "Earle Birney." In Canada Writes!. Ed. K. A. Hamilton. Toronto: Writers' Union of Canada, 1977, pp. 28-29. A short biography and brief statement by Birney about his work.
B622 ["When I was new and lived ...."] West Coast Review, 12, No. 2 (1977), p, 18.
B623 "David." Oratorio by Lloyd Burritt. British Columbia Industries, Vancouver. July 1977.
B624 "Beginnings: Earle Birney." Today Magazine, 23 Jan. 1982, p. 4. Biographical material taped by Victor Paddy.
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Alphabeings & Other Seasyours ------------------------ AOS
The Bear on the Delhi Road: Selected Poems ----------- BDR
Big Bird in the Bush: Selected Stories and Sketches -- BBB
The Collected Poems of Earle Birney ------------------- CP
The Cow Jumped over the Moon: The Writing and
Reading of Poetry -------------------------- CJM
The Creative Writer ----------------------------------- CW
The Damnation of Vancouver ---------------------------- DV
David and Other Poems -------------------------------- DOP
Fall by Fury & Other Makings -------------------------- FF
Four Parts Sand -------------------------------------- FPS
Ghost in the Wheels: Selected Poems ------------------- GW
Ice Cod Bell or Stone: A Collection of New Poems ---- ICBS
The Mammoth Corridors --------------------------------- MC
Memory No Servant ------------------------------------ MNS
Near False Creek Mouth: New Poems ------------------- NFCM
Now is Time ------------------------------------------ NIT
pnomes jukollages & other stunzas ------------------- pjos
The Poems of Earle Birney ---------------------------- PEB
Rag & Bone Shop -------------------------------------- RBS
Record of Service in the Second World War ---------- RSSWW
The Rugging and the Moving Times: Poems New
and Uncollected 1976 --------------------- RMT
Selected Poems 1940-1966 ------------------------------ SP
Spreading Time: Remarks on Canadian Writing and
Writers. Book I: 1904-1949 ---------------- ST
The Strait of Anian: Selected Poems ------------------- SA
Trial of a City and Other Verse ----------------------- TC
Turvey: A Military Picaresque ----------------------- T:MP
what's so big about GREEN? -------------------------- wsbG
B1 "Dormit Flumen." The Ubyssey [Univ. of British Columbia], 18 Oct. 1923, p. 6.
B2 "Sonnet." The Ubyssey [Univ. of British Columbia], 7 Feb. 1924, p. 6.
B3 "Change." The Ubyssey [Univ. of British Columbia], 29 Jan. 1925, p. 6.
B4 "Night." The Ubyssey [Univ. of British Columbia], 13 Oct. 1925, p. 2. Rpt. in Niagara [Brooklyn, N.Y.], Nos. 10-11 (Summer 1979), p. 7. wsbG (revised -- "adagio"); CP (revised -- "Adagio"). Prose poem.
B5 "Tea at My Shetland Aunt's." The University Pen [Univ. of Utah], May 1932, pp. 6-7. Rpt. in Sparrow [Purdue Univ.], 23 (1967), 12-13. pjos ("tea with my shetland grandaunt"); wsbG (revised -- "tea at my shetland aunt's"); CP (revised -- "Tea at my Shetland aunt's").
B6 "Slug in Woods." The Canadian Forum, Feb. 1937, p. 22. DOP; SA; SP (revised); CP (revised -- "Slug In woods").
B7 "Grey-Rocks." The Canadian Forum, March 1937, p. 10. DOP; CP (revised).
B8 "Lines for Lotos-Eaters." The Canadian Forum, March 1940, p. 385. CP ("Lines for lotos-eaters").
B9 "Dusk on English Bay." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 5, No. 1 (Sept. 1940), 25. DOP; NIT (revised -- "Dusk on the Bay"); SA (revised); SP (revised); CP (revised -- "Dusk on English Bay").
B10 "Monody on a Century." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 5, No. 1 (Sept. 1940), 26. Rpt. in Target [Gunthorpe, Eng.], 2 (1965-66), 7. DOP; CP (revised -- "Monody on a century").
B11 "West Vancouver Ferry." Vancouver Sunday Province, 10 Nov. 1940. DOP; CP (revised -- "Old West Vancouver ferry").
B12 "Smalltown Hotel." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 5, No. 2 (Dec. 1940), 53. DOP; SP (revised "De-composition"); CP (revised).
B13 "France, 1941." Saturday Night, 1 March 1941, p. 24. DOP.
B14 "Crow." Saturday Night, 22 March 1941, p. 10. Rpt. in Quartet [Texas], 8, Nos. 59-60 (Summer-Fall 1977), 18. CP.
B15 "Eagle Island." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 5, No. 3 (April 1941), 41-42. DOP; CP (revised).
B16 "Apologies." Saturday Night, 22 May 1941, p. 21. Rpt. ("Skier's Apologies") in UBC Graduate Chronicle, 2, No. 1 (March 1948), 9. Rpt. in Quartet [Texas], 6, Nos. 45-46 (Winter-Spring 1974), 61. CP ("Skier's apologies").
B17 "Hands." Contemporary Verse, 1, No. 1 (Sept. 1941), 3-4. DOP; NiT (revised); SA (revised); SP (revised); CP (revised).
B18 "On Going to the Wars." The Dalhousie Review, 21 (Oct. 1941), 352-53. DOP. Signed: "Richard Miles."
B19 "David." The Canadian Forum, Dec. 1941, pp. 174-76. DOP; SA (revised); SP (revised); PEB (revised); CJM; CP (revised); GW (revised).
B20 "Reverse on the Coast Range." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 4, No. 1 (Dec. 1941), 18. DOP; SA (revised); CP (revised).
B21 "Waterton Holiday." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 6, No. 2 (April 1941), 17. DOP; SP (revised -- "Holiday in the Foothills"); CP (revised -- "Holiday in the foothills").
B22 "Kootenay Still-Life." The Canadian Forum, May 1941, P. 44. Rpt. in Breakthru [Haywards Heath, Sussex, Eng.], 3, No. 18 (Sept.-Oct. 1964), 25. DOP; CP (revised -- "Kootenay still-life").
B23 "Nocturne." Contemporary Verse, 1, No. 4 (June 1942), 14. DOP ("European Nocturne"); CP (revised -- "European nocturne").
B24 "Vancouver Lights." Canadian Review of Music and Art, 1, No. 5 (June 1941), 8. DOP; NiT (revised); SA (revised); SP (revised); CP (revised -- "Vancouver lights"); GW.
B25 "War Winter." Contemporary Verse, 1, No. 4 (June 1942), 14. Rpt. ("World Winter") in Saturday Review, II June 1960, p. 22. Rpt. trans. Dora M. Pettinella ("Mondo d'Iverno") in Ausonia [Siena, Italy], 19, No. 6 (Dec. 1964), 29-30. DOP ("War Winter"); NiT; SA; SP (revised -- "War Winters"); PEB; CP ("War winters"); GW.
B26 "Joe Harris, 1913-1941." Saturday Night, 22 May 1943, pp. 25, 32. NiT; SP (revised); BBB (revised -- "Joe Harris, 28 June 1913-19 August 1942"). Prose poem.
B27 "'And the Earth Grow Young Again.'" Saturday Night, 17 June 1944, p. 41 NiT; SA (revised); CP (revised -- "'And the earth grow young again'").
B28 "For Steve." The Canadian Forum, Aug. 1944, pp. 112-13. NiT (revised); SA; RSSWW (revised, excerpt -- "Memorial Poem, World War II"); CP (revised -- "For Steve").
B29 "Letter Home." Contemporary Verse, No. l2 (Jan. 1945), p. 3. NiT ("D-Day"); SA (revised); CP (revised).
B30 "Cadet Hospital." Queen's Quarterly, 52 (Summer 1945), 158. NiT; CP (revised -- "Cadet hospital").
B31 "The Road to Nijmegen." Queen's Quarterly, 51 (Summer 1945), 158-59. Rpt. in Penguin New Writing, No. 2-6 (1945), pp. 101-02. NiT; SA (revised); SP (revised); PEB (revised -- "The Road to Nijmegen"); CP (revised -- "The Road to Nijmegen"); GW ("The road to Nijmegen"); MC ("The Road to Nijmegen").
B32 "Death of a War." Saturday Night, 30 June 1945, p. 3. NiT; SA (revised); CP (revised -- "Death of a war").
B33 "Lines for a Peace." Contemporary Verse, No. 14 (July 1945), p. 6. Rpt. in Alaska Review, 2, No. 1 (Fall 1965), 39. NiT; SA (revised); SP (revised); CP (revised -- "Lines for a peace").
B34 "Skeleton m the Grass." Contemporary Verse, No. 14 (July 1945), pp. 5-6. Rpt. ("Skull in Grass") in Breakthru [Haywards Heath, Sussex, Eng.], 3, No. 16 (May-June 1964), 23. Rpt. in Poetry Review [Tampa, Fla.], No. 6 (1965), p. [32]. NiT ("Skeleton in the Grass").
B35 "Within These Caverned Days." Contemporary Verse, No. 14 (July 1945), p. 5. NiT; SA (revised); CP (revised -- "Within these caverned days").
B36 "VE-Night." The Canadian Forum, Aug. 1945, p. 118. NiT; SA (revised); CP (revised).
B37 "Introvert." Contemporary Verse, No. 15 (Oct. 1945), p. 8. NiT; SA (revised); SP (revised); CP.
B38 "Time Bomb." Contemporary Verse, No. 15 (Oct. 1945), p. 7. Rpt. trans. ("Momba de Tiempo") in Potpourri [Arizona], 2, No. 1 (Autumn 1965), 3536. NiT ("Time-Bomb"); SA (revised); SP (revised -- "Time Bomb"); CP (revised -- "Time bomb").
B39 "World Conference." Contemporary Verse, No. 15 (Oct. 1945), p. 7. Rpt. trans. ("Conferencia Mundial") in Potpourri [Arizona], Nos. 7-8 (1966), p. 37. NiT ("World Conference"); SA; SP (revised -- "Conference of Heads"); CP (revised -- "Conference of heads").
B40 "Young Veterans." Contemporary Verse, No. 15 (Oct. 1945), p. 6. NiT; SA (revised); SP (revised); BDR ("Young veterans"); CP (revised); GW.
B41 "For the Part of Death." Saturday Night, 13 Oct. 1945, p. 3. Rpt. ("Remarks Decoded from Outer Space") in Mainstream [N.Y.], Nov. 1961, pp. 50-51. NiT ("Remarks for the Part of Death"); SA (revised); SP (revised -- "Remarks Decoded from Outer Space"); CP ("Remarks decoded from outer space").
B42 "Letter to a Possible Great-Grandson." In Poems for the Interim. Ed. B. K. Sandwell. Toronto: Consolidated, 1946, p. 4. SA; SP (revised -- "Letter to a Conceivable Great-grandson"); pjos (revised "letter to a conceivable great-grandson"); CP (revised -- "Letter to a conceivable great-grandson").
B43 "Atlantic Door." Reading [Toronto], 1, No. 1 (Feb. 1946), 21. SA; SP (revised); CP (revised "Atlantic door"); GW.
B44 "Gulf of Georgia." Reading [Toronto], 1, No. 1 (Feb. 1946), 22. SA; SP (revised); CP (revised).
B45 "The Doukhobor." Thunderbird [Univ. of British Columbia], 4, No. 1 (1947), 19. Signed: "Duke Scaldee."
B46 "Man Is a Snow." Queen's Quarterly, 54 (Summer 1947), 172. SA; SP (revised); CP revised -- "Man is a snow"); GW; MC ("Man is a Snow").
B47 "New Brunswick." Contemporary Verse, No. 21 (Summer 1947), P. 6. SA; SP (revised -- "Transcontinental"); PEB; CP (revised); GW.
B48 "Ulysses." Contemporary Verse, No. 21 (Summer 1947), P. 7. SA; SP (revised); CP; GW.
B49 "Laurentian Shield." Contemporary Verse, No. 22 (Fall 1947), PP. 6-7. Rpt. ("Canadian Northland") in English [London, Eng.], 12, No. 71 (Summer 1959), 171-72. SA ("Laurentian Shield"); SP (revised -- "North of Superior"); CP (revised).
B50 "Montreal 1945." Poetry Quarterly [London, Eng.], 9, No. 3 (Autumn 1947), 154-55. SA ("Montreal"); CP (revised -- "Montreal 1945").
B51 "Atlantic Coast." The Dalhousie Review, 27 (Oct. 1947), 326. TC ("Maritime Faces"); SP (revised); CP (revised- "Maritime faces").
B52 "The Monarch of the Id." Saturday Night, 11 Oct. 1947, P. 41. TC; CP (revised).
B53 "Alberni Canal." B.C. Historical Quarterly, 11 (Dec. 1947), 157-58. CP.
B54 "Christmas Comes But Once A .... " Mayfair [Toronto], Dec. 1947, P. 69. TC ("Christmas Comes..."); CP (revised -- "Christmas comes but once a...").
B55 "Pacific Door." Harper's, Dec. 1947, P. 558. Rpt. trans. ("Csendes Oceani Kapu") in Vilagirodalmi Antologia. Ed. Bernard Istvan. Budapest: State, 1962, pp. 437-38. SA ("Pacific Door"); SP (revised); CP ("Pacific door"); GW (revised).
B56 "Prairie Counterpoint." here and now [Toronto], 1, No. 1 (Dec. 1947), 68-7o. SA; CP (revised).
B57 "Sonnets in Wartime." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 11, No. 2 (Dec. 1947), 41-43. Signed: "Oliver Yorke."
B58 "Wind at the Cliffs." Chapbook [New Zealand], 19 (Dec. 1947), 83. SA ("... Or a Wind"); SP (revised -- "... Or a Wind?"); CP (revised -- "... or a Wind").
B59 "Restricted Area." Saturday Night, 6 Dec. 1947, P. 49. TC; CP (revised).
B60 "World War III." here and now [Toronto], 1, No. 2. (1947-48), p. 22. SA; CP (revised).
B61 "From the Hazel Bough." Thunderbird [Univ. of British Columbia], 3, No. 3 (March 1948), 7. Rpt. trans. ("Bajo la Rama del Avellano") in Burning Water [Princeton, N.J.], Fall 1964, pp. 37-38. SA ("From the Hazel Bough"); SP (revised); MNS; PEB (revised); BDR ("From the hazel bough"); CP (revised); GW.
B62 "Conrad Kain." Manitoba Arts Review, 6, No. 1 (Spring 1948), 15-18. Rpt. in The Canadian Alpine Journal, 34 (May 1951), 97-100. CP.
B63 "Winter Saturday." Prairie Schooner [Univ. of Nebraska], 22, No. 1 (Spring 1948), 25. Rpt. in Skylark, 3, No. 3 (April 1967), 16. SA; SP (revised); MNS; BDR; CP (revised); GW.
B64 "Inside Path." Arena [Wellington, N.Z.], No. 18 (April 1948), p. 1. Rpt. ("Alaska Passage") in Alaska Review [Alaska Methodist Univ.], 1, No. 4 (1965), 14. pjos ("alaska passage"); RBS (revised); CP (revised -- "ka pass age alaska passage ALASKA PASSAGE alaska passage alas"); GW (revised -- "Alaska passage").
B65 "Last Night." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 12, No. 3 (March 1949), 12.
B66 "Aubade for a Fraternity." Saturday Night, 8 March 1949, p. 5. CP ("Aubade for a fraternity").
B67 "Climbers." Poetry Commonwealth [London, Eng.], No. 4 (Spring 1949), P. 8. TC; SP (revised); CP; GW.
B68 "Images in Place of Logging." here and now [Toronto], 2, No. 4 (June 1949), 70. TC; SP (revised); CP (revised -- "Images in place of logging").
B69 "Biography." Poetry Commonwealth [London, Eng.], No. 5 (Summer 1949), P. 8. TC; SP (revised); CP.
B70 "Book of Gaspe." Contemporary Verse, No. 31 (Spring 1950), pp. 8-9. TC ("Page of Gaspe"); SP (revised); CP.
B71 "Creston Valley Fall." Contemporary Verse, No. 31 (Spring 1950), p. 9. Rpt. ("Kootenay October") in Chase [Hednesford, Staffs., Eng.], No. 3 (Jan. 1964), p. 13.
B72 "Takkakaw Falls." Northern Review, 3, No. 5 (June-July 1950), 46-47. TC; SP (revised); MNS; PEB (revised); CP (revised); GW.
B73 "Ballad of Mr. Chubb." The Canadian Forum, Dec. 1950, p. 207. TC; SP (revised); BDR; CP (revised).
B74 "Bushed." Contemporary Verse, No. 36 (Fall 1951), p. 5. Rpt. in The Canadian, 12 May 1979, p. 6. Rpt. trans. Gabriele del Re ("solo nei boschi") in Stilb [Rome], 1, No. 6 (1981), 77. TC; SP (revised); MNS; PEB (revised); BDR; CP (revised); GW.
B75 "St. Valentine Is Past." Contemporary Verse, No. 36 (Fall 1951), PP. 6-7. Rpt. ("Flying West") in B.C. Outdoors, Sept. 1980, p. 31. TC ("St. Valentine is Past"); SP (revised -- "St. Valentine Is Past"); CP (revised -- "St. Valentine is past").
B76 "North Star West." Canadian Home Journal, Nov. 1951, pp. 12-13. TC; SP (revised); CP (revised "North Star west").
B77 "Notes on Ancestors. I: Stanza for Certain Politicians." The Canadian Forum, Jan. 1953, p. 233.
B78 "Notes on Ancestors. II: Verses Expressing Confidence in the Future of Canadian Literature." The Canadian Forum, Jan. 1953, p. 233.
B79 "Notes on Ancestors. In: Thought for the Atomic Age." The Canadian Forum, Jan. 1953, p. 233. Rpt. trans, in Syrma [Cuenca, Ecuador], 5 (1966), n. pag. ICBS ("Ellesmereland"); SP (revised "Ellesmereland I"); PEB (revised -- "Ellesmereland"); BDR (revised -- "Ellesmereland I"); CJM; CP; GW; MC.
B80 "McSimpton's Annual Excursion Trip to Nanaimo." Picque [Univ. of British Columbia], 1, No. 4 (Spring 1956), 20-21. wsbG (revised -- "mcsimpton's annual boat excursion to nanaimo june 1949"); CP (revised -- "The McSimpton Marketeria's annual staff ferry picnic to nanaimo").
B81 "Appeal to a Lady with a Diaper." Raven [Univ. of British Columbia], No. 2 (Spring 1957), p. 17. ICBS; SP (revised); pjos (revised -- "appeal to a lady with a diaper"); CP ("Appeal to a lady with a diaper").
B82 "Leaving the Park." Pan-ic [New York], No. 2 (1958), p. 5. ICBS ("Leaving Yellowstone"); SP (revised -- "Leaving the Park"); PEB (revised); CP (revised -- "Leaving the park").
B83 "Oldster." Pan-ic [New York], No. 2 (1958), p. 5. ICBS; SP (revised); CP (revised).
B84 ["B.C. Centennial."] Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Journal, 35, No. 4 (April 1958), 120-47. Rpt. (revised, excerpt -- "Schoolhouse") in BlewOintment [Vancouver], 5, No. 1 (Jan. 1967), 24. Rpt. (revised, excerpt -- "Buildings") in Prism International, 6, No. 3 (Winter 1967), 42-43. pjos (revised, expanded -- "ARCHITECTURE"); RBS (revised, expanded- "BUILDINGS"); CP (revised, excerpt -- "Buildings"). Untitled verse commentary for photostory of architecture in British Columbia. "ARCHITECTURE" is the overall title for a group of poems consisting of "BUILDING," "WALLS" (B156), "WAITING ROOM" (B152), and "OUTDOOR ZOO" (B161) in pjos. "BUILDINGS" is the overall title for a group of poems consisting of "BUILDINGS," "WALLS" (B156), "waiting room" (B152), "OUTDOOR ZOO" (B161) in RBS, and consisting of "BUILDINGS" and "WALLS" (B156) in CP.
B85 "Postprandial thanks to E. J. Pratt." The Canadian Forum, Sept. 1958, p. 132. CP ("Postprandial thanks to Ned").
B86 "A Walk in Kyoto." Western Humanities Review [Univ. of Utah], 13 (Summer 1959), 244-45. Rpt. in Best Articles and Stories [Spencer, Ind.], 4, No. 7 (Sept. 1960), 21. ICBS; SP (revised); MNS; PEB (revised); BDR (revised -- "A walk in Kyoto"); CP (revised); GW (revised).
B87 "Bangkok Boy." Prism International, I, No. 1 (Sept. 1959), 48-49. ICBS; SP (revised); PEB (revised); CP (revised -- "Bangkok boy"); GW.
B88 "Wind-Chimes in a Temple Ruin." The Canadian Forum, Sept. 1959, p. 130. ICBS; SP (revised -- "Wind-chimes in a Temple Ruin"); MNS ("Wind-Chimes in a Temple Ruin"); PEB (revised); BDR ("Wind-chimes in a temple ruin"); CP (revised); GW. Set to music by Warren Benson, as "Nara." Shaw Festival, St. Mark's Church, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 25 July 1970. Reproduced at Expo 70, Space Theatre, Osaka, Japan. 1970.
B89 "Mammorial Stunzas for Aimee Simple McFarcin." Prism International, 1, No. 2 (Winter 1959), 34-35. Rpt. in Skylark, 3, No. 3 (April 1967), 15-16. ICBS; SP (revised); pjos ("mammorial stunzas for aimee simple mcfarcin"); PEB (revised -- "Mammorial Stunzas for Aimee Simple McFarcin"); BDR ("Mammorial stunzas for Aimee Simple McFarcin"); CP (revised); GW (revised).
B90 "Twenty-Third Flight." Facets [Univ. of Oregon], (Spring 1960). ICBS; SP (revised -- "Twenty-third Flight"); MNS ("Twenty-Third Flight"); PEB (revised -- "Twenty-third Flight"); BDR ("Twenty-third flight"); CP (revised); GW.
B91 "The Bear on the Delhi Road." The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 1960, p. 101. Rpt. in Imprint [Bombay, India], 3, No. 4 (July 1963), 76-78. Rpt. trans, in Modern Poetry: East and West. Ed. Wong Waiming. Hong Kong: Shih Feng, 1981, pp. 26-28. ICBS; SP (revised); MNS; PEB (revised); BDR ("The bear on the Delhi Road"); CP (revised); GW ("The bear on the Delhi road"); MC ("The Bear On the Delhi Road").
B92 "Aluroid." Poetry Northwest [Seattle], 2, Nos. 1-2 (Winter 1960-61), 7. ICBS; SP (revised); MNS; CP; GW.
B93 "El Greco: Espolio." Poetry Northwest [Seattle], 2, Nos. 1-2. (Winter 1960-61), 3-4. ICBS; SP (revised); MNS; PEB (revised); BDR; CTM; CP (revised); GW.
B94 "Francisco Tresguerras." Poetry Northwest [Seattle], 2, Nos. 1-2 (Winter 1960-61), 4-5. ICBS; CP (revised).
B95 "Haiku for a Young Waitress." Poetry Northwest [Seattle], 2, Nos. 1-2 (Winter 1960-61), 5. Rpt. trans, in Haiku [Tokyo], No. 6 (June 1963), p. 131. ICBS; SP (revised); CP (revised -- "Haiku for a young waitress").
B96 "Captain Cook." The Tamarack Review, No. 18 (Winter 1961), pp. 56-57. [CBS; SP (revised); BDR; CP (revised).
B97 "Pachucan Miners." The Tamarack Review, No. 18 (Winter I96I), pp. 57-58. ICBS; SP (revised); MNS; CP (revised -- "Pachucan miners"); GW (revised).
B98 "State of Sonora." The Tamarack Review, No. 18 (Winter 1961), pp. 52-53. ICBS; SP (revised); CP (revised).
B99 "Vitus Bering." The Tamarack Review, No. 18 (Winter 1961), pp. 55-56. ICBS; CP (revised).
B100 "Wake Island." The Tamarack Review, No. 18 (Winter 1961), p. 54. ICBS; SP (revised); CP (revised).
B101 "Candidate's Prayer." The Canadian Forum, May 1961, p. 32. NFCM ("Candidate's prayer before Master's Oral"); CP (revised -- "Candidate's prayer before master's oral").
B102 "Fine Arts." The Canadian Forum, June 1961, p. 58. NFCM; CP (revised).
B103 "First Tree." Galley Sail Review [San Francisco], 3, No. 1 (June 1961), 23. ICBS ("First Tree for Frost"); SP (revised); MNS; PEB (revised); BDR ("First tree for Frost"); CP (revised -- "First tree for frost"); GW ("First tree for Frost").
B104 "Six-Sided Square: Actopan." Massachusetts Review, 2 (Summer 1961), 734-35. ICBS; SP (revised -- "Six-sided Square: Actopan"); pjos (revised -- "six-sided square: actopan"); BDR ("Six-sided square: Actopan"); CP (revised); GW.
B105 "Nayarit." Delta [Montreal], No. 16 (Nov. 1961), p. 11. ICBS ("Niarit"); CP ("Nayarit"); AOS (revised).
B106 "Sixth Grade Biology Quiz." Exchange [Toronto], 1, No. 2. (Dec. 1961), 17. ICBS ("Answers to a Grade-School Biology Test"); SP (revised "Answers to a Grade-school Biology Test"); PEB (revised -- "Sixth Grade Biology Quiz"); BDR ("Answers to a grade-school biology test"); CP (revised -- "Sixth grade biology quiz"); GW; MC ("Sixth Grade Biology Quiz").
B107 "Kanadai Tenyallas." Trans. in Vildgirodalmi Antologia. Ed. Bernath Istvan. Budapest: State, 1962, p. 438. Rpt. trans. Dora M. Pettinella ("Canada: Esempio Storico") in Ausonia [Siena, Italy], 19 Dec. 1964, p. 29. SA ("Canada: Case History"); SP (revised); CP (revised -- "Canada: case history: 1945"); GW.
B108 "Can. Lit." Delta [Montreal], No. 17 (Jan. 1962). Rpt. [Untitled] in Skylark, 3, No. 3 (April 1967), 7. ICBS (revised -- "Can. Lit."); RBS (revised, expanded -- "them able leave her ever I. can. lit."); BDR ("Can. Lit."); CP (revised -- "Can. Lit"); GW (revised).
B109 "Letter to a Cuzco Priest." The Humanities Assoctation Bulletin, 13 ([Nov.] 1962-63), 10-12. Rpt. trans, ("Carta a un cura cuzqueno") in Haravec [Lima, Peru], 3 (July 1967), 2-7. NFCM ("Letter to a Cuzco priest"); SP (revised -- "Letter to a Cuzco Priest"); MNS; PEB; CP (revised --"Letter to a Cuzco priest"); GW (revised).
B110 "Prayer in Middle Age." Scrip [Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Eng.], No. 5 (Jan. 1963), p. 3. NFCM ("On the beach"); pjos (revised -- "on the beach"); CP (revised --"On the beach").
B111 "Arrivals -- Wolfville." The Fiddlehead, No. 58 (Fall 1963), pp. 4-7. Rpt. ("Arrivals, Wolfville") in Alaska Review [Alaska Methodist Univ.], 2, No. 1 (Fall 1965), 33-35. NFCM ("Arrivals"); SP (revised); MNS ("ARRIVALS Wolfville/Locals ..."); PEB (revised -- "Arrivals"); CP (revised "ARRIVALS -- Wolfville"); GW ("Arrivals").
B112 "Machu Picchu." Canadian Poetry Magazine, 27, No. 1 (Nov. 1963), 9-12. NFCM; SP (revised); MNS; CP (revised).
B113 "Turbonave Magnolia." Volume 63 [Waterloo, Ont.], No. 1 (Dec. 1963), pp. 33-35. NFCM ("Turbonave Magnolia"); CP (revised -- "Turbonave Magnolia").
B114 "Billboards Build Freedom of Choice." Poetmeat [England], 4 (Winter 1963-64), 15. Rpt. in Alaska Review [Alaska Methodist Univ.], 2, No. 1 (Fall 1965), 36-38. NFCM ("Billboards Build Freedom Of Choice"); SP (revised -- "Billboards Build Freedom of Choice"); PEB (revised); CP (revised "Billboards build freedom of choice"); GW ("Billboards Build Freedom of Choice").
B115 "Epidaurus." Queen's Quarterly, 70 (Winter 196364), 527. NFCM; SP (revised); PEB; BDR; CP (revised); GW (revised).
B116 "Saltfish and Ackee." The Dalhousie Review, 43 (Winter 1963-64), 542. NFCM ("Saltfish and akee"); CP (revised).
B117 "Secret Weapon in Jamaica." Essence [New Haven, Conn.], 28 (Winter 1963-64), 5. NFCM ("Transistor"); SP (revised); CP (rev,sed); GW.
B118 "Curacao." Scrip [Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Eng.], No. 10 (1964), p. 24. Rpt. in The Canadian, 12 May 1979, P. 6. NFCM; SP (revised); PEB (revised); BDR; CP (revised); GW; MC.
B119 "Can. Hist." The Tamarack Review, No. 30 (Winter 1964), p. 25. Rpt. trans, in Giornale d'Italia [Rome], 23-24 May 1964, p. 5. NFCM; BDR; CP (revised).
B120 "To a Hamilton (Ont.) Lady Thinking to Travel." The Tamarack Rewew, No. 30 (Winter 1964), p. 26. NFCM ("Advice to a Hamilton (Ont.) lady about to travel again"); CP (revised -- "To a Hamilton (Ont.) lady thinking to travel").
B121 "Buenos Aires: 1962." Poetry & Audience [Leeds, Eng.], 11, No. 12 (Jan. 1964), 2-4. NFCM; CP (revised).
B122 "Villanelle." Poetry & Audience [Leeds, Eng.], 7 Feb. 1964, p. 4. wsbG ("villanelle"); CP (revised -- "Vi11anelle"); GW.
B123 "For George Lamming." Btm [Barbados], 10, No. 38 (Jan-June 1964), 138, NFCM; SP (revised); MNS; PEB (revised); CP (revised); GW (revised).
B124 "Meeting of Strangers." Iconolatre [West Hartlepool, Eng.], No. 9 (March 1964), pp. 17-18. NFCM ("Meeting of strangers"); SP (revised --"Meeting of Strangers"); MNS; PEB, BDR ("Meeting of strangers"); CP (revised); GW.
B125 "Cartagena de Indias, 1962." Edge [Edmonton], No. 2 (Spring 1964), pp. 50-54. NFCM ("Cartagena de Indias"); SP (revised); MNS; PEB (revised); CP (revised -- "Cartagena de Indias, 1962"); GW.
B126 "Guadelupe." Descant [Texas], 8, No. 3 (Spring 1964), 21. NFCM; CP (revised).
B127 "Plaza de la Inquisicion." New Statesman [London, Eng.], 3 April 1964, p. 534. NFCM ("Plaza del Inquisicion"); SP (revised -- "Plaza de Inquisicion"); MNS; PEB; BDR ("Plaza de la Inquisicion"); CP; GW.
B128 "Barranquilla Bridge." Praire Schooner [Univ. of Nebraska], 38, No. 2 (Summer 1964), 149-50. NFCM ("Barranquilla bridge"); SP (revised "Barranquilla Bridge"); CP (revised "Barranquilla bridge").
B129 "Irapuato." Trans. Burning Water [Princeton, N.J.], (Fall 1964), pp. 39-40. Rpt. trans. Ce1ine Fitts and Robert Melancon, in ellipse, No. 1 (Fall 1969), P. 59. Rpt. (English) in ellipse, No. 1 (Fall 1969), p. 58. ICBS; SP (revised); MNS; PEB (revised); CP (revised); GW.
B130 "Memory No Servant." Scrip [Chesterfield, Derbyshare, Eng.], No. 12 (Autumn 1964), p. 9. NFCM ("Memory no servant"); SP (revised -- "Memory No Servant"); MNS; CP (revised -- "Memory no servant"); GW (revised).
B131 "October in Utah." Western Humanities Review, 18, No, 4 (Autumn 1964), 303. DOP; CP (revised).
B132 "Orphiasco." Ambit [London, Eng.], No. 21 (Autumn 1964), p. 42. NFCM; pjos (revised "orphiasco"); CP (revised -- "Orphiasco").
B133 "Poetry Circle Tavern." Ante [Los Angeles], 1, No. 2 (Fall 1964), 46. NFCM ("Poetry Circle pub"); SP (revised -- "London Poetry Pub"); CP (revised "London poetry circle pub").
B134 "Caracas." How [London, Eng.], No. 4 (Oct. 1964), p. 11. NFCM; SP (revised); CP (revised).
B135 ["Under the breath of the first dragons -- ...."] Imperial Oil Review [Toronto], 48, No. 5 (Oct. 1964), 1. RBS (revised -- "oil refinery"); CP (revised -- "Oil refinery"); GW (revised); MC ("Oil Refinery").
B136 "Looking from Oregon." Atlantic Monthly, Nov. 1964, p. 146. SP; MNS; PEB (revised); CP (revised); GW.
B137 "The Mammoth Corridors." In Verse & Voice: A Festival of Poetry. Foreword Douglas Cleverdon. London: Poetry Book Society, 1965, pp. 46-48. Rpt. in The Tamarack Review, No. 41 (Fall 1966), pp. 142-47. RBS ("the mammoth corridors"); CP (revised -- "The mammoth corridors"); GW (revised); MC ("The Mammoth Corridors").
B138 "These with Wind." Breakthru [Hayward's Heath, Sussex, Eng.], 4, No. 21 (March-April 1965), 14. DOP ("Lament"); CP ("These with wind").
B139 "Ellesmereland II." The Canadian Forum, Aug. 1965, p. 103. SP (revised); BDR; CJM; CP; GW; MC.
B140 "Campus Theatre Steps." Alaska Review [Alaska Methodist Univ.], 2, No. 1 (Fall 1965), p. 38. SP; pjos (revised -- "CAMPUS THEATRE STEPS"); RBS ("campus theatre steps"); CP ("Campus theatre steps").
B141 "Interview with Vancouver." Vancouver Life, i, No. 1 (Oct. 1965), 12-13. RMT.
B142 "Cada Mentira." Trans. Syrma [Cuenca, Ecuador], No. 4 (1966), n. pag. NiT ("Status Quo"); SA (revised); SP (revised -- "Each Lie"); CP ("Each he").
B143 "Haiku: A North Door Opens." Down Ink Lane [U.S.A.?], Spring 1966, p. 23. Rpt. in West Coast Review, 1, No. 2 (Fall 1966), 9.
B144 "In Purdy's Ameliasburg." The Tamarack Review, No. 39 (Spring 1966), pp. 36-38. RBS ("in purdy's ameliasburg"); CP (revised -- "In Purdy's Ameliasburg").
B145 "Men's Sportswear Dept." West Coast Review, i, No. i (Spring 1966), 19. wsbG ("men's sportswear dept"); CP (revised -- "Men's sportswear dept").
B146 "Tanka." West Coast Review, 1, No. 1 (Spring 1966), 35.
B147 "John Cabot." ICA Bulletin [London, Eng.], No. 157 (April 1966), p. 19. RBS ("giovanni caboto/ john cabot"); CP (revised -- "Giovanni Caboto/ John Cabot").
B148 "I Think You Are a Whole City." Nicely [Cardiff, Wales], i (June 1966), 4. RBS ("i think you are a whole city"); GW (revised -- "I think you are a whole city").
B149 "There Are Delicacies." Cutely [Wales], 1 (June 1966), 3. Rpt. in Canadian Literature, No. 46 (Autumn 1970), [inside back cover]. Rpt. in The Tamarack Review, No. 60 (Oct. 1973), P. 3. Rpt. trans. Manuel Betanzos Santos ("Hay Delicadezas") in Antologia de la Poesia Actual Canadiense Inglesa. Ed., introd., and trans. Manuel Betanzos Santos. San Luis Potoso: Univ. Autonoma, 1978, p. 22. Rpt. ("There Are Delicacies") in Intermedia [San Francisco], 2, No. 3 (Spring 1979), 22. RBS ("there are delicacies"); BDR ("There are delicacies"); wsbG (revised -- "there are delicacies"); GW (revised -- "There are delicacies").
B150 "Driftwood Sculptor." Outposts [London, Eng.], No. 69 (Summer 1966), pp. 6-7. SA ("Driftwood"); CP (revised -- "Driftwood sculptor").
B151 "Triple Haiku." West Coast Review, 1, No. 2 (Fall 1966), 9. RBS ("hokkai in the dew line snow"); CP (revised --"Hokkai in the Dew Line snows"); GW; MC ("Hokkai in the Dew Line Snows").
B152 "Waiting Room." Blew Ointment [Vancouver], 5, No. 1 (Jan. 1967), 24. pjos (revised, expanded -"ARCHITECTURE"); RBS (revised, expanded -"BUILDINGS"). "ARCHITECTURE" is the overall title for a group of poems consisting of "BUILDING" (B84), "WALLS" (B156), "WAITING ROOM," and "OUTDOOR ZOO" (B161) in pjos. "BUILDINGS" is the overall title for a group of poems consisting of "BUILDINGS" (B84), "WALLS" (B156), "waiting room," and "OUTDOOR ZOO" (B161) in RBS and consisting of "BUILDINGS" (B84) and "WALLS" (B156) in CP.
B153 "Suurin osa keskustelusta Cuzcossa." Trans. Anto Lelkola. Yhoppdaslehti [Helsinki], 26 May 1967, p. 4. NFCM ("Most of a dialogue in Cuzco"); BBB ("Most of a Dialogue in Cuzco").
B154 "Like an Eddy." Blew Ointment [Vancouver], 9, No. 1 (June 1967), n. pag. pjos (revised, handwritten -- "like an eddy"); RBS; AOS ("Like an Eddy"); GW ("Like an eddy").
B155 "November Walk near False Creek mouth." Trans. Anto Leikola. In Valvoja [Helsinki], 2 (Nov. 1967), 58-65. NFCM ("November walk near False Creek mouth"); SP (revised -- "November Walk near False Creek Mouth"); CP (revised -- "November walk near False Creek mouth"); GW; MC ("November Walk Near False Creek Mouth").
B156 "Walls." Prism International, 6, No. 3 (Winter 1967), 42-43. pjos (revised, expanded -- "ARCHITECTURE"); RBS (revised, expanded "BUILDINGS"); CP (revised, excerpt -- "Buildings"). "ARCHITECTURE" is the overall title for a group of poems consisting of "BUILDING" (B84), "WALLS," "WAITING ROOM" (B152) and "OUTDOOR ZOO" (B161) in pjos. "BUILDINGS" is the overall title for a group of poems consisting of "BUILDINGS" (B84), "WALLS," "waiting room" (B152), and "OUTDOOR ZOO" (B161) in RBS, and consisting of "BUILDINGS" (B84) and "WALLS" in CP.
B157 "For Maister Geffrey." Queen's Quarterly, 75 (Autumn 1968), 401. pjos ("FOR MAISTER GEFFREY"); RBS (revised -- "for maister geffrey"); CP (revised -- "For maister Geffrey").
B158 "Song for Sunsets." Poetry Australia, 24 (Oct. 1968), 5. Rpt. in New: American & Canadian Poetry [Trumansburg, N.Y.], No. 8 (Dec. 1968), p. 7. RBS ("song for sunsets"); CP (revised -- "Song for sunsets"); GW.
B159 "Halifax." New: American & Canadian Poetry [Trumansburg, N.Y.], No. 8 (Dec. 1968), p. 6. RBS ("halifax"); CP (revised -- "Halifax").
B160 "Our Forefathers Literary." Nue Vue [Lennoxville, Que.], 1 (1969), 10. Rpt. in Scottish Internattonal, Dec. 1973, p. 18. RBS ("them able leave her ever 2. our forefathers literary"); BDR ("Our forefathers literary"); CP (revised).
B161 "Outdoor Zoo." Elfin Plot [vancouver], No. 1 (1969), p. 7. pjos (revised, expanded "ARCHITECTURE"); RBS (revised, expanded -- "BUILDINGS"). "ARCHITECTURE" is the overall title for a group of poems consisting of "BUILDING" (B84), "WALLS" (B156), "WAITING ROOM" (B152), and "OUTDOOR ZOO" in pjos. "BUILDINGS" is the overall title for a group of poems consisting of "BUILDINGS" (B84), "WALLS" (B156), "waiting room" (B152), and "OUTDOOR ZOO" in RBS and consisting of "BUILDINGS" (B84) and "WALLS" (B156) in CP.
B162 "Still." In Black Moss [Windsor, Ont.], 1, No. 2 (Spring 1969), 15. RBS ("still").
B163 "Pnomes." Black Moss [Windsor, Ont.], 1, No. 2 (May 1969), 15. pjos ("PNOME 1970"); RBS (revised- "pnome"); CP ("Colander with monkly potes & and a pnome").
B164 "Canada: Case History: 1969." Saturday Night, July 1969, p. 16. Rpt. ("Canada: Case History: 1971") in New Leaf [Vancouver], 2, No. 3 (April 1971), 12. PEB ("Canada: Case History: 1969 Version"); CJM ("canada: case history: 1971"); CP ("Canada: case history: 1973"); GW (revised).
B165 "Found Swahili Serenade/A Jukollage." The Malahat Review, No. 11 (July 1969), [back cover]. pjos ("found swahili serenade -- a jukollage"); RBS (revised -- "found swahili serenade"); CP (revised -- "Found Swahili serenade/a jukollage").
B166 "Window Seat." Merry Devil of Edmonton [Univ. of Alberta], No. 2 (Jan. 1970), [column 1 of broadsheet]. RBS ("window seat"); CP (revised -"Window seat"); GW; MC ("Window Seat").
B167 "First Flight." Quartet [Utica, N.Y.], 4, Nos. 30-31 (Spring-Summer 1970), 19. RBS ("first flight"); CP (revised -- "First flight").
B168 "Tongareva Atoll." Quartet [Utica, N.Y.], 4, Nos. 30-31 (Spring-Summer 1970), 19. RBS ("tongareva atoll"); BDR ("Atoll"); CP (revised).
B169 "For Ikuko." Elfin Plot [Lake Louise, Alta.], No. 3 (Summer-Fall 1970), n. pag. Rpt. in Sumac [Fremont, Mich.], 3, No. 1 (Fall 1970), 24-25. Rpt. in Broadsbeet [Dublin], No. 11 (June 1971), [reverse side, last column].
B170 "In This Year." Elfin Plot [Lake Louise, Alta.], No. 3 (Summer-Fall 1970), n. pag. Rpt. in Black Moss [Fergus, Ont.], No. 5 (Nov. 1970), p. 4.
B171 "Newfoundland." Elfin Plot [Lake Louise, Alta.], No. 3 (Summer-Fall 1970), n. pag. RBS ("NEWfoundLAND"); CP (revised -- "Newfoundland").
B172 "PEI." Elfin Plot [Lake Louise, Alta.], No. 3 (Summer-Fall 1970), n. pag. RBS ("pef'); CP (revised -- "PEI").
B173 "Creeley." Sumac [Fremont, Mich.], 3, No. 1 (Fall 1970), 26. Rpt. in Black Moss [Fergus, Ont.], No. 5 (Nov. 1970), p. 5. RBS ("creeley"); CP ("Creeley").
B174 "For My Wife." Sumac [Fremont, Mich.], 3, No. I (Fall 1970), 24. Rpt. in Scrip [England], No. 40 (1972), p. 4. RBS (revised, expanded -- "for esther: I. ESPECTACULAR 2. o what can i do"); CP (revised, excerpt -- "For my wife").
B175 "I Should Have Begun with Her Toes." Sumac [Fremont, Mich.], 3, No. 1 (Fall 1970), 25. Rpt. in Black Moss [Fergus, Ont.], No. 5 (Nov. 1970), pp. 4-5. FF ("i should have begun with your toes").
B176 "1984 Minus 17 & Counting at U of Waterloo Ontario." Sumac [Fremont, Mich.], 3, No. 1 (Fall 1970), 23. RBS ("1984 minus 17 & counting at u of waterloo"); BDR ("1984 minus 14 & counting at u. of waterloo, ont."); CP (revised -- "1984 minus 17 & counting at u of waterloo ont"); GW ("1984 minus 17 & counting at U of Waterloo Ontario").
B177 "Two Poems: on the night jet." Vigilante [Calgary], No. 2 (Fall 1970), p. 38. Rpt. ("On the Night Jet") in Elfin Plot [Lake Louise, Alta.], No. 10 (Winter 1971), n. pag. RBS ("on the night jet"); CP (revised -- "On the night jet"); GW.
B178 "Two Poems: Poe-Trees." Vigilante [Calgary], No. 2 (Fall 1970), p. 38. Rpt. in The Canadian, 12 May 1979, p. 6. RBS ("poet-tree 1" and "poet-tree 2"); BDR ("Poet-tree"); CP (revised -- "Poet-tree 1" and "Poet-tree 2"); GW (excerpt -- "Poet-tree 2").
B179 "Cucarachas in Fiji." The Canadian Forum, Oct. 1970, pp. 238-39, wsbG ("cucarachas in fiji"); CP (revised --"Cucarachas in paradise").
B180 "Natural History Museum." Encounter, 35, No. 6 (Dec. 1970), 21. RBS ("museum of man"); BDR ("Museum of Man"); CP (revised); GW ("Museum of man"); MC ("Museum of Man").
B181 "The Marriage." Queen's Quarterly, 77 (Winter 1970), 498. Rpt. trans. Manuel Betanzos Santos ("El Casimiento") in Antologia de la Poesia Actual Canadiense Inglesa. Ed., introd., and trans. Manuel Betanzos Santos. San Luis Potoso: Univ. Autonoma, 1978, n. pag. RBS ("the marriage").
B182 "Messages for Kitchmessages: 1. kitchmess day cure-all, 2. wuz eight nights before kitchmess, 3. child's prayer to santa." Georgia Straight [Vancouver], 22-29 Dec. 1970, p. 19. RBS (excerpt "children's prayer to santa"); wsbG (expanded, excerpt of original -- "messyjests for a kinageing kitchmess: 1. kitchmess day cure-all, 2. twas 8 nights before kitchmess"); CP ("Messyjests for a kinageing kitchmess: 2. kitchmess day cure-all, z. wuz eight nights before kitchmess "); RMT (revised, expanded -- "Plastic plinkles for Gaudy1 Nite 11/2 at HMF2 College, Yule3 1966 (complete with head to foot notes): Text A: Ancient Roundelay; Text B: Carol God Rust Ye Merry, Gintlemen; Text C: 8 Nites B4 Xmus"); FF.
B183 "The Shapers: Vancouver." Scrip [Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Eng.], No. 33 (1970-71), PP. 14-15. wsbG ("the shapers: vancouver"); CP (revised "The Shapers: Vancouver"); GW; MC.
B184 "Breasting the Waves." Northern Journey, No. 1 (1971), p. 32.
B185 "Chickadee." Northern Journey, No. 1 (1971), p. 77. AOS ("My Little Chickadee"); FF ("my little chickadee").
B186 "Driving Up the Sacramento, 1928." West Coast Review, 5, No. 3 (Jan. 1971), 57. CP.
B187 "Flesh & Figment." Northern Journey, No. 1 (1971), p. 78.
B188 "In Michigan." West Coast Review, 5, No. 3 (Jan. 1971), 57. wsbG ("underkill"); CP (revised -- "Underkill").
B189 "Pome with Pnome for Dismembering the Muns." Northern Journey, No. 1 (1971), p. 110.
B190 "Academic." Elfin Plot [Lake Louise, Alta.], No. 5 (Feb. 1971), p. 2. Rpt. in The Tamarack Review, No. 60 (Oct. 1973), p. 5. FPS ("ACADEMIC"); AOS ("academic").
B191 "Christchurch, N.Z." Encounter [London, Eng.], 36, No. 2 (Feb. 1971), 45. RBS ("christchurch, n.z."); BDR ("Christchurch, N.Z."); CP (revised); GW.
B192 "A Day with the Toronto Day-Lies (a Daycollage of the Real News Back in Our Centennial Year)." Mainstream [Windsor, Ont.], No. 8 (Feb. 1971), PP. 4-5. FF ("a day with the toronto day-lies").
B193 "A Small Faculty Stag for the Visiting Poet." Encounter [London, Eng.], 26, No. 2 (Feb. 1971), 44. Rpt. in The Tamarack Review, No. 60 (Oct. 1973), p. 3. BDR ("A small faculty stag for the visiting poet"); wsbG ("a small faculty stag for the visiting poet"); CP (revised -- "A small faculty stag for the visiting poet"); GW.
B194 "Small Port in the Outer Fijis." Encounter [London, Eng.], 36, No. 2 (Feb. 1971), 43-44. RBS ("a small port in the outer fijis"); BDR ("A small port in the outer Fijis"); CP (revised -- "Small port in the Outer Fijis").
B195 "S(t)ing Rays." Elfin Plot [Lake Louise, Alta.], No. 5 (Feb. 1971), p. 1. Rpt. (revised) in Elfin Plot [Lake Louise, Alta.], No. 6 (March 1971), p. 19. AOS; FF ["s(t)ing rays"].
B196 "Toronto March." Encounter [London, Eng.], 36, No. 2 (Feb. 1971), 45. RBS ("toronto march"); BDR ("Toronto March"); CP (revised -- "Toronto march").
B197 "Whale." Elfin Plot [Lake Louise, Alta.], No. 5 (Feb. 1971), [back cover]. Rpt. (revised) in Elfin Plot [Lake Louise, Alta.], No. 6 (March 1971), [back cover]. AOS ("Skindivers"); FF ["skin divers (I): whale"].
B198 "Daybreak on Lake Opal: High Rockies." Blackfish [Burnaby, B.C.], No. 1 (Spring 1971), p. 31. Rpt. in Happiness Holding Tank [Okemos, Mich.], No. 2 (Nov. 1971), p. 14. Rpt. in Poetry Australia, No. 45 (Fall 1972), p. 6. wsbG ("daybreak on lake opal : high rockies"); CP (revised -- "Daybreak on Lake Opal: High Rockies"); GW; MC.
B199 "The Lake." Blew Ointment [Vancouver], Oi1 Slick Speshul (Spring 1972), n. pag. Rpt. (revised "what's so big about GREEN?") in The Canadian Forum, Feb. 1973, PP. 34-35. Rpt. in Happiness Holding Tank [Okemos, Mich.], No. 20 (1979), pp. 5-10. pjos ("THE LAKE"); wsbG (revised "what's so big about GREEN?"); CP (revised "What's so big about GREEN?"); GW ("What's so big about green?"); MC ("What's So Big About Green?").
B200 "I Accuse Us." New Leaf [Vancouver], 2, No. 3 (April 1971), 9. Rpt. in Happiness Holding Tank [Okemos, Mich.], Nos. 3-4 (1972), PP. 13-15. wsbG ("i accuse us"); CP (revised -- "I accuse us").
B201 "Mad/mod/odd/ad man." Vigilante [Calgary], No. 3 (April 1971), p. 15. FPS ("MAD MAN"); AOS ("mad/mod/odd/ad man"); FF.
B202 "Mysterious Cameldriver." Vigilante [Calgary], No. 3 (April 1971), p. 13. AOS.
B203 "Perth, Australia, I Love You." Poetry Australia, No. 39 (April 1971), pp. 41-43. Rpt. (revised "Antip-odes: II Perth, Australia, I love you") in The Canadian Forum, April 1972, pp. 10-11, wsbG (revised -- "perth, australia, i love you"); CP (revised -- "Perth, Australia, I love you").
B204 "Siren." Vigiante [Calgary], No. 3 (April 1971), p. 12. FPS ("SIREN"); AOS ("Siren").
B205 "The 20th Century Belongs to the Moon." Poetry Australia, No. 39 (April 1971), pp. 41-43. Rpt. ("The 21st Century Belongs to the Moon") in Scrip [Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Eng.], No. 38 (1971), pp. 14-15. Rpt. (revised- "Antip-odes: I.") in The Canadian Forum, April 1972, p. 10. BDR (revised "The twenty-first century belongs to the moon"); wsbG (revised -- "the 21st century belongs to the moon"); CP (revised -- "The 21st century belongs to the moon").
B206 "Found Paean to Vancouver by Rudyard Kipling." Porcepic [Toronto], No. 1 (Oct. 1971), p. 13. wsbG ["found paean to vancouver by rudyard kipling (1890)"]; CP (revised -- "Found Paean to Vancouver by Rudyard Kipling, 1890").
B207 "Walking Vancouver Beach into Winter." Priapus [Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire], 22 (Winter 1971), 5.
B208 "Ammoacid Beginnings." Blew Ointment [Vancouver], Poverty Isshew, March 1972, p. 65.
B209 "Fifty Years of Love Goddesses." Blew Ointment [Vancouver], Poverty Isshew, March 1972, p. 64. FF ("fifty years of love goddesses").
B210 "Loon about to Laugh." Blew Ointment [Vancouver], Poverty Isshew, March 1972, p. 65. FPS ("LOON ABOUT TO LAUGH"); wsbG ("Loon about to laugh"); CP; AOS (revised "Loon About to Laugh"); GW (revised -- "Loon about to laugh").
B211 "Runic Lament." Blew Ointment [Vancouver], Poverty Isshew, March 1972, [front cover]. AOS.
B212 "Figure Skater." Waves, 1, No. 1 (Spring 1972), 7. FPS ("FIGURE SKATER"); wsbG (revised); CP (revised -- "Figure skater"); AOS (revised "Figure Skater").
B213 "First Aid." Capilano Review, 1, No. 1 (Spring 1972), 18. CJM ("first aid"); AOS ("First Aid"); FF (revised -- "first aid for poets").
B214 "If You Were Here." English [London, Eng.], 21 (Spring 1972), 22. RBS ("if you were here").
B215 "Earle Birney: Sketch towards a Self-Portrait." White Pelican [Edmonton], 2, No. 2 (April 1972), 37. CP ("Alphabirney"); AOS.
B216 "Today's Your Big Pubic Reading." Tuatara [Victoria], No. 7 (April 1972), pp. 2-6. wsbG ("today's your big pubic reading"); CP (revised -"Today's your big pubic reading").
B217 "Britrail." The Tamarack Review, No. 60 (Oct. 1973), pp. 9-10. Rpt. ("To Swindon from London by Britrail Aloud/Bagatelle") in Waves, 2, No. 1 (Autumn 1973), pp. 40-41. Rpt. in Text-Sound Texts. Ed. Richard Kostelanetz. New York: Morrow, 1980, pp. 318-19. wsbG ("to swindon from london by britrail aloud / bagatelle"); CP (revised -- "To Swindon from London by Britrail aloud/Bagatelle"); GW ("To Swindon from London by Britrail aloud/bagatelle")
B218 "Shotgun Marriage without Shotguns by John Todd." The Tamarack Review, No. 60 (Oct. 1973), pp. 7-8. RMT ("Shotgun marriage without shotguns/the tugging and the moving times"); FF ("shotgun marriage without shotguns").
B219 "Who's the Best Passer." The Tamarack Review, No. 60 (Oct. 1973), p. 6.
B220 "From the Bridge: Firth of Forth." Scottish International, 6, No. 10 (Dec. 1973), 18. wsbG ("from the bridge: firth of forth"); CP (revised "From the bridge: Firth of Forth"); GW.
B221 "Hanged Portrait." Blew Ointment [Vancouver], Tantrik Speshul, Dec. 1973, p. 34.
B222 "Ancient Canabardic Lament." Lakehead University Review, 7, No. I (Summer 1974), 66. CP ("Ancient Canabardic lament").
B223 "Coming Back from the Airport." Repository [Seven Persons, Alta.], No. 11 (Summer 1974), [pp. 10-11]. CP ("No body"); GW (revised); FF (revised -- "coming back from the airport").
B224 "She Is." Happiness Holding Tank [Okemos, Mach.], Nos. 15-16 (Winter 1975-76), [p. 6]. Rpt. ("From a Bunch of Flowers for Wai-lan: she is") in Ambit [London, Eng.], No. 71 (Summer 1977), pp. 38-39. CP ("She is"); GW (revised); MC ("She Is").
B225 "Fusion." Quartet [Texas], 7, Nos. 54-55 (SpringSummer 1976), 3. Rpt. ("From a Bunch of Flowers for Wai-lan: fusion") in Ambit [London, Eng.], No. 71 (Summer 1977), P. 36. RMT ("fusion"); FF (revised).
B226 "On Her Twenty-Sixth Birthday." Quartet [Texas], 7, Nos. 54-55 (Spring-Summer 1976), 3. RMT ("On her twenty-sixth birthday"); GW (revised).
B227 "Zoos Have Bars." Quartet [Texas], 7, Nos. 54-55 (Spring-Summer 1976), 3. RMT ("zoos have bars"); FF (revised).
B228 "After the Fall." 3¢ Pulp [Vancouver], 3, No. 18 (July 1976), [back cover].
B229 "Anthropologists from the Black Hole." Western Humanities Review, 30 (Autumn 1976), 291-96. Rpt. in The Tamarack Review, No. 70 (Winter 1977), PP. 29-34. FF ("anthropologists from the Black Hole").
B230 "Para Leonard y Reva" ["For Leonard and Reva"]. In Leonard Brooks: Transposiciones. Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Embajada del Canada en Mexico, Sept.-Nov. 1976, n. pag. Catalogue done for the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes (National Art Gallery of Mexico). Abridged and in Spanish. English version is on an insert.
B231 "dear biographer." West Coast Review, 12, No. 2 (1977), 17. FF.
B232 "GOURMET." West Coast Review, 12, No. 2 (1977), 17. FF ("gourmet").
B233 "JANUARY MORNING / DOWNTOWN VANCOUVER." West Coast Review, 12, No 2 (1977), 15-16. FF ("January Morning / Downtown Vancouver").
B234 "The News in Cardiff about the Younger Poets." In End of the Worm Speshul Anthology. Ed. bill bissett. Vancouver: BlewOintment, 1977, pp. 9293.
B235 "the perfect canadians." West Coast Review, 12, No. 2 (1977), 18. FF.
B236 "SONG FOR A WEST COAST FEBRUARY." West Coast Review, 12, No. 2 (1977), 16. FF ("song for a west coast february").
B237 "From a Bunch of Flowers for Wai-lan: beginning." Ambit [London, Eng.], No. 71 (Summer 1977), p. 36. RMT (["The miracle is the stream ..."]); FF (revised -- "beginning").
B238 "From a Bunch of Flowers for Wai-lan" besuary." Ambit [London, Eng.], No. 71 (Summer 1977), p. 37. Rpt. ("Bestiary") in Niagara Magazine [Brooklyn, N.Y.], Nos. 10-11 (Summer 1979), p. 8. CP; GW.
B239 "From a Bunch of Flowers for Wai-lan: dream beyond death." Ambit [London, Eng.], No. 71 (Summer 1977), p. 38. Rpt. in Quarry, 27, No. I (Winter 1978), 45-46. FF ("dream beyond death").
B240 "Another Bullfrog Monolog." Waves, 6, No. I (Autumn 1977), 25-26. FF ("another bullfrog monolog").
B241 "Bullfrog Monolog." Waves, 6, No. 1 (Autumn 1977), 25-26. FF ("bullfrog monolog"); MC (revised -- "Bullfrog Monolog").
B242 "Family Picnic in Gran Canaria." RIKKA [Toronto], 4, Nos. 3-4 (Autumn-Winter 1977), 71. FF ("family picnic in Gran Canaria"); MC ("Family Picnic in Gran Canaria").
B243 "Johnny the Painter." CrossCountry: A Magazine of Canadian-U.S. Poetry, Nos. 8-9 ([Dec.] 1977), P. 71.
B244 "Fall in Spring." Ontario Review, No. 7 (Fall-Winter 1977-78), p. 19. FF ("fall in spring").
B245 "My Love Is Young." Ontario Review, No. 7 (FallWinter 1977-78), p. 20. FF ("my love is young"); MC ("My Love is Young").
B246 "Prayer." Ontario Review, No. 7 (Fall-Winter 1977-78), p. 20. FF ("prayer").
B247 "in the photo." Quarry, 27, No. 1 (Winter 1978), 45. FF.
B248 "moment of eclipse." Quarry, 27, No. 1 (Winter 1978), 45. FF; MC ("Moment of Eclipse").
B249 "Prologue without Tales (Toronto 1940)." The Tamarack Review, No. 73 (Winter 1978), pp. 8-16. FF ("Prolog without Tales").
B250 "Birthday." The Canadian Forum, Feb. 1978, p. 36. FF ("birthday"); MC ("Birthday").
B251 "Omnibus." Happiness Holding Tank [Okemos, Mich.], No. 18 ([March] 1978), p. [23].
B252 "Leaping to Mexico, 1956." Event, 7, No. 1 (May 1978), 135-37.
B253 "Never Blush to Dream." Ontario Review, No. 8 (Spring-Summer 1978), p. 73. FF ("never blush to dream").
B254 "the chap who keeps himself serene." Nebula, No. 8 (Summer 1978), p. 1.
B255 "Excelsior on the Prairies." Nebula, No. 3 (Summer 1978), [back cover]. FF (revised -- "excelsior on the prairies").
B256 "Halfperson's Day." Matrix, Nos. 6-7 (Summer 1978), pp. 14-15. FF ("halfperson's day").
B257 "though epigrams ...." Nebula, No. 3 (Summer 1978), p. 1.
B258 "we all get shot in a war." Nebula, No. 3 (Summer 1978), p. 1.
B259 "Fall by Fury." Saturday Night, July-Aug. 1978, p. 68. FF ("fall by Fury"); MC ("Fall by Fury").
B260 "Wind through St. John's." The Antigonish Review, No. 32 (Winter 1978), pp. 34-39. FF ("the Wind through St. John's").
B261 "Moon down Elphinstone." Westcoast Chronicles, No. 8 (1979), p. 16,
B262 "Space Conquest." Intermedia [San Francisco], 2, No. 3 (Spring 1979), 23.
B263 "On the Night Jet/Over Montana." Niagara Magazine [Brooklyn, N.Y.], Nos. 10-11 (Summer 1979), P. 7.
B264 "Deer Hunt." Toronto Life, Dec. 1979, p. 188.
B265 "Poem for a Reading." The Tamarack Review, No. 80 (Spring 1980), p. 35.
B266 "Under Adam's Peak (Sri Lanka)." The Tamarack Review, No. 80 (Spring 1980), pp. 32-33.
B267 "With a Recorder for Lan." The Tamarack Review, No. 80 (Spring 1980), pp. 33-34.
B268 "Going to Read Pomes." Acanthus, 3 (April 1980), 28-29.
B269 "Flying West out of Prairie." B.C. Outdoors, Sept. 1980, p. 31.
B270 "Easter Holiday in Morningside, Alta." The Tamarack Review, Nos. 81-82 (Winter 1981), pp. 39-48. Prose poem.
B271 "Hay pollen Ho & A Ka-Ka-CHOO." CV/II, 6, Nos. 1-2 (Winter 1982), 91.
B271a "Looking UP." CV/II, 6, Nos. 1-2 (Winter 1982), 91.
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B579 and Mayor Moore. "Court Martial." Prod. Mayor Moore. Vancouver Theatre, CBC Radio [Vancouver Pacific], 3 Oct. 1946, 19 pp. foolscap. (30 min.)
B580 "The Representative Canadian Poet Today." CBC Radio, 23 Oct. 1947. ST.
B581 "Town Meeting in Canada." CBC Radio [Vancouver Western], 1948. ST ("How Can We Raise Canada's Cultural Standards?").
B582 "David." Wednesday Night, CBC Radio [Toronto Trans-Canada], 28 Jan. 1948. (45 min.)
B583 "November Eleven 1948." Prod. Robert Allen. CBC Radio [Vancouver Dominion], 11 Nov. 1948, 15 pp. foolscap. (30 min.)
B584 "Mr. Pepys Listens to CBC Radio." Critically Speaking, CBC Radio [Toronto Trans-Canada], 14 Nov. 1948. ST.
B585 "Why Is Canada Still Banning Joyce's Ulysses?". CBC Radio, 9 March 1949. ST.
B586 "Three Little Mags: Northern Review, Contemporary Verse, here and now." CBC Radio, 17 April 1949. ST ("Three Little Mags: Northern Review, Contemporary Verse, Here & Now").
B587 "The Poets Look at Canada." CBC Radio [Toronto Trans-Canada], 6 July 1949, 6 pp. foolscap. (15 min.)
B588 "The Poets Look at Canada." CBC Radio [Toronto Trans-Canada], 13 July 1949, 6 pp. foolscap. (15 min.)
B589 "The Poets Look at Canada." CBC Radio [Toronto Trans-Canada], 20 July 1949, 6 pp. foolscap. (15 min.)
B590 "The Poets Look at Canada." CBC Radio [Toronto Trans-Canada], 3 Aug. 1949, 6 pp. foolscap. (15 min.)
B591 "About Reaney and Knister." Rev. of The Red Heart, by James Reaney; and Collected Poems of Raymond Knister, by Raymond Knister. CBC Radio, 14 Dec. 1949. ST.
B592 "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Prod. Robert Allen. Wednesday Night, CBC Radio [Vancouver Trans-Canada], 3 Jan. 1950, 55 pp. foolscap. (60 min.)
B593 "Beowulf." Prod. Robert Allen. Producer's Workshop, CBC Radio [Vancouver Western], 17 April 1950, 17 pp. foolscap. (30 min.)
B594 Stockton, Frank R. "The Griffin and the Minor Cannon." Adapted Earle Birney. Prod. Robert Allen. Fall Fare, CBC Radio [Vancouver Trans-Canada], 29 Sept. 1950. (30 min.) Rebroadcast. Prod. Stephen Ker Appleby. Maritime Theatre, CBC Radio [Halifax Eastern], 22 March 1951. (30 min.) Rebroadcast. Prod. Doug Nixon. Vancouver Theatre, CBC Radio [Vancouver Trans-Canada], 12 Sept. 1952, 27 pp. foolscap. (30 min.)
B595 Stevenson, Robert Louis. "The Murder in the Pawnshop." Adapted Earle Birney. Prod. Robert Allen. Four to the Queen, CBC Radio [Vancouver Western], 7 Nov. 1950, 26 pp. foolscap. (30 min.)
B596 Pushkin, Alexander. "A Party at the Undertaker's." Adapted Earle Birney. Prod. Robert Allen. Four to the Queen, CBC Radio [Vancouver Western], 14 Nov. 1950, 26 pp. foolscap. (30 min.)
B597 Turgenev, Ivan. "The Case of Doctor Trlfon." Adapted Earle Birney. Prod. Robert Allen. Four to the Queen, CBC Radio [Vancouver Western], 21 Nov. 1950, 16 pp. foolscap. (30 min.)
B598 Pushkin, Alexander. "The Queen of Spades." Adapted Earle Birney. Prod. Robert Allen. Four to the Queen, CBC Radio [Vancouver Trans-Canada], 18 Nov. 1950, 30 pp. foolscap. (30 min.) Rebroadcast. Prod. Stephen Ker Appleby. Maritime Theatre, CBC Radio [Halifax Eastern], 15 Feb. 1951. (30 min.)
B599 Conrad, Joseph. "The Duel." Adapted Earle Birney. Prod. Robert Allen. CBC Radio [Vancouver Trans-Canada], 30 Jan. 1951, 96 pp. foolscap. (90 min.)
B600 "The Damnation of Vancouver." Prod. Robert Allen. Wednesday Night, CBC Radio [Toronto Trans-Canada], 8 Oct. 1951, 60 pp. foolscap. (120 min.)
B601 "Exploring Minds." CBC Radio [Vancouver], 5 Nov. 1955, 12 pp. One of a series, this one with Birney and Kaspar Naegele.
B602 "Remembrance Day." CBC Radio [Vancouver Western], 11 Nov. 1955, 13 PP. foolscap. (30 min.) Includes poems by Earle Birney, Thomas Hardy, Archibald MacLeish, Ralph Gustafson, et al.
B603 Langland, William. "Piers Plowman." Adapted Earle Birney. Prod. Esse W. Ljungh. Stage, CBC Radio [Toronto Trans-Canada], 16 May 1957, 60 pp. foolscap. (60 min.)
B604 [Comments on Dylan Thomas' visit to Vancouver] in Portrait of Dylan Thomas, by Robert Pocock and Douglas Cleverdon. CBC Third Programme, 9 Nov. 1963, pp. 15-17.
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B280 "Canada: Case History," "Climbers," "David," "North Star West," "Pacific Door," "Time-Bomb," and "Winter Saturday." In 20th Century Canadian Poetry: An Anthology. Ed. and introd. Earle Birney. Toronto: Ryerson, 1953, pp. 5, 9, 23, 61, 75, 88, 120.
B281 "Bushed." In Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards 1954. Palo Alto, Ca.: Stanford Univ. Press, 1954, p. 18.
B282 "David," "Monody on a Century, .... Slug in Woods," and "Vancouver Lights." In Canadian Poetry in English. Ed. Bliss Carman, Lorne Pierce, and V. B. Rhodenizer. Toronto: Ryerson, 1954, pp. 320-27.
B283 "Anglosaxon Street," "David," "Dusk on English Bay," "from Damnation of Vancouver [speech of the Salish Chief]," "Mappemounde," "The Road to Nijmegen," and "Slug in Woods." In The Book of Canadian Poetry: A Critical and Historical Anthology. Ed. and introd. A. J. M. Smith. 3rd ed. Toronto: Gage, 1957, pp. 317-32.
B284 "Bushed," "Man Is a Snow," "Mappemounde," "Pacific Door," "Slug in Woods," and "This Page My Pigeon." In The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse: In English and French. Ed. and introd. Ralph Gustafson. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1958, pp. 147-51.
B285 "Bushed," "From Damnation of Vancouver," "Mappemounde," "The Road to Nijmegen," and "Slug in Woods." In The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse: In English and French. Ed. A. J. M. Smith. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1960, pp. 219-30.
B286 "Anglosaxon Street," "Canada: Case History," "Climbers," "David," "The Ebb Begins from Dream," "El Greco: Espolio," "Ellesmereland," "For George Lamming," "From the Hazel Bough," "Introvert," "Man Is a Snow," "Mappemounde," "The Road to Nijmegen," "Vancouver Lights," "Wind-Chimes m a Temple Ruin," and "World Conference." In Canadian Anthology. Ed. Carl F. Klinck and Reginald E. Watters. 2nd ed. Toronto: Gage, 1966, pp. 296-308.
B287 "Anglosaxon Street," "Canada: Case History," "Can. Lit," "In This Verandah," "The Monarch of the Id," and "Sinaloa." In The Blasted Pine: An Anthology of Satire, Invective, and Disrespectful Verse, Chiefly by Canadian Writers. Ed. and introd. F. R. Scott and A. J. M. Smith. Toronto: Macmillan, 1967, pp. 3, 30-31, 73, 74, 116, 134-35.
B288 "The Bear on the Delhi Road," "Bushed," "Cartagena de Indias," "El Greco: Espolio," "Midstream," and "Sinaloa." In Modern Canadian Verse: In English and French. Ed. and introd. A. J. M. Smith. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1967, pp. 59-70.
B289 "Anglosaxon Street," "The Bear on the Delhi Road," "Bushed," "Cartagena de Indias," "For George Lamming," "From the Hazel Bough," "Haiku for a Young Waitress," "Plaza de Inquisicion," "Twenty-Third Flight," "Vancouver Lights," and "A Walk in Kyoto." In 20th-Century Poetry and Poetics. Ed. Gary Geddes. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1969, pp. 185-99.
B290 "The Bear on the Delhi Road," "Canada: Case History," "The Mammoth Corridors," "Meeting of Strangers," and "Twenty-Third Flight." In Fifteen Winds: A Selection of Modern Canadian Poems. Ed. A. W. Purdy. Toronto: Ryerson, 1969, pp. 10-20.
B291 "The Bear on the Delhi Road," "Canada: Case History," "El Greco: Espolio," "Ellesmereland I," "For George Lamming," "From the Hazel Bough," "Mappemounde," "Sinaloa," "Six-Sided Square: Actopan," "Vancouver Lights," and "A Walk in Kyoto." In Frye Modern Canadian Poets. Ed. Eli Mandel. Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970, pp. 9-20.
B292 "Canada Council," "Like an eddy," and "Najarot, Mexico." In THE COSMIC CHEF GLEE AND PERLOO MEMORIAL SOCIETY PRESENTS AN EVENING OF CONCRETE. Ed. bpNichol. Ottawa: Oberon, 1970, pp. 21, 43, 59.
B293 "dear biographer," "GOURMET," "JANUARY MORNING / DOWNTOWN VANCOUVER," "the perfect canadians, .... SONG FOR A WEST COAST FEBRUARY," and ["When I was new and lived..."]. In New West Coast: 72 Contemporary British Columbia Poets. Ed. Fred Candelaria. Vancouver: West Coast Review Books, 1977, pp. 15-18.
B294 "Alaska Passage," "The Bear on the Delhi Road," "Biography," "Bushed," "Fusion," "Kootenay Still-Life," "North of Superior," "Pachucan Miners," "The Road to Nilmegen," "Vancouver Lights," "A Walk in Kyoto," and "Wind-Chimes in a Temple Ruin." In Literature in Canada. Ed. Douglas Daymond and Leslie Monkman. Vol. II. Toronto: Gage, 1978, 142-53.
B295 "Arrivals," "The Bear on the Delhi Road," "Bushed," "Cartagena de Indias," "El Greco: Espolio," "For George Lamming," "From the Hazel Bough," "November Walk Near False Creek Mouth," "There Are Delicacies," and "A Walk in Kyoto." In 15 Canadian Poets Plus 5. Ed. Gary Geddes and Phyllis Bruce. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1978, pp. 27-50.
B296 "Composition" and "Ellesmereland." In To Say the Least: Canadian Poets from A to Z. Ed. and introd. P. K. Page. Toronto: Porcepic, 1979, pp. 52, 115.
B297 "Canada: Case History," "Sestina for the Ladies in Tehuantepec," "Sinaloa," "Small Faculty Stag," and "Toronto Board of Trade." In the Penguin Book of Light Verse. Ed. Gavin Ewart. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1980, pp. 453-58.
B298 "Arrivals Wolfville," "Bushed," "Ellesmereland I," "Ellesmereland II," "father grouse," and "Sinaloa." In Introduction to Poetry: British, American, Canadian. Ed. Jack David and Robert Lecker. Toronto: Holt, Ranehart and Winston, 1981, pp. 644-48.
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B442 Rev. of A Literary Map of Canada, by W. A. Deacon and Stanley Turner. The Canadian Forum, Jan. I937, p. 35.
B443 "Swan Song." Rev. of More Poems, by A. E. Housman. The Canadian Forum, Jan. 1937, pp. 23-14.
B444 "Dead South." Rev. of Absalom, Absalom!, by William Faulkner. The Canadian Forum, Feb. 1937, pp. 17-18.
B445 Rev. of Such Harmony and Twenty-Five Cents, by W. Eric Harris; and The Lampshade, by W. S. Milne. The Canadian Forum, Feb. 1937, p. 35.
B446 Rev. of The Countryman's Year, by David Grayson. The Canadian Forum, Feb. 1937, p. 34.
B447 "Brave New Words." Rev. of The Olive Tree, by Aldous Huxley. The Canadian Forum, March 1937, PP. 31-32.
B448 Rev. of Nellie McNabb, by Lois Reynolds. The Canadian Forum, March 1937, p. 34.
B449 "Love and Mr. Lewis." Rev. of The Friendly Tree, by C. Day Lewis. The Canadian Forum, April 1937, pp. 28-29.
B450 "Proletarian Literature: Theory and Practice." Rev. of Novel and the People, by Ralph Fox. The Canadian Forum, May 1937, PP. 58-60.
B451 "A Crusader." Rev. of Smokey Crusade, by R. M. Fox. The Canadian Forum, June 1937, pp. 106-07.
B452 Rev. of Peace Is Where the Tempests Blow, by Valentine Kataev; and This Is Your Day, by Edward Newhouse. The Canadian Forum, June 1937, p. 109.
B453 "American Poets." Rev. of The Golden Fleece of California, by Edgar Lee Masters. The Canadian Forum, July 1937, pp. 143-44.
B454 Rev. of Release, by Luke Stewart. The Canadian Forum, July 1937, p. 142-.
B455 "The Moon-Wist of Audrey Brown." Rev. of The Tree of Resurrection, by Audrey Alexandra Brown. The Canadian Forum, Aug. 1937, pp. 176-77. ST ("Moon-wist in Canadian Poesie").
B456 "The Importance of Being Ernest Hemingway." Rev. of To Have and Have Not, by Ernest Hemingway. The Canadian Forum, Dec. 1937, pp. 322-23.
B457 "Indian Samson." Rev. of Sweet Medicine, by Richard W. Randolph. The Canadian Forum, Dec. 1937, P. 330.
B458 "Polygamous Communism." Rev. of The Archer of Paradise, by Reva Stanley. The Canadian Forum, Dec. 1937, pp. 325-26.
B459 "Yorkshire Proletarians." Rev. of Song on Your Bugles, by Eric Knight. The Canadian Forum, Dec. 1937, pp. 327-28.
B460 "Yukon Verse and Worse." Rev. of Frozen Fire, by Floris Clark McLaren; A Book of Fireside Poems, by W. R. Bowlin; and Silhouettes, by J. N. Northe. The Canadian Forum, Dec. 1937, p. 329.
B461 "New Mexican Highbrow." Rev. of The Cloudburst, by Phillips Kloss. The Canadian Forum, Jan. 1938, p. 364.
B462 Rev. of Rhymes of the French Regime, by Arthur S. Bourinot. The Canadian Forum, Jan. 1938, p. 365.
B463 "A New Love Poet." Rev. of Poems, by Christopher Lee. The Canadian Forum, Feb. 1938, p. 397.
B464 Rev. of Bright Horizons, by Horace G. Joseph. The Canadian Forum, Feb. 1938, p. 399.
B465 "Humors of Housman." Rev. of A. E. H., by Laurence Housman. The Canadian Forum, March 1938, pp. 425-26.
B466 "Book Reviewing Is Nonsense." Rev. of An Anatomy of Literature, by Edward M. Maisel. The Canadian Forum, April 1938, p. 459.
B467 "Fighting Irish Verse." Rev. of Good-Bye, Twilight, ed. Leslie C. Daiken and Francis White. The Canadian Forum, April 1938, pp. 461-62.
B468 "Why Be Educated." Rev. of The Threat to Disinterested Education, by Robert England. The Canadian Forum, April 1938, p. 463.
B469 "Michael Collins." Rev. of The Big Fellow, by Frank O'Connor. The Canadian Forum, May 1938, pp. 58-59.
B470 "The Two William Faulkners." Rev. of The Unvanquished, by William Faulkner. The Canadian Forum, June 1938, pp. 84-85.
B471 "She Aint What She Used to Be." Rev. of From Stores of Memory, by Irving Bacheller. The Canadian Forum, July 1938, p. 122.
B472 "De Voto Devotee." Rev. of Bernard De Voto, by Garrett Mattingly. The Canadian Forum, Aug. 1938, p. 156.
B473 "Polite Stones." Rev. of Head in Green Bronze, by Hugh Walpole. The Canadian Forum, Aug. 1938, pp. 154-55.
B474 Rev. of The Unbeautiful Spear, by Sheldon Christian. The Canadian Forum, Sept. 1938, p. 190.
B475 "New Poetry." Rev. of Poems, by Kenneth Allott; Solitude, by Vita Sackville-West; For You, My Dear, by W. J. King; and Silhouettes, 5, No. 2. The Canadian Forum, Jan. 1939, p. 319.
B476 Rev. of A New Canadian Anthology, ed. Alan Creighton. The Canadian Forum, Jan. 1939, pp. 319-20.
B477 Rev. of Eleven Poems, by Arthur S. Bourinot. The Canadian Forum, Jan. 1939, p. 323.
B478 Rev. of New Writing, NS, I, ed. John Lehmann. The Canadian Forum, Jan. 1939, pp. 322-23.
B479 "Short Stories." Rev. of O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1938, ed. Harry Hensen. The Canadian Forum, Jan. 1939, p. 320.
B480 "Men and Machines." Rev. of F.O.B. Detroit, by Wessel Smitter. The Canadian Forum, March 1939, pp, 383-84.
B481 "Bed Book of the Year." Rev. of The Literary Life and the Hell with It, by Whit Burnett. The Canadian Forum, April 1939, P. 27.
B482 "Glamour and Grammar." Rev. of The Wonder of Words, by Isaac Goldberg. The Canadian Forum, April 1939, p. 30.
B483 "The New Byronism." Rev. of Poems for Spare, by Stephen Spender. The Canadian Forum, April 1939, p. 31.
B484 "A Canadian Poet." Rev. of Though Quick Sands Bleed, by Gordon LeClaire. The Canadian Forum, June 1939, p. 96.
B485 "The Left Theatre." Rev. of The Best Short Plays of the Social Theatre, ed. William Koslenko. The Canadian Forum, June 1939, pp. 95-96.
B486 "Medium Boiled." Rev. of Here Lies, by Dorothy Parker. The Canadian Forum, June 1939, p. 97. Signed: "Rufus."
B487 "A Must Book." Rev. of The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck. The Canadian Forum, June 1939, pp. 94-95.
B488 "Dickens to Hemingway." Rev. of Twilight on Parnassus, by G. U. Ellis. The Canadian Forum, July 1939, pp. 128-29.
B489 "Foolossal Choredomm." Rev. of Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce. The Canadian Forum, July 1939, p. 125.
B490 "New Writing Again." Rev. of New Writing: Spring 1939, ed. John Lehmann. The Canadian Forum, July 1939, p. 128.
B491 Rev. of The New Realism, by Stephen Spender. The Canadian Forum, July 1939, p. 134.
B492 "World Change and the Drama." Rev. of The Changing World in Plays and Theatre, by Anita Block. The Canadian Forum, Aug. 1939, P. 162.
B493 "Christian Melodrama." Rev. of The Hotel, by Leonard Woolf. The Canadian Forum, Sept. 1939, p. 197.
B494 Rev. of Chesterton as Seen by His Contemporaries, by Cyril Clemens. The Canadian Forum, Oct. 1939, p. 230.
B495 "Utah Pioneers." Rev. of Children of God, by Vardis Fisher; and This Is the Place, by Marguerite Cameron. The Canadian Forum, Nov. 1939. pp. 260-61.
B496 "Scoff Law." Rev. of The Cosmological Eye, by Henry Miller. The Canadian Forum, Dec. 1939, P. 293.
B497 "A New Comic Character." Rev. of My Uncle Silas, by H. E. Bates. The Canadian Forum, Feb. 1940, p. 365.
B498 "Pioneers and Transients." Rev. of The Last Buffalo Hunter, by Mary Weekes; and Idaho Lore, by Federal Writers' Project. The Canadian Forum, Feb. 1940, p. 364.
B499 "Stage and Screen." Rev. of Today in American Drama, by Frank Hurbert O'Hara. The Canadian Forum, Feb. 1940, p. 363.
B500 "The Conscription of Lewis Carroll." Rev. of Adolph in Blunderland, by James Dyrenforth and Max Lester. The Canadian Forum, March 1940, p. 397.
B501 "Death m Youth." Rev. of New Writing, Ns, No. 3, ed. John Lehmann. The Canadian Forum, March 1940, P. 396.
B502 Rev. of Not without Beauty, by John A. B. McLeish. The Canadian Forum, March 1940, p. 399.
B503 "Model for Libertarians." Rev. of Twice a Year, Numbers 3 and 4, ed. Dorothy Norman. The Canadian Forum, April 1940, pp. 22-23.
B504 "Prairie Dustbowl." Rev. of The Wind Our Enemy, by Anne Marriott. The Canadian Forum, April 1940, p. 24.
B505 "Saskatchewan Hermitage." Rev. of On a Darkling Plain, by Wallace Stegner. The Canadian Forum, April 1940, p. 28.
B506 Rev. of Luke's Circus, by Ruth Manning-Sanders. The Canadian Forum, May 1940, p. 63.
B507 Rev. of The Beloved House, by Thomas M. Pearce. The Canadian Forum, May 1940, p. 63.
B508 "Canadian Poetry." Rev. of Fancy Free, by Carol Coates, and From the Canadian Prairies, by Phyllis Comryn Clarke. The Canadian Forum, June 1940, p. 93.
B509 "German Middletown." Rev. of The Lights Go Down, by Erika Mann. The Canadian Forum, June 1940, p. 92.
B510 "The News and Folk Art." Rev. of News and the Human Interest Story, by Helen MacGill Hughes. The Canadian Forum, June 1940, p. 94.
B511 Rev. of A Caravan of Thoughts, by William P. Rowley. The Canadian Forum, June 1940, p. 95.
B512 "Art in Spite of Hell." Rev. of Folios of New Writing, Spring 1940, ed. John Lehmann. The Canadian Forum, July 1940, p. 123.
B513 "A Year of Canadian Writing." Rev. of Letters in Canada, 1939, ed. A. S. P. Woodhouse. The Canadian Forum, July 1940, p. 125.
B514 "Canadian Poetry." Rev. of Poems, by Ralph Gustafson. The Canadian Forum, Aug. 1940, pp. 154-55. Rpt. (Rev. of Poems, by Ralph Gustafson) in Canadian Poetry Magazine, 5, No. 1 (Sept. 1940), 46-47. ST ("Ralph Gustafson: Neglected Canadian Poet"). The title Poems refers to seven poems offprinted in Sewanee Review, 42 (April-June 1940).
B515 Rev. of An Ozark Anthology, ed. Vance Randolph. The Canadian Forum, Aug. 1940, P. 157.
B516 "Canadian Poem of the Year." Rev. of Brebeuf and His Brethren, by E. J. Pratt. The Canadian Forum, Sept. 1940, p. 180. ST.
B517 "New Verse." Rev. of Discovery, by Arthur S. Bourinot; The Pioneers, by H. Glynn-Ward; Twenty-two Improvisations, by Harold S. Silverman; Poetry Caravan (Special Pilgrimage Issue); and The Kapustkan, Aug. 1940. The Canadian Forum, Oct. 1940, p. 221.
B518 Rev. of Poetry and the Modern World, by David Daiches; and American Mirror, by Halford E. Luccock. The Canadian Forum, Jan. 1941, p. 325.
B519 "Canadian Jewish Poet." Rev. of Hath Not a Jew, by A. M. Klein. The Canadian Forum, Feb. 1941, pp. 354-55. ST ("The Universality of Abraham Klein").
B520 "English Poetry and the War." Rev. of Fear No More, an anthology of anonymous war poetry from England. The Canadian Forum, Feb. 1941, p. 355.
B521 "North American Verse." Rev. of The Flying Bull, by Watson Kirkconnell; The Saskatchewan Poetry Book, 1940-41; and And I Will Be Heard, by John Beecker. The Canadian Forum, Feb. 1941, pp. 35556.
B522 Rev. of New Directions in Prose and Poetry, 1940, ed. James Laughlin; and Folios of New Writing, Autumn 1940, ed. John Lehmann. The Canadian Forum, March 1941, p. 388.
B523 Rev. of Calling Adventures!, by Anne Marriott. The Canadian Forum, April 1941, p. 29.
B524 Rev. of Ida, by Gertrude Stein. The Canadian Forum, April 1941, p. 28.
B525 "Recent Canadian Verse." Rev. of Poems, by Carol Coates Cassidy; Canada Speaks of Britain, by Charles G. D. Roberts; As We Are, by Frances R. Angus; Over the Wheel, by Ewart Miller; and Twelve Poems, by Nathan Ralph. The Canadian Forum, June 1941, pp. 90-91.
B526 "War Novel." Rev. of This above All, by Eric Knight. The Canadian Forum, June 1941, p. 88.
B527 "Symbolisms." Rev. of The Transposed Heads, by Thomas Mann. The Canadian Forum, Aug. 1941, p. 153.
B528 "Not for Sale." Rev. of Epithalamium in Time of War, by Ralph Gustafson. The Canadian Forum, Oct. 1941, p. 220.
B529 "Telegraph Hill." Rev. of Home Is Here, by Sidney Miller. The Canadian Forum, Oct. 1941, pp. 219-20.
B530 "A Distinguished Canadian Poem." Rev. of Dunkirk, by E. J. Pratt. The Canadian Forum, Dec. 1941, pp. 278-79. ST ("Pratt's Dunkirk").
B531 Rev. of Saskatchewan Poetry Book, 1941-42. The Canadian Forum, Dec. 1941, p. 282.
B532 "Advice to Anthologists: Some Rude Reflections on Canadian Verse." Rev. of Voices of Victory: Representative Poetry of Canada in Wartime, ed. Arnabel King. The Canadian Forum, Feb. 1942, pp. 338-40. ST ("Advice to Canadian Anthologists: Some Rude Reflections on Canadian Verse").
B533 "Literary Exegesis." Rev. of James Joyce: A Critical Introduction, by Harry Levin. The Canadian Forum, March 1942, p. 379.
B534 Rev. of Contemporary Verse: A Canadian Quarterly, I, No. 2, ed. Alan Crawley. The Canadian Forum, April 1942, p. 29.
B535 Rev. of The War Poets, ed. Oscar Williams. The Canadian Forum, Sept. 1945, pp. 144-45.
B536 Rev. of Strange Tempe, by Margaret Crosland. The Canadian Forum, Feb. 1946, pp. 268-69.
B537 Rev. of Drumbeats through Your Dreams, by Helen Middleton. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 10, No. 1 (Sept. 1946), 36.
B538 Rev. of Poems 1939-1944, by George Whalley. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 10, No. 1 (Sept. 1946), 36.
B539 Rev. of Profile: A Chapbook of Canadian Verse, by Ottawa Branch of the Canadian Authors Association. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 10, No. 1 (Sept. 1946), 35-36.
B540 Rev. of Quatrains, by Albert Ralph Korn. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 10, No. 1 (Sept. 1946), 37.
B541 Rev. of Sea Pieces, by Clare Murray Fooshee. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 10, No. 1 (Sept. 1946), 37.
B542 Rev. of The Labyrinth: A Philosophical Poem, by Nathaniel Micklem. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 10, No. 1 (Sept. 1946), 37-38.
B543 Rev. of These Things Linger, by Helen Ball. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 10, No. 1 (Sept. 1946), 37.
B544 Rev. of Through the Dark Wood, by Polly Hill. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 10, No. 1 (Sept. 1946), 38.
B545 Rev. of As Ten, As Twenty, by P. K. Page; East of the City, by Louis Dudek; and The White Centre, by Patrick Anderson. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 10, No. 2 (Dec. 1946), 43-47. ST ("Three Important Young Poets: Page, Dudek, Anderson").
B546 Rev. of Cavalcade, by Norah Godfrey. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 10, No. 2 (Dec. 1946), 36-37.
B547 Rev. of Gants du Ciel, No. 11. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 10, No. 2 (Dec. 1946), 37-38.
B548 Rev. of Landfall, by Frederick B. Watt. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 10, No. 2 (Dec. 1946), 38-39.
B549 Rev. of Letters in Canada, 1945, ed. A. S. P. Woodhouse. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 10, No. 2 (Dec. 1946), 39.
B550 Rev. of Merry-Go-Round, by Marjorie Freeman Campbell. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 10, No. 2 (Dec. 1946), 36.
B551 Rev. of Saskatchewan Poetry Book, 1946-47. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 10, No. 2 (Dec. 1946), 37.
B552 Rev. of The Eternal Sea: An Anthology of Sea Poetry, ed. W. M. Williamson. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 10, No. 2 (Dec. 1946), 40-41.
B553 Rev. of When This Tide Ebbs, by Verna Loveday Harden. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 10, No. 2 (Dec. 1946), 36.
B554 "The Poetry of Robert Finch." Rev. of Poems, by Robert Finch. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 10, No. 3 (March 1947), 6-8. ST ("The Poems of Robert Finch").
B555 Rev. of A Pocketful of Canada, ed. John D. Robins. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 10, No. 3 (March 1947), 34.
B556 Rev. of New Quarterly of Poetry [League to Support Poetry, New York City], 1, No. 1. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 10, No. 3 (March 1947), 37.
B557 Rev. of Poems for the Interim, ed. B. K. Sandwell. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 10, No. 3 (March 1947), 36.
B558 Rev. of Thunderbird [Univ. of British Columbia], 2, Nos. 1 and 2. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 10, No. 3 (March 1947), 37.
B559 Rev. of A Book of Australasian Verse, ed. Walter Murdock. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 10, No. 4 (June 1947), 47.
B560 Rev. of A Book of Days, by The Vancouver Poetry Society. Canadtan Poetry Magazine, 10, No. 4 (June 1947), 46.
B561 Rev. of A Tent for April, by Patrick Anderson; and When We Are Young, by Raymound Souster. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 10, No. 4 (June 1947), 46.
B561 Rev. of Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, with illustrations by Alexander Calder and essay by Robert Penn Warren. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 10, No. 4 (June 1947), 48.
B563 Rev. of Go to Sleep, World, by Raymond Souster. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 10, No. 4 (June 1947), 45.
B564 Rev. of The Flowing Summer, by Charles Bruce. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 10, No. 4 (June 1947), 44.
B565 Rev. of The New Meridian [London, Eng.], 1, No. 1, ed. Robert Muller, D. Hack, and H. Plopper. Canadian Poetry Magazine, to, No. 4 (June 1947), 50.
B566 Rev. of Chosen Poems, by Frederic Prokosch. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 11, No. 1 (Sept. 1947), 42.
B567 Rev. of Poems for People, by Dorothy Livesay; Collected Poems, by Arthur S. Bourmot; Selected Poems, by Archibald Lampman; Voyageur and Other Poems, by R. E. Rashley; and Always the Bubbles Break, by Irene H. Moody. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 11, No. 1 (Sept. 1947), 37-38.
B568 Rev. of The Circle of Affection, by Duncan Campbell Scott. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 11, No. 1 (Sept. 1947), 39-40.
B569 Rev. of The Image and the Law, by Howard Nemerov. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 11, No. 1 (Sept. 1947), 43.
B570 Rev. of The Poetic Image, by C. Day-Lewis; and The Well Wrought Urn, by Cleanth Brooks. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 11, No. 1 (Sept. 1947), 41.
B571 Rev. of Sarah Binks, by Paul Hiebert. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 1, No. 3 (March 1948), 42-43. ST ("Required Reading for the CAA").
B572 Rev. of The Sultan of Jobat, by Vere Jameson. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 11, No. 3 (March 1948), 44.
B573 Rev. of Beggar's Velvet, by Ethel Kirk Grayson. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 11, No. 4 (June 1948), 47.
B574 "Short Story Chronicle." Rev. of Welsh Short Stones, ed. Gwyn Jones; Modern English Short Stones, Second Series, ed. Derek Hudson; Winter's Tales 2, Stories, by Jean Stafford, John Cheever, Darnel Fuchs, and William Maxwell; Roman Tales, by Alberto Morawa; and Seize the Day, by Saul Bellow. The Tamarack Review, No. 4 (Summer 1957), pp. 74-82.
B575 "On the Pressing of Maple Leaves." Rev. of Canadian Short Stones, ed. Robert Weaver. Canadian Literature, No. 4 (Autumn 1960), pp. 53-56.
B576 Rev. of A Book of Science Verse, ed. W. Eastwood. Vancouver Sun, 27 Dec. 1961, p. 7.
B577 Rev. of A Marianne Moore Reader. The Vancouver Sun, 7 Feb. 1962, p. 9.
B578 "And on These Rockies: An Old Mountain Man Remembers the Grizzly Tales and Vanishing Glories of the Great High Country." Rev. of The Rockies, by Andy Russell. Books in Canada, March 1976, pp. 3-5.
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B299 "The Reverend Eastham Discovers Life." The Ubyssey [Univ. of British Columbia], 7, Annual Literary Supplement, March 1924, n. pag.
B300 "Bird in the Bush." Mademoiselle, May 1948, pp. 143, 236-39. BBB ("Big Bird in the Bush").
B301 "Mickey Was a Swell Guy." National Home Monthly, Nov. 1948, pp. 16-17, 26-27. BBB.
B302 "A London Sketch." Canadian Life [Torontol, 1, No. 1 (March-April 1949), 7, 31, 38.
B303 "The Strange Smile of Thos Turvey." here and now, 2, No. 4 (June 1949), 38-45. T:MP (expanded).
B304 "Turvey Engages a Paratrooper." Saturday Night, 9 Aug. 1949, p. 21. T:MP (expanded).
B305 "What's This Agoosto?". Montreal Standard, 29 July 1950, pp. 14-15, 21.
B306 "Enigma in Ebony." Maclean's, 15 Oct. 1953, PP. 16, 17, 104, 106-08. BBB ("Waiting for Queen Emma").
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B272 "Midstream." Queen's Quarterly, 65 (Summer 1958), 261 ICBS; SP; CP. Translation from the Chinese of Mao Tse-Tung. Collaborating translator: Ping-ti Ho.
B273 "Snowscape from a Plane." Queen's Quarterly, 65 (Summer 1958), 262. ICBS; SP; CP ("Snowscape from a plane"). Translation from the Chinese of Mao Tse-Tung. Collaborating translator: Ping-ti Ho.
B274 "Five Poor Men Speak." The Canadian Forum, Sept. 1959, P. 130. ICBS ("The Travelling Workers' Curse"); SP ("Five Poor Men Speak"); CP ("The travelling workers' curse"). Translation from the Hungarian of Attila Jozsef. Collaborating translator: Ilona Duczynska.
B275 "Nobody's as Poor as a Poor Man." In The Plough and the Pen. Ed. Ilona Duczynska and Karl Polanyi. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1963, pp. 17071. Translation from the Hungarian of Attila Josef. Collaborating translator: Ilona Duczynska.
B276 "On Cartagena de Indias, His Native City." The Tamarack Review, No. 30 (Winter 1964), p. 23. NFCM ("On Cartagena de Indias, his native city, translated from Luis Lopez"); SP (revised -- "On Cartegena His Native City"); CP (revised -- "On Cartagena de Indias, his native city"). Translated from the Spanish of Luis Lopez.
B277 "On the City's Rim." The Canadian Forum, Jan. 1964, pp. 226-27. NFCM ("On the city's rim, translated from Josef Attila"); SP ("On the City's Rim"); CP ("On the city's rim"). Translated from the Hungarian of Attila Josef. Collaborating translator: Ilona Duczynska.
B278 "If Only Someone Else Would Come." Prism Internattonal, 5, Nos. 3-4 (Winter-Spring 1966), 83. RBS ("if only someone else would come"). Translated from the Hungarian of Endre Ady. Collaborating translator: Juditte Sarkany-Perret.
B279 "While I'm Drinking a Cup of Coffee." Other Voices [London, Ont.], 2 (Summer 1966), 5. RBS ("while i'm drinking a cup of coffee"). Translation from the Spanish of Oscar Oliva.
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C6 Lehmann, John. Letter. The Canadian Forum, July 1940, p. 121. Lehmann criticizes Birney's review of New Writing (ed. Lehmann). Birney is wrong to suggest that Lehmann's interests were primarily political and secondarily literary. It is really Birney who "sees literature through political spectacles."
C7 Brown, E. K. On Canadian Poetry. Toronto: Ryerson, 1943, pp. 76-78. Rpt. 2nd rev. ed., 1944, pp. 85-86. Rpt. Ottawa: Tecumseh, 1973, pp. 85-86. In a short review of David and Other Poems, Brown praises Birney's "authentic orginality .... He has a harsh and intense sensibility which makes his pictures and rhythms fresh and living, and his technical accomplishment is brilliant, at times bewildering."
C8 Smith, A. ]. M. Biographical Note and Critique. In The Book of Canadian Poetry: A Critical and Historical Anthology. Ed. A. J. M. Smith. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1943, P. 319. Birney's poetry is " 'Canadian' in the only way that is worth anything, implicitly and inevitably, and along with pride in the best elements of Canadian life there is found a sense of shame and anger at all that is servile and corrupt."
C9 Birney, Esther. "A Biography of Capt. Earle Birney by His Wife." Canadian Review of Music and Art [Toronto], 2, Nos. 9-10 (Oct.-Nov. 1943). Esther Birney recalls meeting her future husband in London, and thinking Vancouver was in South America.
C10 Brown, E. K. "To the North: A Wall against Canadian Poetry." Saturday Review of Literature, 29 April 1944, pp. 9-11. "'David' is a story of a mountain tragedy [in which] the reader is suddenly and surely carried through an emotional experience which is among the most memorable to be had from recent poetry."
C11 Wells, Henry W. "The Awakening in Canadian Poetry." The New England Quarterly, 18, No. 1 (March 1945), pp. 13-14. "'David' is swift, lyrical, tender; popular without being vulgar, and unpretentious though subject to delicate modulation." Although it is a "deeply and grandly emotional poem .... it has a pure and artful beauty, a charm that is fresh, virginal, and almost ethereal ...."
C12 Daniells, Roy. "Earle Birney et Robert Finch." Gants du Ciel, II (printemps 1946), 83-96. Rpt. (excerpt -- "Earle Birney") in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, PP. 47-53. "David" est "le meilleur poeme de longueur moyenne qui ait jamais ete ecrit au Canada." Daniells present une analyse comprehensive du poeme.
C13 Daniells, Roy. "The Poet Next Door." The Manitoban [Univ. of Manitoba], 29 Nov. 1946, p. 6. Daniells' experience teaching "David" to undergraduates reveals a problem: "... it is the fixed opinion of about five per cent of Birney's readers that he in propria persona pushed a friend off a cliff. We try patiently to explain that Shakespeare did not himself kill Desdemona." A pleasant, personal glimpse of Birney.
C14 Clay, Charles. "Earle Birney." In Leading Canadian Poets. Ed. W. P. Percival. Toronto: Ryerson, 1948, pp. 23-29. Clay begins with quotations from other critics (B. K. Sandwell, E. J. Pratt, E. K. Brown), taken from book reviews; gives a biographical sketch; looks at "David" briefly and at David and Other Poems. Clay stresses Birney's craftsmanship, his social bent, his satirical strain, and sees Birney's "cryptic expression" as his weakest point.
C15 Dempsey, Lotta. "Writer of Poetry Admits He's Not Expert on Poultry." The Globe and Mail, 29 June 1949, p. 12. Dempsey mentions Birney's ideas on poets, Canadian poetry, and the origin of his own poetry.
C16 Sutherland, John. "The Past Decade in Canadian Poetry." Northern Review, 4, No. 2 (Dec.-Jan. 1950-51), 43. Sutherland lumps Birney in a "Western group of Earle Birney, Dorothy Livesay, Anne Marriott and others" which form "the most clear-cut political group of the thirties." Birney replies some time later (see B354) and says he likes the company, but points out that he wrote little poetry at the time, being too politically revolved.
C17 Phelps, Arthur L. "Two Poets: Klein and Birney." In his Canadian Writers. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1951, pp. 111-19. Phelps judges Klein and Birney "the immediately contemporary important two" Canadian poets. "In his David he has written one of the few satisfying narrative poems of our generation."
C18 Pacey, Desmond. Creative Writing in Canada: A Short History of English-Canadian Literature. Toronto: Ryerson, 1952, pp. 2, 138-41, 156, 174, 191, 200. Rev. ed., 1961, pp. 2, 124, 185, 228, 234, 255, 268, 278. In a chapter covering Canadian poetry of the last thirty years, Pacey compares Earle Birney with Dorothy Livesay and then continues to evaluate Birney as, next to E. J. Pratt, the most original poet in Canada.
C19 Daniells, J. R[oy]. "Presentation of Medals: Lorne Pierce Medal; Earle Birney." In Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, Ser. 3, 47 (June 1953), 37-38. Short speech of presentation of Lorne Pierce Medal to Birney.
C20 Pacey, Desmond. "English-Canadian Poetry, 1944-1954." Culture, 15 (Sept. 1954), 259-60. Rpt. in Essays in Canadian Criticism: 1938-1968. By Desmond Pacey. Toronto: Ryerson, 1969, pp. 105-06. Birney "has been a more consistent poet than either Klein or Livesay: he has produced poetry more steadily, and he has changed remarkably little in either subject-matter or style. Although he has written movingly of war, love, and mountain climbing, his chief concern has always been with the interpretation and evaluation of the Canadian social scene."
C21 Griffith, Dudley David. Bibliography of Chaucer 1908-1953. Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 1955, p. 117. Five items by Birney are listed: "Chaucer's Irony," "English Irony before Chaucer," "Is Chaucer's Irony a Modern Discovery?", "The Beginnings of Chaucer's Irony," and "The Two Worlds of Geoffrey Chaucer." "The Beginnings of Chaucer's Irony" is cross-listed on page 248 of Griffith's book.
C22 "Birney, Alfred Earle." Encyclopedia Canadiana, 1957. Brief biographical comments.
C23 Dooley, D. J. "The Satiric Novel in Canada Today." Queen's Quarterly, 64 (Winter 1957-58), 576-90. Rpt. (revised, excerpt --"The Satiric Novel in Canada Today: Turvey" and "The Satiric Novel in Canada Today: Down the Long Table [1955]") in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 76-79, 95-96. Dooley thinks Turvey is "too undisciplined to be a first-rate novel, and too bookish to be a popular account of military experiences." It is a succession of comic episodes, rather than a satire. While not delighted with Down the Long Table, Dooley finds this work to contain much more pungent satire than Turvey -- "a vivid and accurate picture of some aspect of Canadian life in the Thirties, and for this it deserves more praise than most reviewers have given it."
C24 Pacey, Desmond. "Earle Birney." In his Ten Canadian Poets: A Group of Biographical and Critical Essays. Toronto: Ryerson, 1958, pp. 194, 293-326. Pacey claims that Birney is most important as "a chronicler of Canadian life during the period of World War II and its aftermath"; describes the range, noting only the "singular fact that there is almost no reference to religion nor to the supernatural in the whole range of Birney's poetry." Pacey examines Birney's essays, notes the influence on Birney's writing of Anglo-Saxon, Chaucer, and Shakespeare, and sees a humanistic assertion of individual value in the face of cosmic (or natural) indifference as Birney's main theme, which associates him with Pratt.
C25 Rashley, R. E. Poetry in Canada: The First Three Steps. Toronto: Ryerson, 1958, pp. 141-44, 147, 149, 151, 156, 159. Essentially descriptive, to 1952. "David" is examined briefly.
C26 "Canadians to Share in Writing Awards." U.B.C. Reports, Feb. 1958, n. pag. Short report on Birney's successful efforts to have Canadian students allowed to compete for fellowships in creative writing offered by Putnam's, the American publishing firm.
C27 Elliott, Brian. "Earle Birney: Canadian Poet." Meanjin, 18, No. 3 (1959), 338-47. Of Canadian poets, Elliott judges Birney "the poet most likely to capture the interest of Australian readers." Elliott gives a biographical sketch, a fairly full survey of the work, mainly the poetry, with mention of the novels, and singles out the linguistic sophistication for comment: "He has always been intensely interested in the textures of rhythm and language, but words have never, with him, served as anything but instruments of intelligible meaning." The linguistic experiments are "a form of high spirits. His poetry does not depend upon verbal gymnastics."
C28 Fredeman, W. E. "Earle Birney: Poet." British Columbia Library Quarterly, 23 (Jan. 1960), 8-15. Rpt. in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson 1974, pp. 107-14. Birney's poems fall into five categories: "descriptions of nature, satires, those dealing with war -- either imminent or actual -- love poems, and those built on narrative or dramatic situations involving one or more of the other four. Thematically, however, they overlap without clear lines of distinction; always they are autobiographical and extremely personal." A long footnote argues against Pacey's "chronicler" label (see C24). Birney's central theme is love, and the most dominant symbol is war, "intensified and made doubly poignant by the present forces which threaten mankind." Fredeman notes "the breadth of the solution offered by the poet -- a broad humanism positing individual involvement and responsibility combined with an insistence on the absolute autonomy of the human will, expressed with masculine forcefulness in both imagery and diction."
C29 Scott, Duncan Campbell. Remarks on "David." In More Letters of Duncan Campbell Scott. Ed. Arthur S. Bourmot. Ottawa: Bourinot, 1960, pp. 3, 67. Remarks made to Bourinot and to Pelham Edgar.
C30 Bazire, Joyce. "Middle Enghsh: Chaucer." In The Year's Work in English Studies. Ed. Beatrice White and T. S. Dorsch. Vol. XL (1959). London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1961, 76-78. Complimentary notes on two articles by Birney: "The Franklin's 'Sop in Wyn'" (B381) and "'After His Ymage' -- The Central Ironies of 'The Friar's Tale'" (B377).
C31 West, Paul. "Earle Birney and the Compound Ghost." Canadian Literature, No. 13 (Summer 1962), pp. 5-14. Rpt. in A Choice of Critics: Selections from Canadian Literature. Ed. George Woodcock. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1966, pp. 131-41. Rpt. in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 119-28. A review article based on Ice Cod Bell or Stone. West's essay sets the tone for critical treatment of Birney's later poetry. Birney's early works struggle with idiom, never quite succeeding, despite their real power. Recognizing Birney's "urge towards myth," West sees the pastoral details of such poems as "David" as the "siting of particulars in the vast blank," needing "philosophical baggage" to create meaning. Ice Cod Bell or Stone is a major advance in the expression of Birney's essential loneliness: "no-one anywhere is treated more impersonally than the tourist, and this book is a record of being a geographical and spiritual tourist." The novels, especially Down the Long Table, are regarded as part of the development. "Ice Cod Bell or Stone marks a tremendous access of vision and technique."
C32 Bazire, Joyce. "Middle English: Chaucer." In The Year's Work in English Studies. Ed. Beatrice White and T. S. Dorsch. Vol. XLI (1960). London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1963, 74-76. Notes on Birney's "The Inhibited and the Uninhibited: Ironic Structure in the 'Miller's Tale'" (B383), "Structural Irony within the 'Summoner's Tale'" (B384), and "Chaucer's 'Gentil' Manciple and His 'Gentil' Tale" (B382).
C33 Woodcock, George. Introduction. In Turvey. New Canadian Library, No. 34. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1963, pp. ix-xv. Rpt. ("The Comic Novelist") in Odysseus Ever Returning: Essays on Canadian Writers and Writing. New Canadian Library, No. 71. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1970, pp. 123-29. Rpt. (excerpt -- "Introduction to Turvey") in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 85-89. "Birney has always been ready to wear the mask and motley of the clown, in prose and m verse, but he has generally avoided the easy and empty facetiousness of the professional literary funny man; his comedy ... is stringent, intelligent, irreverent, and a little irascible."
C34 Ota, Saburo. "Tanka and Haikai: Japanese-Style Poems." Haiku [Tokyo], No. 6 (June 1963), p. 131. Birney's "Haiku for a Young Waitress" is commented on, in Japanese.
C35 Stevenson, Lionel. "How Good Is Canadian Poetry?". Canadian Author & Bookman, 38, No. 4 (Summer 1963), 14-15. Stevenson refers to Birney as the only Canadian ever to win first prize in the Borestone Awards and as one of only two to win any prize at all. (Birney won for "From the Hazel Bough.")
C36 [Barbour, Jim.] "Professor Urges New Ministry." U.B.C. Reports, 9, No. 6 (Nov.-Dec. 1963), 3. Birney calls for the appointment of a national minister for cultural affairs. The article reports Birney's comments on his 1962 trip to Mexico, the West Indies, and South America, to the effect that not having cultural attaches established in Canadian embassies leads to great ignorance of Canadian culture.
C37 "Birney Calls for Culture Minister." U.B.C. Alumni Chronicle, 17, No. 4 (Winter 1963), 39. Reporting Birney's call for the creation of a national minister for cultural affairs.
C38 Sylvestre, Guy, Brandon Conron, and Carl F. Klinck, eds. "Earle Birney (1904- )." In Canadian Writers: A Biographical Dictionary. Toronto: Ryerson, 1964, pp. 8-9. Rpt. in Canadian Writers/Ecritains Canadiens: A Biographical Dictionary. 2nd ed., 1966, pp. 9-11. Bio-bibliographical comments.
C39 Wilson, Milton. "Earle Birney." In Poetry of Mid-Century: 1940/1960. Ed. Milton Wilson. New Canadian Library Original, No. O4. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1964, pp. 19-20. Brief biographical details.
C40 Campeau, Dubarry. "Gum Wads Roll as Poets Toll for Elusive Soul." The Telegram [Toronto], 26 Oct. 1964, p. 41. Short review of Birney's reading of his poems.
C41 Beattie, Munro. "Poetry: 1935-1950." In Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English. Gen. ed. and introd. Carl F. Klinck. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1965, pp. 761-65. 2nd ed., 1976. Vol. II, 272-76. The study is limited to Birney's early poetry. Birney is both "The most cosmopolitan of our poets in ideology and experience" and "in several senses the most Canadian of them all." Birney writes in a "variety of forms" and has an "eye for details that recreate a scene and a mood."
C42 Dudek, Lores. Notes. In his Poetry of Our Time. Toronto: Macmillan, 1965, p. 228. "Like Archibald MacLeish he is a professional writer who has mastered his materials and techniques and writes with deliberate skill. He is also one of the few poets among us who has won a certain recognition in the United States and abroad."
C43 McPherson, Hugo. "Fiction: 1940-1960." In Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English. Gen. ed. and introd. Carl F. Klinck. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1965, p. 716. 2nd ed., 1976. Vol. II, 229. McPherson dismisses Turvey, a novel which "laughs with uneasy heartiness at the dilemmas of man regimented, but misses the universality at which it aims ...."
C44 Hicklin, Ralph. "It's Excitement That Spells Joy." The Globe and Mad, 23 April 1966, p. 13. A feature article/interview, outlining (with much quoting) Birney's views on the impact of Beat poetry and Black Mountain poetry on contemporary Canadian verse and on their importance in his own work.
C45 Purdy, A. W. Letter. The Canadian Forum, May 1966, pp. 38-39. Reply to an article by Victor Coleman on the Black Mountain poets. Purdy sketches the history of Black Mountain poetry, In which Birney's introduction of Black Mountain poets to Vancouver figures prominently; defends Birney against some badmouthing reported by Coleman. Coleman replies in the next issue, apologizing for remarks made about Birney.
C46 Collins, Douglas. "A Student Wants the Chancellor's Parking Space." The Globe and Mail, 21 May 1966, p. 8. Birney was involved in an open debate with the U.B.C. Alumni Executive over democratic procedures.
C47 Woodcock, George. "Turning New Leaves." The Canadian Forum, Aug. 1966, pp. 115-16. Rpt. ("The Selective Poet") in Odysseus Ever Returning: Essays on Canadian Writers and Writing. By George Woodcock. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1970, pp. 119-23. Rpt. ("Turning New Leaves") in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 166-69. While a review of Selected Poems: 1940-1966, this essay is a judicious summing up of Birney's main themes and styles. Woodcock greatly likes the volume ("Birney's best to date"), including its "visual handsomeness," a tribute to the illustrator Leonard Brooks. The essay notes Birney's continuous revision of his work, and sees it as "one of Birney's special characteristics as a writer." Birney is "very much a moral critic of the world he sees"; in Birney's "voice .... one is aware, all the time, of a man observing and reflecting on his own and other worlds; yet what we see is not merely the observed but also the observer. For Birney projects, through a voice, a personality, and a very Idiosyncratic one." Woodcock connects the early and later poetry by seeing Birney in all as "a humanising landscapist": "the most congenial of his poems are those in which he combines his topographical flair with his sense of history and his power of conveying the immediacy of present experience."
C48 Smith, A. J. M. "A Unified Personality: Birney's Poems." Canadian Literature, No. 30 (Autumn 1966), pp. 4-13. Rpt. in Towards a View of Canadian Letters: Selected Critical Essays. By A. J. M. Smith. Vancouver: Univ. of British Columbia Press, 1973, pp. 125-33. Rpt. in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd, Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 141-49. Using the publication of Selected Poems: 1940-1966 as a starting point for a summary of Birney's poetic work, Smith notes that Birney's best work is the tourist poetry; "the poems on Mexico, Peru, and the Caribbean islands ... [are not] only among the finest of Birney's poems; they are lust simply and plainly, man, the finest," the product of "a sharp, sensitive, and discursive mind." Smith stresses the recent poetry's development of voice: the satire is successful because "directed, even if ever so gently, against the poet himself too"; "perhaps this growth in maturity is the achievement of originality, the setting free of a unique poetic personality that after years of work has at last found itself and its true voice." "November Walk near False Creek Mouth" joins this group as "the high watermark of Birney's achievement up to now." Smith dislikes only "the typographical gimmicks and punctuational nudity imposed on many fine straightforward clear poems," in which "visual-aids have become handicaps." Smith makes some interesting comparisons with F. R. Scott and E. J. Pratt, seeing a more daring experimenter in Birney.
C49 Wilson, Milton. "Poet without a Muse." Canadian Literature, No. 30 (Autumn 1966), pp. 14-20. Rpt. in Poets and Critics: Essays from Canadian Literature 1966-1974. Ed. George Woodcock. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1974, pp. 26-32. Rpt. in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 150-56. Less an essay than "a series of notes towards an unwritten revised portrait" of Birney, occasioned by the publication of Selected Poems: 1940-1966. Wilson stresses Birney's individuality: "The more Birney you read, the less he looks like anybody else .... Any inescapable influence of his generation that he found irrelevant (T. S. Eliot, for example), he has managed to escape completely." At the same time, while wanting to qualify the generalization, Wilson does see Birney's development as paralleling that of British and American poetry, "as having moved from a metaphoric and allusive phase in the thirties and forties to a more linguistic -- idiomatic and syntactic -- one in the fifties and Sixties, from the rhetoric of the image to the rhetoric of the voice. It's tempting to see Birney's own development following a similar course, with Trial of a City (1952) as the Janus-faced turning point." "Cartagena de Indias" is Birney's finest poem. Wilson is not entirely happy with the ambiguity created by the removal of all punctuation and the reliance on spacing and lineation. Birney is suggestively linked with Chaucer: "Birney is in some respects a very Chaucerian kind of poet .... To begin with, there is his basic impersonality. You can learn practically nothing about him as a private person from his published poems. Self-revelation or self-analysis is not his business. And yet, like Chaucer, and increasingly with age, he enjoys offering us a kind of persona in the foreground: the innocent scapegoat of 'Meeting of Strangers,' the aging and garlanded ram of 'Twenty-third Flight,' the absurdly grateful initiate of 'Cartagena de Indias.'"
C50 Barclay, Bill. "Birney Encourages Aspiring Writers." The Varsity [Univ. of Toronto], 16 Dec. 1966, p. 25. Barclay includes many quotations from Birney discussing his role as writer-in-residence at the University of Toronto and his arguments with the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia as he fought for creative writing courses, and, finally, at the University of British Columbia, for a Creative Writing Department. "'Almost all the writers here [University of Toronto] are victims of the wrong-headed approach to English as it is taught in the high schools .... Consequently their writing is fantastically out moded.'" Although Birney holds a Doctorate in Old English and has taught Anglo-Saxon and Chaucer for six years before the war, he "does not consider himself to be an academic." Such academic years were a "'life of sterility,'" though, theoretically, writers and universities should be interdependent.
C51 Purdy, Al. "A Letter from Al Purdy." The Telegram [Toronto], 17 Dec. 1966, p. 23. Birney's style has changed: "'He is much less lyrical and metrical, more witty and just barely possible -- his own persona may emerge from this."
C52 Story, Norah. "Birney, Earle." In her The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1967, p. 78. Bio-bibliographical information.
C53 Carruth, Hayden. "Up, Over, and Out: The Poetry of Distraction." The Tamarack Review, No. 42 (Winter 1967), pp. 61-69. Rpt. ("Up, Over, and Out") in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 157-63. While truly a review of Selected Poems: 1940-1966, this piece is the most sustained negative evaluation of Birney's poetry in print, and occasioned two rejoinders in The Tamarack Review. Carruth begins with a long statement of intent, making clear his dislike of the poetry and his respect for the man. He thoroughly dislikes Birney's Preface, in which reviewers and academics are excoriated: "one of the most offensive aspects of Mr. Birney's preface, incidentally, is his extreme condescension to the entire academic corps, in the face of what we are told on the flap of his dust jacket and in the ancillary press releases, viz., that he has been supported for years and years by the universities." Birney's removal of punctuation is crude: "He has removed all the punctuation. Or rather, he has substituted one method of punctuation for another; or, more precisely still, he has substituted a method of punctuation which he very deficiently understands for a method which he probably understood rather well."
C54 Purdy, Alfred. Letter. The Tamarack Review, No. 43 (Spring 1967), p. 100. Rpt. ("Letter to the Editor") in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 163-64. Purdy responds to the review article by Hayden Carruth in the previous Issue. The letter is a witty put-down, pointing out what is seen as Carruth's distortion of emphasis and his arrogance in telling Canadian poets what to write about (Carruth being an American with few ties to Canada).
C55 Rosenblatt, Joe. Letter. The Tamarack Review, No. 43 (Spring 1967), pp. 100-01. Rpt. ("Letter to the Editor") in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 164-65. Rosenblatt responds to the review article by Hayden Carruth in the previous issue. He attacks Carruth's credentials to judge poetry rightly; points out a distortion of emphasis; and wonders why The Tamarack Review could not find a better assessor of Birney's achievement.
C56 Purdy, A. W. "Canadian Poetry in English since 1867." Journal of Commonwealth Literature [Leeds, Eng.], No. 3 (July 1967), pp. 19-33. Birney's style "owes something to Chaucer, a little to James Joyce," but is unique. "He is much more a 'public poet' than any but Irving Layton." "'Mappemounde'... is so cleverly constructed that no one has ever identified it as an oblique love poem."
C57 Kroetsch, Robert. Alberta. Toronto: Macmillan, 1968, pp. 137-40. A fascinating story of Kroetsch's search for the Birney homestead (left in 1912) in Morningside, Alberta.
C58 Rowland, Beryl, ed. Companion to Chaucer Studies. London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1968, pp. III, 257-66, 291-305. Praiseworthy summaries of Birney's work on Chaucer's irony.
C59 Stafford, William. "These Poems." In Memory No Servant. Trumansburg, N.Y.: New, 1968, p. 3. A warm tribute to Birney.
C60 Riddell, Don. "Who Is Earle Birney?". Adelaide Adventurer [Australia], 31 Aug. 1968, p. 19. By way of introducing Birney to Australian readers, Riddell assesses Birney's public reading: "A brilliant performance -- which made me wonder why before that day I, and I venture to say most of the students, had never heard of Earle Birney."
C61 Nichol, bp. "An Introduction." In pnomes jukollages & other stunzas. Ed. bpNichol, grOnk, 4th ser., No. 3. Toronto: Ganglia, 1969, n. pag. Rpt. ("Introduction to Pnomes Jukollages & Other Stunzas [1969]'') in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 171-72. Besides a fine general introduction to Birney's concrete/experimental poetry, the introduction contains some suggestive comments about what Birney derived from Chaucer ("Chaucer had one hell of an ear for voice rhythms"): "early things like 'shetland grandaunt' show an awareness of dialectic, of accent, and accent is the key here. He wants to show the rose and fall of the human voice so he lets the line rise and fall."
C62 Livesay, Dorothy. "The Documentary Poem: A Canadian Genre." Association of Canadian University Teachers of English, Learned Societies, York Univ., Downsview, Ont. 12 June 1969. Printed in Contexts of Canadian Criticism: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Eli Mandel. Patterns of Literary Criticism, No. 9. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1971, pp. 269, 279-81. Rev. ed. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1977, pp. 269, 279-81. Contains the statement that "there is proof that this was no imaginary story. Birney's companion on that fatal mountain climb was a real David." Livesay retracted this statement in the revised version.
C63 Geddes, Gary, and Phyllis Bruce. "Earle Birney." In Fifteen Canadian Poets. Ed. Gary Geddes and Phyllis Bruce. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1970, pp. 268-70. A humanitarian, Birney nevertheless believes "that moral progress IS possible"; such a philosophic duality "reflect[s] the Marxism of a generation caught in two world wars and a depression as well as the Puritanism of his heritage."
C64 Jones, D. G. Butterfly on Rock: A Study of Themes and Images m Canadian Literature. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1970, pp. 13, 20, 22-23, 110, 111-12., 123-28, 129, 134, 135-36, 139, 249-51, 258. Rpt. (excerpt -- "The Courage to Be") in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 187-95. Birney is a poet "preoccupied with the problem posed by death" -- in the natural world, in the human condition, in cosmic terms; "Birney's attitude towards a destructive or hostile universe, as expressed throughout much of his work, is neither the withdrawal of Roberts nor the affirmation of Pratt; it is rather a vigorous defiance." What Birney gets from the Anglo-Saxon world is its notion of heroic endurance. But it is set against an ironically sardonic view of man's unheroic nature. Birney states the possible affirmation through the loving voice of Mrs. Anyone (m "'Damnation of Vancouver"); "affirmation can only be made through individual beings m all their uniqueness."
C65 Mandel, Eli. "Introduction: Earle Birney." In Five Modern Canadian Poets. Ed. Eli Mandel. Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970, pp. 7-8. Mandel's Introduction stresses Birney's "superb" craftsmanship, his use of "juxtaposition and contrast," and his wide range of forms and rhythms.
C66 Mandel, Eli. "Afterwords." In Five Modern Canadian Poets. Ed. Eli Mandel. Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970, pp. 21-22. These notes consist of quotations by Birney on his poetry and questions for classroom use.
C67 Woodcock, George. "Earle Birney." In Contemporary Poets of the English Language. Ed. Rosalie Murphy. London: St. James, 1970, pp. 94-97. Rpt. [excerpt -- "Birney, E(arle)"] In Contemporary Novelists. Ed. James Vinson. New York: St. Martin's, 1972, pp. 125-26. Rpt. (revised, expanded -- "Earle Birney") In Contemporary Poets. 2nd ed. Ed. James Vinson. London: St. James, 1975, pp. 118-21. 3rd ed., 1980, pp. 116-19. Rpt. (excerpt -- "Earle Birney: Down the Long "Fable") in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, p. 99. Includes a comment by Birney on his prose work. Woodcock's entry compares Birney's novels with his poetry: "... both novels share with Birney's poetry in inclination towards social satire and a preoccupation with colloquial speech patterns; Down the Long Table also shares with Birney's later verse an experimental use of the verbal detritus of political propaganda and the mass media in general." Woodcock appreciates the vividness of Down the Long Table, but thinks Turvey formally the more convincing work. Birney notes that his short stories share narrative principles with "David" -- "equally symbolic in technique, and unified around a two-person relationship and a definitive action." His novels, he notes, "are to some extent 'documentary,' aiming at accuracy in dialogue and in reference to the historic frame," and have been preoccupied "with the mores and philosophy of North American society."
C68 Noel-Bentley, Peter C., and Earle Birney. "Earle Birney: A Bibliography in Progress, 1923-1969." West Coast Review, 5, No. 2 (Oct. 1970), 45-53. Brief biographical and bibliographical note by Noel-Bentley; journalism and academics are the forces battling for Birney's soul in the 1920s and 1930s: "The reporter's eye and the academic's detachment (compounded by Birney's Ph.D. studies in Chaucer's irony) define the unique quality of Birney's verse; there is always a delicate balance between hard and sometimes bitter factual observation of the world and Chaucerian self-mockery which gives perspective to the immediate experience." The bibliography purports to be complete for the poetry (to 1969); it is selective for Birney's articles and for work about Birney.
C69 Stevens, Peter. "Earle Birney's Indelible Poetic Mark on Canada." The Windsor Star, 21 Oct. 1970, p. 15. A warmly appreciative general feature, stressing Birney's love of people.
C70 Reference Division, McPherson Library, Univ. of Victoria, B.C., comp. "Birney, Earle* 1904 -- ." In Creative Canada: A Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Creative and Performing Artists. Vol. I. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1971, 31-32. Bio-bibliographical comments.
C71 T[homson]., P[eter]. "Birney, Earle (1904-)." In British Commonwealth Literature. Vol. I of The Penguin Companion to Literature. Ed. David Daiches. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1971, p. 50. Brief biographical information. Thomson focuses on Trial of a City, calling it a "technical tour de force" and notes Birney's general "pervasive humanity" and his "imagic [sic] clarity."
C72 "Prism." The Ubyssey [Univ. of British Columbia], 29 Jan. 1971, p. 2. Describes the re-appearance of Prism as Prism International. Birney says, "We do not believe, in the world of 1964, that explanations need to be made for thinking that internationalism is a paramount consideration."
C73 Eisenberg, Dennis. "American Invasion May Crush Canadian Art and Culture." The Telegram [Toronto], 25 May 1971, p. 51. Birney deplores the growing American domination of Canadian culture. "Perhaps the economic takeover of our country is irreversible, but there is no need to believe that we must all become American in thought as well."
C74 Ohm, Viveca. "No Poet Wins Fame by Counting Costs." The Vancouver Sun, 12 Sept. 1971, p. 8. An account of the circumstances surrounding Birney's spring 1971 reading tour of England, Scotland, and Eire. Ohm relates Birney's meeting with Irish poet and IRA activist Hayden Murphy.
C75 Atwood, Margaret. Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1972, pp. 55-58, 60-61, 114, 201. In Atwood's "Nature the Monster" chapter, Birney's "David," "Bushed," and "Transcontinental" are placed in Atwood's pattern. "An interesting thing about the images in David is the way they change from Nature-is-indifferent images before David's fall to Nature-is-hostile images after it"; "it is the narrator's innocence which makes such a vision possible."
C76 Thomas, Clara. "Earle Birney." In her Our Nature -- Our Voices: A Guidebook to English-Canadian Literature. Vol. I of Our Nature -- Our Voices. Toronto: new, 1972, pp. 118-22. A sketch of Birney's career. Thomas notes his "reporter's eye for detail" and the experimental nature of his verse forms; Birney is "constantly committed to language and tirelessly intrigued by its possibilities for variety m form and effect." While viewing Birney's work often standing "balanced in irony," Thomas writes that "Earle Birney cannot be neatly categorized, nor can anthology selections give the range of his work. In subject matter, he has been more eclectic than most of his fellow-artists, broader-ranging m place and time, less explicitly moralistic than many and yet gravely and centrally, morally concerned." The Creative Writer is "better than any critic has done." His "essays illuminate Birney's work, his careers as writer and teacher, and his concept of the artist's place and function in modern society. Not only do they clarify his own adventures in art and processes in technique, but they hold up, without sham, both the vision and the dogged effort that are necessary to the successful translation of any poem, from the mind and the imagination of the poet to the words caught in form upon the page."
C77 Kwee, Masie. "Scots Burr and How Errol Was Given the Name 'Earle.'" The Straits "Dines [Singapore], 20 April 1972, p. 14. "The mistake was due to my mother's rolling tongue."
C78 New, W. H. "Prisoner of Dreams: The Poetry of Earle Birney." The Canadian Forum, Sept. 1972, pp. 29-32. Rpt. ("Maker of Order, Prisoner of Dreams: The Poetry. of Earle Birney") in Articulating West: Essays on Purpose and Form in Modern Canadian Literature. By William H. New. Three Solitudes: Contemporary Literary Criticism in Canada, No. I. Toronto: new, 1972, pp. 259-69. In his discussion of the tension within Birney of the culture of the wilderness of Canada and of the well-defined culture of Europe, New suggests a resolution which answers the questions raised by Paul West and Milton Wilson about Canada's lack of ghosts and muses, and thus points the way for future study of Birney. According to New, the formal range of Birney's poetry reflects something of Canada itself: "the technical development of Birney's verse inscribes an intellectual journey from anxiety to spiritual self-possession. Behind his language he ideas about culture and society; behind them lies a tension between anarchic liberty and ordered constraint, between nature and civilization, reforming the poetic structures with humane optimism and ironic dismay. And in his continuing attempt to resolve that tension, he traces the divided character of the Canadian soul." This division is not easy to resolve; the tension portrayed in Birney's poetry is a result of the need to retain "the essential centre of Canada ... its consciousness of wilderness" in the face of (while language and culture of European civilization. That resolution, taking into account, perforce, social realities, not only in Canada, but in the world at large (hence the tourist poems), involves not surrendering "to a pessimistic apocryphal vision; it sees the anguish of historicity, instead, as an indispensable and redemptive rite of passage that leads to spiritual birth" allowing the poet "to face the idea of 'Nothing' with equanimity." And so, "when in 'Can. Lit.' he writes that 'it's only by our lack of ghosts we're haunted,' he is denigrating only the compulsion to define by imitation, to lock oneself in one time and perspective and thereby fail to recognize the voices and silences that also animate the [Canadian] land. Silence and absence become curiously positive virtues." Birney is finally viewed as a "spiritual geographer" who "links the generation of Scott and Pratt formally and intellectually with that of bp nichol and Margaret Atwood" and thereby "captures something of the essential progress of the Canadian imagination."
C79 "Canada's Friendly Literary Ambassador." Quill & Quire, Dec. 1972, p. 3. Travelling in Africa and South-East Asia, Birney noted with dismay the lack of Canadian books. Canadian publishers must "grow up and get into international publishing." Canadians don't promote themselves abroad; instead "We are empire hoppers. Hopping from the flea on the pelt of the dying lion into the feathers of the sick eagle."
C80 Gnarowski, Michael. "Birney, Earle, 1904- ." In his A Concise Bibliography of English-Canadian Literature. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973, pp. 12-14. Rev. ed., 1978, pp. 13-15. Concise bibliographical listings.
C81 S[tory]., N[orah]., and P[eter]. S[tevens]. "Birney, Earle (1904- )." In Supplement to the Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature. Ed. William Toye. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1973, pp. 16-18. Updated bio-bibliographical comments.
C82 Seymour-Smith, Martin. "Canadian Literature." In Funk & Wagnall's Guide to Modern World Literature. New York: Funk & Wagnall, 1973, pp. 331-35. Rpt. in American, Australian, British, Canadian, South African, New Zealand. Vol. I of Guide to Modern World Literature. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1975, pp. 360-64. Birney is "the most independent of Canadian writers." He has had "manifold" influences. Scepticism and humanitarianism characterize his vision which is rooted in the Rockies.
C83 Waterston, Elizabeth. Survey: A Short History of Canadian Literature. Methuen Canadian Literature Series. Toronto: Methuen, 1973, pp. 11, 12., 61, 124, 137, 140, 152, 181. Passing references to Birney.
C84 Fetherling, Doug. "Grand Old Man of Poetry Trying to Find Time to Settle Down." Toronto Star, 20 July 1973, p. 32. Birney at sixty-nine -- some biographical material and predictions of books about to appear.
C85 Gardner, Raymond. "Canada Day." Arts Guardian [London, Eng.], 26 Oct. 1973, pp. 19-20. Contains some details about Birney's involvement with the International Labour Party. "Earle Birney is party to an eclectic muse. He has absorbed a split culture, part American, part English, which allows him to move from a villanelle to a sestina and on to something called 'messyjests for a kinageing kitchmess' which concerns the art of straightforward twentieth century wit"
C86 Davey, Frank. "Earle Birney." In From There to Here: A Guide to English-Canadian Literature since 1960. Our Nature -- Our Voices. Vol. II of Our Nature -- Our Voices. Erin, Ont.: Porcepic, 1974, pp. 44-48. "Throughout his career Birney has slowly moved from an adjective-dominated style (e.g. 'Vancouver Lights') to a noun-dominated one ('The Mammoth Corridors'). This move has been related to another general shift in Birney from an argumentative thesis-oriented political poet, dependent on adjectives, to an apolitical, observing, and accepting one, reliant on facts and nouns. In general, his concerns have shifted between 1940 and 1970 from arguing what could be to celebrating what is. His worldview has moved from one of a potentially orderly mancentred universe to a post-modern one of life. His current interest in concrete poetry involves him in a poetry of random relationship and pure noun." "Birney's prose ... [is] much less interesting than his poetry." The Creative Writer is "a glib and condescending work of radio journalism," but The Cow Jumped over the Moon "is filled not only with Illuminating details about his approach to writing but with his own readings of many of his poems."
C87 Nesbitt, Bruce. Introduction. In Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 1-38. Nesbitt's Introduction sketches the critical reactions to Birney's work over the years, and states his intention of presenting in the collection critical commentary in the form of a dialectic, "both to gather together the most valuable critical commentary on Canada's most important poet, and to imply as well the shifting preoccupations of literary criticism in Canada since his first book was published." Nesbitt makes use of letters to and from Birney in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library Manuscript Collection of Birney material. Most of the Introduction consists of "definition and evaluation of Birney's poetry ... his definition of man's place in a world blind to the ironic consequences of the simultaneity of time"; and goes on to explore the variety of ironies in Birney's verse -- "verbal and dramatic irony," "irony of manner as it is expressed by his shifting sense of voice," "philosophic irony," and structural irony.
C88 Mitchell, Paul. "What's So Big about Green? The Land as a Poet's Primal Scream." Ryersonian [Ryerson Polytechnical Institute], 28 March 1974, p. 17. Remarks on Birney's reading at Ryerson, together with comments by Birney on messages in poetry, poetry as art, reading poetry, the city, and the projected autobiography.
C89 Morrison, Joan. News Report of a Speech by Birney. The Calgary Herald, 6 April 1974, p. 12. Speech delivered at a conference of community college teachers from across the country, urging that children be taught both English and French ("There will be no true biculturalism till Canadian children begin to learn two languages from their first school year and continue to work in both languages the rest of their school years") and that Canadian children should learn their own history properly, by looking at it from the perspective of others (such as native Indians).
C90 Bowering, George. "Suitcase Poets." Canadian Literature, No. 61 (Summer 1974), pp. 97-100. A review/article of what's so big about GREEN? and Al Purdy's Sex & Death. In the last decade, Birney "has moved bodily into the area called the interface, between poem and visual art." These interfaces "are often academic" but the "Alphabeings" are "crudely drawn" and "the reader is not similarly energized. The reader is having a story without a storyteller." Bowering likes the abstract concrete poems better than the realistically shaped ones. "There's the thematic contention .... The green of life and nature versus the black of industrial (industrious) greed and death." "Compared with Purdy, he has a very clear line notation, not for a syncopated or moment-oriented rhythm, but for the sure sense that comes when one clause and line find their junctures equal." Ecological conservation is "a lifelong Birney pursuit." But his style is modern, so that "It is as if the Group of Seven paintings could include an oil slick or some sawed-off hill-sides." His style varies from the "bitter ironic mode" to "the satiric poem with the half-found ironies," "political protest" poems, "found" poems, "the most complex tone poem" Bowering has "ever heard," a "transparent poem," and "an amusing sequence of dialect adventure poems."
C91 Purdy, Al. "The Man Who Killed David." Weekend Magazine [The Globe and Mail], 14 Dec. 1974, pp. 16-17. Purdy sketches reactions to the poem over the years, and relates many amusing stories about the poem's "truth." The article is followed by a feature/ biography, with some quotations, expressing Birney's pessimism about Canada's future.
C92 Nesbitt, Bruce. Introduction. In Down the Long Table. New Canadian Library, No. 117. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975, pp. [vii-xv]. Rpt. (revised --"Down the Long Table: A Retrospective Review") in West Coast Review, 9, No. 3 (Jan. 1975), 35-39. A reading (and defence) of the novel. While seeing it as "one of the very few novels concerned with the political milieu of the 1930s in Canada," Nesbitt also perceives its larger themes: "the novel forces each reader to challenge his or her own abilities to understand -- and withstand -- the social forces wrenching us away from our own places and lovers, dissociating both from our individual minds and wills." It challenges the reader "by posing two related questions: what is the cost of emotional integrity, and what is the price of intellectual honesty?" Nesbitt concludes by placing the novel m Birney's overall work: "central to his poetry, poetic drama and Down the Long Table itself is his definition of man's place in a world blind to the ironic consequences of the simultaneity of time. Variations on the nature of that time, then, provide a structural principle; the interplay between time lost and imaginatively recovered, between exorcised ghosts and inescapable memory, is the source of the philosophical irony and Birney's irony of manner. Both, in turn, suggest a further strength of the novel, its verbal irony though Birney's experimentation with varieties of Canadian dialect and speech rhythm, both oral and written."
C93 Walsh, William. "A Stubborn Master: The Poetry of Earle Birney." Lugano Review [Switzerland], NS, No. 1 (1975), pp. 27-30, 32. A sketch of the career of "Canada's finest living poet." "Even in his earliest verse we can see his essential poetic qualifications, a gift for.., graven detail, a flowing empathy and a natural rhythm in which the breathing meets the sense to produce an evolving, living line." Walsh stresses the theme of man's detachment, isolation, "from the supporting earth, from his neighbours, from everything."
C94 Suknaski, Andrew. "Earle Birney's Poetry." Letter. The Globe and Mall, 23 Jan. 1975, p. 7. Suknaski responds to Gary Geddes' review (D75) of Birney's Collected Poems. "I respect him for his tranced wish to be eclectic and a wandering pilgrim exploring places, cultures, myths, and realities beyond our country. I praise him for never having become an acolyte to any single school of poetic thought."
C95 Watson, J. Wreford. "Earle Birney: Maverick or Moulder in Canadian Poetry." Association of Commonwealth Language and Literature Studies, Univ. of Stirling, Scotland. April 1975. Personal reminiscences and a description of the state of Canadian life pre-World War II. Birney is very non-colonial, one of the first. Watson sketches Birney's relation to the land, his doubleness towards it. The article contains an aside on Esther (then Mrs. Birney): "Both she and my wife were social workers and they got to know each other quite well." Watson paints an interesting and flattering portrait of her -- "very sensitive," "highly motivated," a "down to earth realist, with few Illusions, but an immense belief in people." A general sketch of Birney's work follows, of the sort one would expect to be delivered to an audience largely unfamiliar with the subject. Watson concludes: "He has done more than any other writer to bring Canada out of the colonial era, but not satisfied with an era simply of national assertion, he has led Canadians on to an era of the great universals where they are confronted by the myths and must face up to the realities of mankind as a whole."
C96 Bickerstaff, Isaac [Evans, Don.] "A Caricature Gallery of Literary Masters: Earle Birney: Rag & Bone Shop." The Tamarack Review, No. 67 (Oct. 1975), p. 54. One of a series of nineteen caricatures of Canadian men and women of letters.
C97 Bissell, Claude. "Sunny Walks in the Dark." Contemporary Canadian Literature in English, Univ. of Leeds, Leeds, Eng. Nov. 1975. Printed (excerpts) in The Globe and Mail, 29 Nov. 1975, p. 7. "Of all the poets I have discussed, Birney is the one who has given us the most detailed and the most comprehensive view of Canada." Bissell sketches Birney's early poetry, the two novels, the late poetry. "In many ways ... Birney is far more pessimistic about Canada, certainly more direct and searching in his comments, than his young contemporaries. He is the ultimate anti-Canadian Canadian, stubbornly attached to the country, a fierce defender of its literature and its creators, yet constantly enraged by its failure to live up to his hopes."
C98 Gervais, Marty. "Earle Birney -- A Poet with Mixed Memories." The Windsor Star, 12 Dec. 1975, p. 25. Birney caught in motion -- a biographical piece about Birney at seventy-one.
C99 Colombo, John Robert. "Birney, Earle (b. 1904)." In his Colombo's Canadian References. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1976, p. 43. Biographical information.
C100 Farley, T. E. Exiles and Pioneers: Two Visions of Canada's Future 1825-1975. Ottawa: Borealis, 1976, pp. 120, 145, 153. Passing references to Birney.
C101 Hamilton, Jamie. Foreword. In Alphabeings & Other Seasyours. London, Ont.: Pikadilly, 1976, P. 7. "Alphabeings provide a directness, a simplicity and an intimacy with creativity. The juxtaposition of visual stimuli in this kind of poem provides the finished work and simultaneously the starting point, the inspiration -- a total slice of the poet's wit."
C102 McCullagh, Joan. Alan Crawley and Contemporary Verse. Vancouver: Univ. of British Columbia Press, 1976, pp. xxvi, 92. Birney's participation in the magazine Contemporary Verse is detailed, along with his friendship to Alan Crawley. The correspondence between them "brings the period alive in a down-to-earth and intimate way."
C103 Woodcock, George. "Poetry." In Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English. Gen. ed. and introd. Carl F. Klinck. 2nd ed, Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1976. Vol. III, 308-09. A one-paragraph summary of Birney's work since 1960. Woodcock expresses little sympathy for the poetry of the 1970s: "There is much of the poet's poet in Earle Birney ..., grafted on to a less impressive public poet Birney's inclination to mingle histrionics with poetics has indeed tended to obscure the importance of his best work of the 1960s. A desire to remain in the permanent avantgarde (even when the avant-garde was turning full circle and returning to the fashions of half a century ago) induced him to devote excessive energy to the wooing of audiences by a dramatic style of poetry reading and to the kind of typographic trick poetry that older poets (like E. E. Cummings) and younger poets (like bp Nichol) have done more neatly." Ice Cod Bell or Stone and Near False Creek Mouth are the best volumes: "deeply meditative travel poetry, dramatic monologues, autobiographical reflections, told often in a loping colloquial style that is perhaps more truly characteristic of him than any other of his chameleon voices."
C104 Scattergood, Sara. Rev. of film version of "The Ebb Begins from Dream." Film News [N.Y.], 33, No. I (Jan.-Feb. 1976), pp. 13-14. Throughout the film, "it is often impossible to tell whether one is hearing sounds of traffic stopping and starting, or of waves sucking back and forth along a beach .... The words of the text are central to and central in this blend .... "
C105 Richmond, John. "Birney Returns to Political Writing." The Montreal Star, 19 Feb. 1976, p. C15. Autobiographical information about the fall from the tree. The article also talks about his political writing, the University of British Columbia, and favourite Canadian poets.
C106 Gray, William. "Earle Birney's Concrete Architecture." CV/II, 2, No. 2 (May 1976), 45. A short piece about Birney's concrete poetry.
C107 David, Jack. "Crumbling Architecture." Letter. CV/II, 2, No. 3 (Aug. 1976), 52. David objects to the late dating of Birney's "concretism" by William Gray in the previous issue.
C108 MacLulich, T. D. "Earle Birney's 'David': A Reconsideration." CV/II, 2, No. 3 (Aug. 1976), 24-27. MacLulich says that "David has never been interpreted with the care which it deserves" and demonstrates this with various readings. A "consciousness of mortality and of passing time ... is the theme which underlies Birney's poem .... It is not the question of guilt that is paramount, but the insistent finality and inevitability of death." MacLulich regards "David as a projected aspect of the narrator's personality. In other words, the poem concerns a dual Bob-David persona, not two separate people .... David embodies the narrator's romantic longings for escape from the limitations of everyday life and his desire for a spiritual communion with nature." By "rolling David's body over the cliff-face Bob is simultaneously admitting death into his own life and attempting to thrust a knowledge of death out of his consciousness .... What he has actually extinguished forever is his own youthful naive view of the world."
C108a W[alker], S[usan]. "Earle Birney Recalls Ten Lost Years." Quill & Quire, Oct. 1976, p. 27. A detailed portrait of Birney in the 1920s and 1930s, including background information on Down the Long Table and his political beliefs.
C109 "Earle Birney to Visit." Kamloops Express, 6 Oct. 1976, Sec. Entertainments, p. 6. "The concerns of Dr. Birney's adult life have been extensions of his beginnings, close ties with nature made him cry out against pollution long before it became a popular topic. His interest in differing lifestyles and awareness of cultural prejudice has made him an internationalist. Consequently, his writing often concerns itself with the beautiful and the regrettable in other parts of the world."
C110 Aspden, Lorraine. "Birney the Master Still." Kamloops News, 8 Oct. 1976, p. 7. Aspden reports on a public reading by Birney.
C111 Peterson, Leslie. "Down the Road with Birney." The Vancouver Sun , 8 Oct. 1976, Sec. Leisure and TV Week, p. 2A. Feature article. Birney is especially interesting on his sense of what time he has left.
C112 Remai, Rosanne. "Noted Poet Draws Crowd at College." Kamloops Daily Sentinel, 8 Oct. 1976, p. 9. An account of a public reading by Birney.
C113 White, Peter. "Vagabond Poet Earle Birney Is a Hotshot Salesman Too." The Globe and Mail, 20 Nov. 1976, Sec. Entertainments, p. 35. White follows Birney on a reading tour through Southern Ontario.
C114 Heller, Liane. "Earle Birney: The Poet's Still a Fighter." Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 4 Dec. 1976, p. 22. A feature made Interesting by Birney's brief recounting of his struggle as editor of the Canadian Poetry Magazine and at the University of British Columbia to get modern poetry accepted; Birney is a "minstrel" or "troubador," a true performer, something Birney says he aims for.
C115 Tallman, Warren. "Wonder Merchants: Modernist Poetry in Vancouver during the 1960s." In his Godawful Streets of Man [Open Letter, Ser. 3, No. 6 (Winter 1976-77)], 192-94. Birney belongs to a group of eclectic writers, with "that open catholicity of mind which is the most conspicuous and appealing trait of intelligence in Canada." Tallman has high praise for Birney's work at the University of British Columbia in encouraging young poets. Yet Birney "is also the isolato, the loner, and for this reason the wanderer"; for this reason, curiously, Birney feels at home "where he is an alien."
C116 Low, Wai-lan. Introduction. In The Damnation of Vancouver. New Canadian Library Original, No. O11. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, pp. [7]-21. Noting the source of the drama, Low comments on Birney's wider implications: "Vancouver ... becomes in this play the medium through which Birney considers the totality of man's accomplishments and failures. His trial is of a whole culture, of modern man." She traces the individual characters and developments, then concludes by remarking that "Birney's perception of what man has done to the earth is acutely critical, even grim, but in the texture of the whole vision, interwoven m the pattern of fear, guilt, and uncertainty is a strong humanism insisting on the possibility of growth and the autonomy of the human will."
C117 Atwood, Margaret. "Canadian Monsters: Some Aspects of the Supernatural m Canadian Fiction." In The Canadian Imagination: Dimensions of a Literary Culture. Ed. David Staines. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1977, p. 99. Birney's "Can. Lit." is an example of the routine denial of "otherworldly dimensions" by Canadian poets and critics.
C118 Bowering, George. "Possessing the Land: Notes on Canadian Fiction." In The Canadian Imagination: Dimensions of a Literary Culture. Ed. David Staines. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1977, p. 82. Turvey is a "very good novel of comic fantasy" and stems "from a sharp but unrepeatable personal vision." Birney's effort to repeat this in Down the Long Table was "an unsuccessful stab at social realism."
C119 Frye, Northrop. "Haunted by Lack of Ghosts." In The Canadian Imagination: Dimensions of a Literary Culture. Ed. David Staines. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1977, pp. 29, 45. Birney's use of "prosodic devices from Old English to concrete poetry" demonstrates his ability "to look down on Tradition all at once, instead of being pushed ahead of it like the terminal moraine of a glacier."
C120 Pollock, Zailig, and Raymond E. Jones. "The Transformed Vision: Earle Birney's 'David.' English Studies in Canada, 3 (Summer 1977), 223-30. "Through its unity of point of view, dramatic structure, and, especially, imagery, 'David' expresses a central theme m a clear and powerful manner." However, in Section VIII of the poem "there is a serious difficulty... : the emphasis given to David's not very convincing argument in favour of euthanasia." Despite this "failure, .... David's "fusion of narrative, landscape, and theme, through the transformed and transforming vision of its narrator, is one of Birney's most impressive achievements."
C121 Nichol, bp. "Some Notes on Earle Birney's 'Solemn Doodles.'" Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 9 (Winter 1977-78), pp. 109-11. "The 'content' [of Birney's visual poems] lies in the gesture not in the result .... The thematic content of them is transparent, and it is that very transparency that distracts Birney's traditionalist critics and makes them either overlook or dismiss this aspect of his work."
C122 David, Jack, and Caroline Bayard. Introduction. In Out-Posts/Avant-Postes. Ed. Caroline Bayard and Jack David. Erin, Ont.: Porcepic, 1978, pp. 9-14. David and Bayard place Birney in the history of the growth of concrete poetry in Canada. The book is a collection of interviews with eight poets -- four English-Canadian, four French-Canadian.
C123 Stevens, Peter. "Birney, Alfred Earle (1904- )." In his Modern English-Canadian Poetry: A Guide to Information Sources. Detroit: Gale, 1978, pp. 109-14. Contains brief critical introduction and listings of primary and secondary works.
C124 Ward, Bruce. "Passions of an Ageing Poet." Sunday Star [Toronto Star], 21 May 1978, p. D1. This feature, mostly in Birney's words, includes interesting comments on the use of the Orestes myth in "Fall by Fury."
C125 MacRae, Scott. "Birney: Still Burning." The Vancouver Sun, 2 June 1978, p. 4L. A personal view of Birney and his Vancouver reputation.
C126 Cruikshank, John. "Earle Birney: The Shaping of a Canadian Poet." The Whig-Standard [Kingston], 25 Nov. 1978, p. A3. Some useful biographical information about Birney's war-time experience, Marxism, creative writing, poetry reading (his first was in 1941), and freelancing.
C126a Moisan, Clement. Poesie des frontieres: etude comparee des poesies canadienne et quebecoises. Montreal HMH, 1979, pp. 93-96. A comparison of Birney with Alain Grandbois which concentrates on the early poetry.
C127 Marshall, Tom. Harsh and Lovely Land" The Major Canadian Poets and the Making of a Canadian Tradition. Vancouver: Univ. of British Columbia Press, 1979, pp. xiii, 5, 12, 22, 40, 46, 48, 56, 61-66, 67, 68, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 82, 90-91, 99, 101, 112, 123, 125, 126, 142, 154, 168, 176, 179. Marshall finds Birney "perhaps our most doomladen and pessimistic poet of the age .... But it is a magnificent pessimism, a tragic vision lightened by humour, humanity, and irony." Unlike Pratt, Birney has no Christian vision: "his poems afford us sharp glimpses of man dwarfed and often destroyed by an unhuman emptiness .... [l]n 'David' the god's-eye view turns out to be a slug's eye view after all." "'David' deserves its status as Canadian classic." Marshall explores the guilt that "informs most of Birney's work," and finds the compulsion to question the "apparent irrationality of existence" in Birney's poems an outlet for this guilt. Birney says in "Vancouver Lights" that "man has made his own light and will probably destroy himself, too." Birney is sceptical about God and any possibility of "ultimate meaning." "He IS a poet of fact ... rather than a poet of dream .... He begins with fact and proceeds to vision." Even though hope is not a typical theme in Birney's work, "there is much wit, good humour, and high spirits -- often expressed in the form of concrete poems -- in Birney's latest work: this is an aspect of his ample Chaucerian talent."
C128 Walsh, William. "The Shape of Canadian Poetry." Sewanee Review, 87, No. I (Jan. 1979), 90-95. "By unremitting application ... Birney's nature has been scraped and scrubbed free of affectation, presupposition, prejudice, so that it appears in the poetry of these last years in its authentically individual, true, worn state."
C129 Jakes, Lynn E. "Old English Influences in Earle Birney's 'Anglosaxon Street' and 'Mappemounde.' " Journal of Canadian Poetry, 2, No. 1 (Winter 1979), 67-75. Birney's poems "Anglo-Saxon Street" and "Mappemounde .... demonstrate ironic modern adaptations of the Old English poetic tradition." There follows a close reading of the poems with particular attention to etymology. Jakes concludes that " 'Anglo-Saxon Street' uses the form and stylistic devices of Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry to condemn aspects of contemporary life." whereas "'Mappemounde' adopts Old English theme and mood to lament the human tragedy of loss and alienation."
C130 Bowering, George. "Starting at Our Skins: An Interview with Frank Davey." Personal interview. Open Letter, Ser. 4, No. 3 (Spring 1979), pp. 144, 146-47. Davey recalls his undergraduate years at the University of British Columbia, and his encounters with Birney. "When I came to write the book on him, it was a process of discovery for me."
C131 Pollock, Zailig. "Earle Birney." In Profiles in Canadian Literature. Vol. I. Ed. Jeffrey M. Heath. Toronto: Dundurn, 1980, 89-96. Pollock hails Birney as one of Canada's most important poets, and as an "interpreter of Canadian experience." He claims that "Birney's work exhibits the widest range of technique of any Canadian poet" and traces his change in style over the years to show that "technique reflects theme." Pollock argues that Birney moves from an attempt "to find larger patterns and meanings in existence" to a communication of "certain intense experiences in themselves."
C132 Woodcock, George. "The Wanderer: Notes on Earle Birney." In his The World of Canadian Writing: Critiques and Recollections. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1980, pp. 284-302. Rpt. (revised) in Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 21 (Spring 1981), pp. 85-103. Rpt. in Perspectives on Earle Birney. Canadian Perspectives, No. 3. Downsview, Ont.: ECW, 1981, pp. 85-103. Wandering, in Birney's case, can be interpreted not merely as the driving desire to encounter strange landfalls and cultures, but also as the equally driving urge to experiment in the forms of verse and the manipulation of the language and even of nonlinguistic devices in the service of poetry. Poetically, Birney's world of journeying can be divided into three zones. At one end is Canada, at the other end is the world of Asia, of Mexico, and of South America. In between these two extreme zones of the familiar and the wholly exotic, there are the regions which have a deceptive semblance of familiarity, so that the poet is speaking the same language yet suddenly realizes that the varying ways in which that language is used in fact reveal disconcerting differences of background and attitude. Birney's first travels beyond Canada took him to the United States and Europe. These travels provide the basic material for his two works of prose fiction, Turvey and Down the Long Table.
C133 Jones, Joseph, and Johanna Jones. Canadian Fiction. Twayne's World Authors Series, No. 630. Boston: Twayne, 1981, pp. 77, 85, 86-87, 90-116. Passing references to Turvey as a "poet's story."
C134 Djwa, Sandra. "A Developing Tradition." Earle Birney Symposium, York Univ., Downsview, Ont. 14 Oct. 1980. Printed in Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 21 (Spring 1981), pp. 31-52. Rpt. in Perspectives on Earle Birney. Perspectives on Canadian Literature, No. 3. Downsview, Ont.: ECW, 1981, pp. 31-52. Djwa asserts that "there exists a developing tradition in Modern Canadian Poetry" passing through E. J. Pratt in the twenties and thirties and Earle Birney in the forties, on to Margaret Atwood in the fifties and sixties. Through Pratt, Birney was influenced by the dual twenties' ethos of Canadian Romanticism and Darwinism. Consequently, he utilized "both the Romantic and the Realistic mode." This duality culminates in a struggle between "natural" man and "humanistic" man. "Although Pratt rejects Romanticism in theory, his poetic imagination is prevailingly Romantic ... undercut by a new Darwinian Realism." The influence of Pratt on Birney's poetry is great; they agreed that "the Canadian poet has a public role to perform." The dualism theme of "fearful opposition" is seen in Birney's narrative "David"; nature here is both "beautiful and fearful"; there is a "transition from glorious to malignant nature." Djwa further compares Pratt and Birney, saying that they both "see Canadian nature with the same half-fearful eyes .... [B]oth poets tend towards allegories of contemporary life." "'David' is a lament, not so much for the passing of youth.., as it is for the onset of experience."
C135 Fink, Howard. "Earle Birney's Radio Dramas." Earle Birney Symposium, York Univ., Downsview, Ont. 24 Oct. 1980. Printed in Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 21 (Spring 1981), pp. 53-72. Rpt. in Perspectives on Earle Birney. Perspectives on Canadian Literature, No. 3. Downsview, Ont.: ECW, 1981, pp. 53-72. Between 1945 and 1957, during the so-called Golden Age of CBC Radio Drama, Earle Birney set his pen to the writing of fourteen radio plays of which all but one (the "sacreligious .... Third 'Shepherd's Play' ") were produced by the CBC, some on the prestigious Wednesday Night series. None of these plays has had any real critical study in the context of drama, and a first description and critique is in order. The variety (within the radio-genre) is broad: three original plays, two of them, not surprisingly, close to poetry, and in fact published as such ("David" and "Damnation of Vancouver"); a fourplay series of dramatizations from the short stories of Pushkin, Turgenev, and R. L. Stevenson; a dramatization of Conrad's "The Duel" for Wednesday Night, and one of Stockton's "The Griffin and the Minor Canon"; finally, the ambitious adaptations of three early English poems, "Beowulf," "Piers Plowman," and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," all three of which he translated as well as dramatized. With a short introduction to set the context of the CBC Drama Department in the Golden Age, the paper describes the plays and assesses their achievements, as literature and especially as radio drama. Some attempt is made to relate them to Birney's poetry as well. The tentative conclusion is that the dramatic form was a useful experiment for Birney both thematically and in form.
C136 McLeod, Les. "Irony and Affirmation in the Poetry of Earle Birney." Earle Birney Symposium, York Univ., Downsview, Ont. 24 Oct. 1980. Printed in Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 21 (Spring 1981), pp. 130-57. Rpt. in Perspectives on Earle Birney. Perspectives on Canadian Literature, No. 3. Downsview, Ont.: ECW, 1981, pp. 130-57. Birney's essay, "Chaucer's Irony," is inescapably a critical emphasis upon disparity and, so, one form of "satire." Thus he implied that commitment and detachment both are necessary to the ironist. We may say of Birney, as he said of Chaucer, that his age and circumstance combined to produce in him "a permanent dualism." Affirmation and irony, commitment and detachment, coexist throughout Birney's poetry. It is the threat of apocalypse which forces man to confront the radical fact of his alienation from the universe. This provides grounds for affirmation. Birney's recent books, and his whole development towards freedom of form, reflect a willingness to go beyond irony toward affirmation. "Curiously, what irony often teaches," said Birney, "is simply the necessity for a sense of humour." See C150.
C137 Zenchuk, J. B. "Earle Birney's Concrete Poetry." Earle Birney Symposium, York Univ., Downsview, Ont. 24 Oct. 1980. Printed in Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 21 (Spring 1981), pp. 104-29. Rpt. in Perspectives on Earle Birney. Perspectives on Canadian Literature, No. 3. Downsview, Ont.: ECW, 1981, pp. 104-29. What is important in Birney's poetry is not the new visual element in itself, but the interplay of visual and verbal material, the synthesis of two art forms in one. In The Creative Writer, he hails the appearance in recent times of a poetry which seeks to ally itself with dance, music, sculpture, and painting. Birney's "alphabeings" are an attempt to put the word back in touch with the world of sensible things from which it arose and from whence it derives all its power to charm, or, as in ancient times, to ward off spirits, or insure good hunting, to rekindle the word through the marriage of ikon to logos, with the primitive power and feeling of a name. Birney's career as a poet can be understood as the history of his efforts to draw poetry out of the confines of the academy and spread it among the people. Typographical devices are often used in an attempt to recreate the idiosyncracies of human speech, the sound of dialect and idiom. Birney seeks to involve the reader in his poems to the point where he becomes not just its audience, but its coauthor, a collaborator in the creation of it. At this level poetry becomes less a thing and more an event, a process. See C153.
C138 David, Jack. "Writing the Biography of a Living Author." Earle Birney Symposium, York Univ., Downsview, Ont. 25 Oct. 1980. Rpt. in Indirections, 7, No. 2 (Spring 1982), 6-9. David opens with the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle which he uses to discuss the impossibility of writing a definitive biography of a living author. David examines such aspects as the problem of defining what is usable material and what is not when discussing the biography with Birney, and the benefit of Birney's ability to correct false conclusions that might otherwise be drawn.
C139 MacKendrick, Louis K. "Gleewords and Old Discretions: Birney's Benefictions." Earle Birney Symposium, York Univ., Downsview, Ont. 25 Oct. 1980. Printed in Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 21 (Spring 1981), pp. 158-73. Rpt. in Perspectives on Earle Birney. Perspectives on Canadian Literature, No. 3. Downsview, Ont.: ECW, 1981, pp. 158-73. A study of Earle Birney's novels Turvey (1949) and Down the Long Table (1955), and, less intensively, of his short stories and sketches from 1941 to 1964 collected in Big Bird in the Bush (1978). The role of irony in these fictions is given particular attention as is a related subject, Birney's deliberate liberties with narrative conventions. Earlier critical emphasis on his satire, social realism, or fictionalized autobiography is not repeated, but other considerations are of such techniques or matter of style as spoken idioms, Birney's comic perspective, rhetoric, and the radical change in the writer's understanding of fiction between his novels.
C140 Nesbitt, Bruce. "The Political Prose of Earle Birney-Trotsky and the 1930s." Earle Birney Symposium, York Univ., Downsview, Ont. 25 Oct. 1980. Printed in Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 21 (Spring 1981), pp. 174-83. Rpt. in Perspectives on Earle Birney. Perspectives on Canadian Literature, No. 3- Downsview, Ont.: ECW, 1981, pp. 174-83. Nesbitt cites Birney as Canada's "finest living poet" and suggests that Birney's "most overtly politically active days," his "committed Trotskyist" days of the 1930s, are the source of a "political and an aesthetic orientation which is central to much of his later work." Nesbitt traces Birney's Marxist roots from 1932, when, at the age of twenty-eight, he first read Trotsky and thought him "in addition to being a great politician, a great artist." Trotsky argues, and Birney agrees, that "to reject a country's cultural heritage in the name of revolution was to betray the very laws of art, which are beyond politics." Nesbitt assesses Birney's David and Other Poems and Now is Time "not from the perspective of Birney's large social conscience, but with an appreciation of Trotsky's Literature and Revolution and the subsequent fifteen years' ideological struggle led by Trotsky, as Birney saw it .... Birney's principal dramatic characters are revolunonaries ...." The "unity of Birney's work" is seen through Nesbitt's "trial" metaphor, in which "First, an authority is present .... Second, evidence is sifted .... And, finally, judgement is rendered."
C141 Rowland, Beryl. "Earle Birney and Chaucer." Earle Birney Symposium, York Univ., Downsview, Ont. 25 Oct. 1980. Printed in Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 21 (Spring 1981), pp. 73-84. Rpt. in Perspectives on Earle Birney. Perspectives on Canadian Literature, No. 3. Downsview, Ont.: ECW, 1981, pp. 73-84. Earle Birney was among the first to consider irony extensively in Chaucer's works. Chaucer's Irony was the subject of his doctoral dissertation in 1936 and it was followed by three general articles on the native traditions of irony, Chaucer's early use of irony, and the extent to which Chaucer's irony had been noted by scholars in previous centuries. He stressed in these early articles that, although Chaucer learned of attitudes fundamental to irony in Latin and French literature, he had no need to be dependent on foreign sources for his knowledge: he was heir to a long tradition in English mediaeval writings and he was subject to their influence from the beginning. Birney showed that, despite their traditional form, irony was present in Chaucer's earliest lyrics. Birney's subsequent studies on individual tales belonging to the Miller, Friar, Manciple, and Summoner have remained classics of their kind. Of the various modes of irony -- dramatic, cosmic, verbal, manner of narrator or speaker, and structural -- Birney provides brilliant insights into the complex workings of Chaucer's structural irony. Two contentions that were put forward m Birney's original thesis are still being argued: that there was a relationship between Chaucer's ambiguous satire and his ambiguous class position; that Chaucer's publication was primarily oral and was directed to an aristocratic audience.
C142 Ricou, Laurie. "Obscured by Violence: Timothy Findley's The Wars." In Violence in the Canadian Novel since 1960/dans le roman Canadien depuis 1960. Ed. Virginia Harger-Grinling and Terry Goldie. St. John's: Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland, [1981], pp. 126-27. Like most Canadian war novels, Turvey is nonviolent and its protagonist is "so naively unwarlike." While Turvey "turns the heroic or realistic war novel topsy-turvy," it lacks the insight of Catch-22, with which it is compared.
C142a Steven, Laurence. "Purging the Fearful Ghosts of Separateness: A Study of Earle Birney's Revisions." Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews, No. 9 (Fall-Winter 1981), pp. 1-15. "Birney's extensive revising, which reveals developments of theme, poetic stance, and technique, is evidence that he has in no way allowed himself to calcify." Steven examines "Transcontinental" and "Man Is a Snow" and concludes that "the movement of the revisions is generally toward letting the perception develop out of the poetic experience, rather than imposing a specific interpretation on that experience."
C143 Miller, Mark. "Poetry Meets Percussion and the Poet Hits Harder." The Globe and Mail, 4 May 1981, p. 16. "With Birney's reading providing Nexus a focus for their improvisations, the collaboration was quite magical."
C144 "Earle Birney Named Writer-in-Residence." Western News [London, Ont.], 27 Aug. 1981, p. 3. Announcement that Birney will be writer-in-residence at the University of Western Ontario in 1981-82.
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C174 Leonard Graduate Scholar, University of Toronto (1926-27).
C175 Royal Society of Canada Research Fellow, University of London (1934-35).
C176 Governor-General's Award for Poetry for David and Other Poems (1942).
C177 Governor-General's Award for Poetry for Now is Time (1945).
C178 Stephen Leacock Award for Humour for Turvey (1949).
C179 Borestone Mountain (U.S.A.) Award for Poetry, First Prize for "From the Hazel Bough" (1951).
C180 President's Medal, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario (1951).
C181 Canadian Government Overseas Fellow (1953).
C182 Lorne Pierce Gold Medal for Literature (1953).
C183 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1954).
C184 President's Medal, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario (1954).
C185 Nuffield Research Fellow, British Museum (1958-59)
C186 Canada Council Senior Arts Fellowship (1962).
C187 Canada Council Travelling Fellow (1962-63).
C188 LL.D., University of Alberta at Calgary (1965).
C189 Canada Council Senior Award (1968).
C190 Canadian Government Overseas Service Medal (1970).
C191 Canada Council Senior Arts Fellowship (1974).
C192 D.Litt., McGill University, Montreal, Quebec (1979).
C193 Officer of the Order of Canada (1981).
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C1 Davey, Frank. Earle Birney. Studies in Canadian Literature, No. 11. Toronto: Copp Clark, 1971. 128 pp. Davey regards Birney's "rich and complex life" as the valuable source material for his writing. Calling Birney "a 'Sunday' writer," Davey gives a solid biographical sketch -- especially of the politically turbulent 1930s. Birney's late flowering as a poet, his "hiatus" in the 1950s, and his "full commitment to writing" in 1965 are all described. The heart of Davey's book deals with Birney's novels, lyrics, and major poems. For Davey, Down the Long Table is a "better" book than Turvey, and also "more interesting from a writer's viewpoint." The poems are separated into two phases: the didactic, professorial early poems, and the relaxed, colloquial later poems. In all his writing, Davey views Birney as a romantic who is discontented "with the actual, the commonplace, or the status quo." In the later poems, Birney "sets out deliberately m search of exotic subjects ... [and] fascinating places." In summation, Birney is praised for his celebration of "the richness of an individual job"; "what Birney has written proves him to be one of our most talented, conscientious, and versatile poets, if not to date our greatest."
C2 Robillard, Richard. Earle Birney. Canadian Writers, No. 9. New Canadian Library. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1971. 64 pp. Robillard uses close textual analysis to examine the themes and techniques in Birney's poetry; he does not attempt to examine the novels, other works, or Birney's life. Particular emphasis is placed on tracing through the poetry Birney's mythologizing eye. In the chapter on "David," Robillard describes the poem's "acoustic design" -- the break-down of its cadences, the shape of its stanzas, its use of phonesthenic words. Birney's language is paradoxical because his vision is ironic: "David" is "an initiation to the ironies of reality." David, or more properly his own ethos, is Bob's tutor. Thematically and technically, Parts III-V are crucial in preparing the climax. Birney's later poetry reasserts the image of "the seeker." The "earlier poems suggested fixed perspectives; it was a poetry of metaphor, 'conceits', allegories, pastoral worlds from which the speakers saw men at a distance; and also a poetry of urgent but impersonal tones." In the later poetry, "the speakers in the travel-poems come to accept their personalities; and yet they seek myth in their present circumstances."
C3 Nesbitt, Bruce, ed. and introd. Earle Birney. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974. 222 pp. This collection provides reprints of critical articles on and by Birney. This book is an important source of Birney criticism. The articles on Birney are annotated individually throughout Sections C and D of this bibliography. The articles by Birney, "Creativity through Fiction" (B418), Epilogue (B419), "Letter to the Editor" (B404), "Letter to the Editor" (B420), "Madness and Exorcism of Poetry" (B421), "Preface to Four Parts Sand" (B416), "Turvey and the Critics" (B409), "The Writer-Creator in Today's World" (B422), and "The Writing of a Poem: Compulsion and Suppression" (B423) are listed in Section B. Critics include A. G. Barley, review of The Strait of Anian: Selected Poems (D26); Carl Ballstadt, review of Rag & Bone Shop (D62); E. K. Brown, review of Now is Time (D11); Hayden Carruth, "Up, Over, and Out" (C53); Fred Cogswell, review of Rag & Bone Shop (D61); Judith Copithorne, review of Rag & Bone Shop (D57); Roy Daniells, review of The Strait of Anian: Selected Poems (D16); Gustav Davidson, review of The Strait of Anian: Selected Poems (D20); D. J. Dooley, "The Satiric Novel in Canada Today: Down the Long Table" and "The Satiric Novel in Canada Today: Turvey" (C23); Arnold Edinborough, review of Down the Long Table (D124); W. E. Fredeman, "Earle Birney: Poet" (C28); Northrop Frye, review of David and Other Poems (D3) and review of Trial of a City and Other Verse (D28); D. G. Jones, "The Courage to Be" (C64); Lionel Kearns, review of Rag & Bone Shop (D58); Watson Kirkconnell, review of Now is Time (D9); Dorothy Livesay, review of The Strait of Anian: Selected Poems (D15); Malcolm Lowry, review of Turvey: A Military Picaresque (D116); L. A. Mackay, review of The Strait of Anian: Selected Poems (D19); M. H. Martin, review of Now is Time (D10); Lionel Monte#h, "Letter to the Editor" (D21); Bruce Nesbitt, Introduction (C87); bpNichol, "Introduction to pnomes jukollages & other stanzas " (C61); Simon Paynter, review of Trial of a City and Other Verse (D29); E. J. Pratt, review of David and Other Poems (D5); A. W. Purdy, "Letter to the Editor" (C54) and review of Near False Creek Mouth: New Poems (D39); Joe Rosenblatt, "Letter to the Editor" (C55); Robin Skelton, review of Ice Cod Bell or Stone: A Collection of New Poems (D36); A. J. M. Smith, "A Unified Personality: Birney's Poems" (C48); John Sutherland, "Earle Birney's 'David' " (D7); Times Literary Supplement, "Our Reviewer Writes" (D22) and "Two Canadian Poets" (D18); Andy Wainwright, review of Rag & Bone Shop (D60); A. Kingsley Weatherhead, review of Near False Creek Mouth: New Poems (D37); Paul West, "Earle Birney and the Compound Ghost" (C31); Milton Wilson, "Poet without a Muse" (C49) and review of Near False Creek Mouth: New Poems (D40); and George Woodcock, "Earle Birney: Down the Long Table" (C67), "Introduction to Turvey" (C33), and "Turning New Leaves" (C47).
C4 Aichinger, Peter. Earle Birney. Twayne's World Authors Series, No. 538. Boston: Twayne, 1979. 180 pp. A general outline and interpretation of Birney's life and work, focusing especially on the early poems, Turvey, and the poetry since 1960. Duality characterizes Birney's outlook and the reactions his work provokes. His image is that of a gregarious, public man, yet he is "intensely private." His point of view is basically pessimistic and outraged, yet this temper is controlled by a Chaucerian good-naturedness. The critical reaction to his early work was especially uneven -- neglect followed by prize-winning acclaim. An admired and respected poet, Barney has nonetheless remained suspect with many academics because of his pedagogical views and his experimental work. The significance of Birney's work is remarkable given his casual, come-lately efforts at writing poetry. The war experience was particularly formative, broadening his vision and experience, and stimulating a recurring anti-war theme in his work a theme which has persisted since the 1960s with his anti-nuclear stance. Similarly, Birney's globetrotting, his exposure to new cultures and new artistic forms (Black Mountain, Op, and Pop) is reflected by the "thoughtful catholicity" and technical freedom of his more recent work. This last quality emerged particularly in the late 1960s after a perplexing hiatus from poetry-writing in the 1950s. Birney's perspective is dominated by sardonic irony (perhaps a Canadian trait) and satiric vision. But a "persistent note of loneliness" also marks his work and may explain the absence of love poems in his oeuvre. Structurally and thematically, the power of myth is fundamental to Birney. His interest in myth reveals "his belief in a heroic or romantic past." Although he makes extensive use of Judeo-Christian mythology, Birney "has no belief in God," and "the only religion that exists [for him] is that of the honest craftsman working as best he knows how according to a set of rules that derive from his own spirit." In this context, nature, particularly animals, are often portrayed in symbolic, animistic ways. Birney's impressively realistic descriptions of nature affirm Northrop Frye's Idea that, for Canadian writers, the relationship of man to nature is one of " 'stark,' " yet controlled, " 'terror.'" Technically, Birney is an accomplished, adaptable craftsman. Notable are his uses of metre, rhyme, and alliteration, the richness of his imagery, and his "Joycean wordplay." But the willingness to experiment and the constant desire to revise are also evidence of Birney's view that creative writing is an acquired skill which can be taught and which needs constant refinement. In sum, Aichinger regards Birney as a technically virtuosic poet of social conscience: a writer sympathetic to the plight of working man, outraged by uncontrolled industry and violence, and occasionally buoyed, but more often frustrated, by the inadequacy of political recourse to change.
C5 Perspectives on Earle Birney. Canadian Perspectives, No. 3. Downsview, Ont.: Ecw, 1981 183 pp. This collection of critical articles has no editor listed and is a reprint of Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 21 (Spring 1981), a special issue devoted to Birney which includes the proceedings of the Earle Birney Symposium, York University, Downsview, Ontario, 23-24 October 1980. Since each of these articles was originally contributed to the symposium or elsewhere, each article about Birney is listed separately in Section C; Birney's article, "Struggle Against the Old Guard: Editing The Canadian Poetry Magazine," is listed separately in Section B (B440). The critical pieces about Birney include Sandra Djwa, "A Developing Tradition" (C134); Howard Fink, "Earle Birney's Radio Dramas" (C135); Louis K. MacKendric Birney's Benefictions" (C139); Les McLeod, "Irony and Affirmation in the Poetry of Earle Birney" (C136); Bruce Nesbitt, "The Political Prose of Earle Birney: Trotsky and the 1930s" (C140); Beryl Rowland, "Earle Birney and Chaucer" (C141); George Woodcock, "The Wanderer: Notes on Earle Birney" (C132); and J. B. Zenchuk, "Earle Birney's Concrete Poetry" (C137).
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C154 McCallum, Ian, and D. Kerr. "Focus on: Earle Birney, -- 'The Best Living Canadian Poet.'" Personal interview. CJUS-FM Radio, Jan. 1967. Printed ("'Experience Nagging to Be Worded' -- The Art of Earle Birney") in The Sheaf [Univ. of Saskatchewan], 27 Jan. 1967. Rpt. ("Focus on: Earle Birney, -- 'The Best Living Canadian Poet'") in Skylark, 3, No. 3 (April 1967), 6, 12-20. Birney discusses the rapid development of new, experimental forms of poetry in Canada, the growth of a Canadian cultural context and audience, the similarities between the creative act and psychedelic experiences in the sense of illumination, cleansing, and timelessness, the tendencies of art to move towards internationalization, rather than nationalization, and the difficulty of finding a publisher who would not censor Turvey. Birney continually desired to read and discuss literature, including his own. "Throughout all his lectures was the thread of 'the experience nagging to be worded.'" The "experiences that found their way Into a poem were always trivial things that wouldn't let him go." Birney "is one of the few men who can communicate with the younger generation," but this "young man in him trying to get out, may have put him in a position of isolation, in his own generation."
C155 Thody, Ron. "Satyrday Talks with Poet Earle Birney about Print and Pot." Personal interview. Satyrday [Toronto], 2, No. 3 (May 1967), 12-13. Thody maintains that contrary to McLuhan, print is not dead. The evidence of this IS the "sudden on-rush of [small and large] publications [which] is part of the technological revolution." "Censorship was a big thing" when Birney edited The Gazette in Point Grey. "Anything new was taboo." "Today we're coming back into the full language that Chaucer used." Young poets now have "An ability to use the [uncensored] language combined with all sorts of means to circulate this new freedom." The West Coast is the hot-bed of new poetry. "I've never thought of Yorkville as a literary scene, but now it's Improving." In a conference in Edmonton, Birney "advocated the legalization of pot and said it can be very helpful for creative purposes."
C156 Wright, Bunny. "Earle Birney Breaks the News: There's Just No Money in Poetry, Explains Canada's Offbeat Scribe." The Albertan [Calgary], 15 Jan. 1970. Centres on Birney's negative feelings about how poetry is taught in schools.
C157 "Portrait of a Poet." Personal interview. Daily Nation [Nairobi], 28 March 1972, p. 17. Interview/feature on Birney on his African tour. The writer is impressed with Birney's knowledge of African literature, and is appreciative. Birney expresses great admiration for Jomo Kenyatta and for Africa, wishes he had been freer when younger to travel, had had the courage to abandon "this business of being a middle-class professor."
C158 Robson, Merrilee, and Greg Strong. Personal raterview. The Ubyssey [Univ. of British Columbia], 8 Oct. 1976, Sec. Page Friday, pp. 6-7. Birney reminisces about his first starting to write -- for The Ubyssey and The Gazette [Point Grey]. Birney discusses the problems of writing when teaching full-time; how writing Turvey was pleasurable and quick; how writing Down the Long Table was much slower and less rewarding; the problems of book distribution and financing; The Canada Council; and the League of Canadian Poets and the Canadian Writers' Union. Interesting and informative.
C159 David, Jack. "An Elfin Plotting: An Interview with Andrew Suknaski." Personal interview. CV/II, 3, No. I (Spring 1977), 10-12. Suknaski discusses Birney's influence on himself, and Birney's role in the development of concrete poetry.
C160 David, Jack, and Caroline Bayard. Personal raterview. Out-Posts/Avant-Postes. Ed. Caroline Bayard and Jack David. Erin, Ont.: Porcepic, 1978, pp. 107-21. An interview with Birney about his experimental poetry, "poems that are in any way visuals -- audio-visual, let's say, since many of them carry auditory signals as well as visual." Experimentation, Birney relates, has always been a concern of his "from the time I started writing, in respect to the sound, the tones and rhythms of my poetry, the problem of recording on the page the peculiar sound of my own voice." Birney relates his coming into contact, later, with the international "concrete" movement, and his early efforts (largely unsuccessful) to publish experimental poems. He states that "a lot of my so-called visual stuff is simply notation for sound. I have more lately got into purely visual things." The interview includes discussions of the history of TISH, the emergence in 1963 of "the first independent Creative Writing Department in any university m the world!" (at the University of British Columbia), bill bissett and his BlewOintment, the emergence of bpNichol and Coach House Press, Birney's support of these last through his serving on the Canada Council Arts Advisory Committee, Nichol's own practical support of Birney in his experiments, and of computer poetry. An important interview which is followed by three explications of Birney's concrete poetry (pages 122-25): "Figure Skater," "Like an Eddy," and "Canada Council." Also includes a short bibliography, pages 126-28.
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C172 "News and Comments." Skylark, 3, No. 3 (April 1967), 75. Announces Birney's appearance at the SETA convention, Sheldon-Williams Collegiate, Regina, 15 April 1967. Also comments on Birney's Convocation Address, Convocation Hall, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, 12 January 1967.
C173 Goldsmith, Sidney, dir. Espolito. Prod. Tom Daly. Narr. Walter Massey. Camera Kjeld Nielsen. Ed. Lucien Molleau. National Film Board, 1971.
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C161 Dudek, Lores. "Little Review." In his Laughing Stalks. Toronto: Contact, 1958, p. 96. The poem claims Birney has criticized all other poets in his anthology, but that the others, who write short verse, dislike his views.
C162 Dudek, Louis. "Prof. Birney's Lecture." In his Laughing Stalks. Toronto: Contact, 1958, p. 26. Parody of "Canada: Case History."
C163 Salisbury, Ralph. "For Wm. Stafford, James B. Hall and Earle Birney." West Coast Review, 1, No. 1 (Spring 1966), 17-18. "Bill, Jim, and Earle -- these friends in Oregon giving clear directions I can't follow."
C164 Woodland, Bruce. "Earle Birney Usually Right." Saturday Night, July 1966, p. 4. Replying to "John Cabot/Giovanni Caboto" in previous issue.
C165 Bowering, George. "Earle Birney." In his Curious. Toronto: Coach House, 1973, n. pag. Concentrates on Birney's growing simplicity and joy in playing with poetry.
C166 Hamilton, Jamie. "A Letter to Earle Birney." In his About Face. London, Ont.: Pikadilly, 1973, P. 13. Birney's poems are beautiful, so why not leave words like "fuck" to Irving Layton and Leonard Cohen? "Sincerely, / Miss Betty Birch."
C167 Hanson, Joan. "Birney." The Canadian Forum, March 1974, p. 44. "magnificent / old man / Birney / breathing fire / forecasting doom"
C168 Low, Wai-lan. "Alphabirney." In Alphabeings & Other Seasyours. London, Ont.: Pikadilly, 1976, p. 32. Shape poem, done with Birney's full name, of Birney's head.
C168a Everson, Ron. "Carleton University." In his Selected Poems 1920-1970. Ottawa: Oberon, 1978, p. 23.
C168b Kearns, Lionel. "Birneyland." In his Practising Up to Be Human. Toronto: Coach House, 1978, p. 53.
C169 Low, Wai-lan. "Carleton University." In her Carnival. Ottawa: Oberon, 1978, p. 23.
C170 Low, Wai-lan. "Flight from the Sun." In her Carnival. Ottawa: Oberon, 1978, p. 36.
C171 Ballantyne, Deirdre. ["When this watch stops .... "] In her Pigs Are Not All Pork Chops. Toronto: York, 1979, p. 91. "For Earle Birney after hearing him read 'There are delicacies.'"
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C145 Noel-Bentley, Peter C. "A Study of the Poetry of Earle Birney." M.A. Thesis Toronto 1966. Noel-Bentley argues against the critical dichotomy in dividing Birney's early from his late poetry: "Birney's work is all of a piece, with less of a movement in it than might be expected." The development in Birney is that he has come "to regard himself as poet with a certain ironic distance and, perhaps causally, to write in a much freer and more experimental brand of verse." To demonstrate its point, the thesis examines Birney's poetry under two headings -- the use of nature (in its broadest sense) as metaphor, and the expression of one basic theme, "the need for spiritual growth in man if man wants to survive." A concluding chapter treats Birney's revisions (limiting its discussion to several central poems), still the only sustained examination of Birney's process of revision. While outdated, the bibliography still has its uses, in that it attempts to list every publication of every one of Birney's poems (to 1965).
C146 Broustra, Catherine. "Earle Birney: A Canadian Poet." These l'Universite de Bordeaux 1970. Notable for Birney's handwritten comments on his presentation copy.
C147 Wildish, Arthur S. "Humanism in the Poetry of Earle Birney." M.A. Thesis Memorial 1970. "The main thematic concern of Earle Birney's poetry is man and the condition of man; in this sense he is a humanist. Most of the poems attempt to place before the reader a picture of real men, who are seen in all their glory and all their degradation. The forces of evil and the men who unleash them are contrasted with the capacity for good that mankind possesses." Wildish demonstrates his thesis in all Birney's volumes (a chapter given to each) up to Near False Creek Mouth.
C148 Brown, Rod S. "Three Perspectives on the Depression: Morley Callaghan, Hugh MacLennan, Earle Birney." M.A. Thesis Manitoba 1974. Down the Long Table occupies a chapter in an examination of perspectives of "the social, political and economic upheavals of the Thirties." The thesis "illustrates how Callaghan, MacLennan, and Birney have captured the atmosphere of the decade and the feelings of desperation and disillusionment that characterized the Canadian society during the Thirties." The novels of all three authors "must be understood as affirmation of the value and the overriding Importance of the single, lone individual." "Birney's novel chronicles the futile efforts and unfulfilled hopes of the Canadian Communists during the Depression." Brown supplies a good reading of the novel through the character of Gordon Saunders.
C149 Friesen, Sylvia. "The Development of the Ironic Persona in the Work of Earle Birney." M.A. Thesis Manitoba 1975. Friesen traces "the development of the persona that dominates the travel poems of the fifties and sixties from the early poems of the forties, through the novel Down the Long Table, to the volumes published in the sixties." This persona "seeks to understand and find meaning in his new experiences, but rarely knows what to look for, moments of revelation coming upon him almost by surprise. From the reader's point of view, this persona is on an unconscious quest whose end is unknown both to him and to the reader." Down the Long Table is the fulcrum between the two groups of poems: "In the novel, the author finds himself confronted with a multifaceted character who both acts as a mask for Birney himself and is a developed character in his own right," leading m the poetry to "a fully identifiable intermediary between his poem and his reader." The sketch of the development is made thoroughly and convincingly. The final chapter looks at other kinds of first-person narration in Birney's work and at the Austral-asian travel poems of the early 1970s, and concludes that "the Persona of the South American poems remains the most interesting in that he gives expression to a wide scope of intimate emotions."
C150 McLeod, Les. "The Stagehand's Dream: Irony and Affirmation in the Poetry of Earle Birney." M.A. Thesis Calgary 1975. An examination of Birney's irony, both in technical matters and in theme. McLeod makes the only full application of Birney's theoretical work on irony (largely in his Ph.D. thesis and in his later work on Chaucer) to the poetry, with considerable success. He treats the subject chronologically, giving full weight to the emergence of the persona and its accompanying voice in the 1950s, and taking its subject to the publication of the Collected Poems (1975). While sometimes too forceful, the thesis is engagingly argumentative, usually persuasive, and contains some fine insights into "David," "Damnation of Vancouver," "A Walk in Kyoto," "November Walk near False Creek Mouth," and "The Gray Wood Exploding." See C136.
C151 Gray, William Nowich. "Ironic Survival in the Poetry of Earle Birney." M.A. Birney's "most basic continuing concern ... [is] the relation between man and nature." This theme "has grown in complexity" over the years, and Birney "has found in ironic technique the means with which to resolve the interpenetrating duality." Gray treats this theme by focusing on "the major title-poem of each of his four decades of work" "David," "Trial of a City," "November Walk near False Creek Mouth," and "what's so big about GREEN?".
C152 Schelstraete, Nancy. "Earle Birney's Mountain Poems." M.A. Thesis Alberta 1977. "This study defines and examines a selected group of Earle Birney's poems which I call 'mountain poems,' using them as a probe to reveal many of Birney's thematic concerns and poetic techniques." The opening chapters are theoretical in nature, discussing various critical problems in dealing with Birney's poetry. "David" is used as "the touchstone," and the rest of the thesis contains "a detailed analysis of some twenty poems ... with a view to illustrating the interrelationship of form and theme in the mountain poems." Schelstraete arrives at the mountain poems by limiting herself to "poems based on primary experience," in the strictest sense, thus eliminating the satires, the AngloSaxon poems, the concrete poems. Birney is "a particularist, not a generalist," with a "precision of diction." The study cuts "across traditional time lines of 'early' and 'late' Birney." Besides the mountain poems, other groupings are suggested: "Latin-American poems, travel poems, civilization poems, poetry-reading poems, Anglo-Saxon poems, war poems, sea poems, wind and breath poems, poems of balance, dance poems, love poems, Canadian satires and other satiric poems, and escape poems" -- often overlapping.
C153 Zenchuk, Jerry. "Earle Birney's Concrete Poetry." M.A. Thesis Dalhousie 1978. See C137.
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D86 Spires, Randy. Rev. of Alphabeings & Other Seasyours. The Ontarion [Univ. of Guelph], 22 March 1977, p. 31. "Besides being delightful in themselves these Alphabeings serve another useful purpose. They train the eye to look carefully at and appreciate the visual aspect of poetry."
D87 bissett, bill. Rev. of Alphabeings & Other Seasyours. Quill & Quire, April 1977, P. 42. bissett gives high praise from one of the foremost practitioners of concrete poetry.
D88 Zezulka, J. M. "Birney's Latest Poetry May Puzzle Readers." The London Free Press, 23 April 1977, p. 19. A "radical departure from traditional poetic forms and some readers are likely to dismiss this volume as a collection of doodles interspersed with some clever figures drawn with a typewriter. Others ... will welcome this volume as evidence that Birney still has the capacity to be seriously, sometimes delightfully and sometimes even frivolously innovative." The review contains a useful definition. "In concrete poetry, and its typographical and orthographical descendants, the basic composing unit is not the word or even the line, but the whole page."
D89 David, Jack. Rev. of Alphabeings & Other Seasyours. The Fiddlehead, No. 114 (Summer 1977), pp. 145-47. A generally favourable review, made interesting by centring comments on George Bowering's poem, "Earle Birney."
D90 Scobie, Stephen. "Words and Reality." Rev. of Alphabeings & Other Seasyours, by Earle Birney; The Windup Tongue, by bill bissett; and Bill Jubobe, by Bob Cobbing. The Canadian Forum, Nov. 1977, P. 42. Scobie finds the "collection disappointing. It comes with a tedious Foreword by Jamie Hamilton, which invokes cave paintings m the same way that apologists for concrete poetry used to invoke Lewis Carroll and Byzantine acrostics .... The drawings are amusing but slight [and]... this strikes me as an unnecessary book."
D91 Drake, Albert. "Earle Birney." Rev. of The Rugging and the Moving Times: Poems New and Uncollected 1976, what's so big abut GREEN?, Alphabeings & Other Seasyours, and The Cow Jumped over the Moon. Happiness Holding Tank (Okemos, Mich.), No. 18 (1978), pp. 42-43. See D74.
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D127 Pearson, Ian. Rev. of Big Bird in the Bush: Stories and Sketches. Quill & Quire, April 1979, p. 27. "[W]hile the form varies from fiction to reminiscence to essay .... each piece shares the same warm, intelligent sensibility that informs Birney's poetry."
D128 Colombo, John Robert. "The Burning in Birney." Rev. of Fall by Fury and Big Bird in the Bush: Stories and Sketches. The Globe and Mail, 21 April 1979, p. 40. "This may be an eclectic collection, but binding the contents together is Birney's great ear for accent and dialogue and his feeling for the acoustic and kinetic qualities of language."
D129 Hoskins, Cathleen. "Earle Birney's Prose Offers Delights for Any Reader." Rev. of Big Bird in the Bush: Stories and Sketches, by Earle Birney; and The Visitors Have All Returned, by Marilyn Bowering. Toronto Star, 28 July 1979, p. B7. This collection offers "delights for anyone who reads at all." She singles out "Mickey Was a Swell Guy" and "Joe Harris" for special mention.
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D1 Deacon, W. A. Rev. of David and Other Poems. The Globe and Mail, 7 Nov. 1942, p. 10. "The great Canadian poem of the war has been written. Here is the ringing note we have awaited, the Inspired word that speaks for us all as In Flanders Fields spoke for us in the last war."
D2 Sandwell, B. K. "Passion and High Skill." Saturday Night, 14 Nov. 1942, p. 29. "He has a highly original, and successful technique; and has something Important to say with it. "His choice of unusual and often slightly ugly words for their thought-provoking effect is uncanny; but even more striking is his mastery of structure, which enables him to solidify every poem and round It off with a line or distich which, because so perfectly led up to, gives it an air of absolute completion, like the cadences at the end of a symphony."
D3 Frye, Northrop. Rev. of David and Other Poems. The Canadian Forum, Dec. 1942, p. 278. Rpt. in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 39-41. Very favourable; Birney is "a sharp and humorous, observer," "best when least directly satiric." His only weakness is a "tendency to a rather facile animism." On technical matters, "the most obvious technical influence ... is the alternative line and kenning of Old English."
D4 Clarke, George Herbert. Rev. of David and Other Poems. Queen's Quarterly, 49 (Winter 1942), 397. A short notice. "The title-poem of Mr. Birney's Dared has terrible intensity. It is deeply tragic in tone and undertone, pause and movement -- a poem to remember."
D5 Pratt, E. J. Rev. of David and Other Poems. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 6, No. 3 (March 1943), 34-35. Rpt. in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 41-42. Pratt admires the "artistry by which humour, satire, wit, and tragedy are made the vehicles for the emotional responses." "David" is "a masterly piece of work fashioned out of simple material. It has the directness and spontaneity of musical speech -- the traditional hall-mark of lyricism -- combined with the strength and stride of good narrative." Pratt makes special note of the "rhythms, pauses, bursts of speed, retardations, and the cunning use of the 'rove-over' lines" and of the "ironic foreshadowing" in the poem.
D6 Brown, E. K. "Letters in Canada: 1942. Poetry." University of Toronto Quarterly, 12 (April 1943), 305-07. Brown lauds "David" as a new kind of narrative, "matter-of-fact in substance also." As for the rest of the collection, "there is authentic originality; he owes nothing at all to earlier Canadian writing and scarcely anything -- when he is fully himself -- to recent verse anywhere else. He has a harsh and intense sensibility which make his pictures and rhythms fresh and luring, and his technical accomplishment is brilliant, at times bewildering."
D7 Sutherland, John. "Earle Birney's 'David.'" First Statement, 1, No. 9 (n.d.), 6-8. Rpt. in Earle Birney. Ed. and Introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 43-46. Sutherland begins by decrying the movement away from poetry of the land in contemporary poetry (though agreeing with the impulses behind it); "Of all our young modernist poets, ... [Earle Birney] is the only one who has made consistent use of a Canadian landscape .... All the best work in this volume ... makes use of the Canadian environment." Birney's "conversational manner" has a "tendency to be in some manner formalized," and is a very basic aspect of Birney's "mind and personality."
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D124 Edinborough, Arnold. Rev. of Down the Long Table. The Whig-Standard [Kingston], 17 Dec. 1955, P. 10. Rpt. in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 97-98. The novel "has a somewhat creaky framework," with a confusion in Birney's mind about "whether he is writing about the thirties or whether he is writing about the fifties." Edinborough notes that "the technique of the novel is a little old-fashioned, too, despite the publisher's blurb." Singled out for praise, as "Mr. Birney's great gift," is "the invention of peculiarly distinctive dialogue," and Edinborough recommends that the book "be read for its ideas and its dialogue."
D125 Dowson, Ross. Rev. of Down the Long Table. Workers Vanguard [Toronto], 1, No. 8 (July 1956), 2. Birney "has smeared and violated the most creative period in his life" when, "along with the best of his generation," he identified himself with "the revolutionary socialist movement." "But that his self identification with the marxist movement was not the whole man is revealed in the vicious, malicious, scurrilous picture he draws of the radical movement of the thirties and its most farseeing section, the Trotskyites, whose struggle against the Stalinization of the communist movement is now so brilliantly being vindicated."
D126 Fulford, Robert. "Radical Birney Resurfaces with Depression Novel." The Citizen [Ottawa], 8 March 1975, p. 76. "It would be hard to defend the book simply as a work of literary art. Birney, the grand old man of Canadian poetry, is not an expert novelist." But the novel contains much value in documenting "some of the most interesting events and impulses of the Canadian Depression"; "everyone interested in the modern history of Canada will find this an absorbing book."
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D108 Reaney, James S. Rev. of Fall by Fury & Other Makings. London Free Press, 28 Oct. 1978, p. B4. "Fall by Fury neither rages against nor resigns itself to the dying of the light. The tone here is often one of joyfully serious wonder, especially with the love poems."
D109 Heckman, Grant. Rev. of Fall by Fury & Other Makings. The Whig-Standard [Kingston], 18 Nov. 1978, p. A16. "Birney's perennial youthful energy and breadth of vision inform the entire collection, but the book's core is the many love poems .... "
D110 McHugh, Alexandra. Rev. of Fall by Fury & Other Makings. The Gazette [Montreal], 3 Jan. 1979. "...The poems for and about Wai-lan are sparse, delicate, careful and aching in their intensity. In a time when love and humor both fall so easily into cynicism and bitterness, Birney's poems strike a rare tone of sweetness which never becomes sentimental."
D111 Barbour, Douglas. Rev. of Fall by Fury & Other Makings. Dalhousie Review, 59 (Spring 1979), 170-71. This is "a powerful collection by a dynamic older voice .... Though his fall from a tree in 1975 has slowed Birney down when he walks, it hasn't affected his poetic flights at all, unless by reminding him of his mortality it has respired him to write, now, while he still can. The title poem records that fall with great objectivity, until the final lines with their dreamy offer of escape from gravity by night. Indeed, many of these new poems boldly enter the dark realms of dream and unconscious knowledge by ways Birney has seldom attempted before .... The poems of Fall By Fury, in all their wide range, from a Chaucer-like look at remembered comrades from youth, through various games with words and visions of the wide world he still travels, to the dreams and love he now holds so dear, are the product of a profoundly comic vision, wise with the wisdom only a long and fully lived life can bring. It is a fine, humane collection, full of gratitude for breath to still write poems, such poems as we are grateful to be able read."
D112 Colombo, John Robert. "The Burning in Birney." Rev. of Fall by Fury & Other Makings and Big Bird in the Bush. The Globe and Mail, 21 April 1979, P. 40. The book is "remarkable [because] almost half the poems are unabashed poems of praise to the power of love. There is a burning in Birney that will not splutter out."
D113 Nicholl, Sharon. Rev. of Fall by Fury & Other Makings, by Earle Birney; The Tightrope Dancer, by Irving Layton; and Hanging In, by Raymond Souster. The Fiddlebead, No. 123 (Fall 1979), pp. 103-09. "His love poems, some of which seem a little mooncalfish to one too cynical or too old to appreciate fully them, are beautifully written, with a generosity and awareness that are refreshing."
D114 Edwards, Mary Jane. "Falling." Canadian Literature, No. 86 (Autumn 1980), pp. 113-14. "Falling, as the title suggests, is a central image" in the book. "With his references to Hubris and 'the Furies,' his memories of other climbs over the 'mountains of youth... Temple... Edith,' and his fall, Birney creates a poem which recalls 'David.' In 'David,' however, the chief character falls to death; the first-person narrator, into youth-less, mountain-less life. In 'Fall by Fury,' the first-person narrator falls to live and recreate his climb, his fall, and his dream of running again .... "
D115 S[andwell]., B. K. "No Prolifaxis." Saturday Night, 22 Nov. 1949, p. 26. Since Birney has subtitled his book "a picaresque novel," he has eliminated "all need for plot and gives him[self] unlimited license for situations and characters."
D116 Lowry, Malcolm. Rev. of Turvey: A Military Picaresque. Thunderbird [Univ. of British Columbia], Dec. 1949, pp. 24-26. Rpt. in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 73-75. While acknowledging that, "as may be expected," the novel "has faults," Lowry announces that "with Turvey, unexpectedly, silently, and from a strange source, a classic has burst into our midst." "It is masterly for one thing because [Birney] universalises that army to the extent of making it seem all armies, and the struggle for adjustment to it like any individual's struggle to adjust himself to a group, while at the same time never letting you forget that it is the Canadian army, which had, in point of fact, during this last war, its own particular private struggle for collective integrity." Lowry raises the point of the novel's being considered "obscene," and argues against any such attitude. Turvey himself is an image of Canada: "all the Canadian characters, bad or good as they happen to be, all seem to add up to Turvey. Which is another way of saying that they add up to Canada, adolescent, energetic, large, loutish, noisy, good hearted, anxious to please, eternally hopeful, and eternally put upon."
D117 P[ercy]., H. R. "Rescue from Limbo." Rev. of The Nymph and the Lamp, by Thomas H. Raddall; Turvey: A Military Picaresque, by Earle Birney; Gram, by Robert J. C. Stead; and Nonsense Novels, by Stephen Leacock. Canadian Author & Bookman, 39, No. 2 (Winter 1963), 19-20. Percy observes that Turvey succeeds because of the "telling juxtapositions and skillful timing, the nice balance.., between force and pathos."
D118 Rev. of Turvey: A Military Picaresque. The Dalhouse Review, 43 (Winter 1963-64), 595, 597. "Turvey is still delightful"; "Birney's grasp of the ridiculous is sure."
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D102 Novik, Mary. "Birney's Still Soaring." The Vancouver Sun, 30 Dec. 1977, p. 29L. "As I read through the poems, I was impressed not only with Birney's skill and power as a poet, but also with his language, his bountiful humanity."
D103 McLeod, Les. Rev. of Ghost in the Wheels: Selected Poems. In Canadian Book Review Annual 1977. Toronto: PMA, 1978, p. 154. "The 'Ghost in the Wheels' of the title is from one of Birney's imitations of ancient Anglo-saxon, in which an oil refinery is compared to a dragon. The metaphor suggests modern man's epic struggle with the dragon technology, and while Birney fears we, like Beowulf, may be lost, he also celebrates history, man's awareness of himself, which allows him to struggle and affirm."
D104 Fletcher, Peggy. "Poetic Travelling: Some True/ Some New." Rev. of Ghost in the Wheels: Selected Poems, by Earle Birney; Of Glorious Leos, by Bernard Narvey; Poetic Melange, by Constance Campion; and Legendary Acts, by John Ower. Canadian Author & Bookman, 53, No. 3 (April 1978), 40-41. "Birney's vision is far-reaching and his voice is articulate and strong when protesting the human assault on his environment. Yet his irony and wit allow him to deliver his caustic message without injuring his poetic theme."
D105 Solecki, Sam. "Birney and Newlove Selected." Rev. of Ghost m the Wheels: Selected Poems, by Earle Birney; and Fat Man, by John Newlove. The Fiddlehead, No. 118 (Summer 1978), pp. 146-48. "Many of the early poems from the forties are here, almost defiantly so, even though ... they have dated very badly." The wide range of styles indicates that "there is no distinctive Birney style or voice .... Repeatedly to modernize one's poems is to indicate, implicitly, that originally they were inadequate."
D106 Woodcock, George. Rev. of Ghost in the Wheels: Selected Poems. Ontario Review, No. 9 (FallWinter 1978-79), pp. 95-98. "... Birney's best poems were those stirred by an inspiration strong enough for them to be quickly completed, and those which allowed themselves to be worked on over the years were and remain the less successful." Discussing the choice of poems in this volume, Woodcock observes that "Birney may sustain his ritual antagonism to the critics, but in this selection he shows himself a first-rate self-critic."
D107 West, David S. "Old Wine, Broken Bottles, Cut Glass." Canadian Literature, No. 80 (Spring 1979), pp. 109-12. One finds more of what one wants, a wide range of Birney's best and most poetic work. Also of interest is the Preface, where Birney shares several anecdotes about the incidents that inspired such poems as 'Meeting of Strangers,' 'Twenty-third Flight,' and 'Epidaurus.'"
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D31 Weaver, Robert. Rev. of Ice Cod Bell or Stone: A Collection of New Poems. The Canadian Reader [Toronto], 8 (June 1962), pp. 4-5. The new book marks a shift in Birney's poetry, noticeably because of "its international flavour." Birney's "eclectic" tendency is noted: "He has tried out a seminar-full of the techniques of his art." The poetry "is quieter ... [and] the most mature and disciplined" that Birney has published.
D32 Dudek, Louis. "A Tremendous Sense of Delight." The Montreal Star, 26 May 1962, p. 12. "I have finished the book with a shout of 'More! More!' and with a tremendous sense of delight in the typographical experiments, the humorous poems, the intelligent insights into our geography and history .... "
D33 Sergeant, Howard. "Poetry Review." English [London, Eng.], 14, No. 81 (Autumn 1962), 118-19. "The most moving poem In this collection, El Greco: Espolio, could have been written anywhere at any time. Although his two experiments with typography hardly rise above the level of Interesting gimmicks, this magnificently produced volume as a whole will serve to increase his poetic stature."
D34 Weatherhead, A. Kingsley. Rev. of Ice Cod Bell or Stone: A Collection of New Poems, by Earle Birney; and Travelling Through the Dark, by William Stafford. Northwest Review [Univ. of Oregon], 6, No. 1 (Winter 1963), 121-24. The reviewer notes that "the order in which the poems ... are arranged is frequently significant ...." "The Bear on the Delhi Road" is called "a perfect poem," and the next poem in the collection, "Captain Cook," demonstrates how "myth and reality come ironically together." Finally, Weatherhead remarks that "... there is something reminiscent of Chaucer -- the Chaucer of the roaring force and the saintly polinade, the tales of Miller and Prioress -- in the wide range of this volume."
D35 Guy, E. F. Rev. of Ice Cod Bell or Stone: A Collection of New Poems. The Dalhousie Rewew, 43 (Autumn 1963), 429, 431, 433. Guy praises Birney's "ability to etch a scene with precision and clarity. The sensibility that is at work ... expresses far more than a social statement, important as this may be .... Birney is interested in the mind and emotions of man as they operate to elude, mislead, escape, as they create illusion and confuse appearance and reality."
D36 Skelton, Robin. "Canadian Poetry?". The Tamarack Review, No. 29 (Autumn 1963), pp. 71-73. Rpt. (Rev. of Ice Cod Bell or Stone: A Collection of New Poems) in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 129-30. Skelton argues that Birney's reputation is vastly overrated. "Birney is a clever writer, but little more. He goes in for superficially exciting verbal tricks, playing with Joycean devices .... producing rather silly typographical eccentricities..., and frequently creating lines which have a glossy avant-garde surface but little else. His work is veneer and marquetry, and almost never whole wood .... Birney is crude, obvious, and rhythmically dull."
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D50 Burns, Gerald. Rev. of Memory No Servant. Southwest Review [Dallas], 54 (Winter 1969), 95. Burns likes especially the way Birney's "poems aren't afraid to sprawl." "Our readers may be interested to know that his South American poems ('Cartagena De Indias') are the best I've read." "In their way, the poems from the sixties are better than anything since Hugh MacDiarmid, if one imagines that great writer crossed with (say) Rexroth."
D51 Cushman, Jerome. Rev. of Memory No Servant. Library Journal, 15 Jan. 1969, p. 197. A brief comment which notes that this is Birney's first American-published volume.
D52 Drake, Albert. Rev. of Memory No Servant. Western Humanities Review [Univ. of Utah], 23 (Spring 1969), 179-80. Drake bemoans the difficulty in getting hold of Birney's work in the United States, the Selected Poems having no American rights, and calls for a collected American edition.
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D37 Weatherhead, A. Kingsley. "Back to Canada." Northwest Review [Univ. of Oregon], 7, No. 1 (Spring-Summer 1965), 86-89. Rpt. (Rev. of Near False Creek Mouth: New Poems) in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 136-40. Weatherhead singles out "November Walk near False Creek Mouth" for special praise ("I don't think he has ever written better") and long comment: "it speaks and will later speak with some precision to the mood generated by this moment in history: they will say (please God, even we may say), This is how it was."
D38 Colombo, John Robert. "Poetic Ambassador." Canadian Literature, No. 24 (Spring 1965), pp. 55-59. This is Birney's "most striking, and perhaps his most accomplished collection .... The poetry is like the man -- youthful without being young, mature without being mellow, formal and fluid at the same time, neither academic nor beat, not entirely mannered yet not completely natural, neither totally ironic nor totally mythic -- somehow a human (and somewhat haphazard) arrangement of workable incompatibles." Colombo gives a warm and intelligent critique of the volume. "His control of the vernacular, his choice of the exact adjective and powerful verb, keep the tone taut and muscular."
D39 Purdy, Alfred W. "A Pair of 10-Foot Concrete Shoes." The Fiddlehead, No. 65 (Summer 1965), pp. 75-76. Rpt. (Rev. of Near False Creek Mouth: New Poems) in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 132-36. Birney's "older poems dealt with the particular, universalizing it, allowing us to glimpse the desperation behind much of human existence. Only now and again could one see the poet himself, moving behind and among his poems." In this new volume, "The situation and feeling have become personal. What Birney calls 'rhetoric' in early books has disappeared. He is 'reside' these poems, though the abstract and conceptual mind retains its full and active force." Refusing "strongly the temptation to say earlier or later poems were/are better," Purdy comments "that here's another chapter in the continuing wonder of being Earle Birney."
D40 Wilson, Milton. "Letters in Canada, 1964. Poetry." University of Toronto Quarterly, 34 (July 1965), 349-51. Rpt. (Rev. of Near False Creek Mouth: New Poems) in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 133-36. "Certainly if I wanted to convince a reader of contemporary poetry that Birney was worth his attention, this is the book I would give him. Not that there's any futile attempt to compete with a new poetic generation on its own terms. But age has opened his sensibilities, extended his range, deep-ened his patterns, strengthened the authenticity of his voice. Birney is the exception to the Canadian rule that poets don't mature (they just repeat themselves or give up). He remains recognizably the same poet, but both his role as a human being and his functioning as a writer seem more secure than ever before." In considering Birney's development, Wilson refers to the "landscape and manscape" of Birney's early poetry, "layered with the discontinuous steps of geological and cultural time, haunted by the ghosts of unavailable primitive myth and the visions of unachieved humanity."
D41 Jones, B. W. Rev. of Near False Creek Mouth: New Poems. Queen's Quarterly, 72 (Winter 1965-66), 696. Jones sees Birney's "voice both free and restrained, perfected, delivering right phrases in right order." He notes "the controlling image.., of the traveler, sensitive, witty, objective yet involved, seeing himself in the context of motion and change."
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D8 "The Poet and the Poetess." Reading [Toronto], 1, No. 1 (Feb. 1946), 71-72. The reviewer prefers this book to David; "with the exception of 'Anglosaxon Street' there's practically none of that tortuous verbiage that made his earlier poems so horny and crusted." The war poems, however, lack insight and experience.
D9 [Kirkconnell, Watson.] Rev. of Now is Time. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 9, No. 3 (March 1946), 35-36. Rpt. in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, p. 57. Published anonymously, this review occasioned an angry reply from Birney, not published until1974 (B420). "The intellectual power is evident as ever, but the style has gone to seed in contortions of metaphysical modernity. Our clique of Leftist poseurs will rejoice, but others will regret the self-frustration of obvious talent." Kirkconnell does not care for the "mood of ... intense bitterness" where "even the alternative of religion" is associated "with softening of the brain."
D10 Martin, M. H. Rev. of Now is Time. The Canadian Forum, March 1946, pp. 292-93. Rpt. in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 55-57. Martin makes suggestive comments in comparing this with the first volume: "In the title poem of David an implacable nature was a stage for the action and in a sense its protagonist. Now it is man's implacability, the war and its tragedies, and a sense of responsibility is involved." The book contains "a profounder sense of social values."
D11 Brown, E. K. Rev. of Now is Time. University of Toronto Quarterly, 15 (April 1946), 272-73. Rpt. in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, PP. 54-55. In comparing briefly F. R. Scott and Birney, Brown sees "many resemblances. Mr. Birney professes the same belief in mind," animated by "a social idealism." The "essential differences are that Mr. Birney is more dramatic, and more bitter in temper," not always to good effect, though often successful in emphasizing the outrage.
D12 Crawley, Alan. "Editor's Notes." Contemporary Verse, No. 17 (April 1946), pp. 17-18. "There is a new power in Mr. Birney's writing. The late poems show this in the smoothness of line from which grit of hard unusual words has been cast out and in the strong noun unpropped by adjective."
D13 Clarke, George Herbert. Rev. of Now is Time. Queen's Quarterly, 53 (Summer 1946), 266. A brief notice, very favourable; Birney is "a poet to trust and salute."
D14 "Poets and the Machine." Times Literary Supplement, 31 Aug. 1946, p. 416. Birney is "an unsentimental poet, [and] his emotions contain a healthy but personal nostalgia.... " The poetry reflects "a direct expression of a widely embracing mind."
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D53 Stainsby, Donald. "Books and Bookmen." The Vancouver Sun, 20 Nov. 1970, p. 34A. Stainsby stresses the auditory element in Birney's work: "He believes in a fundamental concept -- that written language is but a representation of speech, that the ear is all. If his later poems seem to dance around upon the page it is not mere whim or precious fancy but an earnest effort to get them in our ears, where poems often all belong."
D54 Suknaski, Andrew. Rev. of pnomes jukollages & other stunzas and Rag & Bone Shop. Vigilante [Calgary], No. 3 (April 1971), pp. 46-47. Suknaski reviews first a reading by Birney on 19 February 1971, in Banff, with beautifully matched slides by Don Beer. Birney's help to young poets in concrete poetry is praised. "Birney's intermedia use of art and language begins as early as bp's or bissett's experimentations (& likely before -- beginning with drawings combined with 'straight' poetry). One could call Birney the father of concrete poetry in Canada."
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D55 Garnet, Eldon. Rev. of Rag & Bone Shop. The Telegram [Toronto], 26 Dec. 1970, p. 32. "Birney's typographic arrangements, if one wanted, could be interpreted as mirroring the disorder and the chaos in the modern world; in the intentional disorder of the poems the chaos of modern life is reflected. It works. But I prefer to think of Birney as a gamesman who arranges visual puzzles on the printed page."
D56 Stevens, Peter. "Off-Hand Dribbles or Wisdom's Joy." The Globe and Mail, 23 Jan. 1971, p. 17. While not totally sympathetic with all the typographical experimentation, Stevens writes a very favourable review of the volume, and has some warm things to say about Birney: "The respect for life, peace, brotherhood and joy and the disgust with war, pomposity, self-righteousness and literary charlatanism is everywhere apparent."
D57 Copithorne, Judith. Rev. of Rag & Bone Shop. Georgia Straight [Vancouver], 3 March 1971, p. 21. Rpt. in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 182-84. One of a two-part review of Rag & Bone Shop with Lionel Kearns. Copithorne's is a more personal review, but very close in what she has to say about Birney's strengths to what Kearns says.
D58 Kearns, Lionel. Rev. of Rag & Bone Shop. Georgia Straight [Vancouver], 3 March 1971, p. 21. Rpt. in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 179-82. One of a two-part review of Rag & Bone Shop with Judith Copithorne. Kearns's very favourable, intelligent review, with a full summary of contents, is a traditional review in the best sense. He stresses Birney's good humour, his range, his humanity.
D59 Suknaski, Andrew. Rev. of pnomes jukollages & other stunzas and Rag & Bone Shop. Vigilante [Calgary], No. 3 (April 1971/, pp. 46-47. See D54.
D60 Wainwright, Andy. "Two Hoary Old Poets." Saturday Night, May 1971, pp. 25-26, 27. Rpt. (Rev. of Rag & Bone Shop) in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 177-79. Birney "recreates" his journeying experiences and their atmospheres with "skill and obvious delight," treating his world as "animistic." Warnwright criticizes Birney's concrete poetry, seeing it as a manipulation of this animism: "Concrete poetry, in Birney's case, is a placing of style before content, and the content suffers as a result."
D61 Cogswell, Fred. "Nearer the Bone." Canadian Literature, No. 49 (Summer 1971), pp. 96-98. Rpt. (Rev. of Rag & Bone Shop) in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Crucial Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 175-77. While thinking Birney derivative in his forms, Cogswell praises Birney's professionalism: "He can always be trusted to put old wine (which looks like new wine because it is made today) into old bottles (which look like new bottles because no one has seen them in a long time and because he has subtly adapted them to the styles of our time) in such a way that every draft we take in is to us a new and heady experience." The concrete poems are "always interesting, but the failures, I feel, tend to outnumber the successes."
D62 Ballstadt, Carl. Rev. of Rag & Bone Shop. The Canadian Forum, July-Aug. 1971, pp. 36-37. Rpt. in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 173-75. Ballstadt suggests that visual effects and ideas greatly influence the book and make it fun, but that Birney's strengths as a poet "are still reflected in the narrative and meditative modes in which his ability as keen observer and listener and his lively sense of the ironic and ridiculous in human behavior are well revealed." A great part of the review is devoted to a discussion of Birney's travel poems, poems which "reflect general characteristics of people or focus on geographical features and towns seen from a &stance." Ballstadt sees Birney as a "shrewd and alert observer" who uses his foreign travel records as "opportunities for walks into brotherhood."
D63 Speaker, William. Rev. of Rag & Bone Shop. Scrip [Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Eng.], No. 38 (1971-72), p. 101. "Poems, it has been said, begin in delight and end in wisdom; and the pieces in Rag & Bone Shop seem to fill the prescription -- at any rate, one begins reading with delight, and ends in rather uncomfortable self-awareness. Here is a record of the insights of a cultivated, quirky, sardonic mind, revolved and Irreverent, set out in a dozen different modes of verse -- so that the book is worth having as a sampler of style alone."
D64 Tsubouchi, David. Rev. of Rag & Bone Shop. Waves, 1, No. 1 (Spring 1972), 8-11. While not entirely happy with all the poems, Tsubouchi likes the volume very much and sees the failures as necessary in a book of experimentation: "Birney has allowed his imagination to go wild without any particular stylistic restrictions." Tsubouchi ranks "like an eddy" with Lionel Kearns's "Birth of God .... as one of the better concrete pieces done by a Canadian."
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D42 Waddington, Miriam. "Poetry of a Frontier World." The Globe and Mail, 21 May 1966, Sec. Magazine, p. 13. Waddington singles out Birney's language for special praise, and links it with a sense of his being emblematic of his country: "He is one of the most brilliant, innovative and original users of language that we have ever had in Canada .... Birney's language is tough, spacious, witty and ironical, but it is also cold and melancholy, as narrow and dense as the distribution of our population, and almost totally devoid of sweetness .... But Birney should not be read for sweetness, he should be read for northness, to find out what the Canadian spirit is really like." "November Walk near False Creek Mouth" is "the finest poem of his maturity."
D43 Marshall, Tom. Rev. of Selected Poems 1940-1966. Queen's Quarterly, 73 (Winter 1966), 608-09. "Again and again his poems afford us sharp visions of men dwarfed and often destroyed by an unknown emptiness." His poetry "suggests a spirit of involvement in mankind as well as a commitment to detached craftsmanship."
D44 Murray, Rona. Rev. of Selected Poems 1940-1966. Outposts [England], No. 74 (Autumn 1967), pp. 23-24. Birney is "Canada's foremost poet." "The obvious value of a selected edition is that in it we may see the whole man, and the man who emerges from these pages is one of intellectual and emotional complexity, of vigour and drive, irascibility, humour, compassion, anger, tenderness. A man who enjoys experimentation in both language and typography, who has found many forms in which to express his reaction to living: narrative, lyric, philosophic, satiric. It is the extraordinary range and variety which first impresses the reader."
D45 Helwig, David. Rev. of Selected Poems 1940-1966. Quarry, 16, No. 2 (Jan. 1967), 43-44. Birney "Almost always deals with men on the move. These are poems from the notebooks of Ulysses." More interestingly, Helwig observes, "Birney is pre-eminently a landscape poet, but the landscapes are felt ...."
D46 Nesbitt, Bruce. "Five Aspects of the Canadian Vision." Poetry Australia, No. 14 (Feb. 1967), pp. 37-41. "Birney was -- and is -- grappling with the problems of new speech patterns in an electric society." In his long poem, "November Walk near False Creek Mouth," the "atmosphere of taut expectancy nearly convinces me that this IS the dominant mood of Canadian poetry."
D47 Bradshaw, Thecla J. "Can He Change His Role and Unearth the Riches There ... ?". Skylark, 3, No. 3 (April 1967), 8-10. "Birney moves us a little," but he dwells on the past and gives "No picture of his present circumstance .... " He "has used every tool of mind, of word, of artisan. But he omitted to use the intuitive faculty that perceives, conceives and gives birth to a living poem." "Numbness, boredom, confusion: the sum total of reader-reaction" when Birney superimposes moods, rural and urban, "when didacticism is all mixed up with the aimless meanderings of a village idiot." "No finer poet is with us. But the lesser poets who have so much less to say are saying it more effectively than Birney." The poems contain "superfluous verbiage" and "clutter" as well as "jewelled imagery."
D48 Holmes, Theodore. Rev. of Selected Poems 1940-1966. Dalhousie Review, 47 (Summer 1967), 261-63, 265. Mostly favourable, especially in what is seen as Birney's standing in the face of "the huge machinery of conformity." But Birney's use of "shock" (the cruelty of reality), while powerful and moving, as destructive of his poems' unity and coherence. Holmes does not like at all Birney's fencing with his critics in the author's preface.
D49 MacCallum, Hugh. "Letters in Canada: 1966. Poetry." University of Toronto Quarterly, 36 (July 1967), 378-79. This volume is "one of [the year's] most important publications." It contains "a poetic sensibility remarkably alert, exploratory, and observant." Birney "'has a novelist's feeling for setting, anecdote, and local manners and speech habits, and a poet's concern with hard, definite images and with language."
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D137 Gatenby, Greg. "Notebook from a Literary Odyssey." Maclean's, 8 Sept. 1980, pp. 56-57. The form of the book conveys "the horrible stuffiness of Canadian society in the face of innovative verse during the first half of this century .... "
D138 French, William. "Mosaic Biography: Early Birney's Odd Look Back at 45 Years of CanLit." The Globe and Mail, 22 Nov. 1980, Sec. Entertainment, p. 17. Although Birney lost the battle with the CAA, "he has survived to see Canadian poetry, including his own, regarded with respect around the world." The book is "oddly unsatisfying" because it breaks up Birney's life into compartments; "perhaps the technique should be called mosaic biography .... "
D139 Hancock, Geoff. "Earle Birney: Pulling CanLit out of the Victorian Era." Toronto Star, 27 Dec. 1980, p. c8. "Spreading Time, though clumsily compressed in places like a hurriedly written letter home, gives Birney's account of that transition period in Canadian writing when British diction and sentimental cliches were slowly exchanged for a more particular Canadian imagery and vocabulary .... The real pleasures m Spreading Time are Birney's accounts of his contemporaries."
D140 Sward, Robert. "Earle Birney's Recollections of Post-Partum CanLit." Quill & Quire, Feb. 1981, p. 7. "One of the delights of Spreading Time is hearing Birney speaking informally about his early years in the West ...." Birney, "perhaps the first authentic voice in Canadian poetry, has done as much as any other author to narrow the gulf between poet and audience."
D141 Leitch, Linda M. "Literary Movements by the Heap." Books in Canada, April 1981, p. 22. "For all its vitriolic attacks and passionate pleas, Spreading Time is a record of Birney's determination to discover that which is the 'best poetry of my own century.' A list of the poets he published while literary editor of the Canadian Forum and editor of CPM reads like a CanLit honour roll. Add to this the too-rarely mentioned work of one man -- Earle Birney -- and you have a unique gathering of talent that happened to spring from the same soil that gave us those 'aging hacks and reactionaries' of Birney's tirades."
D142 Morrison, Edmund. "To Remember." Canadian Literature, No. 90 (Autumn 1981), pp. 130-33. Book 1 of Birney's "literary memoirs" is "a very rewarding close-packed little volume" "stimulating, entertaining, and instructive." The book shows that, with regard to literary relationships, Birney has "paced his path alone." Morrison outlines some of the biographical material on Birney's interest in poetry and words, the lack of Canadian literary models, the influences of his teachers, especially Garnett Sedgewick, and his various academic studies that are included in the "As I Remember" sections. "Out of all this comes Birney's dazzling play with words" and a language that "is heightened and extended by a master, qualified after years of study." The "minute account of his troubled editorship of Canadian Poetry Magazine becomes perhaps a little tedious .... On the other hand, the content of the reviews, editorials, etc. is uniformly delightful." "The most valuable of these 'essays in criticism' may be Has Poetry a Future in Canada and Yes, Canadians Can Read, but Do They?" Morrison welcomes the future arrival of Book II.
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D65 Rev. of The Bear on the Delhi Road: Selected Poems, by Earle Birney; and Earle Birney, by Frank Davey. Times Literary Supplement, 26 Oct. 1973, p. 1306. On influences, the reviewer observes that "Birney may be the single important living poet strongly influenced by Chaucer." Birney's linguistic sophistication is especially impressive: "no poet draws upon a richer vocabulary -- literary and colloquial, archaic and ephemeral, scientific and common. Few poets can handle so wide a range of rhythmic patterns so expressively. Even fewer have Birney's skill in dramatizing an action or anecdote. His ability to capture every level or variety of English speech is at least as rare. Only his ironic humour belongs to many modern poets; but in the others it does not always support that immense sympathy with the suffering and the voiceless which gives Birney his authority .... He always keeps his remarkable control of expressive rhythm; he can reproduce any speech register that catches his ear." The reviewer is not entirely happy with the selection in the volume, which omits "some of his finest poems."
D66 Burns, Jim. "OOp Shoop and Honky Tonk." Ambit [London, Eng.], No. 59 (1974), pp. 29-30. Like a number of Birney's British reviewers, Burns thinks it a scandal that Birney has not been published in Britain before -- "a sad comment on British publishers in general."
D67 Eagleton, Terry. Rev. of The Bear on the Delhi Road: Selected Poems. Stand [Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng.], 15, No. 2 (1974), 80. Birney "has an attractive line in scathing satire, blending the abrasive with the comical in precisely right proportions."
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D75 Geddes, Gary. "Birney -- Hooked in the Castles of Our Skins." The Globe and Mad, 11 Jan. 1975, p. 33. While Birney "is an impressive and versatile showman.., who could turn a poem on any subject in almost any style," his "literary studies and long, turbulent association with the academic world" have hindered Birney's creativity, and have led him to write much that "seems artificial, set-pieces shot through with linguistic devices which call attention to the creation of a unique form for the personal contents of his life." Geddes doesn't care for the revisions of early poems, which serve to confuse those who wish to follow Birney through his career.
D76 Van Steen, Marcus. "Handsome Tribute to Life of Poetry." The Citizen [Ottawa], 12 April 1975. Very favourable; Van Steen deplores the omission of "Damnation of Vancouver."
D77 Dragland, Stan. "The Most Lively and Fascinating Poet of His Generation." The London Free Press, 19 April 1975, p. 59. Dragland quarrels with the book's arrangement; he wonders what purpose is served by, for example, placing "what's so big about GREEN?" in Volume I with early poems when it is so obviously stylistically of the seventies. Some limitations in Birney's method appear when all the poetry is viewed together: "a number so crammed with adjectives as to cry out for a little pruning"; Dragland also notes a "probably unconscious formula for endings either a sort of punchline illumination in the subject matter, or a couple of snap-shut lines in a rhythm that sounds a note of finality." The Collected Poems reveal a rather dazzling display of styles "which make Birney" by far the most lively and fascinating poet of his generation.
D78 Woodcock, George. "The Several Facets of Earle Birney." Victoria Times, 26 April 1975, P. 22. Birney's academic side is very important, in poems like "Mappemounde" and in the "linguistic involvement" with Joycean word-play and "paradoxically" in the "page-oriented" concrete poetry. "November Walk near False Creek Mouth" is "perhaps the finest poetic meditation written in Canada in our generation." Birney's best poems are "enriched by the ironic projections of the observing poet, and by a moral intensity compounded of fury and compassion." Woodcock notes "the great variety of his life's achievement."
D79 Levenson, Christopher. "Towards Universality." Canadian Literature, No. 66 (Autumn 1975), pp. 99-101. A "seasoned world-traveler," Birney "in his maturer poetry ... has consistently used his sense of place as the starting point not simply for local colour but also for casual-seeming but well-developed meditations on such recurring themes as the relationship between poverty and affluence, civilization and the primitive, in which he views himself ironically as the self-conscious outsider, spy disguised as tourist." Birney, even in his private poetry, is essentially a public poet, with "enormous gusto and exuberance," whose "virtues seem to me to be essentially those of the ironist."
D80 Ludwig, Jack. "Earle Birney, Poet and Pilgrim." The Canadian, 29 Nov. 1975, p. 5. "The publication of these poems is a national event. Who wants to know what's best in the Canadian mind should start by reading Earle Birney." "Conrad Kain" is singled out for special praise.
D81 Cooperman, Stanley. Rev. of The Collected Poems of Earle Birney. Queen's Quarterly, 82 (Winter 1975), 649-51. "In his best work Birney is a lyrical ironist: the man's mind simply will not let him rest easily with sentimentality, even the sentimentality of nation or indignation. And it is this 'double vision' of the ironist that creates the most attractive qualities of Birney's voice: a voice mocking what it affirms, and achieving -- through a variety of linguistic instruments -- a deeply human empathy with what it most despises." Birney finds his images of redemption in the natural world: "What strikes me most forcibly in the work of Earle Birney, as in the work of other Anglo-Canadian writers, is the distrust, even fear, of urban culture per se: that is, the preoccupation -- indeed, the obsession -- with non-urban landscape as the only authentic cultural substance."
D82 Barbour, Douglas. Rev. of The Collected Poems of Earle Birney. Dalhousie Review, 55 (Winter 1975-76), 758. "There is a deep cosmic pessimism which runs like a dark thread through the glitter of Birney's carefully crafted poems. Alongside it, however, runs a ripe green band of life and love."
D83 Jones, D. G. "Eternally Invisible Stranger." The Canadian Forum, Dec.-Jan. 1975-76, pp. 51-53. A retrospective sketch, almost wholly positive in tone. The publication is "an important one. Here we find two or three dozen of our most eloquent poems, plus Birney's summing up of half a century of his development and ours." The poetry is neatly divided between Canadian subject matter and nonCanadian. In all, "what Birney celebrates is the creative spark m an indifferent universe, especially the human spark (when man is not 'a snow'). It is above all the moment of recognition, of real communion, when people give themselves freely." In talking of "Slug in the Woods," Jones writes that "the straightforward, concrete, technically precise yet metaphorical language used there remains basic to much of Birney's best work."
D84 Noel-Bentley, Peter C. "Collected Birney." CV/II, 2, No. 1 (Jan. 1976), 27-29. Noel-Bentley concentrates on Birney's sense of urgent mission, beginning with the war poems, even in which "The sense of possibility never leaves Birney's millenarianism wholly, though the bleakness can get very severe at times." In this sense of mission, "The didacticism is saved from heavy-handedness by a pervasive and witty irony .... which has been strengthened over the years by being directed back against the speaker himself. Birney learned early, possibly from his studies of Chaucer's irony, to portray himself m his own poetry, or, more to the point, to portray various selves" -- a "comic self, .... a visionary self, a nature-loving self, past selves .... a guilty self, and above all the richly developed tourist self, who combines all the other selves in one superbly realized persona .... (One of the great values of the Collected Poems IS having the various selves finally in company with each other.)" Noel-Bentley's conclusion is that "The missionary, then, does not travel to foreign lands to preach salvation to the heathens. The heathen is within, an interior state," and is touched through the forms of art. Even the light pieces thus take on "a deeper significance," "for they have done as much as any of Birney's poems to bring joy and therefore understanding to a wide audience."
D85 Crossley-Holland, Kevin. "Poet on Poet: Kevin Crossley-Holland Reviews Earle Birney." Ambit [London, Eng.], No. 74 (1978), pp. 36-40. A review by the British poet, who judges Birney "arguably Canada's first poet of international stature." Crossley-Holland likes the layout: "I don't recall having seen so well-produced a collection of poetry from a trade publisher in the last decade." Birney's themes are well summarized: "Curiosity for all that's new; discovering familiar aspirations and frustrations m unfamiliar guises; a disposition to send up the ridiculous; the essential loneliness of the traveler trying to commune with strangers, momentarily touching, then falling apart: these are familiar themes in Earle Birney's poems and they are almost invariably characterized by a wonderful eye for detail, by an unaffected and wide range of reference, and by innate musicianship -- Birney has the poet's equivalent of natural pitch." in all this, "The best of his work has an impressive moral gravity."
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D134 Barbour, Douglas. Rev. of The Cow Jumped over the Moon: The Writing and Reading of Poetry. Quill & Quire, Jan. 1973, p. 16. Barbour emphasizes the auditory aspects also stressed by Birney. "The book is about 'creative' reading as much as about 'creative' writing: Birney tells how 'David' came about, and how it has been read (badly and well) and even totally mis-read."
D135 Dawe, Alan. "Frustrated Poets Critically Cranky." Rev. of The Cow Jumped over the Moon: The Writing and Reading of Poetry, by Earle Birney; and Engagements, by Irving Layton. The Vancouver Sun, 12 Jan. 1973, p. 32a. The Cow Jumped over the Moon "is actually a sort of high school text on poetics." After spending "a lifetime in the English classroom himself, Birney has arrived at the quite plausible opinion that poetry cannot be taught."
D136 Drake, Albert. "Earle Birney." Rev. of The Rugging and the Moving Times: Poems New and Uncollected 1976, what's so big about GREEN?, Alphabeings & Other Seasyours, and The Cow Jumped over the Moon. Happiness Holding Tank [Okemos, Mich.], No. 18, (1978), pp. 42-43. See D74.
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D130 Dudek, Louis. "It's Good Broadcasting, But Is It Art?". The Gazette [Montreal], 8 Oct. 1966, p. 17. "Though it's a very amusing book, and it tells us a lot about Earle Birney, it doesn't really solve any of the mysteries it sets out to unravel."
D131 Helwig, David. Rev. of The Creative Writer. Queen's Quarterly, 73 (Winter 1966), 612-13. "The most important theme of the book is the relationship between the poet with his diamon that 'drives from within,' and his society, which is necessary, as his audience, hostile, as his censor, and stimulating, as a sick world in need of the poet's cure." Birney's "serious attempt to explain how some of his work came into being ... [is] a fascinating part of the book." Helwig doesn't care for latter chapters, with their emphasis on "the importance of poetic fashion"; "Birney's poetry has better lessons to teach than this."
D132 Purdy, Alfred W. "Prose Birney." Canadian Literature, No. 31 (Winter 1967), pp. 61-64. "The book is a compendium of the author's attitudes towards everything from the creative process itself to the education of a writer." The book's seeming simplicity is "partly an illusion. The subjects discussed are not simple or easily resolved, in fact are frequently controversial." Purdy outlines the book's arguments cogently and appreciatively and defines "the general thesis of this book" to be "that in a continuing age of war, racialism, abuse of individual freedom, increasing conformity, the writer and artist can hold up a mirror to humanity and advocate sanity by portraying insanity."
D133 Robson, John M. Rev. of The Creative Writer. University of Toronto Quarterly, 36 (July 1967), 452. "Without question this is the best Canadian treatment of the subject, probing and personal in its inquiry, suggestive and relevant m its conclusions. Professor Birney has done more than anyone else to make Creative Writing a respectable activity m our universities and schools"; "the heart of the matter is m the author's long, sensitive, and intelligent cohabitation with the muse, and in the lucid, gentle yet persuasive way m which he uncovers those parts of her the public can view."
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D99 Faustmann, John. "Each to Each." Coast News [Gibson, B.C.], [1976], n. pag. "Birney has a fine ear for bureaucratese, and the tone of his play reproduces exactly the uniform despondancy that usually accompanies such meetings. By extending, twisting, and turning the language, he quickly moves the setting into the realm of the absurd."
D100 Lane, William. Rev. of The Damnation of Vancouver. Quill & Quire, June 1977, pp. 43-44. Lane sees the book as a "document of the political consciousness of the fifties," "a rather softhearted critique of contemporary urban civilization"; it has "few dramatic virtues, and its politics are pretty innocuous." "The play is finally little more than a pretext for Birney to create voices."
D101 Holland, Patrick. Rev. of The Damnation of Vancouver. In Canadian Book Review Annual 1977. Toronto: PMA, 1978, p. 177. "In its use of Joycean doubletalk and techniques from Medieval English The Damnation of Vancouver is a tour de force."
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D92 MacEwen, Gwendolyn. "Chaos Is Beaten Again." Books in Canada, Oct. 1976, pp. 28-29. MacEwen likes the book very much, but wishes it were bigger, that Birney "had waited until a longer work was ready .... This, however, doesn't really matter, because whichever way you look at it, the Birney magic is still with us -- the crazy, wonderful whimsy, the poignant glimpses into the darker sides of human nature, and the tenderness that is love."
D93 Schiller, Bill. "Earle Birney Alive and Well." The Windsor Star, 9 Oct. 1976, p. 55. "Reading the Diary" is moving and "poignant"; "but it is the latter half of the book that offers the most pleasant surprise .... Like the final three pieces in his Collected Poems, these ['Six for Lan'] are simpler, more direct and more intimately revealing than anything he has written in his 35 years of poetic activity."
D94 Jewinski, Ed. Rev. of The Rugging and the Moving Times: Poems New and Uncollected 1976. Quill & Quire, Dec. 1976, pp. 28, 30. "Throughout these poems -- as one has come to expect of Birney -- the criticism of contemporary social values is primary." Jewinski notes "Birney's favourite method of contrasting the past with the present, to reveal the ironic disparity between man's aims and his achievements." The volume is "almost a compendium of the entire range of Birney's talent."
D95 Lincoln, Robert. Rev. of The Rugging and the Moving Times. Poems New and Uncollected 1976. In Canadian Book Review Annual 1976. Toronto: PMA, 1977, pp. 186-87. "Birney's poems are quite colloquial, erudite without being dull, and simple without being sentimental."
D96 Noel-Bentley, Peter C. "Birney Half-Burning." CV/II, 3, No. 2 (Summer 1977), 6-7. The book is "faintly disappointing," with too few good things in a "curious and very miscellaneous group." "Plastic plinkles for Gaudy' Nite 11/2 at HMF2 College, Yule3 1966 (complete with head to foot notes)" is "one of Birney's gems" and "Six for Lan," the six love poems that conclude the volume, are "the best of this genre that Birney has yet done."
D97 Weldon, J. F. G. Rev. of The Rugging and the Moving Times: Poems New and Uncollected 1976. Quarry, 26, No. 4 (Autumn 1977), 63-65. The volume is "one of the most integrated and coherent volumes Birney has produced," avoiding "the pitfalls of 'concrete' poetry while preserving Birney's playfulness and humour, which now finds direction and focus." "Reading the Diary" is "the best poem in the volume." Weldon concludes that the volume "combines the major achievements of Birney's poetic career. The extent of poetic voices, rhythms, sound play, techniques, and imaginative range makes this volume a locus of Birney's developed art in its multitudinous forms."
D98 Drake, Albert. "Earle Birney." Rev. of The Rugging and the Moving Times: Poems New and Uncollected 1976, what's so big about GREEN?, Alphabeings & Other Seasyours, and The Cow Jumped over the Moon. Happiness Holding Tank [Okemos, Mich.], No. 18 (1978), pp. 42-43. See D74.
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D15 Livesay, Dorothy. Rev. of The Strait of Aman: Selected Poems. The Vancouver Sun, i May 1948, Sec. Magazine Supplement, p. 4. Rpt. in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 60-61. "What makes this British Columbia writer important for Canadians is the fact that he is the only poet who sees Canada whole. Too often, in the past and present generation of lyric writers, the voices have been regional." Livesay singles out "Prairie Counterpoint" (not reprinted by Birney until Collected Poems) for special praise: "the most interesting poem in the book because it contains human drama behind the poetic assimilation of the land."
D16 Daniells, Roy. Rev. of The Strait of Aman: Selected Poems. Canadian Poetry Magazine, 11, No. 4 (June 1948), 48. Rpt. in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, PP. 59-60. "Wider variety, greater maturity and increased technical competence are the marks of this new book of Earle Birney's."
D17 Gustafson, Ralph. Rev. of The Strait of Anian: Selected Poems. The Canadian Forum, June 1948, p. 69. "... [H]ere is a poet affirmative, precisioned, indignant and adult. I can think of no poet more thoroughly Canadian, and Canadians instead of giving him another Governor-General's medal should quickly put this book through a dozen editions."
D18 "Two Canadian Poets." Times Literary Supplement, 12 June 1948, p. 332. Rpt. in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 63-64. Lionel Monteith replied to this review on 26 June 1948, page 359. Birney "has the faults of tone common to most Dominions [sic] poets, a tendency to fall now into manly rant, now into manly sentimentality; he has the virtues of such poets, also, freshness, sharpness, shrewdness." The reviewer recommends Birney's volume, "Not as pure poetry, but as the comments on life of a frank, perceptive, indiscreet Canadian, with a real but uneven poetic gift." Lionel Monteith writes to "deplore the superior and patronizing attitude of some English critics to Commonwealth work." The reviewer replies, while claiming not to be patronizing, that "the poetry of young societies, compared with a poetry of old societies, must be expected often to show a kind of crudity."
D19 MacKay, Louis. "Canadianism of Earle Birney Is Both Subtle and Intense." Saturday Night, 24 July 1948, 48. Rpt. (Rev. of The Strait of Anian: Selected Poems) in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 61-63. While noting that Birney "is at his best when his feet are on his native soil, or not far removed from it," MacKay writes that Birney "has never fallen into the imitative North American Isolationism of some of our Eastern writers." "His Canadianism is at once more subtle and more intense. He is not looking for what is unshared, but for what is significant and essential."
D20 Davidson, Gustav. "Clearing the Brush and the Brambles." Saturday Review of Literature, 21 Aug. 1948, 22-23. Rpt. (Rev. of The Strait of Anian: Selected Poems) in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 65-67. Birney "is an unusual phrase-maker, a brilliant word-comer, a vigorous, arresting, at times sardonic and disquieting voice .... His imagination is forever at play with symbols, conceits and auguries."
D21 Monteith, Lionel. "Two Canadian Poets." Letter. Times Literary Supplement, 26 June 1948, p. 332. Rpt. ("Letter to the Editor") in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 64-65. Monteith takes exception to what he calls an "ill-considered generalization" in a review of Birney's The Strait of Anian. The reviewer had indicated that Birney's poems displayed "manly cant" and "manly sentimentality," faults common to "most Dominion poets." Monteith finds this generalization characteristic of "the superior and patronizing attitude of some English critics to Commonwealth work" and argues that Commonwealth poets should be judged on their individual merits.
D22 "Two Canadian Poets: Our Reviewer Writes." Times Literary Supplement, 26 June 1948, p. 359. Rpt. ("Our Reviewer Writes") in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, p. 65. In response to Monteith's assertion that the reviewer has expressed a patronizing attitude, the reviewer states that "the poetry of young societies, compared with the poetry of old societies, must be expected often to show a kind of crudity." This "vigour" is attributed to the fact that "in young societies masculine energy is less tempered than m old societies by feminine scepticism." This kind of poetry is "often confused, and rarely refined."
D23 Monteith, Lionel. Rev. of The Strait of Anian: Selected Poems, by Earle Birney; A Cornish Gleaming, by Brian Moore; and Fire Among the Ruins, by Stuart Piggott. Outposts [Manchester], No. 11 (Autumn 1948), pp. 18-19. "Here is a poet with a world view, and yet his work is an unmistakable expression of the human, cultural and geographical individualism of his rugged and virile country. From Pacific to Atlantic he draws upon the powerful imagery of Canada's wild and gigantean terrain, and catches in his rhythms the mood and toughness of its people. His success in conveying this mood, this atmosphere, derives not a little from the close approximation to true speech rhythms which he employs -- a method that remains effective even for the non-Canadian reader."
D24 Crawley, Alan. Rev. of The Strait of Anian: Selected Poems. Contemporary Verse, No. 27 (Winter-Spring 1948-49), pp. 19-21. Crawley sees real growth in Birney's work. "Over and over again the poet shows his lyrical instruct in choice of subject and pattern, and his uncanny sense of timing and balance."
D25 Hanson, Kenneth O. "Mendicants and Strolling Players." Rev. of The Strait of Anian: Selected Poems, by Earle Birney; Y & X, by Charles Olson; and Terror and Decorum, by Peter Viereck. Interim [Univ. of Washington, Seattle], 3, No. 4 (1949-50), 51-52. "Mr. Birney is almost never guilty of a bad line, but along with this admirable skill is the inability to arrive at a language unmistakably his own .... " Hanson contends that Birney "is a poet of modest talent, content with a very real competence .... "
D26 Bailey, A. G. Rev. of The Strait of Anian: Selected Poems. The Dalhousie Review, 30 (July 1950), 20508. Rpt. in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 67-71. A favourable review; Birney's work belongs to a post-Darwinian dialectic, sharpened by the threat of atomic and martial destruction.
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D27 Crawley, Alan. Rev. of Trial of a City and Other Verse. Contemporary Verse, No. 39 [final issue] (Fall-Winter 1952), pp. 24-25. "What he has felt and seen and experienced is set down with great care for language, with sensitive feeling for the subtleties of speech and with deep affection for landscape, the structure under and in it, as it is actually seen or as an idea, and with relation to its effect on the lives of human beings." Crawley predicts, from evidence in the "other verse," that "in Earle Birney's next book of poetry there may be some surprising new work."
D28 Frye, Northrop. "Letters in Canada: 1952. Poetry." University of Toronto Quarterly, 22 (April 1953), 273-75. Rpt. in Masks of Poetry: Canadian Critics on Canadian Verse. Ed. and introd. A. J. M. Smith. New Canadian Library Original, No. O3. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1962, pp. 101-03. Rpt. in The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination. By Northrop Frye. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1971, pp. 14-17. Rpt. (Rev. of Trial of a City and Other Verse) in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 101-04. "... [F]or virtuosity of language there has never been anything like it [The Damnation of Vancouver] in Canadian poetry." Frye considers the "unity and seriousness of the theme" in order to demonstrate "the brilliance of the writing" and to prove that the work is more than "a verbal stunt."
D29 Paynter, Simon. Rev. of Trial of a City and Other Verse. The Canadian Forum, July 1953, p. 91. Rpt. in Earle Birney. Ed. and introd. Bruce Nesbitt. Critical Views on Canadian Writers, No. 9. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, pp. 104-06. While "Dr. Birney's radio play has passages of wit, power, and beauty in plenty," the play suffers "from the author's weakness for verbal exuberance. For the sake of an immediate verbal effect he will throw a character out of focus." Of the other poems, there is "nothing in the book that will rank among the major creations of one of our finest poetic minds."
D30 MacKay, L. A. Rev. of Trial of a City and Other Verse. Northern Review, 6, No. 4 (Oct.-Nov. 1953), 43-45. MacKay notes "the brilliant handling of Joycean double-talk," but doesn't like the conclusion -- "the effect is almost that of a Hollywood ending."
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D119 Amiel, Barbara. "Bruck You, Aunt Emma." Maclean's, 8 March 1976, pp. 61-62. Includes quotations from 1948 correspondence between Jack McClelland and Birney about the now replaced expletives.
D120 Sweeney, Alistair. "Complete with the Big F and #$& Too." Books in Canada, April 1976, p. 12. Turvey is "sombre," "essentially a sad book, neither tragic nor comic, but rather gently satiric"; "Turvey is about men caught in a stifling series of traps." Sweeney likes the authenticity -- "the finest mastery of Canadian dialect I have ever seen." He welcomes the publication of "the definitive Turvey at last."
D121 Brown, James Leighton. Rev. of Turvey: A Picaresque Novel. The Windsor Star, 15 May 1976, p. 13. "Destined to be one of Canada's greatest classics, Turvey gives rebirth to that long-awaited, rare and ingenious combination of warmth, pathos and out-and-out hilarity." He concludes, "ultimately, this original uncut edition of Earle Birney's Turvey, one of the sharpest satires on the Canadian literary scene, will leave you nothing short of exhilarated."
D122 Solecki, Sam. "Topsy Turvey, Again." The Canadian Forum, June-July 1976, pp. 56-57. Solecki finds the novel "boring," "loosely organized, overly repetitious, and often tedious," but thinks "some of its dialogue the best record we have In our fiction of what certain Canadian dialects sound like": "This facet of Turvey does not make It a successful novel but it does give it a sociological significance. In fact, ! suspect that both of Birney's novels will be read eventually less for the aesthetic satisfaction they provide -- or rather fail to provide -- than for the insights they give us into the Canadian situation at a particular place and time."
D123 Noel-Bentley, Peter C. "The Impure Turvey." Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 19 (1977), pp. 160-62. "Its vision of the Impersonal absurdity of bureaucracy has not grown any less valid over the years .... Only by constant reminders may we retain something of Private Thomas Leadbeater Turvey's divine individuality. In addition, as in his poetry, Birney has in his prose the gift of mixing such serious and even truistic commentary with a savage comedy which lends the message an original power and immediacy." Noel-Bentley admires and examines "the novel's structural complexity". "perhaps the most successful of these [complexities] is the thread of sickness and injury which runs through the novel." Both novels have a "special place in Birney's development" and "in the growth of Birney's voice in the later poems." Birney's voices "are distinctive trademarks of his later work. The humanism and the anger behind the voices, whether they express it or work Ironically in opposition to it, were always there; so was the humour. These things come together after Turvey with regularity and power." Noel-Bentley ends by calling for "adequate critical examination" of the novel, believing that "readers of Birney's work of the last few decades will be much better equipped to understand Turvey's mixture of styles and control of voices than earlier commentators."
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D68 Geddes, Gary. "A Passion Thriving Unsated." The Globe and Mail, 8 Dec. 1973, P. 35. The volume is "an uneven mixture of meditations upon the brown, toxic apocalypse of technological man whose renewable resources are fast disappearing." Prefers the short pieces.
D69 Stubbs, Roy St. George. "The Mantle of E. J. Pratt?". Winnipeg Free Press, 8 Dec. 1973, P. 21. A lively review article, mostly of Birney as man and poet.
D70 Lacey, Edward. "Canadian Bards and South American Reviewers." Northern Journey, No. 4 (1974), pp. 89-91. "In contrast to Mr. Layton's weary anger, the latest offering by that other old geezer, Earle Birney ... is an explosion of energy and verbal pyrotechnics. Birney, like Layton, doesn't seem to have developed too much: the linguistic inventiveness and experimentation, the delight in nature and landscape and travel, the curiosity about other human beings and what makes them tick, the sense of the doom and blight of our civilization -- these were present in his poetry, at least embryonically, from the outset. But whereas Layton has grown strident and ossified and old, Birney has remained young and resilient in attitudes and language."
D71 MacCulloch, Clare. "New Clothes for an Emperor." The Fiddlehead, No. 100 (Winter 1974), pp. 87-91. MacCulloch thinks the volume weak technically and poetically. A letter from Stephen Vizinczey in issue No. 102 (Summer 1974), pages 137-38, objects to the review.
D72 Cogswell, Fred. "What's So Good about Birney?". Lakehead University Review, 7, No. 1 (Summer 1974), 153-55. Very unsympathetic to Birney's experimental poetry.
D73 Noel-Bentley, Peter C. Rev. of what's so big about GREEN?. Northern Light [Univ. of Manitoba], No. 1 (Winter 1974), pp. 59-65. Impressed by "the resiliency, the flexibility" to "new ideas about poetry, new forms, new experiences," Noel-Bentley stresses the joy in Birney: "far too frequently ignored by reviewers, Birney has always taken a great delight in poetry; he has a great many poems which were clearly fun to write, have no message whatsoever, and which are designed to do nothing more than bring joy to the hearts of the young." Noel-Bentley sketches the development of Birney's voice and calls the volume "a fine sample of the range of Birney's work: the heavy didacticism, the richly comic adventures of the tourist-persona, the powerful humanism of the didacticism filtered by the ironic mask, experimental shape poetry, poems for sheer joy in the process of their creation, nature poems of the sort I haven't seen in Birney's work since 1952, one powerful narrative to compare to 'David' -- altogether a rich and satisfying volume."
D74 Drake, Albert. "Earle Birney." Rev. of The Rugging and the Moving Times, what's so big about GREEN?, Alphabeings & Other Seasyours, and The Cow Jumped over the Moon. Happiness Holding Tank (Okemos, Mich.), No. 18 (1978), pp. 42-43. "What characterizes [Rugging] is Birney's interest in the uses of voice"; in GREEN, "the wit, the humor, the wordplay, the anger, the compassion are all here"; Alphabeings is "enormously imaginative and inventive, always curious about the possibilities of language, he never quits"; and Cow is "a book that every poet and/or teacher of poetry should read .... It gives real insight into the creative process."
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D50 Roper, Gordon. "Letters in Canada: Fiction." University of Toronto Quarterly, 38 (Summer 1969), 363.
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